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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:31:53 -0500
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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 24, 1899 NUMBER 22
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TRIBUTE TO THE "HELPER."
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WELCOME, little HELPER.
Cheery, brave and bright!
Ready for the conflict
Always for the right.
Sometimes with approving,
Sometimes with rebuke;
Sometimes with a silence
And an upward look.
In the grand uprising
Manhood makes for man,
Onward, upward ever.
Foremost in the van.
C.F. O., Mass.
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A WORTHY SPEECH BY A CARLISLE GRADUATE.
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At a Farmers' Institute, held at Oneida, Wisconsin, last month, Josiah
Powless, class '91, delivered an address which in the words of an
educated listener, "greatly surprised and delighted the visiting
gentlemen, and was listened to with interest by all."
Josiah said in part:
The Indians need to learn practical ways of manual work. There is art
in farming; there is art in ploughing a deep straight furrow. There is
art in raising big potatoes. There is art in every line of work.
The Government has allotted land for each individual member of the
tribe, which is a starting point for industrial training, if the Indian
will look at the subject in the right light.
We have passed beyond savagery and barbarism on our road to the height
of civilization.
Industrial activity should go hand in hand in the progress toward that
point.
We see the neat and tidy ways in which our pale faced neighbors
arrange their farms and how they accumulate property.
One may ask where is the source of all this?
It comes simply through economy and industrial training, backed by
ambition.
The Indian is physically able to work. All he needs is to train his
head, his hand and his eyes to the beauty and profitableness of
industrial art.
We must understand that industrial work of whatever nature is
honorable and respectable. The Indian has not learned to respect work
in its fullest sense, but one consoling thought occurs to me. There is
a growing tendency on our part to become better cultivators of the soil.
The time is not far off when even this generation shall compete with
the white men and add their support to the great industries of America,
when the Red Man shall have a voice in the local and national
government, and proclaim his right as a full citizen, and not be
regarded as the "poor ignorant Indian."
So now is the time to muster in the industrial army and prepare to
join the advancing charge of American developments.
The times are favorable, and it requires of us vim and ambition.
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THE SHORT CUT THE BEST.
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Major Pratt's talk before the student body on Saturday evening in
Assembly Hall was one of his strongest, and calculated to arouse all the
ambition and pride that a person could have in well-doing.
A man or boy or woman or girl has it in his or her power to reach a
certain point of usefulness, but to take the longest and most
round-about way imperils the chances of ever getting there.
An army experience was related, and a beautiful word picture drawn of
a camp in Virginia on a hill-top. There was a steep and rugged path
which led straight up to camp, but the smooth road was four or five
times as far by a round-about way.
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Continued on Fourth Page.
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THE INDIAN HELPER
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PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY
--AT THE--
Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.,
BY INDIAN BOYS.
---> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian
boys, but EDITED by The Man-on-the-band-stand
who is NOT an Indian.
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P r i c e -- 10 c e n t s p e r y e a r
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Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second
class mail matter.
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Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
Miss Marianna Burgess, Supt. of Printing.
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Do not hesitate to take the HELPER from the
Post Office for if you have not paid for it
some one else has. It is paid for in advance.
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A letter from Miss Fisher speaks cheerfully of her work at Genoa,
Nebraska.
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L. M. J., a Newtown subscriber says: "I am always eager for the
Saturday evening's mail as it brings me the spicy little letter from
Carlisle."
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We hear that Mitchell Barada, '98, who is taking a Commercial course
at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, likes the school and is doing
well.
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Elizabeth Greeley Trepania who lives in Manaekagon, Wisconsin, since
her marriage, sends for a class picture and renews her subscription.
The friends of returned students are always glad to hear from them.
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We see by the Haskell leader that in an oratorical contest between
classes from the normal, commercial and training departments Elija Brown
won first prize. We also see that their new chapel was dedicated with
impressive ceremonies.
