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THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Jan. 9, 1900.

Jas. H. Howard,
Kelker Bldg.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have before me the December number of "Howard's Amer-
ican Magazine". I send you today a summer number of "Greater Amer-
ica" containing an account of the school; also an old number of
"The New England Magazine" containing a very good article on the
subject. We have the plates used in the larger magazine, and all
those used in the book of views I send. From these and my last
annual report I think you can get the material needed for an ar-
ticle.

Mrs. Ruth Shaffner-Etnier,
Ponce, Porto Rico.

Jan. 8, 1900.

My dear Mrs. Etnier :-

As you perhaps know, I have been suffering for months
from rheumatism, and have delayed somewhat in answering your let-
ter of the 15th of December to see just how I was coming out about
that; and to look forward to some possible necessity for my pres-
ence here. The strain this winter on account of having more than
a thousand pupils is unusual and I cannot now see my way clear to
a trip to Porto Rico. I find too that Mrs. Pratt does not at all
care to go. I had thought by getting free transportation from New
York and back, as I probably could, the expense would be light, the
ocean trip would be good for us and we might learn something about
our new possessions, and possibly be of some little aid to educa-
tional efforts there.

I have had quite a little correspondence with the educational
people there, and have recently agreed to take ten young people
selected from the natives, half boys, half girls. There seems to
have been a recent change in the whole educational board, and some
uncertainty as to what is likely to be done.

I believe now that I must say I will not go to Porto Rico this
winter or spring. Would like very much to see you all, and get a
knowledge of the conditions in our "ruby of the Antilles" by per-

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sonal observation.

Just now I am sorry to tell you that Dr. Chas. Eastman whom I had lately secured as outing agent for our boys and other general purposes for the school, lies very low with pneumonia and I am compelled to send another in his place to visit the boys. This morning he is some better. Beside Dr. Eastman's illness there are other distressing experiences which we are passing through that I cannot well mention. Just at this time I must look after the appropriation for the school and the preparation for our Commencement exercises which this year take place the 13th, 14th and 15th of March.

We have had an unusually pleasant holiday period. The school has had excellent sport on the skating pond. The weather has not yet been severely cold. The enclosed report will show you how we stand in numbers.

Mrs. Dorsett has finished her round of visits with conditions much the same as usual among the girls, though I am convinced we have too many in a community in several places. I can make some changes to rectify that.

With cordial wishes for the new year,

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Jan. 9, 1900.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

My dear Mr. Trippe :-

Mrs. Scroggs appealed for the return of her sons, Solomon and Heenan because the father was very low. He has since died. Solomon tells me that he is the oldest of the family, that his mother has still two children at home, a girl of eight and a boy of four. Heenan who is here is about fifteen, and he himself is 20.

Years ago, as you know from our previous correspondence, we had to make a rule that students could not be allowed to go home because of sickness or death of parents or relatives. Solomon has made an excellent record at the school and as good progress as any student for the time he has been here which is only a little over a year. On his own account he ought to stick to school, as this is probably his last opportunity; and yet I do not want to be too arbitrary, and could probably arrange through the Department to let Solomon go if it is imperatively necessary. Won't you look the situation over or get some responsible party to do so and let me know what my duty is in the light of conditions there and our rules here?

It is important that I have a reply to this as soon as practicable. With the most cordial greetings of the season to you and

Mrs. Trippe,

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Jan. 9, 1900.

Mr. A. H. Viets, Supt.
Indian School,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My dear Viets :-

I have had several talks with the Commissioner about you
and am sorry to say that each time things seemed to be closing
down in such a way as to make me more and more hopeless. I have
just talked with him over the phone this morning about a number of
things, your case among them. He now says emphatically there is
no possibility of his overlooking your case and maintain his posi-
tion. He is compelled to end your service. I asked him if I
should write you that, and he said he wished I would; so there the
matter stands. I am more sorry than I can express.

Mr. Thompson and the boys arrived yesterday and got a royal
welcome. All of them speak in the highest terms of their enter-
tainment at the different schools, yours among them.

Your offer in John Bearrobe's case entirely escaped my mind.
I certainly should have sent him to you if it had not. Your Dan
Philips is here, a welcome addition to our band, and I think will
do himself and your school credit.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Viets,

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Jan. 9, 1900.

David M. Robinson,
118 Cowden St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I am in receipt of Mr. Patterson's letter recommending
you as an intelligent, honorable, and competent person for employ-
ment. What I need here is a thoroughly competent cook and a thor-
oughly competent assistant cook; a man and his wife, both under
forty, having the additional attributes you possess, and being en-
tirely free from the tobacco or intoxicant habit. If you are such
a person and your wife is such a person, you may come over and see
me. Better come at once as I have a good many applications.

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Jan. 9, 1900.

Mrs. J. A. VanKirk,
135 W. College St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Van Kirk :-

I realize that yours is an exceptionally hard case and
do wish I could help you, but there are two things that make it
entirely impossible for me; one is, that I have a man who has been
with me all these years who is satisfactory and who has no dispo-
sition, so far as I know, to end his service with me. The other is
that were he out of the way and I in need of a painter and wagon-
trimmer I would be compelled to ask the Civil Service Commission
in Washington for someone, and they would hold examinations at dif-
ferent places in the country and select one for me from those who
passed the examination, unless they happened to have an applicant
on hand.

If it were in the summer time when we were building, I might
have use for a painter, as we did several months last summer and
fall. But in the winter work is slack and all can be done by one
man.

Regretting that I cannot serve you, I am

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Jan. 9, 1900.

Mr. Austin O. Martin,
"The Times",
Los Angeles, Cal.

My dear Sir :-

I thank you for your letter and greatly appreciate that
you remember my being at the convention. Should I visit Los An-
geles at any time, I shall certainly look you up.

I enclose you a morning report of this school, by which you
will see we now have 1025 students. They represent about 75 dif-
ferent languages. You will also see that this year we have over
300 out in the public schools of the state. These alone would
make a large school, but they are scattered in many schools, and so
are taking on our civilization in the practical way I urged at the
convention.

You will be interested to know that since the convention Mr.
Allen and I have sent out a circular to all Indian school superin-
tendents, stating the resolutions we pushed through at the conven-
tion, and asking their opinions. I find we have a very strong ma-
jority of superintendents in all parts of the field with us in
what we proposed there. Mr. Allen will be here in a few days and
he and I propose to skirmish around Washington a little in this
same interest. The vicinity of Los Angeles offers admirable lo-
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on our proposition to have ten new Indian schools established in
the centres of our best population, and it comes to me to say a
word in regard to their location, I shall certainly urge Los An-
geles.

After we left you, Dr. Gates, Mrs. Pratt, my daughter and I
spent two days in Frisco, visiting the Chinese reservation in that
great city; going from there to the Klamath Indian Reservation
in southern Oregon; thence to the Chemawa and Puyallup Indian
schools; then east over the Great Northern, stopping at the Black-
feet, Fort Peck, Fort Belknap Indian Agencies in Montana, and had
a most enjoyable and profitable time.

If you should at any time take a trip east, I trust you may
find it convenient to come and see us.

Sincerely yours,

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Jan. 9, 1900.

Mr. S. M. McCowan, Supt.
Indian School,
Phoenix, Ariz.

My dear Co-laborer :-

Thank you for the word about George Head. I am keeping
him here and think he will get on all right.

My boys enjoyed their visit to your institution very much,
but thought it pretty hot and dusty place to play football ; say
they would not like to play many games in such dust.

Sometime when you come this way, stop and see us. Mr. Thompson indicates that you are likely to come east soon. I shall be greatly disappointed if you do, and pass Carlisle by.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

Richard D. Heyl,
505 Linden St.,
Camden, N. J.

My dear Richard :-

Our band is so large and it is so expensive to take it
from place to place that it is hardly within the reach of your
proposition to have it appear in Camden for the benefit of a church
cause. It would cost about $200 to get down and back and we could
hardly be expected to let 60 people go on such a mission for less
than $100 per day. This is the price we have fixed because we
have so many appeals from such people, and must head them off in
some way. We have made no exception even to churches. If your
people take an interest in it sufficient to cover these expenses
I should be very glad, but it does not seem practicable otherwise.
If it does seem practicable at that end, I am of course ready to
talk about it.

Thank you for the beautiful calendar.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

W. H. Cox,
Room 567, Hotel Rexford,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose you two application blanks with four endorsement blanks. Please complete one application blank for yourself in your own hand-writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in her hand-writing, answering all the questions precisely; then have two well known and responsible persons fill in answers to the questions on the endorsement blanks for yourself, the other two to be filled for your wife, and return all to me.

It is right that I should say that I have quite a good many
applications from which I have selected ten. You must among them to
further consider. Your prompt response to this will be advisable.
I should also want to know whether you could come immediately,
so the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At
present they number about 700. There are good conveniences, and
the land is not elaborate nor the work difficult. Rooms are pro-
vided convenient to the kitchen for the cook and his wife.

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The Ladies' Protestant Guild Bureau,

1502 Cherry St.,
Phila., Pa.

Hesdames :-

Enclosed are two application with four endorsement
blanks for the couple referred to in your letter of the 4th inst.
Please have the man and his wife each fill out one of the application blanks in their own hand-writing, answering every question concisely. Then have the endorsement blanks filled out by two well known and responsible persons, two for each, and all sent to me in enclosed envelope. A prompt response from them is advisable. It is also important that I know whether they could come immediately, as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At present they number about 700. There are good conveniences and the menu is not elaborate nor the work difficult. Rooms are provided for the cook and his wife convenient to the kitchen.

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Surety Brokerage Co.,

Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

Enclosed are two application and four endorsement blanks
for the two clients, man and wife you refer to. Please have the
man fill out one of the application blanks for himself in his own
handwriting, and his wife fill out the other for herself in her
hand writing, answering all the questions concisely. Then have
the endorsement blanks filled out by two well known and respon-
sible persons, two for each, and all sent to me. A prompt re-
sponse from them will be advisable. It is important that I know
whether they could come immediately, as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At
present they number about 700. There are good conveniences and
the menu is not elaborate nor the work difficult. Rooms are pro-
vided for the cook and his wife convenient to the kitchen.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

Wm. H. Richardson,
1011 Oxford St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose you two application and four endorsement blanks.
Please complete one of the applications for yourself in your own
hand-writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in
her hand-writing, answering all the questions concisely. Then have
two well known and responsible persons fill in answers to the ques-
tions on two endorsement blanks for yourself, and on the other two
for your wife, and return all to me.

It is right for me to say that I have a good many applications
from which I have selected ten, yours among them, to further con-
sider. Your prompt response to this will be advisable. Please
state whether you could come immediately, as the place is now va-
cant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At
present they number about 700. There are good conveniences in the
kitchen and the menu is not elaborate nor the work difficult.
Rooms are provided convenient to the kitchen for the cook and his
wife.

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H. C. Dougherty,
Domestic Employment Bureau,
1208 Wilbert St.,
Phila., Pa.

Jan. 11, 1900.

Dear Sir :-

I enclosed two application blanks with four endorsement
blanks for the applicant you think will meet our needs. The men
should himself fill out one application blank, and his wife the
other, answering all the questions concisely. The endorsement blanks
two for each, should be filled by two well known and responsible
persons, and all questions answered, and the returned to me in en-
velope herewith.

I have quite a good many applications, and have selected your
representative among others for further consideration. A prompt
response is advisable. Those answering through you should state
whether they could

would
come immediately, as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. It
present the number about 700. There are good conveniences, and
the menu is not elaborate nor the work difficult. Good rooms are
provided convenient to the kitchen for the cook and his wife.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

Paul Robert,
221 Race St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose you two application and four endorsement blanks. Please complete one application for yourself in your own hand writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in her handwriting, answering all the questions concisely. Then have two well known and responsible persons fill in answers to the questions on two of the endorsement blanks for yourself, and on the other two for your wife, and return all to me in envelope herewith.

It is right that I should say that I have quite a good many applications, from which I have selected ten, you're among them, to further consider. Your prompt response to this is advisable. I should also want to know whether you would come immediately, as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At present they number about 700. There are good conveniences, and the menu is not elaborate, nor the work difficult. Rooms are provided for the cook and his wife convenient to the kitchen,

Yours truly,

R.H. Poust
Major 10th Cavalry, Dept.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

W. Laybourn,
Oak Lane,
Phil., Pa.

Dear Sirs

I enclose you two application and four endorsement blanks.
Please complete one application for yourself in your own hand-
writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in her hand-
writing, answering all the questions concisely. Then have two well
known and responsible persons fill in answers to the questions on
two endorsement blanks for yourself, and on the other two for your
wife, and return all to me in envelope herewith.

It is right that I should say that I have quite a good many
applications from which I have selected ten, yours among them, to
further consider. Your prompt response is advisable. I should al-
so want to know whether you could come immediately, as the place
is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At
present they number about 700. There are good conveniences, and
the menu is not elaborate, nor the work difficult. Rooms are pro-
for the cook and his wife convenient to the kitchen.

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Mr. John Phillips,
3428 Market St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose you two application blanks with four endorsement blanks. Please complete one application blank for yourself in your own hand-writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in her hand-writing, answering all the questions wisely; then have two well known and responsible persons fill in the answers to the questions on two endorsement blanks for yourself, the other two to be filled for your wife, and return all to me.

It is right that I should say that I have quite a good many applications from which I have selected ten, you're among them, to further consider. Your prompt response to this will be advisable. I should also want to know whether you could come immediately, as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school, as present they number about 700. There are good conveniences, and the menu is not elaborate nor the work difficult. Rooms are provided convenient to the kitchen for the cook and his wife.

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Jan. 11, 1900.

G. W. Henderson,
320 E. 17th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I enclose you two application with four endowment blank
Please complete one application blank for yourself in your own
hand writing, and have your wife complete the other for herself in
her hand-writing, answering all the questions concisely. Then have
two well known and responsible persons fill in the answers to the
questions on the endorsemments blanks, two for yourself and two for
your wife, and return all to me in the enclosed envelope.

It is right that I should say I have quite a good many appli-
cations, from which I have selected ten, yours among them, to fur-
ther consider. Your prompt response to this will be advisable.
It is also important to know whether you could come immediately,
as the place is now vacant.

The duties are to cook for the children of this school. At
present they number about 700. There are good conveniences, and
the menu is not elaborate, nor the work difficult. Rooms are pro-
vided for the cook and his wife convenient to the kitchen.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Dr. W. M. Irving, Pres.
President of the College,
Haverhill, Mass.

My dear Doctor !

It is too late for you to visit Carlile only between
travels, but we will take what we can get and hope for the latter
to-morrow Mrs. Irving.

About twelve he would not play in the band, but came to see
us yesterday and had so many offers of help that I fear he
will be wellnighed. His last is from a lady in Philadelphia for whom
we worked that afternoon. She has a relative who wants to call and will
give him, as he thinks, a big chance. I did all I could to turn
him to Haverhill; then tried to hold him to his call after dinner
there, but he had already in his own mind given that up before he
took back from California, and determined on a commercial career in
the pretty commercial school here. Take I could not approve of one
contributed to urge Haverhill or New York when he finally came
with the proposition from the lady in Philadelphia. That is how
the matter stands with Calab. Nothing but experience will do for
any people, and I fear Calab is one of those sort.

Our first task is to arrange for a game of baseball at Haver-
hill April 1st with some, and for a ball here on May 6th also
and sending them on May 1st with you at Haverhill. Mr. Thompson
and I agree that it would be well for you to bring your captain

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Dr. Irvine,

when you and I take matters over generally. We also entirely agree
that it would be "mutually beneficial" at this end" to interchange
in all matters.

I expect to go to Washington on Monday to be away several
days, possibly till Wednesday or Thursday. If you can defer your
visit until we return I shall be glad, but in case you cannot let you
know me with a good reason here from my folks.

