THE MINUTES.
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                                     M. BURGESS.
 

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    Extract from a Composition.

  "There are great many people who can make books, and some people can paint nice pictures in them.  Some Books are guilt with  silver color.  There is one book that tells about the world and you see that book is very interesting to read.  I wish I know how to make nice books and put some interesting story like some people."
 

 Tuesday evening we had in the chapel a very interesting talk from Mr. Kanzo Uchumiura, a Japanese student, who has been studying three years at Amherst, Mass.  He is going back to Japan now but he wanted to see Carlisle first.  He spoke of the belief that some people have that the Japanese and the American Indians are of the same origin, that the Japan current in the Pacific Ocean, which is like the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, may have brought the Japanese over here hundreds of years ago, because this current sometimes now drifts Japanese fishing vessals from their own coast across the Pacific Ocean to the coast of America.  He spoke of his own likeness to the Indians. 
  He pointed out on the map the Islands of Japan lying on the eastern coast of Asia, and told us of their high mountains, their roaring torrents, their grand and beautiful scenery.  He told us how much Japan had gained since 1853 when through the influence of the Americans it had opened its ports to commerce and had begun to open its heart to Christianity. 
  When the Japanese first saw the American steamers, they thought they were travelling volcanoes.
  Mr. Uchimura wrote upon the blackboard some of the signs that the Japanese, like the Chinese, use for words.
  Here are a few:

 [3 Japanese characters followed by the words, "mouth, tree, to point."]
 

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  One of our subscribers asks this question:
  "Will you please explain why you are called "The Man-on-the-band-stand?"
  If the questioner were at Carlisle, he would know why.
  The Band-stand commands the whole situation.  From it he can see all the quarters, the printing office, the chapel, the grounds, everything and everybody, all the girls and the boys on the walks, at the windows, everywhere.
  Nothing escapes the Man-on-the-band-stand.  And it must be only because the bills shut in his post of observation that he does not look that he does not look down upon all the doings of all his subscribers as he does of the Indian boys and girls.
  But don't be too secure.  There may be a flag staff on the Band-stand some day and the man may buy himself a spy glass.  It is not safe to predict that one day his vision may not extend much farther.  Already he sees into the homes of the boys and girls who go out upon the farms; and - but let us wait until that "someday" comes.
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  "Never fear that you have done well enough, while you can still do better." 
 

  A young working man fell on an old, dirty, rusty cotton-hook. It went through the palm of his hand, hurting it very badly. He was taken to a hospital.  The surgeon kept the wound open to throw off all the bad matter in it. The hand became much swollen. The surgeon watched it carefully, afraid he might have to take it off. After a time it began to mend, and then he thought he would have to take all off but the thumb and two first fingers. By and by, while he waited, it began to heal and after a time it was healed. The surgeon was surprised and said to the young man.
  "Do you use alcohol in any form?"
  "No, sir"
  "Do you use tobacco?"
  "No, sir"
  "Do you use coffee?"
  "No, sir"
  "Do you use tea?" "No, sir"
  The surgeon nodded his head and said:
  "That is what has saved your hand." 
  The tissues of our bodies are spoiled by using stimulants and cannot resist disease like tissues that are made only of good wholesom food. -[Selected. 
 

-Today is home letter again I want to tell something about our school. I think our school house will be torn down in this spring and rebuilt because Congress has promised to have new school house this coming spring, and I hope may be as large as our Quarters. It seems too that the Carlisle is going on and on, as  you know that I left you in 1883.  And I came at this school, and saw the old dining room was too narrow and there was but one story high.  The tables were standing close together, and the boys' Quarters were only two stories high one great big doors on big hinges too, like horse stable.  The boys were sleeping in the same room sometime sixteen or eighteen boys each room. They made great noise and could hardly think something to study because too much noise.  I don't like it at all and so I did not stay a great while I went out on the country, and there I spent one year and an half.  I returned in 1885 and I got back and I saw a great big dining room which had been built up since I was away.  Again I went out and stayed only six months and came back again.  That was in 1886 Capt. Pratt and us boys began to think about it that our boys spent so much money foolishly and so Capt. Pratt's disciplinarian called attention and all the boys were present, all the boys put some money in that collection.  Again I went into the country.  I was very much surprised that when I came back and saw a great big building extending toward west to east three stories high.  Hallo! New Quarters I said, and I saw Little Boys' Quarters, they just starting to build and was finished both Little Boys' Quarters and a new Gymnasium last Nov. 1887.  Now we are comfortable every thing is going on all right.  Big new Gymnasium I think all the boys and girls like it because we are going to have sociable once a month.
  LUTHER KUHNS.

 One day as a (cape of Massachusetts) and her brother (a river in Virginia) were on their way to school, they saw a (lake in British America) coming along the road led by two men. The children were much frightened, until one of the men said, "Do not be afraid, he will not hurt you." They stopped and looked at the great animal, who was so (a lake bordering on Minnesota) to any they had ever seen. "Where did you get him?" asked (river in Virginia.) I caught him in a (river in Wisconsin) trap up in the mountains of (where the Crow Indians live.)  "Tell us all about it," said (cape of Massachusetts) "Well, said the man, "I had been out on the plains hunting for (city in New York,) and finding none, went up into the mountains, and set some traps there.  Sometimes I found a (another river in Wisconsin,) and sometimes I was lucky enough to shoot a (part of a river in Massachusetts.)  But one morning as I was going out to fish for (a river in Idaho) I thought I would go and 
 

I am composed of 17 letters.
My 5, 12, 13, 9 is what the little boys and girls who study Geography use.
My 14, 6, 15 is what we must use to open a lock. 
My 2, 16, 17, 9 is the way we should read.
My 11, 3, 4, 1 is a pile of anything.
My  7, 8, 10 is a little insect.
My whole is somethiug we must not forget to say.

ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S ENIGMA: Our new Gymnasium.
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         Answer to Conundrums.

  Because he distributes the letters.
  Up the stairs if they are away (a way).
  Because they always have elm on hand.
  Because its Burgess is away.
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