A WEEKLY LETTER- F R O M T H E -

Ind/an Industrial School, Carlisle> Pa,

VOL. IX. —F R ID A Y , F E B R U A R Y 23, 1894.- N O . 2 2 -

‘C R O W N O U R W A S H I N G T O N . ”

C f , R IS E —‘tis the day of ou r W ash ing ton 's glory,

The garlands u p lif t for our liberties i won,

O sing in your gladness his echoing 8t”r.V> W nose sword sw ept for freedom the heh iso f

th« sun.N ot w ith gold, nor w ith gem s,B u t w ith evergreens vernal,

A n d the banners o f stars th at the con tin en t

C row n, crow n w e the ch ie f o f the heroes eter

W h o lifted h is sword for the b irthrigh t of m an

H e gave us a nation ; to m ake it im m ortal H e laid down for freedom the sword th a t he

A n d h is faith leads us on through th e u p lift

Of the glories of peace and our destin ies new N ot w ith gold, nor w ith gem s,B ut w ith evergreens vernal,

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tfebvuciv# 2 2 ,1 7 3 2 .H is earlv hom e was a p lain w ooden farm -

ouse, bu ilt after the old V irg in ia p a ttern -. >ur room s on the ground floor, and an a ic .„rv w ith a long slop ing roof T radition nam es h im “a fine, v igorou s’

ea lth y c h ild .” It also m entions that the 1 e■ock he wore at ch risten in g w as fash ion e in ie colors red, w h ite and b lu e - t h e sam e he xose for the flag of our U nion.F r a n c is B e l l a m y says:W ash in g ton w as vastly m ore than 11 istingu ished leader of the R evolu tion , j j e seem ed to gather iu h im se lf m a its that bad grow n up in th e co lon ies > ore

H e em bodied the sp irit of a ll A m erica. O thers were New E ng landers, or S o u th ern ­

ers ; he wore the m arks of no section L ike no o ther m an of h is day he was an

A m erica n —T H E F IR S T A M E R IC A N .A nd it is th e conspicuous persona qualities

w hich he im pressed upon his co u n try ,—cour­age, ju stice , love of lib e rty and en ligh tenm en t, —th a t our nation has em bodied in its life, and th a t we call th e tru e A m ericanism to-day.

1 'R O H W A S H l i G T O i V S “ R U L E S O F B E ­

H A V I O R .”

E v ery action in com pany ought to be w ith some sign of respect to those presen t.

Show not yourself glad a t m isfortune of a n ­other, though he were you r enem y.

A ssociate yourself w ith m en of good quality , for i t is better to be alone th an in bad com ­pany.

W hen a m an does all he can, th o u g h i t suc­ceeds not well, b lam e no t h im th a t did it.

W hen you speak of God or H is a ttribu tes , le t it he seriously and w ith w ords of reverence.

W herein you reprove an o th er be u n b la m ­able yourself; for exam ple is m ore p rev a len t th an precepts.

L et yourjrecreationa be m anfu l, n o t sinful. Labor to keep alive in you r b reast th a t lit tle spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Be not h as ty to believe fly ing repo rts to th e d isparagem ent of any.

Speak no t ev il of the absent, for it is un ju st. .U ndertake not w hat you canno t perform ,

b u t be careful to keep your prom ise.A secret discover no t.Be n o t ap t to re la te new s if you know n o t

th e tru th thereof.

The I n d i a n H e l p e r is a lit tle paper pub­lished a t th e In d ian In d u str ia l school.C arliste, P a ., and is p rin ted by th e In d ian boys. I t costs only 10 cents a year and is well w orth it. —f Tolland County L eader, R ockville, Conn.

!~h e Jn d ia n H e i-p e r

P R IN T E D E V E R Y F R ID A Y .—AT THE—

t f t d i a n Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa .,

! ¥ m iM H SOTS.ffarTUB INDIAN HELPEB is PRINTED by Indian boy®, bat

KU5.TED by The man-ou-the-band-sfand, who is NOT an Indian

P R I C E i—I 0 C E N T S A Y E A R - -

A ddress I n d i a n H e l p e r , C arlisle, Pa.M iss M .yBurgess, M anager.