With kind wishes to Miss. Irvine,

Frostbaked! P.I.

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Jan. 12, 1900.

A. Salisbysford,
B. M. Buel
A. M. Buel
H. M. Buel

Dear brothers :—

I received your letter of the 1st daily but thought I
should write until the team got back and I had heard their reports
about them before powering. The boys enjoyed their visit at
my school very much. Their trip throughout was one of great
pleasure to them all.

I have been greatly pleased all these years since you left
Carlsbad to know that you are getting on so well and making such
progress in the right direction; and when I meet your little wife at
Los Angeles I will be reestablished in my convictions as to your great
and good judgment. I am very glad to get your letter and to know
that you are presently how you are getting on generally. You have been
in my mind much oftener since the convention in Los Angeles than
before.

Many changes have taken place here since you were a student,
so you of your own know. A number of our buildings have been added
and appropriate and conveniences put in. There are many fine pub-
liee compiled and though many are in the country the students are
so full that we have had to reject all applicants for the last
month or two. We have had very pleasant weather all fall and win-
ter. The boys and girls have enjoyed the skating pond just west
of the school grounds for several weeks. Just now the walks are

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Robert, Professor,
The John F. Kennedy School,
New York, N.Y. 10016

Udairo, Robert:

Thank you for your picture. Though no letter comes with
it, it gives me to me and again, and I am greatly pleased to
hear from you, Ray, that you are getting on so nicely. They
seem so pleased with your picture, and their whole help was
so precious to them and the school. They arrived here last
Monday morning and have already settled down to regular school duties.
They will be very pleased with an evening remeeting their class.
They are very much of benefit to the whole student body.

We doubt will keep some track of us through "The Helper", while
give the news in detail more than I have time for.

When you could be with us at Commencement, this year if will
be held March 16th, 17th, and 18th. We have a very large class.
We wish you all a good holiday for the new year.

Yours sincerely, your friend,

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Mrs. James B. Wilson,
Watertown, Conn.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of the 10th which only just now reached
me, I have to say that my experience in having societies, classes,
Sunday-schools, churches, and even individuals take special inter-
est in an Indian student and help him through school or college
has not impressed me favorably, and I have quite abandoned encour-
aging those who wanted to give money in that way. The student nec-
essarily becomes familiar with the facts of his support and learns
that it is our custom to do such things, and gradually his ideas
of self support and manhood are undermined and he learns to loan
upon such assistance. He begins to think that the world owes him
a living. I could not encourage you to have your class send me
money to help an Indian and have him write to them and perhaps vis-
it them, and so on; so that the information you want from me I
cannot give.

I am in the habit where I do help students, of placing them
so far as I can, under an obligation to repay such help, minimiz-
ing the help as much as possible by providing that while they are
passing through school they shall earn their board by working out
of school hours, and earn money to lay for their books, clothing,
etc., during vacations. In many cases I have been able to push our

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students who wanted to go to higher institutions through a course
with a little outside help, and I always leave that on our books
to be repaid if possible. This is healthy; the other is very very
as
unhealthy I have found by many experiences. Self support for the In-
dian in competition with our civilization is really much more im-
portant than education in books and schools. It ought to be the
first thing. A man who cannot read and write may from his indus-
trial and general usefulness and ability be a pretty fair citizen;
but a fellow who can read and write well but has no industrial
ability to enable him to contend with our civilization, especially
our industrial civilization, is to be pitied.

Should you wish to give money for me to help our advanced stu-
dents, I could only accept it as something to be trusted to me en-
tirely, and while I would be willing that you personally should
know all about it, I would not expect the young people and you to
be in communication. I should of course be willing that you make
such examination as would assure you of the wisdom of my expendi-
tures. I have Indian teachers in my school and there are Indian
teachers in many of the other schools who were educated in that
way, and after earning something themselves they were able to save
and repay the outlay; not in all cases, but in many cases. Of
course the chance of repayment must be taken.

I send you my last Annual Report and a souvenir book of views
of the school.

Sincerely yours,

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Jan. 12, 1960

Glenn S. Warner,

Springville, New York.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Thanks for your good long letter with particulars of the
western trip and other matters. I am satisfied that all you say
is true as to the advantages of the trip to the Pacific Coast. It
was a great education for the boys and for the school. Tomorrow
night we are to have full accounts of the trip from them, differ-
ent portions being assigned to the various members of the team.

It was especially advantageous that you could go along. I see
the California fellows claim quite a little, more I think than
they are entitled to. They place no significance on the long trip
the sandy ground and different ball and the fact that our boys had
not lined up for several weeks, all of which were most material.
Am. glad to know what you say of Mr. Thompson. The conditions here
have grown to be so bothersome on account of Mr. Thompson's ab-
sences that something must be done to end the necessity for it or
to fill his place here. I do not seem to be able to get hold of
just the man to take care of affairs when he is away. As he is
paid by the Government for doing his work here and not for the
football work it seems as though he ought to be relieved of the
football pressure. It occurs to me there is a bare possibility
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just as well as not take charge of the manager's duties in all our
outdoor sports, particularly football, and at the same time coach
the football team during the season. We all liked you and Mrs.
Warner here and would be pleased to have you with us. I suppose
of course your law plans will cut a very material figure in the
decision, but if you feel that you can do it, if only for the next
year I would be glad to hear from you stating the situation frank-
ly and also indicating the additional salary.

In regard to Conners; I had quite a frank talk with Mr. Thompson about it this morning. I accept of all you say in his behalf and of his usefulness; but my convictions against using a man of his class who has been in any way connected with pugilism are so strong that I do not feel like going against them. We have to consider the boys. I notice in the gymnasium and elsewhere a growing tendency on their part to boxing and wrestling. I do not object to this in a boyish way, but if they take on a spirit of interest in professionalism on that line, it is a serious matter. If we have a man before connected with professional pugilism in any way the fact gets out among the boys and his being among them will warrant them in thinking it is allright, and they will more and more read about such things and think about them. Then there is another phase of the case which the reports about Remus Pierce make it necessary to consider. You remember a little story which Brooks and his companions told when we walked down to the teachers' club one day. I don't believe that story about Remus, but that coaches of other teams can tell them among football people is not pleaseant; and to have a helper publicly known in that line will

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certainly go from team to team that we contend with, and does no good. While I am sorry for Conners and would be glad to yield to your judgment and Mr. Thompson's to have him here, I am very very sure it is not best and we will have to look further.

I want to say a word about the use of the car while in Frisco.
I had no intention whatever of ordering anything else than what
you and Mr. Thompson felt was best. My only thought was that pos-
sibly Berkeley and the field upon which they played was some dis-
tance out of the city, that there was railroad connection and that
there might not be sleeping accommodations and the car could be
used for that purpose. I had no idea of crowding it at all. It
was only suggestive. When the team goes away under your care or
Mr. Thompson's I expect those things to be done which are in your
judgment best to be done, and suggestions of mine are only to be
given such weight as their value may indicate.

I rather take pride in the fact that our boys stop at the very
best hotels in the country, but a prolonged stopping at an expen-
sive hotel does not strike me as best. It is wise for us I think
to remember that we are not exactly of that class and to be as
wholesome as we can in our selection for stopping place when we
make a prolonged stay. That was the tenor of my letter to Mr.
Thompson, and I think you and he quite misconstrued my sentiments.

With greetings and cordial remembrance to Mrs. Warner in which
Mrs. Pratt, my daughter, and all at Carlisle join, I am

Very sincerely your friend,

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Jan. 12, 1900.

Miss Nollie Small,
West Grove, Pa.

Dear Miss Small :-

You write a pretty fair letter. You are located in a
very excellent neighborhood, and I judge you have the friendship
of some if not all the good people there. Allow me to suggest to
you that you take up school life right where you are. Get into the
Friends' School if you can. If not that, then into the public
school. Take care of yourslef in this matter and you will profit
by it far more than you could by coming to Carlisle where all is
Indian. I do not say this to drive you away from Carlisle, but
in order that you may get the very best you can out of any school
life you may determine to give yourself.

Very sincerely your friend,

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Jan. 12, 1900.

Jas. Elythe,

Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Sir :-

I have just had your sister Stella examined and the en-
closed is the doctor's judgment. It seems to be more a lack of
nourishment than anything else, and with medicine and food for that
condition the doctor thinks she will come out all right. There is
apparently no good reason to feel concerned. We shall do what we
can and I have no doubts she will soon gain strength.

Things are moving on very well here, and though we have 1025
students, we never had fewer in the hospital at this season of the
year than now. The school seems to have an exceptionally good
tone, everybody apparently happy and enjoying life.

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Jan. 12, 1900.

Rev. M. P. Trippe,

Salamanca, N. Y.

My dear Brother Trippe :-

Replying to yours of the 9th about the Pierce children,
I am sorry to say they came without our consent or knowledge; but
they are here and we will let them stay for the present. They
were proper candidates for your Orphan Asylum. When children have
come so far at parents' own cost and have no means of getting back
unless we furnish the means, we are in somewhat of a box about it.
Still we can do something with them for the balance of the winter,
and will let the spring round-up determine the future.

In regard to the children at Lincoln Institute; I shall be
willing to accept of those who are old enough and otherwise proper
subjects for admission here should the necessity for that come.
It seems pretty well settled that Mrs. Fox is going to make her
annual fight to keep the thing going, but with the Commissioner
and the Department against her and Congress pretty well convinced
that it is not the place for Indian children, I doubt if she suc-
ceeds again. She is a terror to members of Congress, particularly
the Phila. and Pennsylvania members. I will go as far as I can to
do what ought to be done when the time comes; but as the time may
possibly never come, will not bother to cross the bridge until I
have to.

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Chas. E. Scott,
Harrisburg Club,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Jan. 16, 1906.

Dear Sir :-

What I want is a cook and an assistant cook man and wife,
for children, in excellent health, and entirely free from either the
tobacco or intoxicant habit. If you have these qualities and can
establish them to me by responsible references, I shall be glad to
consider you for the place. If you have not these qualities, do
not make application.

I send blanks for yourself and wife which you can return if
you do not use them. Make out a blank for yourself in your own
hand-writing and have two well known and respectable citizens fill
out an endorsement blank, one each. Have your wife make out an
application in her own writing and have two citizens endorse her
in the same manner. Send the whole back to me.

I have quite a number of applicants whom I am considering, but
the place is still open.

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Mr. H. W. Spray,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Mr. Spray :-

Jan. 12, 1900.

I am sending George Wolfe home. He and Mary Bailey have hit Carlisle its hardest blow yet. I forced them to get married. Three days afterward a mature child was stillborn. Not a soul on the grounds suspected the conditions. Mary will be able to travel in a very few days, and they will then come back to your bailiwick. Mary is very capable, but was losing ground steadily because of her condition. How she stood up through it all, taught school, and skated on the ice four days before the child was born is a marvel. I write you this of course in the greatest confidence, but you ought to know about it.

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Jan. 13, 1900.

E. H. Reshel, Prin.
Baptist Academy,
Atoka, Ind. Ty.

Dear Sir :-

I send you several of my reports and a little book of
pictures of the school. In June we are still carrying on our work
but the number of pupils is greatly reduced. If you come the fore
part of the month, however, you will be able to take in the dimen-
sions of the work here very well. In July the number is much more
reduced and the school is closed.

We accept of pupils only for five years unless they graduate
sooner. Our graduating point is about midway between the grammar
and high school grades of the public schools. The Choctaws, Chick-
asaws, Creeks, Cherokees, and Seminoles have been barred from this
school for quite a number of years because of having drawn tribal
funds from the Government for school purposes, and having a com-
plete system of their own. Whether they are in the same relation
to the Government now, or whether the Government would permit us
to accept of them I have not tested. If you feel so inclined, you
might write to the Honorable Commissioner, placing the matter be-
fore him. It would be better for you to do it than for me.

What you complain of, the use of the Choctaw language and the
feeling of independence on the part of pupils, lack of ambition
push through their studies and complete a course, the tendency to

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Carry on secret correspondence with members of the opposite sex are difficulties which are met with in other Indian Schools; in fact, they are not confined to the Indians. Stimulus for education has to be supplied from above to children almost always. We have no difficulty with the Indian language because we are a thoroughly English speaking school. We are such a Babel here, our pupils representing nearly eighty languages, that for quite a number of years this matter has not bothered us. I think our location remote from the tribes, and surrounded by English speaking, industrious people is our greatest source of strength. I overcame the use of Indian by prohibiting it and having a report from each student at the close of each week. Good discipline overcomes the feeling of independence and the hesitancy in yielding obedience. Military drill is a great help in this direction. One hundred men in line before an officer will obey a command by prompt execution much better than if he took them one by one. Lack of ambition is a human trait to be overcome by activity. I think industrial activity is best; but having military drill and requiring double quick while in company drill takes that lack of ambition and hesitancy out of them.

Carrying on secret correspondence with the opposite sex is
overcome here at least in part by watching the correspondence, by
advising, and letting them understand where they are at. Still,
in spite of all we do, there is some of it. I claim that I am
father of the place and father of all the children and I have a
right to look out for the interests of my children to the extent
of opening their letters if need be.

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99

Jan. 13, 1900.

Laurie Tatem,

Springdale, Ia.

My dear Friend :-

The last address of Gen. R. H. Grierson was Jacksonville,
Ill. and I think he still makes that his home. Should you not be
able to reach him there, a letter addressed to him C/O Adjt. Gen.
of the Army, Washington, D. C. will surely get to him.

Am glad you have met with such success in disposing of "Our
Red Brothers". I still have four. Please accept my sympathy for
you because of your poor health. We are all very well here. With
1025 young Indians under our care, none are absolutely on their
backs sick and not over half a dozen are in the hospital. Am
glad to say that Mr. Standing is still with me, exceptionally well
and useful. Yesterday we had as a guest John Watson, from one of
the Friends' schools in the Cherokee country. Like the rest of us
he is getting gray, but retains his vigor wonderfully well.

With kindest regards and best wishes,

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 13, 1900.

C. A. Higgins, A.G.P.A.
77 Jackson St.,
Chicago.

Please send me bill for transportation for football team "San Francisco to Chicago".

Pratt, Major.

Govt. rate.
Postal . 11:20 A.M.

Jan. 13.

James Martin, Div. Supt.
Pullman Sleeping Car Co.,
Phila., Pa.

Please send me bill for sleeping car for football team, California and return. Car not used while in San Francisco. Hope you can make allowance.

Pratt, Major.

Postal.
11:20 A.M.

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Dr. E. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Jan. 13, 1900.

My dear Doctor :-

One of my pupils, Edith Bartlett, sends me the enclosed
wanting to know what to do about it. I send it to you asking the
same question. I cannot tell you, my dear Doctor, how grateful I
am to you for your kindness to the school through all these years,
and I realize that you are entitled to something more than grati-
tude. I do believe where pupils have the money to pay for ser-
vices of this kind they should be made to do that, and I do not
 intend to impose upon your good nature. But as this is contrary to
our general understanding, I thought best to send it and hear from
you.

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Jan. 13, 1900.

Miss Josie Vetter,

Rulo, Nebraska.

Dear Josie :-

I just have your letter of the 9th of January, and here
enclose my check for $172.00, the balance of interest due you,
which is $72.00, and $100.00 of the principal. You said you want-
ed to build a smoke-house and chicken-house, and this will prob-
ably be as much as you need for that; but if you want more, let me
know.

No, you do not have to pay any tax on your money; but the
mortgage bonds I have had 6% for the last five and a half years
have been paid, and if you wish me to keep your money longer I will
have to look around for some other investment. I will hardly be
able to get 6%; as money is so plenty, investments at that rate of
interest are hard to find. I will hold the money until I hear
from you. If you want more of the principal, let me know; or if
you want me to do the best I can, let me know that. For quite a
long time you have had only $600. This reduces the amount to $700
still in my hands.

