The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-09

Vassar college would not be horror
stricken at the discovery of an octo-
room among her pupils. Indian stu
dents may be found in many of our
colleges and are not rejected at hotels
or boarding houses or theaters or
churches or on railroads. In some OF
the tribes, as in the Creeks and Cher
okees, their features, their beauty and
their traits of character approximate
the Anglo-Saxon. Schoolcraft, who ID
the highest authority, says their feat
ures are regular, their expression no
bic; they IRE taciturn and stoical to
the last degree, cunning and watchful,
persevering in the pursuit and re
vel. efuI IN the destruction of then
enemies, hospitable and grateful for
favors, a close observer of natural phe-
nomena, his temperament poetic and
imagination, and his simple eloquencs
of great dignity and beauty of expires
sion. Many of the women are really
handsome, and their skin is thinner,
softer and smoother than is the white
races.
Boudinot was a very handsome, i'm.
pressive man even in his old age. ]
met him at Fort Smith some year'
ago He was educated at Princeton
He was d Cherokee and was born II
Vanns valley, near Rome. His mothei
was buried on hill that overlooks
J Cave Spring. When but a lad he was
taken west with the tribe in 1887. mol
long after that he was sent to Phila
delphia to school and was adopted by
Elias Boudinot, wealthy philanthro
pist, and took his name. While ha
! lived he stood high as learned and
eloquent advocate, and was the agent
and ambassador of the tribe in al
matters connected with the United
| States government. But now these
| tribes do not have to send their chill
dren so far away to get an education,
What our government does is always
well done. and handsome school houses
are found all over the territories. In
1877 the policy of educating them
was organized and $4,000 appro'
priated. In 1880 it was increas'
ed To $4,000; in 1885 to 5000, 200
and in 1890 to $1,364,56S. I reckon j
! is two or three millions by this time
And besides this large amount, the
different religious societies of the
United States give largely to the
cause. the Roman Catholic church
giving near half million annually
and having charge of more schools
than all the other denominations put
together. Then, again, just think o
the land they have got-160 acres tt
each head of family, so acres to eacf
child 10 years old and 40 to thos'
younger. Just THINK ct all the old ant
decrepit ohes being supported by thu
government and all the young ones ed
ucated free. Why, it would seem tina
with all this fraternalism and private
benefactions child is fortunate to b,
born an Indian. The wards of the ma
ton, whether red or black, are having
good time.
There was an old song that was suns
by a lazy vagabond, and it said:
Oh, I wish I was goose
| All forlorn, all forlofn
| Oh, | wish was d goose,
| Eating corn.
But now the song for our thousands
of tramps to sing is:
| ooh, I wish I was an Indian"
1t used to be that in our colleg,
textbooks that population increased
in proportion to the comforts of life
that the common people enjoyed. This
theory hts ine southern negro prett,
we'll, for they continue to multipl,
like rabbits, in spite of all the barbara
ty that the Boston Transcript accuse