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Adolph Reinken,

Unalaska, Alaska.

My dear Mr. Reinken :-

Your son John is entitled to go home, having been here more than five years. My rule about Alaska children has always been that they should pay their own way from their homes to Seattle and from Seattle to their homes. If you will arrange for John's steamer passage I will send him to Seattle at any time you direct.

Your daughter Annie came July 25, 1897; consequently she is not entitled to return home until 1902. We have to carry out this arrangement strictly or there would be constant confusion in our now more than school of a thousand pupils. In regard to your other children coming here; Leon is too young. We do not want children of ten. Olega being twelve could come at any time and I would arrange for her transportation from Seattle at any time, if you can send her to that point.

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May 30, 1900.

Mrs. F. M. Eddy,
"The Varnum",
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Eddy :-

As Alice could not begin a school course until fall, I
see no reason why she should not go with you to the seashore if
you want her to go and she cares to do so. However, if you and
she have arranged that she do not stay with you, she should come
to Carlisle and start home from here. In Alice's case it does not
matter particularly whether you pay the money to her or send it to
the school, as she is a capable and sensible girl. The only thing
required is a settlement, so that we may know here. We keep a
record of all who go out, how long, what they earn, etc.

When you are through with Alice she comes here and from
here goes to her aunt. What she should learn afterward is for
herself and her aunt to work out. I should say she ought to fit
herself for something outside of the Indian service. She is bright
and capable and there is no reason why she should be waiting for
an appointment in the Indian service. It is high time that hundreds
of young Indians were launching out for themselves.

With kindest regards to yourself and Mr. Eddy,

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Jacob Skye,
Sawyer, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your last letter, I have directed that your
daughter Elizabeth be called in from the country to go home, as
you ask. I expect to start her from here Monday evening, June 4th
and she should reach Sawyer Wednesday evening.

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May 30, 1900.

Major Gen. L. Cooper,
Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

My dear Cooper :

Thanks for your letter of the 16th. I have been so disappointed
out of better that I have taken little interest in anything for
the past six or seven weeks. However, I am sure at my dark memory
only, but think of going down to Hot Springs, Arkansas, Dr. Dill-
erson, of the Army, have a month or six weeks there will get me rid
of my chronic condition. And been troubling with exsanguination in
my left knee for more than a year.

I know we may doubt on everybody holding on pretty close
until after next winter's legislation. There seems to be a general
intention that medicalandy changes will take place then. How
even, we are in suchagua that I begin to doubt whether anything
we can do. The House has managed to kill the Secretary's bill,
which on the whole, I do not think was a bad move because army re-
organization should be unique and complete instead of erratic and
unpredictable. After the campaign is over there will be a more tem-
perate condition. It is certainly to be hoped for.

If I go to the Hot Springs I will drop in on you.

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May 30, 1900.

Chief Quannah Parker,

Fort Sill, O. T.

My dear Friend :-

I wrote you and Mr. Standing wrote you about your children. They are all doing well and Harold is a Junior and should graduate and quit Carlisle for good next March. All except Esther have been home for a visit, and in this respect have been more favored than any children that ever were at Carlisle, because of my friendship for you; so that it does not seem best or practicable that they go home this summer. Sometime ago Harold had a little hemorrhage, but my physician pronounced it entirely a throat matter. He is out, plays tennis, and seems to be enjoying life, and so far as we can see there is no need to feel concerned about him.

When children come for five years and are allowed to go home for a visit before the five years is up, we make a rule that their return to Carlisle shall begin a new five years.

Trusting you are well and that all goes well with my old friends among the Kiowas and Comanches, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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May 31, 1900.

Captain O. C. Applegate,
United States Indian Agent,
Klamath Agency, Oregon.

My dear Captain:--

I have been away from home practically for six weeks, most of the time in hospital--yet my rheumatism continues.

Yesterday I saw your boys and had quite a full talk with all of them. They are really a nice party. I am very much obliged to you for sending them and trust that we may do them good and that your expectations and mine may be realized.

As the summer comes on and I realize that I have got to take some sort of an outing, my heart turns Klamathward very strongly. I think that if I could have one solid month there I should be re-organized; but the Doctor says that I had better go to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and I anticipate doing that.

I am sorry to tell you that my daughter Richenda has been laid up for about seven weeks with inflammatory rheumatism in a hospital in Philadelphia. She is so far recovered that she has now returned home.

With cordial remembrances to Mrs. Applegate, her sister and the children and all the jolly people we met at the Agency, I am,

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May 31, 1900.

Miss Elspeth L. Fisher,
Indian School,
Genoa, Web.

Dear Miss Fisher:--

I have been away from home and in hospital almost
ever since receiving your letter about Miss Paxton. I suggest that
Miss Paxton write me directly, proposing a transfer with Miss Sen-
seny. I am not sure that anything will come of it, but it will do
no harm for her to do that much.

George Peake ran away from his country home and I find he is
living in Philadelphia, not creditably, and I have sent to have him
arrested. I fear he is a bad egg.

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May 31, 1900.

Mr. A. H. Viets,
Silver Valley,
Colton Co., Texas.

My dear Viets :-

Glad to know where you are and about you. I
doubt very much whether it is worth while for me to
make any effort against the Superintendent at Santa
Fe. If he has made up his mind we would better let
it go for the present and it will work itself out.
We have more than a hundred children to be trans-
ferred from Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia. We
send home less than a hundred, and as we have almost
a thousand now without those from Philadelphia we
shall not be short of pupils. Then, you say they
are all boys, and I must have a reasonable propor-
tion of girls. Another unfavorable feature about
the matter is that they are very likely to be Cath-
olics, which is a condition that I want to guard a-
gainst. We are getting too many.

I have not seen the Commissioner for several months.
My appeals for you and others in the service seem
to have made me somewhat persona non grata.

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May 31, 1900.

Mrs. F. M. Eddy,
"The Varnum",
Cor. New Jersey Ave, & "G" St., S.E.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Eddy :-

I have yours of yesterday about Alice, and all there is
to be done is to send her here. It might be just as well to send
the check here, payable to me, with statement of her account. Then
it becomes part of our permanent record, so that in case of ques-
tions of any kind, we are able to meet the issues,

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May 31, 1900.

Mr. James H. Pratt,
1700 Carondolet St.,
New Orleans, La.

Dear Nephew :-

I have yours of May 25th. My daughter and I have been in hospital for over five weeks. Am at home now for a short time but expect to take her with me to Hot Springs, Arkansas. I don't get rid of my rheumatism, and that seems to be the best outlook.

I spoke to my son about your employment at Steelton, but it seems they are now not in need of help so much as sometime ago, and the chances are not favorable there. Of late I have been out so little that I really unable to form an opinion as to the prospect of your getting employment up this way. I have no trouble in getting places for three or four hundred Indian boys and as many girls the boys at farm work, and the girls at housework, but this of course is only for the summer.

The doctor thinks six weeks at Hot Springs will cure me, but I have been trying so many things for more than a year past without avail that I am not so hopeful.

With love to your mother and Laura,

Your affectionate uncle,

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May 31, 1900.

Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd.
3910 Walnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Doctor :-

I enclose my check for $98.00 in payment of
the enclosed bill, which please receipt.

In regard to Hot Springs, Arkansas, I find it
takes an order from the Adjutant General of the Army
to admit me there. Have made request and expect every
day to have an answer. I could hardly go for a coup-
le of weeks, however, Dr. Seabrook seemed to think it
would be best to take Richenda there, and I may do
that. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda join me in kindest
remembrances.

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May 31, 1900.

Supt. Frank Terry,
Puyallup Indian School,
Tacoma, Wash.

My dear Terry :-

I enclose to you both a poster and newspaper advertisement, such as we are using this year. The newspaper advertisement is of course mostly phrased by the office.

I have been laid up for the past six or seven weeks and have not seen the Commissioner for several months. There have been so many appeals made to me by those who were put out of the service like Chalcraft, and I have written so much to the Commissioner that I am almost ashamed to show my face there anymore. A very large part of my correspondence direct with him has been in the interests of those who were wronged by the last administration, and the last administration has a better grip on the situation than the present administration in the person of three out of five Chiefs of Divisions. There is also the additional fact that election is pending and everybody is to be conciliated; so that I very much fear nothing will be done for Chalcraft, at least not until after the idea of November.

