Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1900.

Miss Mary D. Sprague,
Eastern Ave.,
Hockimer, N. Y.

Dear Miss Sprague :--

In order to get into the Indian service it is necessary to take a civil service examination before the United States Civil Service Commission. If you feel inclined to do that, write the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. stating your wishes, and he will put you in the way of taking the examination.

I have no voice in the matter.

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NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1900.

Banks Business College,
Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

Please let all bills for tuition, stationery, etc. for
Miss Henrietta Fremont come directly to me and I will settle for
same.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 10, 1900.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wheelock,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Wheelock :-

Your daughter and two sons are getting on very well, are
well and seem happy. The oldest boy, Henry, ran away in the summer.
Jonas and Thomas wrote you a week or so ago, and you should have
their letters by this time.

In regard to the boy and girl you want to send here, we cannot
take any that are under fourteen. In addition to that they must be
well, as shown by physician's report, capable of learning, and suf-
ficiently interested to stick to business when they get here. We do
not have room for any but those who really want an education, and
will do their best. You do not say how old these children are, but
I take it they are the ones you wrote about last year, and are not
old enough.

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F.S. - I have delivered your letter to Thomas.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1900.

Batch Music Co.,
Ninth & Loew Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

I enclose my check for $90 ¢ in payment of the enclosed
bill covering one year's subscription to "The Musician" ordered by
Miss Anne B. Moore, musical instructor here. Please receipt bill
and return.

(F)

Subscription,
October, 1900 to October, 1901.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 11, 1900.

Rev. Joseph Dougherty,
30 W. South St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

Yours with enclosed tickets to this evening's entertainment
in Bosler Hall came last evening.

The multitudinous church entertainments, taking all denominations into consideration, led me years ago to make a rule that only those students going to that particular church should have the freedom of going to the entertainments unless there should be something extraordinary. As Thursday night is a study hour evening requiring the presence of every student, I can hardly promise you an attendance from the pupil force. However, I will publish your entertainment to the employees.

Thank you for the admission tickets for myself. I fear it will be impracticable for me to attend.

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Carlsbad, Pa., Oct. 11, 1900.

Miss N. B. Barr,
36 Mrs. F. M. Knodle,
Beverly, N. J.

Dear Miss Barr:

I had your telegrams of yesterday end the day before, and
this morning have your baked letter of yesterday. Your mail is for-
warded you by this mail, also the work you ask for.

I would gladly send a girl if I could find one who has had scar-
let fever. We ought to have you back here as soon as possible. An-
other New York girl went to the hospital yesterday with measles. She
is isolated, however, the same as the previous one, and we hope to
escape anything like an epidemic. The diphtheria in town is on the
increase, and we have issued a partial order for quarantine. If you
recall a girl who you think would fit in, and who has had the scarlet
fever, let me know. In the meantime the doctor is endeavoring to
find one.

Miss Robbins is sitting up today and getting on very nicely.
There are no untoward conditions in the hospital; yet we are under
constant apprehension.

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Carlisle, Md., Oct. 11, 1900.

Mrs. Lety Silverhaus,
Indian school,
Lesotho, Minn.

Dear Mrs. Lety:

Your letter came two weeks after Mrs. Pratt and I returned from our trip to Canada. I sent it down to Mrs. Burgess, and so delayed answering a while on that account. Then other affairs took up my attention, and so the time has passed. But I was glad to get your letter and to know that you are determined to make a success of your work. I am sure you can.

I send you today half a dozen copies of our "Grace Before Meals" which I think you asked for. Am sorry they were not forwarded before.

Last Saturday morning Carlisle was twenty-one years old. We had it in a quiet way with interesting exercises in the evening, and a football game in the afternoon.

We have quite a number of new employees, and things promise well. This year we expect to be the most successful we have yet had. Mrs. Burgess is on the lookout for new all the time, and if you have any new men and ideas, let us know. We can keep track of our doings.

Hope to hear from you from time to time. With best wishes from your friends here,

 faithfully your friend and schoolmistress,

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 11, 1900.

Lewis St. Cyr,
C/o Thomas Boatz,
951 Logan St.,
Allegheny, Pa.

I have read your letters to different persons at the school
and have not delivered them. In order to protect society from you I
have felt it my duty to keep the police warned about you. When you
were in Mechanicsburg I had the police watching you there, and had
them watching you all along the line to Altoona and other places un-
til you got to Pittsburg. The Chief of Police of Pittsburg has been
informed as to your character and is looking for you. You had the
fullest chance at Carlisle, and did not respond to it. It is plain
you are not wanted anywhere because you change so frequently. It is
not to be wondered at that your own brother does not want you to re-
turn to the reservation. We do not want you here, nor will they want
you anywhere when they know your true character.

This is to warn you that if you do not at once cease your writ-
ing to pupils of this school, particularly the girls, I shall take
other steps than merely notifying the police of your whereabouts and
character, and shall make it more uncomfortable for you. Your only
course of safety is to hide yourself away and begin a thorough re-
formation. First learn to be honest. Miss Angeline View tells me
she threw the book you sent her into the waste basket the same day
she got it; that she knows you and does not want to have anything
to do with you, and has not written you for a long time. You

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 11, 1900.

Samuel Barker,
Co. "L", 4th Infantry,
Manila, P. I.

Dear Samuel :--

Yours of Aug. 6th has just returned to me lately from the
printing office where I had sent it for an item to be taken.

Glad to hear how you are getting on. Somehow, we have not heard
much lately from our boys in the Philippines.

School opened the 3rd of September with a good many new teach-
ers and other employes. During the summer we made a number of improve-
ments in steam plant and buildings, and are ready for a year of
steady progress. Things are moving on well, and we anticipate a very
successful year.

In regard to your money; all you have here is invested at 5% ex-
cept $75 which is deposited in the Carlisle Deposit Bank. That is
drawing 3%. If you want to put it in the Paymaster's hands, I can
get credit for you here for that amount through the Paymaster of the
which
Army will be much safer than to send P.O. order or check so far.
There is always the danger of its being lost on the way, especially
when sent such a distance. As the larger amount is drawing such a
good percent you will not want to disturb it. You ought to be able to
save quite a little from your monthly pay to invest with the Paymas-
ter there.

We have had several cold windy days, but today it is sunny and
pleasant. Our summer like yours was very very warm, and part of the
time it was very dry. It was so all over the country. I trust you

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 11, 1900.

Chauncey YellowRobe,
Indian School,
Fort Shaw, Mont.

My dear Chauncey :-

Glad to hear from you again. Miss Burgess has had your letter and used part of it in the "Red Man and Helper", and it has only lately come back to me. Yellowstone Park is certainly a fine place to spend a vacation in. I have been over the Park twice and would enjoy a stay there every summer.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I spent three weeks in Canada, part of the time in Prince Edward's Island; we took in Quebec and Montreal, both quaint and interesting old places, and returned by Lake Champlain, Lake George, and the Hudson, through some of the finest scenery to be found in the country. Since my return, have been digging into work. We have been putting in new boilers, building a new smokestack, and enlarging the old boiler house, this with repairs, and the usual fall business, have kept me very close to my desk.

Last Saturday morning Carlisle was twenty-one years old. We observed the day in a quiet way; had speeches, music, etc. in the evening, and all attended the Carlisle-Gettysburg game on our field in the afternoon. So far our boys have scored high against O's. They meet University of Virginia in Washington next Saturday.

There have been a number of changes in our employe force this year; all seem enthusiastic, and I think we are going to have the best year yet.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 12, 1900.

Mr. Fritz Morris,
142 W. 79th St.,
New York City.

Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 9th inst. I send you today a number of photographs of students at work in different shops, in the gymnasium, reading-room, society rooms, groups, school-room, pupils' room, two pairs of contrast pictures, band, and large picture of football team, 1900. The small photo of the football team in position is personal, and I should like to have it returned. The prices are on the others, together with the description of the picture. If there are any you do not care for, they may be returned. The pictures of the sloyd class are exhausted. List is enclosed.

I send you also a copy of the New England Magazine, April, 1895 containing an article on the school. Please return this. The annual reports, copies of addresses, and other printed matter need not be returned.

Trusting from the material sent you can select what you need,

I am

The photos leave here Saturday morning via Adams Express.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1900.

