Carlisle, Pa., June 8th, 1897.

Supt. J.B. Brown,
Indian School,
White, Kans.

My dear Sir:

I am very greatly obliged to you for your telegram, and also for your letter of the 4th. I read your former letter as part of my testimony before the Committee on Saturday last, and when I get a copy of the testimony sheets, which I may have in a few days, I will send you.

I realize fully, from a long experience, the difficulties under which the superintendents of agency schools labor in the divided authority between themselves and the agents. I may say, in fact, that I realized it in the very beginning, and it had some little influence on me in establishing myself as far away from that influence as possible. Had I my way in the matter, I would not have a single school on an Indian reservation. I would have Indian children educated as far away from the reservation as possible, and as soon as practicable have them placed in the public schools of the country.

The contention in these matters will never end under the present administration, nor will the courage and ability of competition of civilized life be trained into young Indians. Dr. Hailman thinks differently and uses the most questionably means to drive me to the wall, and to compel me to shut up. I have some expectation

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that the Committee will extend its inquiries and will want to have
the testimony of superintendents. I have urged this, and urged also
that it was the right and fair thing that they should hear the test-
imony of worthy and long experienced superintendents who have been
driven out of service within the last four years.

I have not the slightest doubt of your being entirely right
in your own case. The old system is just as good as the new system
if administered by honest men, and the new system is just as bad
as the old system when administered by dishonest men. I think,
in fact, that it is a little worse because it concentrates power,
and enables one man to control vastly more. Formerly, there was
the right of appeal. Now, it ends practically with the Superin-
tendent of Schools. I shall not lose sight of you, nor your
case.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 9th, 1897.

Hon. H.L. Dawes,

Pittsfield, Mass.

Dear Senator Dawes:

Following your suggestion I have been twice
before the Civil Service Committee of the Senate. I enclose you
copy of my testimony the first time. I read a couple of letters
from Indian School superintendents in my latter testimony, showing
conditions, and explained that one great objection I had to the sys-
tem was, that although I had been the means of building up the
Carlisle School, and have greatly helped on the whole school sys-
tem, it would be entirely impossible for me to pass an examination
for any position in the school service, and it would have been at
any time in my life.

I have sent them the names of employes sent to this school
since Civil Service has had control, showing that 11 Democrats, 2
Republicans, 2 Prohibitionists, and 2 whose politics were unknown,
were appointed. The conditions are getting more and more strin-
gent, and unless the Secretary soon gives us an Asst. Commissioner
in place of Smith, and a superintendent of schools in the schools
of Hailman, I do not see how it is possible to hold out.

Hailman has been indorsed by the Mohawk Conference, the Indian
Rights Association, the Department of Superintendence, the American
Citizenship Committee, and has called upon the Indian school-
ally to memorialize the secretary in his behalf.

Hon. H.L. Dawes.

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figures, but really makes no satisfactory answer. He practically
gives me the falsehood, though he was unable to show wherein. It
would be impossible for me to serve under him. However, this
would not be a very bad thing for me personally.

You, who have worked through so many such difficulties, can
understand far better than many how it is, and your great inter-
est and most valuable friendship through all the years will excuse
my writing you this.

(Dictated)
To

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Edward L. Chalcraft,

Mt. Vernon, Washington.

My dear Chalcraft:

The end is not yet. Smith is still Asst. Commissioner, and Hailman is still Supt. of Schools, and there is a rumor that Hailman is to remain and serve out his commission, which does not expire until the first of January next. I am assured by one of the most prominent Senators that Hailman and Smith will go, but there is not a power that can be brought to bear that Hailman has not used to stay. The Department of Superintendents have endorsed him. The educators of the country have generally been appealed to to endorse him. The Indian Rights Association, the National Women's Indian Association, the Boston Citizenship Committee have all endorsed him, and he has sent appeals to all the Indian Schools, Carlisle included, to have them memorialize the Secretary of the Interior in his behalf.

The Civil Service Commission is on theacket, and I have tested. Mr. Belt is waiting. Senator Pettigrew, who left the St. Louis Convention with the Silverites, is chairman of the Indian Committee of the Senate, and he objects to Belt's appointment. The facts are that Belt hindered some of his schemes. That is the case in the cocomnut. I never felt the mobility of patience more than now. I have stood alone in the testimony against the cocomnut schemes of Civil Service in the Indian School Service, and I will

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the curses, not loud, but deep, in consequence. However, it has
been my lot all the years to fight the battles for what I believe
to be righteousness, and I am too old to stop now. If there had
been a particle of daylight in sight, I would have written you be-
fore.

I have urged the Civil Service Committee to summon some of the
oldest and most successful superintendents of Indian Schools under
the former administration, who passed out under Hailman, and if
they accept of it and stick on me for names, as they did for the
names of some superintendents now in the Service, I intend to have
you summoned.

(Diated)
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Carlsisle, Pa., June 10th 1897.

Dear Cousin Lottie:-

Through an absence from home on the first, I am late in
forwarding check for $35.00, which I now enclose, for Mother's
keep for the month of June 1897. I have had an extremely busy
spring, and have had to make several business trips to Washington
and other points.

We are having unusually cool weather for this time of the
year, and have had to have fires almost continuously until now. The
crops, however, look very good, and the foliage is heavy and rich
in coloring, so that the country never seemed more beautiful.

I trust all goes well with you. I am always glad to have your
letters telling me of Mother's condition.

We all join in love to you and the family.

Your cousin,

N.

Mrs. Lottie Herrick Laver,
Delta, Ohio.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 10th, 1897.

Chas. E. Dagenett,
Chilocco Indian School,
Arkansas City, Kansas.

Dear Charles:

I am pleased to be remembered with an invitation to your Commencement exercises of the Business Training School, and congratulate you on your graduation.

I am always glad when any of the boys and girls have ambition to go on with their studies, and feel proud always of their success. I shall be glad to hear of your plans for next year. Your invitation came while I was away from home, so that I am a little late in acknowledging.

Your friend,

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Mrs. Nellie Chandler,

Ft. Sill, O.T.

Dear Nellie:

It was very pleasant to have you break the long silence you have kept and write me so newsy a letter. The conditions on the reservations you picture, while not new, are very passive, and I am especially grieved that my old friends in the Territory are falling into harmful ways.

The only hope of real help for the Indians is getting them away from the reservations.

Most of the pupils are out on farms for the summer, and our number here is small. The work goes on, however, as usual. We have more than 800 pupils during the school year.

Remember me to all the Carlisle boys and girls you may see, and believe me always,

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Mr. Benj. Marshall,
Clarksville, Ind. Ty.

Dear Benjamin:

I was delighted to receive the picture of your beau-
tiful baby and to have your letter of May 16th, which I should
have answered sooner but for a special press of work that has been
upon me, and the various business trips I have had to take.

The picture of your baby tells the story of your happy home,
and I am proud to have it to show one of Carlisle's grandchildren.
I should like to see you after all these years, and wish I might
visit the Territory. However, that does not seem probable for
this summer, and if you come East, I trust you will come and see
us at Carlisle. You will find many changes here, as the book
which I send you in this mail will show. It pictures Carlisle
about as it is today, though since the book was issued, two
years ago, there have been additions and changes to some of the
buildings.

With best wishes for you and your family,

Faithfully your friend,

(Disted N) Mc

Carlisle, Pa., June 11th 1997.

To

The Editor of "The Midland Monthly,"

Des Moines, Iowa.

Dear Sir:-

Representative Lacy from your State, suggested that I
would be interested in the edition of your magazine containing an
article of the Tama County Indians. I will be obliged if you will
send me a copy with this account, with bill, and I will remit.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa. June 17th, 1897.

Miss E.L. Fisher,
Indian School,
Genoa, Neb.

My dear Miss Fisher:

I thank you for your letter of the 15th of
May, which I should have acknowledged before had I not been so ex-
tremely busy when at home, and away from home quite a little since
your letter came.

You may have noticed that I have been called upon to give my
testimony before the Senate Civil Service Investigating Committee.
The letter of Secretary Francis was well circulated throughout the
Indian Service, but the manner of its publication has been but
an emphasis of the manner of its inspiration, and has harmed the
originators more than they reckoned.

I thank you for telling me of Annie's wounded feelings, at
which I do not wonder if she has not heard from us. Mrs. Pratt
wrote Annie a long letter after her marriage.

We have had a delightful spring, but the summer weather is now
upon us with its heat. Our number at the school is small, and
we shall have more pupils in the country this year than ever before.
The school news you get from the Helper, and there is nothing for me
to add to that.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana join me in cordial greetings to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 17th, 1897.

Mrs. Annie Thomas Lillibridge,
Genoa, Neb.

My dear Annie:

It has come to me in an indirect way that you have
not received a letter Mrs. Pratt wrote to you after we received
your wedding cards, and of course you wonder that you did not have
our good wishes on that happy occasion.

I regret extremely that the business and affairs of the school crowd out almost all personal letters, and when I have thought of you it has been with the hope that I would soon have more time to write you and in return receive a letter from you telling me of your self and your family.

We could never forget our Annie, and I do hope that you will
always remember you have our most loving good wishes. How proud
you must be of your little son, and I am too, as he is a sort of a
grandson of mine, since you are one of my Carlisle daughters.

We had a delightful long visit this spring from daughter Marion
with her baby boy, the youngest of four children, and the only boy
in her family. He was a year and a half old when here, and a stur-
dy, bright little fellow. Mason lives very near us now, being at
Steelton, just outside of Harrisburg. He has a charming little
family, three girls and a boy, my namesake, Richard Henry Pratt, Jr.

You would hardly know Richenda should you see her now. She
is 5 feet, 9 inches tall. She has been at home this year attending

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the Preparatory School at Dickinson College, and next year she
will go to Wilson College at Chambersburg, though she will not enter
the College proper.

Mrs. Pratt is much better in health now than she was when you
were at Carlisle. She has just learned to ride the wheel, so
that we all ride now, Mrs. Pratt, Nana, Richenda and myself. Nana
and I took a long western trip last summer, and spent a few days at
Laguna. We wanted very much to go to Acoma, but did not have the
time. We were as far as Alaska, which was a most delightful part
of our trip, but the ground we had to cover in the three months was
too much to make the trip at all restful for me.

We should be glad if you could come and visit us at Carlisle
sometime. You will always find a hearty welcome awaiting you here.

(Dictated N)
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Mr. Laurie Tatum,

Springdale, Iowa.

Dear Friend:

I regret to hear of your disappointment in getting out
your book, but trust the way will open for you to realize all your
expectations in connection with it.

In answer to your questions. First, we send our pupils into
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland in large numbers
under our Outing System, and have sent a few into Massachusetts.
One student, a Commande, Eugene Tahkahpuer, is now a citizen of
Massachusetts, having severed his connection with his tribe and pay-
ing all the taxes of a citizen of that state.

Second, our graduating point is only one grade above the Gram-
mar grade of the public schools, and students who finish the course
here are not prepared to enter the freshman class of college, but
have to go to preparatory schools. Many have done this, and a
number have now entered colleges.

Third, while we have endeavored to follow the course of every
student who has been here at Carlisle, we have not been able to keep
a full record because of the numbers, and the work here at the school
demanding our first attention. However, I think that the statement
made by Mr. Mahon is practically true as to the percentage of good
results. Few are yet citizens, and I do not know of any who have
become bankers.

I enclose a marked paragraph of one of my reports which will

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Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
100 State Street,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor:

It is always encouraging to receive your apprecia-
tive and sympathetic letters, and I should long ago have answered
the one you wrote on the 16th of May, but I have been extremely busy
and away from home quite a little since its arrival.

I believe you understand well the aims and struggles of my
work, though we differ slightly in some of our opinions. I think
there are many people belonging to the Indian Rights Association,
who had the best of intentions in joining the society, but when
the influence of the head is so wrong, I cannot agree that his in-
tentions are of the best. His ability to present in a smooth
way what he desires to accomplish, without considering really what
would be best for the cause, leads the other people and is the wrong
influence of the society as a whole.

Mr. Welsh, who, as you know, is the head and spokesman of the society, never had any practical experience or responsibility among Indians, but he assumes to know much more than those who have had this experience, and to dictate to those who have the real responsibility of the work.

You know that I have patiently submitted
for many years to the harassment of the situation, but now that it
has grown to be a serious injury to the cause for which I labor,

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it would not be right for me to keep silence.

So far as Civil Service goes, you know that Carlisle has stood
for the principles of the best Civil Service of the Government, but
the system that has grown up under the fanatic championing of such
men as Mr. Welsh is entirely impracticable in securing the best
workmen for the business of the Government. As practised, it is
as much a spoils system as the old order, and a right review of
the records will show this.

I am glad to know that you are getting better, and trust the
summer will bring you your old vigor.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18th, 1897.

Dear Senator Nelson:

I have answered your telegram just received as follows: "Report of Board of Inquiry convened by Secretary of Interior, June 7th, 1877, to investigate certain charges against S.A. Galpin. Government Printing Office, 1878. Page 54 is the worst and only direct testimony I find against him. Letter by mail."

Judge Joseph K. McCammon, 1420 F. Street, Washington, then Attorney General for the Interior Department, was President of the Board in charge of this inquiry. I cannot remember to have ever talked with the Judge about Bender's connection with it. The Judge's knowledge of matters in the Indian Office at that time, and throughout his service would be your very best guide.

Personally, I always found Bender fair and helpful while he was Chief of the Finance Division, which position he filled for a limited time after I began here. Early in this administration Bender appealed to me to say a word for him for the position of Assistant Commissioner for which he was a candidate. My preference was and is for Mr. Belt, against whose record I have never heard a blush of a suspicion, and whose character so far as I know to above reproach, and whose knowledge of Indian matters is I believe unsurpassed.

Bender has been the representative of the Secretary of the Interior in the opening of bids in Chicago and New York during the last six or eight weeks, and has been constantly with the new Commissioner. The fact that Senator Pettigrew opposes Belt is a.

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Belt's favor. If he favors Bender, I should be suspicious, yet
what we need for the Indian service is the knowledge of affairs
which both Bender and Belt possess in a large degree.

The testimony on page 495 and 497 of the document referred to
is the testimony of the person I told you of, who was sent to me
at Carlisle by Bender. If Bender's name has gone in, it is an in-
dication of the intention to relieve us of the present incumbent
which I would dislike to see thwarted under any circumstances, though
I believe, by every principle of right, Belt should have been nomi-
nated and confirmed long ago.

Hon. Knute Nelson,

United States Senate,

Washington, D.C.

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TELEGRAM

J.R. Wood, G.P.A.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Please have two first-class tickets
reading to Carlisle via C and N.W., delivered to D. Wheelock
at West De Pere, Wis. on Monday next, the 21st, and will same
to me.

(Signed) R.H. Pratt.

Sent Via. Junction 10:54 A.M.

June 18th 1897.

Mr. Chas. E. Dagenett,
Chilocco Indian Training School,
Arkansas City, Kansas.

Dear Charles:-

I have to thank you for another Commencement invitation, that of Chilocco. I should be very glad to attend your Commencement exercises, but the distance from Carlisle to Chilocco will prevent my presence.

With all good wishes for you,

Faithfully your friend,

N.

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Mr. Ienj. Coppock,
San Jose, Cal.

My dear Coppock:

I find myself so at variance with the situa-
tion, that it is entirely useless for me to try to
influence any-
bod; for any place. The people who ran Indian matters in
the last administration are still in power and quite supreme,
both in the educational and general management. Smith is
still Asst. Commissioner and as the new Commissioner knows
absolutely nothing about his duties, Smith runs the machine!
Hallman is, of course, on deck, and so far has succeeded in
influencing the new administration.

If you and 50 or more good superintendents, who were
osted during the last administration, could in some way make
yourself felt, it would help the situation immensely. They
have been alleging that there was no politics in the removals,
but that is a lie, straight. Had you been a Democrat, you
could have done 50 times as much as you did, and you would
still have remained a saint.

So far as the position of Asst. Commissioner is concern-
ed or the positions of inspectors, I very much fear you will

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18th, '97.

Mr. Chas. Aubrey,
Browning, Mont.

My dear Mr. Aubrey:

My Civil Service tilt with the Indian Office has put me on a footing where I am unwilling to make any suggestions for the present. I am living in hopes that the present incumbents will retire, when I shall feel more at liberty to say a word for school interests here and there.

The fact that your daughters have been so long away from Carlisle places me also at a disadvantage. The recommendations of the superintendents of the schools where they have been serving would be more effective.

In regard to the Carlisle graduate who murdered the cow boy at Lane Dear. He was not a graduate of Carlisle at all; had never been at school away from the reservation; had attended the Catholic School two years, but the school was not to-blame for what he did, he was a bad fellow generally. He had been disgracefully turned out of the Army for his badness. The newspapers liars on the frontier are just a little ahead of the Eastern fellows.

