And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:11:36 -0500 >From: Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: History: A Hundred Years Ago - Carlisle - week 85 > > THE INDIAN HELPER > ~%^%~ > A WEEKLY LETTER > -FROM THE- > Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa. >================================================ > VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, December 9, 1898 NUMBER 8 >================================================ > OUR CHIEFEST DUTY. > --------- > ONE'S chiefest duty here below > Is not the seeming great to do, > That the vain world may pause to see, > But in steadfast humility > To walk the common walk, and bear > The thousand things, the trifling care, > In love, with wisdom, patiently, > Thus each one in his narrow groove > The great world nearer God may move. > -MATTHEW HUNT. > > ==================== > > THE ONEIDAS UNLAWFULLY KEPT FROM VOTING. > ------------- > Under the act of Congress providing for the allotment of lands in >severalty to Indians, many of the western tribes are entitled to, and >have for some time past exercised, the privilege of voting at general >elections. > The initial attempt of the Indian to vote is always strongly opposed >by the whites, sometimes coming from racial antagonism and sometimes >from the political complexion of the precinct in which the Indian suffer >to vote. > At the last general election held in the State of Wisconsin the Oneida >Indians for the first time offered to vote, although under the law they >became citizens of the United States in 1889. > Induced to take this step by their missionary, Rev. W. W. Soule, who >secured speakers from the adjacent towns to give the Indians instruction >in the Australian ballot system and to give them some idea of the >subjects upon which the different parties are divided, there were many >Indians at the several voting places, adjacent to the Oneida >reservation, on election day. > At all of the voting places except two the Indian vote was accepted >without question. > At one there was a valid legal technicality offered, at the other - no >excuse whatever, except that the Indians were Indians and of a political >turn of mind not in accordance with the ideas of the chairman of the >Election Board. > The Indians felt the refusal very keenly and made very effort to >induce the Board to allow them to cast their vote. > With Mr. Soule at their head, they argued with the Chairman, presented >their patents as evidence of their right together with a letter from the >honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs in which it is conceded that >the Indians are citizens, and lastly offering to accompany each and >every vote with an affidavit in accordance with the laws of the State, >which demand the Board had no legal right to refuse, but all to no >avail. > Through the kind intercession of good friends the District Attorney >for the county of Outigamie, Wisconsin, has commenced criminal >proceedings against the Board of Elections and the outcome will be >watched with interest by all who have the welfare of the Indians in >view. > Among the many reasons given for denying the Indians the right of >suffrage was "as long as the Indians could not be given whisky or keep a >saloon they were not citizens of the United States." > D.W. > > ================== > WANTS TO KNOW. > -------- > On page 123 of Eggleston's larger history of the United States it is >stated that the Iriquois Indians gave to Peter Schuyler the name >"Quider." I have not been able to find the meaning of the word. Will >you kindly give it in your columns. -[A subscriber who enjoys your >little paper. > We have representatives from 74 tribes of Indians at our school. Can >any one help the inquirer on the name "Quider"? The >Man-on-the-band-stand not being an Indian is unable to give the desired >information, but will publish the answer if given by some one who >knows. The probability is that no one of this day and age knows. We >would suggest that the party write the Smithsonian Institution, >Washington, D.C. >================================================ >(page 2) > THE INDIAN HELPER >------------------------------------------------ > PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY > --AT THE-- >Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa., > BY INDIAN BOYS. >---> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian >boys, but EDITED by The man-on-the-band-stand > who is NOT an Indian. >------------------------------------------------ > P R I C E: --10 C E N T S A Y E A R >================================================ >Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second > class mail matter. >================================================ >Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. > Miss Marianna Burgess, Supt. of Printing. >================================================ >Do not hesitate to take the HELPER from the >Post Office for if you have not paid for it >some one else has. It is paid for in advance. >================================================ > A note came up from the farm