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Arizona republican., 1899-03-31

clothes purchased in the east by the department for the use of our boys, are made by the pupils at the school The cooking is all done by the girls of the school, under the direction of a white cook. Each child has a comfortable spring mattress bed which he is re- quired to care for
 Many of our children work out in the best families of Phoenix and vicinity. I consider this system as a great mo-
 tor in the elevation of the race, inas- much as it brings the child in his formative stage in touch with the best home life. The Indian school, how
 ever, is not merely an employment agency, and it is impossible to send out girls, particularly, fast enough to sup ply the demand. Every child +s not fit to send out. and it is not the policy to permit child to leave the school until she is able physically to do the work required of her and morally to resist temptation. When she is sent out she is not allowed to draw her own wages and spend it at her own sweet will. Neither is she given absolute liberty as soon as she leaves the school grounds. She is guided and re- strained by a certain employe whose business it is to visit the home at stated periods, collect her wages, as- sis. her in purchasing necessities, etc, etc. Tn this way the child receives benefit individually by precept and eX- ample. He is taught the things he ought to learn in the right way. He absorbs. the principles of economy and frugality and learn how to deposit funds, to check and balance, etc, etc.
 For the enlightenment of those who may imagine that some one at the -a1,< Ns.,1 aT- ,,,Rx z childrens pay because that some one collects the wages, I will say that this is not true and that the reason the children's wages are collected monthly by a trusted empIoye is that it has been found in some instances that cer- tain patrons have very kindly and thoughtfully paid the pupils for their services in cast-off clothing old shoes and last years hats of their own or some members of their families. As stated above, the school is not an en- plOyment agency and it matters not to the government whether a single child is sent out into a family or not. Fur thernsore, It is not a question of the wages that the child receives, but the instruotion in industry, housekeeping, neatbess., economy. social life. which the child may receive and absorb by living with the best families and com ing into contact with the best people.
 WeS5giVe much attention at this schoofsto the education of the girls. On t,hesreservation, and in fact at some homeSsWhere our girls have been put out Epf work, the girls are treated as pack-afnimals. This should not be. The girls will be the mothers by and by. They will have houses to keep clean and sweet children to attend in
Arizona republican., 1899-03-31

ing, harness making, shoe making, tai | 1oring, farming and gardening for the boys, and for the girls houseWOrk, in cluding cooking, washing, sewing, f dressmaking in all it's branches, etc., etc. The pupils are divided into two sections, each section attending school One-half of each day, the other half be- ing devoted to some branch of indus trial work. Pupils are allowed to se- lect the trade which they desire to l learn, and if found apt and capable are continued in that trade until it is com pleted; otherwise they are changed to something else.
 The children are apt in literary work and have excellent memories. Some tribes are very deficient in am- bition, while others gre not content with second place. There is a great difference between river and mountain Indians The Pimas, for instance, are industrious but not nearly as energetic nor ambitious as the fiercer Apaches. The same quality that has made the Apache the hardest foe to vanQuish that the United States soldiers have tackled makes him keen, active and energetic in school work. The dispO- sition of the Apaches, however, is not so likable as that of the Piraas, who
  Like the Japanese, the Indians are great imitators but poor originators. Once shown how to do anything, they do it in that way forever.
 If simply teaching the Indian youth to read and write and do certain kinds of industrial work were all that should be accomplished. the control of an In dian school would be comparatively easy; but there are other things to be instilled. The old Indian knows but one law-that of might The "she who must be obeyed' is passion unhamp cred by reason. In many cases all things, even the wives and children, are held in common. When food is abundant they revel in gluttony; when scarce the law of the survival of the fittest is exemplified; and when all is gone they endure with admirable forti- tude the bangs of hunger; but distress does not teach restraint. The chil- dren are not taught industry, frugality nor care. To many tribes virtue is a total stranger and morality poor re- lation whom they do not recognize. Of any knowledge of or regard for the true relations that should exist be- tween man and man they remain from choice in blissful ignorance.
 It thus becomes necessary to build a character that will enable the Indian child to stand alone.