A full letter from Capt. Stone, who has charge of the

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Northern Cheyennes, explains the whole matter to me, and
shows that the newspaper accounts are entirely at variance
with the truth. There was no need of any disturbance of set-
tlers whatever, nor was there any need for the agitations
of the sheriff. If the sheriff had remained on his own
balliwick and made the proper demands upon Capt. Stowe, who
had charge of his particular balliwick, everything would
have been attended to without expense or material agitation,
but the feverish behavior of the sheriff stirred up the In-
dians and called out the militia, and really threatened to
upset matters generally. Whatever bad things Carlisle stu-
dents or graduates may do, Carlisle is guiltless so far as
that affair is concerned.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18th, 1867.

Dennison Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Dennison:

Your letter of the 18th only reaches me this morning. I have telegraphed Mr. Wood to have two first-class tickets delivered to you via North Western as you request.

The other matters we can discuss fully when you return.

(Dictated)
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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., June 18th 1897.

Dennison Wheelock,
C. &. N. W. Depot,
West DePere, Wis.

Your letter received this morning. Tickets were ordered imme-
diately.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via W. U. 3 P. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., June 17th 1897.

Col. J. C. Fuller,
Pine Grove Furnace, Pa.

Thank you sir. I will be glad to join the party tomorrow

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Sent via G. & H. 4.05 P. M.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Hon. Knute Nelson,

U. S. Senate,

Washington, D. C.

Report of Board of Inquiry convened by Secretary of Interior
June 7th 1877 to investigate certain charges against S. A. Galperin
Government Printing Office 1878. Page 54 is the worst and only direct
testimony I find against him. Letter by mail.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Sent via W. U. 2.40 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 21st, 1897.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,
Supt. Indian School,
San Carlos, Arz.

My dear Miss Hunt:

I am sorry to say that things have not changed in Washington yet sufficiently to give any assurance of what the outlook will be. Smith is Asst. Commissioner still, though the papers state that an Asst. Commissioner will be appointed within a few days. The new Commissioner knows absolutely nothing of the duties and is entirely dependent upon the force that have controlled the Office for the last four years. When the new man gets in I could advise you better.

There is a general feeling that Hailman will at least be allowed to serve out his Commission, which does not expire until the first of January next. Now, you have the situation. I cannot, of course, advocate anybody's promotion or appointment to him. I have no communication with him except what is absolutely necessary to carry forward the business. He has manipulated the situation very successfully, and has the Indian Office well under this thumb. You are getting a good salary, and I fear a change would not do as well for you. It has been the rule that people can only be promoted in their own lines, and you could not get a clerkship except by the direct appointment by Civil Service, that is to say you would have to take a Civil Service examination just as though you were outside of

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the Service. The supervisorship is all right if you can get it, or
a transfer to another school.

I would suggest a frank letter to Hailman telling him that you
have served his interests in the best manner you could in that in-
tensely hot and most disagreeable location, and if he could transfer
you to some other more desirable place and let someone else try it
a while, you would not object. You might advise him that you would
not decline a supervisorship, but I think supervisors are not left
to his selection. Anderson of Washington was made a supervisor
recently by a suspension of the Civil Service rules. He was appoint
ed from a Commission under which he served, an absolutely political
appointment as ever was made.

In regard to what you suggest here. Things will go on for
another year as they are. There is great efficiency because of long
tenure and knowledge of every detail from the beginning. I do not
know of anyone I should deem more competent than you if there be a
vacancy and I be allowed to name the party.

(Dictated)
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Carlisle, Pa., June 19th, 1897.

Capt. Geo. W. Stouch,
Lame Deer, Montana.

My dear Captain!

I thank you for yours of the 10th. It is all as I felt sure it was. The same great dailies that published the Lame Deer murder gave plenty of murders by Anglo-Saxons on Anglo-Saxons in our great civilized centers without any material comment. Anything sensational goes. Years ago I was asked to act as a news gatherer at this point for one of our largest daily papers, and in telling me what was wanted, it was suggested that ordinary events might be as brief as possible, but a murder or cyclone, or something unusual could be elaborated indefinitely. What a farce the whole business of gathering news is. You have come out of it in good shape, however, and the country has a limited idea of the falsification. Papers never like to contradict newsgatherers, and the falsehoods have not been pinned as tight as they should have been.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Stouch in which Mrs. Pratt and all at Carlisle join me, and with the assurance that your boys are doing well, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., June 23, 1897.

Mr Geo. C. Horton,
18 Clinton Place,
Utica, N. Y.

My dear Sir:

Gen. C.O. Howard requests that I send you some printed matter showing the results of this school in the welfare of pupils after leaving here. The papers I send will give you instances of some who have done well and some who have not done well after leaving school. Of course, those who do not do well are a mark for those who are not in favor of Indian education, and are made prominent by such people.

However, in honor to those who do well and in justice to those who do not succeed, it is but right to consider the surroundings of the pupils on the reservations. Although Carlisle has stood out against the general policy of the Government to return all pupils to their homes, and is constantly urging upon its pupils to stay away from the reservation life and go out into the best influences of our country, the homes and the subtle influences used to draw them back, have generally prevailed.

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If some succumb to the evils of the reservation life,
it is nothing more than many white men and women have done,
who should have been stronger to resist, not only because
their whole life influences have been better, but because
they sink to the condition of an alien people.

One of the influences to draw young Indians back to
their homes is the present policy of the Government to give
them Government positions with salaries much larger than they
are really able to earn, so that they get back into the In-
dian surroundings and are injured by the undue salary.

Notwithstanding all of these drawbacks, the percentage
of Carlisle pupils who do well, I am willing to say, is as
large as that of the successful students of our public
schools. Out of 158 graduates from Carlisle, only two have
not done well. The Indians need not only a chance education-
ally, but a chance to become a part of our body politic. So
long as we keep the Indians off on reservations, and treat
them as a race different from ourselves, we should blame our-
selves rather than them for failure.

I should be glad to have you, and see our methods at Car-
lisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 24th 1897.

W. N. Shepler, Agt.,
221 West Louther St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

Enclosed you will find check for $15.00 covering renewal
for my accident policy in The Travelers Insurance Company for the
following year.

Thanking you for calling my attention to the matter, I am,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A., Supt.

N.

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Victor F. Lawson, President Associated Press,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Sir:-

I am informed that the enclosed dispatches were sent out
by the Associated Press from the points named, and as much of the
statement is untrue, that referring to Carlisle entirely untrue,
seems to me that something should be done to break up the reckless
falsifying of the news gatherers along the frontier, and I would
thank you for the names of the parties in order that I may if prac-
ticable take steps against the writers. A few years ago the
dispatches stated that the Apache Kid, the marauder in southern
Arizona and Old Mexico, was a graduate of Carlisle, when he never
saw the inside of a school, and it seems utterly impossible to get
any sort of a correction of that lie. The only schooling Stanley
or Whirlwind, the Cheyenne murderer, had was two years at the
Catholic Mission on the reservation. If possible to reach the
writer of the dispatch and make some sort of example of him, I
desire to do so in the interests of the general public as well as
Indian education. Please give me your aid in the matter, and oblige,

Yours truly,

(Dictated)
N°

Carlsle, Pa., June 24, 1887.

Mr. James Stuart,

Kamiah, Idaho.

My dear James:

I am exceedingly distressed by what you wrote
me, and will certainly do everything I can to help you. Not-
ing has come to me yet from Harriet, and she cannot certainly
be intending to come here without consulting me.

I know Harriet's disposition well, her strong charac-
ter, and her good and other qualities, and I realize that at
times your situation must be most unfortunate. Advise me
how I can help you at any time. It does not seem best for
me to write to Harriet until she opens the way for that. If
you think I had better do it before, let me know and I will.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 24, 1897.

Dear Senator:

Thanks for the Crandell and Hailman letters. Now you have it. Hailman is deep. It is possible he may not have known all cases the politics of those he put out and those he put in, were but there, those who furnished him with information and reasons that did, and who made it their business to know.

The trouble is that the superintendents generally do not know him. By personal correspondence, at the same time he was cutting their throats, he has made a good many believe he was really their friend. His method of personal correspondence with the underlings at the schools in itself condemns him as unfit for his place. His seeking endorsement for his own retention in office, from those he has put in place, is sufficient to show what he is. He proposes this summer to get endorsements from all the summer schools for Civil Service and for Hailman, and he will probably do it, just as I could get endorsements from the employees I have here and from returned students. But what an ass I would be.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Col. W.G. Marmon,

Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Colonel:

I have written Dr. Hailman in Robert's behalf.

In regard to your own affair, I devoutly hope you may make it,
but there is such a tremendous pressure for the few offices at the
disposal of the Executive, and so many influential senators and
members of Congress to be pacified, that the outlook is not so
hopeful as I could wish. Following a rule that I made when I
first began here, it will not be possible for me to say anything
for you unless I am asked, which is not likely in the case of an
inspector or special agent. I found it wise and best not to at-
tempt to exert any influence in favor of anyone who would be ap-
pointed over me in the Indian Service. As you are a military man
you can very readily see the propriety of my position.

If common sense prevailed, it would be difficult to find a
man more entitled to consideration for the place than yourself,
but, as you know, it has not been common sense that has ruled in
Indian matters. Inspectors and special agents, as well as Indian
agents, have almost universally been selected from those entirely
ignorant of Indian matters, instead of from those experienced in
such matters.

Faithfully yours,
R.H. Hailman

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26th 1897.

Major J. C. Muhlenberg, P. M., U.S.A.,
War Department,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:-

I have the honor to request that I be furnished with
twenty-five (25) blank pay accounts.

Carlisle, Pa., June 25th 1897.

Major G. A. H. McCauley, Q. M., U.S.A.,
1428 Arch Street,
Philadelphia.

Sir:-

I have the honor to forward herewith Forage Requisition
in duplicate for my two private horses for the month of July 1897.

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Robert Tempest,

464 N. 6th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

When your letter of the 11th and the manuscript of your "Indian Cradle Song" came to me, I handed the song to my music teacher to try. She has just returned it to me saying that she mislaid it, and hence my delay in acknowledging it, which I very much regret as you requested any early reply.

The song is very attractive and Miss Gesis will be complimented by the dedication of it to her. When the music is printed I should be glad if you would send me two or three copies.

Yours truly,

No.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26th 1927.

Mr. Guy LeRoy Stevick,
Ernst & Crammer Building,
Denver, Colorado.

Dear Guy!

Young Mr. Riegner, who has been in the Postal Telegraph
Office here for ten years and is now the Manager, is giving up his
place here on account of his health, and will go to mid-continent for
the purpose of trying to build up his strength. He is entitled to
confidence and consideration and his friends will appreciate anything
that you may be able to do for him. Our relations with the Postal
Company and Mr. Riegner have always been most satisfactory.

(Distanced)
N.

Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Mrs. Benj. Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Ida:

Your letter of the 4th of June came when I was away
from home, and I have been so very busy since my return that I
have had to defer answer until now.

I cannot give you the name of anyone to whom you could appeal
for help. Indeed, from the reports I hear of you, I do not
think that you should ask for help at all from anyone. Your hus-
band is strong and able to make a good living for you both if he
keeps sober.

(Dictated N)
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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Mrs. E.G. Platt,

Tabor, Iowa.

My dear Mrs. Platt:

Your note in response to the Commencement invitation went to the printing office for Miss Burgess to use an extract from it for the enclosed number of our paper, and has returned to me. You always express so well just the right sentiments for this Indian work, that I feel it helpful to pass your words on to others.

We are sorry you could not be with us for our Commencement occasion, which was delightful. Can you not plan to be with us next February? I should like to have a little reunion of the old workers and pupils, and if you begin to plan for it now we may have the pleasure of your presence.

You may have noticed that I am having some differences with the Department in regard to the abuses of the so-called Civil Service Reform. The Civil Service as practised is very harmful to the Indian School system, and I have felt it my duty to show up some of the defects. For this I am being annoyed in as many ways as possible by those over me, who have the Civil Service as sort of a pet hobby, and cannot allow any criticisms of it. I

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feel that I am right and in that hope that all things may turn out
well, though it requires patience to meet the constant petty annoyances.

You will see by the Helper that a large number of our students
are out on farms. More and more the Outing System shows its
value, and it could be used in an almost unlimited way if we had
the pupils to supply the demands. How easily this Indian problem
could be solved if only common sense methods were brought to
bear.

With cordial greetings and love from us all, I am

(Dictated N)
Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Johnson Adams,

Haskell Institute,
Bawrence, Kansas.

Dear Johnson:

Your letter acknowledging Commencement invitation,
and telling me what you have done since you left Carlisle, has
remained unanswered because of the press of duties upon me since
its arrival.

I am glad to know that you are keeping your motto "We will
go on" in mind and trying to follow its teaching. I shall al-
ways watch the progress of the graduates of Carlisle with special
interest, and hope you will keep me informed of what you are do-
ing.

I trust we can have something of an Alumni meeting for our
next Commencement, and if you can plan to be with us then we will
welcome you. The class promises to be large and the exercises
as interesting as in the past.

With best wishes for you always, I am

(Dictated N)
Ltd

ADHESIVE STAINS

PERMISSION TO READ AND WRITE IN THIS LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Hugh Sousea,
Normal School,
Sante Fe, N. Mex.

Dear Hugh:

I saw your name among the graduates of Sante Fe this year, and wish to send you my best wishes for the possibilities your further schooling will open to you. What are your ambitions now? I wish that you would follow the teaching of Carlisle and separate yourself from Indian surroundings, whether they be in an Indian School or on an Indian reservation. There will be more of progress for you, if you will do this. You want to measure yourself with the men of the country, and be led on by the progressive spirit of our great Republic.

I am always glad to hear from you, and trust you will keep me informed of your whereabouts. It would be pleasant to have you with us at our Commencement next year, if you can arrange that, for we shall try to have a reunion at that time of our Alumni, although they are scattered so far and wide.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

William N. Leighton,

Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear William:

I have been wanting to write to you since I received your letter at Commencement time, but I have had so much business in connection with the school to look after this spring that I have had to delay answer until now.

I am much obliged to you for the full account of what you have been doing since you left Carlisle, and I do trust that your ambition for more schooling can be realized this fall. I feel, William, that you have within you the qualities that will, if you allow yourself to remain on the reservation, become stunted, but if you go out into the best of our American life you will broaden, and can become a successful American citizen. You need, however, to measure yourself with men who know more than you do, and receive by this the inspiration to amount to more yourself.

I shall follow your career with the greatest interest and trust you will let me know from time to time how you are getting on.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Albert Bishop,

Wittenberg, Wis.

Dear Albert:

It was most gratifying to receive your letter in
response to the Commencement invitation, and to have the good re-
port of yourself. You will see by the Red Man I send you that
I used an extract from your letter for the paper, together with
parts of letters from the other graduates.

I want you always to feel that Carlisle has a most hearty
interest in your welfare, and I hope you will write me from time
to time how you are getting on. I believe if you will keep on
to
with your desire and work up your favorite profession, you will
be able to accomplish your ambition, and the fact that you look
forward to it as the most congenial thing you can do is proof
that it would be the most successful work for you. As you were
not able to be with us last Commencement, can you not plan to be
with us next February. We shall be glad to have a visit from you
whenever you can come to us, but I hope for next year we may
have a number of our Alumni and some of our old workers with
us at Commencement time.

With best wishes for you always, I am
(Dictated N) Mc
 faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26th 1997.

Chester P. Cornelius,
Chayenne School,
Darlington, Oklahoma.

Dear Chester:-

I have been looking for someone to take the place of
Assistant Disciplinarian at $600. I note that that is your salary
now. Your services in this line were so satisfactory when you
were here that I am led to think of you for the place here permanent.
ly. It would give you a chance to redeem your record, straighten
out your affairs that have left your reputation not what it ought
to be and not creditable for the Indians as you understand. What say
you? If you think well of it, write me a letter saying you hear the
place of Assistant Disciplinarian here is vacant and asking for trans-
fer to it, and I will see what can be done. At the same time tele-
graph me on receipt of this yes or no.

Your friend,

(Dictated)
N.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

Isabella Cornelius,

Cromwell, Cont.

Dear Isabella:

Your neatly written letter, which arrived at the time of our Commencement, was laid with the letters from other graduates, and the press of work upon me this spring has prevented me from writing you before as I have wished.

I did not use any part of your letter in our papers as you requested me not, but you will see by the paper that I send you that I did copy a letter from the Indian Bulletin, which you wrote to Mrs. Kinney, and which so exactly realizes the Carlisle doctrine that I felt it would not only encourage other boys and girls to strike out for themselves as you have done, but it would change the ideas of those who do not believe in Indian education. I take great pride in what you, Nancy, and Clara are doing, and wish an earnest God speed to you in your lines of work.

Wherever you may be and whatever you may do, you must always remember that you cannot get beyond the fatherly interest I have for you. I suppose your summer vacation will soon begin, and I trust it will be a happy one. If you find that you can come in this direction we should be glad to have a little visit from you.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

Louis Mishler,
Hayward, Wis.

Dear Louis:

I am glad to know that you and your parents are am-
bitious that you should have more schooling, and that you have the
manhood and pluck to work for it. It will mean all the more to
you to have the advantages as the result of your own efforts. What
are your plans for next year?

It is gratifying to know that you remember Carlisle so kind-
ly, and you may be assured that we shall always be interested in
your welfare. I hope you will keep me informed of what you are
doing. The summer heat is fully upon us, and the schoolroom
work is ended for the year. 527 of the pupils are out on farms,
and probably a few more will go shortly. We have many applica-
tions for pupils for next year, and will have a larger school than
ever.

