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Jan. 1, 1900.

Hon. W. J. Sewell,
U. S. Senator,
Camden, N. J.

My dear Senator :-

Richard Heyl visited us on Saturday and returned to Camden on Sunday. He is a fair presentation of what I would accomplish for all Indians. His plan of returning and taking up any work to help his people is very unfortunate and he should be persuaded to continue along his present lines. He is entirely capable, so far as I can see, to struggle for the good things of our civilized life and meet all the issues, and that means he will be a burden to nobody. The very minute he drops into any work for the Indians he has to be supported by the Government or charity, and we already have too many people engaged in that way. I argued with him and seemed to have some influence. He promised to return later and stay two or three days, and this will give me a better chance.

The Indian Societies all over the country are most baneful in their influence, never offering so far as I have ever known, the least help to young Indians to escape from Indianism, but always pouring our civilization upon the Indians, especially influencing young Indians to return and help their people, never in a single instance within my knowledge pouring Indians into our civilization or urging that young Indians educated in our civilization should remain and struggle with it. This young man has equipped himself

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for the duties of civilized life in a mechanical way and seems by
his own statements and experience to be equal to making a good
living. There is a possibility that nature is pressing for compar-
lonship. Let him take one of our good girls and establish himself,
continuing to work for the great Pennsylvania Railroad. There
would be no trouble about that so far as I can see.

Col. and Mrs. Heyl are entitled to great credit for turning
out such a product, but it would be a great pity to submit the pro-
duct to the debasing influences of Arizona or any other western
community amid the surroundings of an Indian tribe. The only pos-
sibility of success would be as an employe of the Government, and
if it devolves upon the Government to provide salaried positions
for every civilized Indian I don't see much encouragement for the
Government.

Very truly yours,

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Jan. 1, 1900.

To The Honorable,
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

In conversation with you I have several times spoken against the location of the Perris School, California. I understand an effort is being made to change its location and to secure the necessary funds and authority from Congress. With all the emphasis I can I wish to urge that a change be made at once. I visited the Perris School, and a more senseless location for a non-reservation school it would be hard to find. It is in the midst of a great plain, without sufficient water, and remote from all civilizing and industrial influences which are the real motive and reason for having non-reservation schools at all. I trust that Congress will give full weight to the influences which led to the establishment of the school at that point and will not heed the solicitations of the interested parties who planted it there. We have wasted an unreasonable amount of time and opportunity, and all to gratify the interests of these people. The Perris School as well as all non-reservation schools ought to be located where the surrounding civilizing and industrial influences will be daily is and real helps to the school. Perris not so located, and the conditions are such as to forbid the hope that there will be within

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Jan. 1, 1900.

Hon. Wm. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

This morning I have the resignation of my tailor, Mr. Snyder, to take effect the 1st of February.

I have found this one of the most difficult places to get a proper person for in the school as tailors are so universally tobacco and whiskey users. I shall need a man for his place who is free from both these habits and is otherwise morally qualified to fit in as a helper here. What shall I do ? I got Mr. Snyder by advertising for just what I wanted in "The Phila. Press." If you can make these restrictions relative to tobacco, whiskey and moral conduct an element in a Civil Service examination and the Civil Service Bureau can supply, I shall of course be glad to be relieved of the responsibility of hunting a man. Please let me know at once what to do.

Mrs. Ewhank is very anxious to give up cooking. She insists that it is not in her line. She has done the best she could, but her desire was to get into the service as matron, and in order to do so is willing to accept a smaller salary for the time being if she may. I think she would fit in very well at Cherokee, N. Car. and the more experience she has before entering upon larger duties, the better. I find she is a person somewhat inclined to cross her

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bridges before she gets to them, which is a little unfortunate,
but she is a most excellent and worthy woman.

I am sorry to report that Dr. Eastman is dangerously ill. I
sent him to South Dakota for pupils. He was fairly successful and
came back with the last lot. He was not ill when he arrived but
complained that the heated cars between Chicago and here had led
him to stand outside in order to cool off. He had a heavy cold.
He went to bed, and being a homeopathist himself, sent for a home-
oropathist in town who played with him several days without evident-
ly knowing anything about or apprehending his real condition. I
took the Doctor to our hospital in order to give him a quiet and
perfectly comfortable place, and the nurse soon detected pneumonia
An allopath would probably have detected it at once and built a-
gainst it. Today and tomorrow are the turning points and he is
now in very great danger. It is plain even if he recovers that he
will not be of any use to me for weeks as an outing agent. I put
off the outing visits until after the 1st of January in order to
let him get in pupils, and the matter is pressing. I shall have
to hire someone else to do it as every employe I have is fully oc-
cupied. Will submit this matter officially later.

Yours truly,

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Jan. 2, 1900.

Estaine Dupeltquestangue,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Estaine :-

I send you herewith my check for Twelve Dollars ($12) payable to yourself, covering your balance here. This you can enderse over to Dr. Philips if you desire, and I have instructed that Mrs. Hayes aid you in paying a portion each month, as you wish. Dr. Philips' bill is returned herewith. You have the proper feeling about the debt and I am glad to know that it is shaping itself so well that you can see the end of it.

We are having elegant weather just now and have opened school after the holidays with everybody eager and earnest. The skating pond close by the school is very popular with the boys and girls. We still have a number of holiday visitors, but most of them return today or tomorrow.

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Jan. 2, 1900.

Dr. Frank P. Burgess,
941 Howard St.,
San Francisco, Cal.