 At the Phoenix school the red child is put through exactly the same educa- tional and moIding processes as the white child would be. It is thought that what has proved best in one case will prove equally efficacious in the other We do not expect culture and polish from the white child after a period of three or four years in school,
Arizona republican., 1899-03-31

sickness and pain, meals to cook, mending, sewing, etc, to do. This school has established a modern cook ing class, where instruction is given in preparing meals for small families, in preserving fruits, in making and caring for butter and cheese, etc They are taught not only to make new gar ments but to patch and darn old ones and to judge whether or not they are fit to be mended. They are taught fancy work for the adornment of them salve5 and their homes and how to transform an old soap box or barrel into q Parisian feet stool. They are taught the weaving of carpets and rugs, the use of medicines and care of the sick. It is also the object to de- Velop whatever is best of Indian life, industry or occupation. I know that the mere suggestion of retaining any thing Indian acts on some people like the shaking of a red rag before wild cattle. They would eliminate the h. dian's customs, his language, his in dustries, even though the process would eliminate the Indian himself. In my opinion this is all wrong. We arc here to develop, not to destroy-to build up, not to tear down. We should utilize to it's fullest extent every re- source at command. If an Indian can make a beautiful blanket, is it not bet ter to perfect him in the art of weav- ing than to attempt to mold him into an indifferent preacher? If an Indian girl can take crude silver and defJly transform it into beautiful filigree tracery, is not that far better for her and just as beneficial to the world as to have her spouting, like a perpetual geyser, her unheeded slogan for wo- mems rights and modern dress reform?
 If the latent energies of Indian youth were developed along the line of their natural affinities they would soon be in the van as producers of wealth and could slough the skin of the parasite.
 Is the Indian grateful? Well, he does not monopolize gratitude. But neither does the Saxon. Gratitude is exceedingly shortlived in any race. It gasps and sighs and yawns and dies. On the whole I have found the Indian as grateful for favors shown as the white race
 Is the Indian a citizen? Many of them are. The Dawes bill which be- came a law some years ago gives the Indian citizenship when he accepts an allotment of land in lieu of reserva- ition rights. 1t is marvellous with what utter sang froid our legislatures cast pearls before swine. In other words, with what criminal reckless ness they fbestow freedoms crowning gift upon the mentally depraved. Such | stupendous stupidity passeth compre- l
Arizona republican., 1899-03-31

and should not expect it from the red; yet five years is the maximum term for which child can 1e entered in the h. dian schools. The white child gradu- ates when he has demonstrated his fit ness. The decision as to whether or not he goes to school is not left with the white child nor with his parents, however ignorant or Intelligent; but according to present laws an Indian child cannot be compelled to go to school and cannot be taken from the Indian reservation to attend any out side school without the consent of par ents or guardian, and that consent must be in writing. Think of the in consistency of requiring the written consent of person who cannot write! In my opinion, unless educating the h. dian can be carried to it's logical con- clusion, it were far better to leave him in ignorance. Education begets ambi- tions, and ambitions breed discontent, which is good. Discomfort has made the world what it is today, but discOn- tent is unhappiness, and unless educa- tion can translate ambition into actual and happy achievements. we have de- veIoped class of anarchists and the result will be our political and social undOing.
 believe cruelty has reached US zen ith when a young child is taken from her wild mothers tutelage, placed in some distant school, tenderiy reared and loved and guarded by some school mother until the fragrant plants Of moGesty and virtue and faith are showing through the hard crust of inn morality and superstition, until the priceless graces of truth and hope are budding and the sweet Pleiades of maidenhood are bursting into new song then suddenly tear her away from all her fond hopes, ambitions and yearnings, before her good resolutions are crystallized. and throw her back into the maelstrom of vice and passion. Think of her struggles, her falls, her piteous cries for help, answered by the demons laugh of deri5ionl Watch her gradually sinking, resistance growing feebler her efforts becoming weaker, until, worn and weary and hope aban- doned, she filings resistance from her like a soiled rag and plunges reckless ly into the gIoomiest depths of sin.
 And yet every day such a scene is witnessed, and people wonder what becomes of the returned Indian stu dent and why he does not amount to something!
 The old policy of pauperizing the In dian by feeding him without any re- turn i'll labor or money for value re- ceived was bad enough and should have been discontinued years ago, but the present policy of furnishing posi-
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talks on good morals ard gentle man. ners, by holding up before the children the best that can be found in the lives Of eminent men and women, and by the example of the many excellent teachers in charge. Much better re-
 suits are obtained by example than by preSept, for as long as truth is a vir- tue this paramount fact remains that from the heart flows the real issues of life. and the best text book from which to study the purest ethics is the open heart of a great teacher whose illu
 mined face and love are the pClwers that attract and bind, and whose eX
 ample and influence make the centri fugal force that alIeviates and re- deems. The best product of our schools is an ethically trained individ- ual, skilled in some industrial pursuit. 1ndOlence is the canker worm of the Indian. It eats the heart of industry. If his interest can be awakened and work called play, prodigies of indus trial valor may be performed without arousing suspicion. Unless a spur of some sort be pricked into the flank of indifference, the laggard will soon be lost in the race. Unless our Indian schools graduate child fully equipped with skill, with discernment, with un- IdijGElHS WILL, WILL lllcIl6CCudl NlSOI, and sufficient of these qualities to en- able him to compete successfully with his fellow man, then they are value less and speedy abandonment is the best solution. He should be made to understand while young that if he does not work he cannot eat-that beggars cannot be choosers-that the world holds no sinccures, that his birth and color give him no distinction. This is a hard task, for the policy for years has been to enervate and cOddle.