With best wishes for you.

(Dictated N) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

Clark Gregg,
Poplar, Mont.

Dear Clark:

Since your letter written at the time of our Commencement, I have heard from Chauncey Yellow Robe of your embarkment in the mercantile business, about which you wrote me, and of your happy marriage. I congratulate you most heartily on both. With the energy you have you ought to succeed, and I shall be interested in your welfare.

It is pleasant to know that you remember Carlisle so warmly. My mind often dwells upon the students who have been here, and I have a father's concern for them all. It encourages me to hear from my boys and girls, and I hope, Clark, that you will write to me now and then and tell me about yourself.

Can you not come and be with us at our Commencement next year in February? Although our students are so widely scattered, I hope we can have some of them at that time for an Alumni meeting.

Remember me to your wife, and believe me always

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

Edwin Schamandore,

Carspn City,

Nevada.

Dear Edwin:

Your letter reached me just in the midst of our Commencement, and shortly afterwards was handed with letters from other graduates to Miss Burgess to take extracts for the Red Man. You will see by the paper I send you that I used part of your letter, not giving your name. So often we have inquiries in regard to our graduates, what they are doing, etc., and in this number of the Red Man we have answered these questions by parts of letters received from graduates in response to the Commencement invitation.

The fact that you are able to invest your money in building, and hold shares in a loan association, shows that you have been industrious and saving. That is the way to build up a fortune.

Although our graduates are so widely scattered, we hope to have a number here for our next Commencement in February. Can you not plan to be with us then? I am sure you would enjoy the occasion, and we should be glad to welcome you. Write to me often, Edwin, I am always glad to hear from you.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

Miss Julia Dorris,
Indian School,

Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Julia:

Your letter of April 27th with the enclosed 10 cents
for the Helper was given to Miss Burgess when it arrived and has
but lately been returned to me. You have probably had the paper
regularly, and know how we are from that. I am always glad to
hear from you, and to know how the little settlement of Carlisle
girls in Albuquerque is getting along.

I feel proud of Barbara for her bravery in starting out into
new fields of work. I wish you would tell her that when you write,
and also tell her I would like to hear from her.

Alice Sheffield is the only one of the Pueblos to return home
this summer. The others who are entitled to go, have wisely
decided that they would stay. I hope that Alice will either de-
cide to come East in the fall, or that you will be able to per-
guade her to go to Albuquerque. Do you not think she could find
work there? If you would write to her at her home soon after you
receive this, and tell her how you have been able to work your
way in Albuquerque, you may be able to help her.

Give my love to Annie and Stiya, and tell them I should like

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Carlisle, Pa., June 23, 1897.

Gen: John Eaton,

The Concord,

Washington, D.C.

Dear General Eaton:

I have submitted your work to Miss Burgess,
and enclose you her note. I also send you a copy of Mr. Doug-
luss's "Self-made Men" of which she speaks. There is plenty of
margin, so that there could be some trimming.

I will get the leads if you prefer to have the lines longer,
and we shall probably have use for them in the future. A little
book like this to roll up and put in tubes would be quite the
thing, it seems to me.

Miss Burgess is going on the C.E. excursion to California
to visit her parents who live in San Francisco, expecting to be
gone a month, and during vacation our force of all kinds is greatly reduced, so we probably could not get it to you before sometime
in September. Would that suit?

What a fine tribute that was of Miss Frances E. Willard to
Dr. Jackson. It was a happy thought to call Spinning into ser-
vice for his nomination.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1897.

E. Stanley,

Lawrence, Kan.

My dear Sir:

On further consideration, I believe I would let
Hailmen's case go. I cannot imagine that his endorsement by the
National Educational Association would have any weight, and the
more endorsements he gets, now that he is piling them up so fre-
ly, I think the worse he makes his case. He is proposing, I un-
derstand, to get the endorsements of all his summer schools?
This will not help him. To be retained, he will have to be re-
nominated and confirmed by the Senate. I do not think he will
get renominated, and I do not believe he would be confirmed if he
was renominated, so that it would be just as well to let matters
take their course.

When and where is the N.E.A. meeting this year? I know ab-
solutely nothing more than when I saw you in Washington. I left
there about the same time you did, and have no news.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1897.

James Van Wert,
Indian School,
Wittenberg, Wis:

Dear James:

It is a pleasure to receive a letter so well expressed
as yours, and to have the good report you give of yourself.

The letters that came to me in response to Commencement invita
tions were encouraging, and especially those of the graduates.
I am glad that you hope to visit Carlisle, as you say, in the near
future. Can you not plan to be with us next February at Commence-
ment time? We hope to have a number of our graduates here at
that time.

Our school work has ended for the year and many of the in-
structors and pupils have gone out for their vacations, so that
the numbers here are small. About 530 of the pupils are out on
farms.

We are having many applications for students to come here
next year, and are doing our summer cleaning in preparation for
the full school we expect to have.

I send you a copy of the Red Man, which will show you that
I have printed a part of your letter, without using your name.

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Carliole, Pa., June 28, 1897.

William Denomie.

Reserve, Wis:

Dear William:

I have known of your continued good work at teaching in Wisconsin, but am glad to have your own account in your good letter of March, which has remained thus long unanswered because of the very great press of work upon me this spring.

I want to keep in touch with the graduates of the school especially, and I hope you will always feel the interest I have in you, and will write me from time to time about yourself.

You speak of teaching several years longer. Do you plan to take up any different work after that? I should be glad to know of your ambitions.

I know that our Commencement comes at an unfortunate time for teachers, but if you can plan to be with us next year at that time, we shall give you a most hearty welcome. I hope that a number of our graduates will be here then.

I suppose you keep in touch with the school news from the Helper. We are now beginning our summer repairs for the full school we expect to have next year. Many applications for students are coming from all points.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1897.

Susie McDougall,

Pine Point Indian School,

Pomsford, Minn.

Dear Susie:

Your cheery, bright letter with its good wishes for
our last Commencement was laid aside with other letters, and has
just come to my hand for answer.

It is very pleasant to know that you work on so bravely,
and that you are situated in so congenial a place. I trust
you will be able to follow out your ambitions further and fit your-
self for kindergarten teaching.

We miss Miss Hamilton very much this year. Mary Bailey,
whom you will probably remember, after finishing her course at
the High School in Philadelphia, has been with us this year teach-
ing No. 14.

Lila Cornelius has just graduated from the Drexel Institute .
and Mary Miller is taking lessons in kindergarten in Philadelphia.

I am always very glad to hear from you, Susie, and I hope
you will write me from time to time, and if possible plan to be
with us at our Commencement next February. We hope to have a re-
union of as many of the graduates as can be with us then.
With good wishes for you always,

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1897.

Sicemi J. Nori,

Blavenburg, N.J.

Dear Sicemi:

I have wanted to write to you, but the days have
been so full of business affairs connected with the school that
I have had to wait until for the time.

It was very much gratified to receive your letter some months
ago, and to have the good reports that I have had from time to
time. Failure sometimes is the only thing that will teach us,
and your struggle to redeem your record is perhaps the very bat-
tle you need to make you a man.

I am glad you have such helpful surroundings and such good
friends.

If your present employer is willing to give you a recommendation, and you will send it to me for my information, I am willing to write you out a certificate and will return your employer's to you.

I hope you will remember that many of the pupils who have
been at Carlisle can get beyond my interest, and I am especially
concerned about those who have completed the course here and num-
ber among our graduates. Remembering this, I hope you will never

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S.J. Nori.

hesitate to write me, and I shall always be glad to hear from you.

I hope next fall at our commencement we may have a reunion
of our Alumni. It may be, because of their wide separation,
that the number here will be small, but I shall be glad to welcome
all who can come. Perhaps you can plan to be with us then.

I like your desire to fully equip yourself for work before un-
dertaking it, and I hope you will be able to realize the propa-
ration for business that you desire to make. You will value the
schooling a great deal more if you gain it through your own ef-
forts.

About 530 of the pupils are now out on farms, so that you see
our numbers here are small. We are busy in the summer cleaning,
and hope to open in the fall with a larger number of pupils than
over. The school news you have from the Helper.

With best wishes for you,

(Dictated by)

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1897.

Miss Nettie Freemont,
Indian School,
Crow Creek, S. Dak.

Dear Nettie:

As you have the Red Man, you will see that I printed
your letter, without using your name, with the letters of other
graduates. So often, as you probably know, we have inquiries
about our returned pupils, and the testimony of the pupils them-
selves will answer these questions better than anything I can say.

How glad we should have been to have had you here for our
Commencement. It was a most enjoyable occasion. We plan to
have even a better time next year, and if you find it practicable
to be with us then, we will give you a hearty welcome. I hope
that a number of our graduates may be able to come at that time.

I trust your school year has been a satisfactory one to you
in every respect. What do you intend to do this vacation, and
next year? I hope you will remember that I have a fatherly in-
terest in all my boys and girls, and will write me often about
yourself.

Lela Cornelius has just graduated from the Drexel Institute.
Sarah Smith will go there next year, while Mary Miller is studying

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kindergarten in Philadelphia. Thomas Marshall took one of the
prizes for scholarship of the freshman class at Dickinson College.

We have closed our school room work for this year, and next
week most of the teachers will leave us for their summer vacations.

We have applications for many pupils for next year, and will
probably have a larger school than ever.

We all send you our loving and good wishes.

(Dictated N)
Mc

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Carlisle, Pq., June 28, 1897.

George C. Warren,
Indian School,
Ft. Totten, N. Dak.

Dear George:

It was very pleasant to receive your good letter in April. I should have written to you before had not the business of the school kept me very much occupied.

You will see that I have printed a part of your letter in the Red Man, without using your name. This is because it would, with other letters given, answer the many inquiries we have in regard to what our graduates are doing.

It has been a very great source of pleasure to me to know that my old pupils were fighting out their battles so bravely in different places. I hope you will always feel George, that we are interested in whatever you may do, and will write me from time to time how you are getting on.

All goes well with us here at Carlisle. We have now over 550 pupils out on farms. The boys have had some good base-ball games and are now looking forward to foot-ball in the fall. They expect to have a special trainer here for several weeks, and to make even a better record than they have before.

With best wishes, I am

Your friend

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Mrs. Chas. Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Julia:

You will see by the paper I send you that I printed
your letter, without using your name, in the Red Man. We have
constant inquiries in regard to what our pupils do after leaving
Carlisle, and I felt that these questions could best be answered
by the testimony of pupils themselves from the letters received
in response to the Commencement invitation.

Dennison, Louise and the baby reached us safely Wednesday evening, and we are glad to have them with us again. They have probably told you everything in regard to Carlisle, and you have the Helper also.

I would be so glad if you and Charles could plan to be with us next Commencement in February. I hope we may have a little alumni meeting, as the occasion promises to be one of unusual interest.

With cordial remembrances to yourself and Charles from us
all, I am,

(Dictated N) Mc

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Carlisle, pa., June 28, 1897.

Isabelle Cora Snyder,

Silver Creek,

New York.

Dear Cora:

While you know I always stand ready to help in what-
ever way I can the boys and girls who have been at Carlisle, I felt
the best help I could give you would be to write you just as I did.

I could not favor your return to Carlisle, because I do
not think it would be the best thing for you, as well as for oth-
ers. I believe, Cora, that you are your own worst enemy, and
that you need to govern yourself before you can realize all the
ambitions that you may have for yourself, or that your friends
may have for you. You must work out your own salvation."

I hope you get the Helper and keep up with the school news.

With good wishes for you, I am

Your friend,

(Dictated N)
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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1897.

Mrs. Frank Twiss,

Porcupine, S. Dak.

Dear Adelia:

I congratulate you and Frank upon your marriage, and
wish for you a happy and successful life together.

I wish you might both come and see us at Carlisle. Can you
not plan to be with us next February at our Commencement? I am
sure you would enjoy the occasion, and we should be delighted to
welcome you. I hope that there may be a number of the alumni
with us at that time.

Carlisle is very beautiful now with her summer dress of green,
and we hope to make some improvements this summer as we have in
the past vacations. The school room work for the year is closed.
About 530 of the pupils are put on farms. The Outing System
grows every year. If we had the pupils we could place three or
four times as many as are already out, for there are many demands
from good homes which we must constantly deny.

Neilis Robertson is teaching here this year, and has done good
work. Mary Bailey also, after graduating at the High School in
Philadelphia, has been with us as teacher this year.

Hoping to hear from you again soon, and with love for you and
Frank, I am

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Mr. and Mrs. Dagenett,

Indian School,
Chilocco, Okl. Ty.

Dear Esther and Charlie:

Your letters of March telling me what
you have done since you left Carlisle were given to Miss Bur-
gress, together with letters from other graduates, and extracts
were printed in the last Red Man, without using your name.

I was glad to have these letters, not only to know my self
what our boys and girls have done, but to be able to use them in
answer to many inquiries we have as to what our pupils do after
leaving Carlisle. I was pleased to know, Charlie, that you
had finished your business course at the College, as you will
see from my letter to you a few days ago.

You speak of wishing you could spend some little time with us
when our school is in session and observe our methods. Why
can you not do this next winter? Although our graduates are
scattered so far and wide, I trust that a number will be able to
come at our Commencement time in February.

With greetings from all your friends at Carlisle, I am

(Dictated N) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Miss Florence Wells,
Indian School,
Chemawa, Org.

Dear Florence:

Your letter written at the time of our Commencement
was put with letters from other graduates, because of the very
great pressure of work this spring. I have been unable to write
you before.

I was sorry to hear of your illness, and trust you may be
quite well again by this time. I presume your school work
is about closing for this year. What do you expect to do this
vacation, and will you be at Chemawa next year?

I am always interested in the welfare of the pupils who go
out from Carlisle. We have had a most beautiful spring this
year. The vegetation has been particularly luxuriant, and the
weather charming. We have enjoyed the latter especially, because
of the many bicyclists at the school.

Most of the pupils, of course, are now out on farms for the
summer, and we are doing our renovating for next year's work. I
hope to make some improvements.

Quite a large delegation of the boys have gone to Northfield

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for the convention there, and later probably some of the girls
will go.

Miss Cummins, Miss Hulme and David McFarland have gone to
California on the C.E. excursion. They will see the beautiful
sights between here and the Pacific coast, and probably go to the
Yellowstone Park.

With cordial remembrances from all a t Carlisle,

Your friend,

(Dictated N)
Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Miss Ida Mae Warren,
Beaulieu, Minn.

Dear Ida:

I have been wondering how your plans to go to Wanamaker's were progressing. I do approve, certainly, of people doing those things which they feel they can do best, and if you feel that you can make a first-class midiner, I think that is the thing for you to do.

I wish you could plan to be with us at our Commencement next year in February. I hope we may have a number of our graduates here then.

I send you a copy of the Red Man which will give you parts of letters from other graduates, showing you what the various ones have done. The names are not given with the letters.

I suppose your school work for this year is about closing, and I trust you will have a pleasant vacation. We have already closed our school for the year, and the school affairs are in the usual summer condition. We are cleaning and painting, and preparing for next year's work.

Hoping to hear from you now and then, I am,

Your friend,

(Dated N) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Luzena Choteau,

Bryant and Stratton's College,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Luzena:

Your letter, written at the time of our Commencement, was given with other letters from graduates to Miss Burgess, and only now comes back to me.

I send you a paper which will show you that I printed parts of your letter, without using your name. We have constant inquiries as to what becomes of our boys and girls who leave Carlisle, especially graduates, and I felt that the accounts from the various graduates, themselves, would answer these questions better than any words of mine, and so I was glad to have your testimony.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1897.

Lillian M. Cornelius,

Seymour, Vis.

Dear Lillian:

I am very sorry to know that you have been ill, and I do hope with you that you will regain your strength and be able to follow out your ambitions.

I, of course, have followed you some, but I am glad to have your own account of what you have done since you left Carlisle.

I hope you will come and visit us sometime. Can you not plan to be with us next Commencement in February? I trust we shall have a number of the graduates with us then.

Where is Alice now? I should be glad to hear from her, and I hope you, too, will write me and tell me about yourself.

Dennison, Louise and the baby have just returned to us after a visit home.

All your friends at Carlisle join me in cordial remembrances to you and Alice.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Mrs. Cecilia Londresh Hermann,
Winnebago Agency, Neb.

Dear Cecilia:

Your letters, written several months ago, were laid aside and have just come to my attention again.

I printed parts of them in the papers without using your name, because they gave so well the conditions returned pupils find on the reservations.

Have you made your visit to Annie Thomas Lillibridge, and has she been to see you? What happy times you two young mothers can have together. I hope you both will be able to come and see us some time soon. Why can you not plan to come for our next Commencement in February? I hope that a number of the old pupils will be with us then, as well as some of the early in-structors.

We are now in our summer condition. Over 530 pupils are out on farms. Our school room work has closed for the year, and by the end of next week most of the teachers will left us, and probably more of the students.

We are beginning our cleaning for next Year's work, and will also make some improvements.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Martin D. Archiquette,
Government Indian School,
Koshena, Wis.

