AN ARAPAHOE BABY CARRIAGE.

 

THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS.

By MarcaretT SIDNEY.

ENTURIES of wrong
often right themselves
by the refusal of scales
to longer blind the ‘eyes
of “the powers that be.”
And poetic justice is sat-
‘isfied when retribution
is meted out from the
long garnering of silent
abuses. Sometimes we
can afford to wait for these slow processes in
the which Justice comes tardily to herself. In our
backward glance over our dealings as new-comers
with our Indian brethren, the owners of our boasted
possession — this goodly land, we exclaim: “Why
was Justice so slow to take the sword herself?”
That will do for the past. Having awaked and
turned our faces toward the light, we only ask
now, “ What can we do for the Indian to requite

 

him?”

It is some comfort to know that much has been
_ done for him. That into the seething turmoil of
- Many political problems, and the almost. over-
whelming mass of matter, great and small, that

clogs the Congressional wheels, has penetrated the
thin blade of a “This do; for the Lord requireth
it at thy hand.”

So now the Indian stands at our right hand,
not so much as a suppliant, but a brother demand-
ing his rights ; and having awaked to our duty, we
gladly, yet with considerable perplexity as to the
how, cast about in our minds what and how to re-
quite.

Brave men have worked at the problem long,
Women as brave, have struggled on and prayed.
Their work stands before us all as monuments of
wonder in the face of everything but despair.

“ The Carlisle School for the education of Indian
youth” is one of these huge endeavors success-
fully wrought out. For the young people and
the family, this volume gives space to a de-
scription, with authentic pictures, of its inception,
its working force, its methods and plans, that
by this study of what has been done, what is still
being achieved, and what the future is to bring,
we may all come soméwhat more understandingly
to a clearer idea of the claims of the Indian upon

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