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THE INDIAN HELPER
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A WEEKLY LETTER
-FROM THE-
Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
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VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, March 10, 1899 NUMBER 20
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COLUMBIA'S GREETINGS TO BRITANNIA'S QUEEN.
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BY EXCELSIOR SENECA.
The appearance in last week's HELPER of Rudyard Kipling's poem
"Recessional" has brought to light the following composed by a HELPER
subscriber for the Queen's Jubilee of 1887.
QUEEN of Britannia's realm
Who calmly holdst the helm
Mid storm cloud's roar --
Columbia sends to thee
Kind greetings for the free,
For thy grand jubilee,
Now at thy door.
Spring wafts perfumed adieus;
Summer with golden hues,
Brings Harvest Home
May this prophetic be
Of man's grand destiny -
Liberty's Jubilee -
Christ's Kingdom come.
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COMMENCEMENT OF NINETY-NINE
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On Thursday, the 2nd of March, another great day for Carlisle passed
into history.
Thirty-three Indian young men and maidens received diplomas showing
that each had taken the course of study required at the Carlisle Indian
Industrial School.
Fourteen States of the Union and 17 tribes of Indians were represented
in the class. Some of them had come to us years before, void of all
learning, knowing not how to use the English language, but in their
graduating orations gave evidence that the obstacle of language, at
least, may easily be removed through proper means and wholesome
environment.
The class of '99 was favored in having its diplomas presented by a man
distinguished as a great educator - Dr. William T. Harris, United States
Commissioner of Education, whose address was profound in scholastic
reasoning.
The orations of the afternoon were delivered by Joseph Gouge, of
Wisconsin, Bertha Dye, of New York, Kendall Paul, of Alaska, Minnie
Finley, of Oklahoma, Louie McDonald, of Oklahoma, Dahney George, of
North Carolina, and Vincent Natailsh of Arizona.
Other speakers were the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
William A. Jones, General Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., (retired), Rev.
Dr. Reed, President of Dickinson College, and Miss Estelle Reel,
Superintendent of the Indian Schools of the United States.
The program for the afternoon consisting of music by the Band, Piano,
Choir, Glee Club and entire school, in addition to the orations, was
apparently much enjoyed by the more than 3000 people gathered in the
spacious gymnasium, and the applause was most generous.
The singing of Kipling's "Recessional" by over 700 Indian voices with
band accompaniment produced a marked impression that was perceptible
throughout the vast audience, while the Glee Club of 40 boys under the
immediate charge of Professor Bland, of Carlisle, deserves more than
passing notice for the excellent singing of "Sweet and Low." The music
throughout was complimented by several from the platform, being
specially noticed by the Russian Officers who acknowledged surprise at
the excellent character of the pieces rendered.
This Thursday afternoon gathering termed the Commencement Proper was
but the grand culmination of a series of exercises which began with the
excellent baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Dr. Wile on the Sunday before,
and on Monday evening, when some 2,000 or more people from the town and
vicinity were invited to witness the gymnastic and calisthenic drill,
given to the visitors from a distance on Wednesday afternoon.
This drill always forms an attractive feature of the week and is the
result of Disciplinarian Thompson's training in daily practice from the
beginning of the school term in the Fall. There were new features added
this year, and the perfection of movement, the skill, dexterity and
poetry of action charmed the thousands who witnessed the exercises.
On Tuesday evening, J. Wells Champney,
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Messrs. Dennison Wheelock, St. Cyr and Corbett Lawyer spent Saturday
and Sunday in Washington seeing the sights.
It is getting to be "back woodsy" to say, "Yes, Ma'am," and "Yes,
sir." Plain "Yes" in a polite, gently manner, or "Yes, Miss Blank"
"Yes, Major," is now good form.
Good-bye, Commencement of '99. The next will be '00. The present
class cannot be called the Know-nothing class, although the figures by
which they will be known represent "nothing," ('00).
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Arthur Sickles and Alex Collins members of Miss Fannie Rubinkam's
Sunday School class of the Presbyt3erian church in Newtown, committed
the Sorter Catechism within three weeks and have each received an Oxford
Bible from the Board of Publication and Sunday School work of
Philadelphia.
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Wilbur Masonheimer, of Carlisle, won the prize of five dollars for
sending the largest number of HELPER subscriptions during the recent ten
days' contest. 81 names secured the prize. Master Lowe, who did not
bring his list in till Monday had 85 names and would have won the prize
had he sent or handed them in as per offer, at or before Saturday
evening, five o'clock.