Dear Martin:

I am always glad to hear from all the Carlisle
pupils, and your letter of March in response to the Commencement
invitation, should have been answered before, but I have been
extremely busy this spring, and have had to delay until now to
write you.

I have known, of course, what you have been doing, but it
is always pleasant to have your own report of yourself. Will
you continue to teach at the Boarding School next year?

I wish that you and Belinda could come and visit us sometime.
Could you not arrange to be here for our Commencement next February?
I am hoping that a number of the graduates will be able to come
to us for that occasion, and it will be pleasant to number you
both among those whom we will welcome.

The Cumberland Valley has had a most beautiful spring and
summer. The grain is most luxriant in growth and being harvested
in places now.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1897.

Robert J. Jackson,
Indian School,
Lower Brule, S. Dak.

Dear Robert:

Your letter was a source of much pleasure to me, and I thank you for it. I have been very busy since it came to me or I should have written to you before.

It is encouraging to know that the pupils appreciate what Carlisle has tried to do for them, and I hope all my boys and girls will remember that I always follow them with great interest.

I approve most heartily of your plan to work and earn your way through college. It is just the thing for you to do, and college will mean much more to you if you have it through your own efforts. There is plenty of time, and the experience you now have will help you in your studies later on.

Can you not plan to be with us for our next Commencement in February? I hope there will be a number of the graduates with us then. Will you continue teaching at Lower Brule next year?

Quite a delegation of the boys left us this week for Northfield, and Prof. Bakeless went with them. These Northfield delegates always bring back so much inspiration to us that I

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I feel glad to have them go, and we have made a special effort to
have a large party this year. Alexander Upshaw went as a delegate from the Bloomsburg Normal School.

David McFarland, Miss Commins and Miss Hulme started west
with the C.E. excursion. They will go to the Pacific coast
and visit the interesting places along the way, and probably go
to the Yellowstone Park. David went as a delegate from the
C.E. society of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle.

The Helper, I suppose, reaches you regularly and gives you
the general school news.

Thanking you, Robert, for your good wishes for me, and with
cordial remembrances from all your friends at Carlisle, I am,

Faithfully your friend,

(Disted N)
Mo.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1897.

Dear Senator Nelson:

Chalcraft, the writer of the enclosed, was superintendent of the Puyallup, Washington, School for many years. He was forced to accept the superintendency of the school at Salem, and immediately war was made upon him by Rakestraw, one of the school supervisors, who had his own wife appointed as matron at that school, and he was put out.

I read all the papers against Chalcraft, and to me there was nothing not only to condemn him, but rather much to commend. He was esteemed one of the best superintendents in the Service, and the fact that he began his service under President Arthur and continued until 1895, indicates his worth. I knew him as a superintendent well, and esteemed him highly. There is no question in my mind about politics having been the sole cause of his removal.

It was notorious that Rakestraw, now as then supervisor, was looking for Republicans right along. Mr. Walker, whose testimony appears, was a most excellent man. I knew him personally, and entirely sympathize with the statement that politics put him out.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1897.

Mr. R.V. Belt,

1314 Tenth St., N.W.
Washington, D.C.

My dear friend:

I sent your book back by mail some time ago.

What is the status of things? I have heard absolutely nothing since I saw you. If the Senate Civil Service Committee would sit during vacation, and take testimony of some of the old superintendents who have been ousted, Chalcraft and others, they would get information worth while.

(Dictated)
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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1897.

Edw. L. Chalcraft,

Mt. Vernon, Washington.

My dear Chalcraft:

I have yours of the 22nd of June. Bender has not been appointed, and I have an intuition that he will not be. He is one of the old Indian Department men, and wonderfully well posted in the laws, treaties and departmental duties, but not any better, however, than Mr. Belt.

There is no end of suspicion against the Indian Office management, and both the administrative and legislative officials too often suspect those who have ever held positions in the Indian Service.

I am sorry not to be able to aid you with any suggestion. If you had a strong Republican Senator, who would take up your case, it would have weight. There are no end of wrongs to former Republican employees to be righted. Hailman's supervisors, special agents and inspectors were all working on political lines, and they knew it well enough in Washington. Hailman's letter to you indicates it, and I am sure not one single supervisor or special agent but who went up and down the country looking for Republicans to root out.

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I would suggest that you address a letter to Senator J.C.
Pritchard of North Carolina, who is Chairman of the Committee
investigating Civil Service. Lay it before him plainly what
you can swear to and prove, bath in your own case, and in that of
others. Tell him how long you were in the Service, and refer
him to Bells, Belt, Morgan and me for your standing. What the
Committee want is facts. Act promptly, for Congress is likely to
adjourn.

If you make any application for reinstatement, you ought to
make it to the Secretary of the Interior, and get some member of
Congress to present it in person. The mass of such things to at-
tend to, however, makes the outlook dark. I have not entirely
given up Mr. Belt's appointment, and should he get in I should
hope that righteousness would prevail.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30th 1897.

Dear Cousin Lottie:-

Herein I enclose my check for $35.00 for Mother's keep
for the month of July.

I wonder if your crops are coming on so well in Ohio as ours
are here in Pennsylvania. We have had a splendid farming season so
far, and one in which working has been delightful because of the
cool days. However, our summer heat is full upon us now and we are
feeling it very much.

I trust Mother is getting along nicely. I am glad to have you
all letters about her.

With love from us all,

Your cousin,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1st, 1897.

Levi W. Jonas,

Kanish, Idaho.

My dear Levi;

I am very glad, indeed, to get your good letter of
the 17th of June, and to know how you are getting on. I think
of you a great deal on your own account, on account of your good
sister, whom I esteemed so highly, and on account of your good
patient mother. Then, too, I remember the beautiful mountains,
the clear air of your lovely country, and wish that I might hide
myself away somewhere for a good long rest, for, indeed, I am
tired, very tired.

Our school has gotten down nearly to the lowest ebb. The
home going students begin to leave us today, and by the end of
next week we shall have sent away 75. Over 550 are out for the
summer, getting their lessons of civilized life at first hands.

I am glad to say that all goes well with us so far. Give
my love to your mother, and believe me always,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)
Mc

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Andrew W. Beard,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear Andrew:

Your long letter of March was placed with letters
from other graduates, and because of the very busy spring, I have
been unable to write you before.

I was sorry to hear of your illness. Brigman Cornelius, who
leaves us shortly for his home, has just told me that you went
home last month. I trust you will regain your health soon.
Give yourself plenty of outdoor exercise, for that is usually the
best tonic for all ailments.

I send you a copy of the Red Man, which gives parts of dif-
ferent letters I received from graduates, and I am sure will inter-
est you. I hope you will write me from time to time, and let me
know how you are getting on, for I am always interested in all of
my pupils, and especially the graduates.

Leila Cornelius has just come to us from Philadelphia,
where she graduated at the Drexel Institute a short time ago.

Last week a delegation of 9 boys with Prof. Bakeless went to
Northfield to attend the Y.M.C.A. Convention. They expect to camp
during the 10 days they are there, and took a tent and camping

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equipments with them.

We have had a beautiful spring and the vegetation throughout
the valley is most luxuriant. The grain is turning a rich yellow
suggesting an abundant harvest.

With good wishes from all your friends at Carlisle, I am

Your friend,

(Dictated H)
Mc

Carlisle, Pa. July 1st, 1997.

John M. Wolf,
Chairman Civic Parade,
Waynesborough, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I thank you for the invitation to the Waynesborough
Centennial Anniversary on September 1st and 2nd.

If possible, I shall be there, though I now very much fear
I shall be away from home at that time.

(Dictated)
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New England Publishing Co.,
# 3 Somerset Street,
Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen:

The Primary Teacher, for which I sent you a subscrip-
tion a short time since, I have used in our Teachers' Reference
Library. The same fund that pays for the subscription of that,
also pays for a subscription to the Journal of Education, though
as my principal teacher is away, I am unable to tell you now just
in what name it comes to us, whether in my name, or Prof. O.H.
Baileless, or to the Teachers' Reference Library.

Because the Library has both papers, I took advantage of the
discount offered in your note. I will be glad, therefore, to have
your receipt for the same to file in my accounts.

(Dictated N)
Mc

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Miss Grace E. Matthews,

Newton Centre, Mass.

Dear Miss Matthews:

I am very grateful, indeed, for the generous
donation from the Smith College Missionary Society, which you sent
in your letter of the 28th.

My charitable resources have been somewhat limited this year,
and the necessary demands upon them have been large, so that every
donation is most helpful.

The school is growing in pupils and facilities for teaching,
and the prospect is that we shall have a larger number of pupils next year
than we have ever had before.

I send you a copy of our monthly publication, the "Red Man",
which will show you what some of our graduates are doing.

Thanking the Society for its donation, and the personal in-
terest you have had in it, I am,

(Dietated N)
Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1897.

Ida Jordan,

Mrs. S.T. Wiley,

Colora, Md.

Dear Ida:

About two weeks ago I received a box of carnations with a few roses, but there was no name or legible post-mark to at all suggest the sender.

Your friend,

(Signed W.)

Capt. C.W.H. Stouch,
Acting Indian Agent,
Lame Deer, Mont.

My dear Captain:

If you can give me the name of the author of these dispatches, and return me the dispatches, I will endeavor to worry one lieu into better behavior.

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Carlisle, Pa./July 1st, 1897.

Malcolm Clarke,
Midvale, Mont.

Dear Malcolm:

While your note of March in response to the Commencement invitation was so short, and did not give me the information in regard to yourself that I desired, I was very glad to hear from you, and I thank you for the good wishes for the Commencement.

would

I would be very glad if you Write me and tell me just what you have done since graduating, because I desire to have a record of all the graduates. We, of course, have information in a general way about you, but I would like better to have your own report.

We had a delightful Commencement and would have been glad to have had you here for it. Can you not plan to be with us next February? We shall probably have even a bigger time than ever, and I trust that we can have a number of our graduates here for an alumni meeting.

Where is your aunt, Miss Clarke, now, and how is she? The vacation season is beginning at Carlisle so far as school room work is concerned. We are, of course, keeping up with the general

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work, and making the repairs that are necessary in order to take
up our work in the fall. Over 540 of the pupils have gone out
on farms for the summer, so that our number here is small.

A delegation of 9 of the boys with Prof. Bagelsss left last
week for the Convention at Northfield. They took along camping
equipments and will camp during the time they are there. Alex-
ander Upshaw, who is now attending the Bloomsburg Normal School,
was as a delegate from that school.

Miss Hulme, Miss Cummins, and David McFarland, left us Monday
for the West, going on the C.E. excursion. David went as a dele-
gate from the Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle.

Hoping I shall hear from you soon, and always with best wishes
for you, I am,

(Dictated) N
Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., July 3rd, 1897.

Mr. R.V. Belt,

1314 Tenth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. belt:

Yours of the 22nd gives me encouragement that you will yet be Assistant Commissioner, and for that I shall be devoutly grateful. If things remain as they are, I do not see how it is possible for me to remain in the Service long.

I shall be greatly obliged for any information you may be able to give me from time to time.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7th, 1897.

Dear Senator Nelson:

It will be all right to do what you think best with Chalcraft's letter. His case ought to be righted. Politics put him out. The chairman of the Democratic Committee of Washington run things on the Puyallup reservation and at the Puyallup School during the last administration. If the Committee summoned Chalcraft and ex agent Eells, who was in the Indian Service for 20 odd years, and, as I believe, without blemish, they would get valuable information of the kind they are looking for. I enclose you a showing of his case made by Chalcraft, but have not the exhibits. He would be only too glad to send them to the Committee if you thought it proper to submit this and wanted them in addition. I advise your careful reading of this statement of Chalcraft's. Chalcraft was removed from Puyallup because he was in the way of land grab schemes headed by the State Democratic Campaign management, and was sent to Salem to be out of the way.

Nolan was sent here as a teacher from Civil Service, and was unfit to be in the Indian Service. Here, his principal duty seemed to be that of a spy to down Carlisle and its superintendent. I soon learned him, and when he knew I understood him and would report against him, he asked a transfer. He was in secret correspondence

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dence with Hailman, and with Palmer, the corrupt and immoral Head
of the Educational Division of the Indian Office at that time, whe,
like Nolan, was a Catholic. He was unquestionably serving the pur-
poses of Hailman at Salem. When the present superintendent of the
Salem School, Mr. Potter, who was also a teacher here at one time,
took charge of the school, he found it impossible to get along with
Mr. Nolan, and demanded his transfer. He was then sent to Yakima
Boarding School, where he again gave trouble and was then transfer-
ed to the Pima School at Sacaton, Arz. Giving trouble there, he
was finally put out of the Service a few months ago.

It was notorious that Rakestraw, as well as the other super-
visors, were hunting Republicans. Chalcraft ought to be reinstated
at once, and his is not a lone case. Rakestraw ought to be made
to walk the plank. I enclose you a letter from a Mr. Vance, whom
I met while in the West last year. It would pay to look into the
appointment of this new supervisor, Anderson, who was appointed
just at the closing hours of the last administration, and who was
one in the party to drive out of service both Supt. Chalcraft and
Agent Bells. It would seem that the Civil Service rules can be sus-
pended to promote a man who is entirely inexperienced in school
matters, and whose qualities as a supervisor are laughed at wherever
he goes.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 9th 1897.

Dear Ole Vetter,

Kuin, Nebraska.

N. Jozias:-

I neglected to send you the interest on your bonds last
January and so I now send you the interest for the year ending
July First, 1897, amounting to $54.00 on the 9 bonds. If you wish
only of your principal, $900.00, at any time, let me know and I can
send it to you. However, if you have no use for it, it seems to me
this is one of the safest places you can keep it, and then it is
better to hold the six per cent interest all the time.

I trust you are well. I hope you will write me fully about
yourself. It has been so long since I heard from you.

We are now in our summer condition. Over five hundred of the
pupils are out on farms, and many of the teachers are away on
their vacations, so that our numbers here are small. We are busy,
however, cleaning and making repairs for the school work in the
fall. There are many applications for new students so that our
number next year promises to be larger than ever.

The weather now is most intensely hot, but our spring and June
are delightful. The grain is in splendid condition and is being
harvested throughout the valley.

Mr. Pratt and Mrs. Pratt join me in love to you.

Faithfully your friend,

J.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 10th, 1897.

H.H. Boyd & Co.,

120 So. 13th St., Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

I return my eye glasses. You will see the difficulty,
and I wish you would take these frames and give me some that are
strong enough to stand all strain. It would be better if the
frames would be made quite a good deal stauncher than these, so
that the glasses would not be constantly dropping out as is the
case with these.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 12th, 1897.

Miss Fannie G. Paul,
Indian School,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Miss Paul:

I do not think it wise to do anything that will dis-
tress Supt. Spencer, notwithstanding his attitude and efforts
against us, of which I have known for years. Should any of the
people you write about appeal to me I should feel that if they be-
longed to Mt. Pleasant I would not listen to them. It would be
only those who are through with Mt. Pleasant, or have permanently
left there, that I would consider.

We enjoyed your vivid description of the night marauding you
are subjected to. I have been on a number of occasions in the West
pretty thoroughly victimized. We are down to the lowest ebb in
numbers. Miss Carter, Miss Cochran, Miss Weekly and Miss Hill left
this morning, and that about concludes the vacation absences. We
are also down to 165 pupils present, with over 500 out.

I want so far as possible in hiring Indians here to take our
own graduates. We have quite a list of them booked for places next
year, and shall have not far from 20 in all on our regular rolls. A
letter from Miss Hunt tells of her affairs at SanCarlos during vaca-
tion, but she has applied for transfer.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14th, 1897.

Mrs. Charlotte M. Vaile,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Mrs. Vaile:

As I have heard nothing from Dr. Abbott
in response to the letter and your manuscript which I sent
him, and have nothing from you, I am anxious to know if you
have heard from him, and what your prospect is of the publica-
tion of your story. If the Outlook failed to accept it, I
think probably we could get in some other magazine, and if
I can aid you in any way, I should be glad to do so. It
seems to me that it ought to be published.

(Dictated N)

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Miss Annie Lockwood,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Arz.

My dear Annie:

Your letter of June 30th was very welcome, and I am so glad that you are with Mr. and Mrs. McCowan at Phoenix. I believe the climate there will help your health, and it is much satisfaction to know that you are with such good kind people. I hope you will write and tell me how you get on, and about the school. It was about the neatest and one of the best kept schools generally I saw while I was away. It is nice for you to have Alice with you, and I am indeed proud of my girls who are doing so nobly in the Southwest.

Alice Sheffield has just gone home, and I wish that she might find her way out into lines of work away from her home. Could you and Alice Leeds not write her and encourage her to go out and work either in Albuquerque or Phoenix, or some place where you may know, perhaps, of an opening. Alice is a good capable girl and deserves the opportunity to work her way.

Thank you for the news you give me of the returned car-

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Carlisle students. I want always to keep in touch with them.

We have had comparatively few very hot summer days. Last week we suffered intensely with the hot weather, but a heavy rain storm yesterday cooled off the atmosphere and this morning it is as beautiful and bright a day as we have ever had at Carlisle. I am feeling very much worn after the year's work, and hope to get away for a little rest during the month of August. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda will likely go with me, and Nana is going to visit some relatives at James town, N.Y. You have probably noticed by the Helper that Mrs. Pratt is riding a wheel.

