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About The Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Oregon) 189?-1??? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1898)
V ol . 2. Chem awa,Oregon, February 15, 1893. N umber 13 and. 16, for the eighth examples, worked and definable Nuancts nt voiee and manner that explained correctly.) indicate good breeding and refinement are True worth is not in being, not seeming,— in danger of being largely Curtailed. So keen In doing, each day th at goes by, •' ? Leading Events o f 1898. Some little good.—n o t in dreaming is the rivalry, so intense the «train, so bitter BY A . K ID . Of great things to do by and by. the losses and disappointments, that the sav For w hatever men say in their blindness, Here are some of the most remarkable things age elements' seein - to come into play, aud And spite of the fancies of youth, that were done in the year, 1897, just closed: most o f us have neither the time nor the There’s nothing so kingly as Kindne»»,. And nothing so royal as Truth.—A. caby . i Atidree sailed in a balcxm for the North Pole temptation to attend to graces o f behavior. The word, the tone, the gesture betray the and has not been heard from .....D iscovery CHEMAWA’S QUARTERLY EXAMINA- man or woman of refinement. The true gen- of the Klondike gold fields.... Dedication of 1 , TION. the Grant monument at New Y ork.... .U nit tleman, for instance, is even-tempered, never ing three cities into Greater New York. . . . . loud speech or dress. He possesses the quali For 8th. and 9th. Grade Pupils. The famine in India.. . . Discovery of the ty of self-con trol.H e is hot boastful or vain. arithm etic . H e will not prate nf himself. H e will not “X-Ray” . . . . . .War between Turkey and insist, always upon his rights, but can grace Greece, and Spain and Cuba. Greece was 1. The equatorial diameter of the earth is fully waive his privileges. He will respect 13.948,880 yards, and the polar diameter 2,527- whipped, but Cuba was not. . . . . .Rebellion in. his neighbor’s convictions. He will bescrup- I the Manilla Island put down by Spain, but in . 769 ««-da. By fow Riat-î niilés ahd rods. is. India the English have not yet succeeded. tbp «quatorial diameter greater than tbe The German ship “ Kaiser Wilhelm Der careful to avoid offense, but not “a mush o f .polar?, , « 1 Grosse” also broke the world’s record in cross concession.” * * * There, is no, religion 2, I f $2.061 buy 7} lbs; of tea, how uiauy J ing the Atlantic; besides being the-largest without gentleness. Thekftidly temper, the lbs. call be bought for $3.711? ‘ : /.' < passenger steamer ever built. N o one can thoughtfu1’ act, the courteous deed, the gentie 1 3Ù F iid the simple interest, oil $1387 at say the year 1897 was not a year of great manner, are as much part and parcel of religion as the mechanical repetition of *51 j-er cent, per annum from March 81st, 1896, inventions. J*. , t< June 29th, 1897. ‘ „ All the countries in what is called the prayer and listening to a sermon.,, What wretched hypocrisy to be soft voiced in our 4. A farmer sold a load.of four-foot wood, postal union are to have green one-cent stamps petition to God aud cruel-tongued iu our 7 ft. long by 4 it. high, to a grocer, at the aud blue five^cent stamps.*-Have you ever intercourse with our - neighbors!—Jewish Mer- thought what a two-cent will do? It will rate of $3.60 per eord, recei ving in exchange 8 lbs. tea, 371 M P£L,l±-'> 5 lbs- rieeatôiçts. carry a one-cent letter from Key West, Fla., a e n g e r . 5# per lb.; and the remainder of the price in to Alaska. There it will be carried up the Strength of Short Words. granulated sugar at the rate of 22 lbs. for Yukon river by steamer or on the ice to .one dollar. How mauy lbs., of sugar did he Circle City; then 300 miles to Dawson; then Not long ago a group of writers were dis- 265 miles to McCormack’s post; then over receive? ' ¿5 5. A produce dealer bought 833 lbs. oats land 300 miles to Chilkat; 5000 miles by rail; cussiug the secret charm of short words, say at 24 ets. per bushel; 1572 1 b8. barley at 36 cts. 3000 miles by water; 865 miles by ice, snow, oneof our exchanges. No one can be master per bushel; 1995 lbs. pease at 44 cts; per bu. dog-sledge,packing, aud sliding down the; of the English tongue who has not learned H e mixed them aud had thé mixture ground sides of glaciers—all this Uncle 8am does. the force that lies iu words of one syllable. The secret is plain enough. Short words have ■ into feed without loss of -weight at à cost of [ for two-cente. But the greatest invention of the year is strength because" the chief acts, thoughtsaud 5 cts. per cwt. and then retailed the feed at ho dqhbt the submarine boat that was tried* emotions of human life are expressed in short $24.50 per ton. Find his entire gain. ‘ at Bali iftiore the other day. It was kept words. They tell of life and death, of grief and . 6. Find the cost of gilding the entire out under .y r .ter four hours with quite a party joy, of care and woe. The five senses are named side surface of a covered box, 3 ft. long, 2 ft. on board and explored the bottom of the, in short words. We see, hear, smell, feel and 6 in. wide, a n d 1 ft. 9 in, deep, at $1. 20 per JPatapsco river with a 400-power seach light. taste. We think, work, walk, run, sit, lie, eat square foot; There is no doubt but that millions of dollars sleep, laugh aud weep. We go and comp. , 7. A retail dealer sold a suit of clothes worth of property can be saved with this boat Mau has legs, arms, a heart, face, mouth, eyes, lor $29.40, making a profit of 20 percent. and it will soon be constructed on a larger ears,tongue, nose, chin, brow, brains, mind and I f the cloth and trimmings cost six times as 'plan.' } soul. •’< : &l . ' , much as th e m a k in g , find how much ' the A flying machine operated by steam . Around us we feel the air, see the sea, the tailor whd made the shit received. - power whs also made to go, -ft raised itself lauds, the sky, the clouds, the trees, the grass, 7, 40) Fiud the H. G F. of 1573 and 689. and flew through the air without the help of the streams, and the rocks. One syllable names divinity. any kind of gas.—JftftrnaliT, ■ ;6) Divide .766064 by .0052. The illustration could be carried on at leng- (c) M ultiply .0362 by 5.23. Gentle Manners. . th, but enough has been listed here to convey (cl) Simplify ya of three- twentieths. There is no doubt that in this pushing the thought. It is a point which should be (12 marks allowed for each of the first seven, world of <-u re the. courtesies of life, those in taught in all the schools.— The Statesman. KindneM» and Trulli. .