Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-17
A NOVEL FLOWER.

One of our papers has recently said, "A
novel flower has recently been found on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, at the San
Juan hacienda, some twenty-five leagues
from the city of Tehuantepec. This floral
chameleon has the faculty of changing its
colors during the day. In the morning it
is white; when the sun is at its zenith it is
red, and at night it is blue. This red,
white and blue flower grows on a tree
about the size of the guava tree, and an
other peculiarity of this flower is that
only at noon does it give out any perfume" /"
There are thousands of chameleon plants
all over the South if the above descrip-
ton makes them. The bloom of the COM
mon cotton plant is light yellow at sun
rise, delicate pink at noon, and red at
sunset. The change from yellow to red, of
course, is very gradual.
THE RAMONA SCHOOL.
Helen Hunts monument is not the
piled stone which covers her grave in the
mountains. 1t is the Ramona school for
Indian girls at Sante Fe, New Mexico,
founded in honor of the woman whose i'm
passioned story of Ramona" woke the
nation to sense of the merciless wrongs
done to the Argonauts-to the Indians of
California. For two hundred years the
Apaches, in all respects the congoners in
the south of the terrible Sioux in the
north, held at bay the soldiers of Spain,
Mexico and the United States. With
what skill and ferocity they fought; how
terribly they struck, and quickly disap-
peared; how they marched without water,
food or rest; how their Insignificant num-
bers kept one of our Territories unpeopled
and shut our bravest prospectors and
miners out from one of the richest mineral
areas on the continent. the people of the
United States too well know. There was
fitness in the thought to honor the memory
of the brave and good woman who wrote
Ramona" by establishing in the Rocky
mountains school to train Apache girls
out of murderous treachery into all the
decencies of civilization, and giving to it
the name of Helen Hunts immortal story.
Better than war is this method of over
coming the obstacle the Apaches present
to the settlement of Arizona. The girls
of its terrible tribe will be its future wives
and mothers In the Ramona school the
tribe will undergo transformation. MUIR
der will then cease to be fame. The sur
prise and massacre of helpless ones will
not be glory there. Successful robbery Of
herds and flocks will not confer distinc
ton Eternal warfare against the whites
will there cease to be the Apaches tradi-
tional duty and honor. The future
Apache tribe will have been in the Ra-
mona school, and Helen Hunts spirit will
have been there, sweetly serving, laboring
and Transforming. Every girl who goes
from the school back to the mountains
will go there less of an Indian. In time
she will surely lift her children up to her
own level Yes. better than war is this
solution of the bloody Apache problem.
Corrupt and corrupting has been much
of the work under our Indian policy. The
charitable dole has pauperized the proud
SAVAGE. Tne enforced idleness of reserva-
tion life has debauched him. Torn up by
the roots from his natural life, nowhere
has the matured Indian been restored to
his natural life, or been successfully re-
planted. But in this Ramona school the
amelioration commenced with children
aud with girls, and everything done will
not only aid but last. 1t will surely give
the next generation lift.