The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-11-05

son is. Whilst the officials of the school III
content to say that the progress of the pa!
year has been quite up to their expectation
the attentive visitor is hardly willing to sto
there but goes so far as to call il ao0ndeltm-
These boys and girls would in many thing
put to shame many white scholars of the
own age. Many of them can write q yer
clear and correct hand-which cannot be sal
of many white children who have gone
good schools much longer than they TIL
method of teaching is that of object lesson
of one sort and another The teachers CAV
evidence of good qualification for their ardu
GUS task. The scholars seem very fond G
them and are remarkably obedicnt and docilt
Each teacher said as we passed through he
room that she found them no more Difficult
to discipline than any other children, and tina
patience is the teachers prop and hope her
as elsewhere Many of them look yer,
bright, although rs II rule their faces do no
indicate q marvellous degree of intelligence
They have an aptitude for drawing, as wa
shown by the pictures on the states of TIL,
| smaller boys rs well as on their blackboards
Only few days before our visit they had al
| been to big circus and menagerie, and ele
plants, camels, &c, were stalking around il
| all the stateiness which the crayon or thu
pencil could give them. The school perfor
iuitNo HlNSb DC 5CCli w w AM
| realized. But for their color and the fact
that you don't expect such things of Indians
you would hardly know that you were not in
one of our common Schools as you hear the
several classes called, the bell ring, see the
scholars rise, come forward and take theii
places in the most orderly manner. They
have mostly English names, c. g., John, Rob
ert, Frank, Harriet, Cora, Jane, &c. Among
the boys little Frank, the son of the chief
White Eagle, was pointed out to us as one OF
the bright ones and his face is certainly pre-.
possessing. We heard and witnessed recita,
tions in reading, writing and arithmetic,
the three cardinal studies which a certain old
gentleman remembered as his boyhood stu
dies, because they all began with ar" The
pupils did very well as beginners. We were
all quite favorably impressed with their pro-
gress. The requirement of the English Ian
guage in one of the first objective points of
their instruction. 1t is indeed the most diff
ficult point of ALL The South Western In
dams, c. G., the Kiowa and Comanches, learn
English the quickest. They all seem shy
about speaking English before or to strangers.
All of the Indians go to school The boys
who are learning trades work two days each
week and go to school the remainder. A few
work constantly at their trades and go to a
night school which has been started for them.
The regular school is in session five hours q
day.
Not only do they show an aptitude for
study but they also surprise one with their
mechanical skill and industry. They are
taught tailoring, saddering, shoemaking,
wagon making, carpentering, printing, black
smithing, tin-smithing, farming and baking.
Each of these departments is under the SUI
pervision of a competent mechanic.
The tailoring department was started on
the 18th of last August. Six boys work in
it. The boy who began first has advanced
so far in his art rs to make pair of panta-
looms They do all by hand as yet and are
fond Oft In the saddler shop there are 10
boys at work.. c. each one two days in the
week. They have made 55 sets of double
wagon harness and 3 single sets of carriage
harness. They manufacture IS sets month
or one set in two days At the County Fair
they got $1.00 premium on some of their
work Probably their progress here is more
remarkable than elsewhere.
In the shoe shop there are 0 boys. Some
have been there 5, some and some 3 months
They do all their own repairing and will
soon attempt new work. The shoemaker in
charge told us that if scolded they would
throw their work down in sulen defiance
and do nothing, but that he could do any
thing with them by kindness. The same is
experienced in the other departments. In
that thew are not SO very different from other
neonle Does if not after nil point 20 the
t,ma nripcinle oftbeir treatment rs people ?
Tn tho fin shon there orc six bovs One whose
name is Roman Nose works constantly and
has bern nj the trade four months, The shop
Is FIJI Of tinware which is as well-made as
or,, other The bovs seem ia like it
/, tho wagon shon we saw number of
youn@ men Mt work some with saw and
cSbisei others with naint brush and others bu.
CIV nj bellows and anvil They were lust nut
t;In% tho tinish;ng touches on two WAGONS
Witch We're to go 10 Indian TERRITORY, The
blncksmitbs shoe the horses and mules be-
sides doing the General tinlering belonging
1o their Inc
Tho nrinters :, re doing we'll One Of them,
Samuel Townscnd by name has in five
nnnnths become M inefficient rs to edit a
small naner which he calls Schooz Nens
or e which ha docs MI tho writing tvnesettin@
~, n,;nt;nr Have Won ever hod ,tdeviI''
on,,,d boat matt THIS noncr is published
m mont for o. cts wear r for one subscriber
nv y;n,, 80 ;'o,rrotod i, sou,;rr Jorn;nr
display an aptness as good as that of the boys.