NORTHERN LIGHT
Published monthly by the Uaalaklcet
Eskimo School •£>
Unalakleet_Alaska
E E-Van Ness.Editor
One Dollar _ per year
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT
1916
O year that is going,take with you
impatience ami wilfulness-pride;
The shat)) woids that slip
From too hasty lips,
I would cast,with the o'd atar,aside.
Oyear that is coming bring with you
Some virtue of which I have need;
More patience to bear,
And more kindness to share.
Ami more love that is true love inc’ced-Anon
If we start into the new year with
a feeble effort to make good, the
year of 1916 will slip away and
with it tip will go onr 1 mientatior.s
over lost opportunities. EUT if we
start in with our face set like flint,
our heart settled as to duty, an
irrevocable determination tolixeai d
do right, this world will reteitea
blessing and we also. The two little
verses above includes so much
that we give them to you. \\ e do
not k io\r the author, but we dare
siv they were written by some one
who w a s reared among the thorns
and briers and stones of the pathway.
For only those who have had such
schooling are able to mete out to the
other the timely help so much need
ed.Our patience is not strengthened
by oar always having aflo .very path,
The power to control our too
hasty lips is not intensified by a non
meeting of rebuffs. But the person
who is determined to succeed in all
that is right will succeed and the
discouragements and unjust cuts,
and ugly thrusts serve only as a
fertiliser to the growth of the Fruits
of the Spirit.
TEACHERS!
We want to have a talk with you,
a private talk. In the first place we
want you to consioer the N.L.your
paper. "Our school paper" that’s
the way we want you to think and
talk. Now as it is your paper we arc
going to ask a favor of you.The pres
ent war has brought about
an advance in the cost of living. Ouj
expenses aie greater thane v e r.
But before we go turtner it may
be that some of you do not care tc
have the N l mailed to you,if you do
not and will drop us a card to that ef
feet we will discontinue it. But if you
want it we will keep on sending it.
But due to the existing circumstances
we are forced to ask a favor of you
and that is that you send us some
news items now and then. We arc
sure you will help us to make “Our
Paper “newsy and helpful. Of course
if you dout do this we will he com
pelled to use our own,and if we cV
we will send the paper to you jus
out of good natitred spite.
NOTHING to write about5
Tell about your gardening.
how did you get the natives in
terested in gardening?
We raised cabbage and caulaflowe
that weighed eight pounds apiece.
Can you beat it?
Tell us how. We raised potatoe:
that weighed two pounds apiece.
If you have done better tell us how
Our school is self governing. All caser
are tried in the school court.