The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-04-14
Balraiialt Qazette.
wEpNEspAY, APRIL u, lssO.
Hampton Norman and Agricultural
Institute.
Miss Helen ". Ludlow, an assistant


Good Company an interesting statement Of the /
" Work for Indians" which is going on there.
We here are interested in that Hampton In
stitute, and its results, in more ways than
one Gen. Samuel Armstrong, its principal,
whom we are happy to call our Sandwich
Islander, has probably dore more to excite
among Americans an interest in this country
than was ever accomplished by book-writers.
or ENJOYS Extraordinary. The reason is,
that he is a man full Of generous enthusiasm,
and of resources in himself, who devotes him
self to the work of lettering the condition of
the Indians and negroes in practical ways,
while, at the same time, he is SO singularly
devoid OF cant or Of desire to distinguish
himself or promote his personal interests,
that people are delighted to give him their
confidence and aid. He has obtained almost
q national reputation, in which we "Sand-
wichers come in for share. Our old Is
land residents-Gen. and Mrs. J. F. B. Mar
shal-are co-workers with Gen. Armstrong
at Hampton. These genuine missionaries 60
on with their homely and wearisome duties in
a gleeful and hopeful way which, of itself,
must make their dark and their red skinned
pupils, as well as every one else, love them
and believe in them, We make the following
extracts from Miss Ludlow's statement:
"a long-headed Indian chief, hundred
years ago, declined an offer from the British
Commissioners of Virginia to put his young
men at college, because the kind Of training
proposed would teach them neither 10 bear
cold nor hunger, neither TO build cabin, kill
q deer. nor take an enemy. But he graciously
offered to take the Virginia gentleman's sons
10 the woods, take great care OF their educa-
ton, and make men Of them.
1.-The advance lines of modern thought
have about caught up to the old sachem's
position as to the proper aim of education. In
the future, the question put to public schools
and colleges, even TO theological seminaries
and mission stations, perhaps, will be not. Do
you make scholars, or do you make theolo-
gians, but,-Do you make men?
{" This, at any rate, is the question the
school puts before itself, and by It's answer
expects 10 stand or fall.
e l may assume that the readers are aware
that the first of Hampton's Indian students
were bought here by Capt. R. q. Pratt, {. S.
a, under whose charge, they with some sixty
others had been held for three years as pris-
oners of the United States, for their con-
spicuous part in a revolt of Cheyennes, Kiowas
and Comanches in Indian Territory
Carried to ST. Augustine in chains. filed
with burning hate and deep revenge, trying
to commit suicide on the way, knowing no
word of English, wrapped in Indian blankets,
adorned with huge grass earrings, and scalp
locks braided TO their knees, this horde of
sulien, desperate savages was brought back
by their captor in just three years and landed,
free, from the little coast steamer, at mid
night, on the grounds of the Hampton Normal
School. And for what purpose
90 To leave fifteen of their number at school,
eager to learn the white man S road, and then
20 on to ask g WashingEon's" blessing before
returning peacefully to their homes.
Certainly remarkable transformation to
have been effected in three years by the
strength, kindness, and rare tact of one man,
with the sympathetic helpers his earnest pur-
pose drew about him-of honorable women
not a few-and all on the theory that an In
dian, after all, is pretty much like the rest of
Us.
90 No one touch gives a more vivid illustra-
ton of the change wrought, than the scene of
the parting Oh the wharf at Old Point, between
those who were going on under charge Of
another officer and their old captor and guar
dians. Where was Indian stoicism? Every
man Of them put his arms round Capt. Pratt
and wept like child to leave him, and even
a Howling Wolf revealed lamb couchant
somewhat in his nature, as clasping his kind
teachers hand, he sobbed, Good bye, Miss
Mather; me love you, me love you!
GA few more days, and other conventional
ideas Of Indian nature were somewhat shaken,
when fifteen braves fell cheerfully into line
with spade or hoe in the working squad. An
Indian working is about as unexpected a
spectacle as an Indian weeping. But it is the
unexpected which happens and TO learn TO
work was exactly what they had come for.
The manual labor system of the school, of
which he learned through the book Hamp-
ton and It's Students, oppoTtunely sent him
by friend, had decided the Captain to ask
admission here for his Indians, as the only
school where they could get such training.
The enterprise was not of Its own seeking, but
they were received on this ground as Pi-Ute
Indian boy had been some time before. Five
of the fifteen were 10 be sent TO Bishop Whip
Pies school in Minnesota when it should open
in the fall, but were finally kept at Hampton
for the sake of tile industrial advantages, By
the Bishops own desire, and two more were
added from seven who had been placed under
| other instructions.
a year has passed, and the result thus far
| is very encouraging and hopeful. In the
one point in which the effort is strictly an
experiment, which has been watched with
| some anxiety, the association of the Indian
and Negro students, it is certainly a signal
! success. Here stands the "Wigwam," OF
/ Indian cottage, built at cost of ST., 900
of bricks made on the place, in part by
student labor. 1t was erected for the Indian
! boys, and they were put together into it wher
| they arrived. But within a mouth. they
asked TO be mingled with the colored students
so as to learn English faster, Too much
Indian talk they urged. The plea was pre-.
scented to the colored boys, and enough volun.
teers offered at some personal sacrifice to un.
dertake the mission Of helping their wild com.
rades 10 English and civilized habits. Ii
many cases strong attachment has sprung
up between the rOom-mates, and as vet NJ
hostility, while the value to the Indians j.
invaluable.
"To 20 to bed with boots on and leave of
half their Undertaking the next mornin.
were among the trihing peculiarities which
had TO be watched at first A drill in bed.
making was found quite necessary for tn,
braves, and is thus amusingly described il
the Sohthsrn WorLm1l by the teacher WHIT
superinteDded the operation.
90 When they first began to make beds, tn,
sheets were either tucked up under the pillow
or laid on the outside One boy was found t.
! have seven sheets. who did not know til,
| proper use for two. The janitor helped m,
carry bedstead into the sitting room, tn,
boys were called in and seated in a semi-cir.
Gle, and began the process of bed-making