.Entered in the P. 0 . a t Carlisle as second class m a il m a tter.

D o n o t hesita te to tak e th e H e l p e r from th e P ost Office, for if you have n o t paid for it, som e one else has. I t is paid for in advance.

A re you looking ahead and d u n k in g about w h a t the v isito rs m ay ask you n ex t w eek? A re you ready w ith answ ers?

“ Plow' m any pupils at Carlisle ?” “ 716.” “ A re they all p re se n t? ’’“ No, some are in country hom es.”“ Is th a t so? H ow m any have you in coun­

try ironies?”“ A bout 100 now, b u t in the sum m er over

500 find good hom es w here they w ork and earn m oney .”

“ W ell, w ell! W hat do you do w ith the m oney th u s e a rn e d ? ”

“ O, we do w ith it the sam e as o tln r people do w ith th e ir m oney. We p u t some in bank. L ike every body else we spend some foolishly, bu t in the m ain we buy useful th ings w ith our m oney. W e like to have a little m oney in our pockets w hen we go ho m e.”

“ H ow ma.ay tribes are h e re ? ” "‘A bout 50” “ A re there as m any g irls as boys?”“ No, sir. The girls num ber only about one-

th ird as m any as the boys.”“ Do you like it h e re ? ”“ I t is not alw ays heavenly, but we have

such a BIG C H A N C E here to g. t up th a t we are certa in ly very g ra te lu l.”

“ 1 suppose you have no bad boys?”“ Yes, sir, we have a few, and like every w here

else the bad boys ami g irls try to pu ll th ■ o thers down to th e ir level, bu t the GOOD in ­fluences are so m any, th a t if we will we can easily rise above the bad. A young m an at, th is school has every' chance in the world !o rise, and if. he is not, strong enough to work h is way up-when he has all these helps around h im . then he w ill never am oun t to any th ing , A N Y W H E R E .”

M ay the banner of C arlisle con tinue to wave un til every reservation shall have d isap­peared, and th e last proud In d ian sh a ll be­come a prouder A M E R IC A N C IT IZ E N !

E x -A s s i s t a n t I n d i a n C o m m i s i o n e r R, V. B e l t .

“ The H e l p e r is a sp a rk lin g little gem o f a paper and I enjov its perusal as m uch as any reading fd o .”—fT. M. Tf., Ill

My son, observe the postage s ta m p —its use­fulness depends upon its ab ility to stick to one th in g till it gets th e re .—[E lm ira Gazette.

The com ing Red. Man will con tain a p ic tu re of th e g rad u a tin g class of ’94, and th e g rad u ­a tin g essays. S am ple copy live cen ts.

S ubscrip tion price of the Red M an is fifty cents a year, tw elve num bers m ak in g a year. I t is p rin ted and m ailed irregu la rly .

M rs. A llen , Mrs. P ra t t ’s sister, is qu ite iil a t her hom e in St. Louis. M rs A llen is well know n .am ong us and she has the sym pathy of her C arlisle friends.

B ear in m ind , a t a ll tim es, th a t the body so w onrterfutly construc ted , is en tru sted to your care bv th e .C reator, aud your first duty' "is to keep it in h ea lth , as fa r as lies in your power.

Miss C ary ’s m other, who has been iii. f o r a long tim e a t D elphi, In d ia n a ..re c e n tly died. Miss Cory left the C arlisle wotk?a y ear or two since to live w ith an d take pare of h e r suffer­ing ln o 'h er. She now has the h ea rt-fe lt sy m ­p ath y of her m any friends n Carlisle.

M r S tand ing sends the sad news from the Paw nee Agency' In d ian T errito ry th a t W illiam M organ (class ’90,) died on M onday last. H e was m uch esteem ed by the pt o p le a t the A gen­cy. As a Carlisle pupil W illiam was tru s t­w orthy and m uch beloved by a ll who knew him .

F or a new B oudoir p ic tu re of the boys and G IR L S of th e p r in tin g class w ith th e ir in struc to rs, send S E V E N subscrip tions and a tw o-cents stam p extra, to pay postage. This p ic tu re sells for tw enty-five cents cash, bu t for T W E N T Y cents, a year’s subscrip tion for th e H e l p e r . AND T H E P IC T U R E will be given. A ddress H e l p e r .

