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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:00:47 -0800
From: Barbara Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
THE INDIAN HELPER
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A WEEKLY LETTER
-FROM THE-
Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
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VOL. XV. FRIDAY, November 10, 1899 NUMBER 3
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TO HELEN HUNT.
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"The birds must know. Who wisely sings,
Will sing as they."
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She must have known. On angel wings,
She sings as they.
Her sweet, sad voice still fondly rings
In memory.
To California's shores she came,
Kindness at heart.
From mouled rank or common fame,
She stood apart,
Where quaint Ventura's lonely strand
Resists the foam,
She pauses, christens the fair land-
RAMONA'S home.
Sweet Helen Hunt! In myriad bowers
Birds sing for thee.
And, wand'ring 'mongst the sweet wild flowers,
Thy face we see.
Her Colorado's mountain crests
Rev'rent, we view,
Upon the splendid couch she rests
Nearer Heaven's blue.
Hark! the joyous anthems ringing
All through the skies;
Evermore her pure voice singing
God's melodies.
HARRY E. BURGESS.
Santa Monica, Cal.
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A BASE FABRICATION.
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The boys and girls that are "outing" for an eastern school do not get
the money they earn. The money is kept for them at the school. This is
fine.-[The Indian Mission, (Catholic), Banning, California.
We print the above that all Carlisle students, past and present, may
see just how unmitigated a liar the Catholic priest is, who says, writes
and prints such whole-cloth fabrications.
Every Carlisle student knows that he always got every cent he ever
earned, and that in many cases where the earnings were material, what he
had earned was made to earn more for him through being at interest under
the methods provided at the school.
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HORRIBLE INDIAN DANCES STILL PRACTICED.
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A letter from a person now among the Pueblo Indians, gives such a
description of a snake dance recently witnessed, that a reporter's
interview with Mrs. Alice Bennett, a few months ago, published in the
San Francisco Examiner is brought vividly to mind.
Mrs. Bennett, says the Examiner, has given several years and a good
share of an inherited private fortune to an attempted amelioration of
the lot of the Indian tribes of southern California and Arizona. She
was a personal friend of the late Helen Hunt Jackson, and
[ photo w/caption:
Snake Dance, as Practiced
by some Pueblo Tribes near
Santa Fe Route, in New Mexico.]
on the death of the famous author Mrs. Bennett took up Mrs. Jackson's
work of showing the injustice of the government's dealings with the
western Indians.
The article is too long to print all, but what she says of the Pueblo
dances, having been nearly corroborated by the statements of personal
friends who have lived among these Indians, we print, to show, as she
says, that "the most crying need among the Indians of the Southwest, is
restriction of their abominable dances, which are - I blush to say -
encouraged by the white people."
In the semitropic regions of New Mexico and Arizona the Indians dance
much more fanatically and often than their red brothers do in the colder
regions. Every Indian outrage in the Territories during the last dozen
years may be traced to some idea or superstition or
fascination born during a tribal dance. The
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THE INDIAN HELPER
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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.
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Entered in the PO at Carlisle as second
class mail matter.
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Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
Miss Marianna Burgess, Manager.
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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.
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It is VERY important for you to SAY "renewal" when you renew by
letter.
Ignacia Casto, who went home to Carlifornia on account of a diseased
ankle, has had his leg amputated at the County Hospital, San Jacinto,
California. He has suffered greatly with it, but now it is hoped he
will soon get well.
Rev. Francis A. Strough of Little Falls, N.Y., entertained the student
body on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with stereopticon views. His
first lecture was on "The Modern Prodigal Son" picturing the temptations
and pitfalls which confront a young man when he starts out in life. The
last was on "Our New Possessions, with views from Cuba, Hawaii and the
Philippines.
A teacher in Dauphin Co., Miss Hoy, interested her pupils in the
HELPER to the extent that quite a number of them subscribed. There is
no better way to instill into the minds of the growing youth of our
country the true status of the rising Indian, and to "instill" OUT of
their heads the blood-and-thunder, bepainted, befeathered savage, so
frequently exhibited to excited crowds as the real Indian, than by
interesting them in the plain little HELPER, which gives the Indian his
just due, and thus Helps.
