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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
A Trip to Chemawa.
The latter part of last month the editorial
tnff ofThe Guide packed his grip and
started for Cbemawa to pay a long deferred
visit to the olg school of the Pacific Coat.
He was met at Portland by the Snpt., Mr.
Thomas W. Potter, a genial gentleman of
six feel two, and after a brief exchange of
opinions with Ihe management of Ihe
Southern purine B. R. Co , regarding lo
cals, overlanria and flyers, etc., wan allowed
to hoard the desired train and was landed
fit Chemawa about 10:00 the evoning or
J.in. 20.
Hundreds of inoandeseents make Che
niiiwa a very pretty place in the evening,
and our first impression was a favorable
one. This grew as we inspected the in
stitution at onr leisure during the next
thr- or four days. Every where wero
seen signs of industry and growth. Toone
interested only insuperfinal appearance, it
might have seemed an inopportune time to
make a visit, the grounds being out. by
ditches in which steam pipes were being
laid, and several new buildings being only
partially completed, with large quantities
of materia) piled around. Hut to one in
terested In the study of life and de
velopment iu preference to rest or decay,
this was an added attraction. The, whole
place seemed pervaded with a spirit of com
fort and contentment. The briMings were
warm, and clean, and though at present,
somewhat crowded, thisoongestion will be
greatly relieved when the buildings under
construction are occupied, particularly if a
building lor boys is secured such as Snpt.
Potter has under consideration.
The school has an attendance of about ftve
hundred pupils and the corps, of instruc
tors numbers nearly fifty. Many familiar
faces were recognized among the student
boys, aud we were pleased to see that the
children fiom Puyallup occupied many
pent in the high places. The faculty also
contained three former Puyallupites, Mrs.
Sherrard the nurse who occupied the same
position wilh us. and Johnson Williams,
teach?r, and John Allen. Asst. Discipli
narian, both at one time pupils here. All
are doing well.
A band of twenty-two members fur
nished mont excellent music for the enter
tainment of Tuesday evening, and for the
Sociable of Wednesday night. Here, R
gain, we are reminded of home. Among
the members of the band we found Joshua
Gibson playing B B bass, Frank Hamilton,
Tulm, Nicholas Lewis and Silas Booth,
altophons; John Raub, saxapbone and
Simon B"oih, slide trombone, while in the
rear was Yeppie, Yeppie Nelnon beating
the big bHfs drum.
Wednesday afternoon we were taken for
a spin over the partly frozen ground be
hind Supt. Potter's fast team known as
the flyers, lo view the public building
grouped in and arouud the quaint old New
England town of Salem, We must confess
that our recollection of the country lying
between (he school and Salem Is some
what hazy having been seen through dpniie
Bhowers of flying mud and Wing principal
ly occupied mysflf in seeing that the hind
wheels continued to keep within a reason
able distance of the fore ones.
Thursday morning in company with
Supt. Potter, we boardedthe trainfor Port
land and lhat evening were again in the
land of perpetual spring,
Space ffftoo limited tntpllnf all th- pleas
ant features of the trip, of i be ever del1ht
fnl uin rtaiiny of retching the breakfast
table in lime, of the evening pliouomrnph
e.mcer s, f -liding on the ice, etc., but we
must say iIimI we are g!ud we made the
trip, and hie wone day if providence per
mfttelh to go again fPuget Sound In
dian (itiidi.
It looks bad to see a Serjeant's hands in
his ponket and coot unbuttoned when
mttrcbinir a company of boys to dining
hall or school building. Doesn't it?
Description of the human brain: "The
brain consists of a number of conclusions
(convolutions), and the more conclusions
you have the brainier yon are."
A girl writing a theme on, "Man as com
pared with the lower animals," drew the
following conclusion. "The lower animals
are imperfect beasts: Man is a perfect