Please say this much for me to Brother Eels,

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May 31, 1900.

Dr. Jas. A. O'Connor,
142 W. 21st St.,
New York City,

Dear Brother O'Connor :-

I have just read your June number of "The Con-
verted Catholic" from cover to cover, as I always do
every number. I am so interested in what is said and
what you are doing that I want to make a little con-
tribution to your work, and enclose my check for Ten
Dollars. Please send the June number to
"Uncle Joe",
C/o "Anihsihabe Enamiad",
Harbor Springs, Michigan,

also one copy to
R. Florian Hahn, Pub.
"The Mission Indian",
Panning, Cal.

and one to
The Editor, "Pittsburg Observer",
412 Diamond St.,
Pittsburg.

and seven other copies of the same number to me.

The balance please use toward your debt.

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May 31, 1900.

Dr. Geo, J. Ramsey,
901-305 E. Main St.,
Richmond, Va.

Dear Sir :-

I send you under separate cover several of my annual reports, from which I trust you can get some of the information you wish. A new "Course of Study" is in process of printing, and when completed will forward a copy to you. This will give more special informations as to methods, purchases and text books used.

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May 31, 1900.

Patrick Miguel,
Dolington, Pa.

Dear Patrick :-

The better way will be for you to have your brother go to Supt. Spears and ask him to write me about his coming to Carlisle. It is hardly right for me to invade the province of a Superintendent or Agent, Applications to come to Carlisle should be made through either agent or superintendent. Then there will be no hard feeling. It will be a simple matter for your brother to do this. If he fails then, let him write directly to the Commissioner or to me, and I will send his letter to the Commissioner.

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May 31, 1900.

Mrs. Petsey Harris,
Rodney, S. Car.

Dear Mrs. Harris :-

Lottie is a Junior and will graduate in about twenty-one months, and we have a rule that when pupils get into the Junior class they must remain until they graduate. Rose is below that grade, and I will let her go this summer when the home students leave, about the end of June. She goes with the expectation of re turning in the fall if her health is all right.

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May 31, 1906.

Mrs. Betsey Harris,
Roddey, S. Gar.

Dear Mrs. Harris :-

Lottie is a Junior and will graduate in about twenty-one months, and we have a rule that when pupils get into the Junior class they must remain until they graduate. Rose is below that grade, and I will let her go this summer when the home students leave, about the end of June. She goes with the expectation of returning in the fall if her health is all right.

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May 31, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Nolan,

QuonTAGa Oastle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Nolan :-

Your daughter Dora has been very naughty recently. She stole two dollars and a pocketbook belonging to one of the other girls and is now under punishment for it. We do not think she is entirely bad, and have hopes of her becoming a good honest woman, but she will need discipline and careful supervision. She is not entitled to go home this year, as you seem to think. Dora came in October, '95, and according to our rules her five years will be up next summer, that is, at the expiration of the school year following October, 1900.

As she is under discipline for the offense named, it is all the more important that we hold on to her here.

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May 31, 1960.

Mr. B. W. Fleming,
21 W. 24th St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

Guy Jones is entitled to return to his reservation at the expense of the school, and until he is returned or until it is settled that it is perfectly safe for me to drop him and I shall not be called upon at some future time to return him, I shall have to carry him on our rolls. For such students I have a system, the cutting, which you are studying, and I would be glad to have you make a report of Guy every month, blanks for which are enclosed.

If you feel perfectly sure of keeping him with you so that he will not be at expense for his return home later, you need not fill out the blanks, and I will drop him here. Please advise.

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May 31, 1900.

Rev. Frank St. Pleasant,
Canborn, N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

Your letter of May 9th has been held for my answer and
I have been sick and in hospital in Philadelphia.

I should be especially glad to oblig you were it consistent
to do so, but we have considerably above a hundred Western New York
Indians, and if I let down the bars for one to go home before the
five years is up I cannot well stand out against the whole crowd's
coping. I have had from fifteen to twenty applications just like
yours, all of which I have refused. If Frank were in poor health
I would be glad to let him go home, but it does not appear to be
necessary now. Both boys are doing admirably, and while it is a
little strain on the parental and child feeling, still you can un-
derstand readily that if I did not hold strictly to the rules, with
a thousand children I should have more questions of this kind to
settle than it would be practicable to undertake, and the addition
al expense would be enormous.

Diotated

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May 31, 1900.

Mrs. Madeline LaCroix,

Vehlen, S. Dak.

Dear Madam :-

I have been ill for some weeks and away from home, and on my return find your letter of April 26th, which Mr. Standing has already answered. As Clara has not completed the five year period for which she came, it is not practicable to send her home this year. Sickness in the family we cannot consider sufficient reason for sending pupils home before their time is out. Clara herself does not need the change. She is doing well, and it is to her interest to remain in her place.

Am sorry I must give such an unfavorable answer to your appeal, but must think first of the pupils' good.

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May 31, 1900.

To The Adjutant General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir I-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved
June 27th per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. U. O.,
August 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior, dated September 6th, 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

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Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved
June 27th per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. O. O.,
August 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior, dated September 6th, 191 1874.

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June 1, 1900.

Mrs. Simon W. Metoxen,
S. Oneida, Wis.

Dear Madam :-

Your daughters, Amelia and Celina, have been at Carlisle
five years, and are entitled to return home this summer. We will
therefore ticket them to Oneida, to start from here one of the
last days of June.

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June 1, 1900.

Mr. John A. Fritts,
Bliss P.O.,
White Co.,
Arkansas.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter about your daughter Dorotha. She is at Concordville, Pa., at the home of Mr. W. B. Miller. She is doing nicely and has not written you probably on account of her eyes which were for a while very sore, but she has glasses now and we hope will have no further trouble. Except for this she is quite well. I forward her your letter today, and you may expect to hear from her direct soon. Bartha is at the home of Mr. F. K. Scattergood, 21 N. 3rd St., Phila., Pa.

Your address on our books has been Bald Knob, Ark.

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June 2, 1900.

Richard Sanderville,

Piegán P. O., Mont.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 26th of May, your daugh-
ter Agnes only came last fall and we have no thought of sending
her home now. She has had considerable eye trouble, and we sent
her last month to Philadelphia to one of the best doctors in the
country. Her eyes were operated upon and she is quite improved, .
and going to school again.

and going to school again.
The school is very much changed since your time here. It is
larger and better equipped and better in every way. Only a few of
those are left who were here in the early days of the school. Your
friends join me in kind regards.

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June 2, 1900.

Mr. H. H. Peters,
Caldwell, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of March 27th about your son Scott.
He has had considerable trouble with his eyes and on this account
I have placed his name on the home list, and he will leave here about
of
the last this month or when the home party goes.

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June 2, 1900.

Rev. James A. O'Connor,
142 W. 21st St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

By mistake of my clerk a check for $98.00
payable to Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd must have been
sent you in my letter of the 31st ult. instead of the
check for $10.00 which I intended to send you.
I forward herewith the correct check.

Faithfully yours,

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June 2, 1900.

Mr. Charles S. Fee, G.P.A.,
St. Paul, Minn.

Dear Mr. Fee :-

Your "Wonderland", is very attractive and vividly brings to mind the beautiful and substantial things along your road.

We print a little paper here, several copies of which I send you. It has about 10000 subscribers, about one fourth Indians, and three fourths white people in all parts of the world. Sometimes ago the A. T. & S. P. R. E. sent me one of their circulars, and it struck my people we could utilize the plates in our little paper and it would be a helpful advertisement to the road. So I wrote Mr. Higgins, A. G. P. A., and he kindly let us have the use of the plates. Your "Wonderland" strikes chief of the printing office in the same way, and if you care to loan us the plates we propose to use them for the same purpose.

The following have been designated :-

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In using the pictures of the Santa Fe road we said something about each picture, and we would treat yours in a similar manner.