saying: "If calm will thrash 10 boys all >day." The Man-on-the-band-stand could but hope that the farmer would be >calm under such a trying ordeal, and that the boys would be able to live >through it. > When Clarence Butler, '98, left Carlisle, he carried with him a >purpose, and that was to take an electrical engineering course. We now >see that he has the position at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, as >Electrical Engineer. Does not that look as though he had carried out >his purpose? May success attend him, is the wish of many friends in >these parts. > Ben Hardison, who went to Grand Junction, Colorado last summer, writes >to his teacher that he is well and as happy as a bird. It will be >remembered that Ben was advised to go to his native clime for health's >sake and that he did not want to go. We are glad to hear he is well. >He says he owns two riding horses and has taken the contract on shares >to round up some 1500 cattle that have grown wild in their roaming over >the mountains. He has 300 head in a shape to be handled. He believes >that when the winter snow sets in the cattle will be weak for lack of >grass, then with his grain fed horses he can round them up easily. > The class of 1900 gave an entertainment to a few invited guests in the >YMCA Hall, on Monday evening. It was their first attempt at >self-prepared entertainment, and was a success in the fullest sense of >the word. John Warren, their chief, presided with the dignity and grace >befitting his trust of honor. speech making was the predominant >feature, the original orations showing throughout and power without the >too frequent attempt at flowery words and rhetorical figures indulged in >by students. All such efforts often savor of stolen sentences and >ideas, but there was none of this in the orations of Monday night. The >various productions were plain, commonsense, forcible and delightful in >their simplicity. > The speakers were John Lufkins, Jacob Horne, Mary Wolfe, Wessan >Murdock, Nettie Pierce and George Muscoe. Abram Isaac rendered a >beautiful violin solo; Rose Poodry sang sweetly; Charles Roberts, Guy >Jones and William Nada enacted a pleasing dialogue; Fannie Harris and >Bertha Pierce played a piano duet in exquisite time and touch and the >double quartette of the class sang in excellent harmony a selection that >pleased all. The class critic, Pasaquala Anderson, closed the hour by >an appeal full of earnestness and magnetism for all to do their best at >all times and become an honor to the class. Major Pratt and Mr. >standing made brief remarks in which Miss Wood was complimented on her >promising class, and a delightful evening came to an end. > The young Men's Christian Association of our school sent as delegates >to the District Convention held in Shippensburg last week Edwin Smith, >Edgar Rickard, Eugene Warren and Jacob Horne. The weather for the most >part was disagreeable, yet there was a goodly attendance and the >delegates claim that the meetings were interesting and helpful. "What >is the main object of your going?" was asked on one who went. His reply >was this: "It has been said by some of the students that we go to such >conventions to have fun or a good time. We go to meet with the good >Christian people and to learn the different ways to be a good >Christian. We meet together to compare notes and to encourage each >other. And it is supposed that when we return we will bring something >of the spirit of the Convention to our comrades, and thus encourage >them. The delegates appreciate the honor of being chosen to represent >the school association." > A nice list of subscribers came this week from Irene Campbell, our >little friend who has moved with her papa and mamma out to Warm Springs, >Oregon. She says they had a big time there on Thanksgiving Day. "Races >and sports in the morning, a big turkey dinner, which about 80 of the >children's parents helped to eat. A splendid Thanksgiving >entertainment, called "The First Thanksgiving Day,' was given in the >evening. The chapel was crowded with visitors. Everybody was much >pleased and said that yesterday was the biggest day they ever had at >this school. There are now more than twice as many children here as >when we came, and more coming every day." > Mrs. J.H. Babbitt, of California through whom a number of pupils came >to Carlisle from the Golden Gate State, ahs been in Washington for the >past two months, nursing back to life her boy soldier who was stricken >with yellow fever in Santiago. He is now better, and she started to her >home, Warner, California, on Wednesday. On Friday last, Mrs. Babbitt >came up to Carlisle to see her foster daughter, Pasaquala Anderson and >her other student friends. > At the last meeting of the Invincible Debating Society the following >officers were elected for the ensuing term: President, Martin Wheelock; >Vice President, Guy Brown; Secretary, George Welch; Treasurer, Jonas >Metoxen; Reporter, James E. Johnson; Sergeant-at-Arms, Wallace Miller' >Critic, Edward Rogers; Assistant Critic, David Abraham. >================================================ >(page 3) > A bracing cold wave. > Shinny is the game now. > Only TWO weeks to Christmas. > Cold enough now to freeze all the microbes. > Major and Mrs. Pratt spent Sunday at Steelton. > Button p your coat, is getting to be the by-word at the school. For >short, b.u.y.c. > We hear through a Philadelphia friend of David McFarland, class '98, >that he is married at his home in Idaho. > A meeting in Assembly Hall where the chiefs were present and spoke >will be more fully reported next week. > Ye skaters! Keep the headless boy off the pond when the ice is not in >good condition. He will cut through and spoil all the fun. Keep him >off! > Misses Ericson and Shaffner visit the Invincibles, tonight; Misses >Forster and Miles, the Standards; Misses Cutter and Luckenbach the >Susans. > Mrs. Standing, Mrs. Given, Mrs. and Miss Senseney, Misses Ely, Carter >and Burgess were guests to dinner at Maj. and Mrs. Pratt's on Friday >evening last. > Miss Grace Wood, Jersey Shore, Pa., Messrs. W.A. Kramer and Frank >Wetzel, of Carlisle, Pa., were guests of Miss McCook at dinner on >Wednesday of last week. > It is refreshing to see the small boy with skates under his arm >making, double-quick, for the pond, but have you noticed that it matters >not how much of a hurry, he is in, he rarely ever forgets to tip his >hat? > Assistant-Superintendent A.J. Standing spent a day or two in Bucks >County, last week looking up a liquor case. He found the man who gave >whiskey to one of the Indian boys, and the culprit may have to suffer >the penalties of the law. > A handsome new lounge for Miss Ely's room was seen climbing up over >the balcony one day recently. She made the purchase on her return from >her vacation this fall. "Give us a rest!" may be said to her, now, >without indulging in slang. > Painters Nelson Hare and Allen Blackchief dressed up the Herdic coach >in maroon body, straw-colored gearing and black trimming after it came >from "Prof." Harris' shop where it received a thorough going over in the >way of repairs. The vehicle would now be a credit to any institution. > Miss Ida La Chapelle, '95, who came with Mr. and Mrs. Dennison >Wheelock when they returned from the west a few weeks since, to pay a >visit, has accepted a position in the Government school at Pine Point, >Minnesota, and has left for the West. > Cleaver Warden, Jessie Bent, Left Hand, Scabby Bull, Black Crow, White >Buffalo, Washie, of the Arapahoe tribe; Robert Burns, John Otterby, >Little Wolfe, Little Chief, Little Hand, Horse Road, Big Bear, Cloud >Chief, Buffalo Meat, Three Fingers, All Runner, Wolfe Robe, Prairie >Chief, of the Cheyenne tribe, and all of the Oklahoma Territory, in >charge of Mr. Chester Cornelius, arrived from Washington, on Wednesday. >Messrs. Burns, Warden and Bent are old Carlisle pupils. > > Miss Shaffner and Miss Campbell went to meet Santa Claus in Harrisburg >on Monday. No doubt they told him all about the little Indian boys and >girls who have been good since last Christmas. It is to be hoped that >they did not tell him about any naughty conduct. > Phya Visuddha, Envoye Extraordinaire et Ministre Plenipotentiare de >S.M. de Ri de Siam, and his Secretary, Mr. Bennett, were among the >distinguished visitors of the week. Mr. Visuddha asked leading >questions; and both were much interested in what they saw at the Indian >School. They are at the Arlington in Washington. > On Saturday evening, beginning at 7:30, the Wilson College Musical >Department will favor us, with the repetition of the Faculty concert >given Thursday evening of last week in Chambersburg. Price of admission >25 cents. proceeds to go for starting a musical library for our school. >This well be a great treat to the music loving people of Carlisle, and a >large attendance is expected. > Now is the time to put in your orders for visiting cards. Of course >you want a neatly printed card to attach to the Christmas present that >you give to a friend. Fred Tibbetts does neat work, and will print 25 >cards for 10 cents. No order less than 25 handled. Five cents >additional for every line other than the name. Hand order to or address >Miss Burgess. By mail, 12 cents. > Willard Gansworth has returned after an extended visit for health's >sake at his home in New York State. He certainly found what he went >for, as he has come back weighing 17 pounds more than when he went away, >and brown and hearty as a butternut. None welcome him more than the >band for he is the only piccolo player we have up to date. > On Tuesday morning the Major gave a talk to the student body gathered >at breakfast which made quite a stir in camp. The mild chastisement for >the breakage of so many dishes was made very impressive by the manner in >which it was given. The girls who handle dishes will always remember, >and the boys will look out for the economical wife -- the one who is >careful of her dishes and is saving in her dress and housekeeping. Each >will prefer a wife who can press over old ribbons and make them look as >good as new, and one who knows how to make over old clothing into new >fresh looking garments. > Major