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Mrs. Louisa Seger, of Walnut, Illinois, mother of Superintendent Seger
of the Colony Oklahoma Indian School, keeps up her interest in the
Indians and in Carlisle, although she is 82 years of age. She renewed
her subscription this week.
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Henry Redkettle, '97, who is clerking in a store at Kyle, South
Dakota, says he has found out by experience that his six years at
Carlisle helped him in every way. "And be assured, " he says, "that I
will always try my level best to set a good example before my people."
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We are greatly pained to hear of the death of William Pollock, Haskell
graduate, who made for himself such a good record in the recent war.
After passing through perils at the front, as one of Colonel Roosevelt's
Rough Riders, to come home and be taken with Pneumonia and die, is a
fate deplored by all. The deceased was a Pawnee Indian, and we have
ever heard him spoken of as a young man of excellent character.
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A letter from Mr. Campbell, himself states that it is a fact hat he
has been transferred to the Chemawa Oregon School from Warm Spring,
Oregon. He will be assistant Superintendent and clerk, and says: "By
the time this reaches you we will be at Chemawa in pleasant
surroundings. It will seem like old times to work in harness with Mr.
Potter. Mr. Potter has one of the best schools of its kind in the
service, which is exerting an influence on the Pacific Coast equal to
that of Carlisle in the East. This transfer will solve the problem of
our own children's education, placing them in a line of opportunities
that they would not have enjoyed at Carlisle." It will be remembered
that Mr. Campbell was for many years disciplinarian at our school.
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Mrs. L.A. Winney, Tiff City, Missouri, wishes to thank an unknown
somebody for sending her that HELPER. She says she always reads it
before other papers and it comes to her like a very interesting letter,
which one does not like to stop until read through. She hopes there is
not a pupil here who is not anxious to make the best of his or her
privileges so as to be ready for the changes that they must sooner or
later pass through in the tribal and Governmental relations. Of a boy
who recently returned she says "I think he will be sorry sometimes when
he realizes what he has lost, but it was home encouragement that
compelled the return."
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The baseballers and relay runners are hard at work striving to gain
practice and endurance. Says one of the boys: "All are looking to the
races with open eager eyes, and anxiety is felt of the great exchange on
"pies." The Man-on-the-band-stand cannot quite understand the couplet
as only three of the printers are engaged in practicing, and of course
only printers know what good pi is.
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The boys and girls in country homes exert an influence of which they
may not be aware. A recent letter from Philadelphia says this: "While
talking to one of your out students I found how deeply many of the
Indian appreciate the privileges, and we cannot but know the good that
must in time result from such an institution."
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Robert Americanhorse, who was of the very first party of Sioux pupils
twenty years ago, writes that he is still alive and "I always remember
Carlisle, too." Robert has been one of the staunch young men of the
church and of his tribe since his return and an example for good.
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Schools and printing presses are rapidly doing away with the necessity
of that word INDIAN and so are rapidly bringing us to the one common
platform - on which all ought to stand - Americans. When we reach that
point how many of our "problem" will be solved! -[Reformatory Record.
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Juanita Bibancas' friends at Carlisle will be glad to learn through a
letter from her, now at her Hoopa Valley, California, home that she is
still interested in us and wants her HELPER subscription renewed. Her
letter was purely business, but even that is better than no letter.
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Oil your wheel.
The trees are being trimmed.
Spring has begun in earnest.
The storm door cometh down.
Keep off the grass signs are evident.
J.W. cannot run because he is a wheel-lock.
Mr. Thompson's house is undergoing repairs.
The parade is getting its first all-over touch of green.
Dick Pratt came over from Steelton to spend Sunday.
Miss Nana Pratt is visiting friends in Philadelphia and vicinity.
A cold wave is upon us. What will the robins do now, poor things/
The first large party will "strike out" of country homes in a few
days.
The song of the robin is common, and the cyclone cloud heaveth in
sight.
Yes he is VERY neat in his dress, but DID you ever look at his finger
nails?