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We intend soon to enlarge and use a better quality of paper,
so that much better results can be obtained in printing the pic-
tures. If you think it worth while to lend us the plates, we
should be glad to make use of them and return them when through.

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["June 2, 1900.", "Dr. H. W. Stryker,\nPres. Hamilton College,\nClinton, New York.", "My dear Doctor :-", "Here is a candidate for the honor of attending Hamilton.\nBy his record here he is worthy, and according to his statement\nhas heretofore had the advantages of the public schools in Cali-\nfornia. He is anxious to begin at Hamilton in the fall, but would\nhave to begin in the preparatory. If he remains here he will grad-\uate next March, and I presume would get as much here during the\ntime between then and now as he would at Hamilton, save the larg-\ner association with brighter classmates. If you care to take him\nin the fall I will send him; or if you think better for him to fin-\nish here first, I will have him do that.", "I am sorry to tell you that almost ever since commencement I\nhave been an invalid. Was suffering from rheumatism at commence-\nment, which increased materially, and not long after I had a severe\nstomach trouble which sent me to the hospital for more than five\nweeks. The latter has been checked, but I am not yet well, and\nhave just received permission from the War Department to go to the\nGovernment Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas.", "Your visit here was an inspiration to us all, and especially\nto", "Distorted (P)", "NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF\nTHE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.", "VOL. 42"]

William Schuyler,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

June 2, 1900.

Your son and daughter, Wilson and Schuyler both came in September, 98 for a term of five years, and therefore their time is not up. But as a change will be beneficial to Electa I shall send her home with Schuyler about the last of this month, when the home party goes.

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P. S. - Electa has done well and could finish the Carlisle course in about twenty school months, and if strong and well in the fall I would urge that she return and graduate.

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June 2, 1900.

Dear Sir :-

Your son and daughter, Wilson and Schuyler both came in September, '96 for a term of five years, and therefore their time is not up. But as a change will be beneficial to Electa I shall send her home with Schuyler about the last of this month, when the home party goes.

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June 2, 1900.

Mrs. Nancy Williams,
Gowanda, New York.

Dear Madam :-

Your daughter Sarah is due to return home at the end of
the school year, and accordingly will leave here about the last of
this month, when the home party goes. Will expect her back in the
fall.

Yours truly,

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June 4, 1900.

Mrs. Matilda K. Paul,
Sitka, Alaska.

Dear Mrs. Paul :-

I asked Prof. Bakeless to have Kendall write you fully about his case and the Professor himself to write you also. The enclosed are the letters so written.

I entertain the same views in regard to Kendall that Prof. Bakeless does. Whether it will be possible for him to reach a cure in Alaska, is to me very problematical. The flagrance of his performances renders it important that I do not continue him as a member of the student body even though Dickinson College would accept of his return there, which I doubt; and I cannot well bring myself to conclude that it would be well to place him under care for further education elsewhere. I therefore see no other way but to send him to you or to Alaska. In a way, his offences appear especially grievous because of the environment of school. Kendall has very considerable capacity and in a community like that at Cape Nome or in some of the mining districts there would certainly be an exceedingly good opportunity for him to make himself useful and make his own way successfully; and after the fullest consideration it seems to me best to let him drop education and go out and begin his career. It is of course exceedingly unfortunate that his younger brother will have such memories of him.

I shall have to keep Kendall here until the condition of the girl is known. If that should be unfortunate I shall have to do

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June 4, 1960.

Mrs. Mary Logan,
Versailles,
Catt. Co.,
New York.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of the 27th of May in which you ask about your grandson, Howard Joe, I have to advise you that he is at the home of Mr. A. T. Prall, Ringoes, New Jersey. He has a good place where he can learn to work and be useful. He is small and has such work as a small boy can do on a farm. The training he gets is just what he needs. If he is ever to amount to anything this is his chance.

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June 5, 1900.

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

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

The bearer, Dr. J. J. Sturm, from the Kiowa and Comanche Agency, is a friend of mine of thirty-three years standing. When I first went to Fort Arbuckle in 1867 Dr. Sturm was living among the Indians on the upper Washita and was one of the best means of our intercourse and friendliness with the Indians and the foremost assistant in our negotiations with them. I was the Adjuvant at Fort Arbuckle and had general charge of the post business, and also commanded the Indian scouts. Dr. Sturm by many acts was most useful to the United States government, both because he stood high among the Indians and because he was recognized by the military authorities as a man of sterling integrity. On several occasions he accompanied me on perilous expeditions and rendered most valuable service. In the campaign against the Kiowas and Comanches, Cheyennes and Arapahoes in '68 and '69 and the following campaign of '74 and '75 against the same Indians he again rendered invaluable and fearless service to the government of the United States in arresting and helping to arrest some of the most desperate Indians we had to deal with, and took his life in his hands and went down to the Staked Plains and brought in the most desperate character of all at that time, the present chief, Quannah Park, who was then considered a most daring and dangerous outlaw. Quannah had resisted to the very last and had gathered around him

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a band of the most lawless Comanches and Apaches under that agency

Dr. Sturm has always been regarded as entitled to rights among the Indians. He was married to a Caddo woman, and lived with that tribe when I first knew him. I now have two of his daughters at this school. He informs me of some trouble in his affairs on account of what he thinks inconsiderate action by Major Baldwin, the former agent. The general merits of the Doctor's case I know nothing of, but I do know that he is entitled to the best consideration that can possibly be granted by the United States for his long and invaluable services to the government in helping to pacify the Indians of that agency. Having been Post Adjutant at Fort Arbuckle, and Adjutant General for the district of Indian Territory during a part of the time, and always on some duty connected with Indian matters, I am perhaps better acquainted with the Doctor's services than any other officer in the army, and make these statements freely and without equivocation.

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June 5, 1900.

To The Commanding Officer,

The Army and Navy Hospital,

Hot Springs, Ark.

Sir :-

I have been suffering from rheumatism in my left knee for more than a year past, but have generally attended to my duties though at times rather indifferently. Have made two efforts to get cured by going to a hospital in Philadelphia, being there at one time three weeks, and at another about six weeks.

I have authority from the Honorable Secretary of War for ad-
mission to the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., re-
quiring that I go within fourteen days. As I am responsible for
the affairs of this school and have the year's business to close
up, bids to open on the 11th of June for about $5000 worth of sup-
plies and contracts to make out therefor afterward, and the new
year's business to open, it seems impossible for me to get away be-
tore the 20th of July. I have written these facts to the Adjutant
General and asked that I be allowed to enter at any time before
the 25th of July, with a view to my better arranging affairs here
for my absence.

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June 5, 1900.

Sir :-

Referring to my letter of application to be admitted to the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for treatment and the authority granted by the Honorable Secretary of War under date of June 1st, I have to respectfully advise you that when making application I was not aware there was any limit to the time of admission. I have been in my present condition for more than a year, and can get along in a way and attend to my duties. The close of the fiscal year and the opening of the new year with settlements and contracts to be made, the sending home of a large number of students and getting in a new lot, make it important that I remain at my post if possible until toward the end of July. Should I become so disabled as to make it necessary to drop things and go away, I would be glad to be able to do that by giving due notice to the Commander of the Army and Navy Hospital. If possible to remain here until about the 20th of July when the important matters of the year are generally attended to, and then go to Hot Springs, I wish to do that.

Am very greatly obliged for the authority granted, and beg
that if practicable the date may be so changed as to enable me to
go there at any time before the 25th of July; or if that general
authority cannot be given and emergency require, I can apply by

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June 5, 1900.

Supt. Harwood Hall,
Indian School,
Perris, Cal.

My dear Hall :-

I have your letter of the 27th and must say the thing is
in such a mix I hardly know what to suggest. Old Rusk evidently
has the Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners on his side
and he, Gates, is probably the fellow who has done the mischief
more than anybody else. He can see the Indian committees every
day and several times a day, and that is where he has the advan-
tage. My notion about it is now that the dignified, high toned,
most proper way for you is to let the Bureau use you or not in con-
nection with the matter, just as it sees fit. You have made your
fight, and in spite of your efforts the thing has been put in the
shape it is. You are in no way responsible for it. The appropri-
ation is made, and if the Commissioner holds to the mind he had,
and I am inclined to think he will, there will be a school at some
other point beside Perris.

