In the first years of Carlisle, when our students were mostly non-English speaking an d d irec tly from camp, frequent ly I he lone ly h o u r s o f n igh t were made m o u rn f u l by wierd s o u n d s from ;i c ru d e I n d ia n flute. The alx>ve represents the tune played, the same strains being repeated again a n d a g a in . The player g en era lly a young m an of m edicine and w ar-dance experiences, m ay no t hav e been hom esick, b u t he allow ed his m ind to roam where b is body for th e tim e being could no t. T his is th e so rt o f m usic we nev er h e a r now -a-days. th e co rnet, trom bone, c la r in e t, violin, etc ., h av in g ta k e n its p lace. T he b an d drove cam p m usic o u t, n ev er m ore to re tu rn .

W ithin a short d is tan c e of th e school is th e C onedoqulnet C reek--in sum m er a b eau tifu l place for fishing and b a th in g , an d in w in ter when th e ice is good, a fam ous sk a tin g reso rt. The p ic tu re show s th e Ind ian s tu d e n ts and teach e rs on th e ice d u rin g t he ho lidays la s t y e a r , a s pho tog raphed by Jo h n Leslie. P uy a llu p tribe .

JNDIAN j ' i s L P E R

P R IN T E D E V E R Y F R ID A Y— AT T H E —

In d ia n In d u s tr ia l School, C arlisle , P a ,,

*W-THE INDIAN HELPED i» PBINTED by Indian boys, nut IDITKD by The inan-on-tbe-band-stand, who la NOT an Indian

PRI CE 1 0 GENTS * YEAR

E ntered in the P. 0. at Carlisle as second class m a il m atter.

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W e see by le tte r from Erie, Pa., th a t W i l l ­iam Bonewolf is lecturing.

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T im : H o w ’s your pulse?M ajor: O, I’m mad all over.T im : W h a t ’s the m atte r now ?M ajor: Tt is so mean in a fellow to leave

the ba th tub all begrimed w ith his soapy, sticky wash water. Too la'/y to clean i t ! I was iu a hurry , too, bu t had to spend half my t im e washing out th a t fellow’s filth, before I ’d get in the tub.

Tim : There are lots of such people, too selfish and filthy to live with decent folks W ho was i t? Bet s ta r and feather him.

Dr. M ontezum a lias left Carlisle for larger fields of labor. H e hangs out liis shingle in the great city of Chicago, to try his luck in the hear t of w hat is called civil zation. This was too m u c h of an In d ian reservation for him, and he was right. W ere it not. for the Outing System inaugura ted by Carlisle we would stagnate, bu t th rough such m eans we have the opportunity of giving our pupils a wider range of experience and education th a n al most any inst itu tion of learn ing in the coun­try. Dr. M ontezum a has left behind him a large com m unity of friends w ho wish for him every possible success in his new and perhaps perilous undertaking. B u t he is a m an of p luck and will succeed. H e promised to keep us informed of his w hereabouts and we hope he will not forget. W e shall greatly miss the Doctor, of whom we have been so proud on account of his being an Apache I n d ia n ; miss h im socially, professionally, in the Sunday School, in the public ga ther ing where he al­ways had a ready and helpful word, miss h im more th a n can be told, but we believe he has made a wise move for his own good.

W e have had so m a n y en te r ta inm en ts th is year and they have all been so good, w h a t can we sav about the del ightful evening given by the young ladies of the Susan Bongstre th L it­erary Society last F r id a y n ig h t? I t was ot high li te rary m erit , w asn ’t i t? Yes, above the average m in d present, ta k in g in consider­ation the large num ber of s tudents in the lower grades. The p la tform was beautifully a l though inexpensively decorated, w ith the flag of our U nion draped in all sorts of p re tty loops. The sa in tly face of S usan B ongstre th in the beautiful pastel so cherished by the Society and the school occupied a conspicuous place in the back-ground high enough for her to look down approvingly upon all th a t was beinv enacted to the honor of th e girls she loved so well. The opening address by the President, Miss Beila Cornelius, was to the po in t and well received. Represen ta tions of women and children from various lauds, in real costumes of the lauds they each rep re­sented formed the chief part of tlie program. Ju l ia W ill iam s spoke for Siam, S a rah N elson for China, A delia Rowe for Ceylon, Rydia S m ith for Ind ia , Botiie H o rn for Japan , Rouisa Geisdorf for A rm enia . M elinda Meiox- en for Iceland, and M ary Miller was the ty p ­ical A m erican girl. The cus tum es were not make-believe, bu t were the real dresses (some quite expensive) brought from foreign lands. Most of them belonged to Miss A cke rm an . Music and tab leaux were interspersed. The Icelandic m elody will never be forgotten, so cha rm ing was i t in its weird bu t musical s trains. The last, and closing scene of the en- ta in inen t was th e Queen of the Golden Corn, with tw en ty a t tendants . The p icturesque dress of the pe>formers ( inexpensive but b r igh t colored and draped artist ically about the figures), the rh y th m of m ovem ent as each stepped to the low sounding notes of the piano or sw ung gracefully into various pos­tures and a t t i tudes before the queen on the throne, produced a spectacular effect I ha t was very taking. A nnie Rockwood was the queen and everv one though t she m ade a beautiful and queenly queen. Could E d n a Dean P roc­tor have heard tier Corn poem sung acd re­cited in connection w ith the ears of golden corn in the sw aying hands of tViose real Am erican m aidens her heart would have been proud of tier A m erican emblem. The full ad ­dresses of g rea t historical value and a fuller description of the evening will appear in the J a n u a ry R ed M an. The H e l p e r can spare no more space.