I am always glad to hear from you, Josie, and to know that
you are getting on so nicely. I had a long letter from Minnie
Winley a few days ago. Mrs. Pratt is generally fairly well, and
so are the other members of my family. Richenda, the little baby,

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is now the tallest one in the family except myself, even taller
than her brother, and is going to Wilson College in Chambersburg.
Nana is the only one at home; but we have with us a little grand-
daughter, one of Marion's children from Denver; so that the house
is made more lively.

We should be very glad to have a visit from you. Why can't
you come on to Commencement in the middle of March? I am sure
you would enjoy a visit to your old school home. We now have 1024
pupils on our rolls, more than three times as many as there were
when you were here. Miss Cutter, Miss Burgess, Miss Lily, and
George Foulk, Mr. Harris, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Standing are
about all of the old employes left; but you must remember, Josie,
it is quite a good many years since,

With kindest regards,

Always faithfully your friend,

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Jan. 13, 1900.

Mr. Chas. E. Dagenett,
C/o Brick Hotel,
Newtown, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of yesterday and note what you say
about Sabbath-school and church, and also the Price family. I
think it well that you get as many facts as you can about the boys
being there, how late, and what they do. I will write to the boys
when I hear from you again. At the same time I think it well for
me to write to a friend in Newtown who will put the police of the
town on the watch. If they could be induced to make an arrest
for some reason or other, it would have a good effect; but I will
attend to that from this end. Be as sure as you possibly can of
your facts on all lines. Take plenty of time to see each pupil
and each school.

All is well at the school. I have good reports of Esther's
school-room work so far.

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Jan. 6th, 1900.

Mr. C. K. Ober,
c/o International Committee,
Y.M.C.A.,
45 W. 29th St.,
New York.

My dear Mr. Ober:-

The Carlisle Indian School Band composed of sixty young Indians especially selected for their musical proficiency from twenty-three different tribes including the Apaches, Pimas and other so-called lowest tribes, has been for the last year under special training with a view to making a trip to the Paris Exposition to off-set Wild West shows. It has become very doubtful, however, that Congress will aid in the matter. In fact we have been compelled to give up hope on that line. I have, therefore, determined, with the consent of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to have the band make a concert tour of the larger cities with the double purpose of raising money if possible for the Paris trip, but more especially for the purpose of demonstrating to our own people the exceedingly refined musical abilities of young Indians when properly instructed. Our band plays side by side with Sound and the U.S. Marine Band, asking no favorable judgements because of their being Indians, and receive the highest made of praise. The quality of the work and the class of music played is not much, if at all, excelled by the bands mentioned. In arranging the tour their fore-runner will carry with him endorsements from the highest and

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most personally yours,

I write to ask whether it is not endroitly compatible with
your great work in all its interests to assure from your general
a letter to T.M.O.A. organization to be added in such places as
the band may require in, with the understanding that sufficient per-
sonnel will be in place so that the result in addition to aiding a good cause
if you can sympathize with our purpose to the extent of sending
us which would beCommendable as you will do best. I ask it so
greatly obligate. I will assure you that in the conduct of the band
there will be nothing to make you regret doing so. The letter will
quite a number of the band are doing the best of our T.M.O.A. force
at the school.

Jan. 15, 1900.

Miss Barbara Jennings,
328 Davis St.,
Jacksonville, Fla.

Dear Madam :-

Our "Course of Study" has lately been revised and is in
the hands of the printers. When completed, will send you a copy.

In regard to a position here, I can give you no encouragement
as all places are filled by appointments through the Civil Service
Commission in Washington. When an employee is needed here, I must
apply to the Department. The Department calls for applicants for
such position from the Civil Service Commission. The Commission
sends over the names and papers of the highest three on their lists
and from these selection is made.

Information and directions to those wishing to take the ex-
aminations, may be had by addressing the Chairman of the Civil
Service Commission in Washington. This is the only way by which
you can enter the service. Please give Miss Baker the contents of
this letter.

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Jan. 16, 1900,

The Ladies' Protestant Guild Bureau,
1502 Cherry St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Message :-

Your letter of the 15th to Major Pratt in regard to the
positions of cook and assistant, comes to hand in his absence. In
Reply I have to say that the purpose of the application blanks sent
you is that information in full may be furnished by the parties
you have in mind. Similar blanks have been sent to other appli-
cants and the decision will be made on the information that they
may furnish. Sending the application blanks does not by any means
ensure the position, and transportation would be premature until
the final decision is made.

I would thank you to have the examination blanks forwarded as
quickly as possible.

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Jan. 18, 1900.

Mr. Jas. M. Hamilton,
70 Neschanity Ave.,
New Castle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Reply to your postal was delayed by its being misplaced. It comes to light during Major Pratt's absence. In regard to Jose Ayarro, I have to report that he is making fair progress, though he is still in the first grade. During the fall he worked on the school farm where he was obliged to use English altogether, there being no one on the farm who could understand his Spanish. He is a good worker.

In regard to sending him money, if you are so disposed, it will do no harm to send him such a small sum as he asks for, but we do not encourage pupils in writing to their friends for money. He has drawn on his account here until it is all used above the amount we require to be left as a deposit. Everything that he really needs is provided, so that a loan is not at all necessary. However, his habits are not such as to make it likely he wants the money for anything harmful.

Yours truly,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Ed. Jackson,

Whiteville, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter asking to be admitted to this
school as a student, I have to say that at present we cannot take
any more, as our quarters are already too full. If you are of
proper age, character, etc. and can establish your membership in
some Indian tribe, you may write again in the spring or summer,
and the matter will then be considered.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Ralph Taylor,

Cheyenne River Agency, S. Dak.

My dear Ralph :-

I am delighted to get a letter from you so nicely written
and telling of your struggles. You can depend upon it, Ralph, that
sooner or later honest industrious effort will be rewarded. You
do stand in a little unfortunate light because you do not hold a
Carlisle diploma; but even that may be overcome in a great measure
by exceptionally good conduct.

In regard to the boy you speak of who wants to come here, I
am sorry to say we are so crowded that I have had to say "No" to
everybody for some time. We are to carry 1000 children and have
1024 on our rolls; so you see how it is. After the first of July
I shall be glad to hear of any good boys and girls who wish to
come here.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Miss Lettie B. Scott,
Gowanda, New York.

My dear Lettie :-

I congratulate you on your success as a teacher, and do really feel proud of you as of all Carlisle students who go out and demonstrate that they have been made useful by being at Carlisle.

In regard to the two boys, I cannot take them this year. I could not take the one under 12 anyhow. We are now so full that I have been compelled to deny all applicants for some time past. After the 1st of July next we shall be able to take children again and if you or someone else writes about them then I will consider the matter.

Faithfully your friend,

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Mr. W. P. Campbell, Asst. Supt.
Ind. School,
Chemawa, Ore.

My dear Campbell :-

I don't wonder that you have the gold fever. I saw pic-
tures of Cape Nome two months after gold was discovered, and it
was a marvel of improvements. Governor Brady, Dr. Jackson, and
Mr. Kelly, all men who know as much about Alaska as anybody, and
I were together and had quite a talk about it. If I were twenty
years younger I should be inclined to jump into it a little myself.
However, I am not twenty years younger and I cannot do as I please
any more: so I have to be pleased to do as I can. If I were you
I would hesitate somewhat to take Don and Herbert out of school
and take them off in that way; however, you may see things that I
don't. So far as Mrs. Campbell's coming here is concerned, I can
not see my way to that. My people are all Civil Service people,
and just now we have no vacancies. I should think you would pre-
fer to have her on that side of the continent where she would be
near you. There might be opportunities that would induce you to
take her too, or it might be that something would happen you that
would make it a great deal better for her to be the six or seven
days nearer you than she would be here.

Have just returned from Washington after spending three days
there. Found things generally in satisfactory condition.

With regards to all,

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Jun. 19, 1900,

Mrs. E. E. Weller,
State Indus. School.
Golden, Colo.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of the 19th inst. in regard to the In-
dian boy, I have to advise you that we are too full to undertake
any more this year. You might get him in at Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kansas, which is the second largest Indian school. Write
to H. B. Peairs, Supt. and he will inform you fully. If the boy
is an Indian belonging to any tribe but the Five Civilized Tribes
of Indian Territory he is entitled to the privileges of some one
of the Indian Schools, but it must be established that he is on
the rolls at some Indian Agency.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Major Chas. L. Cooper,

Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

My dear Cooper :-

I have just been in Washington three days but really
could not find time to get around to the War Department. The pres-
sure on me was so great that it was all I could do to get to the
Indian Office and around to the Capitol for the business I had on
hand. Do not know that it would have done any good if I had gone
to the War Department. You know before this of the promotion of
Young, which enables me to vacate 12 for you. I do it very
gladly, and congratulate you on getting off of that unfortunate
number so very promptly.

What you say about Davis, Carr, Walls, and Jackson is all news
to me. I shall be glad of course to see them move on, and if they
choose to leave of their own volition or perforce have to, I shall
not be sorry for that, as the follows below us will not be sorry
when the same conditions overtake us. My time is getting short
and I would like to see a bird on my shoulder before I have to quit
As it is now, if I live to retirement I am safely sure of the sil-
ence of my leaf, and you too. Indeed, you stand a better show than I do
for the bird.

I add that Viele returned from the Philippines on the last
steamer which reached San Francisco. What a consummate --. Arms

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Miss Nellie M. Sullivan,
St. Louis Park, Minn.

Dear Miss Sullivan :

Since Mr. Standing wrote you in December an order has been issued from the Indian Office against our accepting any students over 16 years of age without special permission from the Commissioner. As the school is overcrowded and we have been forced to deny all applicants for some time, we could not accept of you show until after the first of July.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

George W. Foner,
Belmont, New York.

Dear Sir :-

The only available football coach I know of is Mr. John
A. Hall who coached our team two years ago. He is a Yale man and
one of their most celebrated players. He was here to see me about
coaching our team. I think you could have him for $60.00 or $75.00
per week during the season. He might ask more, but I think you
could get him for that. We paid him $100 per week.

If you want a good successful team you have to have a good
successful coach. There is no other way.

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Miss Mollie B. Small,
West Grove, Pa.

Dear Miss Small :-

I have your letter and note what you say. You have quite
entirely misapprehended my words and motives. Can you not see
that the Indian should somehow be thrown out into the world on his
own resources just as the white man and the colored man are, and
that the government will not always dare for him, and that the
beat way to be some independent is to be thrown out among other
people ? You having had this experience, and being already out in
this way alone just in the lines you and every other Indian should
be in, and what it motivates about it the breaking up of that. I
have now to tell you that since writing you I have received orders
from the Indian officer out to take any students over 18. My re -
collection is that you are older than that. This in itself would
prevent your mission to Carlsbad. In any event we are too late
to bring you this year. It would have to be after the 1st of July
next, when we would have a portion of our staff away.

Sincerely yours, A. M. B.

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Jan. 20, 1906.

George G. Cleveland,
Troop E, 5th (U.S.) Cavalry,
Hayaguna, Porto Rico.

My dear George :>

I have your letter of Dec. 30th and am glad to know that
you enjoy life as a soldier. You tell very little of yourself or
your surroundings, but we may hear from you later a little more
fully. Things are progressing very nicely here. Until the Last
day or two there has been excellent skating on the pond west of
the school grounds. Everyone is in school again after a week's
vacation at Mid-time. The health of the school has been excel-
lent all along, and the school is at full as we are to have it.
Pupils keep on applying for admission, but we have for some time
been compelled to refuse all until next year.

I enclose a money order for $19.60, the money due you here
after the money order has been paid for. Don't you think it would
have been simpler to leave it here? Unless you have pressing needs
your pay ought to be sufficient. Some of the boys have part of
that, and it is a good plan. Edward goes sends me regularly part of
his pay, and I put it on interest for him.
Faithfully your friend,

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St. Mary's College,

Porterville, Arizona,

My dear St. Marys..

Jan. 20, 1900.

It is very pleasant to hear from you now and then and to
know that you have plenty of work and are getting on well.

We are busy here too, as we always are. You know I suppose
that our school is larger this year than ever before, 1034 pupils
being on our rolls. About 300 of them are in the country, which
is more than we have ever placed out in the winter before. Yet
we are quite crowded here. If you were to visit us you would note
many changes. Last summer we built an addition to each end of the
school-house, so that now we have fifteen schoolrooms and several
recitation rooms, and rooms for the singing and drawing classes.
When we are all seated in the chapel on Sunday afternoons, half a
crowd of the large boys sit in the gallery which was built some
time ago across the back of the hall. Our shops too are larger and
there are more of them than when you were here. Last year we be-
gan to make carriages and top-huggies, and the boys in that depart-
ment are kept quite busy. I could not tell you of all the imp-
rovements we have made. It would be better if you could visit
us sometime and see for yourself. Mr. Standing, Miss Gutter, Miss
Mary, Miss Burgess, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Normal, Mr. Reitzel, Miss
Chatter, Miss Paul, and Miss Luckenbach are about all of the stu-
dents left when you know,

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The skating has been fine this month and last. We have a pond for our own use just west of the new laundry building, made by a small brook in the meadow.

Our ball is very fine, better than ever before. They had their pictures taken this week out on the campus. You know they are very proud to go to Paris next summer. You will be interested to know that our football team has gained a wide reputation for itself and the school. Wish you could have met them when they were out in your section a few weeks ago.

I suppose you get the general news from The Helper, and what I have heard is not news to you. I am glad you still remember your old school so kindly and are interested in its progress.

With kind regards to any of our old students whom you may come across,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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Jan. 19, 1900.

Jack Terry, Sumo
Indian School,
Harlem, Mont.

My dear Terry :-

I found your matters in shape when I went down to Washington last Tuesday, and the Commissioner told me he had just received the letter sending you back to Puyallup. I asked him if I might telegraph that to you and he said I might; so I did.

I have been conscious on former occasions that when other people attempt to tell what I say they are not so likely to get it as I said or intended to say as I am myself. I know I did not use my best statement as "Writing from the Commissioner the statement those of my official actions at Puyallup were just objects for criticism." That I have feared about it was that in your uncertainty to get back to Puyallup you would be so handicapped by having forced people to do what they were not otherwise entirely willing to do, as to place yourself at a great disadvantage. The little things you may do contrary to regulations and things you do not do but are reported to have done, will be believed and talked about, and you will be subject to more criticism than if the Department had of itself sent you back. The situation will be much worse difficult for you, and your last condition may be worse than the first. The man who was determined you should not stay there had some friends, and he is not inclined to be idle. The Commiss-

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 Commissioner told me that he had received a good deal of protest against
 sending you there, and from Puyallup. So, my dear Terry, you are
going there under some disadvantages. I have already expressed my
self freely on that point. Of course nobody is to blame in it but
yourself, and therefore nothing is to be done but to wait. I told
the Commissioner I would not believe much against you from Puyal-
lop because I thought the old clerk would stir up a great deal if
not all that might come to him. He is evidently a sharper in the
business of underhand work. But you have got what you wanted, my
dear fellow. You made a hard fight for it, and if the result pleas
so you I am glad, and shall be only too happy to know that you suc-
cessed. While I am glad that you got what you wanted, I am and have
been sorry for some time that you wanted so much. In my judgment
the appointment at Flandreau was really more of a vindication than
your reappointment at Puyallup, and you would have had a better
salary.

Fraternally yours,

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Jan. 20, 1900.

J. E. Murphy,

Tamarack, Minn.

