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44 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, POKTLAND, JANUARY 17, 1907. .. . ' . . , 1 " , '' 1 1 ' 11 v IMBM THyiYlANNEiR SELF -AVOWED ', PRESIDENT R0031VEUI BY" FRHDER I OJv BOYD STKVENSON". w-HKRE3 Ja a Ions tunnel-like passage- KRHDER I OJv BOYD ST FTV I5N HON -ifRE3 is a Ions tunnel-like passagi way leading down to. . Forakcf I m COmmillW-rOOm thA 4nn.t - ArtrVi. mlttoe on Pacific Islands and Forto Rico. Strung: along: thin passage and blocking: Hie way to the door of the committee mom, the other day, were a half score of Ohio -politicians.1 Thy were waiting: -to see Senator Foraker. They bad Just heard him deliver-perhaps "fire" would be the better word his philippic against the President of the United States v In the Brownsville affair. They had seen him in the Senate Chamber, with the law books and the Army records and letters and data stacked upon his desk artd I aoouc nis aesk. They had heard each taustic word accentuated oratorkally" with a cool., deliberate, distinct, stinging voice and they had seen each word punc tuated srestlculatorily with hands and arms wielded with pugilistic precision. In another minute Foraker himself bobbed Into ti tunnel. He. hurried ihroogh the gauntlet oT Oh loans and half nurst, half fell into liis room, His face was white, his gray hair was in strinjes, and his collar was wilted. 'Oi vo me a drink of water.' he whis- pcied, ' The Ohioana crowded around him. That was a. erreat ispMch." said one. Foraker drained the water from the tllass. Then he sprang to his feet and began shaking- hands rlg-ht and left. "CSlad to oe-e you! Glud to see you!" he cried, first to this one and then to that one. calling each by name. One man drew him aside and' whis pered earnestly into his ear. "Yes, yes," said Foraker aloud. : Another man drew him gently to an other comer. And the other man whis pered into the other Senatorial, ear. "Yes, yes," said Foraker again, and he nodded vigorously. Then three athletic sons of Ohio h j tured him. Ftoraker smiled the smile.' of Pleasure, but the deep lines on his ra race told the tale ot the jaded man. "Tomorrow, tomorrow," he said faint ly to all. Then to his secretary: ., "Did you call a cab?" And again to the Ohlo aris: ''Gentlemen, I'll see you tomorrow. I must go home." Busiest Man In the Senate. And on the morrow there was Foraker as brisk and as vigorous as if 61 years 'had not been crowded into his busy life. Foraker la one of the men In the Senate who -works. His enemies may say he is bitter; they may say he is revengeful: hey may even aay he is vindictive, but fchey cannot deny that he la everlastingly. incessantly busy. He is up ever morn- In before daylight, and it is after mid- nlsrht nearly every nisht before he re. tires. rurlngr the most active sessions or tho Senate-no matter what fight he may have on hand he never neglects to keep up his extensive line of reading;. With out exception, he is undoubtedly one of the best Latin and Greek scholar in public life. But busy as he is in Wash ington with, the affairs of the Nation and the affairs of his state which state, hj- thc way, keens its Senators fully occu pied he remains In close touch -with the law. and does more legal practice when in Cincinnati than any other man in the l-'nlied States Senate. That he Is one of the hardest workers in Congress is an established fact. but. despite his hard work, he maintains his health. Once a friend asked him how he did it. "By- riding, driving and '.walking," said Koraker. As to the political side of Foraker well some say there are several political sides; at any rate, there are many views by a n ca n t$i ve a n ac- the outsiders no m curuto diagnosia, t)e,leve tuat Foraker lias been honest in this Brownsville fight," said one close Administration me the other evening- in Washington believe he is sincere in the stand tie has taken and is doing what he believes is rifrht." ; It is perhaps as well for the Adminis tration to belies this, but the feeling is not shared by other circles,. j "Foraker and Brownsvlll e! reiterated Another. "Wis i ration that's position is an'tl-Adniinis "Whateta Foraker from .now on, Foraker is playing politics. IN ,Vidy know8 the game better than For- Watch him. Always Ufl'ft lynr !.. lV .1.1 .1 . '. s it, in, is me oiu story oi roraKer, the ligrhter. He began that nKhtinK career "r his way back In the eighteen fifties in tHillsboro, when, although so slender that lib playmates dubbed him "Skinny," he ;could lick any boy in school. Following ;tip this line of physical aggressiveness. he enlisted with the Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteers when only 16 years : old. : and was the youngest soldier, from that state to nSht in the Civil War. In three years he was a brevet Captain, went all through Itlie Atlanta campaign, and when he was mustered out