The Chemawa American, October 01, 1913, Page 16, Image 16

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m any city boys grow u p w ith disordered appetites and depraved tastes!
A gentlem an was recently heard to say: “ As I go along th e street the
sight of cigars in th e store m ake me w ant to sm oke and I step in and
buy w hen otherw ise I should not th in k of i t . ” T h is gentlem an is a
em inent scholar, a principal of a boys’ school, an advocate of reform s,
and influental in ch u rch and society. If the tem ptation of th e store
windows was too m uch for him , can we expect his pupils to be proof
ag ain st it?
L E S S O N IN M A N N E R S
M any hum ble im m igrants from E urope can give A m ericans lessons in
good m anners. A w ell-dressed A m erican woman was w alking in a park
w ith her 4-year-old d au g h ter, w hen she saw an Italian begining to divide
a very sm all cantaloupe am ong his eight children. She stopped to look,
w hereupon the Italian , th in k in g th e little girl w anted some, too, w ith a
most gracious bow handed her th e first slice. T h e m other protested,
b u t to no purpose, and rath e r than h u rt the feelings of so tru e a gentlem an,
she perm itted th e little girl to accept. It h u rt her to th in k th a t her
carelessness had reduced the already inadequate feast, but she retrieved
her error in the only possible way.
“ IN D IA N H E N R Y ”
T h e follow ing dispatch from P endleton, O r., appeared in the O regon
Jo u rn al recently on the death of " T h e L ast of the M ollas:”
T h a t C hief Y elkis, know n as " In d ia n H e n ry ,” th e last of the Mol-
allas, whose body was found th is week near M olalla, was really the last
of one branch of th e Cayuse tribe, is the statem ent of M ajor Lee M oor­
house, local h istorian, who holds th at all northw est ethnologists will
concur in th e statem en t.
T h e M olallas, instead of being an individual tribe, were really an off­
shoot of th e C ayuse trib e now living upon the U m atilla reservation, he
says, and are the only In d ian s who perserved the old Cayuse tongue in
its p u rity .
"M a n y years a g o ,” said the m ajor in speaking of th e death of the
old Ind ian , " th e Cay uses and Snakes fought a bloody battle near the
present site of the tow n of U m atilla.
T he Snakes were victorious and
scattered th eir enem ies. O ne band headed w est w ith th e Snakes in p u r­
suit, and the chase continued u n til the fugitives were across the Cas-