The Printers are playing no mean football, and have shown that they
have not only the bodies but the brains to win. They played the Tailors
on the 28th of October, winning by a score of 5-0. Last Saturday they
played the Gardner's sons - Carpenters, and won by a score of 6-5.
Tomorrow they play the Kemp students - Harness makers, the results of
which we await with curiosity. It is too bad that the shop boys stood
in their own light, and by not stopping when the workbell rings - the
FIRST bell, caused orders to be issued to have these interesting and
very profitable games ended. Some calves always WILL take enough rope
to strangle themselves if a little liberty of string is given. Too bad!
Who ARE the calves? It is said there will be no more playing this year
between shops.
Mr. Charles E. Dagenett, '91, who is attending Eastman at
Poughkeepsie, speaks of the school in high praise. He has found it all
he expected and more. He says: "From the time one enters he is kept
ever mindful of the words of Smiles - 'self-help.' The object of the
whole institution seems to be individuality. It is simply a question of
merit. The millianaire's son and the country plowboy must travel the
same road and by the same vehicle - 'self-help.' The dose is pretty
hard for many to take, but the effect is excellent." Mr. and Mrs.
Dagenett expect to witness the Princeton-Indian game at New York
tomorrow.
Mr. Thompson reports the game at Utica, N.Y., last Saturday, as very
satisfactory. Our boys won by a score of 32-0. They were treated as
gentlemen, and the praise of the boys regarding Hamilton College and the
surroundings are profuse. Congressman Sherman, of the Indian Committee
of the House of Representatives, with a number of friends witnessed the
game. He was very enthusiastic over "our boys" as he called them.
Leander Gansworth, '96, who is on the Booneville Herald, as printer,
also was there. He is looking in splendid health all say, and is
getting on well.
Joseph Denomie, who has been home for some time was not well for over
seven months and did not work, but he has regained his health and is
happy in that he has a "good job" he says. He is full of gratitude to
the doctor to whom he believes he owes his life. He was ill in Chicago,
last year, when the boys played the University of Illinois, and "how I
wanted to see that game! But I could not turn my head at that time."
Any one who knows the address of Miss Julia V.A. Henry, formerly a
student of Wilson College, Chambersburg, and daughter of a foreign
missionary, will confer a favor on the HELPER by sending us the same.
The Indian Advance, published at the Carson Indian School, Nevada, is
a six page monthly, neatly printed and full of interesting news.
Pick out your favorite contestant for the twenty-five dollar prize and
give him or her a lift of at least ONE new name. You do not know any of
them? Do as the first lot of Indians did who came to us twenty years
ago in blankets and feathers. They had no English names, and their
Indian appellations were such ponderous "tongue-twisters" that is was
found necessary to give them common first names; so, Peter, Robert,
Lewis, and a long list of such names were written upon the board, and
the blanketed student was requested to select. He could not read, so
took what seemed to him the most picturesque in long tailed letters.
Our readers might do the same. Select the name which has the most
attraction. Never mind whether Indian or not. It is impossible to
tell from the list whether they are Indian or not, and that is what
Carlisle is trying to do in the general civilization of the tribes; we
wish to mix up individuals in the general population and business
interests of the country so that they will no longer be identified as
INDIANS and a peculiar people. Now VOTE! See list of those who have
sent in over fifty, last page.
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A fine "spell of weather."
Dress parade on Wednesday evening.
Election is over, and the next day it didn't rain.
Mr. Snyder, master tailor, spent a day in Lewistown.
Mr. Elmer Simon has gone to Michigan on school business.
Mr. Beitzel, Major Pratt's chief financial clerk, is taking a short
vacation.
"Gingin" Eastman looks like Little Red Ridinghood in her pretty new
cloak.
Miss Campbell is having a good time in Buffalo, N.Y. visiting friends
and relatives.
Who is it that says "eter-NUTTY", for eternity, in his singing? And
"evul" for evil?
We play Princeton in New York, tomorrow, and everybody is anxious, but
full of hopes.
Mrs. Forster, of Harrisburg, has been a guest of her daughter, our
teacher of art, for a few days.