 At the Phoenix school the children are made to work and work hard. No matter at what trade or industry they are engaged they are expected and re- required to do the work as well as it can be done, in as short time as any one else can do it, and at the time when it should be done. All the brick used in the construction of the many new and handsome buildings erected during the past year have been manu- factured, delivered and in part laid by the Indian boys. This amounts to about 5OO,0 ,000 brick The large and commOdious bath house, a twO-StOry building containing a 30x60x7foot plunge bath, besides thirty-twot ring baths, was made in it's entirety by the boys. The brick were made, laid in the walls and all the carpenter work was done by the boys. All the. uni forms for the boys and girls and all the other clothing used by our 700 chil- dren, except a few lines of work
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i tlons in the various departments of the government service to Indians without other qualifications than their red skins is almost as bad. I think the Indians are being pressed forward too rapidly. l believe it i'll advised to place half formed, half educated, un- disciplined Indians in positions as teachers. In my opinion, also, Indians should not be given preference over any other race in civil service posi- tions; yet such is the case. These eX- aminatiOns are supposed to be tests of fitness. Is the Indian too immaculate to be tested? As a general proposi- tion, 1 believe the fact will not be dis puted that a white man, provided he behaves himself, is as good as an In dian. We hold examinations to test the ability, the resources, the moral status and general knowledge of the white man; but the Indian is given carte blanche He seems to require no test; his color is the open sesame to all hOnors in the service. It seems to me that if any test should be employed to gain a knowledge of the candidates s fitness, the Indian, being the uniformed, undisciplined, untried quantity, should be the testce.
 Most Indians are excellent workers in subordinate positions. Some are very good as teachers. I know num- Der of graduates of our non-reservation schools who ale successful in life as doctors, lawyers, printers, nurses, blacksniths, carpenters and in other trades, and many who have returned from school to their reservations and taken up their land and are making their own living and raising their fam flies by their own labor as farmers and stock raisers. These have refused to accept any gifts from the government in any shape, form or manner, and are just as independent as any white man could be.
 At the Phoenix school character building is given the greatest atten- ton. This is accomplished by the in duction of a system of ethical instruc- tion-pure human ethics, or the rela tion of man to man. Since there is such decided objection to teaching religion as such, we can compromise on this ethical ground and capture the beleaguered citadel of immortality by strategy-by sneaking up behind un- awares, so to speak, and Outfianking the enemy. 1 have little sympathy with this style of warfare. It is too guerilla like. But if all other methods are tabooed. it were better that moral lessons be slyly insinuated into the boys and girls than that they receive no moral instruction. It were better to give them morality lessons in home Opathic, sugar-coated globules than let the disease develop into moral leprosy. Moral or ethical instruction is of vast ly more importance to the Indian than the highest degree of mental training or of purely intellectual development. Ethical instruction is given by little
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hension. No man or woman, of any color, should be given the franchise without proper educational qualifica- tions. This wonderful grant should not be a matter of sentiment in any case.
 I believe in the Indian I believe he can be educated and elevated. I be- lieve tn best Indian is a live Indian, provided he be alive to his opportuni- ties. I believe anything God has made He can make perfect. believe the time has come to close forever the door of yesterday, shutting out the graveyard of past failures and bad policies, and open wide the door of to- morrow, disclosing the rosy light of glorious dawn.
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departments are maintained at terri tGrial expense.
 The university has been open since 1891 and numbers on it's rolls 156 stu dents. and fifteen professors and in sIructorS.
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-23
SEE YOUR HEART BEAT.
An Instrument Which With the Roentgen
Rays Will Enable Anyone to Do This.

Roentgen rays have become a potent
power for good in the hands of wide
awake physicians and surgeons, and many
practical devices and appliances are be-
ing constantly created. One such instru-
ment has been named the "see-hear," as
with its aid a physician may Simulta-
neously see the pulsationS of the heart
and hear its beatings. Moreover, by
clever arrangement, records of the size
and condition of the heart may be made.
Briefly, the device consists of a sound
frame. to which are attached ear tubes.
Above this sound-frame is a phosphores-
cent screen, and over that again a sheet
of celluloid and a sheet of tracing cloth
all held compactly together in a clamped
frame. The celluoid sheet protects the
tracing cloth from destroying the surface
of the sensitive screen, when marked on
by a pencil or pen, and both being trans
parent they do not sensibly diminish the
definition of the shadows cast on the
screen.
BY applying this frame over the heart
area and placing the excited tube behind
the patients back. a photograph of the
heart is formed on the phosphorescent
screen. Many doctors hold that a ner-
vous patient can be more certainly as
sured of his normal condition if he can
see for himself For such patients a
| modification has been made of the appa-
ratus above described, in which mirror
is arranged in the proper relation to the
screen to enable him to see the image cast
on the screen. BY inserting the ear tubes
in his ear while the frame is held in po-
sition he can readily hear the beating of
| his own heart and witness its pulsa-
| tons
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-23
FIRST USES OF RUBBER.
