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Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
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orders, move and regulate the Bowels and
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SOUTHEAST
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO
CHICAGO
•’ The Bosse that Tells the Troth.*
New York City as a Tenant.
New York city pays annually |337,-
’’07 for the rental of offices. The big-
gest part of this sum goes to the Stew-
art building. *142,380. in this former
dry goods store are housed numerous
executive heads. The department of
finance, alone pays over *87,000 for
quarters on six floors. The Park row
building gets *79,732. The apartments
of the borough president cost no less
than *31,682, while those of the com-
missioner
electricity
*23,645.
Adjusting Glass Globe*.
In fitting on globes it is a common
error to screw them on to the gas
fixture a* tightly as possible. This i*
a grave error, for if the globe has not
room to expand it will surely break
when the gas is lighted and the glass
becomes hot. Many mysterious break-
ages are due to too tight screws.
could be bundled to advantage
otW-erH and enlisted men are such
we can take hearty pride In them
better material can be found. But ...
must be thoroughly trained, both as indi-
viduals and lit tile mass. The marksman-
ship of the men must receive special at-
tention. In the circumstances of modern
warfare the man must act far more on
his own individual responsibility than
ever before, and the high individual effi-
ciency of the unit is of the utmost im-
portance. Formerly this unit was the
regiment. It is now nnt the regiment, not
even the troop or company; It is the indi-
vidual soldier. Every effort must be made
to develop every workmanlike and
dlerly quality in both the officer and
enlisted man.
I urgently call your attention to
need of passing a bill providing for a i
watbrpioof
OILED CLOTHING
Whither We are Drifting.
Standing at the side of the Milky
Way is a disgruntled man who has
waited two hours for the owl airship,
hoping to get home before daylight.
Soon the belated conveyance whiz-
zes into view.
It slows down long enough for the
motorman to call:
“Going to the barn!"
Vowing that he will
stay out so late without
tra pair of wings along,
dividual proceeds to walk wearily
home through the wet clouds.—Balti-
more American.
HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS.
The territory to which excursion
tickets for the Holidays will be sold
has been considerably widened. In ad-
dition to the usual sale of tickets to
points in the Southeastern states, the
T. & P. Ry. company will also sell
round trip tickets to principal points in
Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Minnesota and Wis-
consin.
The rate will be one first-class fare
plus *2.00 for the round trip and tickets
may be purchased December 13, 17, 21,
22, 23 and 26, good to return within
thirty days from date of sale.
further information regarding rates,
through service, sleepers, free seats in
chair cars, etc., may be had from any
railroad ticket agent, or through cor-
respondence with H. P. Hughes, Trav-
eling Passenger Agent, Fort. Worth,
Texas, or E. P. Turner, G. P. & T. A.,
T. & P. Ry. Co., Dallas, Texas.
sentatlves to work with hearty
for the w elfare of the Island."
The army has been reduced to
mum allowed by law It is very
the size of the nution and m<>»t ..........,
should be kept at the highest point of effi-
ciency. The senior officers are given scant
chance under ordinary conditions to ex-
ercise commands commensurate with their
runk under circumstances which would fit
them to do their duty in time of actual
war A system of maneuvering oui'army
tn bodies of some little size has been be-
gun an<l should be steadily continued.
Without such maneuvers It is folly to ex-
pect that in the event of hostilities with
any serious foe even a small army corps
could be handled to advantage Both our
that
No
the
England’s Coal Industry.
Compared with England's mining
industry, the anthracite business of
Pennsylvania is a small affair to have
made such a tremendous row.
anthracite mines produce about fifty
million tons a year. Last year Eng-
land exported to Hamburg alone !,-
119,000,000 tons of coal.—Philadelphia
North American.
Miss Maggio Welch,
tress. All cough remedies nauseated
me, and nothing afforded me relief until
my doctor said rather in a joke, ‘I guess
Peruna is the only medicine that will
cure you.’
“I told him that I would certainly try
it and immediately sent for a bottle. I
found that relief came the first day, and
as I kept taking it faithfully the cough
gradually diminished, and the soreness
left me. It is tine.’’—Maggie Welch.
Address the Peruna Medicine Co., Co-
lumbus, Ohio, for free literature on
catarrh.
Had MRS. DAISY SHAW, of Lula, Mias., taken Q. P. P. when
she was developing into womanhood much of her suffering could
have been avoided. She writes as follows:
“I was sick for a year with female complaints. The doctors did
me no good and my husband and parents thought I would die. 1
FRISCO
SYSTEM
A Noble Knight.