My dear Sir :-

I have your letter about Maud and have looked into the
matter of her clothing. There is not now and never has been the
slightest necessity for you to send her one cent for clothing.
Our girls are well cared for in this respect, I am sure much bet-
ter than in any other Indian school in the service, and that is
saying a good deal. Maud is using you and being wrongly educated.
You should not send her a cent of money unless through me. I ought
to have complete oversight of her expenditures, just as I have o-
ver the expenditures of all the other pupils. I assume control
over all the money they earn while away from the school under my
arrangement, and it should always be so with money sent to them.
If Maud received no money from you, in my judgment she would be
much better off. She would be more anxious to go out and earn some
thing, and having earned it she would be wiser in spending it.

I called upon my matron for a report in Maud's case. You
will find that report enclosed, and will see that things are pret-
ty serious and that it is necessary to administer strong disci-
pline. The fact that Maud asks you to send her money without reg-
istering it shows that she is on the wrong track. She is trying
to do something not in accord with the rules of the school. She

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understands perfectly that all right purchases are allowed if stu-
dents have the money. By sending her money in the past you have
encouraged her to break the rules. As what you previously sent
her did not come in our care, I cannot tell how she used it.

You had better, at least for the present, leave her absolutely to me. She will be punished and may appeal to you, but you had better let her alone. If she cannot be cured now, her outlook will be very bad.

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Jan. 20, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,

San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Mrs. Wright :-

It is very pleasant to see your hand-writing again after
such a long silence. I read what you say with very great interest.
I am glad to hear that the San Carlos Apaches now here seem so well
contented and that you feel so well satisfied that you brought
them. I will keep an eye on Martin Machukay, as you suggest.

Yes, the Indian team won new honors for themselves this year and best of all they lifted me out of a $5000 debt which I have been carrying for six years on our lower farm.

Inspector McConnell was not dismissed two or three days ago,
but he doesn't stand well at the Department and there has been con-
stant pressure to get him out. I doubt, however, if any serious
move will be made against him, pending the nomination and coming
election. McConnell is supposed to have considerable influence in
his state, and of course that keeps him in.

There are quite a number of things I would like to say to you
but don't think best just now. We are full to the brim. The en-
closed morning report shows you how we stand.

Miss Peter is now with me in the office in care of my corres-
pondence.

With kindest regards to your husband,

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148

Jan. 20, 1900.

Dr. W. M. Irvine, Pres.
Mercersburg Academy,
Mercersburg, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

Shall be away on Thursday, the 25th in Washington. Was
there last week, but did not get through with all I intended, and
will probably go again Tuesday to be away until Friday or Saturday.

Our Indian bill is just being made up by the Indian Committee
to be presented to Congress, and there are some things to look af-
ter. Come on Thursday, however, and Mrs. Pratt and Mr. Standing
will greet you, and you can see Mr. Thompson.

I ought to tell you that we have three cases of varioloid
among the pupils, but they are isolated in one of our farm houses
remote from the school grounds, fully half a mile from the school.

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Jan. 20, 1900.

Rev. Dr. J. A. Lippincott,
M.E. Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

I got your letter just as I was on my way to Washington
and have just returned.

The animus of "The Pittsburg Observer" does not wane. Each
number contains a new attack and they are very careful to see that
I get several copies. You are entirely right about it; there is
no possibility of meeting in any decent way such stuff, but as the
President of the United States and his cabinet officers, generals
of the Army and Protestants generally are all treated in the same
manner, I can stand it a while longer. It seems to attract no no
tice from other papers. Not a Catholic paper takes it up, and our
priest assures me it is nothing but the worst kind of a yellow
journal.

Things are in good shape in Washington so far as we are concerned. I shall probably go down again in a few days.

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Jan. 20, 1900.

Mrs. C. M. Sheldon,
1625 D. St.,
Lincoln, Neb.

My dear Mrs. Sheldon :-

I am greatly obliged to you for your letter and what you
tell me of the interest you have forwarded by what I have sent you
We people work on, year in and year out, trying to accomplish what
we think the Government should do for the Indians, and very often
the periods between expressions of sympathetic interest from the
people at large are very long. I am glad you are going to take
"The Red Man", for you will get the real spirit of Carlisle and
know what has actuated us for more than twenty years.

It was my deliberate judgment before taking up the work here
and in all my experience among and with the Indians, that giving
them a good fair chance, we could lead them to adopt our civiliza-
tion and to become anxious to be a very part of it. That convic-
tion has rounded into absolute fact by very long and very wide ex-
perience. I said in the beginning that the way to civilize the In-
dian was to get him into civilization; the way to keep him so
was to let him stay. I say it now. There is no question about it.
Indians are Indians; worthless, if worthless; savage, if savage,
because we have kept them so or made them so. Our missionaries
going to China and Japan carry with them not only the gospel, but
some portion of America. They live "America" there, and the Chi-
nese and Japanese see it . But we might increase the ten thou-

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sand fold and urge with all possible vigor, and centuries would pass before Japan or China would become American. The operation of transporting our civilization to the Indian tribes is along exactly the same lines. I have the reports of the Government agents and missionaries at work among the Indians from 1822 to this time. I can find in the 20's, the 30's, 40's, and 50's exactly the same sentiments, the same hopes for a speedy solution of the Indian problem expressed by agents and missionaries that are now expressed. The method has not Americanized the five or six thousand Indians in the state of New York. They live on reservations, they practice their old Indian customs, they are very largely out of sympathy with us, and our methods have caused them to continually expect support and beneficence. We have relieved them of the responsibility of caring for themselves. Young Japanese brought to America and kept for years under our system of education become in almost all cases thoroughly in sympathy with our ideas, and feel perfectly at home and capable in our system. My experience in bringing young Indians away from their tribes and placing them among our people is that exactly the same results follow. If we could break up the reservation, absolutely take away the herding, feeding, and excessive oversight and care they are subjected to, and throw them on their own resources, so far as those who have had three years or more of experience away from their tribes are concerned, there would be absolutely no difficulty. They would not sink. They would swim.

I would urge your society and all interested to help as little as possible along the lines that send to the Indians, and as

Mrs. Sheldon.

much as possible along lines that send Indians out of their tribes
to things.

I have ordered "The Red Man" to be sent as you request, and
am obliged to you for the subscription. I wish our paper might be
better supported. I have carried it on all these years at very
considerable drain on my outside resources. It never has paid,
and yet I have never felt it was right to let it die.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1900.

Moses Graham,
Shakopee, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst. applying for
admission to this school, I have to say that our numbers are al-
ready so large and we are so overcrowded as to make it impossible
to receive any more students until after the end of the year in
July next. We have for many weeks been compelled to answer all ap-
plicants thus. If at the time named you write again, and prove
to us that you are of suitable, age, health, and character, and
are entitled to school privileges here, we shall be very glad to
arrange for your coming.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1900.

George Kowice,
Paraje, New Mexico.

Dear George:-

It is not often I hear from you. Am glad to know you
are happy and contented in a useful life. In regard to James Tar-
agoa, his term does not expire until next July, and he is of course
not entitled to go home until that time. He came in October, '94
but our rule for many years has been that the school period is not
completed until the end of the school year in July, even though
the five years is up during the term. At the proper time James
will have the option of remaining here longer or going home.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Mr. H. W. Spray,

Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Mr. Spray :-

William Ratley claims he did not receive the money order and as it has not been lifted you had better secure another and send direct to me.

Miss Reel is with us for some days. She speaks of her pleasant visit with you and your peculiar trials and tribulations. You know what the old darkey sang,

"Nobody knows de trouble I sees,
Nobody knows but Jesus."

There is some consolation in that. I trust your affairs are running more smoothly again and that your people with increasing years may accumulate sense instead of nonsense.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Spray,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

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

My dear Doctor :-

I have your report of the trip. Am glad to hear from you and to know that all went so well. It was a great education for the boys and I think a great education for the people with whom they came in contact. Should they go to the Pacific Coast next year we could take one of the northern routes and make an attack on Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Lillie Seonia,
Pahuate,
Laguna, N. Mexico.

My dear Lillie :-

Mary and her husband, George Wolfe, left here Monday for
his home at Cherokee, North Carolina. What you heard about her
was true. You can write to Mary, addressing her as Mrs. Mary Wolfe
Cherokee, N. Car. We all loved her so much and thought so much
of her that it was a sad blow to us; but she is well and told me
just before she left that she intended to redeem herself and I be-
lieve she will.

Howice and Harry are both getting on nicely and it is better
that they remain here, at least for the present.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

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

My dear General :-

I have had a talk with Mr. Felton, Pres. of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company, and think Quinley stands a good show of get-
ting into their service under conditions that will be satisfactory
and promising. The best way would be for Quinley to see Mr. Felton
I told him that Quinley would come to Philadelphia on Saturday or
Monday next, preferably Saturday. Mr. Felton will be away from
home on Thursday and Friday. Immediately I presented Quinley's qual-
ities, Mr. Felton said he would like to see him. I had some delay
and difficulty in reaching him.

While not at liberty to speak publicly about it, my son in-
forms me that there are some changes and rearrangements in pros-
pect to increase the plant and divide the responsibility more,
which would make it most agreeable to him if he could command the
services of such a young man as Quinley. They are rushed with bus-
iness and have orders long in advance, and all their available
space and machinery are under the highest pressure; sixty-eight
hundred men in the Steelton works alone, to say nothing of the Spac-
row's Point works.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Miss Minnie H. Finley,
Great Nemaha Boarding School,
Whitecloud, Kans.

My dear Minnie :-

I have had your letter for some time. It is so straight-forward and womanly that I cannot help feeling that somehow everything will come out allright. I realize, of course, and sympathize with your position, but you must remember, my dear Minnie, that this world is a world of cutting, slashing, and toughening, and that all pass through experiences which are intended to refine, build up, strengthen and qualify, and that none of these things come to us except for just this purpose. If we meet them manfully they do us good, however severe they may seem at the time, and later on when we look back on them as we do on a battlefield where we have demonstrated our manhood, we can see it was all right. The good Father knows what is best for us. I trust that all your experiences may come to you in just this way and that this may be your spirit in regard to them. If this is not to be, be true to yourself, straightforward, and womanly in every way and I have no doubt it will be that greater good will come to you. Hard knocks are bound to come, and one hard knock prepares the way for another and toughens us. You have started well. Hold out well. Nobody is forsaken. There is always a friend. I have always had and shall always have a fatherly interest in you, and thank you for giving me your confidence.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

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

My dear Mr. Jones :-

I enclose two letters which contain statements of fact
you should know.

I trust you have already ordered Mrs. Canfield to report here. I write today asking the increased salary. Have not yet received back the Secretary's letter about the Crowell apparatus. I hope it may come for I shall not allow the matter to rest at that. I asked Mr. Slater to let the descriptive book of the apparatus that I sent you with my first application come back with the letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Frank B. Voorhees,
Second Mass Day School,
Keams' Canon, Ariz.

My dear Sir :-

We are full to overflowing now, having on our rolls to-
day 1022 pupils, but there will be changes so that in July we
shall need to get in new pupils. I shall be very glad to arrange
for a party from your place. It has been our habit to pay the ex-
penses of one person in charge one way if five pupils came, or
both ways for ten pupils.

Pupils should be above 12 years , preferably above 14, and un-
der 18; in good health as established by a careful examination by
a physician; and of good character. There should be as many girls
as boys. These conditions met, I shall be very glad to make any
arrangement covering the expense of collecting and bringing the
party to Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Mr. E. C. Felton, Pres.
Pennsylvania Steel Co.,
Girard Bldg., Broad & Chestnut Sts.
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Felton :-

I want to put in writing what I said to you last even-
ing by phone in regard to Mr. Quincy Eaton, so that there may be
no misunderstanding.

Quincy is the son of General John Eaton, who was United States
Commissioner of Education from Grant's first term until Cleveland's
first term, and who since his retirement from office has occupied
some of the most distinguished appointments educationally that the
Government could give. He was selected and sent to Puerto Rico to
take charge of the educational affairs of the island and was there
nearly a year, organizing and reorganizing, and placing on its
feet a system in consonance with our public school system in the
United States. His advanced years and the hot climate compelled
him to return to the United States, but he is still one of the
clearest minded men I have met and is in constant consultation with
our highest officials from the President down, in matters that per-
tain to the educational welfare of the country. His son Quincy
is vigorous and clear-headed, and like his father, exceedingly con-
genial and forceful. He was for three years Secretary of the In-
terstate Commerce Commission and was highly trusted by the Commis-
sion, being frequently sent to remote parts of the country to in-
vestigate and settle matters connected with their supervision of

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railroads, so that his acquaintance is wide along the best lines.
He has lately studied law and been admitted to practice, which is
an additional equipment for business. The other day when in Wash-
ington, his father told me that Quincy had been admitted to prac-
tice law in Memphis, Tenn. where he had been studying, but that
they wanted him nearer home, and that Quincy had always had a great-
er desire to enter into some large business than to confine him-
self to the law. I at once thought of your great establishment
and said I would speak to you about him; hence our phone conversa-
tion last night.

I believe if you take him into your service you will soon find
him among the most capable and trusty on your great force. Know-
ing as I do how much you have to lean on your help to work out de-
tails, I feel that I can say he is just the kind of a man you would
be looking for if you needed help such as he can give.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Mr. Paul Robert,
221 Race St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Among all the applications received, yours comes nearest to filling my wants so far as the principal person is concerned; but your wife, having but one arm, is disabled for the place. The salary as advertised is $50.00 per month for the principal and $25.00 for the assistant. The duties are to cook for the pupils of this school, now about 700. We detail Indian boys to assist. Our kitchen is large with ample facilities in range, steam cookers etc. The cook and assistant cook have rooms immediately over the kitchen, with a stairway running up directly from the kitchen, so that things are as convenient as practicable. The menu is plain and substantial, comprising meats and vegetables, with pies and ginger-bread each once a week. All the bread is baked by Indian boys in a bakery separate from the kitchen. The number of pupils is greatly reduced in the summer, getting down to about 200 in July and August. The reduction begins in April.

I could probably make some arrangement for an assistant, might even continue the colored man who is nowthere as assistant. What I want is a man who not only capable and qualified as my advertisement required, but one who will remain, year in, year out, if satisfactory. If your wife is capable I might make her a very small salary as assistact to the lady who has charge of the dining

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room where about forty girls take care of the tables, wash dishes, wait at table, etc. You could understand these matters a great deal better by coming here. If you feel inclined to consider the place, I would be glad to have you come up and see me at once. If you do not care to consider it, or if you are addicted to drinking or using tobacco, or have other habits not consistent for an employee at such a school, do not come. But if you want a steady place at the salary named, it would be well for you to come and see me. Please telegraph me on receipt of this whether you will come or not, so that I may know at once.

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TELEGRAMS.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Hon. G. W. Paris,

H. R., Washington, D. C.

Have you information from Terre Haute ? Wire answer.

Pratt, Major.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1900.

Gen. John Eaton,
The Concord,

Washington, D. C.

Can Quincy go Phila. Saturday see President of Company ? Answer.

Pratt, Major.

W.U. --8:45 A.M.

Carlisle, Pa. Jan. 25, 1900.

R. G. Marmon,

Laguna, N. Mex.

Effie had number of small hemorrhages yesterday and one at two o'clock this A.M. Doctor hopes to get her able to go home, but we think you had better come here.

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176

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1900,

Little Village Maker,
Omaha Agency, Neb.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter inquiring about your boy, and am glad to tell you he is well and getting on nicely. At present he is in the country, has a good home, and is attending school at the district school near by. I send him your letter, and you can look for a letter direct from him soon.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1900.

Chas. W. Buck,

Browning, Mont.
My dear Charlie :-

Am glad to hear that Major Logan is coming east and that
he and his party will pay us a visit. They can better understand
what Carlisle is like and what we do here for the boys and girls
under our care after spending a few days with us, than by all that
one might say.

We are also having very mild weather, but have had good skating until the last week of so.

