Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-09-07
ELIOTS WORK WITH INDIANS
Ne" EngIander's Efforts Succeeds
for Time, but Conversion
Was Not Permanent.

John Eliot was Clergyman whe
was Identified with the early history
OF Boston. He was born in 1904 and
eied In 1880. His birthplace was
Nazing, Essex. England He was edv.
Gated at. Jesus college. Cambridge,
and took orders in the Church ot
England
. IS 4 pioneer in TIE work Of IL.
cAufs" IN A..erica. Eliot came to be
Known as The Apostle to the LII
d!ans. lie was a non-conrormist In
the church, and refused to believe
that the only good Indian is dead
one.
i will christianize the red brother
anu teach him the laws of civiliza.
ton, said the sturdy Clergyman, and
he ttvrcupOn set out to accomplish his
purpose at Momentum. nov Brighton.
about five miles west Of Boston. II
may b. said safely that there are no
Indians there worth mentioning al
this time
klot made translations of the Bible
INTO n" Indian language. and his In.
dian Grammar Begun" YVES printed
IN Cambridge in 1866. The only COLI.
N'I;' copy OF his famous "Indian
Primer" which appeared the following
year, is now in the library of tbs
University Of Edinburgh.
The pioneer Clergyman made boIEa
reg ess toward the conversion Of the
tribes in Massachusetts after he End
become proficient in their languageD.
20 0IG1niZcd his converts into what
came TO be called communities Ct
PFA!!ng Indians" the best known one
Oh these settlements being at Natick
hlng Philips war. il. 1875. however,
gave his work setback from which
Il never recovered. His Praying In
a.hns returned to thu pastime of Ia.
mig colonial scalps with remarkably
i2r'lty. M war raiIH and the doc
t"'lh necklace once mare became the
regulation costume among the tribes
OF Massachusetts,.
Chocolate as a StimuIant,
Chocolate. according TO BalZac. is
even more dangerous as n stimulont
than Tea or coffee. The decline of
Spain from the proud JUsition II oncn
held he ascribcs to the Introduction
OF chocolate. and It's speedy adop,io,, Nv
all classes as an hnbitual drink. us
deadlfness is further proved by Al, OK.
pertinent recorded in the "Traits dos
ENcitants ModCrncs." and apparent1v
nowhere else. The British Govern.
ment. Balzac tells us. reprieved three
criminals condemned to death, with n
view tC seeing how long a man could
live nouHished exclusively on tea. cot.
fee or chocolate The chocolate
drinkcr 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.
d!a company, with Il view to pushing
the sale of tea. and they had every
reason to be satisfied with the resuIt
education ard the Child.
We talk much of education h,,,
MAKE htlic real progress Why ia
inns! Ii is because we are tal,in,
"Hi cue Tor education from without In,
: cad OF from within. Scheme foIIows
h'heine. Subject follows subject but
the development OF any natural bant
Ill" ch'id may possess is almost nm
hLHOssib!lity. Conferences with rho
'cachefs with view to taking their
or.htIES upon how best 10 introduoo
system more truly educational and
f'|'"" th1m power to classify their
scholars into sections with the an.
pF"'di OF pan ents or guardians shouId
20 iong way toward a..ainigg = mora
"'SiFAh.e' state o. afoirs This SO.
Gu'ht uEon or concurrent with mora
attention of the right kind to the
'"id in the home, wherein much as.
S.Stahce can be obtained from the
wonderful books for children written
BY the few who understand them we'll
h'Y bring hope where at present
r'.S"S something MOI unlike desUair-
London. T. P.'s Weekly.