An English contemporary tells the
following good story of muscular
Christianity. In a smoking room of
a hotel in Dublin, where sat a huge
priest, some men were scoffing stupid-
ly about miracles. Up rose the priest
and offered to perform a miracle. He
seized the most blatant of the scof-
fers, carried him to the door, and
kicked him into the street. When
‘.he youth returned the priest asked,
“An' did ye break your back?”
did not,” was the answer. “Well, it's
a miracle ye didn’t," answered the
priest.
A Cup of Good Coffee.
An ideal cup of coffee can be made
only In one way. The coffee must lie
of the best quality and must be roast-
ed, ground immediately and used
quickly. Connoisseurs in coffee as-
sure us that it. is out of the question
to make this beverage absolute perfect
out of factory roasted coffee that has
been allowed to stand in the open air
any number of hours. In addition one
might say that such a thing as a cup
of good coffee from that which is pur-
chased ready ground is quite an itn-
oossibility. The fine aroma of the ber-
ry evaporates in a very short time.
Koran* Must Cut Topknots.
Reports from Seoul state that
Korean government has Issued
order for the simultaneous cutting of
topknots by all loyal Koreans. Mili-
tary and police officers have been
commanded to see that the order is
at once obeyed and some of the gov-
ernment officials Who opposed the
measure have been reprimanded by
the emperor and also dismissed from
their posts.
Irving’s fondness for Tea.
Sir Henry Irving has a weakness fol
tea. He likes to brew it himself, and
never travels any long distance with-
out taking a full tea equipment with
him. Sir Henry's favorite brand is an
expensive Chinn ten
Idrod and
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I and ani-
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lice from
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A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured
by Pe-ru-na.
Mias Maggie Welch, secretary of the
Betsey Rous Educational and‘Benevo-
lent Society, writes from 328 North State
street.Chicago, HL, the following glow-
ing words concerning Peruna:
“Last fall I caught the most severe
cold I ever had in my life. I coughed
night and day, and my lungs and throat
became so sore that 1 was in great dis-
The offlcl.l. who represent the government la
dealing with th* Indians work under hard condi-
tion* and *l*o under condition* which render it
eaay to do wrong and very dilMrult to detect
YOUR GRANDFATHER
WORE
Battle Royal In Court Room.
During a trial in a civil court in the
Bangalore district of India the other
day a dispute arose between the de-
fendant and one of the witnesses for
the plaintiff. The two came to blows.
The witnesses of both parties joined
in, and sympathizers with
factions taking a part, the
came a glorified prize ring,
tie lasted for an hour, and
and military had eventually to come
in and disperse the mob.
warred under reArful difficulties or cli-
mate and surrounding**, and under the
strain of the terrible provocations which
they continually received from their foes
occasional Instances of cruel retaliation
occurred Every effort has been made to
prevent such cruelties, and finally those
efforts have been completely successful.
Every effort has also been made to de-
tect and punish the wrongdoers After
; making all allowance for these misdeeds
It remains true that few indeed have been
the instances in which war has been
waged by a civilized power against semi-
civilized or barbarous forces where there
has been so little wrongdoing by the vic-
tors as in the Philippine Islands On the
other hand, the amount of difficult. Impor-
tant and beneficent work which has been
done is well nigh incalculable
Taking the work of the army and the
civil authorities together, it may be ques
tinned whether anywhere else In modern
Hines the world has seen a better exam-
ple of real constructive statesmanshi »
than our people have given in the Philip-
pine Islands. High praise should also be
given those Filipinos — in the aggregate
very numerous—who have accepted th*
new conditions and joined with our renre-
good will
man del from them, and whfrt misconduct can be
proved the punishment should be exemplary.