Miss Ely is receiving letters from a number of her friends wanting her
photograph, "right quick."
Major Pratt gave a stirring and interesting talk Saturday evening,
pointing out the way to success.
Coach Warner is getting his football boys down to some pretty snappy
practice these evenings.
Mr. Standing is in attendance upon the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of
Friends, and is taking a part of his annual leave.
Two of the hounds that were raised at the near farm have come up to
the school, and will be Major's special friends.
The Shoemakers and Blacksmiths had a game of football on the athletic
field last Saturday, the former winning by 10-0.
Rev. Mr. Mosser, pastor of the William E. Allison Methodist Episcopal
Church of Carlisle, preached to us Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. and Miss Chester, of Washington, D.C., are here for a week, the
latter to rest from clerical work in the Bureau of Education.
S. Kendall Paul is the happy recipient of his diploma, earned during
the summer at the university of Philadelphia for a course in
stenography.
Dr. Eastman went to Washington during the week on business, and taking
a heavy cold was bedfast there. He soon got better and returned
Thursday.
Tonight Mrs. Dorsett and some one in Miss Campbell's place will attend
the Invincible society; Miss Cochran and Miss Weekley the Standards and
Mrs. Cook and Miss Wood the Susans.
In the Haskell Leader we see that Miss Stanton, our old teacher from
whom we have not heard for a long time, attended an afternoon service
there recently, showing that she still is.
The school gave a good exhibition on Thursday night, but wehre is all
the spectacular? From elaborately trimmed stage to perfectly plain
rostrom is quite a come down. There were several excellent numbers on
the program. Celinda King played her first piano solo in public, and it
was well received.
The pupils of Number 12 schoolroom, Mrs. Cook, teacher, have organized
their debating society with Grace Warren as president, Ulysses Ferris,
vice-president and Harold Parker, Secretary.
We learn that Miss Miles' father, whom she crossed the continent to
see, died recently, and she has the sympathy of many friends at the
school. Miss Miles is expected to arrive from Oregon in a few hours.
Mr. Thompson's house is getting a much needed coat of paint. Mr.
Standing's was painted, also, during the week. There are other places
needing freshening up, but will come in, in their turn.
Miss Flora Campbell, '94, now at Sitka, gives evidence of renewed
interest in her Alma Mater by subscribing for Red Man and HELPER.
The Carlisle Fortnightly Literary Club of Women met in Mrs. Pratt's
parlor on Friday night. Mrs. Pratt is in Pittsburg, this week, in
attendance upon the State Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate
from the Fortnightly.
Mr. George Connor, of London, England and a prominent long-distance
runner, who for three years was with the Chicago Athletic Club and for
three years with Cornell, is now with us as specialist in physical
training for the football boys.
Mrs. Dorsett and the King's Daughters whose names were given last
week, who attended the State Convention of the Young Women's Christian
Association at Williamsport, report having had a very pleasant time,
although the weather was anything but agreeable. The statment last week
that it was a King's Daughters' Convention was in error.
The Band Concert which was postponed on Account of the death of Dr.
Wile, will be given in the Opera House, Carlisle, November 22nd.
William Paris Chambers, one of the finest cornetists known will play
several solos. Any one who has heard this artist once would pay almost
any price to hear him again, and those who have not heard him will miss
a great treat if they do not take advantage of the present opportunity.
Admission, 25, 35 and 50 cents.
The same old story: The girls as a battalion march out of Assembly
Hall in better step than do the boys, especially when the band plays
them out. When 200 boys keep very good step, showing splendid character
and interest, it is too bad to have their marching spoiled by another
hundred scattered in the various companies, who are too tired (?) to
bring their feet down in time. There is more character in a man's walk
than people think.
Miss Mary P. Jayne, who is living at the little mission home among the
Cheyenne and Arapahoes, speaks in a recent letter of the appreciation by
the missionaries of the work of Carlisle. She says "Quite a number of
your old students are among us, and some are doing admirabley. William
Little Elk is an earnest, faithful Christian, a leader of his people,
and a deacon in the Baptist church here." She says many of the callers
at the mission are returned students and all enjoy the HELPER, which is
filed for future use.