With kind regards to yourself and Spyna, in which Mrs. Pratt
and Nana join,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1900.

Mrs. Laura A. Dandridge,
Indian School,
Keams' Canon, Ariz.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter and am glad to know that you are so
well satisfied in your new location, and that you had such a pleas-
ant Xmas. Mr. Burton has always seemed very friendly to this
school, and should he need information or support in attempting
to make up a party for Carlisle later on, I know you would do what
you could to help. Just now we are very full, having 1022 on
the rolls today.

Things are running on as usual here. We are having a mild
winter, so far having had scarcely any snow, though the ice has
furnished skating for a good many weeks. Xmas was spent in the
usual manner, and all enjoyed the week's vacation. We are again
down to work as busy as ever. The health of the school generally
has been especially good this year, not one of the pupils having
been seriously ill, and very few in the hospital at any time.
Miss Reel is with us this week. Our Commencement has been put off
until the middle of March, as we found that time quite as suit-
able last year as the last of February. The Helper keeps you in
general touch with what is going on here.

With kind regards to yourself and Mr. Dandridge,

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Carlietta, Pa., Jan. 26, 1900.

Mr. George L. Hambriuk,
New Cumberland,
Hancock Co.,
W. Va.

My dear Sir 1-

Your brother, the disciplinarian at the Scotland Orphan School, advises me that you are inclined to take the examination for assistant disciplinarian at this school which is to be held by the United States Civil Service Commission in Harrisburg on the 6th of February, provided there is enough certainty of your getting the place to warrant your spending the day. I can only say that the examination is purely competitive and open to everybody, and that selection will be made from the three showing the highest averages. I enclose you statement of the lines of examination.

The duties are to assist the disciplinarian who has charge of about 500 boys in their quarters and in their military and physical culture. The disciplinary management of the boys is pretty much in the hands of the disciplinarian. Military instruction is limited to the simpler movements and without arms. Physical instruction is largely salutisthenic, but accompanied in a limited degree by more gymnastic training. The disciplinarian is also manager of the Football and baseball teams and track and field athletics, and needs an assistant who can help in these lines and in case of his absence take charge of his duties here.

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Mr. Barbiwick.

You have this advantage, that if not selected here you stand
a good chance of being selected elsewhere, for there are many schools
and disciplines and assistant disciplinarians are constantly
being called for, so that if you are unable there is little doubt
that in the course of a little time you might get into the Indian
Service. Should you undertake the examination I would suggest that
you come to Harrisburg by way of Carlisle or at least that you vis-
it the school while in this vicinity and get a thorough knowledge
of what is to be done. As the enclosure here with instructions, you
will need to apply at once to the Civil Service Commission in Wash-
ington, and it may be the examination is to be held in some city
earlier you on that date; but your chance for selection here will
be much better if I can see you and know fully about you.

Your brother's excellent management and system at Septland
let me to speak to him about someone for the place.

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My dear General :-

Immediately after Commencement we plan to start the band
on a tour for the purpose of demonstrating the Indian's ability in
music both vocal and instrumental, for we have a glee-club also;
and for the purpose of raising money to make the Paris trip. It
was suggested to me the other day in Washington by Mr. Warner that
it might be arranged for the band to play at a reception at the
White House. This would be a great honor and if it could be ar-
ranged that the band do it the evening before their concert in Wash-
ington, it would be all the more telling. Mr. Warner said he would
speak to the President about it and write me, but I have nothing
from him yet. It might come in your way when at the White House to
say a word to the President, and possibly Dr. Harris would do so.
Will drop him a note about it. His letter of appreciation of the
band is as complete and strong as possible. I would take care that
there was no expense connected with it.

I have written Mr. Pelton of the probable delay in reporting
to him, but I ought to know when Quincy can be there. I understood
that you would telegraph him and inform me.

Faithfully yours,

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Dr. W. T. Harris,
Commissioner of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :-

After seeing you the other day I met Mr. Warner, the real estate agent on F. St., who has been quite a conspicuous person in public matters in Washington. He was the manager of the parade at the inaugural ceremonies of President McKinley, and took our band and boys to Washington to participate in the parade. He suggested that it was quite practicable to get the band the opportunity of playing at a reception at the White House about the time we start on our tour. The plan seems a capital one, and I am sure the President would not be disappointed in the quality of the music, for the band is considerably better than when you heard it last year.

It occurred to me that you might be going to see the President on some other matters and it would be practicable for you to say a word in commendation and by way of suggestion. If so, I beg that you will do so. We are undertaking a big expense in connection with the trip and shall need all the help we can get in order that we may not run under. I thank you for your most satisfactory recommendation.

Faithfully yours,

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Jan. 26, 1900.

Mr. Howard Pew,
34 E. 14th St.,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Pew :-

I send you a Smith-Premier typewriter by express today.
This is a loan which may be extended to the end of the tour in
April or early in May, to be then returned to me here.

I enclose you a letter from Mr. Gore, Mgr. etc., 319 Broadway, New York. You may possibly see him and find out more definitely what the cars are and the cost. I may say to you in confidence that in talking with railroad men I find that all private cars traveling this way are inspected enroute from time to time and are likely to be sidetracked at any time or point if a fault is developed. I can arrange for a sleeping and dining car at $50.00 per day. This, however, is a matter for you and me only and not for Mr. Gore or anyone else. I will get first class cars although for the time being they might be rated as second class.

While not entirely certain I feel somewhat confident that I
shall be able to arrange that the band start out by playing at a
reception at the White House, and it might be arranged for the ev-
ening preceding their concert in Washington. This would be an en-
dorsement for us that would tell all over the field.

My son-in-law is the assistant city attorney in Denver and has
a great hold on the newspapers. We could go under the auspices of
the Y.M.C.A., the Denver Athletic Club, or probably some musical

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organization, for there must be something of that kind in such a
large city. In any case I feel sure we can count on a good patron-
age sufficient to pay for the trip. At Lincoln, Neb. we could
command some help from the Indian Association there. Would suggest
Omaha, Topeka, and some of the cities in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebras-
ka, but you will know best.

I expect to be in Washington next week and will work up the
White House matter. Please return the letter enclosed.

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Jan. 26, 1900.

Vincent Nahtailsh,
249 E. 50th St.,
New York City.

My dear Vincent :-

Graduation from Carlisle is not required for citizenship
in the United States any more for an Indian than for a German. You
need only to pay your taxes and insist upon the performance of the
duties belonging to a citizen. That is the whole of it. Senator
Edmunds once wrote me that all an Indian had to do would be to pay
his taxes and be willing to fight for his country, and no one could
prevent him from exercising all the rights of a citizen. There
are plenty of people in New York who will show you how to work it
out. Simply insist upon helping to support the Government and do
all those things which a citizen should do, and you will find noth-
ing in your way.

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Jan, 26, 1900.

Mr. B. H. Warner,
"P" St. near 9th,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Have you had an opportunity to say a word to the President about our band playing at the White House reception? It would be some time about the middle of March. I can assure you that the President would not be disappointed with the quality of music, notwithstanding his constant use of the Marine Band for these occasions. I would manage of course so that there would be no expense connected with it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 26, 1900.

Mesdames :-

I enclose herewith two sets of application blanks, in each case one application blank and two blanks for endorsements for the cook and assistant cook about whom we spoke over the phone just now. I also enclose a ticket from Philadelphia to Carlisle for the man to come up and see me. It must be distinctly understood that both are competent in their business and that they are entirely free from the intoxicant and tobacco habits and are otherwise proper persons for us to have as assistants at this school. If both are well qualified, they have a prospect of good, permanent employment and a comfortable home. The salaries are $50.00 and $25.00 per month as previously stated, and a month's leave of absence with pay each year, and furnished room with light and heat in each case.

I trust I may see the man here before noon on Monday, as I can
template leaving for Washington on that date for an absence of sev-
eral days,

If anything conflicts with this arrangement, please wire me.

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Miss Felipa Amago,
2002 E. 8th St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear Miss Amago :-

I had arranged with the railroad for rates to bring you through this month as you had indicated, but on receipt of your letter I let it rest. You had better not make another break, but let me know promptly the railroad station from which you wish to start. My arrangement was from Temecula. Now you write from Los Angeles, and I shall have to correspond with the railroads again about it and rearrange if you wish to start from there. If you start from Temecula, however, the old arrangement will hold. Let your next conclusion be final. As you are over 18 years of age I had to write to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for his consent to receive you. I have that now, and the way is entirely clear for you.

Your friend,

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Fred W. Hyde, Editor,
"The Journal",
Jamestown, N. Y.

My dear Fred :-

Thank you for the clipping from the "Rochester Post Express". This is good and all right.

Mrs. Pratt and I both felt a little annoyed that you did not come over and visit us when you were so near and for such a long time; but we accept your apology and will relieve you from all[1]orus if you will only come and see us some time soon and stay long enough to let us get acquainted. Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest remembrance and greetings to you and to the Journal office and Jamestown friends generally.

Faithfully yours,

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Jan. 27, 1900.

Dr. Jan. M. King,
M.E. Book Rooms,
1018 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

Have read your "Facing the Twentieth Century" with great care, and find it the ablest, most complete, and proper expose of facts and the portentiousness of the situation that could be written. In my judgment you have performed a valuable duty to this country, which should be publicly recognized in the highest manner, and if any party will put you up for the presidency I will vote for you against all others. My experience here for twenty years confirms that you have not overstated the case. You are especially right in all you say in regard to the deep hypocrisy and trickery of the hierarchy and its agents through shameless untruthfulness. These growing conditions which they inject into our body politic are most to be dreaded. The accumulations of vast funds enable them to buy up our papers and magazines, and their habits enable them to do it so secretly that the public knows little or nothing about it. Their press censorship is paralleled by what they do throughout our governmental affairs. There is not a department of the government in which they have not officials to look out for Catholicism, and who stop authorities, hinder or forward appropriations, and bear down upon those who do not suit them, making life a burden and yet they do it so slyly as to make it next to impossible to say

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it is Catholic.

If I had a million dollars I should be tempted to invest it
all in the purchase of your books and place them in the hands of
our representative people. If I were free from my responsibilities
and could speak what I know and think, I would give your book the
best send-off I could, and keep at it. All Catholics ought to read
it, and if they were true to righteousness they would. The cause
of truth and right never suffers from publicity.

I have said, my dear Doctor, that you have not overstated the case, but there is one point or fact and a part of your premises on which, if I explain, I am sure you will understand and at least appreciate my motives if you do not entirely agree with me. I acknowledge that Commissioner Morgan made a strong fight, and in very many of the things he did I was with him. Your statement that he was confirmed by a large majority is based upon misinformation. Senator Dawes will tell you that it seemed impossible to get a majority for his confirmation and so his case was held up for a long time; and if he tells you the same he told me, he will tell you that he was confirmed by a very, very small margin, and that these votes were probably secured on a message I sent a Senator explaining the character of the man who was most officious in the Catholic Bureau in trying to prevent Morgan's confirmation.

The other matter I want to speak of is your strong endorsement
of Morgan's work of building up a public school system among the
Indians. I was strongly opposed to that and desired to leave the
service rather than continue in it and by my presence in the
service indicate concurrence; but was persuaded by friends to re-

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main and fight it out. Morgan was entirely unreasonable in his plans, and strangely unamerican, and I believe you will see it as I did and do now. I advocated, "The Indians in the public school system" as against Morgan's plan of "A public school system among the Indians". Do you not see, my dear Doctor, that Indian schools are tribal schools, or practically the same as parochial schools? That all the Sioux children in schools by themselves upon the Sioux Reservation will simply perpetuate, and because of increased intelligence greatly enlarge the power of the Sioux tribe? And so, too all the other tribes? How much does it Americanize the Japs, the Chinese, the Italians, or the Spaniards, to establish schools among them taught entirely by Americans? The whole history of Indian civilization in its failures is accounted for by just these conditions that Morgan contended and finally quarrelled with me about. The condition of the Five (so called) Civilized Tribes is fully explained by Morgan's system; so too the condition of the tribes in New York State, in Maine, in this state, in North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other places where they have been taught English and some little farming.

I started out more than twenty years ago, and my reports show it, with the demand that the Indian should be brought out into America in every way, and that so far as possible the public school system and association with us should be used. Our public schools always have been the great americanizer of all our peoples. Morgan fought hard for a complete school system for and among the Indians,

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Dr. C. C. Wainwright,
Agency Physician,
San Jacinto, Cal.

My dear Doctor :-

Not hearing from you and learning that Ignacio Costo was
at the Perris School I wrote Mr. Hall and explained the matter to
him about securing the limb for Ignacio. It will be all right in
any way; the only point I reserve about it is that it be secured
at army contract rates. The Surgeon General wrote me he could do
this for me, so that when you are ready I will take the matter up
with him and ask the Pacific Coast firm to furnish it.

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Feb.20, 1900.

Robert Depoe,
Indian School,
Chemawa, Ore.

My dear Robert :-

I shall of course be glad to help you to a high school
education in Carlisle or let you take advantage of a college course
provided you pay the small additional expense; i.e., I will feed
and clothe you here at the school, but you must buy your own books
and pay the small tuition. This amounts to very little in the town
school, but later in the college would be considerably more.

About the band; The band was complete in number, but one of
the Standing Deer boys has failed in health, is in the hospital,
and the doctor says must not play in the band for at least six
months; so that there is a vacancy which Mr. Wheelock says you
could fill first rate. Immediately after Commencement the band is
going to give two concerts in Washington, one in Baltimore, and
then play in the Grand Opera House in Philadelphia for a week. Af-
ter that it will go on quite a tour of the cities of the United
States, one object being to raise money to go to Paris. If you
wish to go into the band we would be glad to have you, but you must
come at once, for our commencement takes place the 13th - 15th of
March and you ought to have a little practice with the band before
hand.

I have asked Mr. Pee, G.P.A. of the Northern Pacific R.R. in
St. Paul to have his agent in Portland deliver you a low rate tick-

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et, which I think will be half the regular fare. At least that
was my arrangement with him sometime ago and he has not cancelled
it. The ticket will probably be with the depot agent in Portland
as soon as this reaches you. I have advised Mr. See that you will
pay the depot agent in Portland for the ticket when he delivers
it to you.

Trusting this is what you want and that your leaving Chemawa
will not inconvenience Mr. Potter and that your venture will prove
all you anticipate for yourself, I am as ever

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Levi Levering,
Fort Hall Indian School,
Blackfoot, Idaho.

My dear Levi:-

I am much obliged to you for your letter of Feb. 12th, and
have already spoken to Senator Shoup who has promised to come to
Carlisle with the party at Commencement. He laughed when I told
him what you said about his being a great friend to the Indians.
He said he believed he had killed Indians than any man in Ida
ho; but I have no doubt from what I heard him say to the Commission-
er and from his conversation with me that he really is a good
friend to them now.

I think you were wise to abandon the trip to Carlisle at Commencement. It would cost quite a good deal of money and I fear you would have no adequate returns. Sometime it may suit you to come in with a party. If your superintendent wants to make up a little party of five or more and send you in charge I will pay your expenses in and back; or in case of a party of ten or more, that of your wife also. Now, here's your chance.

Tell Supt. Locke that Susie Yupe graduates this year. She is a tip top girl. She proposes to stay here for a while and take special instruction in Pedagogy with the view of becoming a teacher.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Miss Jeannette M. Buckles,
Puyallup Indian School,
Tacoma, Wash.

Dear Jeannette :-

Your letter of January 20th got mislaid in my unanswered
letter drawer, and I just now find it at the bottom of the drawer.
I am always glad to hear from you, my dear Jeannette, and to know
that you get on so well.

The change from matron to teacher will have to be a matter
for the Office and those who now have charge of you. There is nothing
to prevent your asking for the change at any time and keeping per-
sistently and judiciously at it until you accomplish your desire.
If the Department asks me about you I can of course only tell them
of your life here. For your record after leaving Carlisle you will
have to depend on those in authority over you there.

