A WEEKLY LETTER—FROM THE—

Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.V ,

VOL. X. -F R ID A Y , A P R IL 19,1895.- NO- 29

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OT all a t once m ay we at ta in To any good we hope to gain,N or soar by rapid, eager flights F rom darkest depth to sunn ie r heights.

The li t t le rills T hat sk ir t the hills

And brea the a trem bling melody,May join ere long The solemn song,

The an th em of the sounding sea;Through dark ravine, down m ounta in slope, T nrough all the labyrin ths of hope,They journey on their devious way,And gather courage day by day.

DO IN D IA N S E V E R J O K E ?

Bishop W hipple, whose life work of love am ong the Ind ians of the North W est has given h im a sainted nam e am ong them told th is story recently when asked if the Ind ians were not a very stolid people, or if they re­lished a j o k e :

“ I it the dark days of our In d ia n atlairs a politician was appoin ted to do some very d is­honest work.

He desired to impress the Ind ians with his dignity , and he dressed him self in a full suit of a colonel’s uniform, with a sword by his side; and he began in this wise:

‘The great father at W ash ing ton has had a g rea t deal of trouble with his red children, and he has come to the conclusion that he has m ade an awful mistake. H e has been (-end- iug to you civilians when he should have sent warriors. H e has found out th a t the Ind ians are a race of warriors. And so he looked over tlie country and found m e .’

A nd then follow'd! his dishonest speech.W h e n he was through, an old chief rose,

and looked h im over from head to foot, and then slowly replied :

♦Ever since I was a lit tle boy I have heard th a t w h ite m en had these great warriors, and 1 always wanted to see one. 1 have looked on one; and now I am ready to d i e ! ' ”

ITE M S FROM T H E CHrLOCCO IN D IA N SCHOOL.

Down in Oklahoma, near the border of K a n ­sas, is an Indian school known as H aw orth Institu te . I t was built after Carlisle had been in operation for some years, ft is called one of the best schools in ilie service and we take pleasure in giving the following items from an interested employee:

Commissioner and Mrs. Brow'ning left to ­day, after a week spent iu looking over the school and visiting with their son-in-law and daugh ter Mr. and Mrs. Cochran and niece, Miss Kincade, employees of the school, and others. The Commissioner expressed h im ­self as being well pleased with w h a t he saw and his visit was greatly enjoyed by all.

The 6th and 7th grades, Miss Moore’s pupils, gave a very pleasant and instructive en te r ta in ­m en t the last F riday in March.

An en te r ta in m en t by the K iu te rgarteu and 1st p r im ary , Monday night, was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The costumes, speaking, s ing­ing and m a tch in g were splendid and reflects much credit on the teachers, Miss B ly the and Kincade.

There are two l iterary socities here now', one know n as the “ H aw orth L ite ra ry Society” and the other as the “ Mozart.” T here is also a flourishing Y. W. C. A. A jo in t debate is held once a m onth between the two literary societies, in the large Chapel.

Base ball is all the rage here now. The first n ine does some splendid work. L as t S a t­urday a game was played between the club from H ackney , Kansas, and the first n ine re­sult ing in a score in favor of the “ Chiloccos.”

'T h e school nursery' has supplied the s tu ­dents with thousands of trees and vines which they have had put out on the ir farms. I t has also supplied a good m any thousand to reser­vation schools and agencies, and sold a good m any to the farm ers in th is vicinity.

Chilocco is no t ham pered for room. There is iu the school fa rm 8,640 acres.

The school herd of cattle num bers over 400, and is increasing r ig h t along.

W hat makes every one sick but those who swallow it? Flattery.

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EDITED by The man-on-the-baud-stand. who 1b NOT an Indian

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A ddress I n d i a n H e l p e r , Carlisle , l*k.M iss M. B u rg ess , M a ■ a g ' r.

E n te red in the P. O. at Carlisle as second cl us m a il m a tter.

