The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-14
WHOA, JANUARY!

| EDITOR GAZETTE l was surprised, ye
astonished to see Prof. Forester Wilberforce
Royal, who has just laid aside his pinefores
rushing into print defending his little schoo
of half dozen aborigines, over which h,
presides as pedagogue. But the real object
of the Prof. seems to be to show his ply sic
al and intellectual proportions. The youn.
man says good deal in his epistle of which
he knows nothing about. He is like the ole
blind hoss that ran away and kicked the
harness off and then kept on kicking as Ions
as he heard any noise, he seems to think his
dignity has been assailed and thus com
mences to kick-Whoa, January, soom't yoa
a0hoaa This boy, like a young pigeon, is
largest when first Matched. He is such a
lubberly, gawkish looking fellow that his
pupils, not knowing to what order of verte.
brated animals he belongs, calls him The
great American Guyascutis. l have nc
doubt Mr.. Barnum would give a liberal price
for him, as he would like to get all kinds OF
natural curiosities.
In an alteration with one of his pupils
the young and wiery little Indian took the
Prof. by the back of the neck and seat of
his breeches and would have pitched him
out of the school house and gave him a sound
thrashing had not others interfered and pre-
vented it, This is one instance of his phys.
ical strength in controlling an Indian. This
Drn kill too hx,
the tail and chased it around for several
hours, trying to stear the bovine into. theco
raj, not thinking that if he would let go the
tail and go around to the head he might
drive the calf without any trouble. Oh,
what a pedagogue 1t appears from this that
the Prof. would make better navigator
than school teacher. A little common sense
makes an excellent foundation to build an
education upon.
This teacher has an easy time. He puts
in about two- thirds of his time teaching Ca
lesthenics, marching, singing, humping pa
per wads at the dusky maidens, and 'issu-
ing crackers. When cracker time comes,
all the old Indians and clutchmen march up
to the schoolhouse to get their share of the
muck-a-muck in order to keep their tenuat-
ed forms together until spring opens, when
they can scatter out to catch fish and gather
roots. 1t takes great many crackers, and
verify believe there were eighty boxes.
The Great Father at Washington will, after
while, send on another cargo, for it will
never do for these fellows to work-it might
injure their delicate, constitutions (?) This
young gentleman, if he could leave his
mother long enough to teach a school, might
get one in the country at 100 per month,
whereas now he gets $500 year. Go on,
young man, you are doing exceedingly WELL
But no amount Of 'thide and go seek" will
disguise the fact the Siletz Reservation is do.
ing no coed and that it is great leach lying
there absorbing the substance of the coun-
try, without producing anything in return.
] would like to have home in the beau
full Siletz valley, but did not 60 so far as to
stake off the most choice part of the land,
expecting the reservation would be opened
up for settlement and at the same time pro-
Tossing to be friend of the Indians. Yours
truly, :. X.
Yaquina Bay, Feb. %, 1879.