Ezra Fremont,
C/o Mrs. Susan Lap. Picotte,
Bancroft, Neb.

Dear friend :-

I have good reason to believe that Nettie should have $8.00 or $10.00 for clothing, but under your instructions I do not feel at liberty to let her have it. I am confining expenditures as you directed, strictly to tuition and books. Nettie, I think, is well located and will come through all right.

I found where Francis was a few days ago, and sent for him. He is now at the school, and I shall have to discipline him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1900.

Miss Fannie Rubinkam,
Newtown, Pa.

Dear Miss Rubinkam :-

The enclosed is a copy of our outing rules. While your
move into the main room with the rest of the school is an item of
some value, still it would be far better if all our boys and girls
away from the school were placed in classes with the other students.

Boys that have money in excess of $20 can make draws upon it by
using the regular request blank. We shall necessarily have to make
a fight for our position not only on the line of 100 days' school-
ing, but on other lines. Farmers have gotten into the habit of rid-
ing rough shod over our rules, and it is my intention before long to
make a thorough investigation, and those who do not comply with our
regulations we shall have to drop.

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Carlisle Pa., Oct. 13, 1900.

Dr. Susan LaF. Picotte,
Bancroft, Neb.

Dear Dr. Picotte :-

I wrote Mr. Fremont yesterday that we had found Francis and brought him to the school. He is not at all the boy he was before he went home. It so often happens that way. After being under the restraints of Carlisle, they go home for a few weeks or months and get an entirely different idea of life. The license of the reservation takes hold of them, and we have a battle to get them into shape again. Francis was doing well before his home trip. Now, when we at last find him he has whiskey in his possession and is behaving in a manner to bring the greatest discredit on himself and his people. He is now at the school and was court-martialed yesterday. I have not yet learned the proceedings of the court. I take it for granted his father wants me to exercise all due energy in getting him back into line, and I shall do that. You can explain to Mr. Fremont a great deal better than anybody else just how these things are.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1900.

Mr. William Petoskey,

Petoskey, Mich.

Dear Sir:-

About the 22nd of this month I expect to start on a trip
to Michigan to round up some pupils for Carlisle. If there is any-
thing in your district that would make it desirable that I should
visit Petoskey I will come, but do not care to do so unless there is
a prospect of some good pupils. Will you write me as soon as you
get this.

We have now 966 boys and girls belonging to the school
but are expected to carry a thousand and want to make up the deficiency.
Last year we had considerable more than a thousand but a great num-
ber left us during the summer. If you see any of our old students
as you pass around, please give them information as above and see
what they will say. I enclose envelope for your reply which will
reach me all right.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1900.

Mrs. Alice Lambert Otto,
Shoshone Agency, Wyo.

My dear Alice :-

It was very pleasant to get a letter from you and to know
so much of your personal and successful history since leaving Car-
lisle. I shall be glad to take the young lady you speak of, but you
do not mention your name; consequently I am at a loss in writing to
Agent Nickerson about her. However, I will write him a general let-
ter about a party, and if it is practicable to send more, well and
good. If not, I will arrange for the one. If we could have a lit-
tle party of say, ten, I would pay the expenses of someone from there
to bring them in and return to the agency, which might be an agree-
able arrangement for the agent or some of his employes wanting to
come east.

It has been on my mind to visit Shoshone, which is one of the
few agencies I have not visited, and had not Mr. Chalcraft left there
I should certainly have come about this time. His leaving led me to
defer the trip.

We all remember you here at Carlisle with a great deal of pleasure and are sorry that letters from you have been so infrequent. We like to keep track of all our students, and especially the graduates.

With kind remembrances to your husband and the best wishes for
your and his success in the Indian service and out of it, I am as
ever,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1900.

Hon. Jno. L. McAtee,
Enid, O. T.

My dear Sir :-

I will very cheerfully undertake Miss Mattie Block, provided she has parental consent on the blank herewith, and is duly transferred on the descriptive blank I send. She should be examined by the agency physician, and duly forwarded, as you can see, by the agent. When advised that these conditions are complied with, I will place transportation at such point as you may indicate, and shall be glad to give her such facilities as Carlisle affords in her special line. But she will have to come as a regular student and take her chances on the music, which, while my instructors both vocal and instrumental are competent, is a department very much crowded already inasmuch as we have about 1000 students.

I have anticipated seeing you at Carlisle sometime when you are up this way.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1900.

Major G. W. H. Stouch,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Darlington, O. T.

Dear Major :-

I enclose a letter to me from the Honorable John L. McAtee
Judge of the U.S. Court for Oklahoma, about Mattie Block. I suppose
this is a daughter of Phil Block, an order for whose leaving the Ter-
ritory and the detailing of the escort to put him out, I wrote and
arranged as Adjt. General of the district of Indian Territory in the
early spring of '69. Phil was a pretty hard customer, and a boy of
his whom we had at school here was not very promising. However, I
have written Judge McAtee, and am ready to send transportation at any
time.

Please return the Judge's letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1900.

Mr. Fritz Morris,
142 W. 79th St.,
New York.

My dear Sir :—

You ask me to write one hundred to one hundred fifty words about this school and the betterment of the Indians through education. I enclose a short paper which you are at liberty to use or not as you think best. You will see I am not sanguine, and may therefore conclude to write your own article.

The photo asked for goes forward in this mail with a book of views of the school. If you wish to make use of any other pictures shown in it, I will furnish originals.

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Paper sent Mr. Fritz Morris for use in article in German paper.

The transformation of eight million blacks from a worse
than Indian savagery and in all probability from many more languages
into useful English speaking American citizens, and the transforma-
tion of peoples from the varied civilizations and languages of almost
all countries in the world, into American citizens using one language
and amicably engaging in all the industrial pursuits that go to make
our nation prosperous, is a wonderful presentation of the power there
is in a real true brotherhood of man. That a nation so formed could
for so many years have completely alienated its Indian people and
held them away from all influences which have unified the other peo-
ples, and compelled them through reservation prisons to remain sepa-
rate and distinct peoples using diverse languages, is both marvellous
and inexplicable. By a system of oppression but through association
and contact eight million negroes became free Americans. By a kindly
system of invitation to association and contact many more millions
are made Americans. The education of association, of contact, accom-
plishes the Americanization of the curly-haired black, the auburn
haired blonde and all between. The fencing off from association and
holding in tribal segregation two hundred fifty thousand Indians, is
the one thing which has prevented their becoming assimilated and uni-
fied through all the years in which the unification of the others
went on so rapidly.

The Carlisle school and the few other schools on the same line
have been undertaken by the government to begin the assimilating and
unifying of the Indian into the national whole. Book education in

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schools purely of Indians, though it helps, will not by any means
accomplish the purpose. The teaching of industries to them in masses
as Indians, though helping, will not accomplish the purpose. We must
by some means get back to the original principle of necessity which
will do for us that which no contrivance of man can do. To live, to
gain that upon which to live, is rightly the moving influence for all
exertion and progress. "In the sweat of his brow shall man eat
bread", and had this great law not been interfered with by the United
States through a system of housing on reservations and giving food
without labor, long years ago the Indian problem in America would
have been settled; and until we can do away with the pernicious sys-
tem and allow the law of necessity to work its sure results, we shall
have a chronic Indian problem. Had all the Germans who have emi-
grated to America been placed separate and apart from our other peo-
ple upon scattered reservations under agents to care for them, with
a bureau in Washington and large appropriations made by Congress for
their care until Americanized, we should be confronted with a German
problem today by the side of which our Indian problem would be a
pygmy.

I am not hopeful that the Indian problem in America is being
solved materially by the Carlisle school system because of the over-
powering governmental arrangements inducing them back to the tribe.
When through with them, could I turn these young people out into our
American life and leave them under the same necessity for exerting
themselves to get all they may have of this life the same as our oth-
er young people, and were there enough schools like Carlisle to take
the whole Indian population and do the same thing, the new generation

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would be in the main successfully civilized and useful, and the prob-
lem ended. It is a far more difficult and much greater problem to
get rid of the governmental machinery holding the Indians to tribal
and reservation conditions than it is to completely and successfully
equip the Indian himself to take his place as an individual American
citizen.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 16, 1900.

Miss Edith Miller,
P. O. Box 140,
Versailles,
Catt. Co., N. Y.