I really cannot tell you anything about the Secretary. Some-
how, every time I meet him or he does anything for me, I do not
feel right, and so I have kind of kept away. Confidentially, for
instance, he sends me word that he personally desires that I say
nothing against the Catholics. You know and I know how that is.
So, for months I have taken their abominable abuse and not said
anything. I suppose after the idea of November things will be dif-
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Last year at Los Angeles we superintendents and Indian school
people declared unanimously in favor of enlargement of the number
and capacity of nonreservation schools. The Commissioner has
been anxious to do something along that line, but his report for
last year, made long after our Los Angeles Convention, stated that
there were enough non-reservation schools. I called his attention
to the statement and he did not seem to know it was in the report.
Dortch writes the educational part of it, as Slater does the finan-
cial part, and so on. That was Dortch and not the Commissioner.

I don't believe they will let the $75000 go back into the
treasury. I think it will be used. If I were in your place and
did anything about it I would write the Commissioner after a while
about it, and state I had worked hard for it and hoped the money
would be used, and as they seemed to score you a good deal in the
Senate discussion, for your superintendency of Perris I would say
I was very willing to let someone else undertake Perris and work
out the grand, good things that Mr. Rusk and others say can be
worked out. Perhaps you do not see the Congressional Records. If
you don't, you ought to.

With kind remembrance to Mrs. Hall,

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June 5, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
Supt. Indian School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Mrs. Wright :-

I have your letter of May 29th and am glad to know that
you are sticking it out to the end of the school year. If you and
your husband come here before the 20th of July I expect to be at
home, unless I am driven away by conditions that I cannot stand.
I shall be very glad to see you. Have recently asked and obtained
permission to go to the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Ar-
ansas, but as I have gotten on so far and the end of the year is
so near with all the changes and emergencies incident to the clos-
ing of the year's business and the opening of the next year's, I
feel I must remain and fight things through if I can.

Have not seen the Commissioner for several months, but hope
to see him early next week.

With kind remembrances to your husband,

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June 6, 1900.

Briggman Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Briggman :-

So far as possible we wish to balance our Students' Ac-
counts before the close of the fiscal year which ends June 30th.
I find you left a debt of $4.80, which I would be pleased to have
you remit by money order, registered letter, or draft. Your ac-
count can then be closed and I will send you a receipt for the
amount.

It has been some time since we heard from you. Would be glad
to hear occasionally what you are doing and how you are getting
on.

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June 6, 1900.

Mr. Jacinto Subish,
Valley Centre, Cal.

Dear Sir :-

On receiving your letter of the 29th ult. in regard to
Philomena's health, I directed my school physician to examine her
and report on her health. The enclosed is his report, by which
you will see that she is in very good health.

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June 6, 1900.

Mr. J. E. Campbell,
Al-lu-we, Ind. Ty.

Dear Sir :-

In answer to your letter of June 2nd relative to Jacob Hill, I have to advise you that he has been in the country most of the time for the past two years, and is at present at the home of Mr. J. C. Lambert, Lambertville, New Jersey, where he receives this summer $7.00 a month. During the winter he attended the public school, and worked mornings and evenings for his board. Good reports from his employer come to us every month. He seems to be a bright boy, and ought to continue to the completion of our course. He came for a five years' term, and has been here but two years, so that he still has three years. Pupils have the privilege of a second term, and are encouraged to continue their schooling even after that period is ended, if they seem promising and the time is necessary.

It is not desirable that pupils receive money from home unless it be sent by money order, draft, or registered letter, so that we know it and can keep some track of it. A little money occasionally will be all right, though we do not encourage parents in sending it, as boys and girls have a chance to earn all they need, and appreciate it more when they make it themselves.

Yours truly,

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June 6, 1900.

Mrs. Sarah Bird,
Judson, N. Carolina.

Dear Mrs. Bird :-

Betty has just been in to see me and says she would like
to go home and come back in the fall. Let me call your attention
to the fact that she is being educated by the government of the
United States without expense to you. She began in the normal
room and is now in our No. 10 division, having made very good her
ress for the time she has been here. It appears that she herself
wants to go on with her education, and you probably desire her to
do so. Now, it seems to me the part of wisdom for both of you to
save the Government the expense of about forty dollars railroad
fare to her home and back to school. If she remains here she can
go out to work for the summer and earn some spending money for the
winter. This is the wise and reasonable thing to do, and as it
costs you no inconvenience but her absence, it seems a very small
requirement.

I have talked the matter over with Betty and she seems will-
ing to accept this view of it, and I write you accordingly.

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June 6, 1990,

Bessie Gotholda,
C/o Mrs. Geo. E. Ferrier,
136 East Oak Ave.,
Moorestown, New Jersey.

My dear Bessie :

Since writing you I hear from your agency that you shall
ly have no home to go to, I wish hear that your sister was offered
a home with some good people on her return from Santa Fe, and that
she left that good home, went off, and is doing badly. With these
facts before me it seems to me better that you remain just where
you are and push your education, and when you are through you can
probably get an appointment in the Indian service.

You can write your sister of course, and advise her, and possibly influence her to change her ways; but it would not be wise to try to help her by being on the ground, especially as your father and mother are dead and you would have no outside help.

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June 6, 1900.

Mrs. Lina S. Merchant,
415 Auburn Ave.,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Madam i-

Dear Madam i-

Replying to your letter in which you ask for contrast
pictures and photo of the Supt. of this school to send in adven-
tion with your article for the "Savannah Magazine", I send you today
two contrast pictures taken about a year apart, together with
the other photo asked for. We have other contrast pictures but
they have been used so often as to be old to the public.

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June 6, 1900.

Miss Jenny Ericson,
Lock Box
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dear Miss Ericson :-

I enclose a ticket "New York to Carlisle", good until the end of July, which has just been received. I forward it to you at once for the Porto Rican boy whom you propose to send to us. We shall be glad to receive him and will do the best we can for him. You can write fully to Miss Forster so that she may give him special attention. Should you not need the ticket, please return.

I notice by the Congressional Record that Dr. Baumgartner has been appointed Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico instead of Dr. Groff. What this means I can't understand, but suppose as usual it means politics.

I write in haste as it is evening and we are getting ready for our annual picnic. Five hundred of us go in special cars to Mont Alto, leaving here at eight and arriving in the park about nine, and returning at seven in the evening. The weather is perfect, a little warm this afternoon, but beautiful summer weather for Dickinson commencement which closed today and was a good one.

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June 7, 1900.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., New York.

Dear Brother Lawrence :-

I have orders from the Department to take all the Lin-
coln Institute children who are not entitled to go home this year,
and if there are any who are entitled to go home but do not care
to go, I am to take them also, and the place is to be cleaned out.
The authorities have notified me that after sending off the home-
goers and keeping quite a number whom they propose to hold on to
in a charity way without expense to the government, there will be
106.

Any arrangements your people may care to make in regard to
students coming here who are not entitled to go home, may come to
me. Those who are entitled to go home may come here also. The break-
ing up of Lincoln Institute is not intended to relieve parents of
continuing the children in school for the time for which they left
the reservation.

The transfer will be made the last of this month, and I shall
be glad to have any information in regard to the children you can
give.

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June 9, 1900.

Mr. H. A. Riddle, G.P.A.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Riddle :-

I intended to send you the funds yesterday covering our agreement for the picnic Thursday. I do so in this.

We had the grandest picnic for many years. Everybody was charmed with Mont Alto. You have rendered us great service and there is a universal "thank you" from all who participated.

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June 9, 1900.

Mrs. Mary Miller Dodge,
Fort Belknap Indian School,
Harlem, Mont.

My dear Mary :-

Your brothers and sister are all entitled to go home this year by expiration of time; but from what you write me of things at home and your brother Solomon's conduct while in the bakery and his course since he left the school, I feel satisfied that nothing could be worse for them than to go home, and have advised them to stick and finish the course here. The boys were up to see me yesterday and I told them this and crossed their names off the list. Please write to them and urge them to continue with their schooling contentedly. John is a Junior and James also is getting on nicely.

