TELEGRAMS.

Oct. 5.

Dr. Eastman,
Crow Creek, S. Dak. via Chamberlain.

You will hear from Commissioner within few days. Will be taken care
of, probably Crow Creek. If not there, Standing Rock.

Pratt, Major.

W. U. -9:05 A.M.

Oct. 5.

Miss Clara C. McAdams,
Mt. Pleasant, Ia.

Appointment to Pipestone forwarded you yesterday.

Pratt, Major.

W. U. - 9:05 A.M.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF
THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Peirce School,
Record Bldg.,
917 & 919 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

Please send me bills for payment of Miss Henrietta Fremont's tuition, as required by your rules, and I will remit by check.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Diga the Ground,
Oswego, Mont.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Sept. 30th, I have to advise
you that Robert Emmett after graduating, worked in a printing office
in Harrisburg for a time, and then enlisted in the 29th U. S. Infan-
try, was made a sergeant almost immediately and went with his regi-
ment to Manila. If you address a letter to him in care of the Com-
manding Officer, 29th U. S. Infantry, Philippine Islands, he will
get it.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

John J. Foster,
Fentrese, I. T.

My dear Sir :-

Your boys are here now, although they should not have come
both on account of their age and the fact that they are Creeks. I re-
ported the matter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he said
now that they are here I shall keep them. It is quite evident to t
they like the license of the mission school. What they need is re-
straint, and more of it than they get at Carlisle would not hurt
them. They use bad language and all use tobacco, which we do not al-
low here. As the Commissioner has approved of their stay, I think
you would better leave them here to feel the restraint.

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TELEGRAM.

Oct. 5.

Dr. Fox,
1304 Walnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Can you attend to boy needing glass eye if sent you tomorrow ? Wire
answer.

Pratt, Major.

Postal.

1:05 P.M.

TELEGRAM.

Oct. 5.

Buffalo Meat,

Kingfisher, O. T.

Your nephew Dawes in excellent health. No Cheyennes sick. Can't
send boy home.

Pratt, Major.

W. U.

1:45 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

To His Excellency,

The Governor,

Helena, Montana.

My dear Sir :-

An army chaplain asked me if I would not send our paper to
Little Whirlwind in confinement in your penitentiary. I did so and
received the enclosed letters. From what one of my students tells
me, who was at the time of the murder a soldier in the army, I have
been led to think that what Little Whirlwind says is about the truth.
Supposing you keep a collection of papers on the subject, I simply
forward these to you for such use as you may think best to make of
them. Whether Little Whirlwind writes the letters or not I do not
know. I knew some of the leaders of the northern Cheyennes many
years ago, but have not come in contact with them for fifteen years
or more.

With great respect, I am

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Mrs. Laura Daniel,
802 Eleventh St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Daniel :-

You still have four boxes in the warehouse here, and we
are getting so cramped for room for our own supplies on account of
the growth of the school that I am driven to ask you and others who
have gone away and left stuff here, to relieve us. please advise im-
mediately what to do with your boxes.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Mr. J. E. Youngblood,

Skokomish, Wash.

My dear Mr. Youngblood :-

I return the enclosed to you for the reason that what you write about is such a prolific abuse throughout the service that I feel we ought not to open the door and let our little paper become the medium for complaints of this kind. I do not think it adds to the strength of the right in any way, but tends to make the vast number of people who read our paper think worse of the Indian service than they ought ; because while all you say is true these abuses are not so numerous nor of such a nature as to condemn the whole service, and it is washing our dirty linen in public. It seems to me better to keep on attempting to right our wrongs within ourselves, as was done in all the cases you speak of.

We should be glad to hear from you in behalf of the general work with criticisms on methods occasionally and favorable accounts if you can. To my mind rascality breeds a good deal on publicity. Little rascals become familiar with and educated into bigger ones by constantly reading about those who have done bigger things. The criminal in a town gets more notice in a few days through the newspapers than all the good men get in many years. If there were less of crime published, I think there would be less crime. This is a personal view of it, but a conclusion arrived at after a great deal of observation; not that I would not expose and punish crime in the most stringent manner, but I would expose it to those who have the power to punish.

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 6, 1900.

Miss Rowena Fowler,
195 W. Ninth Ave.,
Columbus, O.

Dear Miss Fowler :-

As we are unable to arrange your coming here for the cur-
rent fiscal year, I return your recommendations, all original.
If
you are not satisfactorily located at the close of the school year,
Please write me again.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Martha Eagle Elk,

Allen P. O., S. Dak.

My dear Martha :-

You wrote to Mrs. Etnier last April to send you some photographs. Just now she refers your letter to me and asks that I attend to it.

We have so many photographs it would be necessary for you to designate what you want. We will be glad to send you any pictures we have, you to pay for them, of course. I send you one of our little souvenir books which we got out some years ago. Perhaps this will serve your purpose.

Hoping you are in good health and getting on well,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

Carlisle, pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Quannah Parker,

W. Cache, O. T.

My dear Friend :-

I have your letter about your girls. On examining the records I find that you only paid transportation for Harold one way and that was several years ago. I paid his expenses back, and Laura's and Juanada's transportation both ways when they visited home; so that you are in error about it there. You have always told me you wanted your children to remain here until they were educated. I fear Harold's disposition has led you to break away from that a little, but I must hold to the rule. I let Harold go home on account of his health, expecting him to return and join his class this fall.

The girls are all in the best of health.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Hon. J. A. T. Bull,
Auditorium Hotel,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir :-

In talking with the Commissioner over the phone this morn-
ing about other matters I mentioned that I would be glad to have Miss
Laird here as soon as there was a vacancy, and he told me he had just
transferred her to Fort Lewis, Colo. and that perhaps she was satis-
factorily located for the fiscal year. If at the close of the year
she continues in the service and would like to come to Carlisle ,
please let me know.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Miss Clara Turpin,
Faith, Minn.

Dear Miss Turpin :-

Your letter of Sept. 7th has remained unanswered altogether
too long, and I am sorry. I put it in my unanswered letter drawer
and it has been buried there with other letters and just now comes
to light.

From what you say of yourself and your location I take it you
have the opportunities of a public school where you are, and this is
a great deal better for you than any Indian school. I trust you
will break away from Indian school life and dash into the contest
with Anglo-Saxons. The chances are that if you came here I should
treat you that way.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

James H. Pratt,
1702 Carondolet St.,
New Orleans, La.

My dear James :-

We have had a general round of invalidism at our house.
Richenda, our youngest daughter, has been suffering from rheumatism
since last spring and I have also been under the weather on the same
account. We were both in the hospital in the spring and this summer
went on a trip to Canada to try to get straightened out. While we
are both improved we are still not entirely off the invalid list.

Trusting this will find you all well, and with kindest regards
from us all,

Your uncle,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Wm. H. Guyette,

Wyandotte City, Ind. Ty.

Dear William :-

As Charlie is past twenty-one, it would need the special
permission of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for him to come here
and under all the circumstances I would hardly be willing to ask
that. There are so many younger ones that need the chance.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Mr. S. Irwin McCord,
420 Hanover St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Your note of the 14th of September should have been ans-
wered earlier, but was mislaid. We are not in need of any help in
the printing office now. I have had no intimation that Mr. Wheelock
intends to leave; in fact I am sure it is his intention to remain.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

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

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

I send you personally a sample of the flannel bought for
us by the Department this year together with a sample of that pur-
chased last year. If you hold them up to the light together you will
see a great difference. Fortunately, we did not receive very much
and have a good stock on hand from last year. I can use this year's
supply for lining, as my people pronounce it unfit for dresses for
the reason that it will not pay for the making up. The piece with
the yellow stitching is of last year's purchase.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Little Whirlwind,
P. O. Box #7,
Deer Lodge, Mont.

My dear Sir :-

I was very glad to send you our school paper, and if you
are able to read it may be of special interest to you as it tells
of many things among the Indians.

I do not see what I can do in your behalf. It seems to me it
rests with those who know more of the circumstances than I do.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Miss Lucie Irwin,
21 S. Washington St.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of Sept. 17th which would have had
attention before had it not been mislaid, I have to say that we have
no vacancies in the sewing department at this school, nor have we
made any changes lately; neither do we contemplate any very soon. I
cannot therefore give you any encouragement.

All positions at this school are filled by assignment from the
civil service register. The only way I can employ anyone otherwise is
by carrying them as "laborer"; if civil service regulations are after
ward complied with I can then secure appointment; as the matter now
stands, however, I do not think it would be worth while for you to
take action.

(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.

Mr. Jno. R. Hughes,
Indian School,
Fort Lewis, Colo.

My dear Sir :-

Your letter of Sept. 7th was sent to the printing office
for an extract when it arrived, with directions to return it to me
for answer. It has only today been returned; hence the delay in re-
plying. If you have read "The Helpers" you will notice we had some-
thing of it there. Our columns are open to a limited extent for
ideas in industrial and educational training, and if you have any-
thing more you would like to say, send it along.

Thanking you for your letter, I am

VOL. 44

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 6, 1900.

Eugene Fisher,
9 Standish St.,
Dorchester, Mass.

Dear Eugene :-

I have been watching the mails to see that your rascally
solicitations for money from the two Parker girls do not reach them.
I picked up your letter to Thaddeus Redwater in which you enclose a
letter appealing to Juanada. What a great manly fellow you are, to
be sure ! You have already worked the girls for contributions to
help you to do wrong and you are continuing in the same line. Now,
this is to advise you that unless you wish to be arrested and pun-
ished according to law, you must desist at once from writing to any-
one at this school except myself. Your whole course has been that
of a bad fellow , and your signing your letters with the nom de plume
of "Montana Tough" exposes you entirely. I keep your letter to Thad-
deus as evidence against you and unless you change your course im-
mediately, get on the right track and behave yourself, and drop all
correspondence here, I will take hold of you and handle you as you
deserve. You cannot deceive any longer. I shall not write your em-
ployer this time , but will see that he understands what kind of a
fellow you are if you do not immediately take this warning.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 6, 1900.

Miss Isabel Brooks
Belleville, N. Y.

Dear Miss Brooks :-

Your letter of Sept. 22nd appeared on my table sometime
ago and I understood it had been answered, but find no record of it.
I send you in this mail several of my annual reports together with
an account of the founding of the school, copies of one or two of
my addresses, etc. I trust these may reach you in time for use, and
regret the delay if this is the first answer you have received from
us.

(F)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 6, 1900.

Sylvia Ross,

Gresham, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Ross :-

Lizzie Martin came here Aug. 22nd, 1897 for a five year's course, and is not entitled to go home until that period is finished.

The fact that she is now twenty-one does not affect her term.

Lizzie is well and getting on nicely, and so far as I know has no desire to return home till the proper time.

Yours very truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

(P)

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Oct. 6, 1900.

Miss Jenny Ericson,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Miss Ericson :-

Thanks for your good letter of the 24th.
My friend, Major Day, promised to invite me
down to spend a while with him sometime
this winter, and if I could bring Mrs. Pratt
and Richenda, who need an outing as much as
I do, it is more than likely I might care
to come down the latter part of the season
and stay until the warm weather sets in. It
is an abominable experience to do as we did
when we went to Bermuda. From a temperature
of 60° above we came to a temperature of
22° below on landing in New York City. If
you see Major Day tell him this, and say
also that I never received his book on Japan.

