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THE INDIAN Is Today at tne most vmicai roint 01 xais rvic i&iuiy-nc,iD
His Tribal Customs Are of the Past-In Education He Is Being Given Opportunities That
row; r.n,tncpl I Demanded in Finally Transforming: Him into a CitizenTo
Nation Are Being
IN October the Indians of America ere
to have the greatest pow wow In the
histtry of the raee.The American In
dian Association la ta bold its first Na
tional conference In Columbus. O..
October 1J and 1J. Thla association
admit to active membership only peo
ple of the blood of the original Ameri
can. Yet this blood baa found !ta way
Into all walks of life, and today the In
dian claims every profession followed
by the white man. and has Illustrious
representatives In them all. These men.
the great successes of the Indian race,
are called together In this conference to
discuss race needs and point the way to
race progress. President Taft baa prom
"ised to be present and lend his Influence
to the advancement of the movement.
These educated and successful In
diana are all agreed that the present
time Is the noil critical In the history
of the race. The Indian, following- his
subjugation by the white man. became
a ward of the Government. Isolated on
the reservation, with every need of
personal action removed. The Indian
schools cam later, and with the educa
tion of the young people the Govern
ment conceived the Idea of converting
Its wards Utto citizens. Just now the
youls Indian Is as well educated on the
average as Is the young- white man.
But the reservation does not offer the
opportunity for the use of that educa
tion that Is to be found by the white
man.
Whether this young- Indian will re
turn to the Inaction of the reservation
or make himself a place beside the
white man In many activities Is now
the burning question. Now Is the
psychological moment when the Indian
rare may' be taken In hand and molded
mto men of the best eort. Yet. un
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Compensation
9ropwJ of Freredlnff fhptm
Btor Anthony ptl and hta wlf. Jn
let. of Ohio, ar pronlnnt In Wathltiffton.
-X C. Ktsty at a ttm aurpoaod to tnclu3
TiJnt RooM)vlt Administration, and
:h story op no with th.tr trotn to tb
:omln-oot party of Mlsn Kathloon Wir
int. a roan lr I -whom thy bad mot
voara praTloualy. Othr foctii at tba party
tr Senator Harwood. Carter Howard, tho
ratar nophsw. ard Lacll Pa, a frtnd
f tho 6aatora. Tou&c N:aoa Ha r wood
;ar marked attention to Kathlovn. a fart
:rat la not-xl bf? Major Warrens, tho youns;
sdr's father. A dbats is depicted In ih
:'n!td States Pen at, where. Fenator tttsoia
leltrera a sperh in favor ef railroad r su
ae loo. Ponetor Harwood. who Is In tho
mploy of tho "Intsresta," oppose Stools,
rhriatmas ere is Washtnf ton. D. C. la
ictarsd. and Vra. f tools bus a doll fnr a
franc llttls slrL Tho Steeles 1t a Sew
fears party at their camp, and soma of
:no vaests Indnlto In c:vr vaodSTlllo.
imnoc thorn btr Kathleen Warrsna. who,
;o tha d 1st roes f her married stater. Poro
hea. s:lvs a F panlsh danc tn cost urn.
Venator pteelo grows Indifferent to bts wifo
tnd suapcts that hs Is really In lova wttb
Kathleon. Mrs. Pec arrives, becomes sus
picious of the rilons sxtstlnc between
9tio and Kathln and la mvd by tba
atmr from betna; badly bumd whsa bar
Ire catrhts flr. tsenor lo La Vega, a
'nreicn diplomat, becomes interested In
Kathleen and takes br and other raem
ers of tho party for a walk through ths
now of Bald Mountain. They become Inst,
and Stoolo and Cartr orcanli m seart-hinc
partv. Steele find. Do La Vega and Kath
eea to ret her. ah Jeering wltfe cold, and aa
ie carries home Kathlesn. ah calls htm
"Anthony." and ho cU her "Mttlo frtnd.H
Th ho u party returns to Waahinston. D.
