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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
was a boy and know everything of note that has tran
spired in every nation from that day down to the pre
sent. All knowledge and all learning is at his feet and he
has only to reach down and pick it up.
When a man lives until he is 60 years of age, and has
not yet become a reader then I would agree with Dr.
Osier that he ought to be chloroformed, for his day of
usefulness is past.
Well might Mr. Dana say: "A city's free public li
brary is a city's school without age limits, rules or
masters; a city's temple without creed, a city's friend..
who gives help without reproof or blame, a city's cen
tres of enjoyment and good will."
Once more: The Indian pupil should study hard
and constant.
Youth is the season for study, and improved or not,
will soon pass away. Don't miss a moment without
learning something, you did not know before. -
Carry your note book with you wherever you go.
Don't let the fellow at your elbow ever have it to say
that he beat you at your books.
I have heard a great deal about children injuring
their health by hard study. This is all moonshine.
I have never met with one so injured. It is not work
that kills boys.
It is the fun they had during recess and after hours.
Study during the day is not half so bad as carousal be
tween two days.
If you want to excel when you grow up, begin to pre
pare for it now. What you learn in youth you will re
member your whole life.
What you learn after thirty is apt to be forgotten at '
fifty, and what you learn after fifty you lose entirely
at seventy.
I can remember everything I learned at school, but
I do not remember half what I learned after I reached
manhood and when I am seventy I do not expect to be
able to remember much outside of whnt I learned
when young.
If there is one thing I wish to impress upon your
minds more than another it is, neglect not your pres
ent opportunities.
When I lookaround this building and see the educa
tional pririleges you enjoy, the fine apparatus you
possess, and the kind and competent teachers yon
have and compare them with the opportunities I had
when a boy, I actually feel sorry that I was born so
early.
If I had my way about it I wouldn't be born yet.' But1
as I was not consulted about the maiter I do nol see
that I was to blame.
When I think of the little log hut where I first went
to school and the cruel old teacher I had who only
knew one way of putting knowledge into the head and -that
was through the back with the jaeke; ff, I al
most envy you the great privileges yon enjoy.
Had I your advantages I might to-day he a superin
tendent of an Indian school myself, but as it is I must
be content with arty old job I can And to do.
The human intellect is on the march and if you wish
to keep up with the procession you must study and
study hard. It is a poor business to be found in
the rear. Push your way to the front.
To he continued
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JJ PUPILS' ITEMS 1
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Get ready for examination.
There were many changes in the de
tail. ' fM
Mr. Westley has now began to graft
the fruit trees.
Pister Edith is now on the first class
sewing room detail.
The farmers are now blasting stump?
like good fellows. , .
Our first team of basket-ball will play
at Newberg on Friday.
Bessie Williams was premoted to the
fourth grade Monday. '
The Blacksmiths were all glad to have
Mr.. Melson back again.
Alice Williams is now one of Miss
O'here's first class dress makers
.Last Saturday afternoon the B com
pany were leveling the ball-ground.
The band gave a concert on Saturday
evening, in honor of the band's birthday.
Mabel Nesbel isriow working over at
the hospital and likes it very much.
Jane Evan one of our former stu
dents, is back visiting her friends.
Wet weather has been paying us a
visit at Chemawafor the past few days.
Lizzie Beaver is now working in the
sewing room. She is a fine dressmaker.
Mr. Brewer and Merl Poland with a
few boys blasted a few stumps Wednes
day. .
Gussie Cameron is now working in
the sewing room and she is doing very
nicely. . .
Everybody was interested in Miss
Miller's talk about the Mqrmans in the
carlv davs.