My dear Doctor :-

Thank you for the clippings. Glad you liked the game,
and shall accept your proposition to diagnose my case again should
I happen your way.

We were a little disappointed in our boys, but want of prac-
tice from Thanksgiving until the time of starting, being cooped
up in a car for five days enroute, pampered at one of the finest
hotels in the city, out till midnight seeing Chinatown, and spend-
ing the days in trips to the parks, GoldenGate and elsewhere,--
were none of them conducive to keeping up an equipment for the
struggle. Besides, the boys played on a sandy field where they
had no grip on the ground and with an unusually large ball ; so
taken all in all there were ample reasons why they did not show
up better. The tide of battle in a game of football is very easi-
ly turned, as we have learned on several occasions.

With best wishes for the New Year, I am

Sincerely yours,

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Jan. 4, 1900.

Rev. G. W. Chamberlain,
Bd. of Foreign Missions, Presb. Ch.,
156 Fifth Ave.,
New York.

My dear Doctor :-

I send you four of the five little books you left at our
house, keeping one for myself as you authorized.

In regard to the "good Injun" to go along with Mr. Witte, if
you will find the means I will find the Indian and will guarantee
to send you a good one, one that Mr. Witte will be glad to have
along. What it would lead to would have to be left with the good
Father. But I believe in it and feel that it would work out some-
thing worth while.

We have just had a large car with a full exhibit of Philip-
pine products and large display of photographs, which the whole
school has examined with care and profit. The fields are great,
and apparently already white to the harvest. Since you were here
I have been asked to name the head of a reproduction of Carlisle
in Porto Rico by the educational management there, and have recom-
mended my Assistant Superintendent. They also want other employes
O, that America might rise up in her might and do all she has such
rich opportunity to do, and do it right.

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Jan. 4, 1900.

Mrs. Mary E. Copp Wilbur,
1719 15th St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Wilbur :-

I expect to be in Washington next week for several days,
probably going down on Monday, possibly getting back Thursday, and
shall be in Washington occasionally thereafter during the session
of Congress.

In regard to a party of musicians from the school, our band
numbers 60 pieces, and we are thinking of giving an entertainment
in Washington to which we may invite members of Congress and de-
partmental officials, either this month or early in February. We
have no small party of young people that could do much, - no prod-
igies. We could have a quartette who would sing fairly well, and
among whom would be one or two who could talk. They would be grea-
ly gratified to have a trip to Washington without expense to them-
selves, and you could have them for their expenses down and back
and their entertainment. If your members are really in earnest,
they will be willing to take them to their homes, one here and an-
other there for entertainment, so that the affair would resolve
itself simply into railroad fare, which is $4.29 for the round
trip.

If we give an entertainment in Washington I should be glad to
have the sympathy and aid of your society in helping us to cover

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Jan. 5, 1900.

Rev. Robert A. MacFadden,
Chelsea, Mass.

My dear Robert :-

I am in receipt of the enclosed without remark in an envelope from Chas. G. Smith, 2589 Washington St., Roxbury Dist., Boston. The envelope is addressed "Indian Industrial School", and I take it we are probably a legates. It would be interesting to know, and thinking you might have some lawyer friend in your congregation who could enlighten me, or might yourself make a little inquiry, I send it to you. I know absolutely nothing about it except what appears on this slip.

Trusting you are well and prosperous, and wishing you and Mrs. MacFadden most heartily a happy new year in which all Carlisle joins, I am

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Jan. 6, 1900.

Dr. W. W. Stryker, Pres.,
Hamilton College,
Utica, N. Y.

My dear Doctor :-

Am greatly pleased you will come March 13th and give us
your "Lincoln" lecture.

As we get farther from his period he more and more looms up
as the colossal character of the century. It is impossible to over
do tributes to him. You will have a fairly intelligent audience,
so that you need yield little or nothing in the way of adapting
your lecture.

I have a special arrangement with railroads at that time for
low rate tickets, and would be glad to know which route you prefer.
Our football boys went by the Northern Central to Northumberland,
thence via Scranton and Binghamton on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western to Utica. It might suit you better via New York. I shall
gladly arrange it either way.

With kindest regards,

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Henry Kitewini,

Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Henry :-

Jan. 8, 1900.

We have not heard from you for some time, but are always
glad to hear from old students. It is encouraging to know that
you are getting on so well.

Things have changed somewhat at the school since you were here
There are 1027 on the rolls this winter, and all the quarters are
crowded. During the summer we added several rooms to the school-
building to be ready for the larger number, and made other pre-
parations. School began again last week after a week's vacation
during the holidays.

The weather has been especially pleasant this fall and winter.
Have had some good skating, but no snow to speak of.

You keep track of our doings by reading "The Helper", I suppose, and I must leave you to get the general news from that.

With good wishes for you thruout the new year,

Your friend and School-father,

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Jan. 8, 1900.

Jas. M. Cornelison,
Pendleton, Ore.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your inquiry in regard to Annie Minthorn, I am glad to report that she is in the best of health and seems happy and contented. I cannot understand why her father does not hear from her. All pupils are required to write at least one home letter a month. In this letter a report on conduct, health, standing, etc. is enclosed. Annie says she has written regularly and has received letters from home in answer to hers. Her December letter has probably not reached her father yet, but should in a day or so. Beside this monthly letter, pupils are at liberty to write as often as they wish. Annie is getting on nicely, and there is no cause for uneasiness on the part of her father. Please assure him of this, and obligo

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Thomas H. Mackey,
Niobrara, Neb.

Jan. 6, 1860.

Dear Sir :-

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