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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1909)
4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN CIk Cbemawa Jlmerican Published Weehly at the United States Indian Training School. Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Cuibs of Five or Over 20 Cents Entered a the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. PRINTING STAFF Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson Frazier Meoum, Robert Service, Uarl Stone. VEGETABLE POETRY Potatoes came from far Virginia; Parslay was sent us from Sardinia; French beans, low growing on the earth, To distant India trace their birth; But scarlet runners, gay and tall, That climb upon your garden wall A cheerful sight to all around In South America were found. The onion traveled here from Spain; The leek from Switzerland we gaiu, Garlic from Sicily obtain, Spinach in far Syria grows; Two hundred years ago or more Brazil the artichoke sent o'er, And Southern Europe's sea coast shore Beet-root on us . bestows. When 'Lizabeth was reigning here, Peas came from Holland, and were dear. The South of Europe lays its claim To beans, but some from Egypt came. The radishes, both thin and stout, Natives of China are, no doubt; But turnips, carrots and sea-kale, With celery so crisp and pale, Are products of our own fair land; And cabbages, a goodly tribe, iVhich abler pens might well describe, Are also ours, I understand. London Rural. "Fine feathers make fine birds, but they don't make them taste any bet ter." .. ' ONE BUTTON WAS IN USE. A school principal was trying to make clear to his class the fundamental doc trines of the Declaration of Independ ence, "Now, boys," he said. "I will give you each three ordinary buttons. Here they are. You must think of the first one as representing life, of the second one as representing liberty and the third one as representing the pursuit of happiness. Next Sunday I will ask you each to produce the three buttons and tell me , what they represent." The following Sunday the teacher said to the youngest member, "Now, Johnny, produce your three buttons 'and tell me what they stand for." "I ain't got 'em all," he sobbed, hold ing out two of the buttons. "Here's life, an' here's liberty, but mommer sewed pursuit of happiness on my pants!" , Brevities George Horn is working on the repair detail in the engineering department this week. ' ' Walter Miller, Walter Haight ' and James Olney are the boys who are work ing on the S'. P.. railroad. It is told of a Scotch baker who had 'risen to affluence that some one ques tioned him as to how he had managed to make such a fortune. "Hoot, mon, I was na tryin' to make it at all," he answered. "I was only tryin' to make the very best bread in the United King dom, an' the money just made itself.'' It is a way money has of doing for those who are determined to give their best effort regardless of its rewards. The very best of anything the public needs means rich returns to its producers. Forward.
