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Show pistol in your pocket and nuder your pillow ?" When $he teacher calmly replied with a s~nileth at she never had snspccted any danger and car-ried no wea.pou? the visitor n-as nonplussed. The sensatioual stories of reporters about Indian ontbrealts aud assassiuations foster the old-time fears of red meu ; bnt those familiar with Iudians are astonished at the amonut of gollibility still existing. It was my duty to travel all over the two States of l)akota, l~undredso f miles out on t,he reservetiolls, Boon after the late uprising. I traveled without even a pocket pistol, and I saw not oue case of all Indian who could be called ilhostile" or who showerl any evil intent. I eveu felt safer weJt of the 31isdonri River than east of it, though there mas no alarm ill either locality. The same is true ou all the ninety-three res-ervstious I have visited, except some parts of the San Citrlos Apache Reservation. It is refreshiog to hear the statementu of the Inrlian worker3 iu the far West. Uuited States Indian Agent Eells, of Tacoml, relates that from twelveto twenty-two years ago he spent mauy years wit.h hisfam-ily out among and thickly snr~~ou~~bryle dth e Indians, bat without harm tkom stab, b l o ~s~ho, t , or threat; that the family wash was left out day and night to dry, and no articles missed ; that tools were left in the opcu shed, and the doors of the house ~unloclred. aud nothing suf-fereddann; and that he had uo occasion to use force'or show a weoiLpdn save in case of an arrest,. L A lady n7ho twenty years ago went to Lynden, Wash., mit,liin 6 miles of the Eritish line, on the Xoolrsack River, says: "We neve,r louked our house until after the mhite peol~leb egan to settle near us as neigh-bors, and we never lost anything by Indians." ltev. Wilbur, mission-ary, ant1 later United States agent for twenty years at Fort Simcoe, Wash., gave the sante testimony; as did also .Agents Smith, at Warm Spriugs, Sinnott, st Grand Roude, Cornoyer, at Umatilla, and the first Monteith, at Nez Perch. Since 1855 it has bee:l difficult for troubleso~ne Indians beyond the Rockies to io~loceo thers to joiu them in hostilities. tn 1835 the Klick-itat ruuuers ha,d a hard time in enlistiug any tribe to join them in their n~~frieudlcyl emo~~stration;s a nd in 1877 i t was impossible for Ohief Joseph to rally many allies. For over thirty years the reserva-t, ions in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and California have been safely traversed, save dinnng the brief trouble with the Modocs, abont tventy years ago. QUALITY OF EDUCATION. I n a previous aunual report I said it was my opi~iiont hat as a whole the Government scl~oolsw ere the best, in respect to real scholarship. There are solue very excellent contract schools, condncted by Presby-terians, Episcol~aliausR; omau Catholics, a,nd Congregationalists; but none of them are auite eonal to the best Government schools. thoug. . h ;I fkn- :!re nut I I I ~ C I I I~el~i~ndIt. is S : I ~10 Jay r l ~ i ~~I tI c ' gt!~~er;at\l. erii:e c,i'rl~c( :ovrr~~~ncsc-l~.o.rn ls is ;~hnvetl m g- e~~er;nivle r.lge of the rontr:wr schools. I have little sympathy with the complaint that "religious exercises take too mnch time in the contract schools," and that in the Roman Catholic scl~ools lLabout all the children learn are nravers, the cate-all cases, if I may accept the statements made to me, but little time in-school hours is occupied with such exercises, particnlarly with the cate- |