Dear Miss Miller :-

Your letters to Miss Barr and Major Pratt are before me,
Major being away from home just now and leaving your matter for me
to consider.

I note all that is said in your two letters, and I remember
also the great amount of writing and trouble that the school has
been placed to on your account, or I should say your father's ac-
count, as he has always been the cause of the trouble. In regard
to your present application, it would not be considered except for
the statement you make as to your father's changed attitude and his
relinquishing of control over your movements. I therefore say that
if we can have assurance from him in writing that in the future he
will not molest or interfere with you in your educational plans,
the way is open to you to return. You know what Carlisle is very
well and are competent to decide for yourself, but it would not be
worth while making the attempt unless your father pledges himself
in writing not to again interfere.

Let us know about this as soon as possible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 16, 1900.

Prof. G. F. Bible, Prin.
State Normal School,
E. Stroudsburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 15th in regard to Quincy Adams finds
Major Pratt away from home, and therefore comes to me for attention.

Quincy Adams left this school for his home in Montana Sept.
20th, and a letter received only a few days ago from him by one of
the employes of this school represented him as employed in the po-
sition of watchman at a school near his home. I am therefore much
surprised to hear of his being with you, and feel a little doubt
as to his identity. The Quincy Adams who was here as a pupil was
a good worker and trusty, but of no particular intelligence. While
here he was mostly employed as a dairy help and at the farm, and
probably more or less in the kitchen. If the young man with you
is the genuine Quincy Adams you may regard him as a good worker
within his capacity.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 17, 1900.

Dr. Jas. G. Turner,
L'Anse, Mich.

Dear Doctor :--

I expect to start next week for points in Michigan with the view of getting some pupils who would be able to enter classes pretty well up in this school, ages, say, from 14 to 18 years. Do you think there are any of this class in your district who would wish to try Carlisle? Our school now numbers 966 with some on the way, but our quota is 1000. I understand conditions up your way pretty well and do not wish to make another attempt unless you feel sure they would be favorable. It is eleven years since the previous attempt from L'Anse, and while there has been some loss and failure there yet has been a reasonable amount of success. A party now might be in better shape physically and therefore give better results.

Bet me hear from you and obliges,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1906.

Mr. John M. Watson,
1718 John St.,
Baltimore, Md.

My dear Mr. Watson :-

Your letter of the 16th finally Major Pratt away from home,
and as you request an immediate answer I reply in his stead.

In regard to the Cherokee girl you mention at Wilmington, I
do not think it would be right to accept her as a pupil in the
face of direct refusal of the Department for admission of Cherokees,
but I will say this :- If she is in good health and pretty well on
in her studies and will come to Carlisle without cost to the govern-
ment, she will be given an opportunity such as many of our girls
have of attending one or another of the state normal schools or oth-
er good school of a high grade, being somewhat under the supervision
of the school and at the same time earning her board by her work
out of school hours. If she is in earnest, opportunity will open
for her by this method in any direction she chooses.

If you look upon this as a desirable course for her to pursue,
she could come at any time that suits you, and we will look out for
her.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 17, 1900.

Wills F. V. Hawk,

Cover Brule Agency, S. Dak,

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your inquiry of the 10th inst. in regard to
Harnest, many Eagles, I am sorry to tell you that he ran away from
his country home Feb. 6th, 1900, and we have not the slightest know-
ledge of his wharenabou's. As he had received money from somewhere
just before leaving, probably from home, we supposed he used it to
get away and had reached home long ago.

I know of no reason for his leaving thus, as he seemed to be
getting on very well.

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Oct. 20, 1900.

Mr. Wm. M. Gray,
12 E. Blackwell St.,
Dover, N. J.

My dear Friend :-

I forwarded your book on the 17th.

It was exceedingly interesting and well calcu-
lated to strengthen an earnestness of purpose
and disposition to sacrifice in the cause of
right. Seldom in the history of the world has
man been called upon to lament the absence of
strong characters when the emergency demanded
them, and I believe we have them now and al-
ways shall have. Our great war brought for-
ward men of might to down slavery and preserve
righteousness. The adjustments are not all
plain, but in God's good time they will be.

With kind regards, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1900.

Mr. P. L. Lookaround,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My dear Sir :-

It will take a very excellent and capable man to fill the place of outing agent for this school. He must be able to compass all the many idiosyncrasies of mischievous and even malicious boys as well as to meet farmers and others who have the boys in keeping, some of whom do not always seem inclined to do just the right thing; and to take care of all our large interests in the outing field. It really takes a man with the capacity for a good superintendent.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1900.

Mr. Isaac Seneca,
Versailles, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

I return the two summons on Eli Parker without service. I
have had Eli in my office and he says that Alice Parker is his wife,
but that in the two years since they were married he lived with her
about a year; that she ran away from him about four times; and that
before coming here he went to see her and as they had not been able
to live together agreeably before it was a mutual understanding that
they should separate and neither would bother the other henceforth.

From the information I have it does not appear that I should
serve this summons.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1900.

Mrs. S. S. Walstrum,
Prescott, Ariz.

Dear Madam :-

I do not know exactly how many Indians are citizens of the United States filling all the requirements, but there are scores of our students both graduates and nongraduates who are actually paying taxes, voting, and even filling public offices. At one time in Oklahoma there were two of my boys, both full blood Indians, elected to county offices by the votes of whites and others. Another, a graduate was elected county surveyor in Nebraska. He also was a full blood Indian, a Winnebago. The other two were Cheyennes, who are classed among our wildest Indians. The Winnebagoes are more advanced.

If there had never been a treaty with the Indians, never a reservation nor an Indian Bureau, and the law of necessity had been allowed to work its results, there would in my judgment be practically no Indian tribes, the Indians would be in a far better and more healthy condition, and we would have no Indian problem. You hope for "a national bureau of outing." I hope for nothing of the kind. We need no national bureaus to control or help any of our peoples. The law of supply and demand, the great law instituted in the beginning when the decree was given "In the sweat of his brow shall man eat bread" will do for the Indian what it has done for the white man. Let the Indian work and establish himself. He can do it; not on the arid reservations of Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada, and other states and

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territories, but in the centres of industrial activity.

You speak of my outing. Some means had to be adopted at the
school to throw them out; hence the outing. For the first ten years
we did not sum up the amounts earned by outing students, but for the
last eleven years we have kept a careful account. The total earnings
1889 - 1900 were $226,255.54; of which $27,255.52 were for the past
year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1900.

Bankes Business College,
925 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen :-

I wrote you sometime ago to send me the bills of Henrietta R. Fremont, but have no answer from you about it. This is to inform you that I have the means from her father and his instructions to carry out in the payment of bills. She writes me that Mr. Bankes informed the students that he never sent out bills. My letter was entitled to a reply, and the position Miss Fremont alleges seems peculiar. I can simply say that unless I get the bills from you they will not be paid.

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Carlsle, pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Dear Mrs. Wheelock :-

Replying to your letter of Oct. 15th about your little girl
we cannot take any children under 14 years of age. Those we now
there who are younger came from Lincoln Institution this summer because
that school was to be closed up; we did not seek them and under no
other circumstances would we have accepted them. When your children
and your sister's children are old enough you can write again, when
the matter can probably be arranged.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Mrs. Mary Sylvester,
Sanborn, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Sylvester :-

Replying to your inquiry of the 14th inst., I am very glad to tell you that Bertha Henry is under the supervision of a very good woman in whose home she seems to be improving. I sent her there in July and shall keep her there as long as the lady can keep her. If with this training and association she is not benefitted I fear her case is hopeless. You should hear from her every month, and if you write to her, address her C/o Mrs. E. M. G. Prickett, Flora Dale, Adams Co., Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Mr. S. M. Minasian,
840 President st.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Sir :—

I send you under separate cover my last three annual reports together with copies of several addresses relating to our work here and the principles on which the school was founded; also a late number of our school paper "The Red Man & Helper".

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Oct. 22, 1900.

Lieut. Richmond P. Davis,
U. S. Military Academy,
West Point, New York.