M r. S tan d in g reports th a t the G host D anc­ing is w orking m ore in ju ry to the P aw nee tribe thou an y th a t lie lias v isited. “ The Paw nees are in a m elancholy co n d itio n ,” he says. Coal has been found on th e claim of Sam uel Tow nsend, and if m anaged rig h tly Sam uel w ill he one of the w ealthy m en of f t,at, v ic in ity . No w onder he is happy w ith th is good luck and the prospect of an early m a r­riage before h im !

M r Thom as W . P o tter who a few years since was one of us and who is now S u p erin ­ten d en t of the Cherokee In d ian School, Ashe-, v ide , N orth Carolina, was m arried yesterday , if arrangem en ts were carried out as p lanned to Miss L illie R. S m ith , d au g h ter of the late chief of the E astern Oherokees. Miss S pilth is said to be a .well-educated and ta len ted yon up lady' and Mr. P o tte r’s friends a t C arlisle un ite in w ishing h im m uch happiness.

Stacy M atlaek (class ‘90) has m arried E lla MuMchief, form erly a pupil of C arlisle, and la te r a s tuden t of the L incoln In s titu te , P h ila ­delph ia. M r. S tand ing speaks of Mrs. M atlaek as a nice little lady H er f d o er a t one tim e was a p rom inen t chief of tb Paw n.u s. They w ill be a rep resen ta tive fam ily a t P a n t e.8t:\oy is eilled L b tle Chief by the Ind ian -. He is becom ing quite popu lar the re as a s ing­er W e roup tnher hi- deep rieh voice.

C om m encem ent! .E th e ria l m ildness.Good sk a tin g yesterday.P rom otions after Com meneenaent.Mr. S tand ing expects to be hom e by. Sun-

day.Oid m other ea rth is fast losing her m antle of

w hite.Miss Tucker, of H olton, K ansas, is a guest of

Miss Moore.Tuesday was election day, bu t th e n ex t day

it d id n ’t rain .I t is m ore noble to m ake yourself g reat than

to be born so.h e venue Collector S hearer was am ong the

visitors last T hursday.The B and gave a concert in Cham bersburg,

yesterday afternoon and evening.The band gave M iss B ro ra little serenade

in honor of her b irth d ay on W ednesday even­ing.

W e on ly got a b rea th from th e w estern blizzard, but it was a very strong and cold one on F riday last.

On account of the large num ber of v isito rs com ing, C om m encem ent exercises are to be held in the gym nasium .this year.; Mr. and M rs. M asten 's youngest son, a young gentlem an of p leasing m anners and in te llectual face, called a t the p rim in g office last week.

M innie K indly has re tu rn ed from h e r home in the In d ian T errito ry . She seem s rejoiced to get back, and had a very good tim e a t homo, she th inks.

W hitney P ow ias,B rigm an C ornelius,H enry S m ith , F ra n k H arring ton , Chas. W rig h t,an d F red A. W ilson were confirm ed on Tuesday evening, a t the St. J o h n ’s Episcopal C hurch of Carlisle.

Miss B ratton and M r. M ickey of Carlisle, are w ith us as tem porary helpers. I t is not new w ork for M iss B ratton for In days gone by she assisted Miss D ittea who had charge,of the G irls’ Q uarters.

The anc ien t and beloved willow so long the land m ark of the m eadow back of the school has bowed in subm ission to the wind and w eather and lies across the spring, w aiting to be cut up into firewood.

Miss P h illip s has sufficiently recovered from h er illness to go to h e r friends, th e Bines, near tow n. H er sister, Miss L aura, was in a t te n ­dance upon h er du rin g her illness in the school hospital. The two sisters expect to live in W ash ing ton w ith th e ir bro ther in the near m ure.

Subscribers piease observe th a t we do not fu rn ish a twem .v-cent photograph for the w orking of the E n igm a, bu t to those who try it and w ill send sixteen cents, we give a y ea r’s subscription to the H e l p e r and a photograph post-paid. A ll o thers m ust send an ex tra cent for postage.