Sorry to tell you that before Solomon left us he behaved very badly, and letters from him since indicate that he is not doing well.

Hope things go well with you, and glad your work has been appreciated.

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June 9, 1900.

Rev. Frank Mt. Pleasant,
Sanborn, New York.

My dear Sir :-

Dr. Diven thinks it would be a good thing for Frank to spend the summer at home, to return here the beginning of September. It seems to be understood here that it is your desire and that you are willing to pay his way. I can get you a round trip ticket as far as Canandaigua for $7.07, and from there on you know what it will cost. If you want Frank to come home, please advise. It is not actually necessary, but I have no doubt the visit will be of material benefit to him.

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June 9, 1900.

Mr. A. H. Viets,
Silver Valley,
Texas.

My dear Mr. Viets :-

On referring to the case of Dan Philips who was trans-
ferred to Carlisle on the urgency of his brother, I find it does
not appear in the correspondence that he came here as other mem-
bers of the band, who were to return to their several schools af-
ter the Paris exposition, but that he came by actual bona fide
transfer from Santa Fe. Your letters to me and mine to you show
that I stated that we were not particularly wanting new members
for the band, but were willing to take Dan on his brother's repre-
sentations of his exceptional musical ability, and that we could
make use of him. Dan now claims that you told him he was to re-
turn to Santa Fe after the exposition was over. He wrote this to
Supt. Crandall, and Supt. Crandall writes me sending Dan's letter
to him, and says that if I desire to return the boy to Santa Fe
he will be very glad to receive him, but makes no claim for him.

Please let me know at once whether you told Dan that his dom-
ing to Carlisle was only temporary and that he would go back to
Santa Fe after the Paris matter was closed.

Yours Sincerely,

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June 9, 1900.

Sir :-

I respectfully request to be informed as to whether Joseph Flying, who enlisted from this school Oct. 6th, 1899 and was assigned to the 4th Cavalry, is among those who were killed or have died in the service in Manila since last fall.

His people have heard he was killed and are anxious to know
about it.

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June 9, 1900.

Miss Estelle Reel,
Supt. of Indian Schools,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Miss Reel :-

As the band's trip to Paris has been declared off entirely, and as the Charleston people do not respond to my notice to them of what would be expected if the band went there, I have with the consent of the Commissioner and on the urgency of the band boys themselves who came from the various western schools to go to Paris, determined to let those who came for that special purpose return to their schools. Quite a number have already left, and others will leave next week. This drops the band out of the Charleston expectations. The remaining band boys have been kept for the past two summers from earning money in order that they might practice together for the proposed trip to Paris. I shall not keep them any longer, but give them the chance the other boys have, and by the first of July there will be scarcely a band member here.

I am quite settled in the position that it will be impracticable to attend the Charleston convention.

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June 9, 1900.

Mr. R. G. Rhett,
Chairman, Comm. on Entertainment, U.S.A.,
Charleston, S. Carolina.

Sir :-

As I have no reply to my letter of April 9th in regard
to the band's going to the convention, I have concluded that my
proposition was not accepted, and have made other arrangements.

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June 9, 1900.

Rev. M. P. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

Dear Brother Trippe :-

I am very glad to take the children from Lincoln and expect to do the best I can for them, although I understand quite a number of them are under the age at which we accept them and other conditions are not as we would like them. We are to receive all whose time has not expired.

In regard to the large girls you speak of, while we shall not have much leeway in numbers I am willing to undertake a few if they are exceptionally good ones. I leave the matter of determining their qualities entirely to you, except the medical examination. We prefer, however, that they be between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, and cannot take any under twelve.

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June 11, 1900.

Miss Annie Oldham,

Edgerton, S. Dakota.

Dear Miss Oldham :-

Write me again whether or not you are in good health,
and if you are I will place a ticket for you at such railroad sta-
tion as you may name at any time you are ready to come. You should
be here before the first of September in order to begin in school
when it opens.

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June 11, 1900.

Richard Sanderville,

Plegan P.O., Mont.

Dear Richard :-

I wrote you last week about Agnes. As I told you then we sent her to a hospital in Philadelphia to have her eyes treated Her eyes are much better since, but it will be some time before she can use them safely. Her hospital treatment cost $7.01, and we have no funds to cover such expenses. Pupils are expected to pay such bills from their earnings, but on account of her eyes Agnes will not be able to earn anything this summer. She had a credit of one dollar, which leaves her in debt $6.01. I trust you will find it convenient to send me this amount soon.

Agnes is well otherwise, and when her eyes are in proper condition will get on nicely in her studies.

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June 7, 1900.

Amos Longwolf,
C/o Col. W. H. Clapp.
Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Amos :-

It has been so long since I heard anything of you or
from you that I send this in care of the agent in order to know
whether you get it at all. Would be pleased to hear from you oc-
casionally, and to know how you are getting on. I write now par-
ticularly about a debt which stands on our books against you. We
want if possible to settle up our Students' Accounts before the
end of June, and cannot do so until such amounts are paid. You
owe $3.81, having overdrawn that much before leaving for home.
Please send me the money and I will send you a receipt and that
will close your account here.

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June 11, 1900.

Archie Johnson,
C/o Mr. T. Jay Buford, Ind. Agt.,
Siletz, Ore.

Dear Archie :-

In settling up our Students' Accounts I find you are in
debt $15.69, and we cannot close your account until that is paid.
I trust you will meet this as soon as possible. You can forward
it thru your agent, by money order or registered letter, and I will
receipt for the amount and close your account.

Hope you are getting on well.

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June 11, 1900.

Robert E. Crow,
C/O Mr. H. W. Spray,
Cherokee, N. Car.

Dear Robert :-

In balancing our Students' Accounts I find that when
leaving last fall you were overpaid $6.47. This amount stands a-
gainst you on our books, and as we want if possible to close all
accounts and open new books before the end of the month, I hope
you will send me money to cover this indebtedness. Then I will
receipt for the payment, and close your account. Send by money or-
der or registered letter, or thru Mr. Spray.

Hope you are settled in your own home and getting on nicely.
With kind regards to Mrs. Crow,

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June 12, 1900.

Mr. A. J. Boston, G.A.,
611 Penna. Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs,

I have two passengers for San Carlos, a boy and girl,
to leave here tomorrow at two P.M., arriving in Washington at 7:15
Please meet them and provide with tickets and two lower berths in
tourist sleeping. Bill to me lowest rate you can make.

By wire today I asked rate for two Indian boys to Phoenix. If
your rate is low enough to get this business, they will leave here
at the same time, and travel together as far as their destinations
allow.

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June 12, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
Supt., Indiana School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

Dear Mrs. Wright:

Celia Newgodenah soon after her arrival here was found to be quite senileous. Dr. Hoven reported senileous sores on her legs and body, and sometime ago was compelled to take off a portion of one finger which had become badly affected with tuberculous scrofula. That is about healed, but while she is apparently in good health she is not able to go to school regularly, and the doctor thinks the safest way is to return her to the agency. Accordingly, she will start from here tomorrow with Henry Nahtakoke, a former pupil of Grand Junction, who also goes to his home at San Carlos.

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June 12, 1900.

C. A. Higgins, A.B.P.A.,
77 Jackson St.
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir :—

I anticipate quite a party of students to be transferred from the Indian school at Alvin乎Queroues, N. Mex. July 1st. The number I have not definitely ascertained, but would be obliged to you if you would instruct your agent there to furnish as many tickets to Carlisle as may be called for to James W. Travis, and bill to me for settlement. Please arrange that one be first class for the use of Mr. Travis.

My arrangements with other transcontinental roads are such as to lead me to hope that you will make our business over your lines at half the regular rate. The Pennsylvania Railroad will accept a rate of $11.08 from Chicago to Carlisle.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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June 12, 1900.

United States Indian Agent,
San Carlos, Arizona.