Has Mr. Terry arrived ? Perhaps when he takes hold things
go differently for you. Mr. Terry is a man I think a great deal of
and I trust he will bring the Puyallup school into good shape. You
have a better location where you are near a large city with all *he
push and go of life about you than you would have at some remote
place, and I would be careful if I were you about changing to an-
other school.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

General O.O.Howard,
156 College St.,
Burlington, Vt.

My dear General :-

I want to keep in touch with your Lincoln Memorial and send you a small contribution. Wish I might duplicate it a hundred times, but I cannot.

I wanted to write you when Guy was killed to express my great sympathy, but realized that perhaps you would be overborne with them, and you would know anyhow that you had my loving sympathy in your great loss. The Philippines are costing us something and ought to be worth a great deal to us.

Sincerely yours,

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Dr. O. J. West,

Fort Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Doctor :-

Thank you for the little"Song That My Good
Reel Sings" in "The Western Trail". How I would like
to be with you and meander the Idaho streams this sum-
mer. Write me the best thing you have out there.

I have tents fully equipped, mess chest, canvas boat,
rods and reels. Now tell me where to use them.

Hoping all goes well with you,

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Hon. Jas. S. Sherman,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Sherman :-

It comes to me across the continent that the agent and his agency force in Southern California are doing all they can to keep up this agency, using their influence in the Senate.

I only want to say that if that agency should go back in the Senate I hope the House will not recede from its position. The breaking up time has come and a commencement is wisely made. No agency I know of can better be abolished than that in Southern California. Indian agents are the greatest influence in keeping Indians as they are that we have. Often the induced savagery of the man itself desires to break away and get out into the activities of America, but up and down and across the continent everywhere the Indian agent is a coraller and a preventer.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Senator Knute Nelson,
U.S.Senate,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Senator :-

The Indian bill is before your committee.
The agent for the Southern California Agency is left
out and the duties are to be performed by the Super-
intendent of the Perris School. This is one of the
most consistent moves in the right direction on the
carpet just now. Those Indians are only being Indian-
ized all the time by an agent and the outfit of an a-
gency, which constantly seeks to perpetuate itself.

The Superintendent of the school will do some-
thing towards leading the Indians out from their old
monkish life into the activities of Southern Califor-
nia, which almost all of them are entirely capable of
meeting and contending with. The agent on the other
hand does all he can to keep them corralled on their
several little reservations. It comes to me across
the continent that the agent is using his influence to
keep up the agency, but I take it as the Department
is fully satisfied in the matter and has urged that
the agency be dropped, and as the House has already
fixed it so in the Bill, that that will be done despite
the Agent's efforts.

Feb. 20, 1900.

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

My dear Brother O'Connor :-

I see that my subscription for "The Con-
verted Catholic" has run out. Enclosed find a check
for $5.00. Please continue my subscription another
year and send me one bound copy of Volume 16. The
balance credit to your general fund. Wish I could
do more, for you deserve every help possible.

Please receipt.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

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

Dear Miss Reel :-

President Shepard writes me that it was the
Indian Department and not the Industrial Department.
I shall, accordingly, be ready for you when you come
up. I think the best way is to work it out from this
standpoint, as you suggest.

If you are coming to Carlisle I hope you will
come soon or else put it off until after commencement,
for the last two weeks before is a crowding time.

Sincerely yours,

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Feb. 29, 1900.

Miss Amelia J. Frost,
Rossfork, Idaho.

Yours, Miss "Frost" :

to sorry to hear of George Pocatello's death. George
seemed to be in good health when he left here and went to Sisseton
and we were all surprised to know he had gone home ill. Dakota is
a black country.

I cashed the P.O. order you sent and thought I would credit to
his sister's account here, to be returned to you in case it was
needed elsewhere. The order covered George's balance here. Since
cashing it I think best to return it to you to cover a part of
what you advanced, and as Rossforks is not a money order office,
enclose my check for $6.22, having used two cents of the amount
for the revenue stamp.

The children from Idaho are all doing well. Prof. Pakeless
reports that James G. Dickson is doing excellent work. Jeanette
Pocatello is in the country and good reports come in of her. The
health of the school has been exceptionally good this year. Out
of our large number, above 1000, we have not, so far, had any fatal
cases and very few serious ones among the pupils.

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Feb. 21, 1900.

Mr. Frank Charin Frey,
Editor "The Chautauqua",
Cleveland, Ohio

To your letter of inquiry dated

Feb. 10th in regard to Dr. Eastman. Dr. Eastman is
outing agent for this school, i.e., he visits our
students who are out in the public schools. Just now
there are above three hundred so out, and Dr. Eastman
is making his visits. He is a good man and I am sure
would not under any circumstances make a statement
that he knew to be untrue, but would give great care
to searching out the truth; so that if what he pre-
sents is what you want you need have no hesitancy in
using it.

Trusting this covers what you want,

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Feb. 21, 1900.

Mr. J. V. Richardson, Supt.
Govt. Hospital for the Insane,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir I-

On your statement that Miguel Maxcy was now recovered
and could be returned to the school I sent a ticket and he is now
here, but is certainly much crazier than before. He is now vio-
lent and his conduct and words indicate the greatest depravity. If
he was getting well under your care we were too hasty in withdraw-
ing him, but I did so on your statement. I have been compelled to
confine him in the guard-house. His condition was apparent imme-
diately on his arrival. He should have arrived at noon, but did
not reach Carlisle until afternoon and then managed to elude those
sent to meet him and wandered off in a direction contrary to the
school.

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Feb. 1, 1900.

W. E. Cooke,
264 Congress Ave.
PHILA., Pa.

Dear Sirs,

Pursuant to your letter and my reply of yesterday, I have to advise you that I find my Englishman not satisfactory and we have agreed that his new loss shall close March 21st, a month from today, and I am ready to consider applications.

Very truly yours,

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Feb. 21, 1900.

Mr. P. H. Warner,
Clerk m. St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner,

OurTOURS BROKE DOWN yesterday or I should
have sent you the directions before. I send you today
about 2000 by express. On this circular I have named
three pieces which are about what I supposed you would
want for the occasion. The violinist will play, and
if you wish the樂器, all members of the band,
will sing something. This is entirely at your option.
Use as much or as little as your judgment indicates
to best.

IF you could somewhere on your programs for the
occasion say, that "The Indian band and violinist will
give a concert on the evening of the 16th in the A-
"(S's Amory", it would help to fill the hall.

Yours truly yours,

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Feb. 21, 1900.

Mrs. Esther R. Head,
309 Wisconsin Ave.,
Madison, Wis.

Dear Madam :-

In compliance with your wishes I sent you today several
of my annual reports together with other material, addresses, etc.
which I trust will answer your purpose. For information regard-
ing Indians in general, apply to The Honorable Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. for his Annual Report, a large
bound volume containing reports from the various western agencies
and schools, and state the use you wish to make of it.

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Feb. 21, 1900

Mr. Hoses Locks, Dept.
Fort Hall Indian School,
Blackfoot, Idaho.

My dear Sir :—

Replying to your letter of the 14th inst. making inquiry for the parents of Ella Ashbaugh as to the truth of unfavorable reports of her conduct, I am very glad to tell you that Ella is doing well, having improved very much in the past few months. While in the country this summer her conduct was not satisfactory, her inclination to associate with persons not of suitable character making it advisable to recall her to the school. Ella is a promising girl and I trust hereafter her reports will always be good.

Glad to hear things go so well with you.

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Feb. 21, 1900.

Thomas Pike,
C/o J.E.Hunt,
Pennington, New Jersey.

Dear Thomas :-

I have your letter enclosing one from your father, but
was away the last days of the week and could not therefore answer
before Saturday, as you asked.

I am very sorry to hear of your father's illness, and if it
were not entirely impracticable would be glad to let you go to him
but on account of the many cases of this kind a rule was made long
ago which does not allow me to send pupils home because of sickness
in their families. You see yourself it would not be wise even if
it were not against the rule. You have not been here two years,
and though you are doing well you have not accomplished what you
came here to accomplish. I am glad you look at the matter in such a
sensible way and are willing to abide by my judgment.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Thomas W. Potter, Dept.
Indian School,
Chamwawa, Ore.

My dear friend :-

As soon as I got your letter I telegraphed you to send
the young Alaskan singer, and that a ticket would be placed with
the agent of the Northern Pacific road at Portland for his use. On
application of Robert Depew, desiring to come here to take a course
in the high school of Carlisle or Dickinson College and to go in-
to the band, I arranged that a ticket be furnished him from Port-
land, he to pay for it there, as I wrote him, providing of course
it was all right with you that he come.

Am greatly obliged to you for suggesting the Alaskan. We are
going to make a ten strike on music and astonish music loving peo-
ple quite as much as we have the football world with the ability
of the Indian. Denn's band is really in admirable condition. On
the afternoon of the 16th of March the band plays before an invit-
ed audience in the Lafayette Opera House in Washington just in
front of the White House. The occasion is a Longfellow meeting at
which the President is expected to preside and Chauncey Depew and
others are to racite briefly from Longfellow. Our band furnishes
the music and an Indian girl will give "The Famine" scene from "Hi
awatha". This will be the beginning of our tour.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Mr. Fred P. Hall,
"The Jamestown Journal",
Jamestown, N. Y.

My dear Fred :-

I send you by this mail a few photographs that I want reproduced and want your very best work. They should be 2-3/8 in. x 3 in. so as to go between the columns of "The Red Van". I would like you to give me the best vignette of the President that you can. Hope to have a photograph of the Secretary of the Interior to send you in a few days. The photograph of the graduating class with instructions for that will follow in tonight's mail. I shall want the plates without fail not later than the 10th of March.

We have met with several very unfortunate differences in our business transactions recently, particularly in paper and envelopes. Our invitation envelopes were a fraud, but we could not wait for them to be made.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Mr. Little Village Maker,
Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter of the 19th about your son Alfred.
Alfred is in the country and is doing nicely. He is earning his
board out of school hours, but during the winter does not receive
more than this. During the spring and summer when he works all
day he is paid accordingly. Alfred began a year ago in our lowest
grade, and being pretty well advanced in age for a beginner, has
a short time to accomplish for himself what he wishes. He is am-
bitious, and a very faithful student, but does not learn so fast
as he would had he begun earlier. I do not think it would be wise
for him to make a visit home this summer, as I am very sure it
would interfere with his further progress. A great many parents
wish to see their children during vacations, and we have been com-
pelled to refuse all such requests; so you see that aside from the
consideration of Alfred's interests, I could not allow the visit.

From your letter I see you are reasonable and think more of
your son's good than your own self, and on thinking over the mat-
ter will agree with me that this is best for him.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Mr. Fred P. Hall,
The Jamestown Journal,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose to you a picture of our graduating class this
year, of which we want a plate, the best you can make, and also a
name
separate plate with the names and tribes. The plate should be
just as long as the picture, so that it will go in the columns of
The Red Man, copy of which I send herewith. The names should be
as small as you can make them, and I have had them written so that
each name appears directly under the picture of each person. As
you may not be able to read them plainly on the smaller copy, I
enclose a larger one. In addition to this plate of the class we
want a smaller oval one to print on our programs which will be
the size of the yellow paper herewith. I send you a print of the
class of '98 which will show you the quality of work we have had.
If you can beat it, do it.

If impossible for you to have all these delivered here by the
10th of March, please return at once and I can have them done in
time elsewhere.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Commissioner of Education in Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Doctor :-

Am greatly pleased that Governor Brady is
going to remain over and will have Mrs. Brady along.
Don't let anything interfere with their coming to Car-
lisle.

I have sent invitations to Dr. Gordon and wife
as you suggested and have written to Mr. R. H. Warner,
who is doing the Longfellow business, asking him to
provide you with three tickets. I do not know what
his arrangements are, and can only suggest to him. No
doubt he will gladly furnish the tickets.

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Mr. P. H. Warner,
916 F. St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who has been one of my staunchest friends and who has been ever since there was an office of that kind, Commissioner of Education in Alaska, wants very much to be at the Longfellow exercises, and asks if I cannot get him three tickets for himself, wife, and daughter. If you find it practicable, please send to him at the Bureau of Education, the tickets he desires. You will remember Dr. Jackson probably as having been the Moderator of the General Assembly of our church in 1898. He is the only missionary among the Indians that has ever practically aided me to get children and agreed with my ideas about letting Indians have a chance outside of the reservation.

I suggest also that you do not forget Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners. Dr. Gates was for ten years President of Amherst College. His address is 1429 New York Ave., Washington. You will certainly remember our good Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr. Wm. A.

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Jones and wife.

Miss Alice Fletcher who has for so many years
been prominent in Indian matters, has lately given
to the public some valuable specimens of Indian mu-
sic, and a book of hers on the subject containing
music and graphic accounts, is just out. Miss Fletch-
er's address is 214 First St. S.W., Washington.

Last night our band played at Dickinson College
for the Washington memorial exercises, receiving most
enthusiastic encores until the encoring had to be
stopped on account of time.

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Mr. H. C. Baird, U.S. Indian Agent,
Santee Agency,
Santee, Neb.

My dear Sir :-

I have talked with Dr. Eastman and he informs me that
your clerk, Mr. Rabinovitz, did not say anything whatever to him a-
gainst Mrs. Baird, and he did not understand there was anything but
the most satisfactory relations. I have had him write a note which
I enclose. He says the clerk was especially anxious about some
matters at a western agency where he had previously been stationed
and talked to him mostly about that, alleging that the people out
there were trying to steal the Indians' land.

Yours truly,

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Ezra Fremont, Walapa,
Omaha Agency, Neb.

My dear friend :-

Replying to your letter about Francis, the rule has been
to keep all children who came here after the school opened until
the year expired next after the five years for which they came.
Francis came here Sept. 7th, '95, and would not be due to go home
under this rule until the end of June 1901. But you have been kind
and practical, and if you do not change your mind between this and
the first of July I will let Francis return then.

Yours truly,

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Miss Zitkala Sa,
62 Rutland Square,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Gertrude :-

You will receive from Philadelphia within a few days a
ticket "New York to Gettysburg Junction". The time had lapsed
and I asked Mr. Wood to extend it and forward it to you. You can
pay your fare from Boston to New York and I will refund. I send
you my check for $50.00, advance payment. If you need more, advise
me.

I think well of your using a backskin dress if you can get one
that will serve. It is more than likely I would borrow one from
the Smithsonian. Will drop a line to find out. My recollection
is that I purchased several for them years ago.

The earlier you arrive here the better. The band furnished
the music for Washington's birthday in Bosler Hall Thursday evening
and was most enthusiastically received by the large audience, and
as I believe justly so. The music was very fine. They played an
accompaniment for a solo singer, and I think if you had heard it
you would yourself say you preferred the band to a piano. The accom-
paniment during the singing detracted or hindered not at all,
but helped very much the tones of the horns were so sweet and low,
However, we shall not contend about that. There is no certainty
at all about the band starts on its tour. The contracts antici-
pated are not yet made.

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Miss Zitkala Sa.

An glad you are arranging something from Miss Fletcher's mu-
sic. If you had something of your own that you could arrange from
memory it would do just as well. People are always anxious to
hear native music.

The quote of the band is not at all settled. In a general
way the plan is Washington through to Boston, then west as far as
Chicago, and back. I believe it will make as big a strike for the
Indians as our football team has made, if not bigger.

Sincerely yours,

P.S.-- Since dictating the above Miss Barclay has passed away.
She had been ill about three weeks.

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Mr. Wm. F. Cooke,
3604 Lancaster Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I send you herewith a set of application blanks for your
self and a set for your wife. Please fill out the application for
yourself and have your wife fill out the other for her-
self in her own handwriting for Assistant Cook, and then have two
well known and responsible persons who know you well, fill out the
endorsement blanks, two for yourself and two for Mrs. Cooke.