The girls arrived almost a week ago
and seem quite happy in their new surround-
ings.

Mrs. Etnier came over last evening
and spoke to the Susans. We were all glad
to see her.

With kind regards from us all,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 6, 1900.

Mrs. Anna Andette,
Athena, Oregon.

Dear Mrs. Andette :-

Your brother, Mike Pierce, to whom you wrote Aug. 13th,
was not at the school at the time, having run away. He is here a-
gain, is at work and school, and I trust his experience has done
him some good. I deliver your letter to him, and he will no doubt
write you soon.

(P)

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Carlsisle, Pa., Oct. 8, 1900.

Mr. F. W. Hodge,

Garrett Park, Maryland.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your inquiry of Oct. 3rd, I quote from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1899, as follows :-

"The hope of the Indian race lies in taking the child at the tender age of four or five years, before the trend of his mind has become fixed in ancient molds or bent by the whims of his parents, and guiding it into the proper channel. Children who have been thus early placed under the influences of the schools show a percentage of success equal to or greater than that which attends the public school of any of the great cities of the world which draw their material from the slums. A greater percentage of the latter sink back into the degradation of their parents and revert to the life from which they were taken than do the Indian boys and girls who have received proper training in Indian schools. ******** The statistics of educated Indian children in after life will so far as the records and experience of this office disclose, bear favorable comparison with those of the whites."

I enclose a copy of my last annual report, containing a marked paragraph on the same subject; also my reports for 1897 and '98, containing something of our cutting system and other features of the school, which may be of interest to you. Detailed information confirming the quoted statements can be had from here, but it would take some time to prepare it. The Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from year to year contain valuable data.

(P)

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["STATISTICS. CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL.", "From the records covering November 1st, 1879 to June 30, 1900.", "| Amount Discharged | Amount Discharged | Amount Discharged | Amount Discharged |\n|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|\n| 1879-80           | 1879-80           | 1879-80           | 1879-80           |\n| 1880-81           | 1880-81           | 1880-81           | 1880-81           |\n| 1881-82           | 1881-82           | 1881-82           | 1881-82           |\n| 1882-83           | 1882-83           | 1882-83           | 1882-83           |\n| 1883-84           | 1883-84           | 1883-84           | 1883-84           |\n| 1884-85           | 1884-85           | 1884-85           | 1884-85           |\n| 1885-86           | 1885-86           | 1885-86           | 1885-86           |\n| 1886-87           | 1886-87           | 1886-87           | 1886-87           |\n| 1887-88           | 1887-88           | 1887-88           | 1887-88           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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1900.

Dr. A. M. Seabrook,
M. E. Hospital,
S. Broad & Wolf Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Doctor :-

We have a boy, Sherman Seneca, who has a tuberculous sore on his arm which Dr. Diven advises will need operation to find out the extent of the trouble. He says the bone may be involved deeply, possibly ultimately necessitating amputation; and suggests that I send him to a city hospital. Can I send him to you? I consider him a perfectly reliable boy, and will cover his hospital expenses. He can go at any time you advise.

Did you get an invitation to Mohonk this year, and are you going? Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I think we will take it in, and Mrs. Etnier is to go with us in order to represent education in Port to Rico. Is Dr. Lippincott going?

Glad to hear from Prof. Bakeless that Mrs. Bakeless is getting on so nicely. Thanks from all of us for your good care of her.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1900.

Messrs. Morphis, Price & Price,
Kominy, Okla.

Gentlemen :-

Replying to your letter of Sept. 29th, I have made inquiry at New Kingston for H. B. Poulk, the man you mention, and can learn nothing of him. Even old soldiers who have lived there for years, before and during the war, have no recollection of such a person. Harrisburg is such a large place that to try to find out about a man who lived there so long ago would be like hunting a needle in a haystack. I am unable therefore to furnish the information you ask.

(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1900.

Rev. Jesse Kirk,
Klamath Agency, Ore.

My dear Sir :—

I have nothing to add to what I have already said about
your boys. It is not at all practicable for me to send them home.
If we yielded to such importunities there would be no school. I am
surprised that you should yourself be asking it, knowing as I think
I do your wisdom in these matters. The fact that you are willing to
pay the expense of their return does not out any figure. We are un-
der obligations to care for them and give them all opportunities we
can. You sent them here and are under obligations to keep them here
a specified time. Both these obligations are binding and cannot be
easily set aside.

Receiving that the unfortunate escape of your son should
have so seriously disturbed you, and feeling assured that all will
come out right eventually and to your satisfaction, I am

Very sincerely your friend,

Major 10th Cavalry, Capt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1900.

Mr. Frank Maltby,
Olathe, Kans.

My dear Frank :-

It was pleasant to get a letter from you and to know you
are still in the land of the living.

In regard to the position of farmer, the place here is filled
now, and the difficulties of getting into the service are so great
that at your age I very much doubt whether you would care to under-
take it. To get on the eligible list for appointment a civil service
examination must first be passed; then one must be ready to go any-
where. After getting into the service a transfer can be had without
much difficulty; the trouble is to get a start. There is a long list
of waiters, and those with the highest grades are assigned first.
This system handicaps Carlisle more than any other thing I have to
contend with.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 19, 1900.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

Just a personal note to say that in our last class of graduates was a girl three fourths white, named Rose Poodry, from New York. She was capable, strong, and quite a musician, and had applied for appointment in the Indian service. She did not receive an appointment and I now learn that she is at Hampton Institute.

It seems to me that graduates from Carlisle ought not to expect
any more support from the government, and taking them in at Hampton
is not calculated to engender the right spirit among the Indiens. It
has been my uniform custom to decline taking Hampton students, and I
have always urged them to return to Hampton instead of coming here.
Recently Dr. Eastman wrote me of two young men at Crow Creek, both
ex-students of Hampton, who desired to come to Carlisle, John Wizi
and Henry Tatioa. I wrote the Doctor, telling him my habit, but
stated that I was willing to hear further from him on the subject.
At the same time I wrote Dr. Frissell. His reply is enclosed.

It does not seem to me we can enter into any interchange of stu-
dents without a growth of abuse along a number of lines which you can
readily understand. Yet I am perfectly willing to go contrary to my own
judgment if you think best.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20, 1906.

Miss Mary Shoulder,
Manderson, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :)

Your letter of Oct. 7th was mislaid until a few days ago,
and has therefore remained unanswering.

Your brother Reuben enlisted in the army more than a year ago,
was assigned to Troop "E", 2nd Cavalry, and was sent to Cuba. He is
now at Hamilton Barracks, Matanzas, Cuba, and a letter addressed to
him there will reach him. I enclose you a letter received from him
last spring, by which you will see he enjoys army life. Reuben en-
listed of his own motion, as did some thirty other students who in
the past two years have gone to serve their country in distant lands.

I send you today several numbers of "The Red Man and Indian
Helper" which is issued weekly and costs 25¢ a year. If you wish
to subscribe for it, enclose the amount in stamps to Miss Burgess,
Editor of "The Red Man & Indian Helper", Carlisle, and your name
will be put on the list.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20., 1900.

Miss Delia F. Pierce,
Box 12,
Irving, N. Y.

Dear Miss Pierce :-

I have sent your letter to your brother, and you will no
longer hear from him soon. He has been away from the school quite
a little of late, being a member of the football team, and going
with them to Boston, New Haven, and other places on their trips. As
he was somewhat off in health, we sent him to a hospital in Philadel-
phia for treatment, but he is again at the school, and seems to be re-
gaining his usual health.

He will tell you about the apples.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20, 1900.

Victor Crow Chief,
Darlington, Okla.

Dear Sir :-

Myself, standing from here to Anadarko to receive
a number of students who desire to come to Carlisle. When he is
through there, he will go to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency. You
can then present yourself to him and he will arrange for your coming
here if all the conditions are satisfactory.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20, 1900.

American Credit Co.,
120 Market St.,
Lynn, Mass.

Gentlemen :-

Replying to yours of the 10th inst. in regard to Louis St. Cyr, I have to respectfully advise you that he is a runaway from this school, and a fellow with a very unsavory reputation particularly in regard to integrity. He is traveling about the country and living, no one knows how. While here at school he was given to petty stealing and borrowing from everyone who was foolish enough to lend to him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1900.

Hon. E. A. Jones,

My dear Commissioner :

I have from many sources that there are quantities of pucilis who would like to come to Carlisle from both Fine Ridge and Rose bud Agencies, and this information has been coming constantly for years past, and if there were no official engineering to the contrary and a very little official encouragement given at each place, I would have no material trouble in making up large parties.

Now that Fine Ridge has a new agent, I would like to make another attempt there, and the best way would be to use Mr. William Robertson, who is part Indian and has long been a teacher in the day schools. If you can consistently do so, I would be glad if you would officially write the agent a letter something like the enclosed. If you do this and will let me know, I will manage the rest.

We shall expect you at Carlisle soon for a Sunday.

Yours faithfully,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 22, 1900.

Joseph LaFramboise,
U.S.Steamship "Dolphin",
Navy Yard,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Joe :-

Your letter of Nov. 1st came duly and I turned it over to
Miss Burgess to take an item for the paper, so that all may know the
interesting things you have to tell. She returned it sometime ago, but
several days' absence and much desk and outside work have kept me
from writing. I should be very glad when in Washington to get down to
the navy yard and see you, but I don't go very often and am usually
very much rushed. However, whether I see you or not, you know that
my thoughts follow you, and your success is not only a gratification
to me but to all your friends here.

From your life here you know just about what occupies us at this
season. This morning we raised the upper section of our new flag
staff. Altogether it is 120 feet high, and is the finest one in
this part of the state. I was quite a labor for us landsmen to get
it up, but we accomplished it. The high wind yesterday rolled up
quite a section of the tin roof on the school house, and the boys
had to work at it in the dark.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I witnessed the Harvard game. Our boys
played well and some day will thrash Harvard. Quite a number from
here went down to the Philadelphia game Saturday. Penn scored 16 a-
gainst our 6, but we gave them a tremendous tussle, and until the
last minute it looked as if we would win.

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Hope to hear from you again with accounts of your work and progress. I send you a synopsis of my last annual report which one of the town papers has printed.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 22, 1900.

Andrew Lyte,
Millerton P.O.,
Mason Co., Mich.

Dear Andrew :-

It has been so long since we heard a word from you or about you that I was quite surprised to come to your name at the end of the letter I received this afternoon. Glad to hear that you have steady employment and are doing well. We are as busy as usual at the school; there are some 970 pupils enrolled, and others are coming, so that we shall have a thousand before the year closes. Today we raised a new flag pole. This stands 120 feet high, and is the finest one in this part of the state.

About the picture of the whole school; we have some large photographs at 60 cents. I send you one of our souvenir books, which perhaps you may enjoy just as much. None of the pictures are late. I send you also a late number of our paper which has been changed since you were here, the two being combined under the title "The Red Man & Helper." It costs 25 cents a year, comes weekly, and contains all the school news. If you want to keep up with things here, that is just what you want.

With kind regards from all your friends here,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1900.

Mrs. Philip P. Botzong,
Waverly, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

I send you today copies of several annual reports of late
years, copies of addresses on Indian education, a short account of
the establishment of this school, and two late numbers of our school
paper. Trusting from this material you can get the information you
wish, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20, 1900.

