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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1902)
t CH EM AW A W' f&hvnawa mericat. H. L. Lovri.acs, Managbr, Published Weekly by the Pupils of lite Chemawa Indian School. ttohwi, t nn T w, 25 Oman ' Year. Clukt of Am ami over 20 Cmt pr Vmr. Kntered at the Postofflce at Chemawa, Or., as second -class mail-matter. Address all Business Comma ill catUu to Thk Chknawa Amkkican, OHB.HAWA, OkROON, NoTK. If this space in marked with a red cross , It means that your subscription ' ' nun expiivii. Please renew- ny 23 ceutg Pjr war The BMrtay mornin division er favored Willi n short address by Inspector Jenkins, who 1 1 at the faculty of saying a it eat deal In a few Word, and etriKing II. e M -irk aimed at withmiL -vasteof I mguage. li is excellent practical, business-like ad vice will prove exceedingly henenVial to t i.h pupils am) employes of this school. . A leading busings id hi in Portland has lhl motto printed in dig letit-rs over his desk, DO IT NOW." Thai is Hie key note of his -uuewe. Many who a miserable 'allures la ld'e tmiay wjuld hut. cted if ihey would not put off doing things Until some mole convenient lime. Many employes in the Indian titrvlCH Would U more t-fttaient and succesaiul if they did things i igbt now and i ol put ihenn H till to morrow or next wek. Pupils hi sciu-ol would alsnat-c-ompiiah a grea deal mme if they carried om thin grand inottoanrt never slighted or poutp I iMng a wmk winch should be done at oner. "lJi.it Now," u a great big sermon m. itself and it would AMERICAN. pay everyone to practice as well as .reach it. There are 90,527 Indians In Oatiadu; 290 schools for Indians, 40 of which are unde nominational; sohnol enrollment 9,576; av erage attendance 6,117. In the older prov inces some Indian children attend the white schools. The government of Canada o'rtH$a,941,S98 In trust for the Indians. Of this Minj $129,000 was ml lectori on land Babs, timber and store dues, etc., and legis lative grants were made to the amount of $102,007. It will be seen that Canada is not fo guild lo Us Indian people as Uncle Sum is tit hts. Uncle Ham holds millions of dollar in trust for his Indian wards he-side- expending about $14,000,000 per year foi their support and education. A Lincoln Letter. One nf ibe many beautiful things wrd ten by the great President is the following letter, a copy of which was found in I iN cor respondence after his death: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21,18(it. To Mrs. Bixby, Botmi, Mass.: I Iihvs been shown in the rile or the wr d pit ment a stiteine.it ..f the Adliltanl General 0l MaSHachiiietts, that yoU are Ui mother ofrlvesonn who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must I eny woid . f mine which nlionid attempt t beguile jitti tr-.m the grief nf a lo r.i over whelming. But I cannot refrain fr -m ien riering ynu the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic thev died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Fa ther tnay assuage the anguish of your be reavement and leave only t he cherisherf memory of loved aud lost ami the solemn prize that must he yours to have laid no costly a sacrlrtc upoti the altar of Ireednm Yours very sincerely and respec fully, A, LINCOLN."