In nu department of governmental work in re-
cent years bai there h*en greater *ucce** than
in that ot giting scientific aid to the farming
population, tlareby slewing them bow moat effi
eientiy to help themselvoa. There is no need of
i nd sting upon its importance, for the welfare of
the funner is fundamentally necessary to the
welfare of the republic as a whole, in addition
to such work as quarantine against animal and
vegetable plagues, and warring against them when
here intro<1ueed, much efficient help has been ren-
dered to the farmer by the introduction of new
plants specially fitted for cultivation under the
pecuiur conditions existing in different portions
of the country. New cereals have been established
in the semiarid west. For instance, the practi-
cability of producing the best types of macaroni
wheats In regions of an annua) rainfall of only
ten inches or thereabout has been conclusively
demonstrated. Tlirvugh the introduction of new
rices in Louisiana and Texas the production of
rice in thie country has been made to about eoual
the home demand. In the aouthwest the possibil-
ity of regrassing overstocked range lands has been
demonstrated; in the north many new forage
crops have been introduced, while in the east it
has been shown that some of our choicest fruits
can be stored and shipped in auch a way as to
And a profitable market abroad
I wgain recommend to the fzvorable considera-
tion of the congress the plans of the Smithsonian
institution fur making the museum under its
charge worthy of the nation and for preserving
at tnr national capital not only records ut the
vanisliing races of men. but of the animals of this
continent which, like the buffalo, will soon be-
come extinct unless specimens from which their
representatives may be renewed arc sought in
their native regions and maintained there in
The District of Columbia is the only part of
our territory in which the national government
exercises local or municipal functions and where
in consequence the government has a free hand
in reference to certain types of social and eco-
nomic legislation which must be essentially local
or municipal in their character. The government
should wo to it, for instance, that the hygienia
and unitary legislation affecting Washington is
of a high character. The evils of slum dwellings,
whether in the shape of crowded and congested
tenement house districts or of the back alley
type, should never be permitted to grow up in
Washington. The city should be a model in every
rrs(»ect. for all the cities of the country. The
charitable and correctional systems of the Dis-
trict should receive consideration at the hands uf
the congress to the end tliat they may emhod)
the results of the moot advanced tnought in these
fields. Moreover, while Washington is not a great
industrial city, there is some industrialism here,
and our labor legislation, while it would not be
important in itself, might be made a model for
the rest of the nation We should pa«v, for in-
stance, a wise employer’s liability act for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and we need such an act in
our navy yards. Railroad companies in the Dis-
trict ought to be required by hw to block their
frogs.
The safety appliance Jaw. for the better pro-
tection of th*- lives and limbs of railway em-
ployees. which was passed in 1893, went into full
effect on Aug. 1, IDOL It has resulted in avert-
ing thousands of casualties. Expeiienie shows,
however, the necessity of additional legislation
to perfect this law. A bill to provide for this
passed the senate at the last cession, it ia to be
hoped that sonut such measure may now be en-
acted into law.
There is a growing tendency to provide for the
publication of masses of documents for which
there is no public: demand and for the printing of
which there is no real necessity, l arge numbers
of volumes are turned out by the government
printing presses for which there is no justification.
Nothing should be printed by any of the depart-
ments unless it contains something of permanent
value, and the congre&a could with advantage cut
down very materially on all the printing which
it has now become customary to provide. The
excessive cost of government printing ia a strong
argument against the position of those who are
inclined on abstract grounds to advocate the gov-
ernment's doing any work which can with pro-
priety be left in private hands.
Gratifying progress has been made during the
f’ear in the extension of the merit system of mak-
ng appointments in the government service., It
should be extended by law to the District of Ck>-
lumbia. It ia much to be desired that our con-
sular system be established by law on a basis
providing for appointment and promotion only in
consequence of proved fitness.
Through a wise provision of the congress at ita
last si-Mtion the White House, with h had become
disfigured by incongruous additions and changes,
has now been restored to what it was planned to
be by Washington. In making the restorations
the utmost care has been exercised to come as
near as possible to the early plans and to supple-
ment these plane by a careful study of such
buildings as that of the University of Virginia,
which was built by Jefferson. The White House
is the property of the nation, and so far as is
compatible with living therein it should be kept
as it originally waa, for the same reasons that
we keep Mount Vernon as it originally was. Tba
stately simplicity of its architecture is an ex-
pression of the character of the period in which
It was built and is in accord with the purposes
it was designed to serve. It is a good thing to
preserve such buildings as historic monuments
which keep alive our sense uf continuity with the
nation's past.
The reports of the several executive depart-
ments are submitted to the congress with this
communication. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
JANUARY
There Is no time Like January for
satisfactory buvinr. The holiday
rush is over and the early Spring
trade has not yet begun. In January you al-
ways get first pick of al! the earliest fcprlng
goods and there Is ample time to fill ana
ship your orders with greater promptness.
Send 15 cents TODAY for our large General
Catalogue No. 71. It gives pictures, descrip-
tions and prices on almost everything you
eat, wear or nae. Save *4 io 4 on everything
you purchase by sending your orders to
Bats and their parasites are held
responsible, by an Italian expert, for
the transmission of plague in some
cases.
