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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
The Chemawa American.
Henry L. Lovelace, Manager.
Published Weekly by the Pupils of the
Chemawa Indian School.
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THE HAN WHO DOES THINGS.
Every institution wants him. He is not
lo6king for positions; positions are looking
for . him. He does not complain, he acts.
He accomplishes results, and these ac
complished results speak more loudly
in his favor than acres of subsidized news
papers, What the world wants, what the
world rewards, is the man who docs things.
Discouragements and failures are meaning
less nothings to him; results are the. sub
stantial things for which he strives and
attains. There is a settled air of assured
success in his manners and movements.
There i3 no trouble in selecting him from
a crowd. He can be picked out just as
unerringly as his opposite, who abides
with discouragement and failure, and they
leave a more attractive imprint on the
countenance. Men who can do things in
industrial, commercial and financial life
are as scarce as their opposites are plentiful.
Opportunities are uot scarce; they are
plentiful, more plentiful than ever since
history was written. They await the poor
boy who does things without looking at ihe
clock. People who are always looking at
the clock never amount to much in any
thing. Men who do things never consult
the time to see if they can stop; they know
time "was made for slaves," not for virile
men who enthusiastically do things. Em
ployes who frequently consult the clock
will always be employes with no hope of
rising. The man who does things may in
his absorption forget his meals or his bed,
but his opposite will be ever ready ahead
of time for both or either. Ex.
WRITE TWO-THIRDS OF THE
WORLD'S LETTERS.
People who speak English write two
thirds of the letters of the world, says
Bran1 street's. There are substantially 500,
000,000 persons speaking colloquially one
or the other of the ten or twelve chief mod
ern languages, and of these about 25 per
cent, or 125 000,000 persons, speak English,
About 90,000.000 peak Russian. 75,000,000
German, 55 ,000,000 French, 45.000,000 Span
ish, 35,000,000 Italian and J 2,000,000,
Portuguese, and the balance, Hungarian,
Dutch, Polish, Flemish, Bohemian, Gaelic.
Roumanian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and
Norwegian. Thus, while only one-quarter
of those who employ the facilities of the
postaldepartmentsof civilized government?
speak as their native tongue English two
thirds of those who correspond do so in the
English language. There are, for instance,
more than 2Q 000 pnstofflces in India, the
business of which, in letters and papers,
aggregates more than 300,000,000 a year,
and the business of these offices is done
chiefly in English, though of India's toffd
population, which is nearly 300,000,000,
fewer than 300,000 either speak or under
stand English. ThePerniu Stenographer.
He Lived in tke Pie Belt.
A boy in Chemawa wisaskei to write
out what he considered an ideal Christ
mas dinner menu, evolved the follwoing:
First course '.' Mince pie
Second course Pumpkin pie and turkey
Third course. .Lemon pie, and cranberries
Fourth course Custard pie, apple
pie, chocolate cake, and plum pudding
Dessert pie