Your several endorsements are herewith returned. This is all
presuming you will want to come to Carlisle. It would be well for
you to come up and look the ground over, but you would have to
complete the papers. I can send you a cheap rate ticket if you
wish to come.

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Dr. S. P. Langley, Secy.
The Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

On the 16th of March there is to be in the Lafayette Opera House in front of the White House a very distinguished gathering of Washington people in the interests of a monument in Washington to Longfellow. I have agreed that our band shall provide the music, and am asked to let an Indian girl give a recitation. I have selected a young Sioux woman, formerly one of my teachers, to recite "The Vamine" from "Hiawatha". She would like to be clothed in the native buckskin, sik teeth dress. She is of medium size. Would it be possible for me to borrow for that occasion a suitable dress from your collection. I do not seem to be able to find one in the possession of my friends or in any of the collections I know of.

I may state that we are giving our services grat-
is and that your favor in this direction will be help-
ing a very worthy cause, as you can well understand.

Very sincerely yours,

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Feb. 24, 1900.

14th St.,
New York City.

Mr. J. M. Pew :-

Your message of the 17th to me at "The Raleigh" did not reach me in Washington and is only now forwarded to me here. You said "Better play Washington matinee and night Saturday". I leave all arrangements for anything after the 17th entirely to you. I took up the matter of the 16th only to capture the opportunity of playing before such an audience, and arranged for the evening because I had no word from you. I believe we shall have a full house at the Armory. It seats only eight hundred. It is very doubtful if either the Armory or any other suitable place could be had for Saturday evening. We could of course arrange for a matinee, but unless you have something in Baltimore the band had better return to Carlisle for over Sunday. Our last information from you was that the Grand Opera House Philadelphia is not settled for the 19th.

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Feb. 24, 1900.

Miss Jerry Ericson.
Book Box 63,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Miss Ericson :-

I thank you for the interesting picture of your profile. I have placed the card on my mantel in the office and it has already been respected by all who have come in. Apparently you have good material to work on, and I have no doubt you will find the work pleasant.

I am sorry to tell you of Miss Barclay's death. She had been ill about three weeks, but was thought to be improving a little. She died this morning at four o'clock. Otherwise our large family is well. Mrs. Pratt is in Denver just now, having taken home our little grandchild Mary who had been with us for several months.

Hoping that all goes well with you, and with
kind regards from Nana,

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Feb. 23, 1900.

Miss Carline Cornelius,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

Dear School-daughter :-

I have your interesting letter of January 31st, and have
been waiting a chance to answer it. You know what subject is upper
most at this season. Our Commencement comes a little later this
year. We found it more convenient last year, and have adopted the
middle of March permanently.

Wish you could have been in San Francisco when the boys were
there. They made a name for themselves and the school, but the
band will rival them in another line if our arrangements go through
as we hope. A tour of the large cities is proposed and the mat-
ter is being worked up now. Immediately after commencement they
are engaged to play at a notable gathering in Washington at which
the President is expected to preside. There will be present only
the most distinguished people in Washington. Other engagements
are under consideration, but arrangements are not concluded.

It gives me much satisfaction that you are getting on so nice-
ly and to know that Perry is so useful. Give my love to all the
Carlisle people at the school or in your neighborhood, and believe
me as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

(P)

Feb. 25, 1900.

Hon. H. Clay Evans,
1406 M. St. N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear General :-

It comes to me from Mrs. Daniel that Dr. Z. T. Daniel, now a physician in the Indian Service, is expecting to be transferred to your Department. You don't want him. He is a first class scalawag. I had him here as school physician for a short time by transfer from one of the western agencies. Although I fixed him up the very best I could and gave him unusual accommodations and privileges for himself, wife, and daughter, he abused my kindness most outrageously, was drunk many times and under the influence of liquor most of the time, and finally got a transfer, leaving his wife and daughter here for months; then got a divorce from her, on what grounds nobody here knows, for she was as true a wife and mother as could be, trying in every way to shield and help him. He has refused to help the daughter, and mother and daughter are now in Washington, the mother hoping for an appointment in the Census Office. I suggest that you call on Col. Youngblood, Auditor of the Interior Department, and talk to him about it.

Faithfully yours,

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Feb. 25, 1900.

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

My dear Mrs. Daniel :-

I wrote you this morning that I would be in
Washington tomorrow, but conditions here are so in-
volved, especially on account of Miss Barclay's funeral
that I do not see how I can get away before Thursday
or Friday. I sent you a copy of my letter to the Com-
missioner direct, and enclose here a copy of my letter
to General Evans, Commissioner of Pensions.

Trusting you may secure an appointment and that
all will work out well for you, I am

Your friend,

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Feb. 26, 1900.

Mr. William Paisano,
Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear William i-

I let Mrs. Given, whom you will remember as the wife of
Dr. Given, our school physician when you and Mary were here, and
who has charge of the small boys, read your letter. The enclosed
is her reply, from which you will see there is no need for you to
feel anxious about Andrew.

We were very sorry indeed to pass Laguna by when we went to
California last summer, but we stayed so long with Marion in Den-
ver that I had to get to Los Angeles as quickly as I could, as I
was to make a speech on a particular day. Seichu told us about
you all, and right glad were we to hear. I hope we may have the
privilege of seeing you sometime soon. We remember you and espe-
ially Mary at our house with great pleasure. Richenda is here to-
day from Chambersburg, where she is attending college. She is the
tallest of the family except myself.

Why can't you and Mary come in to our commencement which takes
place the 13th, 14th, and 15th of March? We should be very happy
to see you and if you can come I will get a low rate for you.

With love to you all in which Mrs. Pratt, Nana, and Richenda
join,

Faithfully your friend,

433

Feb. 26, 1900.

Dr. A. V. Richardson, Supt.
Govt. hospital for the Insane,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

In accordance with your letter of Feb. 24th I will send Miguel Maxcy to you by the train which reaches the Baltimore & Potomac Station at 11:27 tomorrow, Tuesday morning. Will you please have a conveyance there to meet the party? Miguel has displayed some intentions to be violent and I think best to send two persons with him, one of them my school physician.

In this connection, the Government is building a Hospital for Insane Indians in South Dakota, and when completed this would seem to be a proper place for all Indians, and Miguel might be transferred.

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Feb. 26, 1900.

Governor Joseph Francis,
Millnockett, Ma.

My dear Governor :

It is an inflexible rule that children cannot be allowed to go home on account of sickness in the family, it makes no difference if parents are willing to bear the expense. If we were to open a door of that kind you can see that children would be going and coming constantly. In nine cases out of ten it is entirely useless for them to go home at such times, and because of this rule I cannot allow Grace to go to you. I am of course very sorry to disappoint you, but I am sure that with your wisdom in these matters you can see how wise the rule is. Years ago we were compelled to adopt this course because of the numerous cases like yours. With one thousand children I should otherwise have to establish a special bureau with several clerks to manage a feature of that kind. I do not expect my daughter to come home from college because I am sick or my wife is sick, and lose the benefit of her schooling which is the all-important thing to her and to us. It is the same in your case, and is better for you as well as for Grace that she remain here.

L. M.

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Feb. 26, 1900.

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

Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Riddle :-

I have agreed that the band should be pres-
ent at the opening of the Board of Trade in Harris-
burg on the evening of March 9th.

If practicable I wish you would give me a spec-
tal car over on the train leaving here at 6:05 in
the evening and returning to the junction on the
train leaving Harrisburg at 10:55, and if you can con-
sistently do so, give me the 35 cent rate for round
trip ticket for 35 that you did on a former occa-
sion. In view of the character of the affair and the
fact that persons who have been friendly to us are
especially interested, I have agreed to let the band
go over and pay its own expenses for $75.00.

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Feb. 27, 1900.

Mr. B. H. Warner,
916 P. St.N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

One of my Indian girl graduates is employed
in the Treasury Department as stenographer and type-
writer. She is very anxious to be present at the La-
fayette Longfellow meeting. If practicable will you
please let her have an admission ticket? Address,
Miss Luzerna Chouteau, 1719 15th St. N.W., Washington,

Mr. Frank LaFleshe, also an Indian, an employe
in the Indian Office for many years and a most excel-
lent young man, would also like an admission ticket.
He is an Omaha and has been admitted as a lawyer to
practice before the District courts.

Sincerely yours,

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446

Feb. 27, 1900.

Miss Luzena Chouteau,
1719 13th St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Luzena :-

Your letter just received. I have asked Mr. Warner to
favor you with an admission ticket to the Lafayette Opera House
longfellow meeting, and if at all possible he will send it to you,
to be

The difficulties under which you labor are, as I think, over-
come entirely by experience. The widening of one's experience un-
til the eyes are open to see things as they are throughout the
whole world is always accompanied by apprehensions and somewhat of
the feelings you experience. The best of all educations is exper-
ience. Theoretically, a person may know a great deal and yet be a
terrible coward and fearfully unable to meet the ordinary surround-
ings of every day life properly: i.e., it is really not so much
what we know as what we have experienced. Your simile of the dun-
geon is the product of such a brain. God has made all things and
eventually, we are told, we may lie down with the lion and we may
come in contact with the most venomous reptiles and not be
harmed. Some, however, comprehending God as he is and all his
creations, have reached this condition almost fully, while others
are frightened at mere fishworms. Hobgoblins are the products of
inexperience very largely. When I was young I heard of a man who
was always seeing ghosts and telling great stories. He made up

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his mind to overcome this habit and that instead of running away
he would thereafter face the apparition. In the dark night he
soon came across a black object. He walked boldly up to it and
struck it a blow with his fist, to find it was an old black stump.
From that time on his mania left him.

What I hope for all my Indian pupils and all other Indians is
that they may move out from the ignorant and degraded past into
the free air and fellowship of mankind generally. I have to
yield because I would not be imperious, and let some cling to the
Government; but it would be far more creditable to them and shame
AngloSaxons if they would strike out into the open after receiving
the education and training the Government so kindly gives; and with
heads erect, shoulders back, and eyes to the front, say, "I shall
fight my battles in the world from this on without further Govern-
ment aid." The one thing of all others most to be dreaded both by
the experience of republics in the past and by the admonitions of
the present in our own and other republics, is paternalism; i.e.,
that the Government must take care of its people and meddle with
all their affairs and see that they are properly supported, fed,
clothed, etc.

I know this is the way I wrote you before, and without the
slightest diminution of regard for you, and with, I am sure, the
fullest and greatest desire for your highest welfare I must reit-
erate it. I can do so now with some complacency because you your
self indicate that you are not as happy in Washington as you were
in Chicago. That Washington contains greater men, higher develop-
ment, or anything of that sort, is all bosh.

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449

Feb. 27, 1900.

Dr. M. W. Stryker,
Pres. Hamilton College,
New York.

My dear Doctor :-

Our program, as you see, extends over three
days. We are expecting to keep you through the whole
period and want to give you a good time.

Wednesday evening is our class meeting, with quite
a number of short speeches from members of Congress,
Indians, officials of the Government, and distinguished
visitors. Each one called upon speaks in his
own way what he likes. On this evening we always
have a large crowd. It is quite as popular a meeting
as the commencement exercises proper. Won't you take
fifteen to thirty minutes? Whatever you say will
be all right.

The Congressional and Washington party does not
get here until noon Wednesday. It promises this year
to be unusually large and distinguished.

Yours sincerely,

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Feb. 27, 1900.

Rev. A. N. McMillan,
Rector St. John's Episcopal Church,
Carlisle.

My dear Brother McMillan :-

Enclosed find my check for $20.00, covering
four services in February. Accept my sincere thanks
for your interest in our school, and for your most ac-
ceptable services, which I am sure all appreciated
highly.

Please sign and return the accompanying receipt.

TELEGRAM.

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Howard Pew,
34 E. 14th st.,
New York.

Feb. 27, 1900.

Your message today. Take two weeks at $800 per week. This will
give to end of March for arranging tour. Wheelock's letter ex-
plains.

Pratt, Major.

Postal, 1:30 P.M. Govt. rate. Chg.

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February 27th 1900.

W. A. B. Johnstyn.

Buckవan, Ky., March 4th, 1900.

Hicksville, Battaglia, Ohio.

my Brother, Mr. Johnstyn.

Writing that you were a special friend of my special friend, Miss B. A. Mathew, who greatly assisted me when I was in charge of the Indian pupils in old San Francisco Fort, St. Augustine in the seminary, and later accompanied me to Dakota for the first party of pupils for this school, I wish to add this note to the enclosed invitation to say that if you can attend our commencement I shall be most happy to number you among our guests for entertainment here at the school, or if you cannot visit us at this time, we shall be glad to welcome you at any time.

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February 28th 1900.

My dear Dr. Martin:

My daughter Richenda, who was home over Sunday, tells me that you have returned from your trip to Bermuda. I trust you had a delightful trip, but I regret that I did not know of your going. For I could have given you letters of introduction to some very delightful people Mrs. Pratt and I met there last year.

As you will see by the enclosed invitation, our Commencement
you
approaching, and I write now to extend through to your faculty
a very cordial invitation to attend our exercises. We shall be
glad to welcome any of our friends who may come from Chambersburg,
and if you will advise me the number you wish, I will be glad to
send you reserved seat tickets.

Richenda wishes to come home for our Commencement, and as
I believe the people she meets and the experiences she has at
this time are of value to her, I will be glad if you will give
her a leave of absence for the week.

With warm regard, I am,

Dr. S. A. Martin,
Wilson College,
Chambersburg, Pa.

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Feb. 26, 1900.

Miss C. M. Sample,

Fort Worth, Texas.

My dear friend :-

We hold our commencement this year on the
15th, 14th, and 13th of March. Won't you come and be
with us? If you can I will gladly arrange your trans-
portation and sleeping car accommodations through and
back, and we shall take the very best care of you
while here. I have written urging Mrs. Pratt to come
also. What a treat it would be to all of us if you
can come. We all love you both and would gladly have
you as patriarchs or patron saints or whatever other
honored place we could give you right along.

Mrs. Pratt, Nana, and Richenda join me in warm-
est love. Now don't say "No."

Cordially and faithfully yours,

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Feb. 28, 1900.

Prof. J. B. Shearer,
Dept. of Schools,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir !

An invitation has been sent to Miss Elizabeth C. Kuntz, of the better way would be for teachers and others who have received invitations to inform us of their acceptance and let us send tickets of admission to them direct. I am keeping a careful record of this matter this year for future use.

In regard to reserved seat tickets, it is so very hard for me to discriminate here in Carlisle that I have adopted the method of reserving seats only for the special visitors from a distance and a few of the officials like yourself, the Board of Education and the College Professors. If people come a little early I think there will be no trouble. I am endeavoring to avoid such crowding as we have had in the past and believe I shall be able to do so this year.

On second thought, if you will let me have the names of the teachers I will send them reserved seat tickets when I receive their replies to our invitations. Will send you the list for the high school students.

458

Feb. 28, 1900.

J. W. Gore,
110 Broadway,
New York.

My dear Sir :—

It looks now as though there would be no travelling done
by the band in which cars of the kind you have would be needed un-
til the fore part of April, if then. Somehow, things work slowly.
The outlook is not looming up as significantly as I anticipated.
It may be, however, after our start in Washington things will look
up better. I myself like the plan of taking the cars, and if as
Mr. Few informs me we can have the two for $550 per month it would
be a reasonable enough for us to adopt that method. I believe
with you that our students will fare better in health and in every
way if we use them. If the campaign looms up all right and your
cars are not taken before that I shall certainly look with great
favor on making use of them.

Drewert (P)

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February 28, 1900.

Mrs. E. G. Platt,
Oberlin, Ohio.