All your friends at Carlisle, and they are many, join me in love for you. Please give my kindest regards to Mr. and Mrs. McCowan.

Your friend,

(Dieted N)
Mc

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9th, 1897.

Capt. Robert Crawford,

Supt. Williamson Free School,

Williamson School P.O., Del. Co., Pa.

My dear Captain:

I thank you for the little note. All competition
helps, and foot-ball competition does help largely.

There is not a large Daily from one end of the country to the
other that did not contain some account of the game between Carlisle
and Pennsylvania on Saturday. I doubt if there is any other method
of advertising that equals it. Seeing we are able to contend on
the foot-ball field with the highest and best leads naturally to an
inquiry as to whether we are able to contend on other fields; in-
quiry leads to investigation, and the truth comes out that we are.
So that while you and others, including Capt. Pratt, himself, may
not entirely agree with all of foot-ball, we are justified in using
it as a means to an end so long as it is managed in a way to not
provoke absolute prohibition from the greatest educational insti-
tutions in the country.

The limitations with you, I take it, are much greater than with
ourselves. We may hold on to our students six, eight, or even
more years, consequently we have opportunities in these lines that
you could not have.

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Miss Edith Smith,
West Chester, Penna.

My dear Edith:

I told Louisa that I wanted to wait until Mr. Standing's return, as he had seen your mother when at Niagara Falls and knew all about the arrangements for you at West Chester, before I could answer your letter about your discontinuing.

I am very glad you have arrived at the conclusion you have about remaining until Christmas at least. It may be that then the hindrances and difficulties will have grown less so that you can go on and complete your course. This, of course, is the better way. Too often when we give up chances of that kind we lose them entirely, and if there is one sin the Indians are more guilty of than any other, it is that of inconstancy and lack of continuity of effort. I am glad, my dear Edith, you have changed your mind, even for a short time.

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My dear Doctor!

Thanks for your good letter of the 6th. It is always inspiring to hear from you.

Yes, Chauncey is back and takes hold of his work right well. It would be a good idea for you to write to him occasionally. It will help to keep him up to his work. He has a grand opportunity for usefulness here at Carlisle, if he will make use of all his trained energies and high principles.

I have Antonio down among the Apaches at San Carlos, but no reports from him yet as to success. He is having experiences that will teach him what we have to contend with in keeping a margin going at our limited pace.

The boys want you for their physician for the game they will play in Chicago next week, but you will hear from Mr. Thompson. I shall hope to see you then and have a good talk about your affairs.

Always cordially and faithfully your friend,

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something, but I will look out for that myself. The other chil-
dren are in very good health. Edith had a little swelling right
under the chin, a very small enlargement, but that has improved
and has almost gone. She has been dismissed from treatment, and
has not lost a day of school in consequence. Walter is going to
school all day at present, and it seems to me better that he con-
tinue at that for some time. When he is further on, it will be
well enough to have him work at something; but I will not take
that up now. He is in good health and accounted rather bright.

Tell Marie she experienced nothing more from M. than I exper-
ience daily. It has taken a deal of patience to pull along and
keep up the fight. There is so much waste and so much ingrati-
tude.

With love to you all

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10th, 1897.

Mrs. S.T. Rorer,
Phila. Cooking School,
1715 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Rorer:

I shall be most happy to welcome you at any time,
and to give you full swing to do for us all that you will and can.

It will make no material difference when, only the sooner the more
acceptable to us.

I am just now in need of a person to take charge of our Teachers' and Employers' Club. There are about 40 persons. We have a good cook. The person taking charge should be competent to direct, but should also be qualified as a cook, and ought to be better qualified than the cook. She has charge of the dining-room and all matters pertaining to the feeding of the employes. My store-keeper makes all purchases, and we have the most competent Indian girls to wait upon the tables and to help the cook in all kitchen matters. These are under the entire direction and control of the Club Matron, and she should be so energetic as to not only direct, but to take hold and direct by example. The present incumbent, a most excellent person, lacks here. Have you not some one you could send for this place? The salary is $30 per month with furnished room, light, heat and board.

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Auditor War Department,
U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C.

Sir:

By remitter dated August 15th, '97, I am entitled to the dif-
ference of pay between 1st Lieut. and Captain for the month of
August, 1864. I was paid as 1st. Lieut, was and am entitled to
pay as Captain.

Will you please send me the necessary blanks to enable me to
present this claim for your action.

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Hon. A.S. Draper,
Pres. University of Illinois,
Champaign, Ill.

My dear Sir!

Mrs. Pratt has concluded to accompany me to Chicago, and accepts with great pleasure your kind invitation.

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Col. Geo. W. Candee,
Asst. Paymaster General,
Head Quarters Department, Mo.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Colonel:

In 1887, you paid me as 2nd Lieut. of the 10th U.S. Cavalry., from the date I received my notification to report at Washington for examination. Sometime afterwards, two years as I remember, there was a stoppage of the amount covering the time between which I received that provisional appointment and the date I received my Commission. My recollection is that the amount stopped was about $283. I cannot lay my hands on the dates but I would like very much to get them, and if it is practicable for you to supply me with the dates and amount, without too much inconvenience, you will do me a very great favor.

I hope you will be on hand for the Football game between our Indian boys and the University of Illinois in the Coliseum Saturday afternoon, the 20th. Let me know how many reserved seats you have.

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Commissioner:

My Asst. Superintendent, Mr. A.J. Standing, is entitled to more consideration by the Department than he has received. He began service as a teacher of Indians about 1870; first at the Cheyenne Agency, then at the Whichata Agency, and afterwards at the Kiowa and Comanche Agency. He had left the Indian Service when I began here in '78, and was farming near Lawrence, Kansas. Knowing his worth, I asked him to come and help me immediately after I received the order to establish this school. He came at once, and has been my right hand man nearly ever since.

In November, 1881, the Department asked me to let him take charge of a boarding school that had just been erected at Yankton Agency. I did so. A change of agents threw him out there, and he was transferred to Pawnee Agency. In June, 1885, after an absence of about four years, the unsatisfactory conditions and his treatment at the western schools led him to ask me if I would take him back to Carlisle.

There is no one now in the Indian school service who has had such a long experience as Mr. Standing. In all the advancement and promotions made, Mr. Standing has never been invited by the Department to a higher place. I do not care to part with him here,

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Col. F.C. Ainsworth,

Chief, Record and Pension Office, War Department,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

When I was appointed 2nd Lieut., I received notice to report for
examination in Washington sometime in April, 1867. I reported at
once, passed my examination, and was verbally told by the Adjutant
General of the Army to return home and get ready, and that my Com-
mission would be sent shortly. I did return home and closed up my
affairs, and was several weeks waiting, (the exact time I do not
know but can find out) before I received my Commission and ordered
to report at Newport Barracks, Ky.

When I came to my first pay, I claimed that I was entitled to
pay from the time I received my conditional appointment, and my
claim was allowed by Maj., now Col., G.W. Candee of the Pay Depart-
ment. It was not in any sense my fault I was not on duty from the
time I received my conditional appointment, and in fact I was barred
from any other resources for support, for having passed the Board,
which was a few days after the receipt of my notification to report
to the Board, I gave up my position and was entirely under control
of the War department. I asked no leave and was ready for duty, and
did report and enter on duty immediately I got my appointment.

About two years, as I remember, after receiving this pass
the amount paid by the Paymaster for the time

Col. F.C. Ainsworth.

my notice of appointment, (provided I passed the examination, )and the
receipt of my Commission, was stopped; amounting as I remember to
about $283.

I have always felt that this stoppage was unjust, and that I
was entitled to the full amount of my claim, from the date that I
left my home to comply with the instructions of the War Department
in reporting for examination.

The recent action in regard to remuster for volunteer service
leads me to write you this letter, hoping that the law may be suf-
ficient to correct my case in the regular service.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16th, 1897.

Hon. A. S. Pratt,

President University of Illinois,
Champaign, Ill.

My dear Sirs,

Mrs. Pratt and I leave here Thursday intending to stop
with Mr. Joseph Ewymah, 6722 Madison Ave., from Friday morning un-
til Monday, and run down to your place on the forenoon train, if
there is one, if not, on the afternoon train.

Our boys will go down Sunday afternoon and will want to leave
so as to be in Cincinnati, Wednesday. You will have a lot of us,
as both the first and second team are going, besides Mr. Thompson
disciplinarian, and Mr. Bull, coach. I fear this is too many.

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Col. G.W. Candee,

Acct. Paymaster General,
Headquarters, Dept. Mo.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Colonel;

I have instructed that 7 reserved seat tickets be sent to you. Should they not be received, please drop me a line to 378 Madison Ave., Mr. Joseph Twyman, where I expect to be Friday morning next, and I will take pains that the neglect is rectified. Glad to have you see the game, and think you will be interested.

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Carli, Pa., Nov. 16th, 1897.

Col. E. Rice,

United States Location,
Tokio, Japan.

My dear Colonel Rice!

Mr. Wedleigh attended to my business at once and most satisfactorily, and I am sure you will find him all right, though I never met him. I know nothing more of him than this simple business transaction. Within two weeks from the time he had my application and the facts in my case, my date of muster was changed so as to give me pay of Captain of Volunteers for a month longer than I received it at the time.

Your note calls up a most delightful visit of two months Mrs. Pratt and I made in Japan in 1890. Wish I would go again.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17th, 1897.

H.A. Parker,

Asst. to the President,

Chicago, Rock Island R.R. Co.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir:

I send you a quantity of literature from which you will gather my views in regard to the capacity of the Indian. Given the same advantages the Indian will average about the same standard of ability as the whites; but it must be the same advantages. I believe entirely in your position that the Indian race is the highest and noblest type of all the savage races on the face of the globe.

In all of our attempts to civilize and utilize the Indian we have stopped short of a fair opportunity. We keep him segregated on barren wastes, remote from market, and remote from a chance to observe and participate in our industries, and then blame him because he does not become industrious and capable. We claim to attempt to make a soldier of him, but we make him into a company of men all from the same tribe. This tribalizes him. We give him a dozen women to the company. We do not allow soldiers to have any. This is disasterous. We station him with his tribe. This is an invitation to failure, No. 3. Any one of these features was enough to make him a failure as a soldier. If all the men that were enlisted in the

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Army in New York City were made into companies, stationed in the vicinity of New York, and allowed the same licence and privileges the Indians were, all Army discipline would fail in its efforts to make successful soldiers.

We invite failure by our present system of schools. With very few exceptions, our schools are trital schools; most of them on reservations. The city is a public school system for the Indians, and among the Indians. Here in Pennsylvania, we know what a public school system for the Germans does, or rather what it fails to do. We have Germany pure and simple in several sections of our state in large slices. Thirty-five thousand Italians in the heart of the city of Philadelphia with Italian schools, continue to be Italians. A public school system for the Indians, and the Indians the public schools of the country are as widely separated as day and night. One means American education, ambition and energy. The other means Indianism, Indian ambitions, and largely Indian worthlessness.

I have said much more than I intended to say, or than I have the time to say. I am just back from an absence and am pressed with work. My report of this year and my address at Denver will give my views. If you want to know what an Indian can become when separated from Indian environment and placed in the environment of civilization, Hunt up Dr. Carlos Montezuma of 100 State Street, Chicago, Ill., and talk to him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18th, 1914.

Fred P. Hall,

Editor of The Journal,
Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear Fred:

I send you my check covering the three half dollar bills.
Please receive and return bill. The bills are very satisfactory.

About the diploma, we are not in any hurry, as we shall not use
them until February. My reduction in size will be all right.
Whatever will give you the best results, do.

I got home nearly on Tuesday morning after a very satisfactory
intercourse with the Indians, notwithstanding the bad weather, and
I am glad that I made the trip.

Our boys have just left for Chicago. Laura and I intended to
go with them, but too much pressing upon me here to leave today.
I think it likely we may go on the limited tomorrow. Still, I am
uncertain. My love to all.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19th, 1897.

Miss Alice Leeds,

Indian Training School,

Phoenix, Arz.

Dear Alice:

I have intended to answer your letter ever since my return from the West, but have been exceedingly busy.

When you are ready to return to Carlisle, let me know, and I will arrange it for you. In the meantime if you are doing good work, and getting good pay, I should think you might continue right there and build yourself up by night studying and reading, so as to accomplish pretty nearly as much for yourself as you would by coming here.

I must depend upon the Helper to keep you informed of the news at Carlisle. We have over 850 students, all in excellent health and the school is getting on better than ever.

With love to dear Stiya, dear Anne, and your own dearest母愛 ways

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Miss Minnie L. Rees,

902 Elm Avenue,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dear Miss Rees:

Replying to yours of the 17th, the Indians have on-
ly to separate themselves from their tribes and perform the duties
of citizens, that is, to be taxed and be ready to fight for the Gov-
ernment, to enable them to become citizens, and this has been the
case pretty much always. The trouble has been the determination
of the tribe to perpetuate its existence and the willingness of the
Government and the sentimentalism of some people handling Indians.

In 1630 Massachusetts enacted a law permitting the Indians to settle in their communities and own land, and exercise all the rights and privileges of their citizens. There is an old law of the United States, passed early in the history of our legislation, granting to citizens lands if they would settle upon them, and which specially provided that Indians should be allowed the same rights and privileges as citizens, and in addition if they moved out from their cities, located 160 acres of land and improved it, there should be no cost to them for entrance fees, etc., as other citizens had to pay.

Quite a number of my boys here, after passing through school,
located here as employees and have paid their taxes and exercise
the franchise and other privileges of citizens.

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Our reservation system is uniformly simply a tribalizing
scheme blocking the way to citizenship. But it is a long question.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., November 19th 1997.

Mrs. Joseph Twyman,
5759 Madison Avs.,
Chicago, Ill.

Laura and I reach Chicago, Penna. Station, by limited nine
o'clock Saturday morning.

R. H. Pratt.

Sent via Postal 2.20 P. M.

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J.H. Heinson,
Mansion House,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

It has been utterly impossible for me to even look over
the Warber Library of Literature, and consequently I am unable to
give any expression of opinion in regard to it.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 19th 1897.

W. Q. Thompson,
Palmer House,
Chicago, Illinois.

Mrs. Pratt and I leave limited today. Have us met Pennsylvania
Station nine o'clock Saturday morning.

)(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1897.

Editor of the "Herald"

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Will you please give the following, in regard to General Howard's lecture, a place among your local notices, and oblige

"Major General O.O. Howard, who lectures on "Sherman and His March to the Sea" at the Indian School on Friday evening the 26th inst., is probably the best known of any surviving commander of the great war, and, himself, held an important command under Sherman during his historic march. All who can should hear him.

The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock, the Indian band giving sections during the evening. Admission 25 cents. Tickets at Means & Richards stores, and at the door."

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1897.

Editor of "The Sentinel",
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

"Major General O.O. Howard, who lectures on "Sherman and his March to the Sea" at the Indian School on Friday evening the 26th inst., is probably the best known of any surviving commander of the great War, and, himself, held an important command under Sherman during his historic march. All who can should hear him.

The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock, the Indian card giving selections during the evening. Admission 25 cents. Tickets at Means & Richards stores, and at the door."

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1897.

Hon. R.M. Henderson,

Carlisle, Penn'a.

Dear Sir:

By arrangement with Capt. Pratt, Gen. O.O. Howard will be
with us on Friday next, the 26th, and deliver his lecture on "Sherman
and his march to the sea" in the Assembly Room at the school.

The visit is a professional one and an admission fee of twenty-five cents will be charged to the lecture, the Indian band contributing some selections.

I give you this information for yourself and family, and in the
hope that you will interest others, and oblige

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Rev. Geo. Edward Reed,

President of Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Capt. Pratt has arranged with Gen. O.O. Howard to visit
the Indian School and deliver his lecture on "Sherman and his March
to the Sea" on the evening of Friday, the 26th inst., at eight
o'clock in the school Assembly Hall.

The visit is a professional one, and an admission fee of twenty-five cents will be charged. Will you kindly call the attention of the faculty and students of the college to this lecture. I hope that we may be able to secure the General a good audience.

I am pleased to note you are recovering so well from your illness, and hope you will soon have regained your usual health.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1897.

Capt. W.M. Miller,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Capt. Pratt has arranged that Gen. O.O. Howard deliver his
lecture on "Sherman and his March to the Sea" in the Assembly Hall
at the school on Friday evening the 26th inst.

This is considered one of the General's best lectures, and we
hope to be able to secure him a good audience. An admission fee
of twenty-five cents will be charged, and some selections by the
school band will be given.

Will you kindly do what you can to spread the information in
regard to the lecture, and oblig

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Leida Cornelius,

Fort Belknap,

Montana.

Carlisle, Penn., Nov. 27, 1897.

My Dear Leida:-- I am so glad to get a letter from you informing me of your whereabouts and that you are with Mr. Spray.

How pleasant it is for you in entering school work to join those whoith whom you are acquainted. I like the policy of sending those who are appointed to the Indian School service into remote fields. Travel and new experiences are great educa-tors.

