The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-08-25

and short. The first article is by John
Downing (Cherokee), who tells about the
camp of the Indian boys at Warm
Springs in Perry county, just mentioned,
some sixteen miles from Carlisle. We
quote the editorial of this very little pa
per (the name of which is The School
Neaps) in full:
at is better for the Indians to send all
their children to school, for if they don't
send all their children to school they
will not know anything. Now the Indians
don know how to make'wagons, ploughs,
hoes, and harness; they don't know how
to make anything. They have to buy
these things from the white people,
That is the reason the white people like
to make wagons and ploughs and every
thing because they think thay can get
lots of money. If the Indians knew
how to make wagons and ploughs and
all these things, they would get lots of
money from the whites, and would keep
all their own money saved The Indians
don't know how to make anything, that
is the way they spend all their money
Long time ago the Indians used to go to
hunt buffalo. When they found some
buffalo they killed them and take the
skins off and take it to some town and
sell it get money for it, but now almost
all the buffalo are gone What will the
Indian do2 Why they have to work
hard; plough the ground and do some
thing, for if they don't they will starve
to death and their children too. 1t is
better they should send their children to
school and learn to read and write, and
not only read and write but learn how to
work at trade That is the way the
white boys do; they learn trade and
when they grow up to be a man, they
can go on working and make some mon
ey of it. If the Indians do the same
way they would not be poor. The men
who make the wagons and ploughs and
clothes and everything get much money
from the Indians, because the Indians
must buy these things from men who
make them. If the people of the United
States will help the Indians they will
soon find the way. From all over the
parts of the country Washington sends
teachers to Carlisle and Hampton and to
the agencies to educate the Indians, but
there are not enough schools like this
one, where the boys and girls learn to
work at everything. We learn from
books and we learn about God too.
Here are also four or five editorial
notes:
Charlie Kihega is very good driver.
He takes the wagon to the mountain
every day, and he never lets the mules
run away. He takes the wagon and
buggy anywhere. He often gets up
early in the morning and takes the wagon
in town to market, about o'clock in the
morning. [ guess everybody who read
this little paper last month saw big
mistake. We put the first page on the
fourth page; but we will try not to do it
any more. Mr.. Hayes Of Washington,
Pa, made good talk to the Indian
children, at Oakville. He told them
never to swear or fight, or chew tobacco.
Every boy in this school has two long
rows OF potatoes Some of them take
good care not to let the bugs get on, but
some of them are full of bugs Capt.
Pratt said the boy who gets the best and
largest potatoes will get the most money,
and the boy who does not take care of
his rows will get only little. Now it
is nearly time to dig the pototoes. Capt
Pratt told the men to cut some of the
trees down. The large girls wanted to
cut the largest trees down, and they cut
off the small limbs and made stills of
them. The girls looked very funny
walking on stills.
On the last page are little communi-
cations, the first by Mary North Gan
Arapahoe) called little story, and the
last by Joshua H. Given We give them
both
1--WE all have good times, and we went
out to the camp-meeting and heard the
people talk about God, and we sang two
or three hymns, and the people was very
much glad to hear us sing When we
were at home in Indian Territory we
had nothing to do butplay and go to the
river and 60 swimming, and now we are
way off from home at school and learn
ing something. I think that is better
than swimming and picking berries. I
know picking berries is very good, but
you will get your hands scratch and
then you will be tired to 90 another
time. Now I am very glad to go to
Carlisle school and learn something that
is all right, and we have good time here
too, and am trying to write story, and
/ will do the best can and'wri it till I
get done
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