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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1902)
8 CH EM AW A AMERICAN. Business is Business. 'What is worth doing, worth doing well," are words that have beeu familiar to most people from their earliest childhood- It haB been a motto upon the headline of copybooks tor many years, and generate. na of schoolboys, beforn the copybook of our boylioud made way tor newer methods, cop it d It until it became a wornnut mm a. Young men entering upon a career in bus luesH or profesdonal life have had It din ned Into ihein so coosumly that one would imagiue it long sinca wearied the generations into acting upon it in every wBlkoflife. So fur from this being the cane, each veneration, ua It comes, needs the same ohl leason , and also needs to be urged to apply it to every detail in human 1UV.-The Episcopal Record. The Address of Dr. A, D. Walker. The address of Dr. A. D. Walker Friday afternoon to the at ml mi ;e of the High School on "Tobacco and ttie Evil Uesuitsof its Use" can scarcely fail (o prolit all intel ligent boys who heard It. The cigarette habit is contracted usually in thoughtless ness, Hud 19 continued by the boastful spirit which it encourage., if It does not first Induce. The buy who can smoke without Berious consequence at first, who is deft In rolling the pernicious substance in wrappers for use, who can retain the suioKe longer in the process of inhalation and exhalation than his fellows, learns quickly 10 take an ignoble pride in bis achievement and to fortify himself in tbe haliit by a sickly, Impudent vnuity. After tbe habit is once formed to. this extent It Is perhaps idle to expect its victim to reason concerning the deleterious effects of ihe drug upon his system. To such as these Ihe advice of Ir. Walker, "If you persist la using tobacco, smoke a pipe or cigar, Chw or take suuff, even 'dip' but don't smoke cigarettes," may be of some benefit. But it is pleasant to believe that all manly boys who heard this address hearkened to Dr. Walker intelligently wbtn he said: "My sincere advice to you is, atwlnfn from the use of tobacco altogether during the years you are going to school." Thoee wlio order their habits by this advice will have god cnuse In Inter years to rj"ice that they listened wiih open mtnrin to l his dis interested exhtrttl-l m. O'egonUn. American Indians as Stenographers. c. B. BIHCH. A Ijostoii paper recently made men t inn of a young lady stenographer In that city who is something out of the ordinary. The peculiar tiling of it is that she is an Indian. Hhr Is not alone in ibis respect by any meiicB, The writer could name many young Indian stenographers holding re sponsible positions in government, manu facturing, railroad and law offices, in direct competition witu wbie employes. Their salaries range from $480 to $1,200 per au- These young people receive their induing at the large United States Indian Kcliwil, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Khmshw, where an excellent, business and slinrlhitnil department is maintained at Kovernnieut expense. Only those who have sufficient English preparation to take up the work successfully are admitted to this Uepnrt- The course Includes two years' work in the following: Shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and business form?, pelliiif, letter writing, grammar, rhetor'u, penmnti ship, 'arithmetic, commercial law, current events, manifolding, mimeographing, in dexing, tiling, etc. All receive prai-tkl iiiftttuciiuu in Connection with the office work of the institution, which annally dis burses something like $125,000 Ex. It Is not the boy who is surro led with great laboratories and elaborate apparatus, but some Michael Faraday who. in the al. tic of an apothecary shop, experiments witli a cfnof water and an old syringe, who becomes eminent. Success.