My dear Sir :-

I would like if possible to have tickets to your West Point- Annapolis game in Philadelphia December 1st for self, wife and two daughters and a couple of friends. Our team plays with Columbia on Thursday in New York the same as last year when your management was kind enough to invite them to remain over in Philadelphia for the game and they did so. If not asking too much, they would be glad to do the same this year. This would require thirty tickets. Our boys prefer to be on the West Point side, and will of course add something to the volume of encouragement.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Miss Eliza A. Cheyney,
84 Windham st.,
Williamantic, Conn.

Dear Miss Cheyney :-

Replying to your letter of the 15th inst. I send you under-
separate cover today several of my last annual reports, also copies
of addresses delivered at Denver and other places on the subject of
Indian education, a late number of our school paper "The Red Man and
Helper", and a souvenir book of pictures for your class.

With kind regards to your sister who is not forgotten here, I

am

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1900.

Mr. Daniel W. Milk,

Naper (Ponca Creek),

Boyd Co., Nebr.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst. in regard to
the whereabouts of Uriah Goodcane stating that his father had not
heard from him for about two months, I have to say that Uriah is
no longer a member of this school, having enlisted in the Army and
gone with his regiment to the Philippine Islands. A letter was re-
ceived from him here not very long ago telling that he was getting
along allright, getting a good deal of experience and has seen dis-
tant parts of the world. His present address is Company L, 15th U.
S. Infantry, Manilla, Philippine Islands. If another comes from
him soon here I will write you in regard to him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Miss Martha Owl,
"Illinois on the Strands,
Ocean City, New Jersey.

Dear Martha :-

Mr. Freer, Supt. at Hoopa Valley, Cal. has asked me if I
can not send him two good women. I see you owe the school over
eighty dollars. Perhaps it would be better for you to accept an ap-
pointment in the Indian service if I can arrange it, and so work your
self out of debt. It will cost about sixty dollars to get you across
the continent, but to help you out I would pay that. As Supt. Freer
needs girls who can do cooking, laundry work, sewing, etc. I think
you could fill the place very well. The salary of the one place is
$240 and subsistence. That is twenty dollars a month, and much bet-
ter than you could do around here. Carrie Cornelius, Sara Kennedy,
Lottie Horne, and Perry Tsamawa are employed there now, and all seem
to like the place very much.

Please let me hear from you about this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

Mrs. Leila Caswell,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear School-daughter :-

I am always glad to hear from you and Ben, as from all my
schooldaughters and sons.

In regard to Cornelia; she went to the country this spring and
as Miss Ely had a good place for her I thought it just as well for
her to stay out for the winter and go to public school where she has
as good a chance if not better, to keep up with her class. She has
not been out a winter yet, and you know all are expected to have that
experience sometime during their term here. As she is in a grade
this year where her studies will not suffer, it seemed better that
she take this winter for her outing, and come to Carlisle before next
winter. Of course we try to do what seems best for each student, and
taking her grade into consideration, this seemed a more favorable
time than a succeeding winter when she will be more advanced, would
be. I trust it will turn out to Cornelia's satisfaction.

With kind regards from us all,

Faithfully your friend and schoolfather,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1900.

James Blythe,

Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 20th about Stella, she is
in the country and has what we have considered a very good place. An-
other of the Cherokee girls is with her, and from what I hear from
both of them and from the lady in whose home they are, they are care-
fully looked after. Stella's home letter for September has come in
and will go forward today.

Glad to hear of Mr. and Mrs. Spray and that the school is pros-
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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1900.

Mr. John J. Foster,
Fentress, Ind. Ky.

Dear Sir :-

Your boys are here and in proper classes, and although not
acceptable pupils their expenses here have been paid by the govern-
ment and I think it would be better for them to remain for the win-
ter and if they are to go home, go at the end of the school year in
June next, at which time we send all our home going students.

If you came and took them away how I should require that you
pay me the cost of their tickets coming to Carlisle as well as re-
turning home; but at the end of June you would avoid the incoming ex-
penses. The boys are well and so far as I can see are doing as well
as you could expect.

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Oct. 23, 1900.

Rev. Robert A. MacFadden,
Chelsea, Mass.

My dear Robert :-

I am promising myself the pleasure
of a visit to you and Boston on the occasion
of our football contest with Harvard Saturday
next, and will probably stay over Sunday. It
may be that both Mrs. Pratt and Richenda will
be with me. I am rather expecting to put up
at the Copley Square Hotel with the boys, but
shall want to run out and see you; and if I
stay over Sunday will be glad to be with you
at one of your services.

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 25, 1900.

Mrs. J. S. Brown,
La Grange, Ind.

Dear Madam :-

Relying to you of the 21st inst. I send you under separate cover today my annual reports for the past three years, together with copies of several of my addresses, a late number of our school paper, and other material which I trust will serve your purpose. The Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, published annually contains information regarding all Indians in the United States, and may be had on request or through your Congressman. It is a government publication. Address Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1900.

Miss Arrie E. Wheeler,
16 N. 16th St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Miss Wheeler :-

On a thorough investigation of the matter of the girls
and violins, I find the case to be this way :- Neither of them has
money above their reserve limit to pay for a violin, and therefore
would not have money to continue lessons, according to the general
regulation in regard to their money. On the other hand, both of them
have Major Pratt's authority to buy the violins and take lessons. Un-
der these circumstances I prefer not to settle your bill just now,
but will bring it to Major Pratt's notice at once on his return Mon-
day next, when it will be attended to.

Hoping this short delay may not inconvenience you, I am

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Carllsle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1900.

Falph G. Taylor,

Cheyenne River Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 24th in the absence of Major Pratt comes to me for attention. In regard to the young man you speak of, James Crow Feather, it is not worth while for him to expect admission here. He is altogether beyond our regulation age limit, and aside from that it rarely amounts to anything to make attempts on those who have reached that age. All who wish to enter should be 14 or over and under 18 years of age. There should also be an equal number of boys and girls in the party.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 29, 1900.

Miss Martha Owl,

Illinois-on-the-Strand,
Ocean City, N. J.

Dear Miss Martha:-

Your letter of the 26th comes to hand this morning and
you ask for a week or ten days rest. The fact of the case is that
they are very much in need of your services and asked to be wired
of your immediate acceptance. I did this on receipt of your mes-
sage and said that you would start as soon as practicable. The
journey is a long one and you will go in a through car the whole
distance to San Francisco without any trouble, and will get a good
rest in that way. I therefore request that you come to Carlisle
and make the start as quickly as possible. Major has been away but
will be here by this evening, so if you can get here on Tuesday
evening, I see no reason why you should not leave by Wednesday after-
noon train. Make it as quickly as you can.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 29, 1900.

Mr. Jacob Schenandore,

Sagole, Wis.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 26th to Major Pratt in regard to the home letters of your daughter, Elsie, in which you state that you have not heard from her for three months. On inquiry I find that her letters have been sent regularly, addressed to you at Oneida, Wis. This may explain the reason why you have not received them. Please let us know which post-office you want them sent to hereafter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 29, 1900.

MT. S. J. Vernam,
Box 663,

Trenton, N. J.

Dear Sirs:-

Referring to your letter of the 27th inst. about clothing
for Joe Moore, I am surprised to learn that he has not been able to
get the money necessary to purchase. In looking up the matter of
sending some clothing from here, I find it impossible to do so
without information as to his present measurements, the breast meas-
ure for coat, and leg measure for pants, and size for hat. Please have
him give these measurements at once and oblige.

Per

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

Mr. Thomas H. Mackey,
Niobrara, Nebr.

Dear Sirs:-

Replying to your letter of the 21st, giving information of the death of your son and asked that your daughter, Mary, be sent home, I have to say again to you that requests of this nature cannot be complied with. While I understand very well your sorrow and sympathize with you, that does not justify me in depriving Mary of her present opportunities. She is perfectly well and doing well, and takes the news of her brother's death in a sensible manner. You need have no fears at all on her account. On receiving your letter I called her into my office and explained the situation to her so that she perfectly understands.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

Mr. Y. William Jones,
Akron, N. Y.

Dear Sir :—

I have asked the G.P.A. of the Pennsylvania R.R. to have one
ticket to Carlisle placed with the railroad agent at Akron to be de-
ferred to you, and you can pay for it here. It will be at our spec-
tial rate, which I do not now remember, but it is not far above a
half rate.