Sir :

On account of persistent soreful from which she has suf-
fered almost ever since she came, and which makes it necessary for
her to spend quite a good deal of her time in the hospital, it
seems best to send Lulu Nawgoidenah home. I also send to his home
Henry Naktokoko, who came here as a musician from Grand Junction,
Colo. two years ago, but was to return to his agency instead of to
his school. Warren Gazzem, Ben Goslyah, Thomas Betts, Ralph King,
and Louis Russell left yesterday for Grand Junction. Lon Spieche
remains here to graduate next year.

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TELEGRAM. June 11.

A. C. Harvey, D.P.A.,
350 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Your message, pay left for Sitka Saturday, six P.M.

Pratt, Dept.

P.U. 12:00 M.

Dead ahead.

TELEGRAMS.

June 9.

H. A. Gross, G.M.A.,
451 Broadway,
New York.

We wire the best rate you can make for seven Indian pupils, Chicago to Carson, Nevada. Tickets wanted Tuesday next.

Pratt, Major.

Postal, 4:00 P.M.

A. J. Poston, G.A.,
801 Penna. Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

Please wire best rate seven Indian tickets Carson, Nev. wanted Tuesday.

Pratt, Major.

Post. 2, 4:00 P.M.

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TELEGRAMS.

June 12, 1900.

A. J. Boston, G.A.,
511 Penna. Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

Please name test rate two Indian tickets to Phoenix, Ariz. wanted
before Thursday.

Pratt, Major.

Postal.

1045 A.M.

June 12.

Thee. G. Simmons,

Supt., Grand Junction, Colo.

King, Petto, Coslynn, Gazzan, and Russell left for Grand Junction yesterday; Hantake, for San Carlos; Morgan and Spileche remain here.

Pratt, Major.

Western Union, 1:30 P. M.

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A. J. Duson,

Bli. Posta, 2. av.

Washington, D. C.

Phoenix rate permitting, San Carlos and Phoenix, four, can go to-morrow.

Pratt, Major.

Postel, 3:15 P.M.

June 12.

TELEGRAM.

June 12.

H. A. Kniskern, G.P.A.
20 Fifth Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Your message. Three arrive Chicago Thursday evening, five, Pa. and road. Have them met, ticketed to Hesperus. Seven others, Carson, same time, have asked Gross transportation.

Pratt, Major.

Path Postal, 3:15 P.M.

H. A. Gross, G. E. A.
401 Broadway, New York.

Your telegram. Send transportation seven, Chicago, leave to-morrow. Have asked Kniskern deliver tickets three for Hesperus leave same time.

Pratt, Major.

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June 12, 1900.

Gen. John Eaton,
"The Concord",
Washington, D. C.

My dear General :-

The band is dispersing rapidly. There will be
nothing of it with which to make a demonstration after
this week. The boys that remain here generally want to
go to the country to earn money. Those that came from
western schools to enter the band are being returned.
The N.E.A. people gave me no satisfaction as to the pay-
ment of expenses, and I am not in a position to under-
take such a trip unless expenses are paid.

I do not expect to be at Charleston myself. If I
can unload my work and my rheumatic condition continues,
I expect to go to the government hospital at Hot Springs
Arkansas. Richenda, while slowly convalescing, is still
something of an invalid. We are both at home now, and
I think there are few places more pleasurable than Car-
lisle at this season. Can't you and Mrs. Eaton run up
and spend a few days with us ?

The whole family joins in kindest regards to you
all.

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June 12, 1900.

Robert J. Jackson,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, N. Mexico.

Dear Robert :-

I have been much interested in reading "The Santa Fe New
Mexican" which you sent me and am obliged to you for it. Glad to
hear you are well and happy and appreciate your good wishes for
Mrs. Pratt and myself.

I trust all goes well with you and wish I could have been with
you at your commencement exercises, but that was impossible. I am
something of a cripple from rheumatism in my knee.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 12, 1900.

Mr. Frank LaFleshe,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

Davis Lovejoy, the boy who wrote the enclosed letter was in the country this spring under our outing, but returned in April on account of sickness, and has since been in our school hospital. He is not seriously ill and has not been so at any time, but seems in low spirits. Please advise whether you desire that he visit you a few days.

Sincerely yours,

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June 12, 1900.

Supt. Edw. L. Chalcraft,
Indian School,
Shoshone Agency, Wyo.

My dear Chalcraft :-

The receipt of your letter brought me most sincere pleas-
ure, and I feel that now, having reentered the service, you may
work your way on to as good or better things than you had before.
The fact that you have been given a difficult job is to your advan-
tage, and I am sure with your experience you can get matters into
good shape. I know something about the conditions that must exist
there, because I knew one of the former superintendents.

I myself am out of tune with the agency system and always have
been; yet I have continued to work along, never hesitating to state
the truth as I believe it, and gradually public thought is com-
ing my way.

We are exceedingly busy. Opened bids yesterday for a good
part of our annual supplies. Sending home students, planning to
get new ones, getting the year's business settled, etc. keep me at
my desk in spite of my rheumatism which has troubled me for over a
year. The Commissioner urges me to take three months leave, and I
had arranged to go to Hot Springs, Arkansas, but you have hot springs,
and I have long wanted to visit Shoshone for the special purpose
of having a good trout fishing time. Now that you are there, I
feel the longing more than ever. What have you to offer these
personal conditions aside from the fishing ?

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June 13, 1900.

Miss Luzena Choteau,
Division of Loans & Currency,
Treasury Dept.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Luzena :-

Ollie was very urgent about going home this
year, but I told her she could not go but must stay
here and graduate, as that was your wish. So that
matter is adjusted and Ollie has settled down.

Sorry to hear you have been ailing, but hope you
are better. I can now sympathize more with the af-
flicted than formerly. My rheumatism has lasted some-
thing over a year. There is slight improvement, but
locomotion is still considerably interfered with. We
are in excellent health at the school, considering our
numbers.

With cordial regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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ADHESIVE STAINS

TO BE WRITTEN BY YOURSELF
IN NEW YORK CITY
ON THE FIRST DAY OF MAY
1900

24.10A

June 13, 1900.

Miss Lettie Scott,
Gowanda, N. Y.

My dear School-daughter :-

It is quite impossible for me to say now what I can do
in the way of taking New York students this summer. I am to re-
ceive all the children from Lincoln Institute who are not entitled
to go home, and this will make our New York contingent very much
larger than it ought to be. Still, if there were a few very prom-
ising boys and girls with the prospective ability and good purpose
to make the best use of our advantages here, I should think seri-
ously of the matter before saying "No." From your letter I judge
all there is in the case of the particular boy you write about is
that he needs a home and someone to care for him. I must have pu-
pils of a different quality, more Lettie Scotts. I cannot turn
out good products unless I have proper material to begin with.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

319

June 13, 1900.

Frank Bishop.

Doylestown, Pa.

My dear Frank :-

You are in the midst of the summer's work and are not
entitled to go home until your five years is up. The thing for
you to do is to write to your brother and tell him you are under
obligations to work this summer and that you have too much integ-
rity of purpose and too much principle to go back on your obliga-
tions. It would not be right for me to allow you to break off
your agreement even though you yourself felt inclined to do so.

Trusting you are making the best use of the place you say is
so excellent in every way, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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June 13, 1900.

L. M. Wakefield,
Andrews,
Cherokee Co., N. Car.

My dear Sir :-

By your letters you already have the advantages of the
local public schools, and I advise you to continue in them. It is
a great mistake for any Indian with the privileges you seem to have
to leave them and enter an Indian school.

We are crowded with students, nearly all of whom are barred
from the public schools near their homes, and if I accepted of you
it would prevent my taking some other boy who needs our advantag-
es more than you do. Common sense therefore says that you ought
to stick to your school and let us work for those who have no oth-
er school.

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June 13, 1900.

Miss Sara Smith,
S. Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sara :-

I am very sorry to hear you had such a time at DePere.
I use the C. & N.W. R.R. because we have a very low rate with them
and have none with the C. M. & St.P. We may be able to guard against
the difficulty by taking a different train. How would it do to
send our students to Green Bay ? Or what station is there on the
C. & N.W. near enough that would serve better than DePere ? Please
let me know at once, as we shall very soon be sending several of
the Oneida pupils home.