Mr. Lewis Keshena,
Keshena, Wis.

My dear Sir:

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst., in regard to your son Frank, who is at the school again, I have to say that he is well and getting on nicely. As he came in August, 1897, it is quite impracticable for me to send him home. All pupils enter this school for a five years' term, and unless their own health makes it necessary we cannot send them home before that time expires. Frank is very young to leave school, and were it practicable to send him home on your request, he could not be of material help to you. It is vastly better for yourself and him that he continue at school.

Trusting your health may improve, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1900.

Jennie Cegar,

Shawnee, O. T.

Dear Friend :-

Reply to your letter of Nov. 3rd in regard to your niece Maud Spychuk was delayed for some time, as I wanted my doctor to examine her and report.

Maud does not seem to be in immediate danger, but the doctor recommends her return, and I trust the change to native air may benefit her. The government will pay her expenses. I expect to start her from here at six o'clock Monday evening, and she should arrive at Shawnee City at 7:20 P.M. Wednesday.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 24, 1900.

Dr. J. J. Sturm,
Cobb, O. T.

My dear Doctor :-

Ella is not sick in body. Physically, she is very well. I have had some talk with her about a little affair, and it seems to weigh on her mind. Otherwise, she is getting on very well. She is a senior and will graduate about the middle of March next, and it is best in every way for her to hold on. Immediately she graduates I can return her to you at government expense, and I think that is the best thing to do.

I am very glad to hear that your affairs are all straightened out with the Department. Mr. Standing has just gone down to Anadarko after children on a notice from the agent that there were five Caddo boys to come here. We will be in that neighborhood a short time and hopes to make up something of a party. While there I am sure he will want to see you.

With cordial regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 24, 1900.

Mr. Frank Terry,
Supt. & Special Agent,
Puyallup & Consolidated Agency,
Tacoma, Wash.

My dear Terry :-

This is only to acknowledge your very kind letter of the
17th, to thank you for your interest in my own school affairs
here, and to say that I have somewhat improved in health and can
still stagger along under the conditions. I am glad to hear that
your little cloud has disappeared and that your Mark is assuming such
satisfactory shape.

I still need about forty good pupils to enable me to clean up
my appropriation. Haven't you from one to ten real Indians of good
character and in good health to send over ? I want nothing unat
fourteen, preferably not over eighteen, not white, but Indian. In
you can send me from six to ten of this kind I will pay the expenses
of someone to bring them in, and return; or if you can send five, I
will pay the expenses of an escort one way. I have had a dreadfully
bad lot of stuff sent me from Puyallup, as you probably know - the
Smiths and others.

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TELEGRAM.

Nov. 26.

Capt. Wu. Petroff, I.R.N.,
Richmond & Ball Ste.,
Phila., Pa.

Please allow me to take your entire party over to New York to see
the game between Columbia University and Indians Thanksgiving day.
See Mr. Courtland Cramp and wire answer.

Pratt, Major.

Postal. 11:20 A.M.
Govt. rate - Athletic account.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 26, 1900.

Miss Rosilia Bille,
Box 656,
Marshfield, Wis.

Dear Miss :-

Replying to your request for information in connection with
"Rights of the Indians", I send you today copies of several address-
es delivered at Denver, Lake Mohonk, and other places, and my last
two annual reports of this school.

Trusting this material may help you, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 26, 1900.

Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse,
216 W. 25th St.,
New York City.

Dear Madam :-

Alphonso Eolista was throughout his whole course at Carlisle one of the most trusty and best of our many good Apaches. He had a letter from a former students of this school, Vincent Nahtailsh also an Apache, who has been in New York almost two years, saying that he could get him a good place to work. I strenuously objected to Alphonso's going there and tried to argue him out of it, as I have found Antonio Apache has not a good influence on the boys he has persuaded to go with him, and as I have evidence that Antonio is not an Apache nor an Indian at all. Alphonso could have had work under the Carlisle system as long as he wanted it; in fact, the greater part of his stay at Carlisle was spent in Bucks County on a farm and attending school. Alphonso was so urgent that I finally yielded to his wish, and let him cut loose from the school, expecting as I informed him before, the result your letter indicates.

If he does not fall too much under the influence of Antonio Apache, I should expect him to be true to his obligations and useful to the extent of his abilities.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 26, 1900.

Mrs. Ruth Shaffner-Etnier,
4512 Ogage Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Etnier :-

What you propose for Mark Penol does not relieve the situation one particle from what it is at present. I want the graduates of Carlisle to go entirely away from dependence upon Carlisle. The fact is that we are growing up a regular Indian reservation in Bucks County and about Philadelphia; that those who get the full benefit of Carlisle and graduate from it are practically as helpless as the others. Somebody must strike out into the open and make the way. Mark Penol is as good a person to do that as we have; but they are educated into a fear of striking out instead of into the courage to strike out, and the sympathy and assistance of Carlisle friends is helping to do that. To change his place from Hatboro to Philadelphia does not make it better; I would rather he remained at Hatboro than that he went to Philadelphia. My letter to him states the situation. There really is not the slightest reason for this continual dependence.

I am sorry you have sympathized and indicated a disposition to help Mark remain in Carlisle territory. He will have no trouble anywhere because he is such a good boy. As soon as his character is known there will be friends for him and the chances are ten to one he will get better pay and better opportunities if he leaves the Carlisle reservation than if he remains on it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 24, 1900.

Lorenzo Martinez,
Taos, New Mexico.

To: dear Lorenzo:

Glad to get a letter from you even if it is a matter of
business. We can send you our present coat and pants nicely made for
$10.00, $8.00 for the coat and $4.00 for the pants. On receipt of
this amount and size you want (give chest measure and length pants) I can
send the suit by express, or as you direct.

Glad to hear you are busy. We like to keep track of our old students, and occasional letters are always welcome. The school has changed very much since you were with us. It is considerably larger, and the facilities are better. No doubt the "Helper" and "Red Man" have kept you in touch with our progress. Miss Fly, Miss Burgess, Miss Cutler, Mrs. Standing, Mr. Harris and several of the old force of shop instructors are still here, but I doubt whether you would find any of the old students when you knew here.

With kind regards from your old friends here,

Yours faithfully,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 26, 1900.

Mr. W. J. Black,
Gen. Pass. Agt.,
A.T. & S. F. Ry. Co.,
77 Jackson St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:-

I enclose my check No. 71384 on the Asst. Treasurer, U. S.,
New York for $28.58 and my personal check for $28.58 in payment of
two tickets, Elgin, Kansas to Carlisle, Pa., furnished as per your
letter dated Nov. 3rd.

Please sign accompanying sub voucher and memorandum receipt,
stamp them on the face with your office stamp and return them in
envelope herewith.

Payment of these tickets has been delayed awaiting your
bill for the ticket, Elgin, Kansas to Carlisle, furnished on my letter
of request dated Oct. 26th. Please report the value of this ticket
and I will remit for same.

E.M.

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Carlsbad, Pa., Nov. 26, 1900.

Rev. W. H. Gill,
Boontedale, Arizona.

Dear Sirs:

Replying to yours of the 19th I enclose you the statement of my school physician. I have ordered glasses for Morris and there seems no reason for unreasonableness.

In regard to Jose Miguel, my doctor reports that his sight was failing when he came here and blindness is the result of conditions that could not be overcome. Manuel Stewart had pneumonia and after recovery was so weak that it was thought best to send him home.

Norris V. Anton came here as Morris Vakavoy, not as Morris Anton. At the close of their five years' term students are permitted to determine for themselves whether they will remain longer here or return home, and at the end of each year after the expiration of the five years, are again entitled to decide the question whether they will continue another year or go home. Morris was in the country at the time of deciding and was written to about it. The enclosed letter states that he decided not to go home. When students thus decide to make it a rule to hold them to their decision. At the close of the school year in June next Morris may again determine the matter for himself. I enclose a money order for five dollars payable to you which he desires to send to his mother. Please send me the mother's receipt for the same.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1900.

Mrs. Marion W. DeLoss,
C/o E. A. Wilbur,
313 T. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. DeLoss :-

The Hoover children will leave here tomorrow at two and should be in Washington at 7:15 P.M. Mr. Poston advises me that he has reserved two berths for them, as I asked. The girls are just in from the country, and their trunks have not yet arrived; but if they are not here in time to start with them I can have them sent on afterward.

Your nearest station to Fort Defiance is on the Atlantic & Pacific R.R. running out from Albuquerque. You stop at Gallup, N. Mex. and there is a tri-weekly buckboard from Gallup over to Fort Defiance. A copy of your transfer is herewith. I was sorry not to see you before you left; I went out temporarily, and forgot you were leaving.

It appears your desk was boxed and sent to Etta Catolst at Cher-
doke, N. Car. I ordered that Etta's desk be crates and shipped and
it appears the order went to you and you had your own desk boxed,
and Mr. Kensler supposing it was the proper one, for which the order
had been given, sent it off. It seems to have been entirely your own
fault. I have telegraphed to have it intercepted, and in time it
will get around to Washington. Etta left some money here to pay the
expense of sniping her desk, and we will use that to cover the extra
cost on yours.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1900.

Miss Martha Owl,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

Dear Martha :-

Your letter of Nov. 18th came this morning, and I am glad
to hear of your safe arrival. The trip is always tedious beyond San
Francisco, but now that it is over and your work is ready for you you
should cast off the discontented feeling the tone of your letter in-
dicates. Such an experience would be a pleasure to many; the scene
is changing and different from what you would find anywhere else, and
if things do have a dark side, that is not the one to look at. Try to
see the bright side, and cultivate a disposition of happiness and
content. Otherwise, I very much fear you will sow discord in the
school and instead of a helper become a hinderer, and Mr. Freer who
has always favored the Carlisle boys and girls, will hold me respon-
sible for sending a fault finding, disturbing person. Good nature
will overcome almost any difficulty, and I trust you will adapt your-
self to circumstances, which if you set yourself the task of helping
instead of bewailing, I am sure will strengthen your character.

Your friends here are pleased to learn of your arrival, and we
shall hope to hear from you from time to time.

With kind regards from all to yourself and our other Carlisle
people,

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TELEGRAMS.

Miss Nana Pratt,
160 Jarolman St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Nov. 28.

Tickets failed to arrive. Go to Mr. Warner, Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York between six and seven this evening.

R. H. Pratt.

Postal. 8:32 A.M.

L. L. Robbins,
Govt. Warehouse,
77 Wooster St., New York.

Tickets to game failed to arrive. See Warner, coach, Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York, six to seven this evening.

Pratt, Major.

Postal. 8:35 A.M.

Mrs. Russell Sage,
506 Fifth Ave.,
New York.

Tickets failed to arrive. Manager Warner will send you six this evening or early in morning.

R. H. Pratt.

Postal. 8:40 A.M.

Athletic Account.

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TELEGRAMS.

L. J. Robbins,
Govt. Warehouse,
77 Wooster St.,
New York.

Nov. 28.

Tickets just received. Sent you 15 special delivery, Warehouse.

Pratt. Major.

Miss Jane Pratt,
160 Jarrold Hall St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Nov. 28.

Tickets just received. Sent you 12, special delivery.