We shall be glad to have you visit us, and if you will let us know in advance what train you will be on, we will have you met.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

Miss M. Frances Winter,
Emmettsburg, Md.

Dear Miss Winter :-

When you have something written about your western experiences, we shall of course be glad to look it over and conclude about using it in "The Helper" adter seeing it.

The experience of so many in the Indian Service has been on the same lines as yours that I hesitate to encourage such expressions, and have generally thought best not to publish such accounts. It does not seem best to wash our dirty linen in the presence of the public. I have accordingly returned such manuscripts to the writers. Very many who have entered the Indian service have been wronged, more however by the viciousness of the system than by any intentional act on the part of others.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

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

My dear Doctor :-

I just tried to call you over the phone, but was informed
that the hospital had taken out its telephone which seems extraordi-
nary. What I wanted was to tell you about Hawley Pierce. He was
hurt in the football game at Baltimore on the 16th, but it did not
trouble him until two days later when he was taken with a pain in his
side, and the bowels refused to work well. He was bruised on the
right side about the waist. He has some fever and complains that
the jar of walking or running hurts his stomach; has a very poor ap-
petite. Dr. Diven says it is the result of a deep bruise and that
the kidneys may be injured. As he does not rally it has been on my
mind to send him down to you, and ask you to bring to bear the best
skill possible to relieve and cure him promptly. We need Hawley bad-
ly for our big games and if he drops out it will be disastrous.

Please telegraph me your opinion fully, or call me by phone as
soon as you receive this. That would be better.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

Mrs. Alice Otto,

Shoshone Agency, Wyo.

My dear Friend :-

I send you a copy of my letter to Agent Nickerson, to which
I have received no answer. Unless he takes an interest in the matter
I do not think it well to attempt to make up a party. Suppose you
and Mr. Frank Virtue see him and talk it over frankly with him. I am
ready to undertake all expenses and assist in every way I can, but to
accomplish the purpose you have in mind, the matter must be taken up
on the lines of my letter to Mr. Nickerson.

There is another thing, Alice, which ought to be carefully looked
after, that is, we ought to get Indians. Carlisle is bleaching out
too fast. We must keep up the semblance of being an Indian school.
I should want as far as possible to have pure Indians comprise the
party. If no party is made up and Miss Lulu Drescal can come in alone,
I will very cheerfully pay her transportation from the agency
to the nearest railroad point and from there to Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1900.

James Bell,
Comulgee, I. T.

My dear James :-

It is not possible for me to take Creoks, Cherokees, Chero-
taws, Chickasaws, or Seminoles here. The orders of the Department
are against accepting members of the Five Civilized Tribes. I may
take from any other tribe in the United States, but not from these.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1900.

Mrs. Lizzie Johnson,
C/o Mr. John Gansworth,
Sanborn, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Johnson :-

I have asked the general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad to place a ticket reading to Carlisle with the agent at Sanborn to be delivered to you, and when you reach Carlisle you can pay me for it. If you let us know in time we will see that someone meets you at the train.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1900

John A. Garrick,
Doncaster House,
Rochester, Pa.

Dear John :-

It would not be right for me to say that your course since
leaving Carlisle meets with my approval. Disloyalty to one's obliga-
tions of any sort is always to be condemned. You took upon yourself
an obligation to serve the United States in her navy. I have no doubt
that every feature of the government's part of the obligation was
strictly complied with. You deserted, and I cannot undertake to ad-
vice you so long as you are not doing your sworn duty. Four out of
seven of my Indian boys deserted.

I have not had you arrested as I might have done, hoping that
your good sense would lead you to go back and begin over again to do
what your oath required. I am sure when you think about it you will
not want me to violate the proprieties and encourage you in any way
that you are doing right when you are doing wrong. I do not care
what you do, you cannot make things right in any other way than to
go back to the navy and serve out your time in an honorable manner.
That course will do more toward making a man of you than anything you
can do. All through life you will carry with you a sense of having
sneaked away from your duty, and this shame will attend your manhood
under any and all conditions. To go back and do your duty will make
you a man in your own estimation, as no other course can.

How much you were a leader in the desertion of course I do not
know, but as four of you left at the same time I am led to believe
that you were the leader of the party. Had you stuck to your place

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you might have been promoted. You could have saved considerable mon-
ey and had plenty of time to prepare yourself for any business you
chose to undertake when you had finished your term of service. A man
who fails in his sworn obligation to his country and deserts his post
as you have done can never be entitled to the favor and protection
of that country. He may steal that protection by hiding away and
not letting people know that he is a deserter, but that will not make
it right.

Your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1900.

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

Dear Carrie :-

Thank you for your good letter of the 15th and the package
of photographs which very much make me desire to visit your lovely
valley and with my little gun and fishing line get some sport out of
the visit. When in the U. S. Arsenal at Springfield, Mass. last
week I bought one of the little guns now used by the cavalry in the
army. It fires a very small ball, and at 400 yards will pass through
a tree four feet thick and kill a man behind it. It will shoot two
and three quarter miles; so I think when I have learned to use it I
ought to be able to shoot as I could years ago, and kill some of the
deer that are so plentiful in your region.

The photographs show that you are in a very picturesque country
and from all I have heard of it, both from my old friend, Capt. Dough-
erty who was once Indian agent there, and others, that I should
greatly enjoy a visit there. Thank you for remembering to send the
photos to me.

Mrs. Etnier returned from Porto Rico last month. She was here
one evening and I took her over to the meeting of the Susans. You
should have been present to see the ovation she received, and after
the meeting was over the girls crowded around her in great numbers
and all had to have a word. Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I went to Bos-
ton last week to see the game with Harvard. Although it drizzled all
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that twenty thousand people witnessed the game, and the Indians had
many friends among them. We did not win, but our boys certainly out
played Harvard. When they were tired out Harvard put on seven big
new fellows in the last part of the last half, and so scored 17 to
our 5.

School is in full flow, and at this season of the year we have
never had such beautiful weather.

Please remember me to Mr. Freer and tell him I was disappointed
in not receiving a batch of pupils. Remember me also to the other
Carlisleers.

Ever faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30, 1900.

Chief of Police,
Baden, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I think best to place under your observation a former stu-
dent of this school named Lewis St. Cyr, who is perhaps three fourths
Indian and one fourth white. He was sent here because of his gener-
ally bad character, as I afterward found out. While here he was re-
peatedly caught in petty stealing from other students. About seven
months ago he ran away, and has since been going from place to place,
staying in one locality only a short time. At one time he was as far
as Maine, but returned to Philadelphia and that vicinity, and
later came into the neighborhood of the school, but kept in hiding.
I usually heard of him after he had left each place. As he shifts con-
stantly, I apprehend he lives somewhat by pilfering. Letters just re-
ceived from him for pupils of this school are written on the paper
of the Doncaster House, Rochester, Pa., but he asks to be addressed
at Baden. They indicate no intention of reforming. This is simply to
enforce you to have the young man under observation.

In his company is one, John A. Garrick, who was also a student
of this school from one of the Pacific Coast tribes, but of very lit-
tle Indian blood. After being here a few years he enlisted in the
Navy, but deserted from his ship soon afterward and is now traveling
in the company of St. Cyr. We never knew Garrick to be addicted to
stealing, but the fact that he has for some time been with this young

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["Oct. 31, 1900.", "Mr. S. A. Galpin,\nNew Haven Clock Co.,\nNew Haven, Conn.", "My dear Sir :-", "I do not often go to football games,\nbut as my boys were playing Harvard for the fifth\ntime and I had never witnessed their game, they\nwere anxious that I be present; so I went last\nSaturday. I saw them play Yale in New York four\nor five years ago, and can hardly spare the time\nto go to New Haven; but am very greatly obliged\nto you for your invitation and kindly offer of\nhospitality, and regret that I cannot well ac-\ncept of it this year. Quite a number of people\nfrom Carlisle and this neighborhood, some of\nthem very distinguished, are going down to Phil-\nadelphia on the 17th to see the boys play Penn-\nsylvania, and I am obligated there.", "Come and see us sometime soon. Mrs. Pratt\nand I shall be happy to entertain you and yours.", {"bbox": [611, 1245, 1005, Sincerely yours,", "NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF\nTHE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.", "VOL. 44"]

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1900.