How good it is too that you enjoy your work! There is ever so much in that. If one likes what they are doing they will do it ever so much better.

You will find the cold, although much more intense than you experienced at your home, near the Great Lakes, is not any harder to bear for the reason that the air is so dry. A temperature in your present vicinity of 20 degrees below zero will not be so hard to bear as one of zero near the lakes or near the ocean. And it is the same with heat. A temperature of 90 degrees near large bodies of water is much more difficult to bear than a tem-

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perature of 110 or 120 in the high altitudes of mid-continent.

Mrs. Pratt and I went to Chicago to see the foot-ball boys play their great game in the Coliseum with the Illinois University. We were greatly pleased with the outcome of the game, -- especially with the receipts, -- our boys' share being about $3000. We are now going to grade and fix up a nice athletic field, back of the Hospital, making a level place there of about five acres, where the boys can play base-ball and foot-ball, and run, and where we can have good seating on the sides for visitors,' and we shall do all that we can to make our athletics equal to the best of the Universities.

Things are going nicely with us. Our number is 853 to-day. Health excellent, and everybody apparently in as good heart as possible. You must look to the "Helper" for the details of news.

We had a splendid lecture last night from Gen. Howard, and next week or rather, Monday week, on the 6th of December, Dr. Sheldon Jackson is coming to give us a lecture on "Klondike", using magic lantern slides. You know he went up there this summer going by way of the Yukon river. He stopped in these mines while there.

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His reindeer are going to be the means of saving the lives
of the whalers who got caught in the ice and could not get out.
They will also be a great help in getting food into the "Klon-
dike region.

Curious, isn't it, after several years' effort, and getting
hundreds of reindeer from Siberia, that they should come into
such usefulness to save human life ? How wonderful are the ways
of providence

With love from us all to you, dear Leida, and our kindest
regards to the Sprays and Mr. Caswell,

Always faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27.

Miss Eva Barraclough,
Merchantville, N. J.

My Dear Miss Barraclough:- I will have vacant on the first the
position of matron of the teachers' mess. The salary is $30 a
month with board, room, light and heat. The duties are to super-
intend the dining-room and culinary department, entirely, for
about forty people, ordinarily, with visitors at odd times.

The woman should be a thoroughly good cook, so that she will
be the director, and not the cook. She should have sufficient
judgment to manage economically, and skill to suit the wants of a
variety of people without annoyance, and should have disciplinary
ability to manage the six to seven girls who assist in the dining-
room and kitchen work, and also to direct the cook herself.
She should be willing to get up early, and lend a hand all through
the day in the actual work to be done.

I am willing to see you about this, but it would be necessary for you to act at once, if you can bring to me the evidence that you are the person I am looking for.

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Carlisle, Penn., Nov. 27., 1897.

Rev. George Runciman,

Salamanca, N. Y.

My Dear Mr. Runciman:-

Mr. Trip writes me that a boy named Scott, son of King Scott, was examined by Dr. Diven and accepted by Mr. Standing, but did not come. He is so anxious to come to Carlisle that he is willing to pay his own way.

If you can recommend him, and he will, as Mr. Trip says, pay his own way, and will come here with a perfect understanding that he is to remain five years without regard to home-going, send him right along.

P. S. - In regard to the horse, I felt afterwards that probably you could get more for the horse than I would be willing to pay.

I will speak to Dr. Diven about the colt.

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Carlisle, Penn., Nov. 27/97.

Oscar Warden,
Pine Ridge, S. D.

Dear Oscar:- The best way for you to do is to apply for what you want, and if they have a place for you and think of appointing you, they will write me from Washington about you, and I shall take great pleasure in giving you a good character. This has been my custom with all our students, and it will be best for you if they think of taking up your case at all.

I am glad to note your intention to make a man of yourself. Your great mistake in this case is your wanting to stay where you are. Far better that you should take an appointment somewhere else in the Indian service, and I think you would be more likely to get an appointment elsewhere, because the Department is not favorable to employing young Indians among their own tribes, which I think is a very wise thing.

Glad to hear of your good health. With best wishes,

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Carlisle, Penn., Nov. 29/97.

Buffalo Meat,

Kingfisher,

Oklahoma.

My Dear Friend:- I am always greatly pleased to hear from you.
It makes me think of the old times when we were together in
Florida, and of what occurred before, at the time, and afterwards.
I remember you as one of the good men,-- anxious to improve.
And I am glad to hear that you are still in the same mind, and
are always going forward in the right way.

What you tell me about becoming a Christian is good news,
for both Mrs. Pratt and myself. We are your friends, and are so
glad you have taken this step.

Your son and your nephew are very well. Your boy is in the
country, and going to school with white children. This, you
know, is part of what Carlisle does to every student that comes her
We think that the best way for the Indian to learn what the
white man does is to associate with him, and that the best way
for the white man to learn the Indian is to associate with him,-
and if they can get on together in schools, they can in
after life together in business of all kinds. The
good, and I am sure that your son will make great

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him remain in Colorado, and believe that his health will come out all right. My doctor made a careful examination of him, and advised me to stay there until something chronic in his case. My greatest fear was that he will be over provided for, and will not be allowed to do much as he can for himself. Dr. Slocum was perfectly sure he could find him a home with some good physician, where Joe could work things, evenings and Saturdays, in caring for horse and fairs and other errands for the family, for his board. The Doctor said he should be wards of 80 young men so placed in Colorado Springs when we were there. If Mrs. Warren can give him that sort of a place, and will stand by him in a limited way, I believe her benefaction will be as wisely bestowed as any she could undertake. Joe will receive a good of money, two to three hundred dollars, from tribal funds, and this will help.

Should things fail there, of course, I will see he is not a burden, and that he returns here or is provided for elsewhere.

Richenda is at home for a day or two. We are all in excellent health. Had a delightful Thanksgiving with Mason, Gen. Potts has been with us for two days and lectured for us. Dr. Shultzen Jackson lectures for us on Klondike next Monday night.

With love to you all

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Carliâle, Pa., December 1st, 1897.

D.S. Lindsay,
# 14 South Broad St.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Friend:

All necessity for the existence of the Carlisle School
is rather augmentive than abative. Slowly as the facts come out
and the conditions are realized, we apprehend what is necessary.
More and more does it become apparent that the grip of a Department
and a false system of management should be broken, and the Indian
led out into the full association and enlightenment of the rights
and privileges of our civilization as a man, not as a special people
and a tribe.

Carlisle has stood too much alone. It has had too little support for its purpose along this line. As the years go by and I realize the extremity and the difficulty of getting rid of false systems, the greatness of the work necessary to be done, if we reach success, grows apparent. It was a mistake to establish Indian reservations. It was a criminal blunder to enter into treaties, giving large annuities and continuous food and support. It was a mistake to establish schools of any character among the Indians. The schools should have been established in the best of our civilization and used as a means to bring the young of the Indian race into contact with the best of ourselves in every way. This would have been far more economical and would have led to great results.

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Entering into an agreement to educate the Sioux as Sioux, and to support them upon their reservations, has simply destroyed their manhood and made them more intelligent and skillful paupers. We educate our own children in order that we may send them into the best places in our civilization. The advanced education we give to young Indians is consumed by the Department in its demand that they shall return to their tribes to help their people. In four cases out of five the tribal management and the Governmental management both glory in the downfall of the educated Indian, so that the difficulties that surround the young Indian under such circumstances are in many cases more than human nature can bear. You know I have never favored it. An administration or power that would compel an inhabitant of purgatory, who had escaped and reached the celestial kingdom, to return to purgatory, ought to be consigned to the bottomless pit.

I send you my annual report just out. I shall request on the continued friendship of Dr. Trumbull's class, and be most grateful for any help it may give, and believe that nothing they can do for the Indian will at all equal what they may do in the way of helping Carlisle.

If you care to, and think it would do good, make an arrangement almost any evening or Sunday for me to talk, and I will come down for that special purpose.

With love and greetings to the Doc tor and all the class. I am as ever

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1907

Hosea Locke,

Supt. Indian School,

Ft. Hall, Idaho.

My dear Mr. Locke:

Miss Bourassa was a very efficient teacher here at Carlisle. She had one little fault which seems to crop out with you, and that is her fondness for young men; but I was always satisfied that Rose was good and meant right. I think if you do as I do, give her a little fatherly talk now and then, she will be all right. She did not leave Carlisle because we wanted her to, but on account of her health, and I have said to her that in the future she wants to return and we have a vacancy, I shall be glad to have her back; of course, provided her conduct elsewhere remains equally as good as here.

It is, perhaps, natural that she should think hardly of Carlisle. She writes me so, as do almost all my boys and girls who are employed in other schools. None of the schools are like Carlisle to them. Carlisle was home, and Carlisle has advantages, as you know, that cannot be had in any other school; but these little things need not hinder or hurt.

Your pupils have done exceedingly well. They show good treating. I am constantly reminded of that. Miss Shaffer, the matron in charge of the girls, has just said to me that they are the best of Indians we have had since she came here, and that they are them.

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coughly good. What more could you ask?

I congratulate you on the band business. My band leader has an ambition to create a band of 50 to 60 pieces and go to the World's Fair in Paris in 1900. If such a thing can be arranged, I trust that we may have something from Ft. Hall to add to our force. I would make it a thoroughly Indian band, and not a band of mixed bloods, and then in connection with some other exhibits do all that we can to counteract Buffalo Bill's trips to Europe, and I think we may do a great deal. I hope you will be in sympathy with the movement, and should the Government not be willing to undertake it, I shall endeavor to accomplish it in some private way. It would be one of the consummations I have had in mind for several years.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1997.

Supt. W.P. Campbell,

Wind River Boarding School,

Shoshonee Agency, Wym.

My dear Mr. Campbell:

I have had your letter of the 14th several days, but as I was away for a week in the West at Chicago and other places, I come back with a lot of work to be attended to.

While I do not know anything of what Anderson's report will be, from what I know of him I should be inclined to think his reports would be rather non-effective.

I am sorry, of course, that you are to be annoyed, but such is life. There seems to be a whole lot of this kind of stuff on hand just now. I would not give up if I were you, I should right through to the finish. To retire from the field by transfer back to Carlisle, would be an acknowledgment, that you owe it to yourself not to make.

The Commissioner is now in the West, but will be back soon. When he returns I shall see him about a number of matters and will speak of your case. I am very sure that no action will be taken without his approval, and feel quite sure that Anderson's reports will not amount to much, if anything.

I must leave you to the Helper for Carlisle news. Our football boys have at last scored victories everywhere, and particularly

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1897.

Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, N.Y.

Dear Levant:

The Smith of Dye, Alaska, who is underbans is not our
Smith, he is entirely another man. I have tickets for the two
children at Lakewood. Will send to Mrs. Van Dyke. I shall expect
her to get the children as far as Warren. I find our affairs in
such shape that it is not best for me to come up to New York, and I
or two
shall only arrange and take the children one at a time until I get
what I want, and do it all by correspondence.

Our boys' football campaign has terminated in a blaze of success. They whipped everything in the West and closed the season with about $7000, which will I think fit up a nice athletic field, and put them in good shape for next year.

Laura and I got home in good time to eat a Thanksgiving Turkey
key with Mason and his children. With love to you all

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Mr. W. F. Bruner, Asst. G.P.A.,
St. Louis, Mo.

My dear Mr. Bruner:

I understood the situation. It was good that the agent of the Big Four should urge me to go by their line to Columbus, and that that train, the first for three months I was told to be late, should have been late in reaching Indianapolis. However, I got home in good time to eat my Thanksgiving dinner with my children and grand children.

I am obliged to you for your courtesy, and the good will of
your intentions.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 2nd, 1897.

Hon. A.S. Draper,

President Illinois University,
Champaign, Ill.

My dear President Draper:

I depended on Mrs. Pratt to drop an inn
state note to Mrs. Draper, and later after the rush of my return was
ever and our boys got back, to write you fully myself. I find now
that Mrs. Pratt did commence a letter to Mrs. Draper, but did not
finish it, the interruptions of company and the press of affairs
hindering.

We are both of us annoyed that your splendid hospitality and
great kindness in every way should be treated so. To say that we
enjoyed our trip and the intercourse with you and the Illinois
university to the full, would but poorly express the facts, and Cart
and Mrs. Pratt, Mr. Thompson, and the whole football team and
scrubs consider Illinois in its fighting qualities, its hospitality,
and its cordial recognition of us, first class in every way, and if
Illinois is willing, Carlisle is more than willing, to renew the old
test next year and ad infinitum, and our judgment is that next year as
this, the contest had better be toward the end of the season when
both teams are at their best. We shall undertake less big games for
the East next year. Yale, Pennsylvania and Harvard are our ambition
for Eastern games, and one big game in the West with Illinois.
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Medical College, Dickinson, Pa. These College games are very interesting, and, or others, and we wish to divide them as to the two games come on successive Saturdays.

Our boys were handled a little rough at Cincinnati, during mortifying disputes and a little exhibition of temper. Bonus was aroused to threaten one big fellow, who knocked down Hudson Unseeser, sarily (and evidently on purpose) to drive him out of the game, which he did, and policemen came on the ground. Otherwise, they were royally entertained and handsomely treated. Cincinnati failed to score.

In the game with the Ohio Medical College, four substitutes had to be put in on account of the condition of the members of the first team from their Cincinnati game, and added to this was the long railroad rides, living at first-class hotels, receptions and late suppers, and entire absence of practice, which made it possible for the Medical College men to score twice, making the score 20 to 12. The weather was abomnable at both Cincinnati and Columbus.

Mrs. Pratt and I reached Indianapolis a half hour behind time, lost our Atlantic Express East, but took the Limited, four hours later, and returned in time to go down to Steelton for Thanksgiving dinner with our son and his family.

General Howard lectured for us Friday, the 26th, and was intensely interesting. I spoke of my visit to Illinois, and he said that years ago, before you were there, he had spoken there, but would be glad to talk there again.

Thank you for copy of your letter to Mr. Sherman. I have not yet written him, but will do so this morning.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 20, 1937.

Dear Cousin Lottie:

I enclose check, for which please send check.

Laura and I have been West, since we saw you, as far as Chicago and Champaign, Ill., with our foot-ball boys. We were absent about a week. We are all in excellent health, and trust the same to be good with you.

With kindest regards from us all,

Your cousin,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 20, 1907

Miss Louisa Celsdorff,

Normal School, West Chester, Pa.

Dear Louisa:

I should be very happy, indeed, to see you here again
soon, and to go over your matters as fully as you desired to have
me.

I am glad that you have the courage and feel that you have the
ability to meet the issues, and to do your part of your work. While
it is hard, it is hardness that makes you, and I am sure you can sur-
stand that you have chosen for the best course.

I want you to be so well equipped that I shall be glad to have
you here at Carlisle, and shall feel able to recommend you for a per-
smission in any school in the service.

With fondly your friend,

(Dated) Dec.

Poughkeepsie, N.Y., December 23, 1937.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,

Bureau of Education,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Doctor:

I have put out the enclosed poster, and have got you
into the papers pretty fully, and shall keep things going until the
finish.

Mrs. Pratt and I are greatly pleased to have you with us for dimater Monday, and we are inviting a few friends to meet you, including Mr. and Mrs. Norcross.

I have put the lecture at 7:30, as 7 o'clock was too early for all of our people to get here. If you have any instructions about the management of the stereoptican, please advise.

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Carlisle, N., December 23, 1897.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

My dear Doctor:

I have your good letter of November 24th, and have read
up my mind to be guided by your judgment (which I also highly
regard to Antonio. He does some things which I do not like. I
think he is wrong, he is very sly about it. I shall do nothing to hold him
back, but shall rather advance his interests where I can, until I
discover, myself, that he is unworthy.

In regard to your matter. I find that my own affairs are in
such shape, that it is impracticable for me to aid you in the way
you desire, and I must leave you to fight the matter out yourself.

The boys did not allow Cincinnati to score, and playing several
substitutes, and being worn out with road travel and high living, were
compelled to let the Medical College at Columbus score twice; but
the score was 20 to 12 in our favor. The whole trip was a great
success, especially that part of it in Chicago and at Champaign.

We are planning to have an athletic field, in size, quality and
equipment equal to our needs. It will be located out on the old
base-ball ground, back of the hospital.

I must leave you to the "Helper" for the news.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 2d, 1897.

Abram R. Vail,

Quakertown, N.J.

Valued Friend:

Yours of the 30th ult. received. I am glad to think
that Jose's matter will work out right. It takes unlimited patience
in many cases, but I believe that every difficulty can be overcome with
every individual, if we only have the power and character to do that
which is necessary.

