Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-11

" or the Indian was gone. They had cut | on their hair. had never asked them to
 do it; nor had NIT. Wotherspoon asked his men The act was gradual, almost un- conscious yielding on their part to the friendly and beneficent influence of the white people about them: and the shy mer- riment with which they would glance up at one in expectation of wonder and de light was very amusing Of course we ex- patated Tn lively terms on the excellence or the new order of things, and I am sure l made the little fellows just as vain as DOS slb!e But they were happy as well as
 advanced" and we could not regret the hattery. I cannot shake of the convic- tion that the more pleasure We put into good things the more We are in keeping with nature and with God So that our Indians often have suggested 10 them mo uves which fear are not at all in keeping with high ecclesiastic principles For in stance, tell the boys plainly that if they are sober and industrious. and will work faithfully to do the right thing, when they get to be men they will be able to make money" and with this money have happy homes for their parents, their wives and children, and themselves. l sometimes draw pictures in the arithmetic class of what their homes will be, and make them cast up accounts as to the cost of furnish ing their farms and their housss, in the returns they will get in market for the produce of their labor It is & lesson of never-failing interest. The entire school listens with radiant faces. The fuunda- tion of the whole beautiful p;cture, l try to make them feel, is steady endeavor in good work. know of no higher motive than desire to labor for the good of tine lives belonging to us; and if I can build up among these sayage-hearted boys some idea of home life and home fidelity shall be content with my wcrk, The increased kindness with which they treat the girls is noticeable I do not say that they never tell the ladies what they think in appA- rently plain Apache terms flor which they receive as good as they giveD: but it is al most an unheard-of thing fOr one of the larger boys to strike a girl, and even the aforementioned pickering is very rare Iou may remember the silk badge YOU sent for the Kings Sons" or ''Guard for the Girls" ss they prefer to be called
 B -tore we went away We gave them to the ten larger boys in the first class, telling them that if they protected the girls in our absence, and kep; the badge themselves clean and safe until We came back, We would know that they not only deserved, but were fit to be trusted with the silver one. Out of the ten six brought their badges back. The others had duleful sto- ries to tell. One boy had his stolen. The rats had carried of anothe=, etc But I cannot hear of any one of them being un- kind to the girls. Next Sunday ihe six boys who kept their silk badges are 10 re- ceive the silver cross in Sunday school. The four who lost theirs are to have other silk ones, which they must keep for three months As proof of their carefulness and fidelity. Justly speaking it was wonderful that any Of them could keep such tiny pieces of silk in their dreadful old huts- dark and dAnk as they were, and infested with rats Now that they are in their dry, airy sunlit cottages, there will be TO ex- cuse for disorder or loss