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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1902)
CHEMAWA AMERICAN. Don't be an Ass. A dudish son looked up from his paper and said to bis father: "Ah, father, they have a horse In the east that smokes a pipe." "I know an ass right here who smokes cigarettes." replied the father, and the son had no more to say. Bed Man And Helper. Our tailor shop boys who are studying language as well as the art of cutting and making clothing, will appreciate the fol lowing from Everywhere, about a talior who was writing a request for some addi tions for his shop. He wrote: Dear sir; please send me two tailor's gooses." This did not sound right, so he tore up the letter and wrote another: "Dear sir: please send me two tailor's geese." This sounded worse than the other; so he wrote: 'Dearsir: send me a tailor's goose and, pshaw! well send me another!" Red Man And Helper. Football play inn in these latter days is getting to be little better than a slugging match. This was especially evidenced in the Nebraska University game with the Haskell Indians, on Thanksgiving Day. The TndianR plainly had the best of the game in "first rnuud," notwithstanding they had practically no friends in all the crowd of 'rnoters,'' who encouraged the Nebraska boyB In evt-ry imaginable way, and which evervbod vcan seecuints a Rood deal in a contest- of this kind. The treat ment given Fa. lis, f"r instance, one of the beBt players among the braves, was evi dently done to get him out of the game and was about what would be expected in a Knockout con-teat in the ring. This kind of tactics should he discountenanced by those attondinir these games, and it will be stopped. Athletic exercise is all right, but it shouldn't decend to brutality that would shams an uncivilized Indian.' The Indian Leader. Offered Human Sacrifice. A News special from Phoenix, Arte., says: 'iPadre," a big medicine man of the Yuma Indians, who lives on a reservation near Yuma, Ariz., has been offered as & sacrifice to the Great Spirit in accordance with custome, and has expiated the sins of the tribe, which are responsible for an -epidemic of Bmallpox. The medicine man divined the Indian's intentions several years bro and fled to the mountains, but In a half starved condition he wandered back to the Indian village and pleaded for mercy. He was promptly boun'I hand and foot and conveyed by a delegation of In dians to Mexico, where he was bound to a tree and cruelly tortured to death. "Padre" bad a warm place In the hearts of his tribesmen, but their customs require them to make a heavy sacrifice. Whose Uncle is it? An exchange thus bids farewell to a de--parted ciifzen: "He was a man of push. He played marbled for keeps when a boy and cheated all his playmates out of their alleys; he swapped a hladeless knife, sight unseen, fur a four blader, sold that for fifty cents, bought a pound of sugar and made barrel of lemonade which lie sold one cir cus day for $8. He star. ed in business and sold bad meat for choice cuts and made a fortune. When he got a thousand dollars, he organized a company with $5,000,000 capital, mostly water and sold th stock at par. "When the company busted it was found out that he bad sold out some time before. When he died he was a million aire and he left tt all here. It is warm where he is now." If the farmer who tills Mxkes his living by tillage, Doe the doctor who pills Make his living by pillage?