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Show SUMMER SOHOOLS. The future of the Pueblo Indian will take care of itself when every Indian child nnder 14 years of age is compelled to attend a well-equipped day school, and every child between 14 and20is placedin a mauual-training school: when Pneblo Indian governors learn that the and their people are amenable to all the laws of the Territory, and that the ogce of the governor will be continued only so long as theae governors reapect the laws and support the schools in the matter of compelling attendance and sustaining the authority of the teacher. The Pueblo Indian must be taught that Christianity is a mnch greater thing than an and all denoninationahsm, that if he would have his religion respected it must gear some relation to his morals; '.That the world has not mnch need for great things, hut there is a great and ceaseless oall for small things-and that no son1 lives in vain that in a shadowy corner has shown according to its power a light" MORAL TRAINING. [Sopt. J.C.H~x+~,OneidSach ools,W iseonsio.1 Two years ago I expressed the opinion, which I still hold, that the library train-ing would receive its full share of attention in the school. beeam there is a more or less definitely prescribed course of stndy that each child must follow, and in charge of teachers especially qualified for the work. Indnstrially we are not able to guarantee so much assistance, partly because the facilities ars sometimes lacking and partly because the requirements for workers in the industrial field are not so exacting as with teachers. It is in the third direction, that of the moral training, that we are especially, per-hapsnecessarily, weak.. So far as the work has been under my observation, the mere sharpening of the intellect does not necessarily make a'hetter man, and in our work at least a good man is more to bedesired than a great scholar. 1 think that a3 a rule I should choose that the individual be first a good man, than a pod worker, and last a good scholar. For the reason thatif the man himself is nprlght and honest he will probably choose to be industrious and self-supporting, and any youthwho has hadtwoor three yearsof school trainingcan certainlymakehimaelf understood. It is not h e , however, that the good scholar is necessarily a good man, nor is the goodworker always trusty, although of the two I should probably choose the worker as being the mare reliable. In the schools we aim to nuite the worker and the scholar in one person, and far that purpose there is provided a corps of literary teachers, usually one for each 50 pupils, and a large force of matrons, seamstresses, cooks, farmers, etc.-all teach-ers of industrips; but for the moral and religious training there is no special pro-vision; and whileall areexpected to do what they can in thisdirection, it is evident that very few of those occupying such positions are especially qualified to act as guides in these higher spiritual matters. I desire to give due credit to themissionaries, male and female, of all creeds and denominations, for their patient, unselfish services on the reservations, but, in the nature of things, it is not possible for them to reach the children in ffihool as they should be reached. I am free to accept assistance from any sourceand by whatso-ever name itmay heknown, provided only that the aim be the building up of strong, pure, Christian manhood. This matter appeals to me o5cially as well as privately, for of a11 the caaes of violation of marriage laws, of drunkenness, or other crimes of misdemeanor, few, if any. can be traced to the church people. I therefore appreciate these great moral forces at their full1 value and only regret that it is not possible to give more attention in the schools to the moral training. The section of matrons and tho department of domestic science met in theread: ing r?otal of the .\lethodist Eplncoyal church July 9. Ill.:$) a. m., with a good attendance. Miss Blanchard, of Crow Creek Agency, 9. Dak., who was an.n .o intea chairman of the sectlon, called the meeting tobrdrr. hlms \Inry Holsinger, of Fort dill, Dlrla , was appointed aemetarg. The chair callod noon those nresent for lrue~tionsth at thev wished debatcd and an interef ing discnision, in w'hich nll took part, followed. - The crowded condi-tion of the sleeping rooms of many of the reservation schools was considered. Plans for their imnrovenneut and mrthoda of onBcednre toobtain more room were ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~~-~ ~ proposed. Reporti showed need of more rooin in many caaes. M;S. Nordin, of Mount Pleasant, Mich., Mrs. Peaks, of Riverside, Okla., and Mrs. Peticolas, of |