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their proper placés at Carlisle. No encroachments
on the other’s rights is allowed either, by the wise ad-
ministration at the head of affairs there. The chil-

 

THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS,

tact that brings out the best in the Indian charac.
ter, constantly used by the man who is working
out the daily problem of their elevation. Edgar
Fire Thunder, a bright, in-
teresting boy, was making us
a speech of welcome, and also
describing his entrance into,
and life at the school. All
was going on well; guests were
pleased with his sturdy, self-
possessed manner, and inter-
ested inhis manly words. Sud-
denly poor Edgar, like many
another in similar position,
found that the graceful wind-
ing-up of his speech had treach-
erously forsaken him. All his
pleasing unconsciousness was
gone, leaving a mild kind of
stage fright. How we sym-
pathized with the poor fellow,

 

 

THE TIN SHOP.

dren are taught what they will use when going out
from the school. In all cases, the training is done
patiently, systematically, sensibly and thoroughly.
It is a happy, busy place, where the individuality
of each child is brought out healthfully; his or her
bent of mind carefully studied, and its wants pro-
vided for. If a boy shows a taste for wagon-
making, he is allowed to follow it, and not thrust
into the tin shop, where, like many another boy

obliged to pursue a given calling against his will, .

he might turn out stupid and spoil a very genius
for producing wagons.

The wagon shop at Carlisle has twelve appren-
tices constantly employed making wagons for the
Indian service; sending them into nearly every
Territory, even to Washington Territory and Ore-
gon. Captain Pratt writes me: “ During my recent
trip to the West, I saw quite a number of our
wagons in use by the Government and the Indians,
and rode nearly two hundred miles in one.” [We
know the good Captain enjoyed that ride more than
the pleasure afforded by the most luxuriously
appointed car on the whole Pacific route !]

Speaking of the thoroughness of the training -

given at Carlisle, one little incident which deeply
interested us all, will serve as fitting illustration;
also giving some faint idea of the kind, delicate

and hung on his forlorn

efforts to recover the cue,
Captain Pratt stood patiently waiting at the side
of the room for the lad to recover himself; and as
Edgar became at last still and hopeless, like a
stranded thing on the tide of endeavor, there broke
out such a kind, cheery voice, that it touched
every heart.
“Edgar works in
the blacksmith’s

shop,” the voice
said; “now if he
will go to the

shop, and put on
his working suit,
the Secretary,
Senators and par-
ty will meet him
there to see him
weld an axle in
one heat.”

The boy’s face
fairly glowed.
Chagrin and
hopeless depres-
sion forsook him,
and he lifted up his head with restored manliness,
and strode out, again his sturdy little self. I
never saw such a kindly thing more delicately

   

TOM NAVAJO,