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Show 130 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN APFAIRB. VIRGINIA. Dampton. 1wtitute.-Each year Con ess makes appropriation for the tuit~ona nd maintenance of 120 1 n E n children. Only those are enrolled who are capable of passing satisfsctory mental and physical tests and who are ambitious to become leaders amon their own people. A record is kept of students after leaving sc% 0 01, which furnishes authentic information regarding the uses to which they put their training and education. This is one of the best equipped industrial schools in the United States, and the Indian boy has an excellent opportunity to become skilled in one or more of the eighteen or twenty trades taught, with equal advantages for acquiring a practical knowledge of farming, dairying, poultry wising, etc. Attention in detail is given to train-ing girls to become homemakers, the work of domestic economy being especially ood The acafemic departments offer every advantage for obtaining an excellent English education, the class room and industrial branches ' being closely connected. Pupils, if they so elecb, may devote the entire day to industrial work and attend the evening sessions in the academic departments. Whatever of value the Indian child has by race inheritance is pre-served; and classes are conducted in native tribal music, basketry, pottery, rug weaving, etc. The educational and physical requirements governing admission of Indian pupils to this model training school have resulted in the enrollment of desirable students. The practical foundation upon which the curriculum is based and the high efficiency of teachers in both literary and industrial branches, afford pupils ideal oppor-tunities to fit themselves for special work among their people, the primary object sought by this institution. WASHINGTON. C O L AG~ENC Y. The Indians under the Colville Agency compare favorably with those of other reservations in civilization, thrift, industry, and hon-esty, although the excessive use of intoxicants is a drawback to the advancement of many promising young Indians. Spurred by the recent surveys and process of allotment they are selecting their lands with care, .and fences are being moved to conform to survey lines. These Indians furnish all the hay and grain needed for agency use, as well as the wood for fuel. The sanitarium.-Your instructions for the transformation of the agency boardin school into a sanitarium boarding school for In-dlan children agicted with disease, provides educational advantages for many children whose physical condition heretofore prevented their attending school; and under competent medical supervision and an efficient teaching staff your dual object of improving their health and giving them the rudiments of an education will be ac-complished. The attendance at first has been small, owing to the tendency of Indians to view with suspicion any innovation and their reluctance to entrust the care of sick children to strangers. It is |