was an aide-de-camp on jtieneral Slocum's staff. The late AV. r. Sherman once said to him, In referring Jto tho battle of Bentonville: "Well I remember you. my young friend, ks you came through the pine woods that jday on your -horse, covered with lather. "You came up like a soldier and reported .to me the message from your General, -Slocura. A.' knight errant with . steel -ulrass, hia lance in hand, was a beautiful thing, and you are. his legitimate suc cessor. I wish you all honor, all glory, all fame. I wish you may rise to the highest position this American people can give to you." And It is for this highest position that Foraker is now . said to be engaged : in the greatest fight of his life. If you asl him -point blank if he is a candidate for the Presidency he will smile (rood natured ly and well, he may- talk about the weather. "But make no mistake about Foraker," - said one who has followed the Senator's career in Washington and Ohio, "for he lias the Ohio machine veil, in hand. And not only has he the Ohio machine, but he has a pood chance of controlling many ,of the members off the National Repub- lican machine. He is going to be one ot -tho factors In 1908. Roosevelt name his 'siiccessorT No. Roosevelt, since he has ;been in office, has done nothing to buttd i:p a machine. He .will not cut any figure in the -convention. The men who stand 1 he best chance today for the Republican nomination are Foraker or Fairbanks." When a lull came on the second day following Senator Foraker's - speech, he Cry MAN WHC? 15 ANTAGONIST OP entered his committee-room after the ses- slofi and threw chair. - - JN"o. no,", he himseif into a big arm- id In answer to my pointed question; "I am not a Presiden- tial candidate, the place." And he raised Why, man, I don't want his hands deprecatingly Then he continued slowly. "There Is too grave a responsibility con nected with that position." "But, supposing the convention should nominate you," I began. "No, no," he said. "I don't want I am not seeking it. He was silent for a moment. Then he added with smile: , I'm thinking of Brownsville just Hot." "Your friends in Ohio, however ' "I am doing: the best I can'cio tor Ohio right here in the Senate,'' said he. "But certain issues will arise In. 1508 have arisen now and they must be 1119 1 by a forceful candidate in the Republic- an party," I said. - Iet us meet them in 1908.!' he eail with a smile. A moment later an Oliloan said: "Out In Ohio we all want Foraker for President, because he is such a fiprhter:' Foraker. the lighter! Always Foraker. the -Jlgnter! . Entrance Into Politics. The expression takes one" back to the Cleveland administration, when Foraker was Governor of Ohio. President Cieve- land expressed the desire that the Gov ernors of all the Northern States would return to the Confederate States the flag's captured in the South by Union soldiers. When, this request came to JForaker, he oalci: '. 'No rebel flas snail be returned wnlle I am governor of Ohio."- From this reference to the flags he re- ceived the pseudonym . 'Fire Alarm Foraker. But his career as a fighter be gan long- before -that..; After the war Foraker fought his way as a lawyer in 1 Cincinnati, and that, he has . often said, was one of the hardest fights be ever had. But he made so good In that tight he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Hamilton" County, where he re mained for three years, when Ill-health forced .him' to ; resigm. Then: politics crossed his path and with this first en trance into politics the fight in him was brougrht out, for during that gubernatorial campaign of 1883, in which he was the Republican candidate, he 1 was dubbed "FMfchtiiiK Joe" Foraker. and the slogan of the battle was "Vim. Vigor and Vic tor'!" There was vim and vigor but not victory, for . the- Democratic. nominee. JudKe Hoadley, . also of Cincinnati, and a close personal friend of Foraker, was the winner. 'Foraker had no intention of going into politics before he entered that campaign," said a friend of the Senator's, the other day, "His hole tent was with the, law; but once he entered the game, it com pletely captivated him It had . the ele ments of battle that appealed to him. He has often told me how the first news of his boom for Governor-of Ohio startled him. Me bought a paper in Cincinnati one evening and boarded a street car for home, 7 On taking a. seat In the car he opened I ihe paper, and there he saw star- injr him in the face in jrreat 'scare beads, Foraker for Governor!' He" was fright- ened and hastily folded the paper and put it in his pocket lest some acquaintance should see the tell-tale type over has shoulder. I felt as if I had committed a crime,', said he, 'and that my guilt was published to all the workj. ' Bat still there was the fascination. I could -not keep my eyes orf the paper. I took It out of my pocket and ttieni despite the risk of being caught red-handed, I devoured every word of the article.' But Senator Foraker is not so modest now," added the friend, with a laugh. "' ' . The defeat 'of Foraker for Governor . , .,. - i f i sin nit. r : w x 1 1 ?''; did not diter political . race: ' staying in- ""the His blood was warmed, and he was' ail the more eager, to make a second -'attempt. So. two years later, he - and Hoadley were again opponents for gubernatorial honors in Ohio. aker had learned a few things during the two years in which he brooded over jiis defeat. He had learnedt.ow to .make a bitter speech.