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The Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs had this to say at the
close of his brief remarks Commencement day:
The only hope for a proper solution of the Indian problem is in
breaking up the reservation and tribal relations, and in placing the
Indians, as soon as possible on the same footing as the white man. We
all recognize that now, and as these boys and girls stood on this
platform and in behalf of their tribes and of their people, appealed to
us white people to do away with their tribal relation, promising on
behalf of their people that they will do all in their power to persuade
them to adopt civilized habits and to become better citizens of the
United States, I said to myself, We ought to give them a fair trial.
(Applause).
The question is often asked, What will your graduates do? Here is
what some of class '99 have gone into. George Hazlett has departed for
Hoopa Valley, California to be Disciplinarian; Sarah Williams left on
Monday for Tomah, Wisconsin, to take a position in the Government school
at that place; Lydia Gardner is attending High School at Landsdowne;
Vincent Natailsh goes shortly to New York City to engage in business;
Seichu Atsye will continue her training as a nurse; Nettie Buckles has
entered Metzger College in town; Kendall Paul will enter the University
of Philadelphia to take a course in shorthand and typewriting; Clara
Price has a position at Standing Rock, Dakota; Jonas Mitchell has gone
home to work at his blacksmithing trade. Dollie Wheelock will take a
course at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia; Louie McDonald will enter
Commercial College in Carlisle; Robert Emmett has a position as printer
in the job department of the Harrisburg Telegraph; Stuart Hazlett enters
a printing office near is home in Montana; Thomas Denomie continues his
studies in town; Chauncey Archiquette, Bertha Dye, Joseph Gouge and
Christian Eastman went home; Electa Scott, Mary Moon, John Lemieux,
Annie Gesis, Rose Duverney, Edward Peters, Olive Larch, Etta Catolst,
Minnie Finley and Nettie Horne have gone to country homes to await
developments and gain experiences they need; Cora Wheeler will enter
Bellevue Hospital, N.Y. City for a course in nursing; Jennie Brown and
Dahney George go to the West Chester Normal School; Corbett Lawyer has a
position at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and George Wolfe will remain here to
help on buildings to be erected.
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Among the employees of the "Telegraph" office at present is a young
man who came this morning. His name is Robert Emmett, and he is an
Assinaboine Indian, who is going to learn the printing trade. The young
man graduated from Carlisle Indian school last week, and while there he
had worked in the printing office. Wishing to perfect himself in the
printing art he naturally came to the place where that art is perfected
in the highest degree, and he is now an employee of the "Telegraph job
department.
-[Harrisburg Evening Telegraph.
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Thirty-three pupils from Peris, California, were admitted this week.
Superintendent and Mrs. Hall brought them. They all have bright,
intelligent faces, and no doubt will get on well. The manly and womanly
students who have come determined to get out of the school all the
benefits that we are able to give and to make the best of those things
that are disappointing and not quite so easy and pleasant as they had
hoped, we are sure they will make rapid strides forward.
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The Commencement Number of the Red man will be delayed a few days on
account of the revision of addresses made by our visitors.
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A handsome portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a gift of Mrs. C.R. Agnew of
New York, graces the wall of the Assembly Hall, and will ever be an
inspiration for lofty thought and manhood.
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Forward, March.
Now is the time to keep off the grass.
Snow nearly gone, and we have had enough.
A school sociable was held last Saturday night in the gymnasium.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett made the delicious ice cream for the Alumni
symposium.
Nellie Carey has gone back to Anadarko, Oklahoma, from Nebraska.
Misses Carter and Burgess visit the Invincibles tonight; Misses
Barclay and Campbell, the Standards; Messrs. Beitzel and Thompson, the
Susans.
Promotions and a general stir around for the beginning of the school
year occurred this week. Our school year begins before vacation and
ends about March 1st.
The Indian band was called upon by the citizens of Carlisle to help
receive the soldier boys, from the front. Company G returned yesterday
morning, and the town went wild in patriotic outbursts.
Superintendent Pierce had many and good reports of returned Oneida
pupils, and a kindly and encouraging word for his many friends of
Carlisle. Mr. Pierce is at the head of the Oneida, Wisconsin School.
Isn't it funny when the band is playing loud in the Assembly Hall and
a wave of Director Wheelock's baton brings a sudden pause in the music,
how the conversation of one or two in the audience, goes on for a word
or two louder than the natural tone?
Miss Annie Moore was given a little reception and party by Miss Nana
Pratt on Monday evening previous to Miss Moore's departure this week for
the west. Her may friends will miss the genial smile and companionship
so much enjoyed during her recent visit.