The large tree in front of the hospital Johnson Adams, '96, is still
among the living, for he has ordered a Commencement Red Man.
On Monday, Miss Shaffner was sent to New Jersey on school business,
returning Wednesday.
Abram Isaac did a nice piece of cabinet work on a case of the printing
office, this week.
The brilliant red boxes that have been place don our cisterns add
picturesqueness to the campus.
The morning talks before the student body at breakfast these mornings
are forceful and thought stirring.
Bobby --"Popper, what is a hostile Indian?"
Mr. Ferry -- "One with some good, stable land." -Cincinnati Inquirer.
Mr. Thompson has gone to New York and Philadelphia in the interests of
athletics, and will get some track points while away.
Tonight, Miss Cutter and Miss Hill attend the Invincible society; Miss
Cochran and Miss Ericson the Standards; Miss Forster and Mrs. Cook the
Susans.
General Eaton, Commissioner of Education in Porto Rico, has sent to
Carlisle for Sloyd points, and wants to know if we can take a party of
Porto Ricans.
The Commencement Number of the Red Man has been unavoidably delayed.
To the many who have written asking why they have not received the paper
we will say it is now mailing.
We have an order for three copies of Commencement Red Man to be sent
to Malcolm B. Sterrett, 295, Cumberland County, Pa., We shall be glad to
forward the copies if we can find out where.
All who knew Karkee, the dog that Major and Mrs. Pratt brought from
Bermuda, will regret to learn of his death. He had been ailing for
several days. Karkee was one of the most intelligent dogs the
Man-on-the-band-stand ever saw.
Preparing for the country is going on in systematic shape in all the
quarters.
The ice-storm last winter did more damage to our trees than anything
that has happened for many years. The loose limbs that have had to be
taken out are many.
The Juniors have elected Edwin Moore as their class president; Edwin
Smith, Vice-president; Simon Palmer, secretary; Louis Trombla,
treasurer; Edgar Rickard, reporter; and Myron M. Moses, critic.
Mr. and Mrs. McCrae of Newville, came to the station to see the Band
as it passed through last Friday on its way to Chambersburg. It will
be remembered that Mrs. McCrae was Miss Wiest when with us as a teacher.
On last Friday evening Mrs. Senseny of Chambersburg entertained
Director Wheelock and a number of his band boys with a feast of dainties
and a flow of cordiality. Her daughter, Miss Senseney and Miss Burgess
were of the party, all of whom greatly appreciated the special
attention.
That was a handsome and unique gift bestowed upon Miss Ely by Mr.
Norman this week. A horse-shoe ink-stand rest with show and base
covered with crushed quartz secured by the giver over thirty years ago,
from seven of the great mines in Arizona. Mr. Norman belonged to the
Army then and was stationed in Arizona.
Annie Goyitney, Augusta Nash, Susie Baker, Margaret Scholder, and John
Allen take the places as pupil teachers of the five graduates. There
are ten pupil teachers in all, and all are enthusiastic in their work.
It is said that they make intelligent use of teachers' magazines, which
are always a source of help to them.
The dining hall walls are being decorated by the Pennsylvania, Santa
Fe and Great Northern Railroads, with handsomely framed photographs of
scenes along their respective lines of travel. A conspicuous picture of
the Santa Fe Group is a view of the old Laguna village, in New Mexico.
The Pennsylvania scenery is magnificent, and the one view on the Great
Northern cannot be surpassed.
Remember that when you are counseled to remain longer, that you may
get more education, the person who asks such a thing sees in you that
which is WORTH something. If you want to go home and nobody says stay
longer, depend upon it you are weak in the upper story or have some
bodily ailment. Consider it the HIGHEST compliment when the authorities
advise you to remain longer and never falter in taking the advice. The
greatest advise in all the world commanded those who would LEARN, to
forsake lands, father and mother and EVERYTHING, for the sake of a
principle. It is an EDUCATION now that we are after. We MUST have
knowledge and working experience, or we shall always be poor, weak tools
in the hands of those who know more than we do. Let us be willing to
leave lands, father and mother and everything until we secure what we
came for. That does not mean cease to love father and mother. It means
to love them all the more, and make ourself stronger and better able to
help them when necessity demands it.