Do uot hesitate to t a k e the H e l p e r from the Post Office, for if you have not paid fo r it, some one else has. I t is p >id for in advance.

Miss Dittes writes th a t they have warm and windy weather in Oklahom a.

W illiam Denomie, Olass '94, is teach ing in a Eac Court Oreilles Reservation Day school. H e feels th a t he is getting along nicely but lias not given up the idea of tak ing a business course a t the E as tm an Commercial College. “ Come w hat m a y ,” he says, “ Carlisle lias stood me on my feet and it. rem ains with me w he the r I stand or fa l l .”

We have a le tter from Miss H en ry who is teach ing at Riegelsville, sayiug that, she e x ­pects her fa ther and m other from C hina soon. They have been m issionaries in C uina for years, and it is there tha t Miss H en ry was born. Her m any Carlisle friends will rejoice w ith her in the happy meeting of parents'.

Tda Schanandore of Hagole, Wis., who was once a mem ber of our school, sends ten cents for th e H e l p e r and says ti ia t Jo h n Webster, who left Carlisle bu t a few weeks ago, is work­ing for them in the Held, d r iv ing a plow. T h a t has the r igh t ring. Jo h u is a p r in te r but is no t the k ind to sit back and W A IT for a certain k ind of work to tu rn up. If ail who are seeking for work would take w hat they F IR S T find to do, s tick to th a t until some­th in g B E T T E R comes, there would not be so m uch suffering and discontent in the world.

The E as te r service in the school chapel was out of the usual line. Prof. Durell delivered an able sermon. The choir sang a beautiful a n th e m —“ The Lord is Risen from the D ead,” in w hich the basses took an im portan t part, showing pains-taking drill on the p a r t of Miss H il l , the instructor, and pa t ien t practice on the part, of the young men. The school ren ­d e r e d two new hym ns and the s inging a l to ­gether was most pleasing and creditable. The ros trum was decorated with ferns, Easter iiiies, hyac in th s , and o ther flowers.

There are m a n y m om ents of pleasure mixed with the hours of work and tr ial a t the Car­lisle school, but at a such time as on last S a t­urday evening when after a day of rain tlie

w,,n burst from the p ink-tinged c lo u d s add ing luster to the painted roofs, and v iv id­ness to ihe sp routing grass; w hen the hand upon the band-stand discoursed exh i la ra t ing at tains as the white-aproned promenaders sauntered along the spotless walks, and red- wais 'ed cyclers whizzed bird-like here and there pedaling tim e to tire sounding horns; when ch i rp ing robins and restless sparrows bopped am ong savageless girls and groups ol m erry bays bendiug over m arb les; when the d is tan t “ h u r ra h s ” of the w inn ing base-haliers mingled with the applause of the resled teach­ers, tireless m atrous, loitering s tuden ts and accidental visitors, it is then th a t pleasure vies with pleasure and we are glad th a t we live. s

The popularity of our young friends from the In d ian school as singers, says W e d n e s d a y ’s E vening S en tin e l, was fully proven last even­ing, as well as the at1 racti v en ess of Miss Bh a fi­ner as a speaker, by the overcrowded condi­tion of the tf ir l s Reading Rooms and the in ­terest shown even by those who could not be seated.

Miss H il l k ind ly accom panied the quarte t as they sang “ Lift the ir eyes" “ Wood T h ru s h ” “ The ragged sailors” and “ W ith in a Little W ood.” The last was loudly encored arid a f ­ter their repeating th a t " 'f ile th ree m ice” was called for. Ben Bolt by Miss L innie T h o m p ­son, was fully up to expectations. Miss Sbatf- l ie r’s address gave a vivid review of the work of the W. C. T. V . ai d (lie need of moie women in the work. H er m anner of speaking is very pleasant.