Mr. Potter, for a t im e a teacher with us, but la tterly S uper in tenden t of the Cherokee School, North Carolina, lias been transferred to the Chema wa School, Salem, Oregon, where he now is. By recent le tter we note th a t he is busy organizing and system atiz ing the w ork­ings of the school to m eet his own ideas. He contem plates purchas ing in s ' ru m e n ts for a band, and says a t the close “ E v e ry th in g looks clear and the ship is m oving s tead i ly ." H e is rejoicing over a recent decision in his favor of a claim se tt lem en t in Oklahoma, which lias been pending for six years, and which makes him several thousand dollars better off than he was before.

Carve your Chris tm as tu rkey right!

London fog!M erry Christm as.H a p p y N ew Year.W elcom e S an ta Claus.No H e l p e r n e x t week.N o m oney for evergreens th is Christmas.W a i t for the t ro l le y ; we’ll all take a ride. Some of the boys are s ighing for a Chris t­

m as snow.Sarah Jacobs has gone to D owningtown for

the holidays.All the ska ters are w ishing for good ice

H o liday week.Souvenir free for 10 subscription and 2 cents

ext ra for postage.The supply of tex t books for the year has

only just arrived.The trolley m en are actually at work on the

'—eaad near the bakery.The baths and balls of the gym nasium and

an n e x are being p tinted.The new reading-room and lib rary have

been throw n open for use.E igh teen pupils were prom oted th is week,

rang ing from Rooms 4 to 9.If yon get a crooked H e l p e r and w ant a n ­

o ther, ask and ye shall receive.Quite a num ber were out from town a t the

e n te r ta in m en t last F r id a y night.Mrs P ra t t who has been a shut- in for ten

days with neuralgia, is again herself.Annette Hutson and N aom i K oh ten arrived

th is week from San Carlos, Arizona.The coldest day of the season was last F r i ­

day, the mercury showing one above 0The Misses H ench of Harrisburg , Lt. W . W .

G albra ith and W. A. K ram er,Esq .,w ere visit­ors ou Tuesday.

The outside walls of the gym nasium and Society H a ll are hav ing the uniform wash of gray put ou.

Some large porkers were butchered a t the school farm recently. F ive of them averaged 567 pounds each.

Mary Miller and Leander Gansworth gave rec i 'a t ions at the Y. M. C. A. musicale in town last S a tu rday evening.

Tuesday evening, Miss Cochran had as her guests her a u n t Mrs. B arr and cousin Mrs. Thom pson and daughter.

A new class has been formed for special les­sons from Miss Barbour, elocutionist, in a r ­ticulation. Pupils are selected from 7, 8, and 9 only.

Miss K essetta Roosevelt, who has been her own woman in the East for the past ten years, independent of the school, is now visi ting w ith us.

The first “ touchdown’’ since the foot-hall season closed was when Mr. C laudy’s chair gave way, yesterday, and he was lauded on file floor.

Do we shu t up shop nex t week? Oh, no! W e double down to R ed M on composition and to job work. Only the Man-on-the-band- stand takes a little b rea th ing spell while sharpen iug his pencils ready for the work of '96.

D on’t forget! No H e l p e r n e x t week.A new floor in the assembly room a t the large

boys’ quarte rs is a m uch needed im provem ent.The nim ble fingers of the girls who have

been m ak ing fancy w ork for C hr is tm as will soon have a rest.