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Those who wanted to save time always took the short cut.
At first it was hard climbing, but by keeping at it after a little
while it became easy.
Those who took the short cut had time to sit down and read and rest
while the others were still travelling around the long road.
A very pertinent lesson was drawn from this.
The Major does not believe that there is a need for any race of people
taking generations of time to reach a desired status in civilization and
usefulness.
The slow way the the long way around is always the easy way, but that
it is the necessary way is not to be entertained for a moment.
Carlisle finds herself attacked by those who should be friendly. It
is claimed that the Indian cannot be brought into usefulness by the
Carlisle short cut.
In the early days of the steamboat, a great Professor told a class
that it would be impossible to make a boat large enough to carry
sufficient coal to take it across the ocean, and while he was talking a
boat from the other side of the Atlantic hove in sight.
People said when this school was about to be established that it would
be impossible to bring the Indians to civilization, short of centuries.
Carlisle was established, and there are hundreds of examples of the
successfulness of the plan. Individual cases need not be selected to
prove that the Carlisle way has been entirely sustained. It proves
itself.
Now the question only remains whether or not the Indian shall take the
short cut to civilization and usefulness, or shall he be made to take
the long way round - the century road.
The Major believes that to force the Indian to take the longer way is
a crime.
He would have us learn the great difference between liberty and
slavery.
Liberty is intelligence; liberty is skilled usefulness.
Slavery is ignorance, idleness, uselessness.
Slavery is dependence; liberty is independence. The person who can
take care of himself, has liberty; and the greatest liberty is to be
found in the highest obedience to law.
Then Major dwelt upon the slavery of the tobacco habit, and said that
$600,000,000 were paid annually for tobacco, which was four or five
times as much as was spent for education in the United States. This
vast amount would empty every poor house and provide bountifully for all
the poor of the land.
If we are addicted to the habit he would have us break away from it.
He would have us be clean, not filthy. He would have us be free and not
slaves. Be individual and cut loose from everything that hinders.
Overcome and pull down obstacles.
The man who has accomplished a purpose in life is the man that the
world honors.
Accomplish! Accomplish! Accomplish!
To accomplish great things we have to begin in a small way.
The man who was able to lift a great cow, began when it was but a
calf, and he lifted it every day.
The least we have to overcome, the weaker we shall be. The greater we
have to overcome the greater we shall be.
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THE BAND CONCERT IN CHAMBERSBURG.
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A large and critical audience was present in Rosedale last evening to
hear the famous Carlisle Indian School Band concert. Under Prof.
Dennison Wheelock the Band ably upheld its fine record of past years and
encore after encore followed each selection. Mr. Francis Cayou sang
several baritone solos and got hearty applause. The audience and
musicians were mutually pleased and the concert was a complete success.
-[Chambersburg Repository.
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The class of '99 photograph has been greatly improved by re-touching
of the negative. Owing to a misunderstanding this was not done at
first. Price of Photographs, 30 cents, post paid. We will have some
enameled ones for 35 cents; 37 cents by mail.
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If you do not receive your paper regularly we shall be very glad to
know it and to trace the error. Let us know the NAME and ADDRESS of the
person who fails to get the paper.
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We have plenty of use for postage stamps, and there is no easier way
to transmit subscriptions. Ten cents a year is small enough, is it not,
for all the news of our school?
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Enigma.
I am made of 9 letters.
My 4, 8, 6 is worn by old people.
My 1, 3, 9 every young man is.
My 6, 2, 5, 4 rats do.
My 7 is a letter sometimes used for "one."
My whole is what came upon us suddenly this week and was not favorably
received at Carlisle.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: A big snow storm.
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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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