The M an-011- the-band -s tand ’s Agent was tiie recip ient of E as te r flowers gathered from the P a rk in Ban Francisco, by tier parents on the 49ih ann iver ary of the ir wedding. The agent has been sei araled from her home and friends for twenty years, bu t not being an I n ­dian no great fuss is made about it. W e doubt if there are m any families who receive the H e l p e r th a t are intact. I t is the way of civilization to go where business and du ty calls, bu t the IN D IA N m u s t no t he allowed such privileges. H is only' privilege, it seems, is to be an Ind ian and his dw ell ing place m u s t be the reservation am ong his pe- ple. W as there ever before such absurd sen iim ent which found place in the m in d s of in telligent people? ___

W e have a rare photograph of oue of the m em bers of class of ’95, fa lull-blood Ind ian as he looked when he came. W e do not give his nam e here but it is on the picture. He came to Carlisle a boy of possibly sixteen w earing his naiive camp dress of feathers aud blankets . This picture goes with oue taken but a few weeks ago. They are card size and m ake one of the best contrast pictures we ever had. The young m an received his entireedti- cation at. Carlisle, and the photographs tell a h is tory in themselves. They' are 3}^xo inches and are worth 10 cents each ; the two by mail 21 cents. For 18 cents, however, we will send the H e l p e r free fo r a year and the pictures to any address, in the U nited States aud C an ­ada. _______________

Change the noun snow to a verb, and use the past form in a question. Pupils e x a m ­ple—“ Did it, were snow on the m o u n ta in ? ”

Tennis?Shad plentifu l and cheap.Ears are open for fish stories.The storm-doors will go next.Read the three d o n ’ts on the last page.D on 't play for keeps! T h a t is gambling.Sunday was a nice day for the new bonnets.The bull frog prac tice th his scales these

nights.Our base-ball nine play with H agerstown

to-morrow.Tlie corners and curves about the g rounds

ate receiving a Jo rd an touch.Miss H il l is teach ing some pretty Arbor

Day songs to the school.It seems s trange th a t soap and whiskey

should both be bough t by tbe bar.Last S a tu rday one of the boys was heard to

say: “To-morrow will be Eastern S u n d ay .”The F o rtn ig h t ly club composed of represen­

tative wom en of Carlisle m e t a t Mrs. P ra t t ’s on S a tu rday evening at w hich Mrs. Judge Riddle presented an able paper on Ruskin.

Siceni Nori, who is a t tend ing P reparatory school, played short stop for Dickinson in the ir gam e with S tate College last Friday. H e led the ba t t ing with a single and a double, and scored one of the th ree runs made by the winners.

Miss H am ilton and her m o th e r , Mrs H a m il­ton, left for the West, on Tuesday evening. The m other goes to Minnesota to visit a sister, and Miss H am ilton w ent with her as far as In d ian a w here she will speud a day or two am ong friends a t the W h i te ’s In s t i tu te and elsewhere.

Miss R iehenda P ra t t is spending her E as te r vacation a t home. W h a t is there in the Balt i­more a tm osphere th a t makes people grow? Miss R iehenda is considerably ta lle r th a n her m am m a, in fact she is crawling up to the ears of her papa. She looks well and happy and likes her school.

The S tandards have elected the following officers for the ensu ing t e r m : President, Robert H am il to n ; Vice-President, How ard G a n sw o r th ; Recording Secretary, Leander Gansw orth ; Corresponding Secretary, Delos Lone W olf; Treasurer, Joseph Martinez; Sergeant-a t-arms, George C onner; Critic, E lm e r Simon.

The boys and girls of Nos. 11 and id w ent to the m oun ta in s for arbu tus on F r id a y last. Tire girls rode in the large herdic and took Miss H il ton in on the way out. The boys walked tlie sixteen miles there and back. They re turned hung ry and tired bu t pleased with the day and with the few sprays of a rb u ­tus they secured.