Christmas
Holiday
Excursions
runn* to fr-pa-p rasgro ia notn loolirti and
wicked in aucj i nation a, aura, and past experi*
•nee ha. ahuwn that luch fatuity in refusing to
reci.aiiiae or prepare for any crlaia in adiancc ia
usually succeeded by a nia-l panic of hysterical
tear once the criale ha* actually arrived.
The atrikins increase in the revenue* of the
postoHk-e department .huwa clearly tire pro*|>crity
of our people and the increaunf activity of the
the
. ---------gen-
eral staff and for the reorganization ot
the supply departmenta on the line* of the
bill proposed by the secretary of war last
vear When the young officers enter the
nmiy from West Point, they probably
stand above their compeer* In any other
military service Every effort should be
made by training, by reward of merit, by
Kcrutlny Into their careers and capacity,
to keep them of the same high relative
excellence throughout their careers
The measure providing for the reorgan-
ization of the militia system and for se-
curing the highest efficiency in the nation-
al guard, which has already passed the
house, should receive prompt attention
and action, it Is of great importance that
the relation of the national guard to the
militia and volunteer .forces of the United
States should be defined and that In place
of our present obsolete laws a practical
and efficient system should be adopted.
Provision should bo made to enable the
secretary of war to keep cavalry and ar-
tillery horses worn out in long perform-
ance of duty. Such horses feteh but a
trifle when sold, and rather than turn
them out to the misery awaiting them
when thus disposed of It would be better
to employ them at light work around the
posts and when necessary to put them
painlessly lo death.
For the first time in our history naval
maneuvers on a large scale are being held
under the immediate command of the ad-
miral of the navy. Constantly increasing
attention is .elng paid to the gunnery f
the navy, but it is yet far from what It
should be. 1 earnestly urge that the In-
crease asked for by the secretary of the
navy in the appropriation for Improving
the marksmanship be granted, in battle
the only shots that count are the shot*
that hit. it is necessary to provide ampl*
funds for practice with the great gun* in
time of peace. These fund* must provide
not only for the purchase of projectiles,
but for allowances for prizes to encour-
age the gun crews, and especially the gun
pointers, and for perfecting an Intelligent
system under which alone rt is possible o
get good practice
There should be no halt In the work of
building up the navy, providing every
year additional fighting craft We are a
very rich country, vast in extent of terri-
tory and great in population, a country,
moreover, which has an army diminutive
indeed when compared with that of any
other first class power. We have deliber-
ately made our own certain foreign poli-
cies which demand the possession of a
first class navy. The Isthmian canal will
greatly Increase the efficiency of our navy
if the navy is of sufficient size, but If w«
have an Inadequate navy then the build-
ing of the canal would be merely giving a
hostage to any power of superior strength.
The Monroe doctrine should be treated as
the cardinal feature of American foreign
policy, but it would be worse than Idle
to assert It unless we intended to back it
up. and It can be backed up only by a
thoroughly good navy. A good navy Is
not a provocative of war. It Is the surest
guaranty of peace.
Each individual unit of our navy should
l>c the most efficient of its kind as regards
both material and personnel that Is to be
found in the world 1 call your special
attention to the need of providing for the
manning of the ships Serious trouble
threatens us If we cannot do better than
we are now doing as regards securing the
services of a sufficient number of the high-
est type of sailormen, of sea mechanics.
The veteran seamen of our warships are
of as high a type as can be found in any
navy which rides the waters of the world.
They uro unsurpassed In daring. In reso-
lution. In readiness, In thorough knowl-
edge of their profession They deserve ev-
ery consideration that can be shown them.
But there ore not enough of them It Is
nn more possible to improvise a crew than
it Is possible to improvise a warship To
build the finest ship, with the deadliest
battery, and to send it afloat with a raw
crew, no matter how brave they were in-
dividually. would be to insure disaster if a
foe of average capacity were encountered.
Neither ships nor men can be improvised
when war has begun
We need a thousand additional officers
In order to properly man the ships now
provided for and under construction. The
classes at the naval school at Annapolis
should be greatly enlarged. At the same
time that we thus add the officers where
we need them, we should facilitate the re-
tirement of those at the head of the list
whose usefulness has become Impaired.
Promotion must be fostered if the servics
is to be kept efficient.