The good sleighing th is week brought nu m ­erous country schools to ',v is it the Ind ian school. M any of the boys and girls had never been inside of a p rin tin g office bef u e a n d were astonished a t seeing th e ir red brothers and sisters se ttin g and d is trib u tin g type and w ork­ing steam presses

On S atu rday M iss B arr re tu rn ed from Ocforara, Md., w here she has been nu rsin g Miss Shaffner. The la tte r is still im proving.

Shops and school-room s will be open for in ­spection on W ednesday of nex t week. The Com m encem ent exercises will occur, T hurs­day afternoon.

A holiday, yesterday , for a ll except a few of the p rin ters whose w ork would no t aliow it. They hope to get a day off w hen the o thers are w orking som etim e in the fu ture .

About two hundred of our boys and girls en ­joyed the trea t th a t th ir ty young ladies of the W iDou College Glee Club gave to the Car- lisieans in the way of a Concert on Tuesday evening.

W ho w an ts to <*at bread from a loaf th a twas carried against a d ir ty every-day coat? R egular bakers never carry bread in th a t fash ­ion. T hey alw ays w ear 'w h ite trousers and aprons and caps.

On M onday a t the opening exercises Miss Bowersox addressed the school w ith Charles Lam b as her subject. On Tuesday M rs C am p­bell sang a solo, and on W ednesday, Mabel B uck gave a piano solo.

M isses M cAdam aud Botsford left on M on­d ay B oth expressed g rea t reg re t that, c ir­cum stances com pelled them to go, and spoke w arm ly of the g reat iu te rest they feel in the w ork and in Carlisle especially .

L ittle W ylie F o rtney of C arlisle b rought in some subscrip tions and secured the prom ised prem ium . From his m an ly w ay of doing b u s­iness we arc safe in say ing th a t subscriptions en trusted to h im w ill be prom ptly attended to.

“ I received m y prem ium R ichard D avis and fam ily th is week and am very Weil pleased w ith it. 1 th in k the ir little g irls look so love­ly .”—Su b s c r i b e r . T his is one of the tw en- ty -cen t p ic tures we give w ith one subscrip­tion, for S IX T E E N cents.

One of the little In d ian boys who is much a n ­noyed a t rudeness in general says: “ Howvery rude it is to throw an y th in g around in in the dining-room , as occurred lately . I am happy to say if was not en tirely done by the sm ali boys, but the g irls had a hand in i t . ”

P aq l Good B ear is em ployed a t the C hey­enne A gency B oarding School, In d ian T erri­tory. Leonard T y l°r is fa rm er at the sam e school. Casper Edson is farm er at th e A rapa­hoe schO' i. Roy B lind is team ster. N oble P ren tiss is w atchm an a'tfd has m arried Ju lia B ent. They live together a t the school. Rob’t B urns is clerk . S tan ton is policem an and w ears lo n g h a ir , (o keep h is ears warm , pos­sibly. C l aver W arden also has long h a ir guti assists i» the A gen t’s office. These are a il Carlisle pupils.

The young ladies who won tire debate of the N egro-lnd ian question two or th ree weeks ago were the happy recip ien ts la s t F rid ay < n igh t of an im m ense pound cake mode by Miss E m ­m a G ly "n of C»pt. P ra tt’s household. Miss G lynn belongs to the colored race and w ished in th is way to show her appreciation of the k ind ly allusions by the young ladies to the m ental qualities of the Negro. There was enough of the cake for more ( lia n a taste all around and the deban rs k ind ly shared it. A card nf thanks was sent to Miss C lynn.

DO INDIAN PUPILS REMAIN TRUE?

The question has been asked as to w hether a ll of the pupils w h o go back from these E as t­e rn schools rem ain true.

The question is also often asked of m ission­a rie s ,,“ Do th e In d ian converts rem ain fa ith ­fu l to th e ir M aster?”

I suppose I have been asked th a t question a th o u san d tim es; an d I am alw ays tem pted to answ er it by ask ing :

“ D id you ever know of a w hite m an, w ith fifteen h u n d red years of civ ilization a t his back, who w as no t a model of C hristian pro­p r ie ty ? ” B ishop W h i p p l e .