R. H. Pratt.

Mr. Russell Sage,
506 Fifth Ave.,
New York.

Nov. 28.

Tickets just received. Sent you four, special delivery.

R. H. Pratt.

G. S. Warner, Coach & Ingro,
Indian Football Team,
Depot Restaurant,
Broad St. Station, Phila.

47 tickets received by express. Have supplied my whole list.

Pratt. Major.

Postal. 11:00 A.M. Athletic Account.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1900.

Miss Daisy Dixon,
Lawrence, Kans.

Dear Daisy :-

I have your letter of the 25th, and shall be very glad to
give you the first vacant teacher's place that occurs here. Just now
the force is full, but in such a large number there are always pos-
sibilities and probabilities.

On the first of January Sara Smith quits her place as assistant
to Prof. Bakeless. It is clerical and library work; the salary, $30
per month. You can have that place as soon as it becomes vacant,
if it suits you to come and fill it, and when there is a vacancy a-
mong the teachers you can have that. We shall be glad to welcome you
back to Carlisle.

With kindest regards to your father and the family,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1900.

Mrs. Alice Lambert Otto,
Shoshone Agency, Wyo.

My dear Alice :-

I have your letter of Nov. 13th, and all of us sympathize
deeply with you in the sorrow that has darkened your home.

I have written the Commissioner in your behalf. You understand
of course that the superintendent of your school or the person want-
ing help has a greater influence than I can have. I am sure your
record at Washington will be all right, provided you can get your
superintendent there to request your appointment.

Have asked those who know about lesson helps, etc. to at-
tend to that part of your letter.

With kind regards to you from us all,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1900.

Dr. Chas. A. Eastman,
Crow Creek, S. Dak.

My dear Doctor :-

I wrote to the Commissioner and also to Dr. Frissell about
the two boys you named, John Wizi and Henry Tatiopa. Dr. Frissell
at first recommended that I receive the boys, but subsequently wrote
against it. The Commissioner advises me to accept them. I am will-
ing to place transportation for them therefore, if they still wish
to come, and you believe that they mean business.

Can't you make up a good party and either bring them in your-
self or send them in with someone else ?

With kind regards to yourself and family from us all,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 29, 1900.

Dear Mrs. DeLoss :-

Your telegram was received at 7:40 this morning, too late
of course to do anything about transportation in connection with the
California party. Your telegram comes from the Pennsylvania Depot.

Major Pratt wrote Mr. Poston, G.A. of the Southern Pacific R.R. that Mrs. DeLoss would travel with the party as far as ElPaso. He also talked by phone with Mr. Poston; I did not hear the conversation, for I left the office, but I am sure he was making arrangements that you should be furnished a ticket. I understood it was to be at your own cost, but at the school rate. I also understood that you were to call at the office of the agent, 511 Penna. Ave. N.W., (which address was given you) and make arrangements yourself for your own sleepers, and that you were to do this in ample time to secure a good berth. Major Pratt wrote you on the 27th, and the letter should have reached you the next morning in the first mail, telling you about the latter part of your journey, and stating that the children would arrive in Washington at 7:15 P.M. The letter was addressed as this one is.

I am very sorry things are so confused. Major Pratt has gone
to New York, and so I answer. Your next train will leave Washington
Friday night at 10:45. I telegraphed you this morning.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1900.

To The Adjutant,
10th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Manzanillo, Cuba.

Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August
23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the
Interior dated September 6th, all 1979.

My address for the next month is as above.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1900.

Mr. Lewis Shawndasi,
Northport, Mich.

My dear Sir :-

Relying to your letter of Nov. 24th, I am sorry to tell you that your son Jonah ran away from his country home, and as we heard nothing about him and supposed he had reached home, we dropped his name from our rolls Sept. 20th. As discontent usually starts from influences at pupils' homes, and they seldom get far away from the school unless they have money from home, I had suspected you knew of his leaving the school, and had probably aided him to run away.

If I hear anything of him I will let you know.

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3rd, 1900.

Miss Jeannette M. Buckles,
Indian School,
Siletz, Ore.

Dear Mattie :-

I have your letter of Nov. 17th, by which I see you are
again at work. I was somewhat disappointed that you did not succeed
in making up a party for Carlisle, but I have no doubt you did all
you could.

We are getting along nicely at the school; have still room for
a few more pupils, but all are not yet in who have applied for admi-
sion. Several are to come from Nevada, Wisconsin, and other places
in the west.

I just returned last night from New York and Philadelphia. Our
boys played Columbia in New York on Thanksgiving day, and I was
there to witness the game. Richenda was with me, and we visited with
Nana a little while who is in Brooklyn this winter attending Pratt's
Institute.

Glad your work is pleasant and your classes so interesting.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1900.

Miss Dora A. Reinken,
C/o Mrs. E. W. Gifford,
Landenburg, Pa.

My dear Dora :-

I am greatly pleased to get such a nicely written letter
from you, and to know that you are getting along well at school and
at your home. I hope I may always have as good reports as I received
this month about you. I see you are learning to cook and bake, and
I am glad of this also, and that you can help Mrs. Gifford so much.

We had a very pleasant Thanksgiving Day. The usual services
were held in the chapel in the morning, and there were two games of
ball afterward, one just before dinner, and one at three o'clock.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the day.

With kind regards from your friends here,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1900.

Mr. Wu. I. Buchanan,
Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

I have been away from home since last Wednesday, but re-
plied to your message just before leaving. I have been letting the
band drift quite a little since the campaign and have not kept it up
to its best work, for the reason that unless we undertake your job
we shall not go beyond local districts, and there is no need; but
should we go to you, we would want to begin hard practice at once
in order to get up to the best again. For this reason your conclu-
sion ought to be known to me as soon as practicable.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1900.

M. S. Harlow,
Middleton,
Kay Co., Okla.

Dear Sir :-

Samuel Kenoi is such a thoroughly worthless fellow that I am glad he is as far away as he is. There is no reward for his appreciation. His experience as a runaway will probably do him a great deal more good than I possibly could.

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Dec. 3, 1900.

Mr. George Prereton,
40 Lake Place,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Sir :-

The letter seems to be genuine.
While here Ulysses was one of our Y.M.C.A.
boys and probably met you at Northfield.
Stamina as his letter indicates is a great
satisfaction. I shall be glad if his wants
can be met.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1900.

Mr. Stanley W. Boretree,
Aguadillo, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :-

I very willingly accept of Castulo Rodrigo Lopez on your
recommendation and that of Commissioner Brumbaugh, and have written
your father that I would provide transportation to Carlisle at any
time and from any point he might indicate, for the boy.

There has been so much urgency to send pupils here from Porto
Rico that I have concluded to submit the matter officially to the De-
partment, and increase the number. If we could have boys and girls
who are 14 to 18 years of age, and who have demonstrated their worth
in the home schools, I think from the experience we have already had
we might very properly and with profit to the general work undertake
twenty-five or thirty more. I will write Commissioner Brumbaugh my
views.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1900.

Hon. Eliku Root,
Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:-

Believing it worth your consideration I venture to make a suggestion with reference to the use of the Filipino tribes in the army and would advocate; first, a system that would not use them as special organizations, but rather enlist and incorporate them into the regular army; second, if used as separate organizations, I would advocate that every unit or company organization be made up of men from as many different tribes as possible.

Excellent reasons for using the Filipinos in the army at all are abundantly manifest. To my mind all the reasons for using them as part of the army apply with more force to their use as enlisted and incorporated in the regular organizations than they do to being used as separate organizations. If they know the country better so as to act as scouts and guides, how much more valuable to the Government that each company organization should have within the company its scouts and guides. If they know the ways of the people and are able to give valuable information and help against the rebels of their own tribes, how much more valuable to the company commander that he should have in reach that information and be enabled to apply it immediately. If their methods of living, the quality of their food and dress or any other trait is an added value in any way and an inducement for adoption in the army, how much more important that the company commander should

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have in his company those who can give him the information. If their
going into the army has an influence to induce them to become Ameri-
cans, how tremendously more valuable to them in every way to have an
opportunity of associating with real true Americans, the courageous
American soldier. Filipinos in each company widely distributes
invaluable means of prompt communication between the people and the
officers, and is in itself a most powerful argument in favor of their
coming into the army as a very part of its every organization, rather
than as separate organizations which are likely to be remote when
needed for prompt communication and service.

The confidence which their being in the army proper would beget
among their people through being a recognition of their quality would
operate in every way to rapidly wipe out race differences and build
them up to equality. Treated as an American man, the Filipino will
I am sure, quickly become an American man; treated as an American
soldier, he will become an American soldier; and the best way to make
a true, loyal, American, private soldier is through constant contact
and service with the loyal private American soldier himself. Experience
has shown that the policy of having training schools to prepare
soldiers for service in the army was a hindrance rather than a help.
These Carlisle Barracks were used for many years as a training school
for the cavalry, and one or two years' training here was long deemed
necessary before sending them into real service. All that has been
dropped. Men are enlisted and placed in companies and on duty at
once, and the old soldiers in the company soon get the recruit use-
fully into harness. Allow me to say in justification of the foregoing
that in 1867 and '68 I commanded two different bodies of scouts;

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one made up of Cherokee Indians entirely, and the other made up of
Caddo Indians entirely. In 1872, '73, and '74 I commanded Indian
scouts of Tonkaway Indians entirely. None of these commands gave
satisfactory service. I spoke one language and they all spoke another.
I had constant apprehension and failed to get the full results
desired. In '74 and '5 I was detailed to enlist a large company of
Indians at Fort Sill, and easily secured representatives from eleven
different tribes. Delegations from three of these tribes (Kowas,
Comanches, and Apaches) were in the service to help against the rebel
licus of their own tribes. It was easy to use the antipathies and
ambitions of these several delegations and secure the greatest exer-
tion and the best discipline. The lesson was not lost to me from
that time on, and so far as my opportunities have permitted I have
mixed the tribes in every aggregation coming under my control, se-
curing the very best results in every case. In the school here of
960 pupils I have 77 tribes represented. Our dormitory rooms accom-
modate three and four. I make it a point to assign students so that
there shall be only one of a tribe in each room, and if I know of
antipathies between the tribes I place those from such tribes togeth
er. Friendship, unity, progress, English are the results.

The principal cause for failure of the Indian in the army was
that there were tribal companies; i.e., each company was filled with
men from the same tribe, a Sioux company, an Apache company, a Chey-
enne company, and so on. I advocated then with Mr. Proctor the tak-
ing of the Indian into the company organizations as a man, and I be-
lieve Mr. Proctor was convinced my way was right; but there were
those who had less experience than I in the matter but more rank and

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influence, and they advocated the other method and prevailed. I should
want to have nothing to do with this school even here in Pennsylva-
nia if compelled to take all the children from one tribe. The dif-
ficulties of management would be so greatly increased and the Ameri-
canizing and Anglicizing so greatly hindered as to make it not worth
while. The superintendent of one of the best and most successful
colleries in the Lykens Valley region told me that in thirty years
he had never had a strike nor a material disturbance even when the
colleries around him were in great trouble, simply because he man-
aged to have miners equally divided among the different nationali-
ties.

