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CHEMAWA AMERCAN
h. l. lovelacb,
Manager,
Published Weekly by the Pupils or the
Che maw a Indian School.
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PAY AS YOU GO.
Don't run into debt. Pay as you go.
If you haven't the money, wait until you
do have it. If you wait until you have
eaten up or used up your purchase it serins
like paying fur a dead horee when the
time cotnes for settlement. We fancy some
article and long to become possessor of it,
but we haven't the money just theu lo pay
for it. We think "well we'll be better able
to pay for it by and by," when nine times
out often we will be worse off than ever be
fore when the lime arrives. It Is easy to
run into debt, but it takes a good many
bard licks to get out again. A good ninny
people run into debt when they are tun
they wont pay. They would not pay had
they the money. They don't want to pav.
Tills class of people are called "Bend
Beats" audareadifgrace toany community,
A person who intentionally beats another
out of this world's goods is no better, is not
as good in fact, as the one who shoves a gun
into your face and holds you up fur your
money. This is only another way of doing
it and it is not nearso sneaking. We should
give both of them a wide berth. Money
burns like so many red hot coals in some
peoples pockets, so they are obliged to get
rid of it in some way, which they do in as fx
peditlous a manner as possible. Others
grasp the Almighty Dollar with such force,
that if the bird of ouroountty cast 1 hereon
were not the noble bird he Is, he would cer
tainly get down off bis perch, and resign in
favnrof a Turkey Buzzard. It iBell to be
neither spendthrift nor miser, but just strike
tile happy medium.
When a big boy says "I don't know' to
nearly every question asked by his teacher
there is little hope that he ever will know.
Is the government to waste its money upon
a boy of this kind when there are so many
anxious and eager to know' and who dig
out the knowledge for themselves while a
lazy boy Bits in a school-room delighting
in annoying and vexing a teacher who Is
trying to make a man of him? We think
hoys of the "don't know" kind should be
forced to go out and woilt for I hem selves
until ihey do km w something.
Cheerfulness make success. So says
Inspector Jenkins aud we believe it.
Don't mope and sigh. Be up and doing
and let every one sue that you et Joy doing.
Seeing- and Doing for To-day.
The best way to do anything Is to do it.
Many a good piece of work has been
drowned in talk, and many a great under
taking hns been Blrunded on the shoal of
discuf-sion. An ounce of doing carries
more conviction than a hundredweight
of talk about what might be done. In
Other words, deeds are belter than the
ories. And yet the prophet wbo sees
what on lib t to be done is uo less import
ant than the valiant worker who comes,
and does what the prophet has announced.
The American Friend. ,