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Show ADDRESSES AT CHARLESTON, 8. 0. 453 When agenemtion of earnest, ca able, industrious women have been trained, a long step toward the regeneration of the race will have been taken. I t is not reason-able to expect the Indian young man to fomke the ways of his ancestors as long as he is encouraged to continue in them by the praise of the women and driven by their ridicule from better things. Until there is a revolution in his home life and training the unbridled license of the camps, the dreamy delight of the mescal feast, and the wild excitement of home racing, gambling, and ghost dancing will continue to attract him. TEACHING TRADES TO INDIANS. [Mr. F. J. ROOEBS, Hampton lnstimte, Virginia.] Mv fimt exwrience with Indians was in the late m m e r of 1897, when I met a seorE or n~or e ' s l~hoa d jwt arrived at Ham ton Institute. T h i . were almost the 6,mt Indians I had ever seen outside tlrt \\'if1 \VQF~~I L O Wau d the Kicka u ul~lli- <.me r~nm-n.. .W lleu thew ludine. nrrivrd at llau~t,rona nd uurnl the tx,nfwlwr r I ~~ ~ ~~ was stanaing with my little girl, she exclaimed; "Why, ;vhere are their feathera, ,.....,?'? and has shown3hat he has the necemarybua~ificatiol; for a yery mod machmiet a d is anxious to keep on. The machinist'> imde i r one whirl1 cai In. peptul only I,y one of conaiclcml~lctr nenlal al,ility,sn~lh e o u ~htil ye murll p o d judgment in tracing out caul.~~~earnffdtf ct. It RPe001 tome that what thir nsnic.ularhov mnqt havr in wdvr |