58 THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS.

under the training of Mr. Amos Miller, an experi-
enced farmer. The crops raised here compare

 

OSAGE BOYS,

favorably with those of the best neighboring farms,

- About one half of the pupils are placed out dur-
ing the summer vacation in the families of farmers,
where they learn, by practical experience, the details
of agriculture and civilized life. This feature of
the school life has been productive of the best
results.

I wish that space would allow me to quote from
the letters in the Aforning Star, the paper pub-
lished by the Indian boysat Carlisle. These letters
are written by pupils living in different families
through the long summer vacation, that they may
learn to put their knowledge in domestic and farm
matters to the proof, while they are in positions to
acquire, through association with practical teach-
ers, many valuable additions to their store of
knowledge. They are graphic, ambitious, and of
excellent spirit, often funny, from the marked
individuality of the writer, and the violent strug-

gle to get the best of the English language. But
not even one of the letters may be crowded in,
for magazine limits must be banded with the stern
fiat of necessity, and this article already is swell-
ing toward its uttermost bound.

The exercise, drilling and mental discipline of
the various school departments afforded us intense
pleasure. Particularly as we noticed a marked
absence of that disagreeable feature of most school
exhibitions —the “show system.” It was not
with any desire to parade knowledge that pupils
exhibited on the platform and before the black-
board what they knew. It was the conscientious
wish to show their methods of study; to display
to the guests the workings of the different minds
to be disciplined, Often impromptu questions and

 

IRON, NORTHERN ARAPAHOE.

diversions to the train of reasoning would be pre-
sented to the pupil, to disclose the trend of his or