Our language is difficult and the com para­tive and superla tive endings of adjectives sometimes become attached to the noun by a curious twist of the p e n ; for instance when one of the Ind ian boys addressed his teacher the o ther day say ing he was going to “ work on the low fa rm er” he d id n ’t m ean he was go­ing to do m issionary work hut only tried to say th a t he was going to work on the “ lower fa rm .”

Mrs. W illiam Fairlie , of N ew ark , better known to us as Miss Irvine, is ly in g ill willi pneum onia at the home of her parents in Carlisle. She came home on a visit and was taken ill on the day of her arrival, Monday the 8th She has been in a critical condition but her friends will be happy to learn t h a t the crisis was passed safely and she is im proving .

One of the boys, after las t S a tu rday n ig h t ’s talk, wanted to go to the country to build a new com partm en t to his ship. The speaker- m ade a lasting and impressive illustration in his story of Die launch ing of a great sh ip aud the description of the in a u y com partm ents bu ilt in tlie safest ships, so th a t when one is stove in there are others which wilt carry it safely to port.

Jo h n E dw in Bakeless and bis m a m m a Mrs*. Bakeless made happy the Professor on W ed­nesday by re tu rn in g from Milroy, where they have been visi ting Mrs. Bakeless’ home. The baby has grea tly improved no tw ith s tand ­ing he had no g y m nas ium to exercise in. It is said, ,'bul the M an-on-the-band-stand does not say it) th a t s ince his re tu rn he has been g iv ing some free concerts which are h ighly appreciated by those who can get reserved seats near tlie door. H e has a new coach which came wheeling into the pr in ting office yesterday.

Keep cool! The Arctic Ice Com pany sent its new ice-wagon around on W ednesday, w hich a t the M an-on-the-band-stand’s door dropped a card in the shape of a block of b-e large enough to m ake him shiver for a week, clear enough to m ake h im w an t to use It for a spy-glass and cold enough to freeze his too th ­less gums. I t looks as though the ice compa­nies who have been sawing ice from the pond and creeks around will have to take a back seat, fyr th is ice is made from distilled water and like certain baking powders advertised claims to be “ absolutely p u re .”

The little Norm ali tes made m a n y happy hearts on Easter m orn ing by small gifts of dain ti ly folded paper boxes and baskets in which were the prettiest lit tle eggs “ you e ’er did sei-” nestled in variegated cotton. P er ­haps the eggs were laid by rabbits, who knows? They were sweet, and the Man-on- the-band-s tand never saw any robins' eggs th a t were sweet. Along with tbe baskets were cards with the donor’s n a m e , and some of these were hand painted. W e h a v e n ’t a real kindergarten school, but some of the pu ­pils under Miss Ham ilton do k indergarten work and th rough it they are taught to th ink of others, and ttiey are learn ing to lore to th ink of others.

The m any friends of Samuel S ixkiller , the poet of Class ’85, were sorry to see h im leave for the W est on W ednesday evening. Sorry beeause we shall miss his genial presence anil overflowing wit, sorry because of the suffering he will pass th rough in overcom ing te m p ta ­tions of which he does not now d ream , aud w hich if he does not overcome will h inder the grand possibilities before h im. Six, as his best friends have learned to call h im , w as a m aster workm an in tlie m a il ing depa r tm en t of the Jt<>d M an and H e i .pkh office. He lias prospects of going forward in advanced studies after a su m m e r’s rest and change, and we hope tha t his highest anticipations will be realized.

L E W IS R U B E N . T H A N K GOD.

The readers of the H e l p e r are f a i r ly well acquainted with lit tle Lewis Ruben, Nez Perce whose foot and limb below the knee had to be am putated on aceouut of an accident a couple of years ago. He walks on crutches. I t will be remembered th a t bis Uncle Jam es Ruben visited Carlisle not long since and m ade an eloquent address before the school. H e took Lewis home with him, and now comes the following cute letter to his teacher. Lewis no doubt refers to the prarie dogs which are such a pest to farm ers in some parts of the West.

