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Show newspapers have furnished everything known upon this subject in this region. As for the "jail," LLprison,o" r tLdungeon," to which captured pu~pils rere taken, let me say- I personally visited the place. The room there, comn~only called "the lockup," is entered by a door from the boys' sitting room. It is furnished in the same style as the sitting room, a i ~ dIIO alteration whatever has been made in it during the four years ill which it has beeu used for the confinement of offenders. It has no 1111 y,i io q, i l i~srl vr ~)ulleys1,1 01. ally p~~ssihelc~ ~ n v e ~ l ifcnv~ t~l1c.arw iug up a ~ ~ y r h iln~1~rcg11,l e ss u IJII~[j;u t rlne N,OIII is t~~r l l i shwri~t1l1 l~r tal nd blii~tk~isI.I ,A~L*nIiI tCwIo U I I , I I ~ ~ I $C'O I I ~ ~ I I ~ I I I I : II IIO~ .t :vidc~~cI!:eIII 11e pro. dnced that any boy has been coufined more than ten days-a verybad case. One or two days is the coinmon sentence, five to seven days rarely, and all sentences are determined by a jury of "cadets," who are ~uni ls.t he suaerintendeut sometimes shorteiiiue. but never lendhen- + & , -, u 3ng, a sentence. This accuser is one of those prolific authors wl~oca n write more glibly without a basis of facts than with one. Evidently his sphere is the i117-elition of fiction, but I protest against the adoption of snch fiction by tho Amer ica~p~eo ple as bona fide facts. 1 nevt call attelltion to- 11. lIIXDRAKC'CES IS THE WAY OF THE BEST I'BOGRESS. TIIC first is- UKFAYORABLE FRONTIER INFLUENCES. Tltc aboripines in their ~rimitive character would have bee11 mnch anti many 111dTaus as well, have rel&l~sedto gether i6to a- type oi' people fatally irl the way of true progress. Oharlevois tersely said of the earlier French voyagers: "The savages did not become French, but the Wrench became savages." V'ront,iersmen, like the people in the older localities, the best awl the worst, stirred by promptings, some uoble and some bsse, mis:m. thropes, desperadoes, barbarized Christians(B), and houest, virtuous pioueers have pushed out on the broad fringes of the West and estab. listied new communitie$, often semicivilized and semisavage, from the influence of which tlie better civilization nom seeks to deliver the red men who hover aronnd. More than that, in advance of the pioneers \!-ere first the "couriers des hois," and later the "sqtuam-men," airy. free, hazardous men, ~ h tohre w off civilization, easily a.dapted theiii-selves to wild life, toolr Indian wives, introduced strong drink, and left behirid a uumerons progeny of half-bloods. Thus have the natives been degraded and the difficulties of philanthropy enhanced. The chasm between Europeans and natives, between civilization aud barbarism, has been strangely bridged on the changing frontier. Red men and white men on the great divides have interlinked their races and their destinies, merging differences. For every red man civilized hundreds of white men have been barbarized. It takes years to bring an Inaian up to the plane of true white civilization; but a white man in a few moutl~s will tumble to the level of a savage. Whites |