In my judgment, one of the best features of your proposed army
reorganization bill is an omission. You have left out the color line.
I was on the grand stand beside my old comrade(in the Ninth Indiana
Infantry for three months in '61) General Lawton, and just in front
of General Shafter, not many feet from the President. Just before
the President called General Shafter to his side, the companies of
jackies from the navy marched by. There were many black faces in the
line with the whites. We all remarked upon it, and as I have belonged
to a colored regiment ever since being in the army, I spoke strongly.
Generals Shafter and Lawton agreed that colored regiments in the army
is a violation of the constitution of the United States. What a hy-
poisy and encouragement to the building and prolonging of prejudice
for the government of the United States to say there shall be "no
distinction on account of race, color, or previous condition of ser-
vitude," etc., and then immediately enact a law and organize a pro-
longed prejudice in the government's right arm, the army!

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A year and a half ago at my suggestion, your department authorized the enlistment of Indians in the army; the same as other men, and conforming to my suggestion these men have been sent, each to a different company. Thirty-four former students at Carlisle are now serving in the different branches of the army, and I have occasional letters from most of them. I have yet to hear anything derogatory of a single one. One, a Sioux, was a member of the body-guard of General Lawton, was present and gave me an account of the General's death and his personal experiences. Another was with the Ninth Infantry in the trenches about Tientsin and in all the movements on Peking, and wrote me at the time. I enclose you copies of their letters.

If it shall be alleged that the Filipinos do not understand the English language, I can urge from my experiences that they will learn to perform their duties satisfactorily by observation almost as quickly as other soldiers, and that within three months, surrounded by other soldiers, the average will be able to speak and understand enough English to get on fairly. From that time they will go on rapidly to full knowledge and success; whereas, if placed by themselves they will pass even several years of enlistment and not acquire the English language. This has been the experience with our Indian scouts in the west.

I urge then, that in taking the Filipinos into the army, they be recognized and treated as individual men at once by the government of the United States, and placed in companies the same as other men, an average (sup. twenty-five) percent. in each company, and by all means that it be arranged for as many different tribes as possible to be represented in each company. This brings confusion of language

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among them and out of that confusion will speedily grow a unit upon
the English language. This, however, is a question of detail to be
attended to in the process of enlistments and assignments. May I be
allowed to express the hope that the Army of the United States will
now rise to the dignity of the Navy and abolish the color line entirely,
having no cavalry, infantry, or other organization to be filled
only with men of a special race.

If still unable to legislate and administer government in the
army on constitutional lines and we must have race organizations in
the army, then as the Filipinos are made up of many tribes, I urge
that in every company there be men from as many different tribes as
possible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1900.

Mr. E. J. Milnor,
Box 33,
Hatboro, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter in regard to David Abraham. There are
several misconceptions in it. I have not asked that David go to his
own home in Michigan, or farther west as you intimate; so that fling
falls harmless. I simply require that he shall go out of the neigh-
borhoods where Carlisle students are placed. My reason for requiring
this is a rule which we were compelled to make years ago, that our
boys and girls must be placed in different neighborhoods. David
while a student was placed out in our boys' district with a Miss
Hart. He did so well there that when Miss Hart sold out and moved
into our girls' district I permitted him to go with her upon her in-
tercession, intending it to be only temporary and for the convenience
of Miss Hart; but it grew into a prolonged arrangement always con-
trary to my wishes. The rule is a necessary one and will have to
be observed or broken; there is no midway. I am responsible to the
United States government for David, notwithstanding his graduation.
He has not been dismissed from this school. His name is still on
our rolls. He is still within the limits of Carlisle jurisdiction
and as long as he remains I shall have to keep him to our rules. My
duty in the premises is to return him to his home, but he has all
New York, the New England States, Europe, Asia, or Africa to go to;

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he can go north, west, or south; I only require that he leave the
neighborhood where our students are. The very fact that he is dis-
respectful in his conduct in the matter shows that he will be a bad
influence on our students notwithstanding all you say of his being a
member of your church choir, etc.

As I wrote Miss Hart, I have only two things to do, either have
David go away from the district where our girls and boys are placed
or remove the girls from the Hatboro district. I shall expect David
to report here at the time appointed.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1900.

Mr. Wm. McAdams, Sr.,
Kansas,
Edgar Co., Ill.

My dear Sir :-

I send you copies of my 11th and 21st annual reports of
this school; the latter is only a synopsis, the full report not yet
being in print; the former we do not have in pamphlet form. There
is no cost attached, as they are for distribution to those who ask
for them.

The young Iowa to whom you refer was probably educated in Ken-
tucky. I cannot just now recall the place, but there was an Indian
school established in Kentucky some fifty years ago, on principles
similar to those of Carlisle. For some reason it was considered a
failure, whether because the location was unfavorable or for other
other cause, I do not know.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1900.

Miss Mary C. Judd,
Hotel Waverly,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Dear Miss Judd :-

Replying to your letter of the 4th inst. in regard to a
position at this school, I have to advise you that at present all
teachers' positions are filled, with no prospect of immediate change.
When vacancies occur, they are filled by transfer from other schools
in the Indian service, or by certification from the civil service
register. I am therefore not able to give you a favorable answer to
your application.

We have no reports showing salaries paid, but teachers' salar-
ies range from $500 to $840 per annum with furnished room, heat and
light. For information as to civil service examinations, etc. ad-
dress The Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.
The annual report issued by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Wash-
ington, D. C. gives information from all the Indian schools, and can
be had on application or through your Congressman.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8, 1900.

Dennison Wheelock,
W. DePere, Wis.

Dear Denn :-

The authorities of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo
have been writing to me for some time about the use of our band dur-
ing the exposition. They themselves have brought the matter forward
and I have in each case simply responded. I told them that for two
weeks' service of forty pieces and leader we would charge $2000, or
for four weeks, $3,500. I am now in receipt of a letter from the
Director General, of which the enclosed is a copy. From this letter
it seems they have been largely inspired in their action by corres-
pondence with you. What your plans are I do not know, but there is
nothing in the correspondence which renders your presence necessary,
that is to say, aside from this letter you have not been mentioned.
I do not wish to interfere with any plans you may have, and will very
cheerfully decline to enter into a contract if from your correspon-
dence you are satisfied it would otherwise go to you. I believe that
Jim could take what we have and with some few additions make a com-
paratively good showing, but you could of course do it better. If as
I said, you have plans that can mature and work out satisfactorily I
will give you an open field. If you have not, two alternatives pru-
sent themselves; to ask you to take charge of the band or to turn it
over to Jim. I have just had a conference with him and he seems to
feel as I do about it, i.e., that he can undertake it and make a

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pretty fair success of it, but that you could do it better, and prefer to have you undertake it.

If there were no salaries connected with it I figure we could
clear about $1,800 on the four weeks agreement. Of course any sal-
ary I would have to pay would reduce the profits, as the position of
band leader has been abolished and I should have to pay you if you
come from these receipts; but while the receipts are very very im-
portant, success is of greater importance, and I have concluded if
the way is open and you care to undertake it and can come at once,
I will give you your old salary from the time you report here until
this obligation is completed. On receipt of this please wire me your
decision fully.

From all I can hear about it, this exposition is to be the larg-
est and most distinguished exposition ever undertaken by a local com-
munity; so that it is quite worth our while to accept the proposal
if we can do so creditably.

Your friend,

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My dear Friend :-

I have just been reading your report, and wish to say that it is the ablest, truest, most fortunate and timely utterance on the Indian question made by any Commissioner within my knowledge. You have given the situation so conservative that the tribalizing enemies of the Indians have no reason to find fault. They have had immense help from the government, have done their best, and failed. You do not by any means blow as deep as I would, but I am yet hopeful that what I deem imperative will more and more be demonstrated and built up to until we get there. Ignorant pauper parents should not be allowed to reproduce and perpetuate themselves and burden the country with worthlessness through their children on any pretext whatsoever. It is absurd to expect much real success through any method of mass training, for that sort consolidates rather than disseminates. Sioux churches and Sioux schools are as effectual tribalizers as any influences that can be brought to bear. One of the greatest crimes committed against the Indians was in yielding to the theories which demanded a special public school system among the Indians. The school has become the strongest factor in perpetuating the tribe. Race schools of any sort are dangerous. That through the tribal schools the young of the Indians will be so fitted for the cause of our American life that we can turn them from such schools

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out into the struggle for existence and expect them to succeed, is
a very very cruel proposition. Gradually, by daily contact and many
experiences our own children are fitted for individual struggle and
we shall only fit the Indians for the same contest by using the same
means.

I am fully aware of the difficulties of your position and of the
necessity which confronts you to so direct affairs as to harmonize
all the varied influences controlling or assuming to control and dic-
tate methods. Personally grateful for the very material advance in
the Indian Office position your report shows, I am hopeful that now
having made such a good start there my be no halting.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8, 1900.

Mr. Wm. I. Buchanan,
Director-General, Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York.

My dear Sir :-

I appreciate most highly the consideration and interest
shown in your letter of Dec. 6th, and shall use all the power at my
command to make the service satisfactory to you. Any dates between
the middle of June and the first of September will be entirely satis-
factory, and should it become important to you to name dates partly
before or partly after, I would endeavor to meet them.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8, 1900.

Mr. Gus H. Beaulieu,
St. Cloud, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 3rd inst. in regard to the chil-
dren of Mr. Kerr, aged respectively 13, 11, and 9 years, I have to
advise you that we cannot accept of children under 12 years, and pre-
fer that they be 14 or over. We do have quite a number below this
age now, but they came to us by transfer from Lincoln Institution in
Philadelphia, that school being closed because Congress did not con-
tinue appropriation for its support. Our accommodations for small
girls and boys are therefore crowded, making it impracticable to re-
ceive more of this class, were it even advisable. While it is desir-
able to have pupils that are full Indian or nearly so, I could accept
the oldest one of Mr. Kerr's children, who is 13, if he is well and
promising. Let me hear from you again if the father still desires
to have this one enrolled here, and on advice from you of the time
I will have a ticket delivered for his use in Chicago to his fa-
ther, who I understand would accompany him that far; or I can have
a ticket delivered at St. Cloud or such point as you may name.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 10, 1900.

Miss Lizzie A. Cackley,
Boiling Springs, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of Dec. 8th, there are at present no vacancies in the sewing department of this school, nor any in prospect soon. I am therefore unable to give you a favorable reply. The salaries of the women in this department are $25 and $30 a month.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 10, 1900.

Hon. Joseph P. Hawley,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

Dear General :-

The fact that I have been dealing with just such conditions
ever since being in the regular service justifies me in writing to
you about the proposed enlistment of Filipinos in the Army.

In enlisting them there is an opportunity for incalculable good
both to them and to the United States, but it lies entirely in rec-
ognizing them fully as men along the lines of our Declaration of In-
dependence and of our Fifteenth Amendment. I have belonged to the
Tenth Cavalry (colored), ever since '67, and have never been recon-
ciled to have regiments exclusively colored. By making regiments of
colored men, the government went into the Jim Crow car business long
before any southern state did, and in a very great measure tied its
own hands against enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment. It was entirely
unnecessary. The negro could have gone into the army in the regular
companies just as easily and with as little friction and prejudice as
he went into the navy. During my service with troops on the frontier
we were always quartered with white troops. There were always mixed
details on guard, fatigue, and other duties. The men mounted guard
together, marched off together, alternated on post, slept at the
guard house together during their off-duty periods, worked together
on all details whatsoever without the slightest feeling of prejudice
on account of race, and were in every way as chummy as if they had
all been of one race. So far as the men were concerned, there would

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never have been any feeling if they had been taken into the companies
in the regular way just as in the navy. At the peace jubilee and re-
view in Philadelphia recently when the jackies from the navy marched
by there were black faces in every company, marching shoulder to
shoulder with the others, and except in color there was no distinc-
tion. As I read the proposed Army Bill, the color line is left out.
If so, this is one of the very best features of the bill. The negro
need not be less in the army than he has been, only he should be
there as a man, not barred out of any company, but shoulder to shoul-
der with every other citizen who enlists.

