Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-09-09

was identified with the early history
OF Boston. He was born In 1904 and
died in 1890. His birthplace IVES
Nazing, Essex, England. He was edu
Gated at Jesus college, Cambridge,
and took orders in the Church -
England. -
church In America, Eliot came to b
known as THE Apostle to the In
dams. He was a non-conformist In
the church. and refused to believe
that the only good Indian 10 dead
one.
i will christianize the red brother
and teach him the laws Of civilixa.
don, said the sturdy clergyman. and
ne thereupon set out to accomplish his
purpose at Nonantum, now Brighton.
about five miles west of Boston. 1t
may be said safely. that there are no
Indians there worth mentioning at
this time.
Eliot made foundations OF the Bible
into the Indian language, and his In
dian Grammar Begun" was printed
In Cambridge in 1865. The only com
! plete copy of his famous Indian
Primer" which appeared the following
| year. Is now In the library Of tIse
University OF Edinburgh. .. 49,. :.
The pioneer clergyman made sonAe
! progress toward the conversion Of uae
| tribes In Massachusetts after he had
become proficient in their lanKuakeu
he organized his converts into what
, came to be called, communities OF
! praying Indians, the best known one
! OF these settlements being at Natick
King Philips war, in.. 1875. however.
gave his work a setback from which
IL never recovered. His Praying In.
dians' returned to the pastime of Ia.
King colonial scalps With remarkably
FACILITY, md war paint and the dog
tooth necklace once more became the
| regulation costume among the tribes
OF Massachusetts.
Chocolate az a stlnuIant.
Chocolate. according to Balzac. is
even. more dangerous, as a stimulant
than tea or coffee. The decline Of
Spain from the proud position It once
held he ascribes. to the introduction
OF chocolate. and it's speedy adoption hy
all classes as an habitual drink. TIA
deadliness is further proved by ali ex-
pertinent recorded in the ''Trait.. des
Excitants Modernes." and apparently
nowhere else. The British govern.
ment, Balzac tells us, reprieved three
criminals condemned to death, with a
view to seeing how long a man could
live nourished exclusively on tea. cot
fee or chocolate. The chocolate
drinker died after eight months and
the coffee drinker at the end of two
years; while the man condemned to
subsist on tea survived three years.
The experiment was promoted, the
author adds. by the British East In.
dia company, with a view to pushing
the sale Of tea, and they had every
reason to be satisfied with the result,
| Education and the Child.
We talk much of education. but
make little real progress Wbv ia
this? 1t is because we are taking
our cue for education from without in.
stead OF from within. Scheme follows
scheme, subject follows subject hut
the development of any natural bent
the child may possess ia almost an
lmpossibiiity. Conferences with the
teachers with a view to taking their
opinions upon how best to introduce
a system more truly educational and
giving them power to classify their
scholars into sections with the an.
proval OF parents or guardians should
go long way toward attaining a more
desirable state of affairs. This se.
quent upon or concurrent with more
attention of the right kind to the
child In the home, wherein much as.
sistance can be obtained from the
wonderful books for children written
py the Re" who understand them we'll.
may bring hope where att present
relgns something not unlike despair