Mr. 8tei rtsctns to fee that ber h ua
(and Is fin ft in away from rr. Penator
Harwood and his secretary. Mies Tray nor.
rtnpira against ria. and ths Senator
nnta that Neiaon Harwnd ahould marry
rCathloen. Steel advls Major Warrens not
to Invest KathWn a ."K0 In ih Har wood
crowd s bogus T. 1 T. railroad stock.
Evnts stirred In Kathleen's young Ufa.
Nelson Harwood and Bruc Melmouth both
told br thsy lovsd ber. What was sha to
CHAPTER XI.
In the inner office ot an unobtrusive
building, t .ree men sat In their shirt -
leeves, smoking. The small, neat print
an th outside door hinted that these
ere the Hodgklns. McNeil and Smith
mentioned modestly In still smaller
rharacter as brokers and real estate
arents. The man who was talking a
andjr-halred. energetic person about to
paused occasionally to tip back In his
comfortable chair and spit accurately
Into the sawdust at tha farther end of
the room. He sat In front of a littered,
roller-top dk. In which he fumbled
nervously for papers, and from which he
half turned to speak In a brief, clipped
voice to the other two. who were lolling,
wlta their feet on the radiator.
I tell you." he snapped In Jerky mono
rl!aes, yon got to Quit It. It won't
go.-
"Now don't you get t slttln on th
anxious bench. EpbraJm. returned Mo
Nail easily, while he added to an al
ready luxurious wad of plug cut. "It's
coin t work all flue an' dandy, and
doa't you forget It. Ter Uncle Ned
s a fraenhorn at these little fancy.
Called Together for a Final Big Pow-wow
directed, the same good material may
degenerate Indefinitely. These educated
Indians may become drones upon the
reservations, and their awakened Intel
ligences may lead them Into trouble.
So the leaders of the race are looking;
for a Hoses for the Indiana. The race
Is crying aloud for a Booker Washing
ton to direct its destinies. It la calling
together Its great men In one central
society in the expectation that the or
ganization or some of Its members may
supply the right leadership at thla crlt.
leal time.
Successful Indians.
There are scores of men and women
of Indian blood who have shaken off the
Inaction of the reservation and whose
blood is no different from that of the
warriors who have fought the en
croachments of the pale-face through
generations that have passed. There
is Dr. Carlos Montezuma, the full-blood
Apache, who is instructor in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons In Chicago;
there la Charles E. Dagenett, wbo la In
charge of Indian employment for the
Government; there ia Dr. Charlea A.
Eastman, physician and author: there
la Mrs. Angel Decora Diets, artist and
Instructor in art at Carlisle; there is
Hendy Roe Cloud, winner of honors In
various colleges; there Is Mlsa Laura
M. Cornelius, scholar and social worker;
there are four membera of Congress
with large percentages of Indian blood,
and many men In all. aectlons of the
country who show the traits of the
aboriginal strain.
These are the men who are to get to
gether In Columbus and point the way
to their fellows. These are the men
who have escaped the degrading In
fluences of the reservation and have suc
ceeded on the great outside. These are
the men wbo know most of the prob-
Qj55' Anue
games. " He shifted the wad with placid
complacency.
"Many people In yesterdayT" Inter
rupted "Smith." who was known as such
only to the discreet business sign and
to the telephone girl on Mrs. Page s
call.
Hodgklns nodded. "Bet-cher life," he
said succinctly. "Mostly women awell
dreosers, too."
"That lady friend of mine, she gets
em." returned "Smith,- puffing out his
pink shirt-bosom till It crackled with
Importance. "Slickest talker you ever
saw why, she makes a phonograph look
tck! Helping right along on tha Steele
proposition, too. Seems that she waa
sweet on Mamma s Boy herself once:
anyway, she'a putting It right on to
the little bud. and fixing all the women
wise to the situation. ay. boys, how
waa that Columbus copy in the Thurs
day Evening. ehT He grinned delight
edly, showing two rowa of prominent
pink gums and a set of round white
teeth.
"Say. but that waa all hunky, Nelse."
drawled McNeil, slapping tha Senato
rial knee with resounding approval.