Miss Edworn Nahar,
H. Kayahem, Mass.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

We have been making up our schedule of entertainments for
the season, and it so happens that the 16th of November is taken. It
would be better if you could come in December, say the 3rd, 4th, 5th,
or 6th, whichever date suits you the best.

I ought to tell you that as there are two colleges and the In-
dian School in Carlisle, the town is somewhat persecuted with enter-
tainments, so that we seldom get much of an attendance from town for
anything we charge for, and are therefore quite dependent upon our-
selfs. But I do not mean that you should come here for nothing, and
hope to give you a little something aside from your expenses. If
you can take us on faith I think we can manage that part of it. How-
ever, you should feel perfectly free about it, and if you can go else
where and use your time better, do so, and come to us when you cannot
go to another place.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 1, 1900.

My dear Doctor :-

I wish on receipt of this you would at once telegraph me just how Hawley Pierce is and the prospect for him. His case is a singular one, as my former letter indicated. He did not complain seriously until two days after the game, but the fact that he has no apretite and has lost 18 pounds would indicate something unusual.

Hawley is, as you know, a very peculiar character; it is hard to handle him. We often feel that he is inclined to be a malingerer. Dr. Given does not think there is much the matter. If you find this to be the case I hope you and the doctors will tell him so quickly, get his courage up, and send him back to us as early as possible. He should be here not later than Monday next so as to help in our other big games. Mr. Warner, the coach, is going to West Point for Saturday's game and will stop at the hospital Sunday and see you. In the meantime, with your strong abilities and knowledge of these people I wish you would get Hawley out of his malingering condition if that is the condition he is in. He ought to have something to build him up and keep up his weight, - plenty of good food and a tonic.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 2, 1900.

Miss Sarah J. Rinch,
Curries' Crossing, Ont.

Dear Miss Rinch :-

Vasha Nakootkin arrived safely this morning and will be given all the opportunities the school affords. I sent one of my
dies to Harrisburg to meet her, but they passed on the way, Vasha
arriving an hour earlier than we expected her.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 2, 1900.

Mrs. C. B. Cutler,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam :-

Your street number was not given in your letter. Dr. Eastman is now agency physician at Crow Creek Agency, S. Dakota and gets a salary of $100 a month. The claim agency feature is not to be depended upon. Perhaps after the Doctor is dead someone else will fight the case through and succeed in getting the Indians paid.

It would hardly be fair for me to advise you in the premises. I think the Commissioner of Indian Affairs might give you a suggestion but I would not like to have you say to him that I advised you to go to him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 2, 1900.

Mr. Manuel Cortada,
Ponce, Porto Rico.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Oct. 22nd about a boy sixteen
years old who wishes to come to Carlisle, I have to advise you that
it seems best not to add to the number of pupils from Porto Rico at
present. If all goes well with those we have, and the government ap-
proves of increasing the number, we may arrange for a few next year
but in that case I feel that we should take some from other parts
of the island rather than all from the same place. This is in sub-
stance what I have written Miss Ankrom, my idea being to eventually
return educated young people to different localities.

Paul and the girls are getting on nicely and seem to enjoy their
life here.

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Carlirose, Penna, Nov. 3, 1900

Capt. Geo. Mok. Williamson,
Assistant Or. Master U.S. Army,
Schuylkill Arsenal,
Philadelphia, Penna.,

My Dear Sir,

I have your favor of 2nd inst enclosing voucher in duplicate covering the purchase of two hospital tents complete, which I return to you herewith properly executed together with my check for eighty two dollars and ninety two cents ($82.92) and am much obliged to you for your courtesy and promptness.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 5, 1900.

Harper & Brothers,
Publishers,
New York City.

Gentlemen :-

I forward herewith my check for $10.00 covering one year's
subscription to Harper's Monthly and Weekly, and fourteen months'
subscription to Harper's Bazar, all beginning with the November num-
ber of this year, as stated on the printed blank filled and enclosed
herewith. Please receipt for the amount.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1900.

Miss Seichu Atsye,
C/o Woman's Hospital,
Phil., Pa.

My dear Seichu :-

I have your letter and am delighted to know you are getting on so well and that every new feature of your work takes hold upon you and interests you so much.

In regard to the football game a week from Saturday, I could of
course provide for you personally, but if you want to bring others to
the game, under the rules of the game I should have to require that
the tickets be paid for. It is probable that quite a number of pu-
gils and employes will go down to the game. If we do and you are not
in company with others you can join the girls and be entered free,
but I should know about it before hand; otherwise you would better go
to the place where tickets are sold and get what you want.

Nana is at Pratt's Institute, Brooklyn, taking a course in ki-
dergarten. She is likely to be there a couple of years. Richenda
was not able to go back to school this year, so she, her mother and I
form the home household.

With love and best wishes for your success,

Always faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1900.

Mr. Wm. Lillard,

Raymond, Mont.

My dear Mr. Lillard :-

I have your letter of Oct. 29th, and am greatly obliged to
you for it, for it places Nellie's matter in a perfectly satisfactory
light. I can say for Nellie that since she came to Carlisle she has
shown herself to be modest, appreciative, and especially capable and
with high aspirations. She came to me yesterday, feeling badly be-
cause her brother had written that you intended to force her return
home. Your letter sets that matter at rest. We are all satisfied
that she will do you and all her friends great credit both in conduct
and progress.

I think Nellie's whole purpose was a great desire to get an ed-
ucation and to improve her prospects in life, and it will be a pleas-
ure to me and to all at Carlisle to forward the accomplishment of
her aspirations in every way we can.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 6, 1900.

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

My dear Hall :-

Thanks for your letter of Oct. 29th telling me of the good
work Joe Scholder is doing, and your kindly appreciation for the lit-
tle I did to help in your scheme. Joe, while generally proper in his
conduct at Carlisle, made such a breach at the last that at present
I do not feel I could give him any endorsement for the good he is do-
ing. His misstep was a sad disappointment to us all. His marriage
was enforced. I am glad, however, that you gave him a chance. He
will undoubtedly do the very best he can to redeem himself, for he
certainly felt bad about it at the time.

I wish you would make a little inquiry and let me know about Ig-
nacio Costo. I sent Dr. Wainwright $100, $75 of it to pay for the
limb and $25 for expenses to and from Frisco, but have no information
that the limb was supplied or that the money was received. Please do
this confidentially.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1900.

Robert E. Crow,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Elige :-

Referring to my letter of June 11th, and your reply June 22nd in regard to the amount on our books against you, is it not possible for you to meet it now ? We are very anxious to have all these matters settled, and as this is the season when crops are all harvested it will probably be as favorable a time as any for you to remit. With kind regards to Sarah, and other friends, I am

P. S.- The debt, as stated in June, is $6.47.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 7, 1900.

Mr. N. Perrier,
Ochelata,
Ind. Ky.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Oct. 31st, I am glad you have written me that you do not hear from your son. There is no reason why he should not have written, and I have sent him your letter with instructions to write you at once. As I do not find in the Postal Guide that there is such a postoffice as you give, it is possible his letters have miscarried. If you do not hear from him in a reasonable time, please let me know. He is at present with Robert B. Coleman, Pennington, N. J. and is getting on nicely.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 7, 1900.

Miss Ida Miller,

Reserve, Wis.

Dear Miss Miller:-

Replying to your letter of Nov. 1st, it is entirely impracticable to send your brother home. While I am very sorry for your condition, our rules are against granting such favors as you ask. Only when pupils themselves are sick so that the doctor recommends their return home, am I at liberty to send them home before their five years expires. You can see very well that I must think of the best interests of the pupils, and hold them to their studies while they are here. James is not likely to have another chance to attend school, and his course should not be interfered with.

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Nov. 7, 1900.

Eugene Perrier,
C/o Robert B. Coleman,
Pennington, N. J.

Dear Eugene :-

The enclosed letter from your father shows that he has not
heard from you for sometime. I find from the records that since you
went out May 1st you have never sent a letter here to be forwarded
to your father. The monthly letter, as you know, is required in or-
der that parents shall hear at least once a month from their chil-
dren, and unless they are sent here we have no means of knowing wheth
er this is carried out. You are at liberty to write to your father
as often as you please aside from this monthly letter, but hereafter
I shall expect your letter to be sent in with the monthly report each
month. Please write your father at once, and return his letter to
me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 7, 1900.

