Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Remember the Manner rlngree Goes 70
the Front-The Education OF
Young Indians.
IsnecIal Correspondence.l

inc Mdlne az HhN'hS Nh NauScu ny
Spanish deviltry rather than by acct
dent have protested against the motto
"Remember the Maine" Still, the
men of the navy have used it, the troops
have not avoided it altogether the press
has repeated the phrase from time to
time as occasion suggested, and even
the government has employed way of
keeping it before the public Every per-
son who has to use proprietary or doc
umentary stamp to pay taxes to support
the war will remember the Maine. +"
There may not have been anything
malevolent or bloodthirsty in it, but
the internal revenue bureau has deco
rated the stamps with pictures of the
battleship that was blown up in Havana
harbor This picture is on the stamps
of all denominations below 81, the diff
ferences being only in designations of
amount and in colors. The little picture
at first glance is simply warship but
those who are familiar with the features
and peculiarities of the Maine will see
at once that the warship is none other
than the Maine. So every time "a drug
gist gets package of medicine upon
which he must aflix the stamp he will
undoubtedly remember the Maine"
and wish the war was over. The use Of
the picture, when it costs, makes for
peace and not for blood, and the treas
urer estimates that before the people
are allowed to forget the Maine there
will be collected some $50, 900, 900 a
year by the stamp act to pay for war
expenses.
Pingree Fights For His Boys.
Governor Hazen Pingree Of Michigan
was in Washington the other day to see
Secretary Alger in the interest of the
soldier boys of his state. The interview
was very satisfactory to the governor.
This was not his first visit to the CAPT
tai on war business. Recently he came
here and had seance with General
Miles. The governor discovered that
some of the Michigan troops had been
sent to Cuba clothed in heavy blue
wooden uniforms. 1t made him mad, and
he did not hesitate to express his views
to General Miles. He said the Michigan
bows were entitled to the best Of every
thing the government could but did not
supply. If the government would not
provide light canvas uniforms for the
4 soldiers, the governor told General
Miles, he would do it himself and
charge it up to the war department..
General Miles reminded Governor
/ Pingree that the uniforms must be of
the regulation style, but the governor is
quoted as having replied that style did
not cut much of figure as long as the
/ Michigan boys were provided with some
! thing cool and serviceable in the way of
uniforms. Governor Pingree went back
! to Michigan and ordered lot of drab col
! ored serge uniforms for the Thirty fifth
regiment, encamped at Island Lake,
Mich. The uniforms were of his own
design and were made under his super
vision. What is good enough for the
| boys is good enough for me, " said the
governor when he jumped off the train
at the Pennsylvania depot. 1t was true,
too, for the governor was attired III a
soldiers uniform and called particular
attention to it when he presented his
claim to Secretary Alger.
Indian School Children From Carson.
Mr.. Eugene Dean superintendent of
the Indian school at Carson City, New,
is in the city. He brought with him IL
young Indians, II lads and one girl,
whom he turned over to Captain Pratt,
superintendent of the school at Carlisle,
Pa. The boys were all members of their
school band, and among them, Mr.. Dean
says, are several of fine musical talents.
"At Carson we have about 100 Indian
boys and girls of the Piute, Shoshone
and Washoe tribes. In the four years OF
my connection with the school l have
witnessed an improvement among them
that is simply wonderful. They all
speak the English tongue habitually.
haven't heard an Indian word uttered
in over year We have a kindergarten
for the little ones and industrial train
ing for the older pupils The girls take
ready hold of such practical arts as sew
ing, cooking and housekeeping, and
their brothers are taught farming and
the use of tools.
"A good many Of the girls, after a
course of training at the school, are
taken by the white residents as domes-
tics, and give very good satisfaction.
The larger boys command very good
wages as farmhands. Schooling to a
great extent removes the inborn shyness
of the Indian, and some of my older
students will sit and converse with
strangers in an easy way like white
children. There is a certain per cent,
however, that seem never able to over
come their native reserve.
He Saved His Leg.
"If the science Of surgery had been
advanced az far in lS6l-5 as it is today,
we would not see SO many veterans OF
the civil war going about with stumps
of legs and arms said DIR. Hayden to
a party of friends with whom he was
talking about the war.
Surgeons nowadays resort to ampu-
tation as seldom as possible, and by
treatment preserve the injured member,
where 30 years ago the first thought
would have been to operate. A cousin of
mine in the Confederate army got a
bad wound in the leg, and when the
snrpeon prnnosed TO amputate the suf