- to pick out the weak spot in his enemy armor and to stab him there. It -was this very knowledge that he had acquired and become, an adept in that won him that second political bat tie in Ohio. It i that same knowledge that b uses so skillfully today. He used it- in the; Senate in his speech against the president. It is His most powerful weapon. In that second Ohio campaig n JEALOUS FARMER SLAYS SHEPHERD " . International Sunday-School Lesson for .Today Is "Tn: Story of Cain and Abel." ; 1 : BY W1LUAM T. ELLIS. 0 NE sin begets another. The father's fall often trips his son. No worse punishment comes to some parents to .see -their- early evil habits ald duplicated in : the case -of their children. Wheiv Cain the farmer. ; in i fit of mad. : Jealousy, did to death his pherd brdther Abel, the father of both. think! is back to own act which had brought sin into the wprlrj, might well have cried. wlth Caln, "My punishment Is greater tria.n I can bear!" Thus are Uvea linked with other lives, and an endless and interdependent chain. "No man llveth to himself,, and no man dieth to him self." . .' - - - v ' Th traicic event In the garden of man's first estate, when Eve hearkened to the sophistries of the subtle serpent, upset God's programme for humanity. We must fso back to it for an explanation of why the time today, are so badly out of joint,- Society is not a .beautiful, peace ful, loving; homogenous mass, In this year of our Lord. 1907. simply because human -Belf-wlll and Iniquity have been tlirust into the - emjjothly-movinfr wheels of a .divine purpose. - .The Eden 'idea ws ;hat all creation Bhould dwell together in affection and harmony. Brothers were meant to. live together In unity and mutual -enjoyment, and not In strife, jealousy or self-,seek-'Ing. .There' might be diversities of gifts and--callings, but there should be oneness of -honor. He - who - toiled and he wb ' governed . were still equals, : before Ood and in ; self-respect. . Not' rivalry, but co-operation, was' the-; plan', which! -Go- made and man spoiled: and it is the plan which will be executed Increasingly as this earth returns toward an Eden state. The Buddha in a Shirt. 4 Varmer Cain and Shepherd Abel. in course of time, brought offerings to Jeho- vah. Tbis was in-obedience to the deep-? seated instinct of. man everywhere .to honor - the supernatural. Every church spire-In (?tirlntcndom is a slf?n of mao-'a recognition of Qod. Scattered by tens of thousands over heathen lands are all sorts of temples, shrines and Idols some times an elaborately constructed and lavishly decorated building: of immense proportions, and sometimes only a rough ly hewn stone. Before literally thou- sands of these I have seen the offerings which reverence has laid upon -their altars; sometimes only a twig of green, Sometimes a tiny ball of rice, a bean cake, a bit of fruit, a jar of wine., a flsh. a- bunch of flowers, a few trifling copper coins a vase, or some other prized gift.- More than -once I have seen stone and bronze images xf Buddha decorated with cheap calico hats, bibs, shirts and aprons. However crude- and incongruous the offering, f it represented devotion,- and man's intuitive reaching up toward God and may not, be ridiculed. The difference In worship is not in t N. -.-...I W 1 I Finally, foraker I " V ' .1 , T .', Joint debate For- WCW w he used " it against Judge Hrmdley, his forrner friend and associate. Hoadley and Foraker were not only close friends 'at one time, but they were also close neigh bors, depositing their votes In the same ballot box. As the second campaign waxed warm, however, the former friends became very bitter toward one another. the manner or the girt, bat In the spirit of the worshiper. Herein was the line ot separation between Cain and Aflel, when they brought their offerings before Jehovah. Even old Plato saw this point, tor he said. "It would toe atrange ir the gods looked to gilts and sacrifices, and not to the soul." N'ot for an Instant Is the idea to be entertained that Abel's offering was acceptable because he brought of the fruit of his flock, and Cain's .unacceptable because be brought of the fruit of the field. Like some of the mystery stories, so popular of late. In fiction, which prove to be no mysteries at all, this much-magnl- fled difficulty is perfectly simple. 