CHEM AWA .AMERICAN.
A Letter from Grand Ronde.
I urn going to write to you to-lay. Am
feeling a little tired just now, but can write
niul toll you of the Hccident we liud litre
last-night,
'Pie school Ml usually rings at 8:00
o'clock P. M. for the small children to go
to bud, Ht tii time I w as in bed already,
but about 8:10 I wnh sin prised to hear
another btdl, which set ine lo thinking'
Ui'ing not MHiiwfled, I Rot out of my bed,
anil looked nut .if my wit.do, and was
very much supiised in ee the school laun
dry on fire,
I got on my clothes, Hod run as nurd as
I con Id, (he distii.-iue be i it a hIioiiI eight
hundred yards from home.
When I arrived at the place every euj
pl'iVf, hoy andirl, that were able, were
Imril at work with buckets carrying water,
in about ten minutes, (here were I think
about fifty Indians arrived and all liegan
to Work.
By an extra effort on the part of all we
Hum-eded.in saving the neighboring build
ings. Would there have tieen a heavy wind
Plorm at that time, perhaps all buildings
have been destroyed.
One man whs aeri maly hurt, by a large
limber fthlcb struck his leg.
1 d hoi know whut the damai-.e is enti-
A. J. Hudson.
The Indian's Hair
Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored
mind loves to wear his hair long, after the
nmnnerof hi ancest ors. Well, be is up a
irainat the order of a paternal 3overnmen t,
which hs indued a ukase against long hair
for men. It may be that there Issorne i ii
nection between short halrand civilization,
but we are not able to say whnt it is. A
renturyaKoUwrtsMw custom f-r men to
wear (heir hair long and tie ft in a linn at
the buck. Nowndays short hair is the
mode, but- decade heitcn Ioiiie hair may
cine in a until. We have a great deal of
pympitby for the Indian in the present (ri
al. We are much more corcerued Lhat he
Rhouhl cultivate his mind and learn to nun
port himself than we are that he should
clip hia locks. However, let us await the
resultB of the application of thto order.
There may be nmre devilishnesi concealed
in long hair than we have supposed. If so
all women may have to Buffer.
Washington, Jan. 28. William A. Jones,
commlsfiionerof Indian affairs, .who an
nonneed only a fsw days ago that the Iu
dlans would have to cut their hair Bhort
and quit using paint, gay there was a mis-
"A cake of soap," says Mr. Jones, "Is
the surest road to civilfsfalion everinvenled.
Rut we can't do anything with the old In
diana, and we won't try to. We will let
I he old fellows wear their hair long and
daub their faces until they die out. That
is all that h left for them." Ex.
A mother who was blessed with twin
girls found them laughing merrily one
right, She inquired what amused them
so much? Oh, replied Edith, you have given
me two hatha and Aliee none at all. Ex.
A girl if often as pretty as a picltire, but
seldom as pretty as her own picture.
Teacher Curly, repeal after me, "Moses
was an austere man, una made atonenieut
for the sins of his people."
Curlj Moses was an oyster man, and
made ointment for the shins of his people
-E.
When a boy comee into the school. room
with a niiir f dirtyover-nlls on over a nice
pair of trousers and tries to explain to his,
teacher by Miying be had "no lime to
chaimf,' he O'.ly maken'hiiiiself ridiculous
hh well as careless. A boy or girl at Cho
mawa always has tic to hi clean.
Girls do not wen r your fanclnatorsaround
Voiir necks in the school room. It is a
most unhealthy habit, and if you don't
heed that reason perhapB you will fnke
them off when you know -they are very
unbecomingly worn in that manner and
make the prettiest girl look like a fright.