The lamentable scarcity of officers and
the large number of recruits and of un-
skilled men necessarily put aboard the
new vessels a* they have been commis-
sioned has thrown upon our officers, and
especially on the lieutenants and junior
grades, unusual labor and fatigue and has
gravsly strained their powers of endur-
ance. Nor is there sign of any Immediate
letup in this strain. It must continue for
Some time longer until more officer* are
graduated from Annapolis and until the
recruits become trained and skillful in
their duties In these difficulties incident
upon the development of our war fleet the
conduct of all our officers has been cred-
itable to the service, and the lieutenants
and junior grades In particular have dis-
played an ability and a steadfast cheer-
fulneaa which rntille them to the ungrudging
thank* of all who realize th* disheartening trial*
and fatigue* to which they are ot neceaaity aub-
jested.
Thero is not a eioud on th* horizon at present,
niece seem* not the ahshteat chance of trouble
with a foreign power We moat earnestly hope
that this state of thing* may continue, and the
way to inaure ita continuance la to provide for *
thoroughly efficient navy. Th* refwal to main-
tain such a navy would invit* trouble, and it
trouble cam* would insure disaster. Fstnouasclf
.------------parents thought I would die. /
was so poor and thin and looked so bad that my
friends all said I could not recover. I began a
course of G. F. P. treatment, have taken eight bot-
tles and they have entirety cured me. I am doing
all my housework and haven’t a sign of ache or pain. I wish every
suffering woman could have G. F. P., for it is an ideal remedy for
female ailments.”
You can get O. P. P- from your druggist or dealer for fl a bottle.
busineM of ih« country.
The iw-ripm of the jnietoffice department for
the fiscal tear ending June 80 last amounted to
|12!,848,iM7 26, an in<-reaae of |IJ,21O,863.87 over
the preceding year, the largeat increase known in
the history of the postal aervice. The magnitude
of this increase will l»est appear from the fact
that the entire postal receipt! for the year ladU
amounted to but $8,518,067.
Rural (roe delivery service is no longer in the
experimental atage. It has become a fixed policy.
Tlie results following its introduction have fully
justified the congreM in the large appropriations
made for ita establirhmcnt and extension. The
average yearly increase in poatoffice receipts in
the rural district* of the country ia about 2 per
cent. We are now able, by actual result*, to
show that where rural free delivery service has
been established to such an extent as to enable
us to make comparisons the yearly increase lias
been upward of 10 pur cent.
Un Nov. 1, 1902. 11,650 rural free delivery
routes had l»een established an<! were in operation,
covering about one-third ot the territory of the
United States available for rural free delivery
eervice. There are now awaiting the action of
the department petition* and application* fur the
establishment of 10.748 additional routes. Thia
shows conclusively the want which the establish-
ment of the service has met and the need of fur-
ther extending it as rapidly as possible. It is
justified both by the financial results and by the
practical benefits to our rural population; it
brings the men who live ok the soil into close
relations with the active business world; it keeps
the farmer in daily touch with the markets; it is
a potential educational force; it enhances the
value of fang property, make* farm life far
pleasanter and less isolated, and will do much to
check the undesirable current from country to
city.
It is to be hoped that the <*ongress will make
liberal appropriations for the continuance ot the
sei vice alreouy established ami for ita further ex-
tension.
Few s'lbierts of more Importame have been
taken up by the congress in recent year* than
the inauguration of the system of nationally aided
irrigation for the arid regions of the far west.
A good beginning therein has been made. Now
that this policy of national irrigation has been
adopted the need of thorough and scientific forest
protection will grow more rapidly than ever
throughout the public laml states.-
Legislation should be provided for the protec-
tion of the game and the wiki creatures gener-
ally on the furest reserves. The senseless gluugh
ter of game, which can by judicious protection be
permanently preserved on our national reserves
for the people as a whole, should be stopped at
once. It is, for instance, a serious count against
our national good sense to permit the present
Eractice of butchering uff such a stately and
eautiful creature as the elk for its antlers or
tusks.
So far as th*y are available for agriculture and
to whatever extent they may be reclaimed under
the national irrigation law. the remaining public
lands should be held rigidly for the homebuilder,
the settler who lives on his land, and for no one
else. In their actual use the desert land law,
the timber and stone law and the commutation
clause of the homestead law have been so per-
verted frum tie intention with which they were
enacted aw to permit the acquisition of large
areas of the public domain for other than actual
settlers and the consequent prevention of settle-
ment. Moreover, the approaching exhaustion of
the public ranges has of late led to much dis-
cussion as to tin? best manner of using these pub-
lic lands in the west which arc suitable chiefly or
only for grazing. The sound and steady develop*
Runt of the west depends upon the building up
of homes therein. Much off our prosperity as a
nation has been due.to the operation of the home-
stead law. On the other hand, we should recog-
nize the fact that in the grazing region the man
who corresponds to the homesteader may be un-
able to settle permanently if only allowed to use
the same amount of pasture land that his brother,
the homesteader, is allowed to use of arable land.