1 There is no need to resort to conjecture as to why Abel's sacrifice was acceptable and Cain's was not. The reason lies on the surface of Scripture, where God says to Cain (v-7).. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?" -The unfitness of the sacrifice lay In the- heart of the giver. Qod cares as much for a sheaf of wheat as for a slain lamb; but he does not care for an unworshipful spirit, no matter what its offering. CTain ap proached the divine prpence with an evil heart; therefore he was unaccept able, even as is every other person who does not worship God in spirit and In truth, even though he may build a d oaten churches, endow a university or establish a hospital. ."What, doth Jehovah require of thee, ljut to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? ' Oettlng "mad with the preacher who Chows us our BlrOrtcomings is only an ad ditional feign of our need of admonition. Cain's experience should have caused, not angrer. but , self-examination. The unac ceptableness of his offering should have jet him to searching his heart. But his later conduct only proved the righteous ness of God's refusal to accept his worship.- With the condescension that is char acteristic only of himself. God reasoned with Cain in . th latter's anger. He pointed out that the simple way to merit divine favor was to do well. Then Jeho- vah added a warning and a promise, if Cain did not amend, sin, like a' devour ing monster, lay in wait at his door. But even so. the promise ran. Cain might rule over sin: which is man's birthright, taken with him out of Eden, as a sign of ultimate conquest. The reasonableness of God in his relation wl t h. the sulky elder brother is remark able, Jllu&trating that he is "slow to anger, and plenteous fn mercy." A Orime and at Question. Back of the deed lies the" thought. It i a profound law of "As a man thinkjeth in his heart, so Is he." Cain hated Aibel before he slew htm. The murder was 4ut incidental the the jeal ousy. Jesus later taught that the desire is equal to? the deed. So in the sight of heaven Cain was a murderer before t- . elialleiised Hoadley- to a tli rmirt issue in Ohio at that time being ttie .temperance question. lr was arranged thatthe two candidates should meet, first in Toledo, and then- In Cincinnati. Both men were excellently. equipped for such a meeting. Both, were fine' orators. " Both were "well " informed as to all the details- of the political his tory of their state. Both -were quick "at. repartee. It was natural that the meet ing places were crowded to overflowing-. - Gerrymandering was one of the early sciences practiced to perfection in Ohio by both the great political parties. In former days the Republicans had gT rymandered Columbus, so .that . a po litical map of the city looked, rlke cracks in a Satsuma vase. Then' the ever his hand was raised ." to. shed - liia brother's blood. As Hawthorne's "Scar let Letter" so powerfully portrays, It Is the brand upon 'the " soul, and not the Btlgma u rx" the . breast. that " really counts. How men would shrink one from the other if alf wore to be visibly,' brand.1 ed for-their thoughts!- V . ' Why did Cam hate Abel? "Why does the bad everywhere hate the', good?. Be- cause even the coarsest nature feels re- buked by the presence of.. a finer., As Shylock hated- Antonio, -slmnlv .for the latter's integrity, so there are 'myriads of upright, clean-lived men. and-' women who are made to feel the venom of those whose evil they unconsciously rebyke. They who would, .after the fashion - of Abel, live godly lives , in . this present world must expect persecution; "v -v After the bloody deed ' had ben' don L Cain had to - face the consequences; the day of reckoning may never be evaded. The first question addressed by God to man was an Individual one, as to tils per sonal state, "Where art " thou?" .The. second was a social one. as to - his re sponsibility, " ' "Where is' Abel. thy, brother?'- That Is tlje order of progress everywhere. A person' who; his'. dealings with God cannot escape responsibility for his fellow man. . . " . ' The voice of conscience and of -God pursued the murderer everywhere. Lit erature abounds with " graphic . Illustra tions of this, same law. as in' the case of Bill Sykes. in "Oliver - Twist. " 'and ot Macbeth in Shakespeare's play. : This same unescapable voice , is heard, or will be heard, by every oppressor of the- poor, by every worker of injustice to hia kind, and by all the men responsible for what is iniquitous 1n . social. 