Our young athletes are anxious to get on to the athletic field, but
the boys must remember that it will be hard on the grass if they go on
it much at the start. Give the grass a chance! The track cannot be
injured by running on it.
Among the names of ex-students mentioned by Superintendent Pierce of
the Oneida, Wisconsin School, the other evening at the Alumni meeting
were Josiah Powlas who ahs made a splendid record ever since he went
home; Miss Williams, at his school who is leader of the King's
Daughters' Circle; Alice Cornelius; Katie Metoxen,; Cora Cornelius;
Isabella Cornelius, who is teaching white children in New England. He
encouraged all to stay away as long as they could for there was little
or nothing to do at home.
Class 1900 starts out with 36 members. Miss Cutter, like the spider
who loses its web, has to begin all over again. She has been the last
teacher of all our graduating classes so far, and she grows younger
every year. When the members of the various classes become Senators,
Governors, Presidents, Bankers and men and women in other notable
stations, or in the humbler walks of honest, civilized life, they will
look back with pride to the person, who first "cut" their way to
prosperity and happiness; and their teacher - she will experience
unbounded satisfaction in having had a hand in shaping their destiny.
Miss Noble attended the funeral of her cousin in Lancaster, on
Tuesday.
The graduating class negative has been retouched and the second lot of
pictures are very much better than the first; 30 cents, post paid.
J. Wells Champney, the artist, had to say of the art exhibit when
going the rounds on Thursday morning, "It is the most technically
perfect and ingeniously devised display of anything I ever saw in this
line."
Many of the happenings that are usually reported in the columns of our
HELPER were crowded out Commencement week to give place to the plate of
the graduating class. We went to the expense of getting this half-tone
plate believing that the faces of those receiving diplomas would be an
agreeable substitute for regular items, to print which now would be
stale news.
Inspector Graves can say truthfully that he has slept oftener upon the
ground in his experiences with the Indians than in a bed. He started
the Crow Indians with their irrigating ditches and has had wide
experiences in other lines. How vivid did he make the picture of the
Indian Chief who stopped him to talk, and would not be satisfied until
he had a log for both to sit down upon. The Indian will not be
confidential with a person who seems in a hurry.
One of the places in which the visitors last week took special delight
was the Sloyd room, where small boys and girls were handling saws,
planes, hammers and other tools. Miss Ericson was called upon to
explain the system, which she did. The Russian officers found in Miss
Ericson one who had been in their country, and although Finland and
Russia may not be on the best terms of friendship just now, the
greetings of the naval officers to one from so near home were cordial.
On Tuesday evening of this week, the school held and impromptu
entertainment consisting mostly of music in honor of our visitors,
United States Indian Inspector, Walter H. Graves, Supt. Hall, and Mrs.
Hall, of Peris, California, and Superintendent Pierce, of the Oneida,
Wisconsin School. these gentlemen spoke when called upon, each
expressing great satisfaction in what they had seen and heard. The
personal experiences of Inspector Graves contained lessons of pluck and
endurance which will not soon be forgotten.
The meeting of the Alumni on Thursday evening was one of the
interesting features of Commencement week. Mr. Dennison Wheelock
presided, and Miss Nellie Robertson performed the duties of Secretary.
A large number of letters were read from ex-students and alumni from all
parts of the country. Extracts from these interesting letters will
appear in the Red Man, if not in the March number, the next issue. The
speakers were Henry Standingbear, class '91, of Pine Ridge Agency, South
Dakota. Howard Gansworth, '94, Supt. Pierce, of the Oneida school,
Wisconsin, General Carrington, Albert Bishop, class '92, Major Pratt,
Jacob Jamison, '98, Siceni Nori, '94, and William Patterson of New York.
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the famous pastel artist of New York City, delivered a lecture before
the Literary Societies and a large audience from town in Assembly Hall.
The lecture was replete with wit and interesting anecdote. From the
beginning lines of a straight-edged pig the artist with chalk and crayon
led up to the graceful curves of a child's face, and on to the
picturesque in landscape, giving scientific reasons for changes of
lines, in a most attractive manner which could never tire the listener.
Tuesday and Wednesday forenoon were devoted to town visitors, most of
whom remained away on Wednesday afternoon in order that full opportunity
might be given to visitors from a distance to inspect the industrial
departments. The crowd is so great that there is no satisfaction for
any, if all throng through the shops at once. The industrial inspection
was viewed by hundreds who arrived from Washington, Philadelphia and
other points at noon.
