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Show REPORTS OF SUPENINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. 377 Attorney Johnson's knowledge add efficiency the matter was made plain that the Government.had an eqoity worth fighting for, and a proposition looking to final ad,j!justment will soon be st hand for consideration and reaammendation. Visitam.-Their name is legion. All are m a e welcom~. Each one is a sov4reign , citizen with perfect right to make any examination int.0 the stewardship thst does not ioterfere with the workings of methods involved. We desire thst ail should h d something to commend, sud I am glad to note thet I can find more that I want to ohsnge for the better thananyone who has ever visited.me,not excepting o5cisl . , inapeotors. Employ6s.-Under this heed I wns last year guilty of oritioising the opinions of 8 my superiors as since expressed. For this I am sorry, doltbly aomy ; a o q I expressed an opinion not in harmony with the opinion of my snperiora and sorry my enperlor8 entertain the opinion oriticised. My timt duty is subordination to superiors so long ' a I am subordinate, but I do favor compelling the Indians to patronize the schoals the Government is at 80 much expense to maintain, and I do think the average agent. is better ospsble of deoiding whether or not a child should be educated than the smartest Indim on the reservation. On everp reservation I find among employ4s white mothers snd white fathers who have given np their children that they might hare eduoational advantages not found on the reaervstion. These whitepeoplelove their children quite a8 mnch a8 the Indian parwnts. Tnm,'the Indian parents do not we the benefits derived as white parents do, bat thet ia why our Government has made wards of the Indians, that the Crest Father at Waahingtan might see the . things that $ere best and at the same time bey,ond the ken of the Indian ward. As a matter of policy, a, onstom mas be and should be varied by oiroumstEnces; but as s principle, the white mother loves her child as much as the Indian. The white mother snffela as deeply on the removal of her child; .he knows of a. thonsand pit-falls that may dash her highest hbpes and lead her in sorrow to her grave which sre . beyond the knowledge of the Indian woman, yet the white mother nets and suffers. I maintain thst the Indian is not born better or more worthy in the sight of Almighty God than his white brother, and the very same process that will make of 'his white brother a good citizen will make the ssme of the Indian. To my wife, my clerk, and the assistrbnt teacher I am indebtedfor work cheerfully, well, and faithfully done. To a. more limited degree1 am so indebted to the princi-pel teacher, who ia certainly cheerfully willing. Of the others I have spoken else-whero, except thelaondresa. A more capable laundress csn not be found in theaerv-ice, but the efficiency of the Isnudry for the past year ha. fallen far below thst of the preceding year. This i6 lerqaly attributable to the fact that Ute blood, the blood of the lsundresq weut into the laundry this year for the first time. I antici- ~ t B oeh a n ~ eof methods in the laundry that will bring thia department baok to its omer condition of efficiency. In oonclusion,permit me to append hereto a statitiatioal table of sohool products for the pear, whrch forms a part of my report. 8ewing room. 1 . Carpentw shop. Aprons, assorted. ................. Bonnets, sun ............ .; ....... Chemiloons ...................... Cloths, table ............ ..-. ..... Cnrtnios, window ................ Drawers, pairs ................... Dresses, assorted ................. Dresses, night ..................... Pants, cheviot, bop ........ pairs.. Pants, jeans, boys.. ........ .do... Pillowcases ...................... Sheeta, bed.. .; ................... Skirts.. .......................... Towels.. ......................... Undershirts ...................... Waiats.. ... .:. ....... r ........... I ................... . Dairg. Hay :..tons.. 20 Oats, in straw ............. do.. . 6 1 Bntter .................. pounds.. 1,406 Pornpkins ...................... 614 Milk ................... .gdlons.. 5,115p Sorghum ................ .tons.. 4 I 114 132 34 2 7 21 73 3 I Apiary. Inarsnse of stook. Honey .................. pounds.. 100 Cslvw .......................... 13 Building, house, coal ............ Screens, window ................ Shades, window ................. Sidewalk. ................. feet.. Shoe and harness ehop. Boots, men's .............. pair.. Halters ......................... Shoes, boy's. .... .........pairs.. Shoes, men's. .............. do. .. Shoes, misses' ............. do.. . Show, women's ............ do.. . I hnve the honor to be, very respeotfnlly, I THEO. G. LEPMON, Superiwtend~nt. The COMMIBBIONEORF 1m1m AFBAIRB. Farm and garden. ................. .~ouuds.. |