4 conditions, , For, as in the beginning1, the blood-:-of inno cence still cries out to. God .from the Kround. and: his question groes forth1 like the voice of 'doom, ""Where is thy brother?" ' :' 1 ' ;- L ' The culprit tried to lie "I 'know not and then to equivocate-and to' avoid the direct Issue. Cain was like has father Adam in lack of; straightforwardness, "Ani I my brother keeper ? he inquires, as if to rebuke- the divine presumption. Thu early In history we find the ex pression of" the , "Look out - for number one" doctrine enunciated, W it femarked, by a murderer and a Har. Cain. knew the it iiHwpr to his - hypocritical question be fore - lie . asked It: every . man Is . hia brother's Keeper. Only thus can the so cial fabric hold 'together. ' Each -man is responsible for himself, and' must -meet that responsibility before God. He can not evade It by saying that his brother made him do wrong. That is perfectly clear. But his responsibility does not les sen his brother's, which is another mat ter. He may not shift TUs responsibility upon you, yet you, In turn, without at ail interfering with his obligations, must ac cept that responsibility. Both my brother IN POLITICO AS KLAW OHIO'S' SEHIOE SEUATOk HAS ALWAYS DELIGHTED IN ATTACK I Democrats got into power, and gerry mandered it all over again. Foraker took Hoadley to task for this latest political Job. Moadley defended him self by saying that the Democratic party simply corrected a great Repub lican wrong:. "That." said Foraker, '"reminds me of the man who had the reputation or belns: a constitutional liar. The habit erew upon him, and he aerreed with bis friends that tie ought to stop It. So. they arranged that when one of them heard-him begin to tell an unlike ly story it should be cut short with a nudge. Soon after this agreement he and one of these friends .were traveling together, and one night in the bar room of the hotel the constitutional liar said to the proprietor . "Landlord, what is that big liouse they are building back here on the road?" " ' 1 know of no bis house. said tho landlord. "'Why.' said the liar, 'it's the'biggst and I must answer for his failures which I might have prevented. The Relentless Avenger.'- One made deed made this husoandman, whose Hf had been the uneventful one of the field, a fugitive from God and from his own pursuing conscience. He became a vagabond in the land of wan-derlng.-and the builder of tire first city. Iay and night he was to realize that every, crime carries its own curse, 'and that sin is sure to find you out; whether the sin Is. found out or not. it finds out the -sinner.- In the whispering leaves oC tJie new-born trees, Cain could hear only accusing voices. In every twig that coward by conscience", ' he dreaded ven- seance at the hand of ever',, man. Small wonder tha.t he cried out. ,'fMy punlsh--ment Is greater than I -can bear." Only trie guilty Rnow the full horror of RUill -r ttief Innocent can never understand the Immeasurable sweetness of a conscience free' from off anse. - - Worse than to be slain was Cain's pud. ishment; he, was permitted to live. Branded he went forth from the presence of God to dwell with remorse. All the beauty and Kladness and hone were ex tinguished - from his life. Odious to his fellows,- but more odious to hlmseir, he dragged out a long, living torment, bnd all because he had permitted himself to get out - of sympathy - with God. out of which evil state grew jealousy, hade, murder. .. Our.Bf others in Red .feme Comment om ike t'Btfami rrmm MeeflBir Topic for Ydhik People' Societies. if V ARrs ot the Nation." the term inr frequently applied to the Ameri- can'lndlans, describes tersely their some what anomalous position within the Uni ted "States. .Lords of the soil when the flrst white- man came ' to America, ' they are now an almost extinct race, living on suffrage on 'land granted them by the "Government.' their own land havinff been usurped by the white men. The -Government. Of the United States, aroused to a sense of the, injustice thus done .to the Indians, set apart reservations In differ ent sections of tile country where he nxiKht live. Thus the scattered tribes are .today gathered together; they are grad ually adopting the habits of civilized life, and -the once - savag-e Indian, feared by isolated settlers. Is fast becoming; a thins Of the past. , ' ' "'' ' "The progress of the Indian" has been through civilization and Christianity to citlsenshlp. - For- many years it has been the practice of the Government to make, treaties with the Indians for the extinc tion of their rights to the lands occupied by them and for their removal to lands specially set apart for them. The most important an the largest of these reser vations Is the Indian Territory, which was created In 1S34. Within the limits JEMTI house I ever saw. It is 921 feet h I jrh and "Here his friend gave him a nuds. He stopped short and then quickly added : " 'And two feet wide." Ulicn He Waved flie "Bloody Shirt." . For many years' Foraker waved the "bloody shirt, and. when good o- . - sion offers, he docs not object to wavt it now. lurlng the debate with Hoad ley. the latter, who was noted for th mistakes he made, stated that the Tie- publican party had degenerated. Hoad ley