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Show 474 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOL8. and soft. Select no frivolous songs; hymns and atxiotic songs, melancholy and im ressive themes, are best rendered by Indian chifdren. 80 not give difficult problems in arithmetic to Indian children. Teach them a simple thorough method of figuring. Throw books and mathematia into the fire. If you use any they ought not to contain the solutions of the example given, or any puzzling problems. Teach them by example. Commit to memory what you are going to teach. Select from history, ~eographya, nd grammar the most important points. Omit whatever is of no matenal value. Do not fo t to re eat incessantly and you will be gratified with the result. The brighter pu % will den investigate. They will ask you, and something higher can be taught tiem. In reference to recreation, my views are these: I would allow them lenty of healthful and harmless physical exercise; but I would not call them togetfer, boys and girls, for a dance. You may say that I am too severe and old-faah~oned. But a school is s. school, and a ballroom is a ballmom. You ma attmt the Indian child-ren but you will not benefit them. I do not my this in ordier to find fault with what is done, perhaps with the best of intentions, but I believe that there is too much of exciting recreation among young and old Indlans. If yon have to punish an Indlan pupil do it humanely. Quick-tempered people at an Indian school are in the wrong place. Sometimes punishment becomes neces-sary because those in charge are not watchful. Who is the more to blame, the err-ing upil or the careless employee? ~ %edeuc ation of the Indim children is a g r a t deeming feature in the policy of the National Government in reference to the Indians. It has been generoas and even paternal in providing a free and thorough education for the Indlan children. Those who desire to learn something may do so. The may equip themselves with a common-school knowledge; they may learn some kidof trade, some kind of work; they may become capable of supporting themselves b some honest labor and became loyal cihzena of this great Republic, which I truat d d in His goodness may guide and k e e u~n til the end of time. THE CHURCH AND THE INDIAN. By Father CnnwasTBX VEnwrsT, of Loa Awelee. We want t~ civilize th.. Irtdiil~>-~IIHirI !rake lliu Irappier aud hetwr than he ia. Now, what i? ~.iviliz~tiun?D ow it i:onPi:t i n urrrrlr liviug in title houw5, ivearing fine rlotlle~h, aving tile rlnuusax~Ia ud one cuu~iur t~tblwi wl~itea'! A LUM may Luve all thrpe &d atillLe \.icioui, immoral bad. Our for~ebs. nit~dl~.mha,n k w&km are ci\ilireJ mtxn, but theirciviliration'is nratrrialiim, pure and rimplt. nIoncy uml nleasur~r are the tw~o~ articles o~~f rretrl of -I.h i ~n~ ilt~r~rialisticr i~vi~lizatiol.- S-u~lr\\. ~8* t~he ~ ~~~ ~-~ c~nhzationof ancient Rome and Greece. It saa rhe rl~nrch that lint chtiminired and therebv ci\ilirr<l our anvient fore-fatlirr=. 1 ' 1 1 ~u i i ~ i u rmrain~d~ t h~-it~e~,l:~Lraouwchr~t th; bavharianr agriculture aud the am of i.irilin.<l life. All this mob cvnrurivr ro at.co~holish. ~ ~~~ ~~ . ~~~~~~ ~ ~~~ .\P Foon as the Inrdian hesomes 3 con vet^ ;a i'h&ianit; he iutu~r~liatrlbye gins to adopt the hnbira uf sitilized life. What the L.LUI.,.LhI a t > o ~ l r1 01. tlle lnd~ansc an hu see5 everywhere. God save the Indian fmm such materialistic civilizztion! It is acurse, not abless-ine. It does not elevate man. hut draes him down and makes him the slave of base p&sions. What civilization then, do we want to give to the Indian? We want to give him civilization that wili make him better; that will make him know, repere, and serve the p a t G od that made him; make him conscious of his accountabll~tyt o God and to h s conscience and to his fellow-man for his acts. In a word, we want to give him a civilization that will make him a man in the fullest senseof the word-h?nest, con-scientious, reliable, and industrious. Such a man is the noblest type of cwilization. To impart to the Indian this true civilization-the only kind of civilization worthy the name--we want religion. Any system of education that ignores religion is a sham. THE PRACTICAL IN OUR SYSTEM OF INDIAN EDUCATION. By Mrs. J ~ S I CEO OK. The first official Indian report was made seventy-seven years ago. The map which accompades that report presents a wonderful contrast to the map that appears with the latest report of the Indian Office. A glance at the eat area of "unexplored country" teaches us how young we are as a nation. The Indian service 18 still |