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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1901)
-K-. CHEflAWA, OREGON, FRIDAY NOVEMBER i, 1901. To the Student of Chemawa. Life is labor eare and sorrow Seem to darken every hope 0 may each sun that brings the morrow Brighten all the path before us. The many tasks that lie before us, " Like great mountains rising high; We can prove to be but foot hills, And surmount them if we try. We must labor so that even, Fiuds us with our duties done; Storms that gather thick to desrtoy us, Will be scattered by the sun. Then let us work for day is fading, Swiftly pass our hours away; All our tasks must be complied, Befoie we pass to endless day, Up then school mates 011 to battle, Swiftly pass the hours but yet There is time for us to conquer Ere the golden sun shall set. When at last our tasks are over, And our work on earth is done; May we be among the saved ones, Those who strove and won the crown. A. T.Gillis Wonderful Old Man. Pierre Laverdue, a French and Indian half brerd of Lewish vvn, has a remarK ahle history. Born in Hie year of Wash ington's second inauguration, he has lived three centuries the greatest period of his tory. He fought in the war of 1812. He tramped the wild prairies of the west two gMieration$before the white sett ler knew of their existence; he was an oldman when gold was first, found in California. He Una trapped wild game without end, in th days when no one but the Indian or iho hardy half-breed French ventured heynd the great Mississippi. He has 11 I tie countless herds of buffalo dwindle down to scattering heaps of bleaching - bones. He has traveled to the far north where ice ia cut in the summer time, and followed the migratory buffalo to the Rio Grande. All this in one life time. Laveidue was born in North Dakota (settling in Montana in 1876. He comes of long lived stock, his father reached the age of 112 years, and his mother 120. He is tall and straight, and even at his great age is restless and longs for the wild life of his youth. In a recent blizzard he wandered away and was found barely in time to save his life. He fought in the Itiel rebellion in 1881 and tried to enlist in the Spanish American war. It has been a life of adven ture or hardships, of triumphs; a type of life fast dying out. No race ever equalled the hardy French voyagers, of which he is is one, in exploring the wilderness and liv ing on excitement as the fine wine of life. Mr. Laverdue is one of the best specimens of that remarkable people. Every day that a reservation Indian can be placed in contact with right civilization is a great advantage to him and to the country, because what be can learu through his EYES destroys doubt. Ex. Gems of Thought. He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair per ishes with difficulty. Cheerfulness is the rubber tire on life's vehicle. It breaks the jolt whenever pru de?, ce and industry have been unable to remove the stones from the road. Did it ever occur to you, when you spoke harshly to an inferior, that the wheel of fortune c.uld reverse your portion. Half the misery in 'the world comes of want of eouraue to speak and hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love. -Ex.