Mr. Jacob Zallowager,
El Reno, O. T.

My dear Sir :-

For some time I have been intending to write you in regard
to your daughter Minnie, whom you placed in this school five years
ago this fall, and who according to our records is now about seven-
teen years old.

For some reason Minnie's progress in school has been very unsatisfactory, and I am somewhat puzzled what course would be best to pursue in her case. She began in our normal room, where she had the best of teaching, but made no perceptible advancement. The next winter at her own request she was allowed to remain out and attend public school, as all our students do sometime during their stay here. On returning to Carlisle in the fall of '97, it was found, contrary to the usual condition, that she had not gained anything by her winter in the public schools, and being then fourteen and considerably larger than the other pupils in the normal room she was placed in the class of adult beginners, where special attention was given her. She studied and seemed to be very anxious to learn, but could not retain anything. The next winter she was so anxious to remain in the country again that I arranged for her to live in a family at Lansdowne, Pa., where there is one of the best conducted schools in the state. Minnie attended school during the winter, but with no better result. Returning to Carlisle in the fall of '99, she went to school here,

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still unable to go into a more advanced class. She cannot read the
simplest lessons intelligibly, and in numbers and other studies is
equally deficient. Her letters to you have always been for the most
part written by her teacher, Minnie telling her what she wanted to
write you and afterwards copying the teacher's letter.

Her health has been uniformly good, but at times her eyes have
given her some trouble. Soon after coming to Carlisle she was fitted
with glasses, and has worn them constantly since. Whether her pro-
gress has been materially interfered with by this difficulty I cannot
tell, but as it does not seem to annoy her to any extent otherwise, I
hardly think that is the cause. In other departments she does very
well, is a good little worker, neat and willing, and takes an inter-
est in household matters. While in the country her principal duties
were to look after the small children, although she did assist and
learn quite a good deal about other work. Her teachers have always
spoken well of her conduct and disposition.

This fall she was anxious to go to the country again. After
canvassing the matter fully I finally concluded to let her go to a
family at Fort Washington, Pa. She will not go to school this winter,
but I have urged that she have short daily lessons at home. Perhaps
this may be a benefit to her. I do not want to give her up as wholly
incompetent, for she is quite capable in other directions, though
small for her age and very childish. Have you any suggestion to of-
fer? Minnie recognizes her failing and is quite sensitive about it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 7, 1900.

Mr. Daniel Hill,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 2nd inst. in regard to your
son Randolph, I have to say that contrary to your understanding Ran-
dolph has been learning a trade. He is counted among our best paint-
ers, and was on the pay roll here part of the summer for such work.
He has also done farm work while in the country during other summers
and if I am not mistaken has been in the dairy at school. I do not
see that you have cause for disappointment, as he is also getting on
well in his studies. As we do not send pupils home during the school
year, it is quite impracticable to allow him to return to you until
the close of the school year. At that time all students who are en-
titled to go home have the opportunity of deciding whether they will
go home or continue another year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 7, 1900.

Rev. Geo. Pax,
Glencoe, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

We do not issue a catalog, but I send you my annual reports
for '98 and '99, and book of pictures of the school, together with
other printed material, addresses, etc.

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Nov. 7, 1900.

Henry Kiteuni,
Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Henry :-

Very glad to hear from you again after such a long time,
and to know you are getting on well and still think of Carlisle and
are interested in her progress.

The school has changed very much since you were with us; last
year we had over a thousand students, and we expect to have about
again the same number before the year closes. As the school has grown we
have of course made additions and improvements. School began two
months ago, so that everything has been under way for some time. I
send you one of our little souvenir books. Since these pictures were
taken, however, we have added and changed quite a little.

I send you also a late copy of our paper which has been enlarged
but still goes out weekly. Perhaps you are a subscriber, and know
from it what we are doing. If not, a quarter will pay for it for one
year.

There are only a few of the employes left whom you knew, Mr.
Standing, Miss Ely and Miss Burgess, Miss Cutter, Miss Carter, and
Miss Paull, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Morrett.

With best wishes for yourself and kind regards to any of our
old students whom you may see,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 8, 1900.

Mrs. Louisa John,
Versailles, N. Y.
Dear Mrs. John :

By letter from the Department I am informed you desire in-
formation in regard to your son, George Jimeson. George came to Car-
jisle June 29th with others who were transferred from Lincoln Insti-
tution, is well and getting on nicely. I have just had him in my of-
lice, and he tells me that he wrote you quite recently; that he ad-
dressed you as "Louisa Jimeson" and that is the name we have on our
list of students' parents. George says a previous letter to you, writ-
ten since he entered Carlisle, brought him a response from you, and
I am therefore somewhat surprised to read that you have not heard
from him. On Sept. 28th I wrote Mr. Lawrence about him, as he had
made inquiry for you.

George wrote you about the end of October, and no doubt you have
his letter before this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1900.

Albert Nash,
2521 Naudain St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Albert :-

None of your sisters have enough money to pay for their
tickets to Phila., otherwise there would be no objection to their
coming down on Saturday next. Violetta has $3.57 above $20.00,
which all students are now required to place on interest. Augusta
lacks nearly $5.00 of having the required amount to be placed on in-
terest and therefore has no money to spend, and the two younger sis-
ters are in debt or have only a few cents. Tickets to Phila. cost
$5.70 each. If you can provide the money to pay their expenses,
Violetta and Augusta can go, and I have no objection to their remain-
ing over Sunday if I know just where they will be. You have not in-
formed me to the care of what safe chaperon I can commit them.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 10, 1900.

Mrs. Foolish Dog,
C/o Rev. R. Tetter,
Cantonment, O. T.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter asking me to use my efforts to get your boy back from the army. Joseph enlisted of his own accord to serve a stated period. The best thing that can happen to him is to get built up within him the principle of meeting every obligation he enters into without abridgment. Every time he is led to break an obligation he weakens his principles and makes himself less a man. Every time he fills his obligations to the letter he strengthens himself and becomes more a man. People who have to work hard and pay taxes to help support the government are expected to give their children to the government service whenever there is need, and it seems to me that Indians who do not have to pay taxes and who are protected and cared for by the United States far more than any other people in our borders, ought to give up their children even more willingly than others.

Looking at the matter in this way I cannot feel that it would be right for me to assist in any manner to get Joseph freed from his self-imposed obligation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1900.

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

My dear General :-

The enclosed notice of award to us of a gold medal by the Paris Exposition came to me a few days ago. From this I gather that the award entitles to and we will receive a gold medal provided we pay the price of it, about $120; or that we can pay $20 and receive an extra heavy gilt medal, or $15 for a heavy gilt medal. Do you understand it so, and would you not suggest that I pay $15 for the heavy gilt medal? I cannot see that there will be any wear on it.

The diploma awarded by the Columbian World's Fair, which you worded for us, is in my estimation worth a ton of such medals. Still it seems we are to keep them. Please return the enclosures with your suggestion.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1900.

Mrs. Augusta R. Pyle,
1714 W. Morris St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Madam :-

On Oct. 8th I sent you $40.00 from the savings of Rachel Washington to repay what she stole from you, and stated that later when she had earned the additional $10.00 I would send that. In writing that letter I was depending upon my own memory in the matter which now seems to have been at fault, but that is no reason why yours should have been. By your letter dated July 24th, 1899, which just comes before me again and which I did not have before me at the time of writing you state, "My pocketbook containing about $40 was discovered to be missing"; so that it appears you have been entirely repaid, and there is no reason for sending you an additional $10. Am I right in this matter ?

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Carlisle, Pa.; Nov. 12, 1900.

Mr. Ed. Dubay,
Ronan, Mont.

My dear Sir :-

We are not now receiving children under fourteen years of age. Ordinarily, we were willing to accept them as young as twelve; but in receiving nearly a hundred young children from Educational Home in Philadelphia, an Indian School which Congress refused to appropriate for last year, it became necessary to fix an older age in order to even up. You can see that even under the old rule I would be unable to receive your children. You may get them into some of the western schools which may not be under the same emergencies as we are; say, Fort Shaw, Mont., Fort Lewis, Colo., or Fort Totten, N. Dakota.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1900.