The Indian in separate companies in the army was declared a
failure. Tribal companies, Indian companies, were nothing more than
Indian reservations. I urged Secretary Proctor then to take the In-
dian into the army as a man. He was convinced, but the War Depart-
ment officials having issued the order were determined it should be
carried out. Eighteen months ago I asked General Corbin to take In-
dians into the companies of the army the same as other men. Thirty-
four of my Carlisle boys have been so enlisted. I have yet to hear
that they are different in any respect from the other soldiers, and
their letters to me indicate entire satisfaction and assert their e-
quality. I understand, of course, that there is a material difference
between a native who has been taught to speak the language and some-
what trained, and one who has not been so taught and trained, but
the teaching and training are very simple and quickly accomplished
when the teaching forces surround the one to be taught on all sides.

I see it is proposed to enlist 15,000 Filipinos. I urge that

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they be not enlisted in separate detachments, but that they be taken
into every company in the army serving in the Philippines, limited
perhaps by a fixed percent in each company, but in no other way. Not
one of the arguments in favor of their being enlisted as separate de-
tachments is nearly so strong as the same argument used in favor of
their being enlisted and distributed throughout the service as other
men. If enlisted only as Filipino companies they will pass through
their whole period of service, even three years, and very few of them
know much of the English language. The officers will generally get
at them through interpreters. If enlisted in the regular companies,
within three months all the 15,000 will have gained enough English to
understand and make themselves understood, and within a year they
will be speaking English fairly well. The Filipinos will have gained
a knowledge of and imbibed loyalty to the United States of inestima-
ble value to themselves and to us; and the 45,000 of our own soldiers
will have learned more of the Filipinos than they could possibly have
learned if they had not been so closely thrown together. 15,000 Fil-
ipinos taught the English language will be a vast help in all our fu-
ture dealings with these people. If they are to be especially useful
in the army on account of their knowledge of the country and their
own people, and in helping to lead our troops after rebels and reno-
gades, how much greater advantage to our army to have under immediate
control of every company commander the men who have these special
qualities. If in every company there were twenty-five or thirty Fil-
ipinos, and it were fixed that there should be a sergeant school
teacher to give them instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic
at such times as the exigencies of the service would permit, the

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three years enlistment would see the fifteen thousand able to read and write in our language, and so fitted for the duties of American citizenship. And even if there were no school teachers, fellowship with intelligent white men would accomplish much in the same direction. You will pardon me for pressing the matter I know, and at this late date and in this irregular way, but you have the bill in conference and this opportunity for great good ought to be utilized.

The prejudices and habits of the people that might possibly be urged against this move are, from my experience with Indian and colored men, almost entirely imaginary. Both officers and men throughout the army will be glad of it when once established, and the Filipinos will quickly abandon any objectionable habits under the influences of their surroundings and will respond quickly to all the respectsibilities of our army life.

In enlisting Filipinos take them from as many different tribes as possible, and mix tribes in the companies. Confusion of language among themselves will rapidly work out unity on the English language.

As the Philippine Islands are to remain under the flag, it is desirable of course that our people settle there and mix with their people. The American soldier who goes there and has this special opportunity to learn from the Filipinos direct by having them in his quarters day after day will gain an amount of knowledge in regard to them which will be of great help to him should he wish to locate. I think of other reasons in favor of this action, but these will perhaps present themselves as readily to your mind as mine. Treated as a man, the Filipino will become a man. Sidetracking and handling specifically as though he were less than a man will put a damper on his fu-

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

Miss Mary S. Jimeson,
C/o Mrs. J. Milton,
Randolph, N. Y.

Dear Miss Jimeson :-

Rev. Mr. Trippe of Salamanca writes me at your request about your sister and brother, Clara and Roger Jimeson, who are here at school. It is quite impracticable to send them home. They came for a five years term, and of course are expected to remain that long. As they are only 15 and 17 years of age, their help in supporting the family would not be material; in fact, the cost of their return and their living after reaching home would be an added burden. They are no expense whatever to you here, and are receiving what will enable them to take care of themselves, and help the family when they are older. Both are well. Roger is at present unhappy because of his own conduct which led to his being punished. I am hopeful that he will do better after this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

Mr. R. D. Heyl,
Office of Asst. Engineer,
Penna. R. R. Co.,
Camden, N. J.

Dear Richard :-

I have your letter of Dec. 6th in regard to a wagon made
by Indians for some of your farmer friends, and would have answered
at once but for illness which has kept me confined to my room for
several days.

We have on hand two wagons of the style shown in the blue print enclosed and could furnish you one at $65, the other at $80. Should you desire something different we can make one to order, but that would take some time. The price quoted is F.O.B. Carlisle.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

Mrs. Esther Schenandore,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Schenandore :-

Replying to your letter of the 6th in regard to your little boy, who is enrolled here as Deuchestan Schenandore, I am glad to tell you that he is getting on well. The money and letter came and will of course be his to spend.

Doe came here only a short time ago, and I cannot promise you that he will visit you this summer. Our rule is that pupils remain until their five years term is completed. Our pupils write letters to their parents every month, and it will not be long before you will hear from Doe. Beside this monthly letter they are at liberty to write as often as they wish.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

James T. Jimeson,
Steubenville,
Catt. Co., New York.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Dec. 8th about your son Roger,
I have to advise you that he is here and goes to school half a day
and works the other half, just as all our students do. His regular
work is in the blacksmith shop, but at present he is detailed else-
where. Sometime ago he stole from his roommate, and as part of his
punishment has been placed at outside work. When his sentence is fin-
ished he will resume training in the blacksmith shop.

Yours very truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,
Salamanca, New York.

Dear Brother Trippe :-

I have your letter written yesterday for Mary Jimeson, sister of Roger and Clara Jimeson, who came here Sept. 19th.

I have just written Mr. Jimeson in answer to a letter from him, in which he did not speak of his own sickness. As the presence of these children at home would be only an added expense, both for rail-road fare and support after reaching home, it is hardly probable the sister did gave you the real reason for asking their return.

The boy was placed in the blacksmith shop, but has lately been detailed at other work, as a part of his punishment for stealing from his roommate. He works half a day and goes to school half a day. When his sentence has been worked out, he will again be detailed to the blacksmith shop, and I trust will hereafter conduct himself so there will be no more trouble.

I will write the sister, as you ask.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1900.

Buffalo Meat,

Omega, Okla.

My dear Friend :-

I am very glad to tell you that your boys, Raymond and
Dawes White Bird are getting on nicely. They are both at the school
this winter, one in the blacksmith shop and the other in the harness
shop. They go to school half a day and work half a day, as do all
the students.

Mr. Standing has been down in your neighborhood for several
weeks, but on account of smallpox there has been unable to get around
to see many of the Indians. I had hoped to be down myself before no
but school affairs keep me here. I am just now at my desk again af-
ter an illness of several days, and matters have accumulated during
that time. With kind regards and the hope that your health may con-
tinue good, I am

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mrs. Annie Howard,
Afton, Ind. Ky.

My dear School Daughter :-

Your letter did me a world of good, and I should have answered sooner, but that I have been sick for some days and had to lay aside everything but the most important business. I sent your letter down to Miss Burgess, and she published extracts from it, thinking your other friends would care to hear about you also. The money also went to the printing office, and your name has been put on the list of subscribers. You will see that we have changed the form of the paper, having combined the Indian Helper and The Red Man into one weekly paper. As there is now about three times as much in each issue as we were formerly able to print, the price has been raised to 25 cents.

What you say of your home and family is all very interesting to me, and I would like to see your farm, your children, and your husband. It is always encouraging to hear that our old students are happily settled, and bringing up their families as all American citizens should. Except for a few of the old employes, Mr. Standing, Misses Burgess, Mly, Cutter, and Carter, I doubt if you would know half a dozen who are here now. Last year we had Charlie and Esther Dagenett with us, but they have gone back to Indian Territory. Rosu Bourassa Brown is here for the present, and Nellie Robertson has been a teacher at the school for several years. Both remember you, as do

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the others here who knew you as a pupil.

The school has grown very much, as you will see by reading the
Helper and Red Man. We expect to have a thousand pupils before the
end of the year, as we did in '66; just now we lack about thirty of
that number.

Now that you have remembered us again, I trust we may hear
from you at shorter intervals than heretofore.

With kind regards to yourself, Mr. Howard, and the children,
I am

Dec. 12.

Dear Miss Mahler :—

I enclose a letter from Prof. Byrnes,
Supt. of Schools of Cumberland County, which
will be of interest to you and shows that your
little attempt bore fruit.

Miss Ednorah Nashar,
113 E. 31st St.
New York City.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mrs. Jarie Pierce,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Pierce :-

Emma Hill arrived all right and at the proper time, and
has started into school and other duties. We shall do all we can
for her.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Senor F. E. Rodriguez,
P. O. Box #127,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your esteemed letter, I send you a little book
giving some illustrations of our school, and also copies of several
different annual reports. I am glad to report the Porto Rican contin-
gent here doing exceptionally good work throughout, and all in excel-
lent health.

With high esteem,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Ralph C. Taylor,

Cheyenne River Agency, S. Dak.

My dear Ralph :-

Your very beautifully written letter was quite a surprise.
I am always glad to hear from those who have been at Carlisle and
have left it, especially when they remember their life here with so
much appreciation.

In regard to getting a better place for yourself, I question
very much whether on account of your health you are not in the very
best place you could be, and whether it would not be a mistake to
give you a place where the duties were more arduous and exposing; but
in any event, you know very well that I do not control affairs at the
agencies and it would be quite out of place for me to attempt to do
so. All I could possibly do in your case would be if the Commission
er asked me what kind of a student you were here, to give him the
facts. Your record of usefulness as an employe is not made here, but
at the agency and you are entirely dependent on the good will of the
people there for any promotion. I must not under any circumstances
attempt to do more than govern and recommend in my own school.

I was very sorry that when you were so near graduation you could
not complete the course, and am willing at any time if you want to
return and do that, to give you the chance. If you think that would
help your case, let me know, and I can arrange it.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Miss Lillie Wind,
90 Buckingham St.,
Hartford, Conn.

Dear Lillie :-

Your uncle writes me about furnishing you transportation
home. I stand ready to do that if that is what you desire, and the
door is still open to you to come to Carlisle and remain until you
get well.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mr. A. N. Stecher,
C/o Belmey, Snyder & Co.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

We have an entertainment at the school by the Carolina
Jubilee Singers on the 19th of January, so that date is not avail-
ble. I would have no objections to making some arrangement for the
blind, and the curiosity of such a performance would certainly be
worth something to us. If you care to slip out and see me about it,
I think we may come to some agreement.