Pratt was surprised when he went to breakfast on Tuesday, to >find several gentlemen guests invited in to break the fast with him, the >occasion being the anniversary of his birth. Assistant Superintendent >Standing, Professor Bakeless, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Dennison Wheelock >were the honored four. Later, when the Major went to his office, there >were remembrances from friends on his desk. At noon the Susan >Longstreth Literary Society marched to this house in a body, singing as >they went, and presented him with a handsome easy chair. With this he >was quite overwhelmed, but before the girls came from the house, the >band had drawn up in front and began to play stirring music. Taking all >in all he was made very happy. > =================================== >(page 4) > THE CARLISLE INDIAN IS NOT A WORMY APPLE. > -------------- > The President of the Leland Stanford University, California, has this >to say: > Boys who have formed the cigarette habit are like wormy apples, they >drop long before harvest time. > They rarely make failures in after life, because they do not have any >life. > The boy who begins cigarette smoking before his fifteenth year never >enters the life of the world. > When other boys are taking hold of the world's work he is concerned >with the sexton and undertaker. > > ================ > OUR SOCIETY DEBATES GO FARTHER THAN WE KNOW. > ------------ > We are in receipt of a letter from a gentleman who became acquainted >with our boys who went to Northfield Summer school for Bible Study last >Summer. > This gentleman says: > "I as glad to meet this detachment from Carlisle at the conference. >Their tents seemed models of order and regularity, as well as >themselves, and their uniforms excellent." > To show that the influence of the little HLEPER is wide spread and >that our boys in their debating societies are heard all over the world, >we give what the writer says: > "I lately marked a copy of the INDIAN HELPER about a debate as to >whether America ought to help England if that country went to war with >France, and then I sent it to the Marquis of Salisbury, Foreign Office, >London, England." > > ============= > BREEZY. > ------ > "Please renew my subscription to your INDIAN HELPER, and oblige one of >your readers who considers it a breezy paper chockfull of readables," is >the novel way in which a Philadelphia subscriber states his wishes. > > =========== > INDISPENSABLE - BEST PAPER. > ----------- > A Bethlehem subscriber says that the HELPER is "regarded as an >indispensable visitor in our home, and the postman is always waylaid by >eager watchers for its arrival." > ----------- > Then a Lancaster subscriber says: "I wish I could tell every body how >we wait for the HELPER every week. I think it is the best paper in the >world." > > RETRIBUTION. > ------- > The following clipping from an exchange was sent us by a friend to >publish in the HELPER: > We cannot hurt our neighbors in the slightest manner, willfully, and >escape a deeper injury ourselves. > No feelings, no doctrines, no practices are good and true in >themselves which we do not, in some degree at least, feel to be good and >true. > The thought that we cannot harm another with out suffering injury >ourselves should make a deep and lasting impression on our minds. > In every evil act there is concealed the germ of retribution, which >will sooner or later spring into active life and produce bitter fruit. > When we have once put evil forces at work we can not stop their >progression. > The spiritual law of consequence works as surely as any law of the >natural world, and in some way we will be hurt. > Happy for us if that hurt is productive of repentance. > > ============ > SEEM TO FORGET. > -------- > Richard Sanderville, Piegan, Montana, was heard from this week, >although he does not have anything to say about himself other than that >he wished to subscribe for a friend. We are glad to get even this much >from returned pupils, some of whom seem to forget that they have friends >in the East who like to hear of their whereabouts and doings. > > ============== > INDIAN'S FRIEND. > ------------ > An invalid in Ohio who is almost an entire shut-in, she says, during >the winter season, sends ten cents that was presented to her, for the >HELPER, saying that she does not know to what use she could put it that >would do more good. She is the Indians' friend, and the little paper >covers such a wide field that she gains from it useful information and >help. > > =============== > Enigma. > > I am made of 11 letters. > My 4, 2, 7 is worn by horses. > My 6, 10, 11 is a part of a sunbeam. > My 1, 5, 9 is what the sun did behind the cloud. > My 3, 8, 10, 9 is a good kind of fish. > My whole is what Major Pratt had come to him this week. > >=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > Transcribed from the Carlisle Indian School newspaper collection of the >Cumberland County Historical Society by Barbara Landis, Carlisle Indian >School Research - http://www.epix.net/~landis. >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