himself had left the Republican ranks, he said, because of this desen- eration. He charged the Jiepublican party in that campaign with dodging the tnmperanrp Issue. "In the days." said he. "when Salmon r. Chase, who died a Democrat, and Abraham Lincoln, who died a Demo crat, and. Charles Simmer, whose last wish -was that the emblems of victory should be removed from our flag', and Horace Qreeley. who died a Democrat, and a thousand other leaders of t Ji? Republican party, who came within the fold of the Democratic party boforfl they died. were the leaders of t hat part-, that party would never ro be- fore the people and present itself for their favor, dudging an important issue." "Another Hoadley mistake. thun- " dcrcd Koraker when his turn came to spoaU. The meetlnK iiiif Icly responded .- to him with a roar. Fcraker grrasped the situation in a second. Coming to th front of the platform, with his hands upraised, lie said In Ills penetrating voice: "Governor Hoadley has given to ni surprising- information. lie has told me that Lincoln died a Democrat. I' want to tell you that the mistake he made was that Lincoln died by the hand c a Democrat." Hoadley denied the statement. The stenographer was appealed to, and the notes showed that he had made the remark. Then he admitted he had made a mistake. The house was For aker's, .and the state also, and to this one Incident It Is said ho owed his vic tory."! And Still H Fishier. Those who heard Senator f'oraker make his Brownsville speech In th Senate the other day. and who knew hlm In the' fights with Hoadley, rccojt- nize In him the same old Tire Alarm" Koraker of the Cleveland flag incident. They recognized in him the sam-a qulctc spirit ot repartee the same eagre r sar casm the same alertness to recover a lost point. This was well illustrated when he was reciting the General 1 case. Senator Lodge Interrupted Jilrn. "The Senator from Ohio must rerol- lect that there were two General Lea cases." said Lodge. "Oh, I know" said ForaKer Instant ly, "but I can't talk about them both at once." And thus he avoided an attempt to confuse his facts and figures, whhh ho was presenting: with the precision and rapidity of the trained attorney. He Is the same Foraker that he was 0 years ago. The years have M'hltened his hair, but It has not dimmed tile enthusiasm and the flgrhttngr spark, that has been wlthtnilm since those school days when he "licked" his playmates. (Copyright, 1 007. by, P. B. Stevenson.) of this reservation the Indian in pro- tected both as to his person and his property, and all offenses committed within the reservation are punished by the Government. - Recognizing Uie responsibility of the Government fdr these wards of the Xa- tion. Congress passed an act In ISisT pru vidlriK the Indians living on lands allot ted to them should be considered as citizens of the United States. The im- mediate effect of this act was to confer citlxentthlp upon more than lO.OOO Indians. Every year from lOOO to 3000 Indians sijv niry their desire to become citizens. At the present time it is estimated that there are more than 20,000 Indian voters In the t'nltd States. In addition to the provision made by the Government in securing homes for the Indian he la also beinjc educated in Government snhools, more than 1.00 board ing schools exclusively for the Indians having been established in different sec tions of the reservations. Fop a number of years the Government has taken an active interest in the wel fare of the Indian. He has been located upon reservations. fed and 'clothed; houses have been built for him ; he Iiur . been provided with teams, wagons, tools and' all the necessary implements for cultivating the fields; the children have been taught and cared for In Government schools at great expense. Yet today. after the lapse of yearn, his condition remains practically unchanged, He is still dependent upon the Government for ex- isetnee. little, if any, nearer the Knal of Independence than be was 30 years ago. . Industrial work among the Indians is proving one of the most helpful agencies in Ills transformation. Simple and prac tical knowledge which they may use in their own homes is taught in the mission schools as well as are many of the trades. Seven Sentence Sermons Ho who would be a Rrt'iit hou! in the future must be a great soul now. Emer son. Not in the clamor of the street. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the thron?, But in ourselves are triumph and dofpat. Anon. Great truths are greatly won, not found by chance. Bonar. . IjOv of our neighbor in the only door out of the dungeon of self. George Mac- donald. a Rvery noble crown is. and on earth ever will be, a -crown of thvma. Carlvle Better be self-dcnylnj every day Than once a martyr. Lan bridge. Either God will shield you from suffering-, or he will give you unfailing strength to bea-r It. St. Francis de Sales. r