I have been confined to my bed for several days; hence the delay
in answering your letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mr. Joseph Wind,
Carson,
Nevada.

My dear Sir :-

I had a letter from Lillie asking me to lend her money. As I know that for years she has been earning a very large income for a young woman, I did not feel justified in lending to her, because if she makes way with her own money so foolishly she would doubtless make way with mine just as foolishly, and the chances of her being able to pay back are problematical. I wrote Lillie she could come here and stay until she got well, and she would not be at any expense while here. I write her again to say I am willing to send her home if that is what she wants, and that the door is still open for her to come here. She has not seen fit to answer my letter, which leads me to be suspicious. Lillie was always extremely extravagant in her dress. The pictures of herself which she sent now and then showed she was a good deal of a swell, but I supposed of course that like other girls working under similar circumstances she was laying by something for a rainy day. I understand she always had employment when able to take it.

Lillie needs a lesson in saving, as all extravagant people do, and it seems the time has come for that now. I return her letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mrs. J. H. Babbitt,
Warner, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Babbitt :-

Replying to yours of Dec. 2nd in regard to the condition of
Adolphi Moro and his desire for the return of his son Andreas, I must
advise you that it is an almost endless job to stand against appeals
of this kind and hold things together here. I see Andreas has been
here since Aug. 22nd, '94. He was entitled to go home at the end of
the last school year but of his own accord remained over for another
year. By our rule, which I am sorry to say in this case appears
cruel, I must hold him here to the end of the school year, when he
will have the privilege of determining whether or not he will return
home, and no doubt with the contingencies you speak of he will decide
to go, although it would be better for him to keep on until he com-
pletes the course.

Sacrifices must be made everywhere to secure the education of
our children. You understand all that, I am sure, without further
explanation. Andreas is getting on in good shape and it will be a
great loss to him personally and indirectly to his family if he does
not continue. Still, I shall only exercise the official function at
the time and give Andreas the full privilege of concluding his case.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mr. J. H. Bradford,
Office of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Bradford :-

Suppose you and Harry come up on Saturday, the 22nd. I
would ask you to come this week, but we have one entertainment this
week, and none the next. The following week we have something, so
that the 22nd seems the best for us. I will see that tickets to
Carlisle are sent you in good time. Shall be glad to have you take
our Sunday service, and I am sure all will be delighted to hear Harry.

If the time does not suit you, let me know.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

James G. Dickson.
C/o Mr. J. W. Vernam,
Trenton, N. J.

Dear James :-

You came here in September a year ago and have therefore no
claims to be sent home now. You yourself wanted to go to the country
and I cannot release you from your obligation. It will be infinite-
ly better for you to continue where you are than to give up, and when
you think the matter over I am sure you will think as I do. You are
getting on in years for a pupil, and as you will probably not have
another chance to go to school after leaving Carlisle it is very nec-
essary that you use the chance well while you have it.

I hope to hear from you again, and expect your conclusion to be
in accordance with your good record here and my judgment.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Mr. Charles Dagenett,
Miami, Ind. Ky.

Dear Charlie :-

Not long after you were ordered to report at Quapaw I heard
from some source that you had not filled the bill in some way and
that there were complications on account of your action which was not
entirely satisfactory. I have referred your last letter to the Com-
missioner of Indian Affairs, and of course all settlement for unsat-
isfactory conduct will have to be with him.

Glad to hear you and Esther are well.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1900.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,
St. Regis Indian Mission,
Hogansburg, New York.

My dear Brother Kingsbury :-

Replying to yours of Dec. 4th in regard to Lucentia Billings, I think I would better enclose to you Miss Jackson's note, which fully explains the conditions. While students with such qualities are of course not desirable, when we find them here we deal with them and try to correct them. We shall continue to do so in Lucentia's case; but if she were all right at home it is a most remarkable thing for she began to give trouble as soon as she arrived and has kept it up. I understand of course how humiliating and disappointing it will be to the father and mother, but it is just as well to let them have the facts, which I believe have been drawn as mildly as possible. Lucentia is one of the best girls we have to work, and as Miss Jackson explains, she has many good qualities; but she has some that will be a bitterness in her own life and the lives of her relatives unless she is cured.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 13, 1900.

Rev. F. H. Hill,
413 Filbert St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Brother Hill :-

I cannot remember what I said at your conference that I con-
tradicted at the school convention. I have just got a copy of "The
Times" in which I see the party who wrote the little paragraph you
speak of says twice that I said I believed in negro slavery. That
was not exactly what I said. What I did say was that slavery had
brought ten million blacks from the torrid zone into this enlightened
country, had taught them a new language and prepared them by associ-
ation for citizenship, and that no Christian or other civilized
scheme that I knew of in the history of the world had done or was ca-
pable of doing a thing like that; that slavery was a far kindlier
thing to the negro than the methods adopted in managing our Indians
are to them. It is an old thought and expression of mine which I have
used on many a platform. I used it in the Old South Church in Chel-
sea, Boston, Mass. a month ago, speaking just in advance of a most
distinguished man of your own race, and he found no fault. I said
when speaking at the educational convention, as I often do to elabor-
ate a little, that slavery took care of the lives of the black people
because every little black fellow as soon as born was dollars to
master and missis, and his living and health were matters of concern;
whereas, the Indian had no value and was met with the epithet, "There
is no good Indian but a dead Indian", and when Indian children went

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down to death with the old people in massacres as they always did,
the only remark about it was, "Nits make lice."

I am beginning to question whether freedom for your people in
the United States is going to be such a boon to you and to the United
States. The race massacres do not stop and your people are organiz-
ing into church, secret, and other societies, and into communities
more and more separate and apart from the rest of us, and as your in-
telligence and numbers increase and demagogues manipulate you more
and more, there is ground for the gravest apprehension in regard to
the future.

We blame the people of the south for Jim Crow cars, and yet your
own people are regularly in the Jim Crow car business everywhere by
this religious, school, and local organizing. The United States
makes a constitutional amendment that there shall be no distinction
"on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude."
Then, immediately Congress legislates that there shall be two regiments
of cavalry and two of infantry made up entirely of colored men. So
the government sets the example in the Jim Crow car business.

But it is a long question. I have thought about it for a great
many years. I do not regret that I fought From April, '61 to May, '65
for the freedom of your people. That they were held as slaves was
then inscrutable to me, and the difficulties that surround them now are
no less inscrutable. I can only apprehend something of the Divine
control in which "God makes the wrath of man to praise Him", and
that

"He moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform.

He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm."

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I am glad your people are in this country because it gives Uncle Sam a chance to show he is equal to the gospel and his own declarations; consequently, I am glad there was a scheme in the affairs of man that had the power to bring you here. I am sorry, of course, for any wrong either way there was in it or is in it. From all our experiences there are times when both individuals and nations are whipped into line and forced against their own will and inclination into seeing what is right and best. You certainly have no grounds to quarrel with slavery unless you regret being transplanted from the jungles of Africa and your low estate there to the citizenship, freedom, and intelligence in the United States you now enjoy, for slavery was the bridge that carried you over and there was not and is not another bridge equal to that job.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 13, 1900.

Mrs. Kittie Coates,
Versailles, New York.

Dear Mrs. Coates :-

Replying to your letter of Dec. 10th, asking that your
daughter Lulu be sent home immediately, I must inform you that
it is quite impracticable to send children home in the middle of the
term. Lulu is not entitled to return to you until the end of the
school year in June next, when she will have an opportunity of saying
whether she will go home or continue another year. This is according
to our rule that pupils who enter Carlisle after the beginning of
school in September are not not entitled to return home until the
close of the school year in which their five years expires.

Both your daughters are getting on nicely, and both should con-
tinue and complete the course. Henrietta is in the Senior class
and should graduate in March next, and can then come to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1900.

Mr. Henry Coulon and
Mrs. Katie Coulon,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Friends :-

I have your letters of Dec. 9th and 11th, and must inform
you that it is altogether impracticable for me to send your boys
home now. As I explained in my letter of July 14th I was ordered to
receive them from Lincoln Institution when that school was closed in
June last. They were entered on our rolls as all students are for
the regular period, and I am under obligations to see that this ar-
rangement is carried out. They are under my care, and I shall do
all I can to make their stay profitable to them. Their education is
a matter of great moment both to them and you, and is worth many sac-
rifices on your part; but as the only sacrifice you are called upon
to make is your separation from them, the least you can do in their
interests is to get along without them until they have had a chance
to learn to take care of themselves. Then they will better be able
to help you.

Monroe is working with the engineer, and Sherman in the harness
shop. Both go to school half a day and work half a day.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Mrs. Marion W. DeLoss,

Fort Defiance, Ariz.

My dear Mrs. DeLoss :-

My instructions were to give you time enough to get to your new station. You left here the 28rd, and I gave you till Dec. 3rd, twelve days, more than twice the time actually necessary to make the trip. The necessary report of changes has gone in and Mrs. Brown has been taken up in your place to date Dec. 4th. I cannot see any way, by which I could explain any further payment to you. In fact, I am really somewhat culpable for giving you as much time as I did, so while I am sorry for "DeLoss" to you, I don't see how it can be remedied at this end. The fact that you were waiting for a free pass which I had arranged for you would be no sort of an excuse.

You had and are having a remarkable experience. I trust all will work out well for your health anyhow. I have let several of your newsy letters in order that they might see how things go with you.

A severe cold kept me in bed almost a week. I just got back to my desk yesterday. Then Mrs. Pratt came down in the same manner. In fact we have had quite an epidemic of colds. Miss Jackson and several others have had to lay off for a day or two. Today although the thermometer is down in the twenties it is beautifully bright and clear. The general health of the school has improved.

With kind remembrance from us all,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Miss Josie Vetter,
Rulo, Nebraska.

My dear Josie :-

Your legacy and Joe's was from your grandmother, your father's mother in Alsace, Germany. It was received in 1886 through the German consul in Baltimore. Joe took his entire share, something over $2100 in spite of very strong efforts on my part, as the correspondence shows, to get him to hold on to it, put it on interest, and let it earn something for him. What he did with his share I do not know, except in a general way, that is, that he foolishly got rid of it. You left your share with me, have made occasional drafts on it and had the interest on the balance of the principal periodically. The records show that what you received was your own personal share and that nobody had a right to any part of it, nor were there in any way lawyers' fees or other expenses connected with it. It was all attended to through the government officials. The total expense of collection, correspondence, etc. was $25 for collecting the two claims of something over $4200, but I cannot see that this has any bearing on your land division.

On the 1st of January there is $28 interest due you, and my check is herewith enclosed for that amount. Do not allow anyone to intimidate you into believing you owe anybody one cent of your inheritance either for the collection or distribution of it. That matter

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Rev. J. H. Leiper,
2315 N. 20th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Brother Leiper :-

After seeing your daughter and talking with you and her
last night, and with Prof. Bakeless this morning, it began to seem
to me that the best way for us, now that we have a chance to get a
person who has fitted herself by special training for library work
and is recommended as competent in that and other lines necessary in
connection with that work here, would be not to experiment with a
view to a change later, but rather to get the person who is sure to
fill the bill and would prefer to continue at it; and as your daugh-
ter seemed to prefer the other work, that of matron, to wait and see
if an opportunity opens there. I have concluded to do this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Miss Edith M. Steele,
66 North St.,
Geneva, New York.