Not Long Since the Substance Was More
a Curiosity Than Otherwise.

Few articles are more Indispensable
to modern life than those into which
India rubber enters as Il whole or a
part. 1t touches US from the cradle
to the grave, furnishing the nipple for
the baby's nursing bottle AMI the wat
er bed for the sick man to die on In
termediately scarcely a day goes bv
without its use in promotin,; our COM
fort or pleasure or in alieviating our
necessities. Yet there are people nor
very old who remember when the sub
stance was more of a curiosity than i
useful commodity. In 1914 Charles
Goodyear's French patent, ami IN the
next year his United States patent for
the inflammation of the gum were IS
sued. and it is since then thai the
nnumerable industrial applications of
India rubber became practical
1t is worthy of note that one of the
earliest industrial applications IF the
gum made in Great Britain followed
the example of the Mexicans, who were
known in the 18th century to smear the
milk of tree upon their cloaks to
render them waterproof Mackintoshes,
as they are still called abroad, began
to be made at the close of the last CEN
fury, but after the fabric was coated
with aturpentine solution of caoutchouc
1t was necessary to cover it with some
tloculent fibre ito overcome the stcki-
ness of the Vended product. Indeed, it
was this thickness that hindered goods
manufactured of rubber from general
use until, 10 years ago, Goodyear show
ed how this adhesiveness could be OBJ
waited by the use of nitric acid.
One of the earliest notices of rubber
as a useful commercial article was by
DIR. Joseph Priestly, when he was at
Leeds. a quarter of a century before he
immigrated to Pennsylvania. lie found
it for sale in half-inch cubes ami rec
commended 1T as a good eraser of pencil
marks and it is from this early use
of the gum that it obtained the name
it still bears. What Pries.Iy knew was
the crude substance us it comes from
Para, but that undersoes many modi-
fications in the modern processes of
manufactures
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-23
Bedroom Exercise Used for Insomnia.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The immediate cause of insomnia is alb
normal activity of the brain, which
draws an undue amount Of blood to that
organ. Cold feet usually accompany q
heated brain. To re-establish normal con-
ditions the tension must be removed and
the blood drawn from the brain to, the eX-
tremities, thus equalizing circulation,
Relaxing eNerices alone are Oftentimes
sufficient to Danish insomnia if it has not
become habitual -
Just before retiring take the following
exercises several times in quick success
sion: Standing normally. inha.e slowly
Vigorously stretchi the arms out horizon
tally from the shoulders. energizing them
to the finger tips; at the same time rise
on the balls of the feet. After remaining
motionless for feWimoments slowly re-
lax the arms, return to the normal poise
and eXhale. 3 N
Stretch the arms in front of the body
and repeat the exercise; also stretch them
directly upward and repeat. -
Unite the three movements of the arms.
raising them horizontally. forward and
upward, rising on the balls of the feet
inhaling and exhaling as before
Next stand with the weight on one foot.
Extend the other long step diagonally
forward, touching the toe TO the ground.
Partially transfer the weight to the for
ward foot, at the same time bend the
knee as much as possible and raise the
heel high from the ground keeping the
whole of the back foot on the fround until
this position of the bent knee and the
raised heel of the forward leg is firmly
taken.
Then gradually pull all but the toe of
the back foot from the ground, while
pressing down forcibly. as If overcoming
a strong resistance. with the forward leg.
The forward knee straightens. the whole
foot comes to the ground and the weight
is transferred to the forward leg during
the movement. Slowly transfer the weight
to the back leg. forCibly pushing that foot
to the ground as the heel of the forward
foot rises.
If sufficient force is exerteh in pressing
the feet to the ground, after five minutes
practice they will glow and Jingle. That
the extremities be warm is a necessary
condition of slumber.
Lying in an easy position. first hold
some thought of release from care.
Then slowly raise the arms high as
possible, the hands relaxed. More slowly
| still lower the arms. letting the fingers
| touch the covering first, then the hand,
| the forearm and last the nerve force is
released from the shoulder. and The whole
| arm is at rest. Accompany the exercise
with deep, low respration
Repeat several times, more slowly each
| time.
| MANY people are troubled with wakeful-
ness in the night after a short sleep. 1t re-
| uuires determination to rise and take eX-
| ercise. although that is the only way in
| which some persons can obtain relief.
| Frequently the exercise will reinduce
| sleep or gently rolling the head from side
! to side, at the same time taking long. reg
| ular breaths, may prove effectual, oil
| opening the mouth wide with each deer
| inhalation and repeating the syllable 'Om
will often result in drowsiness