My dear friend :—

I have sent an invitation to Mrs. Johnston and also wrote her a letter and sent her a copy of my last report. I told her her name had been given me as a friend of my dear friend, Miss Mother who helped me so much with the Indians in Florida and who accompanied me when I went out for the first party of students for Carlisle. Thank you for telling me about it.

Now, is it not possible for you to come here to our commencement. What a treat it would be for all of us and I believe for you also. If you say you will come, I will fix you as nicely as possible for traveling. You can take a sleeping car right through and we will take the best of ours here. Now, do say you will come.

We all join in love.

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Feb. 28, 1900.

Mr. George Vaux,
1715 Arch St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Friend :-

I sent you yesterday by mail a roll of the
paper. I bought it from a very pleasant traveling
agent who wished our whole school business a year and
a half ago, but cannot now recall his name and address.

I think George ought to take a good long rest.
I wish we could go off some place together where there
were mountains for him to climb and fishing for me to
do for six months.

Mrs. Pratt took our grandchild to Denver and is
due to return tomorrow. We are in the midst of com-
mencement preparations and it looks as though we were
going to have an extraordinary time. I cannot yet say
that the President will not come, but as he has agreed
to preside at a meeting in Washington.

on the 16th of March immediately after commencement
where our band plays, I am afraid he will not be with
us at commencement. He is at least holding off pretty
strong.

With kindest regards to all,

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Feb. 26, 1900.

Miss M. S. Cook,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Cook :-

How would Saunders and Stamen do for a place
to sell our tickets for the hand concert? We could
leave the plan of the hall there and let those who
will favor us with their services sell the ordinary
tickets which can be exchanged there for seats. Please
wire me on receipt of this what you think about it.
They propose to do it and I would like to settle it
at once.

Would you be willing to see them and find out
what their terms are? Our people here are always
glad to do this kind of work for the advertisement
it gives them, but it may be on a different plan with
you in Washington.

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467

February 28th 1900

My dear Miss Haines:-

Yes, I do want to take an ocean voyage with you again,
and nothing would please me better than to take it now, but I
cannot follow my wishes. I am glad to hear, though, that you
are going to have the trip, and I want to wish you a pleasant
and helpful voyage.

I am sorry that you cannot be here for our Commencement,
but when you return from England I wish you would come and see
us and tell us all about your journey.

Mrs. Pratt is just on her way home from Denver, Colorado,
where she has been to take a little granddaughter home, who has
been with us four months. I am sure she will be greatly interested
in your voyage, when she hears of it, and will join in good wishes
for you.

How the time goes by! Yes, it is ten years since we were
journeying toward the setting sun. What a beautiful trip it was
and what a delightful memory we have always had of it!

I trust you will pardon the use of the typewriter, but I am
simply overwhelmed with work and have to treat even my nearest
friends in this way.

With warmest greetings,

N.

Miss Mary M. Haines, Heidelberg, Cheltenham, Pa.

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February 28th 1900

My dear Dr. Prince:-

The time now before Commencement promises to be so
very full, and as you say that later will suit you just as well
for your lecture, I will ask you to come to us some evening in
the week beginning March 19th. Please name your date. You are
exceedingly kind in offering the lecture. I did not intend it
should be given gratis, but I appreciate the courtesy very much,
as our resources for such purposes are limited. You will have
an appreciative audience.

Thanking you, my dear Doctor, for your kindness, I am,

Yours very sincerely,

N.

Dr. M. W. Prince,
Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

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Mar. 1, 1900.

Mrs. J. H. Pabbitt,
Warner, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Pabbitt :-

Pasquala has asked for a position as assistant teacher
in the Indian service and I have recommended her, as I can con-
scientiously do. No doubt she will receive an appointment as soon
as there is a vacancy. This is the better way for her to get any
additional schooling she needs. She ought not to lean upon you or
anyone else now. As assistant teacher she will receive anywhere
from $420 to $600 per year and ought easily save from $500 to $400
Pasquala will be an earnest influence for good wherever she is.

Am very sorry to hear of your misfortune from the earthquake.
and trust you are relieved of them before this.

Preparations for commencement are on and all of us are as busy
as possible.

Faithfully yours

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Mar. 1, 1900.

Miss Eva H. Quinn,
1513 Rhode Island Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Miss Quinn :-

How we all wish you could come up and see
us; but better still, run up some time when we have
not such an excitement and numbers as to prevent our
being courteous to you.

When I go to Washington it is universally on a
rush. I have not felt able to get around to see sever-
al of my best friends, among them yourself, yet this
year. Dr. and Mrs. Hamlin, Senator and Mrs. Teller,
and others whom I always want to see when I go to
Washington I have had to omit. But don't be hard on
me because of that.

We all join in most cordial greetings.

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Mar. 1, 1900.

Julia Moon,

Shawano, Wis.

Dear Madam :-

It is not practicable to let Simon Reauprey go home be-
cause of his grandfather's illness. On account of the numerous re-
quests of this kind we were years ago compelled to establish a
rule forbidding pupils' home-going at such times and for such rea-
sons. You can easily understand that with over a thousand pupils
there would constantly be many on the road if we permitted it.
Simon cannot be of material benefit to his grandfather and it is
decidedly to his interest to remain here and go on with his school
work. He is doing well at his place in the country, and should not
be disturbed. I have written him informing him of your request
and my reply.

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March 1, 1900.

W. U. C. Brent,
32 W. Bethel St.,
Hagerstown, Md.

Dear Sir :-

I am looking for two good cocks, a man and his wife, with
out children, youngish and capable and of unquestioned habits. Per
sons that use intoxicants of any kind or tobacco are not wanted,
and they must be of good moral character. The salary for the man
is $50.00 per month; for his wife as assistant cook, $25.00 per
month. I have other applications, but am entirely willing to con-
siders yours and herewith send you blanks. Please fill out one ap
plication blank in your own handwriting, and have your wife fill
out the other in her own handwriting; then have two well known and
responsible persons to endorse you on the other two blanks, two
for each of you. These should be here not later than Saturday of
this week to receive my consideration.

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Mar. 1, 1900.

Mrs. C. R. Agnew,
The Palisades,
New York.

My dear Mrs. Agnew :-

We have lost your city address. I have
been for several days intending to write you, but am
under such pressure that it seems impossible to do
otherwise than use my secretary.

We shall expect you to come down and bring a
whole squad of the girls. There will be an unusual
party from Washington this year and your presence
will help me a great deal with them. Mrs. Pratt is
due to return from Denver today. She has just made
a quick trip to take Mary, our little granddaughter
home.

With cordial greetings to you all in which Nana
joins,

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Mar. 1, 1900.

Bishop C. C. McCabe,
Fort Worth, Texas.

My dear Bishop :-

It is all inspiring to get the briefest
note from you. How I do wish you might be with us at
commencement. There is a bare prospect of the Presi-
dent's being here, but there will be an unusual dele-
gation from Congress and Washington officials.

Please do stop and see us sometime when you are
near. Mrs. Pratt and Nana join me in loving greetings.

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March 2nd 1900

Mr. Francis G. Hustrer,

Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the P. O. Dept.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs,

I thank you for the copy of your book, "Moravian Missions in Ohio." I shall be interested in reading it. Years ago I read Backewelder's "Narrative," and found it an old book-store a copy of it which I now have in my library.

I enclose card of invitation to our Commencement, which will give you the dates. We shall be glad to have you here for our Anniversary, and if you desire I can send you a railroad ticket for one-half the regular rate, that is for $3.90 for the round trip Washington and Carlisle. Please advise me shortly in regard to your wish in this matter. I can also engage board for you in Carlisle for one or two dollars a day. I regret that the many guests we expect at this time will prevent me from offering you hospitality here at the school.

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March 8, 1900.

Dr. James M. Alister,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

One of my graduates of seven years ago, Miss Emily Peake, a Chippewa, has been employed as teacher and Government clerk in the different schools in the West since, but desires to perfect herself instenography. She has found a place to board about twenty blocks from Drexel. Will you take her and give her the opportunity she desires.

I trust you will be with us at our Commencement and give us a little talk on Wednesday evening.

F. L. P.

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March 2, 1900.

Wm. F. Cooke,

3604 Lancaster Ave,
Phila., Pa.

My dear sir:

I shall delay some days yet in determining the appoint-
ment of assistant cook. What strikes me about your own case is
that you are advanced in years and as you say rheumatic.

The work to be done here is to cook for seven hundred. The cooking is of the plainest sort, so that there is no difficulty on that head. I feel sure you and your wife are more than equal to the quality of the work. There are four Indian boys to assist; two in the forenoon and two in the afternoon. There is a large Bramhall and Dean range and four large roasters and steam cookers of their make. The kitchen is large and airy with light on three sides. The rooms for the cook and assistant are immediately over the kitchen with stairs thereto from the kitchen. Every thing is convenient and ample. The cook begins his work at four oclock in the morning; breakfast is at 6.20, the noon-meal at 12.00, and evening-meal at 5.30. These have to be ready on the minute. The bread is baked in a detached oven by Indian boys. The meat and vegetables are delivered immediately below the kitchen. The dining room and kitchen are under the care and direction of the

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matron who manages the dining-room work and with her girls pre-
pares the vegetables. While the cook is under her general
direction, he has entire charge of his own domain and is respon-
sible for the entire care of provisions and other preparations
for the table.

While the work is convenient there can be no periods of
intermission, but it is easy for one person using the Indian boys
and so with two
to carry on the work for a time to have a chance for relaxation.

Beginning the first of April the number to be prepared for
is less; in July and August there are usually about two hundred
only, and these are the months in which vacation are given to
the cook and his assistant without loss of pay.
a month each

This school is full again by the middle of September. The
employes have their own mess with matron and cook in a
separate building. This is a pleasant healthful place, and we
have a happy family of employes and children and large enter-
tainments. We are on the edge of the famous little town of Car-
lisle and there are two Presbyterian and general assortment of
other churches.

E.E.P.

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March 2, 1900.

Miss Mollie V. Gaither,
Supt. Indian School,
Umatilla, Oregon.

My dear Miss Gaither:

I shall be very glad to make arrangements for the
coming of your two students whenever you are ready, and shall
be delighted to see you here at Carlisle. You know of course
you may call on me to aid you as I may be able at any time.

I congratulate you heartily on the continued success of
your efforts at Umatilla. I am glad to say my teachers who
have gone out from Carlisle to superintend and instruct in the
Indian School Service, you stand way in front in success. You
and Mrs. Wright (nee Miss Hunt) have been, as I believe, as
successful as any superintendents in the Service. The Commissioner
as you probably know is not in the fullest sympathy with female
superintendents, but he is compelled to admit there are exceptions

From your statement it is evident that you ought to have
improvements and I have no doubt that the proper presentation
will bring results.

We are in the midst of our Commencement preparations and so
are very busy. This is being taken down in shorthand and type-
written by Emily Peeke, who graduated while you were here and

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Mar. 2, 1900.

Mr. Jesse M. Schultheis,
Cornell College,
Mt. Vernon, la.

My dear Sir :-

Our band is going to make a tour through out the east
but so far are not planning to go west of Chicago because nothing
offers. As it costs considerable money to transport and pay oth-
er expenses for fifty-five people, we must necessarily go to the
places where we can expect large returns. Several places in Iowa
have been talked over, and Omaha and Kansas City have been in pros-
pect, but it is still all uncertainty. We labor under the diffi-
culty of not being able to command because our reputation is not
fully spread over the country. On the 16th of March our boys play
in Washington before as distinguished an audience as could probably
be brought together in this country, the President himself presid-
ing. We hope after that the way will be open for us and confidence
be established in our worth as an entertainment, and that we may
have good sailing. If our man should get into your region and you
can arrange anything that will be of any use we shall be delighted to hear
from you.

I send you copies of a number of my public addresses which may
help you in your efforts for the Indian. I can only say that you are
on the right track. We have got the enemies of the Indian on the
run and intend them to keep them going on the double quick.

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Mar. 2, 1900.

Mr. R. H. Warner,
916 F. St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Acting on the offer in yours of the 27th ult., please send tickets of admission to those named below. Would like to have the War Dept. people remembered, especially Gen. R. C. Drum; also Judge Ryan, Asst. Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Tonner, Asst. Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

If the number given below is more than you can afford to cut it down. I only present these names because of your offer.

Glad to know the President will be there and trust we may get a letter from him afterward.

Judge Ryan, Asst. Secretary of the Interior 2
Mr. Tonner, Asst. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 2
War Dept. People, especially Gen. R.C. Drum, who lives just outside of Washington somewhere, but can be reached through the War Department 2
Mr. Bender, Chief of the Indian Division, with the Secretary of the Interior, 1
Chiefs of Divisions, Indian Office, through the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 5
Gen. John Eaton, The Concord, 3
Gov. John H. Brady, The Ebbitt House 2
Miss Eva H. Quinn, 1513 R. I. Ave. 1
John Eastman, (Indian) The National Hotel 1

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March 2, 1900.

Mr. W. R. Hench,

Middletown, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

The band can come to you Saturday, March 10th or Monday
March 12th. After that it will be away for weeks. It gives an
entertainment for the business men in Harrisburg on the 9th. The
terms are $100 and expenses. The railroad fare to Middletown
would be about $40 going and coming. They could probably go from
Harrisburg to Middletown on the trolley, thus probably saving some
expense for you. They could leave here at six o'clock and get
into Harrisburg a quarter before seven, giving them time to reach
your town in time for the evening entertainment, but they would
have to be back in Harrisburg in time to take the 10:55 train home
This would avoid additional expense to you for their suppers, as
they would have had that before starting.

If you want the band let me know at once.

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Mar. 3, 1900.

Miss Minnie H. Finley,
Great Nehama Boarding School,
Whitecloud, Kans.

My dear Minnie :-

I received your letter of the 19th of
February duly and am glad to understand from it that
you are wisely accepting the situation, and believe
that good to you is working out. All things are
sant to us for our good or refinement. When we are
working with the Almighty we are in the majority
always.

Gordially and faithfully your friend,

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Mar. 4, 1900.

Mr. Robert L. Bryan,
Boston Transcript,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir :-

Final arrangements for the tour of the band are not definitely closed, but it is expected that they will take in Boston. There is some prospect that under a contract for one week they may go there. It not in this way, it will go as a separate organization. I enclose one of our circulars.

The band will begin its tour in Washington on the 16th inst., where it plays for a Longfellow gathering at which the President, members of his cabinet, officials of the Government, and Congress generally will be present as invited guests. On that evening they will give a concert in the Armory. Arrangements are being made for them at different places the following week along the eastern coast, just where is not yet settled. The object is to raise eight or ten thousand dollars to send the band to Paris, which is the place that has stimulated the effort to bring out the best of the boys were capable of.

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Mr. Chas. M. Brooks,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

If you will send me the letters Taylor wrote you and Mr.
Burr, which you mention in yours of the 26th ult. I will see that
the money is paid from his March pay, if not before.

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Mrs. Ellen R. Forsett,
Nanson in charge of the Girls.

Dear Madam :-

Your intended kindness in furnishing issue room, cake, and
oranges to certain of my Indian girls for their esteemed superior
behavior at table throughout the month of February, I cannot but
take as an evidence of your good heart, demonstrated by expensive
generosity; but for the public criticism upon my methods of man-
agement, before all my children, and your invasion of the domain
of another of my employes I must express my disapproval. You have
your rights and duties supreme within your own sphere, and so far
as I know and intend, with no friction from the invasion of others
in separate charges of responsibility. To follow your girls after
they have passed from your care into the care of the diningroom
matron, the superintendent of the laundry, the superintendent of
the sewing-room, or the principal of the school, and endeavor to
administer or perfect discipline in your own way surprises me, be-
cause it intimates that you know better how to correct what you be-
team evils than they or I do.

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