4 THE CHE MAW A AMERICAN. 0be Cbemawa flmericam Published Weeklj by Pupils of The Chemawa Indian School. Subscription price 25 cents per year. Clubs of jive or over, 20 cents. Entered at the postoffice at Chemawa, Ore., as second-class mail-matter. A Merry Christinas. Stockings will be in demand to night. Listen to those Christmas bells a-ringing! Buy your friends a nice little pre sent and help make their . Christinas happy. Wanted 20,000,000 tons of good pure white snow to spread about one foot deep over our green grass in which to roll old Santa Claus. The Chemawa boys and girls want to have the dear, little, fat, old man give them a nice long ride on his sleigh drawn by those four swift, sleek rein deer Avith long horns. Therefore our reason for wanting bids on the above quantity of snow. We would prefer it to be slightly moist so it will stick to the limbs of our evergreen trees, and make Chemawa look like a real winter palace. Send in bids at once. No time to lose. The Red Man and Helper very strongly and justly repudiates the lies that are everlastingly being trumped up against Carlisle graduates. When any Indian who can talk English commits a crime the newspapers im mediately give the Carlisle school the credit of his having been a pupil there. Well, that is one of the na tural consequences of being great and renowned. Four fifths ,of the news papers of the United States never heard of a Chilocco, Haskell. Pheonix or Chemawa school. So Carlisle has to suffer for it. We do not think any malicious falsehoods will injure Car lisle or the cause of Indian education. All sensible, unprejudiced people will know that an Indian school is not re sponsible for the misdeeds of those who may. have attended that school, any more than Yale, Harvard or Princeton are responsible for their students. WHY HE FAILED. He watched the clock. He was always grumbling. He was always behindhand. He had no iron in his blood. He was willing, but unfitted. He didn't believe in himself. He asked too many questions. He was stung by a bad book. His stock excuse was "I forgot." He wasn't ready for the nsxt step. He did not put his heart in his work. He learned nothing from his blun ders. He felt that hd was above his posi tion. He chose his friends among his in feriors. He was content to be a second-rate man. He ruined his ability by halfdoing. things. He never dared to act on his own judgment. He did not think it worth while to learn how. He tried to make "bluff" take the place of ability. He thought he must take amuse ment every evening. Familiarity with slipshod methods paralized his ideal.