The book-case is finished for the Academic L ib rary and the books are cataloguing. Prof. Bakeless has received a handsom e oak case for th e card catalogue.

E a c h Society should have a reporter es- p tc ia l ly to fu rn ish an item or two for the H e l p e r , if they would le t the world know th a t they are up to the times.

The tune on first page has been thoroughly whistled by the prin ters th is week, until even the M an-on-lhe-band-stand could w histle it had he any puckering strings to his lips. ___ _

Capt. Benins Pierce has been selected by the Y ale A lu m n i W eekly for a substitu te on the “ A ll-A m erican” Football eleven, which speaks well for the repu ta tion he has m ade tliis year.

Oh, oh. oh! W ho is the Jo n a h am ong the S usans? John Leslie broke his cam era while tak ing the Society picture. I t MAY have been J o h n ’s fault , tor a little nervousness u n ­der the circumstances would be quite natura l .

As has been our custom for m any years wre p r in t no H e l p e r next week, it being holiday week. N o subscriber will fail, however, to get his or her full num ber—52 papers for the year.

On Tuesday, Miss Quinn addressed the school a t tiie opening exercises, tak ing for her subject “ The P resident 's Recep tion ." Miss Carter discussed Jo h n G. W hit t ie r and his celebrated poem—Snow Bound.

R em em ber if you only get a tooth-pick for a present SOME body thought of you, and it is worth a ‘ T hank you .” D on’t expect any pre­sents, and then if San ta Claus should rem em ­ber you, be grateful for the rem em brance and SAY so.

Misses Shaffner and Campbell spent W ednes­day In H arrisburg in terv iew ing San ta Claus. They were accompanied by Grace Red Eagle, Annie Morton, Frances Fritz and Lillie Payne who went along to help “ scare u p ” old Santa, some of the girls said.

Mr. K ennerly , of K ipp, Montana, fa the r of Agnes and Jerom e, has ju s t been to theschool on his annual visit. He has taken both ch i l­dren home with h im th is time. W e shall miss them both, and w hat we will do w ithou t J e ­rome, so long our baby, we do not know.

The s tuden t who uses tobacco and reports “ N O ” is very easily spotted. The Man-ou- the-band-9taud rejoices over the young m an who having yielded to the longing desire is MAN enough to say, as one did last week, “ Y E S ” and take the consequences. Tell the tru th if it H U R TS, is au old motto of C a r ­lisle.

The newly elected officers for the Standards are: P resident, Robert H a m i l to n ; Vice-Pres­ident, Leander Gansworth ; Recording Secre­tary, F rank H udson ; Corresponding Secre­ta ry , Samuel G rue tt ; Treasurer, F rank Jones; Reporter, E lm e r S im on; Setgeant-at-Arms, Corbett Law yer; Assistant Critic, Thomas M a rsh a l l ; Critic, Professor Kinnear.

A C H R IS T M A S Q U ESTIO N .

BY EG B ER T L BANGS.

EAR fa th e r , w h a t does C hristm as m ean, And why do a ll th e g irls an d boys,On th a t day of all th e year.Received so m any n u ts an d toys?

“ t know th e re is no S a n ta C laus For who. 1 w onder could craw l down T he narrow chim ney, an d b rin g g ifts To h a lf th e ch ild ren in o u r town?

'W hy do o u r friends an d p a re n ts buy Such lovel v th in g s for C hristm as day,As if th ey loved us b e tte r th e n —Tell me th e reason why I p ray?”

“ W ell, I will te ll you, l i t t le one:When C hrist w as born , w ith r a p tu re , th en A heav en ly host su n g ‘peace on e a r th ,’A nd en d ed with ‘good will to m en .’

“ And so. when C hristm as D ay com es round. We th in k of o u r d ea r M aster’s b ir th :We m ark th e day w ith g ifts , to teach Good will to m en an d peace on e a r th .

“ Be g ra te fu l, th en , be good an d kind,If y o u ’ve received a book o r toy:L et C hristm as teach you peace, good w ill:’ Good will is God’s will, d a rlin g boy .”

— [E very Oth k r Su nday .

CH R ISTM AS.

C hristm as is p robably th e only festiv a l of th e C hurch th a t receives a lm ost u n iv e rsa l recognition . "From G reen lan d ’s icy m o un ta ins, to In d ia ’s co ra l s tr a n d s ” w herever th e C hristian religion h as been preached, C hristm as is th e g a la day of th e year.

