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Show teachers and clergymen. During the past year a number of these who are pursuing their studies in colleges and professional schools received help from the Government. I have had considerable sympathy with this part of the work, as I be-lieve the higher education of the few who are thus lifted in intelligence rand power above the mass is very essential for the highest welfare of the whole. They become leaders and examples and exert a very wide . and ordinarily wholesome influence upon their own people and also upon public sentiment by showing the capacity of the Indians for the - higher walks of life. I can not help expressing my regret that it has been deemed wise to suspend this feature of the work. HEALTH OF INDIAN PUPILS. One of the most perplexing ditliculties which the office is called upon to contend with in school work is the health of Indian child re^^.' Many of them come to the school already diseased, others with peculiar sus-ceptibilities to disease, and they suffer more or less perhaps from the greatly changed couditions df life to which they are thus subjected. Someof the diseases with which the superintendents have been called upon most frequently to contend hare been scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, small-pox, sore ejes, and lung troubles. (See Appendix p. 173.) The difficulties in the wa.y of improving the Indian schools have been so many and so great that at times it has seemed well-nigh impossible to overcome them. it has required all the. persistence, patience, inge- / I . . unity and hard work that could possibly be summoned in order to make the progress already achieved. The history of the struggle of the past two years will never be written, and is only known to those t,hat have pat their lives into it. If the results that issue from these labors, anxieties, and discouragements are at all commensurate with the expee tations of those who have endured them, they will constitute their chief reward. PURCHASE OF LAND FOR SCHOOL SITES. The 160 acres of land which was authorized by the Indian app&pri-ation act approved August 19, 1890 (26 Stab., 358), to be purchased near the village of Flaudreau, Moody County, South Dakota, for ao Ipdian industrial-school site, was purchased on the 30th of March, 1891,. for $2,000, the sum stipulated in the appropriation. By the same act Congress authorized the purchase of additional land for Easkell Institute at Lawrence, Eansas. I gave this matter my 1 personal attention when at the institute last November, and the north-west fractional quarter of sectfon 18, township 13 S., range 20 E., con-taining 153.W acres, was purchased for $7,680. Another amall piece, contaiuing 9.54 acres and costing $1,928, was added, making a total |