Dear Miss Steele:

I think you may be ready to report here January 1st; but
before entirely concluding the matter I wish you would fill out the
enclosed blank application and return at once to me. In this case
on account of the recommendation given by the Directress of Pratt's
Institute, I will require but one endorsement. Please have some
well known and responsible friend of yours at your home answer all
the questions and complete the other blank herewith. Usually we re-
quire two endorsements.

On receipt of these papers I will give you prompt notification.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Miss Vellie V. Gaither,
Sept. Omatilla Indian School,
Tendleton, Ore.

Dear Miss Gaither:

Yours of Dec. 7th is at hand, and I am glad you are so well pleased with the survey sent you. Glad also to know that your work continues to prosper.

I am sorry to tell you that soon after arrival here John Wallett-
sic ran away with two other boys. They were caught near Newville
and brought back the next day. As John appears to be a well meaning
boy and was probably led away by over-persuasion on the part of those
he fell in with, I let him off with no other penalty than to pay the
expenses of capture and return, which he did very readily from bills
he had with him. I had a good talk with him, and he seems to have
settled down to business. He is in the blacksmith shop, and August
Alexander in the carpenter shop. He promises well and I trust John may
also do well. Those who came from you in earlier parties are all get-
ing on nicely. Should you have other good pupils of suitable age to
send in the spring I will cheerfully place transportation. You know
from our former correspondence what material is most desirable here.

Mrs. Pratt is just recovering from a heavy cold, and I am only
able now to be at my desk after almost a week's confinement to my bed
with kind regards from us all.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Selim H. Pearcy,
Supt. of Liberal Arts,
Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Sir:-

I know absolutely nothing of the intentions of the Govern-
ment in regard to the Buffalo Exposition. The question has not been
brought up. The Indian has appeared at several expositions, inter-
nal and external that I knew nothing about, and I see no reason why
Buffalo should be an exception. I rather think from its hemispheric
character that it is all the more important. The nations to the
South of us are all more or less in the same boat we are about their
Indians. I would suggest you write to the Honorable W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., and I am sure
he will give you a very frank reply, and I believe a favorable one,
so far as his influence goes.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Mr. M. A. Sierer,
139 N. Bedford St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

There are no vacancies in the school now for which I could
consider Miss Lizzie Cocklin, and there are several good applicants
in waiting for just the place you speak of for her, so that it is
impracticable for me to give you a favorable answer.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Mr. Henry Williams,

Saganing, Mich.

My dear Mr. Williams;—

It was necessary for us to make a rule years ago that sickness in the family at home should not be a reason for returning students, and it was our only protection. Parents are prone to ask the return of their children when it is really unnecessary, and as sickness is something that comes with most every family, it is true to grant their requests, our children will be on the road nearly all the time, and I will therefore not be able to send Lizzie. She is doing well and I think in the end, you will be more benefited than you will be with any temporary help you will get now, should she return to you.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Mr. Thomas P. Copeland,
Secy. National Exposition of Children's Work,
137 E. 15th St.,
New York, N. Y.

My dear sir:-

I have been ill and my Assistant Supt. away, so that it
has been impossible to give your appeal for an exhibit that atten-
tion it deserves. Am very sorry and it seems now too late to under-
take it. I have had a siege of something like the grip which laid
me up.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Gen. H. B. Boynton, Cor. Secy.,
Society of the Army of the Cumberland,
Washington, D. C.

Dear General:-

I find that I have only '93, '95, '96 and '99 of the proceedings of the society and would like to become possessed of the others. I suppose in my various journeys years ago, the earlier volumes that I then had have been lost. If you will please have sent to me the other volumes and a bill for the same, I will very gladly remit.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 14, 1900.

Dr. Charles A. Eastman,

Crow Creek Agency, S. Dak.

My dear Doctor:-

I have yours with the suggestion that you can probably make
up a party for us from the two agencies about the holidays, and I
simply write to say that you can depend on me for any expense of
collecting, and of course I will make all the provisions for their
transfer when you let me know what is necessary. I am glad you are
getting along nicely and find your work interesting. We often think
and talk of you and have wondered what your experiences were.

I have been ill in bed for nearly a week with a bad
cold and chest pains but am fortunately well recovered now. Things
are going nicely with us. Health of school ordinarily good; a
little epidemic of colds but nothing serious. With cordial greet-
ings to Mrs. Eastman, I am,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 15, 1900.

Maxey H. Sauna,

U. S. S. "Yankton",  
Cibara, Cuba.

My dear Maxey :-

The occasional letters I have from you and the other Carlisle boys in the navy and army are always welcome and always encouraging. It is very gratifying to me that those who have chosen this service are doing themselves and the school credit. Some are in the Philippines, others have been in China, and at various places, as you know, and the more widely they are scattered the better are their chances to succeed. Miss Purcell has used your letter, and it came back to me two or three days ago. She has sent you "The Red Man and "Helper", late and back numbers.

School will close for the Christmas holidays next Friday and open again on Monday, the 31st. It has grown quite cold, but so far we have had no snow to speak of. We are flooding the field back of the laundry, and all are anticipating much pleasure if the weather stays cold enough to make the ice strong.

I have not been well lately. A severe cold kept me in bed almost a week, and I do not yet feel fully recovered. An ocean voyage I think would do me good, and I must try to get away for a time.

We all send Christmas greetings and wish you a happy New Year.

Faithfully, your friend,

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TELEGRAM.

Dec. 15.

C. L. Long,

Wewoka, Ind. Ky.

$84.83, amount necessary to return three Foster boys. Will send them
on receipt.

Pratt. Major.

W. U. - Collect.

11:20 A.M.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 15, 1900.

Mr. Geo. A. Sweet,
White Earth, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

I have just arranged that a ticket to Carlisle be deliv-
ered by the agent of the Northern Pacific R.R. at Detroit to Mr.
Southerland for your son.

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Dear Madam :-

Alphonso's case has turned out just as I told him it would. He was always a good farm hand and could have held his place as long as he wanted to. He is fitted for country life, not for city life. The old adage by changing a word applies, "Experience is a dear teacher, but Indians will learn by no other."

In regard to Antonio Apache, it is common among all our Indians that he is not an Indian at all, but a negro who keeps his hair shaved very close and wears a straight-hair wig; but however straight his hair, he is not straight in some matters to my own personal knowledge. I sent him among the Apaches where he said he belonged after children, and was informed by both the Indian agent and the superintendent of the school there that the Indians entirely disowned him, and said they knew nothing about him; that Juan, the brother of Chief Ohine, never had such a son.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 17, 1900.

Mrs. R. B. Dunlap,

Leslie, S. Car.

Dear Mrs. Dunlap:

A letter from Lucy George came to me last week in which she asked to come to Carlisle. As she gave no information about herself and there had been no direct correspondence with her previous to this I did not recall her as the girl about whom you wrote last year, and whom I agreed to accept when we had more room. On your recommendation of a year ago, and your statement that the conditions are unchanged, I will very cheerfully accept of her, and will place transportation at such point and time as you may indicate. Please inform Lucy of this for me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 17, 1900.

My dear Sir :

Mr. Bradford, of your Office, for a year or two has been
wanting to come up here and deliver a lecture which he believes
would be helpful to our students, and I agreed to provide him trans-
portation. He wrote some time ago that he would like to come up Sat-
urday and spend Sunday with us. I suggested that he come up Satur-
day, the 22nd, give the lecture that evening and remain over Sunday
and last week sent him tickets. Now, after the arrangement has been
entered into and the transportation has been forwarded to him, he ad-
vises me that he has no leave of absence due him, and asks if I can-
not intercede with you to let him come and let it count as in the
line of duty, saying that he can ill afford to lose his time on ac-
count of the expense he has been to for the education of his chil-
dren, etc., etc. I submit the matter to you for such consideration
as you think best to give. The arrangement was not of my initiation
in any way and can hardly be considered of very special importance;
yet we shall be pleased to have Mr. Bradford give us the lecture.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 18, 1900.

Charles Merrill, Secy.,
Randolph, New York.

My dear Sir :-

We do not return to their homes children placed under our
care except at the expiration of the period for which they come to
Carlisle. Roger and Clara Jimeson came here Sept. 19th, and have
therefore no claim whatever to go home. I wrote Mr. Jimeson last
week to this effect. The plea made for the return of these children
to Rev. M. F. Trippe, who wrote for Mr. Jimeson, was that they were
needed at home to help support the family, their father being ill.
As the children are here for the purpose of receiving training that
will fit them to support themselves, and without any expense to their
father, it would seem the best use to be made of the money deposited
with you to pay their railroad fare home, would be toward the support
of the family.

Roger is learning the blacksmith's trade, and Clara receives
instruction and practice in household work. Both go to school half
a day and work half a day, and have advantages they cannot afford to
throw away.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 18, 1900.

Mr. Jim Bobb,

Anadarko, O. T.

My dear Friend :-

Leave your son Jimmie to me. Do not sympathize too much with him nor think that what he tells you about things is just right. I have placed him out for the winter, so that he may go to school with white boys, which is far better for him than to go with Indians, for the reason that he hears good English spoken all the time and will have to spur himself along to keep up with the active minds of the white boys. A winter spent in this way will give him many more ideas about everything than he could get here in the Carlisle school. The experience of being with white people, eating at the same table with them and always talking with them instead of with Indians will make him correct in his language. I am doing for your boy what I know by many experiences to be the best thing for him. He is losing nothing, but is gaining in many directions.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 18, 1900.

Mr. George M. Meyers,
Dickinson, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have no knowledge that the present harness maker intends
to quit the service. Mr. Zeigler who has been filling the place for
some time has already taken the examination and received notice that
he passed at a very high grade. I suppose therefore the appointment
will go to him.

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TELEGRAM

Dec. 18, 1900.

Jones Titus,

Steamburg,

New York.

Lydia Armstrong is not sick. This is an answer to message from A. L.
Jimeson.

Pratt, Major.

Collect W. U. 1.16 P. M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1900.

James Seweyea,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear James :-

I have your letter of Dec. 13th, which is the first I have
had from you for many many months. I trust you are making good use
of what you learned while here, and should like to know that business
you are following. From your letter it appears that you are a pretty
good hunter.

Our school has increased in size very much since you left; there
are more than twice as many pupils. The buildings have all been made
larger and some new ones erected to accommodate the larger numbers.
There are fourteen schoolrooms in the present school building beside
a number of other rooms for special classes.

In regard to your returning to Carlisle, your age makes that im-
possible. From our records you are now thirty-four, and the govern-
ment does not permit us to accept any students over twenty years
without special permission.

With kind regards to you and any of our old boys and girls you
may see, I am

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1900.

Alex Hanabove,
Kyle,
Shannon Co., S. Dak.

My dear Alex :-

I am sorry to know you have lost your hearing, and would
be glad to help you in any way I could, but as you are now past thir-
ty-two years of age it would not be possible for me to accept of you
as a student. If you can get together enough money to come east, I
think I can place you in a hospital where the expense will not be
heavy, and your hearing may be benefitted by having a doctor whose
special business it is to look after that organ. Any assistance I
can render you on this line I shall of course be very glad to give,

With kind regards I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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