And y e t th is g re a t festiva l of th e C hris tian y e a r is bound up w ith custom s and observances w hich a re b u t a su rv iv a l o f su p e rs titio n an d h ea th en ish rite s .

Should we blam e th e In d ian , th en , for ad h erin g so s tro n g ly to his superstitions?

T he use of evergreens, for in stance , is one of th e c iv il­ized su p e rs titio n s .

T he R om ans o rn am en ted th e ir tem ples with thorn d u r ­ing th e fe a s t of S a tu rn , w hile ivy was u n iv e rsa lly used by them in the orgies a tte n d in g th e honor of Bacchus.

T he a n c ien t Druids hung green b ran ch es and m is­tle to e over th e ir doors as a p rop itia tion to w oodland- sprites .

Last year, the above appeared in the col­um ns of the H e l p e r . The following from an interested friend of the Ind ian whose nam e we refrain from giving, as the correspondence was private, was received a few days after Christmas. Let each reader look up the sub­ject and decide for himself. Carlisle does not, as m any do who have the care of youthful miuds, say to her students, Believe as we say. Carlisle’s motto has always been, Look, read, s tudy and decide for yourself! The former is the easier way of teaching. The la tte r the broadest but the safest iu every particular.

Our correspondent says:I would like to take the liberty of saying

th a t I th in k in the words about Chris tm as in ! T h e I n d i a n H e l p e r , there is a m is take in I the teaching. The Pagans did have their

feasts, and o rnam en ted with foliage, b u t we who are taugh t in the Episcopal c h u rc h —the daugh ter of the C hurch of E n g la n d , th e church th a t for m any years was alone in th e Christm as dressing, were ta u g h t: “ Yea, th e fir trees rejoiced a t th e e ,” and such texts , n o t any superst ition, no th in g to occur from it, no th ing superna tural, a mere m a t te r of show ­ing our rejoicing.

You say “ This g rea tfes t iva l of the C hr is t ian year is bound up with customs and observ ­ances which are but a survival of superst i t ion and hea then ish r ites .”

If we cannot show our jo y as Chris t ians be­cause the hea thens did it in th a t way, shall we feast when they did i t?

Is eating our A m erican bird h ea th e n ish ?Dear Miss Susan Longstreth once read me a

le tter from a F r ie n d ’s agency, describ ing th e Ind ians keeping Chris tm as, a C hris tm as tree, etc.

I said, “ W hy, Miss Susan, you are teach ing the In d ian s to keep C hr is tm as .”

“ Yes, d ea r ,” she answered in her sweet way, “ we find it m akes such a good im pression on them , help* th e m lo un d ers tan d .”

I m et a gen t lem an a few years ago—a p rom ­inen t m em ber of the Society of F r iends and a teacher iu the S unday School in the Twelfth S treet meeting.

H e s a id :“ I see you have S unday School experience,

will you tell me w hy our Sunday School is d isappoin ting? I know you have no t found it so.”

“ Yes,” I answered. “ Children w an t m ore th a n you give them . Our Chris t ian year , w ith its feast and festivals, the life our Lord brought them each year, truly, ‘from the cradle to the g rav e , ’ the lives of the Apostles, not to w orship them but to show how they glorified the ir Lord and Master by the ir lives and deaths, and our beautiful, a t tractive year, closing with the m em ory of not only the sa in ts of the Old Testament, but com ing down to our dearly loved sain tly ones who have gone before, all, all this, makes it so easy to teach, in terest and m ake an impression on young m inds .”

“ Y es,” he answered. “ I see; i t is so.”Bishop Coxe’s well known C hris tm as carol

says to those who would keep the festival of C h r is t ’s N a t i v i t y :

“Go ye to th e fo rest W here th e m y rtle s grow.

W here th e pine an d holly Rend b en ea th th e snow;

G a th e r them for Jesus.Lay them on his sh rin e ;

M ake h is tem ple g lorious W ith th e box an d p ine.”

Eiilguiu.I am m ade of 10 le tters.My 8. 6, 4 is a poition of land.My 10, 9, 7, 8 is w hat Ind ian boys can do

ju s t as well as others.My 1, 2, 5, 9, 8 is the num ber of legs some

m ilk stools have.My whole is going to be a grand Chris tm as

present for the In d ian School, if present ind i­cations be true.

A nsw er to L ast W e e k ’s E nigm a : Come in time.