Dictated (P)

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June13 , 1900.

Miss Minnie E. Mead,
55 Eagle St.,
Albany, N. Y.

Dear Miss Mead :-

Your letter should have been answered prompt-
ly. Unfortunately, I have not been able to keep up
with my correspondence, and the letter was laid in my
unanswered drawer with others, and just now comes be-
fore me again.

We shall be glad to have you come to Carlisle for
a visit to stay as long as you desire. I can give you
a room. The price of meals at our club is twenty-five
cents a meal for transients, but board would be your
only expense.

Please remember me kindly to Mrs. Crannell.

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June 13, 1900.

Mr. L. P. Balkey,
634 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I have held your letter for some time to see what we
could do for you in connection with the large number of promises
we have out. I now find it is quite impossible for us to send you
a girl this year. The fact is, people who want girls for the sum-
mer make application late in the winter or early in the spring, and
"First come, first served" has been a rule with us, and necessari-
ly applications that come in late must be denied.

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June 13, 1900.

My dear friend :-

I enclose to you a few of the many newspa-
per attacks that have been made on me by the Catholi-
s during the past few months, not by any means that I
want you to say anything about them in your issue, for
I very much prefer that you do not, but I send them
just to let you see that I am in the fight with you.

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June 13, 1900.

W. G. Thompson,
C/o N. W. Thompson,
150 Lark St.,
Albany, N. Y.

My dear Thompson :-

I received your brief note and am glad to hear that you and Mrs. Thompson are having a restful time. Wish I could go with you into the Adirondacks, but I can't.

Our lettings Monday were at very satisfactory rates. The big items were nearly all below what I had anticipated. Coal was less than last year, beef only twelve cents per pound higher, and flour $1.70, six cents cheaper than last year.

Our set-to with Bucknell was a tie, 52 each, and the boys thrashed Gettysburg on their own ground, 11 to 6. Mr. Brock has taken hold nicely since commencement and I believe is going to make a very satisfactory assistant.

With kind regards to Mrs. Thompson,

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327

June 13, 1900.

Mr. John Wanamaker,

Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Years ago I was informed by you or Mr. Ogden that I was
classed with the preachers and missionaries in purchases made at
your store, and would be allowed a discount of 10% on such pur-
chases. I have many times received this consideration in bills,
although I have not always asked it. Recently I purchased an of-
fice chair for my own use. The price was $25.00. I told the clerk
from whom I bought it that I was allowed this consideration and he
said he knew that, and the cost to me would be $22.50.

The bill for the chair came to me sometime ago together with
other personal bills partly for myself and partly for my family,
amounting in all to $75.00. I sent my two checks for $67.60. The
enclosed letter and bill are returned to me. I of course do not
insist on the continuance of this consideration if the favor is
withdrawn, but I bought the chair personally with the full under-
standing that the original allowance still prevailed.

It seems best to refer this to you personally for your con-
clusion.

With sentiments of high esteem, I am

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June 13, 1900.

Miss Mae Mitts,
Indian School,
Colony, O. T.

Dear Miss Mitts :-

I thank you for your letter of May 29th in regard to our
returned students. Such information is always of great help to us
So much that is not true is said against them that anything in
their favor becomes especially valuable. I have had quite a good
many battles with the influences in Washington about the very stu-
dents you mention. On one occasion a Kansas senator attacked me
outrageously and spoke of my returned students at the Cheyenne A-
gency, some of them by name. I said to him that if he would go
with me to the agency I would establish in his mind beyond a perad
venture that he had been greatly deceived, and that there was a
goodly number doing well, sufficient to warrant the outlay that
had been made; and that as it was a question between the local
schools and their benefits and the remote schools and their bene-
fits, the best way to settle it was on the ground and at that very
agency, the Cheyenne. I had no fears for the outcome, but he de-
clined to go, backing down, however, from his position.

Am glad to hear from you and it is a matter of no small im-
port that you on the ground can see things at least somewhat as I
see them. Would be pleased to hear from you often and at any time
I know something about the conditions that every superintendent
and school employe at an agency school must contend with and I
know too that if the aim of school employes in the Indian service
is to fit their charges for citizenship in the United States, to

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June 13, 1900.

Rev. Robert A. MacFadden,
280 Washington Ave.,
Chelsea, Mass.

My dear Robert :-

Nothing has yet come to me about the Tabor
will, and as I ran into debt so deep on the band tour,
the thousand dollars would be exceedingly welcome.

If it is entirely convenient for you to make inqui-
ry about it I shall be glad for any information you
can give.

Glad to tell you I am improving some. Recently
I was told that crude petroleum was a good remedy for
rheumatism, and I have used it now for five days with
marked benefit.

With kindest regards to Mrs. MacFadden, as ever

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June 13, 1900.

Margaret L. Wilson,
C/o A. B. Lukens,
Jenkintown, Pa.

My dear Margaret :-

Your letter should have been answered sometime ago. Go
to Dr. L. Webster Fox, 1304 Walnut St., Phila., show him this let-
ter, and he will give attention to your eyes.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 13, 1900.

David Jordan,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

Your daughter Ida, with the knowledge that she was entitled to go home this year, chose to go to the country for the summer, and so has postponed her home going a year. She is earning money for her own use, and in the winter will go to school again.

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June 12, 1900.

Miss M. S. Barr,
c/o Elliott Hospital,

Manchester, N. H.

Dear Miss Barr :-

I think things are going as well at the hospital as could be expected and there is no reason for you to be anxious about them. It would do no good anyhow. Better make the best of your vacation and training that you can, and let us handle things here as we are able.

Am glad to tell you that the application of crude petroleum continues to help my knee, and I shall keep on using it. Perhaps I shall be able to avoid the trip to Hot Springs.

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June 12, 1900.

Mr. Chas. Ebener, Supt.,
Educational Home,
4901 Greenway Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Thank you for your interest and information regarding
George Peake. A ticket was sent you yesterday for his return,
and I have your telegram today. He will be met at the station and
brought to the school.

I am bearing you in mind, but so far there does not seem to be
any prospect for you. The young man I had arranged for from Dick-
inson is filling the place very satisfactorily.

Dictated (F)

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June 12, 1900.

Benj. Caswell,
Pt. Belknap Indian School,
Harlem, Mont.

Dear Ben :-

Your nephew, Robert Hallett, has just run away from his
country home with Theodore Slack at Wycombe, Pa. I have no doubt
we will find him and that he will go back to his place, but in the
meantime I think it would be well if you would write him a good
sharp letter and tell him of your experiences while out from Car-
lisle, and advise him to stick.

Hope you and Leila are both well. My condition is improving
and I am hopeful of being in good shape before long.

As ever, Faithfully yours,

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June 12, 1900.

Mr. T. H. Mackey,
C/O H.C.Bairs, U.S. Indian Agent,
Santse Agency, Neb.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of June 1st in regard to your boy,
Frank, I have to advise you that ever since he came here in Sep-
tember, 1896, he has shown himself to be entirely unworthy of the
opportunities the government offers him for an education. His be-
havior among the other boys has constantly shown that he is low
and degraded in his thoughts, and has no intention of being clean
or making the right sort of a man of himself. Complaints against
him have been numerous and I have punished him repeatedly with the
hope of getting him into right lines. He has run away four times
and the government has been at an expense of about $75 for his
arrests, in addition to the ordinary outlay for his education. He
ran away recently, and on his return was tried by a court of the
school officers, and sentenced to be dishonorably dismissed.

You find a great deal of fault with the school authorities.
Frank has been such a troublesome student here that I shall recom-
mend to the Department that he be debarred from further privileg-
es in any of the government schools.

Distated(P)

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June 16, 1900.

Dear Sir:-

Our baseball team plays Cornell at Ithaca on the 19th, returning from there on the 20th, and wishes to stop off at Montclair on that date to play Bucknell. Please arrange that they have this stop-off privilege from the Northern Central Railroad.

