The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-06
ONE LOOKS AFTER INDIANS,
WHILE THE OTHER CARES FOR
THE CRIMINAL POPULATION
OF THE STATE.
sINGHALEsE TEA EXPORTER, TOO,
Among the Guests of a HOspitabIt
City During Yesterday-Gossip
of the Hotels.

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on his way home, in North Dakota,
| on thirty-day leave of absence. He
has just made an inspection of the
Sisseton agency and also of the Indian
school near Genoa, Neb. Of this latter
institution he is quite enthusiastic and
talked entertainingly to G @ b re-
porter as follows:
/ THE school is located on a valuable
farm of 320 acres, of which fifteen acres
are fine apple orchard. There are
| about 800 pupils, ITS boys and 125 girls,
| five tribes being represented. the Chip
pewas, Sioux, Omahas, Winnebagos
and Poncas. They all live together
aniicably. Their ages range from eight
| to twenty years. They are uniformed
in neat cadet grey, have drills, and
the school has a good band Of music,
the musicians being students.
There are eighteen teachers, and the
course of study includes not only the
common branches of an ordinary edu-
cation, but also practical farming.
blacksmithing, harnessmaking and
| carpentry, while the girls learn sewing,
cooking and other home work. They
even have a music teacher, and it may
surprise you to know that the Indian.
| has good ear and strong liking fo:
music.
During the summer months they
have vacation and are permitted to
| return to their tribes. but only about
| half the number avail themselves OF
| this privilege. On leaving school man !
| return to their reservations, others set
tie down to engage in farming or
other pursuits, and in the course of
| time marriages frequently occur be-
tween the boys and girls, arising from
the attachments formed while they
were at school, No, the institution is
not matrimonial agency, but they
| get acquainted there and afterwards
marry, irrespective of their tribal ma
| tivity.
| Some few Of them drift back into
a semi-civilized condition on rejoining
their people, but those instances are
| becoming more rare as the years roll
by"
| Edwin Dunn, of Eyota a member
of the board of prison managers, regis
| tered at the Ryan last evening on his
| way home from a meeting of the board
at the prison yesterday. The board
paroled three convicts and discharged
a fourth, who had been committed on
the reformatory plan. The health of
| this convict was poor and his mind re-
| paired; he wanted to return to his
| home in Pennsylvania and one of the
conditions of his discharge was that he
! leave the state.
The second year of the present con-
/ tract with the Union Shoe & Leather
company for the convict labor was
entered upon Oct. 1. By the former
I A. i e.,
cents per day from the company for
each convict employed. but under the
present plan the pay is by piece work.
The first year, just ended, the state
received eight. ten and twelve cents
| per pair for the shoes turned out, and
by the stipulation it will now get ten.
/ twelve and fourteen cents pair. This
will net the state about fifty cents a
| day for every convict employed in the
company's shops. the output being
something like 1000 pairs of shoes
daily
Under the present system the COM
pany has one great advantage over
the old; if the shops are shut down by
reason of breakage of machinery or
any other cause, the company has no
convict labor to pay for.
H. H. Harrison, a we'll known hy-
draulic engineer and in charge of the
! waterworks system at Hot Springs,
Ark and Saltwater was seen at the
Merchants yesterday. He has just re-
turned from a hunting trip to the
Rocky mountain, and avers-and he has
| a reputation for veracity-that he shot
an elk He is anxious to suppress the
fact, however, fearing that the mem
bers of No. 179, B. P. o. E., will read
| him out of the lodge for committing
the crime.
Mr.. Harrison has been making a
study of the drainage of the Red river
valley and says that it will prove q.
big mistake Instead of draining off
! the lakes, ponds and marshes, every
! effort should be made to maintain as
! high stage of water in them as pos
sible, to guard against drouth in future
years. These bodies of water are a
safeguard against that section of the
country becoming arid.
Francis Cadez, who resides at Randy,
the old capital of Ceylon, and who is
connected with the famous Maravllla
| Ceylon Tea company, is visiting V. ii.
Snalley, of this city. Mr.. CadeZ is an
interesting conversationalist, and when
seen by G l o b e man last night, said:
| MY home, Randy, is where the his
torical tooth of Buddha now rests in
| the great temple which dates back to
! B. C. In 1896, when the British con-
! quered Ceylon, Handy was the resi-
dence of the king and Ceylonese chiefs
| who ruled those days The jungle that
stood on the ground where the Mara
villa teas now grow, was felled and
| burned by Ceylonese who are known
experts with the axe. AS Ceylonese are
| irregular workers, TamilS were import
| ed from the south of India and marked
the ground out in rows four feet apart
| and placed wooden pegs every three
! feet in the rows. At the side of each
| peg a f1ower-pot hole was cut, into
| which the plants were put; these were
| raised in nurseries from seeds which
| are curiously like chocolate cream III
appearance, being the same shape, size,
and color The most important work
| on a young garden is to train the
! bushes so as to increase the surface
| to be plucked from as much as possible.
When plucking tea each coolle has
cane basket into which he puts the
| leaves. AS the young succulent leaves
are alone fit for curing, foreman, call
| ed 'kongonnie' is appointed over every
twenty coolies to carry out the super
| intendent's instructions. The gardens
are picked over every eight days. The
| average amount of leaf plucked in
| day is sixteen pounds, for which the
| coolies (male and female) receive 80
| Ceylon cents, equal to American
| cents. When cured the sixteen pounds
of green leaf will weigh four pounds
| of made tea. At noon and again at
| O'Clock p. n1., when the coolies leave
off work, all those plucking muster in
the field and the assistant superinten-
dent sees the leaf weighed and enters
| the amount plucked in a check roll op-
posite each coolies name. The leaf is
! then taken to the factory in large
baskets and spread on jute hessian
shelves to wither. A good wither is
when the leaves get soft to the touch
like velvet, and the stems can be bent