F t . L a p w a ' i A g e n c y , I d a h o . M iss H a m i l t o n :

I received your le tter and two others from some little boys—Joseph Moore and Joe De­lisle. E very day I try to kill som ething tha t live in the- ground : they s tand up on the ir h ind legs and look at me. My g randm a set a trap but they would not come, they come out in the other hole.

W e live way out in the farm about 10 miles from Lewiston and 4 miles from Genesee and 2 or 3 miles from a river.

The Indians have to have a paym ent for land aboutone week from now. E very In d ian has to get about $75 each, even lit tle b ys and girls and little babies.

1 have a baby sister, l i t tle one, nam ed Bes­sie Ruben. I t is a cunning little thing. To­morrow, all of us, the baby too will go to town, have our pictures taken, then will send you one. Please excuse me for not writing much. F rom your friend. L e w i s R u b e n .

P. 8. Send my love to everybody. Tell Miss Cum m ins to write to me.

Tlie following from Je rem iah H u b b a rd ’s Moccasin, published in Afton, I. T., tits r ight in here:

In the I n d i a n H e l p e r of March 22, we found a speech made at the Carlisle Indian school by Ja m es Ruben, a full-blood Nez Perce In d ia n W e rem em ber well, some six­teen years ago when the Nez P .rces were brought to the Qua paw Indian Agency that a difficulty arose between Chief Joseph of th a t tribe and the Governm ent by a white man in ­terpreting wrong and as we went to Jo seph’s band on Sp ing River and found him and shoot? his hand and looked into his face we said there m us t be som ething wrong some­where and so the G overnm ent sent and brought Jam es Ruben to interpret. So when he came every th ing was soon made right.

T H E T H R E E D O N ’TS.

The last was num ber 9.10. Don’t put y o u rkn ife into the butter, into

the salt-cellar or into any dish.11. D on’t spread out your elbows while cu t­

ting your meat. Keep your elbows close to your side.

12. Don’t when you drink , elevate your glass as though you were going to stand it on your nose, as some do.

Miss Fisher, of A lbuquerque , form erly of Carlisle is na tu ra lly in terested in her Carlisle friends and sends the following lines from Charles Kingsley for the undergraduates as well as for all the readers of the H e l p e r :

T hank God every m o rn in g when you get up th a t you have som eth ing to do th a t day which m ust be done w hether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you tem persuee, seif- control, diligence, s trength of will, content, and a hundred vir tues which the idle will never know.

“The m an who knows m ost about how it ought to be done is usually the fellow who doesn’t have to do i t . ” J u s t so in th is Ind ian business.

T here is more joy with a good m an over one m ean th ing he d id n ’t do th a n over n in ty and n ine good tilings he pe r fo rm ed .’

W hen is a m an over-head-and-ears in deb t? W hen tlie hat lie wears is not paid for.

A N S W E R TO LA ST W E E K ’S EN IG M A .

A correspondent from New York City says:Referring to th e article in your issue of

April 12 headed “ A chance for a curious pic- lu re ," quite a num ber of years ago I was told the letter in question was intended for

JO H N U N D E R H IL L .A N D O V ER ,

MASS.bu t I never believed that any such letter was ever len t . The story is a com panion to one about the E ng lish sending their

C C C C ' " DDDDder General BBBB.

Our correspondent is r ight in his answer, but as to whether Jo h n U n d e rh i l l ’s le tter ever found its way to the dead-letter office, each one m ust decide for himself. It was a good way however to teach one of tlie uses of the dead tetter office. W e will take advantage of tlie English E n ig m a at thee lo -e of our fr iend’s letter and offer io the.person who will answ er it correctly the I n d an H k l p e ■ which is 10 cents h year, ami the Jted M an which is fifty cen ts a year, F R E E for a year to any address in the United States and Canada. The ans­wer m ust be CORRECT. W e will give tlie correct answer in No. 31, two weeks hence

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