Mr. D. E. Brindle,

W. North St.,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

The slides that were loaned you for use on Tuesday evening, the 6th, have not yet been received. Please return them at once.

D.E.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1900.

Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows,
Rutherford, New Jersey.

My dear Mrs. Barrows :-

I have taken a great deal of liberty with my speech because of course I would like to put in print what I would have said if I had had the time and opportunity to arrange things. I take it, that is really what is wanted in the Proceedings.

Miss Burgess sent you a copy of The Red Man and Helper containing Dr. Abbott's and Mr. Warner's addresses; also manuscript of Dr. Abbott's address, thinking you would perhaps want to make a few little changes.

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Carlirose, Pa., Nov. 13, 1900.

Mr. J. E. Kirk, Supt.
Indian School,
Warm Springs, Ore.

My dear Sir :-

I am sure you did the best you could for Miss McIntire, but
I am a little sorry I did not go myself, believing that I might have
succeeded better; but Miss McIntire's acquaintance with the Indians
and her zeal and confidence in the matter led me to entrust it to her.
I thank you and your corps of helpers for your cordial cooperation,
and hope we may have better luck some other time. Should it be prac-
ticable at any time to make up a proper party for Carlisle, I will
very cheerfully arrange transportation and pay the expenses of any
one in charge whom you may designate to bring them in.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1900.

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

Dear Doctor !-

Your letter of Oct. 17th stating that John Wizi and Henry
Tatopa desire to come to Carlisle; that they are 19 and 23 years of
age, in good health, and are ex-Hampton students, only now comes be-
fore me. It has been sidetracked in some way and missed my atten-
tion.

Both seem so well on in years that they might take hold of
affairs as men. The one who is 19 would be entirely eligible and
the other also by explanation to the Department. I have written to
Hampton for their record there, and if you still think they should
come to Carlisle I will provide transportation. I suppose Chamber-
lain will be their starting point. Wish we might have a party of
more suitable age.

With kind regards to Mrs. Eastman and best wishes, I am

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1900.

Miss Ednorah Bahar,
N. Raynham, Mass.

My dear Miss Raynham :-

I find we are just as badly off on the date, Dec. 3rd, as we were on the November date. On Nov. 16th we have the Fred Morphet Company and on Dec. 3rd W. Hinton White with his stereoptican pictures and lecture on the Paris Exposition; but we can prolong the evening and give you a part of it; or we can give you the next evening, the 4th of December, or any evening between that and the 29th.

I doubt very much whether you will be able to get an opening in the town unless someone has heard you and will take a personal interest in working it up; for as I said in my former letter the town is overrun with entertainers. The Y.M.C.A. has an entertainment course to look after; Dickinson and Metzger each have their own; the Indian school has its own, and the churches theirs, so that until you have been introduced somewhat it is an up-hill matter to work up an audience. It is only that I command my audience that I can serve you.

Irving College at Mechanicburg, nine miles from here is a small girls' college where you might possibly make an appointment. Write Dr. Campbell, the president. Wilson College, a larger college, accommodating about three hundred young ladies of an exceptionally nice class, is at Chambersburg thirty miles west of us. Dr. Martin is the president. It is possible you could do something there. Get-tysburg College is twenty-seven miles south of us on the old battlefield. That might afford you an opening.

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You will find it necessary to work your way by giving recita-
tions. People will have to hear you to endorse you. It has got to
be that the best of newspaper notices and other endorsements do not
count for much in making up an audience. A few influential people
taking hold of it can do far more than the very best advertising.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1900.

Mr. Colvin Asbury,
Supt. & Special Disbursing Agt.,
Western Shoshoni Agency,
Owyhee, Nev.

My dear Sir :-

I have asked that a ticket to Carlisle be placed with the
railroad agent at Elko, Nev. to be delivered on your order to the
young man indicated in your letter of Nov. 3rd. Please have him use
it at once, as the railroads are annoyed when I ask for tickets and
there is delay in using them. The ticket will be there by the time
the boy is.

Wish you might send several good boys and girls. I am still about 30 below my number for the year, parties that were to come from Klamath and Warm Springs Agencies having both failed. Should you find it practicable to send several, telegraph me and additional tickets will be placed at once. Let the young man or the party be provided with lunch to last several days, and instruct him to keep a careful account of all expenses on the way, and on arrival here I will refund.

Hope all goes well with you. What inducements have you in the
fishing line ? I am thinking of a western trip to take in some of
the byways I have never visited.

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Cullis, Pa., Nov. 15, 1900.

Albis P. Swoboda,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Swoboda :-

I have been so out of kilter for months that the course
you have given me up to date has been quite as much as I could under-
take daily. I am feeling better now except that the rheumatism I had
in my knee has left there and settled in my left shoulder. The cir-
culation in my left side has been noticeably stagnant for years. I
can say that the treatment does me good, but sometimes I am not in a
condition to take it all and a very few times I have been compelled
to omit it. My constipation is not relieved. It seems impossible
to get on more than two or three days at a time without medicine. I
eat liberally of fruit, apples and pears, but that does not seem to
accomplish the purpose. I should say that my life here at the school
is necessarily exceedingly sedentary.

Awaiting your further instructions, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 15, 1900.

Mr. R. MacFarland,
Weichpeo, Cal.

My dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 3rd inst. in regard to your daugh-
ter Rose, I have looked up her case and find that her fault has been
heretofore more a lack of interest in her work than anything else, and
it seemed best in her case to do what we have found so helpful in
many other cases; that is, take her out from the student body and
send her to a home and school where there are not other Indians, so
that she will feel called upon to rise into competition with children
of the Anglo-Saxon race. Often stagnant minds respond under such in-
fluences, and a few months or a year of such separation gives them
a start and puts them on the highway to better things from that on.
It seems this action for Rose was not a mistake. Letters and reports
show that she is getting on much better than formerly and that we may
anticipate continued progress for her. At the close of September a
letter to you from her passed through this office. I trust you have
it are this, and know of her welfare directly from her. Her health
is excellent and her conduct reported good.

I note what you say of your feeling in regard to your will. It
seems to me that either method you propose is fair and eminently pa-
ternal, but if you write me about it again in the course of a few
months, I can have the case more in mind and will be better able to
suggest then than now.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 15, 1900.

Charles Skippegosh,
C/o Mr. James T. Watson,
Fallsington, Pa.

Dear Charles :-

I did not write you as soon as your letter came, but sent it over to Prof. Bakeless. I now enclose his statement in regard to what you ought to take up in school. I hope you will continue as you have begun. If you can follow the work Prof. Bakeless has laid down for you you may be able not only to keep up with your class, but to go ahead, as pupils often do who go to the public schools.

I wrote Mr. Watson sometime ago about your clothes and about the club you wish to join, and asked him to let you see my letter.

I am willing of course that you have every opportunity for progress, and if Mr. Watson thinks well of your joining the club and it does not interfere with your duties and progress, it will be all right.

Mrs. Given will be here tonight or tomorrow. She has been away several months. With kind regards, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1900.

Dr. Geo. Rice Hovey, Dean,
Virginia Union University,
Richmond, Va.

My dear Sir :-

Some years ago my school herd was in the same condition as
yours, and the then Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton, sent an
expert from the Department here to examine the herd. Out of 52 cows
36 were condemned. I recommend that you correspond with Mr. Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture, in Washington, with a view to accomplishing
the same for you. The Department did it for us without cost. I did
not understand it was because we were a government institution, but
in the interests and protection of the whole country.

Since that time the skill obtained by observation has enabled
my school physician to detect the presence of tuberculous conditions
by using test matter provided by the state.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1900.

Miss Mary Williams,
1138 Duane Ave.,
Schenectady, New York.

My dear School-daughter :-

It is pleasant to hear from you again and to know that you are busy and happy. Letters now and then from former students are always welcome, and are our almost our only means of keeping track of them. School is going on well, and we are growing constantly. We all remember you here and are glad your school-days were so profitable to you.

In regard to the little girls you speak of; before I could accept any of them I should have to know to what tribe they belong, whether they belong in the United States or Canada, what their names are, whether they are in good health, and whether they are half, quarter, eighth, or full Indian. If they are Indians and entitled to entrance here I can take the older two of 12 and 14 years, but the one seven years old is too young.

With kind regards,

A.T. Ford

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