On account of m an y inqu iries in regard to tra in s , from p a tro n s of the school in ten d in g to com e to our C om m encem ent we in se rt the follow ing sc h e d u le :

Peun. R. B.L v e . P h i l a .

4:30, A. M. 8:50, A. M.

12:25, P . M. 4:30, P . M.

11:20, P . M. L v e . C a r l i s l e 6:00, A. M. 9:00, A. M.

10:49, A. M. 2:15, P . M. 3:30, P . M. 6:07, P . M.

10:57, P . M.

A e r . C a r l i s l e . 8:55, A. M. 1:27, P . M. 4:32, P . M. 8:45, P . M. 5:42, A. M.

A r r . P h i l a . 10:20, A. M. 1:25, P . M. 3:00, P . M. 6:50, P. M. 9:45, P . M.

11:15, P . M. 4:30, A. M.

RcailliiK R. R.

IiVE. P h i l a . 8:35, A. M.

L v e . C a r l i s l e 8:05, A . M.

A r r . C a r l i s l e .1:25, P . M.

A r r . P h i l a . 3:00, P. M.

F ro m the Tid ings we clip the follow ing concerning Ju lia G iven who w en t to h e r hom e a few m on ths since. M iss Reeside one of thfe pioneer m issionaries sen t by th e B ap tis ts to the K iow a, Com anche and W ich ita coun try , b u t w ho is now in th e E ast, w rites of Ju lia , w ho is th e ir assistan t. Miss B allew , .associ­ate in th e ir m issionary w ork), w rites m e th a t Ju lia w ished to be baptised w ith h er people. I th in k it is w ell as long as she is w ork ing for a society of B aptists. “ Miss B allew is m uch a ttached to Ju lia . Our w ork has grown since I was a t C arlisle. O ur Society has sen t two young w om en to F t. Sill, tw o to E lk Creek, w hile Miss Ballew and J u lia are at R ainy Mt. W e have a chapel now a t R ainy M t , one near F t. S ill and a th ird is being b u ilt a t E lk C reek .” The Tidings says:

“ Miss G iven rejoices in being once m ore w ith her people and seeing th em tu rn in g tow ard God. She speaks w ith g ra titude of the help she received a t Carlisle, and is long­ing to pass th is along th a t h e r people m ay be­come C h ris tian s.”

THE ONLY TRUE SOLUTION.

I t is a p leasure to acknow ledge the receip t of an inv ita tion of th e F iftee n th A nn iversa ry and S ix th G raduating E xercises of the I n ­d ian In d u s tr ia l School, Carlisle. Pa.,

The occasion w ill doubtless be no less in te r ­esting th a n o thers of a like n a tu re have been in the past. E v ery year b u t adds to the a lready overw helm ing evidence th a t the only tru e so­lu tion of th e In d ia n problem to be found , is in m ak in g h im a m a n .— [R eform atory R e ­cord.

The In d ia n school is be reinforced by fif­ty pup ils w ho have been transfered from an In d ian school in th e w est w hich recen tly burned . T his w ill be a g reat help to our school as the num ber of ch ild ren had fallen consider­ably below its quota .—f Genoa Leader.

To tow n resid en ts : Do n o t en tru s t yourH e l p e r subscrip tions to In d ia n boys on the stree ts unless w ell acquain ted w ith the boy.

E n ig m a ,I am m ade of 19 le tte rs.M y 7, 3,15,13 is a n a n im a l r e s e m b l in g a frog. M y 17, 2, 3, 4 is a m a n w h o in h a b i t s th e At

r i c a n D esert .- My 1, 5,18, 19 is w hat m ost boys and girls l ik e to do.

My 8, 6,16 is w hat m ost roofs are covered w ith .

My 11, 12, 16 is a coun try hotel.My 9, 14, 10 is a falsehood.M y w hole is a p e rso n th a t one o f th e C a r ­

l is le I n d i a n S choo l te ac h e rs w as w orr ied ab o u t . S u b s c r i b e r .

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