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June 14, 1900

Melissa Green,
Indian School,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Melissa :-

While attending Metzger College I advanced you money for tuition, books, etc. with the understanding that when you had finished the course and were earning something, you would repay. I find $24.41 against you on our books, and as you are in a way to help yourself, would be pleased to receive payment. We are setting our students' accounts, closing the old and opening new books. If possible, this work ought to be completed before the end of June. Please give this matter your early attention.

Hope you are getting on nicely in your position. With kind regards to students and friends at Oneida,

Faithfully yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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June 14, 1900.

Miss Sophia Huff,
C/o Mrs. M. A. Tomlinson,
Rancocas, N. J.

Dear Sophia :-

In balancing our students' accounts, I find your account
unclosed because of a balance against you of $2.53. It would be
pleased to receive this amount from you as soon as practicable, in
order that we may complete the work of closing our old books and
opening new before the end of the month.

Hope you are well and getting on nicely. With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

(P)

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June 14, 1900.

Cordelia Halftown,
Corydon,
Warren Co., Pa.

Dear Cordelia :-

We are closing all old accounts and opening new books and find you owe us $2.82. Please send me a money order or registered letter for the amount, so that I may be able to balance your account before the end of the month. I will receipt payment.

This you understand is your personal account and cannot be met by the government. Until it is paid it remains against you on our books.

Hope you are well. With kind regards,

(P)

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June 14, 1900.

Miss Nettie Horne,
C/o Supt. H. B. Freer,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

Dear Nettie :-

When you went home last summer you were loaned $6.00 for
incidental expenses, which I expected you would return when you
had earned something. We are now closing all accounts and opening
new ones, but yours cannot be closed until this is paid. I would
therefore be pleased to receive payment at as early a date as prae-
ticable, as the work ought to be completed before the end of the
month.

Hope you are well and getting on nicely. School dismisses
in a few days for the summer. Our numbers are quite low just now,
the last considerable party of girls having left for the country
this morning. The boys go tomorrow.

With kind regards to yourself and Lottie and all our Carlisle
students,

(P)

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June 14, 1900.

Naomi Kohten,
C/o Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Naomi :-

When you went to Morris, Minn. to take a position a tick
et was furnished you, for which you paid all but $4.04. This a-
mount stands against you on our books, and as we are settling up
our Students' Accounts and are desirous of completing the work and
opening new books, it would be very acceptable to receive payment.
I understand you have employment at the school. Can't you send me
this and close your account ? I will receipt.

Hope your health has improved since you are again in your na-
tive clime, and that you are getting on nicely in your work. How
is it I never hear from you directly ?

With kind regards from all your friends here,

(P)

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June 14, 1900.

Miss Cynthia Webster,
Indian School,
Nadeau, Kans.

My dear Cynthia :-

We are balancing our books and want to finish the work
before the end of the month if possible. The books show $2.61 a-
gainst you, which I would be pleased to receive as soon as conven-
ient to you. You sent $46.00 last fall and were so credited, but
that was sufficient to balance your account. I will receipt for
the money.

Having heard nothing from you for a long time, I take it you
are getting on nicely, and am glad you are making a success of your
work. Our school is pretty low in numbers just now, a goodly party
of girls having left for the country this morning. Boys go tomor-
row. These are mostly those from the higher grades who are not al-
lowed to leave school until school closes. We have but a few days
more till studies are over for the summer, and home students, teech-
ers and others scatter. The year has been very successful, but
we expect next year to beat it.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Pio Amago,
Valley Centre, Cal.

My dear Sir :—

My school physician thinks it better to send Mystica
home on account of her health; also Philomena Subish. Accordingly
they leave here today and I have wired the agent at Temecula to
notify you or Philomena's father to meet them there at 4:15 P.M.
Saturday, the 7th of July.

Both girls are loath to leave Carlisle, particularly Mystica
who is a Junior. My doctor is hopeful of their regaining their
health, and should they be able and wish to return in the fall,
I shall very gladly make arrangements for them to do so. I can
say for both that they are among the best girls in the school.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Mr. Charles B. Whallock,
Choshone Agency, Wyo.

Dear Charles :-

I have sent your letter and endorsements forward to the Commissioner, recommending you for such consideration as he may be able to give. You understand, of course, that there is a general cutting down of the employe force and you are not by any means the only ones, and that many having claims on the Department are in the same position; so that, from what I know of it, I very much fear you may be disappointed in getting employment in the Indian service. You would better secure duplicates of the endorsements given by Mr. Chalcraft and Mr. Cochrane, and with such others as you can get, make a fight for something outside the service.

Sincerely, your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Miss Lydia Gardner,
Lansdowne, Pa.

My dear Lydia :-

Glad to hear from you about your school experiences.
While it would be very pleasant for you to visit Bertha, it seems
to me an expenditure of money I would hardly make if I were you.
It would cost you not less than twenty dollars. A little trip to
the seashore would be far better. If you want to make a visit any
where, why not arrange something of that kind which would cost you
cently three or four dollars perhaps. There is quite a party of our
girls at Ocean City with Mrs. Canfield who has a summer hotel, "Ill-
inois on the Strand", where our girls are performing all the du-
ties in connection with it. Write to Earnie Wilbur that you would
like to come down to the seashore for a little while and find out
whether Mrs. Canfield might not have something you could do for
your board while there. There are also other places. Doubtless
the people you are living with could arrange a nice little visit
for you, and I think that would be much better than to go to New
York. Indian reservations are not good places for Indian girls to
visit.

I send you ten dollars from your account here, as you request
What you need to do during vacation is to give yourself up to get-
ting into shape for the school campaign in the fall.

Faithfully your friend,

493

Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Miss Rena F. Coyote,
Oak Lane,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Rena :-

I should have answered your letter earlier but for the
amount of work before me. Am glad to know you like your place and
feel willing to do what I think best for you. This pleases me very
much. I am trying to do for all my Indian boys and girls the very
best I can to fit them for good, true, useful manhood and womanhood
One of the best means I have of accomplishing this is by putting
them out where they come in contact with the good people of the
United States, where they learn to earn money for themselves and
where they learn the best ways of the white people. I could not
ask better things for my own children than I am doing for almost
every one of my Indian children.

You do right to be kind and pleasant to those about you always
and to be careful to oblige them. One of the most important les-
sons in life is to learn kindness and politeness to others, and if
we can so guide and govern ourselves as to be kind and polite when
circumstances go hard the other way, we develop a strong charac-
ter; and if in the smaller things of life we can succeed on these
lines, when the great and difficult things come we shall be able
to take care of them better. We will live longer and be happier
if we avoid all irritation and unpleasantness, keeping our own
hearts light and contented as the best means toward good health
and happiness.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia E. H. Leeds,
Box 16,
Noorestown, N. J.

My dear Mrs. Leeds :--

The great trouble with the Indians at home is that there
are so many who cannot write, and the children are therefore at a
disadvantage. It is a common complaint that pupils do not want
to write home without getting letters in return. This difficulty
will disappear as the Indians become more and more educated.

Dictated (F)

496

Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Colgate & Co.,
65 John St.,
New York,

Gentlemen :-

Replying to your letter of June 30th, I have to inform
you that I have no recollection of any Antiseptic Purified Talc
Powder being sent here for trial. We have in our hospital one
nurse and two assistant nurses, who if you care to send me a box
for each to try, will be pleased to make such use of it as circum-
stances indicate best.

fictated (P)

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

O. L. Daniel,
Palatine Ins. Co.,
Harbor Springs, Mich.

Dear Sir :

It is not practicable for me to send William Tehingua to
Harbor Springs on your solicitation. He came here for a fixed per-
iod and must remain here until that is over. It is perfectly prac-
ticable to accomplish all that may be necessary by his giving a
power of attorney, and I so informed him sometime ago when he
brought the matter up. Suits can be commenced, carried on, and end-
ed without the presence of the principals. You probably understand
this as well as I do.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Miss Elizabeth F. Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

My dear Miss Edge :-

I permitted George and Fred to visit their sisters at your place, understanding that it was on your invitation. I wish to say that this is a busy season and it is not good for boys especially to be spending much time in visiting. They would better be at work. We need Fred very much and could use George also. Both can be earning money which they will need for the long winter.

With kind regards,