On Wednesday evening a large gathering of more than 3000 people
assembled in the gymnasium. The band, choir, glee club, and school
rendered music that was appreciated, and there were stirring speeches
from a number of distinguished guests and from an unusual number of
alumni and ex-pupils who had come from the West and other parts of the
country to be present at the Commencement exercises.
Major Pratt explained the purposes of the Wednesday evening meetings
and introduced the speakers with prefatory remarks that were specially
interesting, as they generally related to the personal experience of the
one to follow:
The first speaker called upon was Clarence Three Stars of Pine Ridge,
South Dakota, who came to Carlisle with the first party of pupils nearly
twenty years ago. Mr. Three Stars' address was exceedingly taking in
its simplicity and earnestness.
Dr. Carlos Montezuma, whose double portrait as a child in the Apache
camp and now as physician in Chicago, will appear in the Commencement
Red Man, in connection with what he said on this occasion, spoke next.
Then followed Dr. Eastman, of the Sioux tribe and of notable career as
a physician and the husband of Elaine Goodale, the celebrated poet and
writer.
Howard Gansworth, class '94, now a student of Princeton University,
gave a finished address full of quiet eloquence. The dark visaged men
of the forest and plain who in beribboned locks and deeply furrowed
brows sat unable to understand the proceedings, formed a background
which brought into conspicuous contrast this young man of grace and
scholastic merit, thereby presenting a wonderful exhibition of the
expansive gulf which lies between ignorance and superstition on one hand
and education and refinement on the other.
Benjamin Caswell, class '92, gave striking evidence in his manly
address that Major Pratt's practical doses of civilization had taken
effect. Mr. Caswell has been his own man ever since he left Carlisle,
serving the Government in various capacities of trust.
Miss Alice C. Fletcher, whose fame is worldwide through her work of
the Indians in allotting lands, and her scientific research in Indian
folk-lore, now occupying a chair of fellowship in the great Harvard
University, needed no introduction. Her remarks were brief but warmly
received by the large audience; especially was the applause enthusiastic
in the Indian corner, each student regarding her as a personal friend.
General Carrington had but a work to say, reserving his time for
Thursday afternoon.
An interesting episode here occurred, the Major asking the Russian
Naval officers, whose presence honored this Commencement, to stand, so
that all present might see them. One of the number responded in good
English to the call, complimenting the band and singing, as well as the
general work of the school.
Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Commissioner of Education for Alaska, then
was called upon to introduce the great "North King of the United States"
- Lieutenant David H. Jarvis, of the United States Revenue Cutter
Service. Dr. Jackson told of his wonderful courage over one year ago in
carrying relief to the 400 perishing whalers and American citizens held
by the ice of the Arctic region.
Lieutenant Jarvis spoke for himself, relating a few of his experiences
with the Indians of that north region, saying that the Esquimaux are
only Indians. He spoke in highest terms of their kindness and
hospitality.
Mr. Francis LaFlesche, of the Omaha tribe of Indians, for many years a
prominent member of the Indian Office force, in Washington, D.C. was the
next speaker. He gave interesting personal experiences and in every
sense fulfilled what the Major had said in introducing him, that he
"always says something good."
Elmer Simon, class '96, was teeming with gratitude to Carlisle for
what he is and ever hopes to be, and was very happy in his remarks. Mr.
Simon graduates this year from the State Normal School at Indian, Pa.
J. Stanley Brown, the husband of General Garfield's daughter, was next
introduced, and was complimentary and encouraging in his brief address.
Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, William A. Jones, made the
closing speech, with the exception of a few words from Gen. Carrington,
relative to the fact that there never has been an Indian war that was
not directly or indirectly the result of the white man's encroachment.
The inspection of school rooms took place on Thursday morning.
Commissioner of Education William T. Harris conducted the examinations
assisted occasionally by General Carrington. Each school room was
visited in turn an din each there was special interest manifested by the
visitors as the questions were propounded.
One visitor was heard to say when a pupil faltered over the question:
"If 8 were two-twelfths what would the whole be?" "There are people in
this company who could not answer that question.
But our space is full. for all the little betweens, anecdotes and
other items of interest we must refer our readers to the March number of
The Red Man, which will be out in a few days, a limited number of which
are still not engaged; five cents a single copy or 25 cents for 6
copies.
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Transcribed every week from the Carlisle Indian School newspaper
collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society by Barbara
Landis, Carlisle Indian School Research - http://www.epix.net/~landis.
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