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Pueblo Indians dance for sunshine, good crops and health. They dance
for rain and dance for clear skies. If there is a flood after they have
danced for a rain the Great Spirit is angry, and the medicine men cast
about the tribe for some one responsible for the condition of the
weather. Then comes another outrage.
Many an Indian dance has been started by the money of a lot of cowboys
and curious sightseers in a pueblo, who wishes to see the excited
Indians, the shameless nudity of the dancers of both sexes and to have
something exciting to break the monotony of life on the alkali plains.
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OUR PERRY COUNTY FRIENDS LIKE THE BAND.
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The Perry County Democrat says of the Indian Band's recent visit to
New Bloomfield:
The Indian Band arrived overland from Carlisle about 9 o'clock and
gave an open-air concert at noon from the spacious grand stand which had
been erected on the square. The music of this famous band, one of the
foremost in the United States, was simply exquisite. Many of the
numbers rendered, though difficult of execution, were given with an
artistic grace and beauty of melody which excited the admiration of
every lover of music.
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CONGRATULATIONS FROM STANFORD.
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Donald Campbell, who when he lived at Carlisle was a small boy, and
who is now a student in the great Leland Stanford University,
California, sends congratulations to the football boys. "The score with
Pennsylvania was fine and shows what perseverance will do."
He says he is enjoying his university life. "Stanford is a great
institution and if growing greater every day."
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EVERY BODY VOTE.
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Those in the twenty-five dollar contest who have sent in fifty or more
names are Miss Mary Shields, Carlisle, Pa., Master Irving F. Merril,
Jr., Moore Station, Pa., Jacob Rhule, Pittsburg, Pa., George Muscoe, at
the school, Howard Gansworth, Princeton University, N.J., and Palageia
Tutikoff, Emigsville, Pa. We give the names thinking that they may have
friends among the subscribers who would like to help them by sending
subscriptions to be placed to their credit.
There are several other contestants having less than fifty, whose
names will be placed in the fifty list as soon as they send in that
number. There is plenty of time yet to begin at the very start and get
ahead of the one having the largest list. We do not give numbers,
feeling that it is more fair all around not to. Let each subscriber
pick out his or her contestant and send us a list of names at once to be
credited to ONE contestant, whether known to subscriber or not. Some of
the contestants are Indians and some are not. The Man-on-the-band-stand
is just as anxious for one to get the prize as for another, having no
favorites. Reader, whom do YOU wish to win? Show it by giving him a
vote! Two-cent stamps are acceptable in small amounts. Five two cent
stamps with name and address will consitute a VOTE for the contestant
designated. Each subscriber is entitled to any number of votes, if
subscription price, 10 cents, accompanies every name.
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Schedule for Football.
Sept. 23, Gettysburg at Carlisle; won, 21-0.
Sept 30, Susquehanna at Carlisle; won, 56-0.
Oct. 14 University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; WON, 16-5.
Oct. 21, Dickinson at Carlisle; won 16-5.
Oct. 28, Harvard at Cambridge;lost, 22-10.
Nov. 4, Hamilton at Utica; won, 32-0.
Nov. 11, Princeton at New York.
Nov. 18, University of Maryland at Carlisle.
Nov. 25, Oberlin University at Carlisle.
Nov. 30, Columbia at New York.
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TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS!!! The person sending us the most subscriptions
before Thanksgiving Day, 1899, will receive in cash the sum of
twenty-five dollars. There are certain easy rules and restrictions
which must be followed. Send for them at once if you are going to enter
the contest.
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Enigma.
I am made of 10 letters.
My 7, 8, 3, 4 is a gentle animal.
My 6, 2, 7, 5 is something good for students to follow.
My 1, 6, 5, 8, 3 is a valuable product of the farm.
My 4, 5, 8, 6 is a wild quadruped hunted by Indians and after whom
some Indians are named.
My 9, 8, 3, 5 is what every boy and girl owns.
My 10, 6, 5, 8, 3 is what sleepy persons have sometimes.
My 6, 2, 3 is a high spirited mischiefmaker.
My whole is the name of a valley that several thousand Indians know.
It is also the name of a county in Pennsylvania and an American river.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Storm Doors.
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