THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS,

her mind, and to ascertain if the knowledge were
real or only superficial. The first thing with these
teachers seemed to be to make the pupil grasp the
idea, and work at it until it was understood. In
all cases this appeared to be thoroughly striven
for before the second step should be taken. I
attribute to this sensible, conscientious care, the
well-grounding in the rudiments of knowledge that
the Carlisle children are receiving. And the Insti-
tution is to be congratulated in the possession of
' such a competent, painstaking and devoted instruc-
tor as Miss Carrie M. Semple. She was educated
at the Western Female College, Cincinnati; for
years connected with the work of instructing the
Freedmen of the South at Fiske University, also
superintendent of the public schools at St, Augus-
tine, Florida. ‘

I wish I could give space to mention individu-
ally the different teachers of this department of
the school life—the intellectual training. I en-
joyed conversation with many of them, and caught
never-to-be-forgotten glimpses of their devotion and
adaptation to the cause. But the length of list
forbids.

There are at present at Carlisle School four
hundred and thirty-three pupils, one hundred and
sixty of whom are girls, representing thirty-six
tribes,

We will glance at some of these pupils in their
native dress. Here is White Buffalo, a youth of
eighteen years of age, with naturally gray hair,
Tom Navajo, Iron, Northern Arapahoe, and Man-
uelito Chow, son of the former great chief of the
Navajos, Manuelito. ,

The group of boys given represents six Osage
Indians. All of them have good, clear faces, while
the little fellow down in lower left corner might be
“our boy” in some cultivated home-circle, as far
as bright, lovable appearance goes, ,

Susie is the sole representative of her tribe, the
Delawares or Leni, who were patties to the cele-
brated treaty with William Penn. They have
been bought out, fought out, and driven out, from
One point to another as the Anglo-Saxon forced
his way across the country, until at present there
remains a mere handful in the southern part of
the Indian Territory. Susie is an exceptionally
bright child, with a sweet voice, and is a member
of the school choir, The doll (which certainly
Seems possessed with ambition to be a model of

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deportment) was a gift through that good friend to
the school, Miss Susan Longstreth, of Philadel-
phia.

Some two weeks after my return to Boston, I
was very much touched by the reception of a pack-
age of sketches which some of the Carlisle pupils
had executed for me. Out of a generous number,
I am compelled to select but three. So I give
Otto Zotom’s idea of a battle with United States
troops. Otto, of course, had his patriotic duty to
his own tribe to perform, yet he is very generous

 

SUSIE AND HER DOLL,

to his white brethren. The hills seem to trouble
him somewhat, his rules on perspective not being
so thoroughly acquired during his few months’ so-
journ at the school as to be wholly at his com-
mand, Yet he gets over it very well, and shows an
original dash and force, born of his extremity.

It is a singular fact that the Indian children un-
der education and the influence of family life are
very averse to fighting. In their reachings after
civilization, there is a recoil from the revenge,
brutality and love of conquest attendant upon war.
In their letters, in their talk, in their spirit, more