In regard to football, I have this to say that the newspapers
of today are monumental liars, generally. They take a mole hill
and make it appear a mountain. We have investigated the injuries
reported in many cases, and find them absolutely false. Men on
our own team who were laid off for slight hurts, were reported as
injured for life. They have played three, four or five great games
since the reported injury. Not all those reported as killed by
football are by any means true. The fact is that not only sports
of all kinds are equally as dangerous as football, but also ordinary
labor. We have had a boy slide off a load of hay and break his
leg. But I argued on this line with you last year. I have also
heard with some of the best educators of the country, men who
opinions are taken as guides, and it is settled in their minds that
proper football is one of the most manly sports ever invented for
young men. My boys who play football are among the gentlest and
best in the school, and they have been made strong and ex-

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ceasingly quick and active, and able to cope with difficulties where
as those who take no part in foot-ball, who stand around with their
hands in their pockets, become effeminate, and give no promise of
aroused energy to meet the issues of life. Foot-ball players
must be abstemious and moral in order to succeed. If it was in my
power to bring every Indian into the game of fett-bali, to contend
as my boys have contended with the different young men of the col-
leges, I would do it, and feel that I was doing them an act of the
Christian
greatest kindness, and elevating them from the hell of their home
life and reservation degradation into paradise.

Notwithstanding our differences I am always

 faithfully your friend,

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Carlietta, Pa., December 5th, 1897.

The "Tribune".

New York City.

Settlement

In order to avoid the bother of sending after my paper daily, I have subscribed sometime ago for three months from our newspaper dealer town, from whom I had taken the "Tribune" for years. I included Sunday "Tribune." I often get my paper earlier than I used to it from the dealer. That is I get it on the mail news-lette at 8 o'clock, whereas formerly I never got it until 9 o'clock. This is a satisfaction and will let me to subscribe and have it sent through the mail regularly. There is one difficulty I have not yet received my Sunday "Tribune" until Monday morning, and then not in the earliest mail, but in the second mail.

If you do not please look into it, and see if it is not practicable for me to receive the Sunday "Tribune" by mail. It should leave New York in the morning mail at 4 o'clock, the same train which the news dealers have their papers sent. If not practicable to get it by mail, will omit the Sunday subscription. I will in future in that case not receive it.

As this is not practicable for me, that is, for you to receive the Sunday "Tribune" by mail, in your wide circulation, I hope you will consider it so and let me know by your letter. Sincerely yours, A. B. H.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 6th, 1997.

A.G. Spalding Bros.,
Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:

Please send me a couple of the spiral springs to go under
largest size "Christy" saddle.

I took out my wheel a morning or two ago to ride. It was cold
and frosty and the springs snapped like glass.

(Dictated) Mo

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Personal.

Caroline, Pa., December 6th, 1897.

Hon. R. D.uner,

Act. Commissioner of Indian Affairs,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sirs,

On the 16th of October I asked for authority to expand
the order in the open market purchase of necessary supplies for this school
besides the arrival of goods on our annual estimate. On the 10th of
October, I telegraphed you in reference to this and other authorities
that had not been received. All the authorities came, but the
500 lbs. had not received, nor have I been advised that it is denied.

A numerous amount of our annual goods are still back, and we
have really suffered for some things. I need this additional amount.
Still, I cannot give this your personal attention, and see
that you are not put out of your annual estimate, in regard to it? I could send you a list of what
is still wanted on our annual estimate, but that must be known in
your office, and therefore unnecessary.

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THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlsbad, Pa., December 7th, 1897.

Mrs. Guy LeRoy Stavick,
1340 Corona Street,
Denver, CO 80201.

Dear Marion,

I got your message late last night, and herein send my check for $30. $15. of it is for Joe to replace the two checks I sent previously, one on the 9th of November, and its duplicate sent November 27th, on both of which I have stopped payment. This $15. to go to Joe is a personal matter of mine. The other $15. is for you to use for yourself to get some little Christmas presents from your mother and I for Guy and the children.

We had Dr. Jackson give us a lecture on the Yukon Gold Fields with lantern slides, last night, which was intensely interesting, and at the same time calculated to do a great deal of good in showing the people the dangers and difficulties which beset them in working those mines. Dr. Jackson, Dr. and Mrs. Nordstrom, Dr. Prince, wife and daughter, and Mrs. Given and her family, were with us for dinner, and we had a most agreeable time.

I am not well, and must go over to the house and lie down. With love to you all, from our爱

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Carlisle, Pa., December 7th, 1894.

Dr. Shelton Jackson,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Jackson:

The balance, after expenses and advertising, last
night is only $30., for which I enclose check.

I am greatly disappointed. We advertised widely enough to
have made it bring $150. Everybody was pleased, and many expres-
sions of great satisfaction have come to me since you left.

(Diocese] Mc

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Carliole, Pa., December 8th, 1947.

To whom it may concern

This certifies that the Oriental Troubadour Troube of music, under the leadership of C.H. Puggaloy, gave to the 700 pupils and faculty of this institution last night, an entertainment that from start to finish was most highly appreciated by everyone present.

They were repeatedly and most heartily enjoyed. Their performances of popular melodies in their line, both ancient and modern, seemed complete. Several favorite pieces not on their program, called for by the audience, being given at once and with heartiness and excellence of expression that was most highly appreciated.

I can highly recommend them to schools and others desiring such services.

Sept. 10th Cav'y., Sept.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 8th, 1897.

Hon. C.B. Landis,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sirs:

I have been a little disappointed that I did not hear
from you, and that you did not come this way and bring Mrs. Landis,
but I shall pin my faith to your promise to come later, and it will
make the past all right if you can bring Senator Fairbanks, when you
do come.

What you propose, to run out from Washington Friday and spend
Saturday and Sunday with us, is just the thing. The Penna. Road
will give me transportation from Washington at any time, and I will
arrange it for the number you may designate, if you will give me a
little previous notice.

I shall hope to see you in Washington before long.

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Alex. B. Upshaw,
Normal School,
Bloomington, Penna.

My dear Alex:

Unfortunately, there are so very many pressing and necessary things to be done with the funds at my disposal, both personally and otherwise, that I am compelled to cut off the luxuries, and, while I should of course be glad to have you go with the rest of the students to Washington, I do not see how it is practicable for me to advance you the money. The taxes upon me have been unusual, and I must cut corners. Perhaps this is a place where an act of self denial on your part is personal discipline.

Faithfully your friend,

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Edith M. Smith,

State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Edith:

I entirely agree with you in the foolishness of Linnie's action, but I have stood in front of her wishes so long, and have gone against her so much, that I am relieved of all responsibility. She was determined to make her bed there and she must take the consequences. I very much fear from some things, I know about it, that the base of her character is uncertain.

I am glad to know, my dear Edith, that you appreciate the true status of affairs. You have a good sensible mother, and you owe a great deal of gratitude to her. Linnie's mother is entirely the contrary.

How glad I am to hear of your intentions to keep on and face the hard work. There is "no excellence without great labor" in one of the truest things in the English language. A lefty purpose leftily pursued through difficulties makes lefty men and women.

Come back to Carlisle at Christmas as you proposed. We shall be delighted to see you, and it will do you good. I have instructed Miss Ely to send you ticket.

Your friend,

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Mabel Navarro-Kish,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Mabel:

I am very glad that you have been wise enough to determine right in regard to your home going. I am sure, very sure, that you are entirely right about it.

I have a feeling that you may be wasting your money out there by sending things, and I suspect to you that, hereafter, when you send anything, you send it through Capt. G.L. Scott, who has charge of the prisoners. Always

(Signed) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., December 9th, 1907.

Miss Sophia T. Ladeaux,

Manderson, S. Dakota.

My dear Sophia:

I was very glad to hear from you, and of what you
had to tell me of yourself and others at Bad Land. It is good
to know you so often think of Carlisle. Yes, all returned pupils
wish they were back at "old Carlisle" again.

I am glad you found your parents in a better condition than
when you left them, as you say, seven years ago. I certainly hope
Carlisle has still enough hold on you to keep you from going back to
Indian ways, and that it helps you to stick to civilization. I am
always sorry to hear when any of Carlisle pupils appear in Indian
dress and discard the teachings of Carlisle, but am glad there are
others who are doing well like Peter Chief Eagle, yourself, and others.

That was right, to speak well of your teachers and all at
Carlisle to whoever may inquire in regard to the school. You had
quite a time learning to ride your horse, but you are well paid for
your many falls and bruises in being able to ride nicely now.

The school is larger than ever this year, and everything is
moving along finely; but I shall have to let the "Helper" give you the
news, as I am very busy with many things to do.

Toping to hear from you again, and with best wishes and Christmases
my greetings from us all at Carlisle, I am

Your friend,

Capt. & Supt.

Me

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Carlisle, Pa., December 10th, 1907.

Harry Kohpay,
Osage Agency,

Pawhusky, O.T.

My dear Harry:

Though I did not write you at the time my congratula-
tions, my heart was full of them. I sent your letter down to Miss
Burgess to make a note of it in the "Helper", and it has only just
returned to me. This is the cause of delay.

I trust, my dear Harry, that your married life may be full of
the greatest joy to you and yours.

I congratulate you on your change and promotion. With all
that you gained at Carlisle, I believe you can make yourself so cap-
able in your new position, that they will not only not think of re-
ading you, but will think of adding to your income. This will be
worth your striving for. I know how barren, as compared with the
East, your surroundings are; but you have always the refuge of the
most excellent company of good books and other reading matter.
Though you may not be able to associate visibly with the great minds
of the earth, you can associate with them, and draw from them the
richest products of their brain by reading, and so constantly build
yourself up. Reading aloud to a great thing to help along one's
growth, and now you have someone to read to.

All Carlisle will be full of expectations about you, and hope
for your success.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 10th, 1897.

Prof. B.O. McIntire,
Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Professor!

The Indian School foot-ball team desire me to express
and to the members of the first foot-ball team of the College, inclu-
ing a lady each to be personally invited by the members of the com-
mittee and team, an invitation to a reception and supper to be given
in the gymnasium of the Indian School, on the evening of January 7th,
1898.

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My dear Doctor:

Your spirit is grand, and I believe that you will see the wisdom of making haste slowly in your professional matters. Sieze every opportunity that you can gain in, and through, and of yourself. When one goes up too fast and makes too long jumps, it very often happens that they have to retire from an advanced place to which they have been helped; whereas, the man who takes it step by step, and uses the most stringent economy, may eventually from the demonstration of that very economy, and from the ability that he gains in exercising it, land in a far more advanced position than it would have been possible for him to have landed had he leaned upon others to help in the same.

I really believe that your greatest need ( and you will accept this from your old friend) is to practise that spirit of economy, which your very necessity at present forces upon you, until you learn it well. My observation of you in the past has been, that you are too confiding and too liberal in money matters. When you need to pinch and lay by, and pinch and lay by, of course, not to choke the proper spirit of charity, but to lay by until you reach a point where you can accumulate faster. Giving should always be in accordance with our means, and nothing in better than a fixed principle about

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that. A certain percent, and that once determined, let it rest at
that. Then as the resources increase, and the percent can be
increased moderately, let it be.

I think you should be established very soon, that is have an
establishment of your own and a sympathetic, loving helpmate. That
would mean a great deal for you.

I am not well, and am seriously considering a long absence.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 11th, 1897.

Joseph Adams,

University of Denver,
University Park, Colo.

My dear Joe:

I am glad to hear that you have at last gotten that
$15. I am also glad to hear that you are washing dishes and doing
that kind of work. You are on trial, Joe, and it cannot fail to
work out advantage to you. I would not under any circumstances think
of retiring. You have enough of ability to warrant as University
education, and you have, as I believe, the snap which will carry you
through all hindrances. You can wash dishes well, I am sure, and
do that kind of work to the satisfaction of anybody. That will lead
to something else. Do it jollily, and without flinching.

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Mrs. Guy Le Roy Stevick,
1340 Corona Street,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Marion:

A letter from Joe this morning informs me that he has just received the checks. Of course, he can only use one. That is all right, and you may keep the $5.00 I sent you, against other needs, subject to my orders.

I want Joe to deny himself and pull through. He must, of course have books, and there may be pressing necessities, I leave that to your judgment. I want him to stick and make a success of it, if he has to wash dishes for six months.

With love from the all

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Mrs. Dr. Fordyce Grinnell,
Pasadena, California.

My dear Mrs. Grinnell:

I shipped by express today the harness order-
ed. We have had a number of special orders for agencies and yours
had to take its turn, but there is ample time for the box to reach
you. I have had the stock in it specially selected, and every par-
ticle of the harness made by our best work boys, so that I think you
have as good a harness as we could turn out.

The expressage is $6.00, and the cost of the trimmings is
$6.60. The leather and work will be my contribution to your pro-
ject.

Trusting it may reach you in time and give the pleasure and
satisfaction you desire, and with best wishes of the season to you
all, I am always

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Carlisle, Pa., December 15th, 1897.

Rev. Alfred P. McClure,
103 South 15th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I have had your dateless letter and circular in regard to
the cruise on the Mediterranean some days. It has been a desire of
mine for some years to take such a trip. I see the deposits to se-
cure berths were required prior to November 25th, nearly a month ago,
so that as now appears, I would be practically barred from consider-
ing the matter, and in all probability desirable locations on the
steamer are taken.

If, however, this is not the case, and there is still a good
chance, will you please let me see plan of the steamer, and give me
such other information as I ought to have in considering it. If
I should go, I would take Mrs. Pratt, making two passengers.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 10th, 1997.

Lizzie Hill,

Downingtown, Pa.

My dear Lizzie:

While you have such an excellent opportunity for increasing your stock of education, I would not under any circumstances retire from it. These apparent necessities that come for you to something for others, do not need. If the necessities of your also ter should force her out into the same lines you have had, what harm is there? If people will insist upon staying on the reservation, they should suffer the consequences. I would starve every one of them into running away from the reservation.

I am delighted you have this grand chance for improvement. I have only this to say about your becoming a nurse. If you do become one, I want you to become the best nurse that has ever gone out from Carlisle, and in order to do that, education helps more than anything else. Therefore, I say again, do not run away from chances in that line. Your dealing with the children, gives you additional nurse power. It is all coming out right. Stick to it and push on.

Mrs. Pratt and I were so glad to meet you on the way to Philadelphia, and to see how great your improvement. We think of you as one of our very best school daughters.

Please remember me to Miss Edge, her mother, brother and his wife, and with love to Annie and yourself, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., December 18th, 1897.

Hon. A.S. Draper,

My dear Judge Draper:

The football was duly received, and turned over to the athletic association, and I can assure you that it is highly prized by the players who had the honor of having it under their supervision part of the time in Chicago. They are profuse in their thanks to Dr. Draper and all who helped to make their relations with the Illinois Team and University so pleasant, and are even now anticipating with pleasure the renewal of their next year.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 16th, 1897.

Edward Marsden,

Lane Seminary,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

My dear Edward:

I shall be glad to have you with us at Commencement
which will be the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of March next. On the evening
of the 1st, we have a lecture by some noted man. On the evening of
the 2nd, we have a sort of a class meeting, with five minute speeches
from distinguished officials, congressmen and others. I wish you
would roll yourself down to the beat you can do in five minutes on
this occasion.

Your presence with us on this occasion will be a great pleasure to all of us, and an inspiration to all of our pupils.

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John E.uga.

Bensonwa, Oregon.

I have the two copies of your march, and have sent the
one in for Miss Carter to her. We shall take great pleasure
in getting at the merits of your piece. Mr. Wheelock says that it
looks well.

We are all glad to hear of the favorable conditions you en-
joy in your family and in your band, and trust that you may go on to
higher and better things.

shall be glad to receive the band parts of your piece when
completed.

With kindest regards to Elizabeth and the little Lavinia, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., December 13th, 1897.

Miss Clara D. Merriman,
Berlin, New Hampshire.

Capt. E. Merriman,

Thanks for yours of the 9th. Your experience
is not an unusual one, and I think the multiplicity of such cases
is证明 to have a very marked effect upon the future of Civil Service
experiences have continued in the same line, and only that
I have gotten a little more used to them, I should have to give up.
We are expecting that inside of a month there will be a change in
the kind of Indian Schools, and that different conditions along this
line will take place at once. If it is to be the settled policy of
Government, I shall not remain in the Indian Service. I am too
much crippled in my efforts to advance my cause, and cannot stand
the annoyance.

If you have a good place, as a friend, I would advise you to
hold on to it, rather than to undertake the uncertainties of the
present systems controlling in the Indian School Service.

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Maj. G.W. Baird,

Paymaster General's Office,
War Department,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Major:

I have given quite a little thought to the proposition of becoming a member of the Order of Indian Wars. I passed through two campaigns against the Indians of the Southwest in '68 and '69, and in '74 and '75, and for eight years I participated in many scouts for and pursuits of Indians raiding in Texas; but I find myself so cumbered with duties here, and my thoughts directed in a line so contrary to a continuance of these recollections, that I think I had better not join the association.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 14th, 1897.

Hon. Romulus Z. Linney,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

I have just read your speech on Civil Service in the House on the 10th, and wish to say how pleased I am with it, and how well I think it covers the case from a proper legislative standpoint. Something must be done, and that right soon. We are not getting the help we need. We have no end of difficulty and delays in securing what we do get, and taken altogether there is an arrogance which savors of the imperialism which is breeding.

My correspondence with the Department since Civil Service proves the truth of your statement in regard to the imperiousness of Government clerks under Civil Service. I used to think that I knew my business, but an upstart clerk of no experience does not hesitate to tell me I do not, and to delay my matters generally. The situation here with me has simply become so unbearable that unless there is a modification and a change, and a reinstatement of my own powers and judgment in matters pertaining to what I am doing, I shall be compelled into self defense to quit.

