The Chemawa American,
Published meekly,
Vl7VL FEBRUARY 13. 1903. No. 21T
She is altogether woman, yet not altogether
human,
For the devil has his share in her a
goodly sharp, at that!
And he lurk ii? every dimp'e Satan's
Hnare f t wise and simple
And he hides in evpry angle of her
dainty picture-hat.
She's demure, and yet she's witty' and
she's pre'tier than pra'tv ;
She's hewitch'nir mire's the pity I for
on seeing her ur sou's
Prostrae fall at once before Iter, just as if
each ma 1 adorer
Were a belp'ess ' urn n tennin, and her
ey8 wre p'aving bowl-!
8'ie has fmil S and fo'lies, many; virtues
ver fe , if any;
She w II sigh wlpn vou are merry; she
wi I smi'e hen yu make min.
She eiui'l lov a p-vir ram-nvtr! Oh, in
fdO, oiie'n f tr too cleVf r
To love nnv n f jrever, save her pretty
self aloit !
She will gl dlv sp nd an hour in a higher
b d fir power,
In arranging how or fl iwer of the cap
she sets f r you ;
But a moment' tim for duty is too much
to ask of Beauty :
Leava such things to p'ainer women that
have nothing eUe to do!
Oh, I sketch her thus that others, unsus
pecting n en and brothr,
All may p-"flt by the pirtrait, so that he
wlio reads may run
Run too sifily from the sitter, toavert a
fate s.) hi ter,
That perchance she'll dem it fitter to
make me the Only One!
J. A. Reed.
APPEAL FOR ALASKA.
Bjr Chief Johnson.
About two years asp Chief Johnson
visi ed Cliemiwa enr ut.e to Washington,
and whi'e here prepired the f (Mowing let
ter to the Washington Authorities.
Gentlemen:
I have come a long w:iys fron mv home
in Alaska to see you and tell you of the
condition of my peopl 1 I was sent here
by the Chief of thrf principil tribes to re
present ihetri, and h ve brought with me
a petition sig'ie I hy fiem.
We find our country Alaska over run by
white men who h ivn crowded or driven the
Indian from th r fishing grounds, hunt
ing grounds and the places where their
fathers a id grand f dhen have lived and
been buried.
Rus-da c one and took p-ssess'on of our
lund without consulting tin Iidiini of
Alaska, the reil ownera of the cou'itty,
and later on sold it to the United Staets.
The Indians never knew anyth'ng about
this sa'e until years afterwirds, it wis
our land and country which was sold. We
have never tried to make any trouble over
it, and this is 'he first time we have ever
brought the matter to the Washington
Government to consider, alt ho' Russia
s(ole ;ur country and sold it to the United
States.
We do not ask anything unreasonable
of United State Government. We do not
ask to be paid for the land on which was
out's by rights. We do not ask that !he
whites be prevented from coming to Alas
ka. We d ) ask and pray that the good white
people who have true and kind and just
(Concluded oh' page eight.)