Ono hundred and sixty acres of fairly rich and
well watered soil or a much smaller amount of
irrigated land may keep a family in plenty, where-
as no one could get a living from 160 acres uf
dry pasture land capable of supporting at the
outside only one head of cattle to every ten acres.
In the past groat tracts of the public domain
have been fenced in by persons having no title
thereto, in direct defiance of the law forbidding
the maintenance or construction of any such un-
lawful inclosure of public land. For various
reasons there has been little interference with
such inclosures in the past, but ample notice has
now been given the trespassers, and all the re-
source* at the command of the governmont will
hereafter be used to put a stop to such trespassing.
In view of the capital importance of these mat
ters J commend them to the earnest consideration
of thr congress, and if the congress finds difli
culty in dealing with them from lack of thorough
knowledge of the subject I recommend that pro-
vision be made for a commission of experts spe
cially to investigate and report upon the com
plicated questions involved.
I especially urge upon the cengrcs* the need of
wise legislation for Alaska. It is not to our
credit as a nation that Alaska, which has been
ours for thirty five years, should still have as poor
a system of law* as is the case. No country has
a more valuable posaeMion in mineral wealth, in
fisheries, furs, forests and also in land available
for certain kinds of farming and stock growing.
It is a territory of great size and varied re-
sources, well fitted to support a large permanent
population. Alaska needs a good land law and
such provisions for homesteads and pre-emptioni
as will encourage permanent settlement. We
should shape legislation with a view not to the
exploiting and abandoning of the territory, but
lo the building up of home* therein. The land
laws should lie lilieral in type, so as to hold out
inducements to the actual settler whom we most
desire to see take possession of the country. The
forests of Alaska shoulil be protected, and, as a
•ecundaty but still important matter, the game
• Iso. and at the same time it ia imperative that
the settler* should be allowed to cut timber, un-
der proper regu In lions, for their own use. Laws
should be enacted to protect the Alaskan salmon
fisheries against the greed which would destroy
them They should be preserved as a permanent
industry and food supply. Their management
and control should be turned over to the commit
sion of fish and fisheries. Alaska should have a
delegate in the congress. It would be well if a
Congressional committee could visit Alaska and
investigate i’s needs on the ground.
In dealing with the Indians our aim should be
their ultimate absorption into the bodv of our
people, but in many cases this absorption must
and should be very slow. In portions of the In-
dian Territory the mixture of blood has cone on
at the same time with progress in wealth and
education, so that there are plenty of men with
varying aegrers of purity uf Indian blood who
are absolutely indistinguishable in point of social,
political and economic ability from their white
associate*. There arc other tribes which have as
yet made no perceptible advance toward such
equality To try to force such tribes too fast is
to prevent their going forward at all. Moreover,
the tribes live under widely different conditions.
Where a tribe has made considerable advance and
lives un fertile farming soil it is possible to allot
the members lands in severalty much as is the
case with white settlers. There are other tribes
where such * course is not desirable. On the
arid prairie lands the effort should lie to induce
the Indians to lead (»astoral rather than agricul-
tural lives and to permit them to settle in vil-
lages rather than tn force them into isolation.
The large Indian schooli eituated remote from
any Indian reservation do a special and peculiar
work uf great importance; but. excellent though
three are, an immense amount of additional work
must be done on the reservation* themselves
among tha old, and, above all, among the young
Indians.
'Die first and most important step toward the
absorption of the Indian is to teach him to earn
his living, vet It is not necessarily to be assumed
that in each community all Indians must become
either tillers of the soil or stuck raisers. Their
industries may properly lie diversified, and those
who show special desire or adaptability for indus-
trial or even commercial pursuits should be en-
couraged so far as practicable to follow out each
hi* own bent.
Every effort should be made to develop the In
dian along the lines of natural aptitude and to
encourage the existing native Industrie* peculiar
to certain tribes, such as the various kind* of
basket weaving, canoe building, emit and
blanket work. Above all, the Indttn bo and
girls should be given confident mand ot
loquial English and should ordinarily be
for a vigorous struggle with the condition*
which their people live rather than for immedi-
ate aboerption into some more highly developed
{^so Arkansas and Missouri
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