I think you may possibly be interested in a brief address I made before the Cumberland County Teachers' Convention a few days ago, (at which some of the most notable educators of this state were present,) on this same point and including something on the Indian

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question, and I send you a copy enclosed.

You are probably quite well aware of the condition of your son-in-law, Mr. Hendren. He has a sick leave which ends on the 22nd of this month. He has not been strong since he came to Carlisle. Mr. Hendren is a thoroughly good man, and has the high esteem of every one at the school, including his pupils. His disability is almost as unfortunate for us as for him, on account of the difficulty of filling his place. It is the judgment of my school physician, and it has been mine, that he does himself an injury in attempting to do his work when he is not able. He needs a good rest, and, while I regret to say it, I believe he would get on better if he reenters the service when he went into a milder climate.

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Hon. James S. Sherman,

Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs,
House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir;

I was called on to say something at the Cumberland County Teachers' Convention a few days ago, and put down on paper what I desired to say. As it touches on Civil Service and the Indian question, both of which are before you now, I venture to send you a copy.

I expect to be in Washington tomorrow or next day, and hope to see you.

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Howard E. Cansworth,
42 North Edwards Hall,
Princeton, N.J.

My dear Howard:

I am delighted to get such a good account from you,
and to hear that you will be with us at Christmas.

I shall be glad to make use of the Princeton atmosphere you
will bring with you.

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Hon. Charles Landis,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir;

I see that you were among those in the House who met to consider action against Civil Service. I do hope something may be done soon to bridle, if not entirely do away with the law. It will not be necessary to take out a patent on the idea, as no well regulated business in this world, governmental or other, will ever want to make any regular use of it.

You may be interested in some views I gave at our County Teachers' Convention a few days ago, at which were presented some of our best educational men in the state. As last year the town papers misquoted me, I thought it best to have my little speech prepared. I enclose you copy.

I think of going down to Washington tomorrow, and if I do shall hope to see you.

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Rev. A.J.P. McClure,

My dear Brother McClure:

I should be delighted, and there is nothing I want to do more than to go with you on the trip to the Mediterranean. I returned from Washington last night, and the situation in reason to Indian matters and my affairs here, forbid my leaving home, until after our Commencement, which occurs on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of March.

It is to be new Administration, and those in the highest positions are indicated their intention to come here soon, probably at our Commencement, and it seems an opportunity to give them a knowledge of my views and work that I should not forgo. If I should be away, the chances are they would not come, consequently I am rather forced to give it up. If the trip was to take place any time after the 5th of March, I should in all probability go. I must get away some how, and that too, before very long; but I can stand it a while longer, and it seems that I must do that.

Mrs. Pratt and I should enjoy exceedingly just this particularly trip. We have never been across the Atlantic, and have taken it for years, and it had reached that point where we said we would stop for a week, but you see how it is,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 20th, 1897.

Miss Luzena Choteau

J.B. Farrwell Co., Compton & Ryther,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Luzena:

I am just back from Washington, and have your letter of the 12th. I do not see how it would be possible for me to recommend your brother for a place. It is as much as I do not know him. The superintendent at Santa Fe should be his endorser. His record is all made there, and at the Agency. An endorsement from a person who does not know whom they endorse, amounts to nothing. You see how it is.

I can well understand how the conditions at the Agency are
not met him. The conditions at all agencies are against the
Indians, against their moral development, their industrial development, and
their progress in every way. I know of no exception. It is too
bad, but so it is.

In regard to your absence from the football game. You told me
that you expected to be absent, and why; so I understood it. You're
a very remarkable career, and I am constantly wondering whether
you will hold out and make a great success of it. I certainly hope so.

With best wishes of the season from us all

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Mr. Levi Levering,

Indian School, Ft. Hall, Idaho.

My dear Levi,

I have just been reading your speech before the
Convention at Ogden. Chauncey is here now as Asst. Discipinarian
and was at Ogden and heard you speak.

As you probably have a retained copy of your speech, will you
please send it to me that I may read it over, and compare it with
what has been printed. I will return it to you if you want it.

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Carliole, Pa., December 20th, 1897.

My dear Mr. Wood:

I want to bring Congressman Charles Landis and
his wife here on their way to Washington after the Holidays.

Will you please send me two first-class tickets and one half-ticket, Logansport, Ind., to Washington, with stop-over at Harrisburg, good until the 15th of January, and bill to me at the lowest rate you can name.

Mr. Landis is a member of the Indian Committee, and in a position to be of material aid to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 20th, 1887.

Miss E.L. Patterson,
Teller Institute,
Grand Junction, Colo.

My dear Miss Patterson:

I have just been to Washington, and had a general talk with the Commissioner about affairs. I dined and spent several hours in his company at his instance, and then we saw the Secretary.

Just at present things are being held in abeyance. While we do not know positively, there is every indication that at the expiration of Dr. Hailman's Commission in January, a change will be made. While that is pending, no other except such as are absolutely necessary, will be undertaken.

I do not know Senator Penrose, and have always valued making use of political influence. If I want anything from those in authority, I go direct and talk to them.

I think it would be all right for Senator Penrose to speak a word for you if he would. You are entirely correct in the position that political influence tells, Civil Service or not.

When a change comes in our Head, I shall feel free to say something there; but I have not gone into Dr. Hailman's office on any of my recent trips to Washington. I give him those by. He comes and wants to talk to me, but I have no disposition to attempt to

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Mr. Wilmer Atkinson,
Farm Journal, 1024 Race St.,
Philadelphia, Penns.

My dear Sirs

I am greatly in sympathy with your scheme to establish postal saving depositories, as tending to greater security for depositors, especially for the laboring and poor, who can only put away small amounts. It seems to me to be using this means for the general good of our people and a help to the Government, and not for the enrichment of corporations.

It would aid the Government in placing loans whenever necessary, and by issuing bonds in small amounts to depositors they would feel that they were more a part of the Government, and that these privileges were not entirely for the rich. It would enable the Government to feel the pulse of the people better, as deposits would generally fluctuate accordingly to the industrial conditions.

In the monetary reform now being agitated, small banks are called for, so that remote neighborhoods might have banking privileges. The postal system would obviate this difficulty, and to a larger extent than the plan proposed.

For these and other equally good reasons, I wish you success in your scheme.

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

In compliance with the suggestion of the Honorable Secretary of the Interior at our conference on Friday, I respectfully bring to your and his attention Mr. Frank Cayou, a graduate of this school of the Class of '96, who is ambitious to enter West Point.

Mr. Cayou was a member of the Columbian Guards at the World's Exposition in Chicago, and came to Carlisle at the close of the Exposition in October, '93, with commendation from Col. E. Rice, Capt. 5th Infantry, the Commandant of the Guards. Mr. Cayou entered one of our higher departments and easily kept in line with his grades until he graduated. On graduation he entered the Preparatory Department of Dickinson College, and with the close of this school year will be ready to enter the freshman class of the College. His career as a student, both in Carlisle and in Dickinson College, has been in the highest degree satisfactory and exemplary, and I feel assured that he will do great credit to his selection if given an appointment at the Military Academy. Plausibly, he is exceptionally qualified, and has a military habit and habit which will at once give him prestige among his peers at the Academy. He is one of our most noted football players.

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The Inter Collegiate and School Field Sports in Carlisle last
spring was easily foremost in all the races.

Mr. Cayou is 20 years of age, and is a half Omaha. An appoint-
ment for him at the Military Academy and a successful career, which
I feel assured he would have, would add a very great impetus to
Indian education, and would go a long ways toward giving the In-
dian a better standing in the Army. There is no race prejudice
against the Indian in the Army, as there is against the Navajos,
and Mr. Cayou would be, I am sure, entirely acceptable as a member
of the corps of cadets.

For information in regard to Mr. Cayou's class work I enclose his report just received for the Preparatory Department of Dickinson College. He has been that in French, and especially in Mathematics (especially the Military Academy) he has a very high standing, and this too during the period when he had to miss many recitations on account of his absence with our football team. Neither on nor off the football team have I in the same department can at all compare with him in this respect. I also enclose his photograph.

I, respectfully recommend and urge, in the interests
of the Government work so long under my care, that the President
be requested to give Mr. Cayou one of the appointments at his dis-
posal.

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Carlisle, Penn., Dec. 21, 1897.

Mrs. Flora Kenjockety,

Irving, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Kinjockety;-- It would be impracticable for us to permit the students from New York to go home for the vacation, for the reason that if we did, we would have to let those who want to go to Michigan and Wisconsin and other points in the West, and so create no end of bother and expense, so we have accordingly had to refuse, except in very rare cases, and where the absence from home has been prolonged, and the students are especially responsible and worthy.

It would be better that you save for your own use, the money that you would pay out for your boy's visit home.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 22nd, 1997.

Mrs. Lydia A. Corbett,
Kamiah, Idaho.

My dear Lydia!

I am so glad to get your good letter, and to know
you are in such excellent health. While, of course, we were all
sorry that you did not return to Carlisle, it is a great satisfaction
to me to know that you have improved so much in health, and so
particularly that you are married, and that your life is useful to your
self and to others.

I am very glad to hear that Johnson Spencer is doing well. If
he only holds out faithful, what a grand thing it would be for
him. If our students, generally, who return to the reservations,
can do well and set a good example, and be a real help to their
people, instead of a bad example and a pull down influence, there
will be a change in the sentiment about their returning, and we
shall be more willing to let them return.

I enclose you check for $200.99, covering balance of your money
here.

I must let you get the news from the Helper, which I hope you
take, and with congratulations and love to you all, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., December 24th, 1897.

Rev. George Norcross.

Carlisle, Penn'a.

My dear Doctor:

There are so many of these western schemes that
are entirely in the interests of the white men, that I hesitate
to recommend and help even such a good man as Rev. Whittmore.

The facts are that for centuries, practically, the Pima, Mar-
opa and Papago Indians were a peaceful, self supporting and ag-
ual, natural people in Southern Arizonas, drawing ample water supply
from the river, which it is now proposed to dam. White men came
and settled above them and took all the water out of the river, and
when I was out there with Nana a year ago last summer, the United
States through its engineers was trying to solve the problem as
to whether it would be possible to find water below ground that
could be lifted by heavy machinery to the surface in sufficient
quantities to irrigate their lands. From what I saw, I believe
there is about nine parts white men to one part Indian in this
scheme, and if these people out there had the interests of the
Indians at heart, they would prosecute the white men who have de-
prived them of their water supply and consequently of their liv-
ing. No disposition of that kind is shown. It is a tremendous
expense, as you can see, and at the present stage of the finances
of the country and the disposition of the administrative officials
in regard to it, Rev. Whittmore's trip will be, I am sure, entirely

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without result. I have just heard, both in the House and Senate, talk in regard to Indian matters which is no different to that in regard to all other matters. The intention is to cut down expenses everywhere, and it would be useless to bring up a scheme like Dr. Whittmore's at this time, even if it could be fully established that the dam was entirely for the benefit of the Indians and beyond the possibility of white men monopolizing. The conditions I saw as I rode through the different Indian settlements with the Agent were very sorry indeed. The Department is trying to work out some method of relief, and in that will be guided by our own officials who may not entirely accord with the surrounding critics. In the meantime I will take care of the 43 Pima and Papago children I have here, and they will not suffer for water or anything else at present. They made friends everywhere by their good working qualities while out from the school last summer farming and in housework, etc., and I would have no trouble in handling 10 or 20 times as many of them, and placing them in the best of civilizing lines if I had them here.

Rev. Whittmore's letter is here returned.

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Carable, Pa., December 28th, 1997.

Mr. Guy Le Roy Stevick,

8E1 Ernest and Cramer Building,
Denver, Colorado.

My dear Guy:

Yours of the 21st game duly. It is all right for
you and Marion to manage the $15.00 as seems best to you. What
I want is to get Joe self supporting as soon as possible. That
is the only healthy state for him and all others.

Mason was over last night making and renewing levels for the
men who are at work grading our athletic field. They are all very
well and had a delightful Christmas. Mabel is up, and they are
talking of coming over on Friday and be with us for New Year's
dinner.

I read the report of your Commission with great interest. It
is as good a showing as I would expect. When I remember the
by tourists, and the natives
amount of game killed out of season, the time was with you out on
White River, there seems a hypocritical sanctimoniousness that
ought to be punctured. The game will eventually all go, laws or
no laws, and I have no doubt a very large share of it will continue
to be destroyed during the period law is supposed to protect. It
seems absurd that white men who do not need the game, and who sim-
ply destroy it for their own amusement, should have a monopoly of
the business as against the Indians who are dependent on part of
it for their livelihood. The Government, both State and National,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 26th, 1897.

Mr. D.S. Lindsay,
14 South Broad Street,
Philadelphia, Penna.

My dear Sir;

I received with great gratitude yours of December
24th with enclosed check for $40.00, Christmas gift to this school
from Dr. Trumbull's Bible Class, and return to Dr. Trumbull, you
and the class very many thanks.

I send you 30 copies of my Annual Report for distribution among
the members of the Bible Class.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 28th, 1897.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

Dear Mr. Commissioner:

When I was at Leavenworth in August for examination, the secretary of the Board that examined me was a Lieutenant Francis C. Marshall of the 8th Cavalry. A clean, nice business fellow, as his detail for such duty would indicate. He had quite an Indian experience in the command of the Cheyenne Company, made up of young men from Lame Deer, the Northern Cheyenne band, and I discovered that he was greatly interested in the welfare of the young people, and kept up his relations with them to a certain extent. He indicated to me that he would be glad if there was to be a change in the Agent for those people that he might have a chance to take hold of them, and do something for them as an Agent, and I promised him then if it came in my way that I would say a word to the authorities in his behalf. I am reminded of my dereliction in this matter by a note from him having messages to some of the young men who were under his command, and are now here as pupils.

I can only say that if there was to be a change at that agency and the Government wanted an Army officer, I believe that Lieut. Marshall would be an exceptionally good man for the place. His wife also is a lady of refinement, and I should judge would be

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1st Lieut. Francis C. Marshall,
St. Leavenworth, Kansas.

My dear Marshall:

I thank you for your kindly note and for perse-
outing yourself with the reading of my report. I never made
a raid on the Army with my views before, and it seemed about time
that I should be understood better by my brothers and fellows, so
I sent to a very large number of our officers, and am glad I did,
because I have had quite a number of very pleasant notes of apre-
ciation.

Do you know that if I could have you here at Carlisle for a
short time until you were indoctrinated with the right ideas on
the Indian question, I should be glad to see you in the Indian Ser-
vice. Not that I should not be glad to see you there anyhow,
only I should be more glad. Scarcely any of my brother officers
really understand me, nor do they understand the possibilities of
Indian civilization, and it is simply because they come in contact
with the original conditions, and general accept of views that
have grown out of experiences with original conditions.

That does is all right here. He is a splendid workman, and get-
ting along well in school, old as he is, and is blossoming out
into a champion football player. You had trouble with him be-
cause of your surroundings and environment. I have no trouble with
him because of my surroundings and environment, which are entirely

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Carlisle, Pa., December 28th, 1907.

Miss Alice C. Leeds,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Arizona.

My dear Alice:

Thank you for your nice letter and for the enclosed
photograph. How well you look, you seem to be in the best of
health. I am so glad to hear of your satisfaction with Phoenix,
and that all of you old Carlislers are getting on so well there.

Whenever you get ready to come back to Carlisle, come right
over. It will be all right.

We all send to you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 29th, 1897.

J.R. Wood, G.P.A.,

Philadelphia, Penn'a.

Dear Sir:

I am annoyed to be informed by Mr. Landis that it is not
possible for him to be here with his family during the holidays,
as he agreed to, on account of Committee meetings which require
him to hasten directly to Washington; but he assures me that a
little later on he will come up from Washington with his wife and
daughter and bring Senator Fairbanks with him.

I, therefore, return the three tickets for which I paid by
my check of December 24th.

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Miss Bessie H. Cummins,

1158 Eighth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Cummins:

Mary Bailey will be very glad to go down and meet the arrangements you have made. She will leave here Friday, Jan. 7th, at 6 o'clock, which will bring her into Washington by the Baltimore & Potomac Road at 10. am. You will see her meet her.

She should leave there Monday morning at 7:50, which would bring her home at noon, so that her loss to her school-mates would only be one half day.

It will be a pleasant trip for her, I am sure, and I am glad to have her take it in the interests of the work.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 31st, 1897.

Gen. John Eaton,

The Concord, Washington, D.C.

My dear General:

I thank you heartily for your kindly appreciation of my Annual Report.

We printed ten thousand copies, and I sent to every newspaper throughout the United States having a circulation of one thousand and over; to every College, Normal School and Academy; to all the many friends of our Carlisle cause; to every member of Congress; to every Indian School and every Indian Agent; to every Army officer of the rank of 1st. Lieutenant and above, etc., so that I think your suggestion that it should be widely circulated is pretty well carried out.

I am glad to know that you are pleased with the work on your Mormon paper. The printing of my regular report and some other matters necessarily delayed your work, but I hope it was not too late to serve your purpose.

Mrs. Pratt and the girls join me in most cordial remembrances to you and yours.

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