"You've certainly got that King on th"
blink. Saw him last week, when Z
went to advertise atock. and he said
Conover waa goln' craay. That's Steele's
greatest pull, too, ye know."
"Damn him!" muttered Smith."
"You can Just bet it was him did us
out of the thirty thousand I would
have pulled out of that doddering eld
uniform. I tell you. that makes ma
sore! But I'm paying him back all
rlght.-
"Aln't he ever going to make that
Secret Service Report?" asked Hodg
klns tersely, without looking up from
bis malL
"Eph'a goin' f be downright uneasy
till that pesky thing comes out." Mc
Neil laughed, comfortably indulgent.
"What's that get to do with us. son?
Only a long-winded bunch o' statis
tics." "Of course, though. Steele's Just the
kind to work a lot of personal spite
in on It. and he's got a cursedly smooth
way of putting things." "Smith"
scowled at his pointed patent-leather
boots. "Just the same, he don't know
beane about Texas, and we've kept the
whole thins; good and quiet. Besides.
Mister Anthony isn't apt to have much
time left from his own bowl of soup
to dabble round promiscuously for the
next month or two. This nigger busi
ness is rolng to keep him and the Pres
ident right at it. Ouess our goody
goody boy won't be sending out cards
for a Cabinet dinner yet awhile."
McNeil roared, shaking tha room into
a mild earthquake with his ponderous
chortle. But Hodgklns shut his rest
less loose-lipped mouth with a short
click and stared thoughtfully at
"Smith's" flabby pink face. Then he
caught sight of someone In the outer
office and peered through a convenient
crack in tha smoked glass door. A
shabby little woman probably a Gov
ernment clehk was questioning ths
man at the desk. She seemed sat laded
with his Information, for she laid down
some bills and went out. clasping a
larae pink slip in her hand.
Hodgklna raised his stubby ' head,
satisfied. "Seems to me it's about
time ws wars declaring a dividend." he
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lems that confront the Indian of today
and who know most of the cures for
those problems.
Individually the careers of these men
and women read like chapters out of
the most Imaginative of romances.
Their lives mostly began in the tepees
of obscure reservations, and their
youths were those of the Indian of old
who drowsed by the trout streams and
followed the deer throuKh tho forest
primeval. But later these individuals
fell into the way of the white man.
absorbed his lore of books and fol
lowed the activities of the conqueror.
These Indians have refuted the time
worn theory of an Intelligence devel
oped through many generations of
mental activity; for the Indian boy
whose anceatry boasta no member who
could determine the meaning of the
printed page takes an education as
readily aa doei the white boy who has
descended through long lines of men
of learning.
Dr. Carlos Montezuma.
A most striking example of this abil
ity of the Indian to compete with the
white In Intellectual pursuits Is that
of Dr. Carlos Montezuma. Dr. Monte
zuma la a full-blood San Carlos Apache.
- A Nous!
Warwic&(Mi& Ruth Cr-errstop.)
volunteered. "All these people who
cashed in last Spring are wondering
when they're going to get something
for their money."
"Let's see the lists," said "Smith."
reaching out a fat white hand for half
a doxen long yellow sheets lying on a
table. "Lord! over a million already.
Say, this is greatl Does that young ass
out there." he nodded toward the
outer office "catch on what's doing?"
"Not for a minute." McNeil spat en
thusiastically "we brought him
straight from Green's Corners, snd he
don't know a chorus girl from a bar
maid. I'm keepln' an eye on him,
though, you bet. and the minute he
begins to get wise, back he pikes to
home an mother, an' a new lad comes
In. He waa dead set on roomin' at
the T. M. C. A, but I told him none
of that. Thought there was no use
takln' risks, an' those pious guys are
In such constant communication with
the Almighty, no knowln' what they
might let out." He winked at "Smith."
at the same time biting off another
chunky brown wad.
"Well." "Smith considered the huge
diamond on his little finger very delib
erately "maybe we had better declare
a dividend Just big enough to satisfy
shareholders and look well tn the pros
pectus. A quotation of the last divi
dend always takes first rate. Tou'll
have to sea to that Eph." He
delivered the ultimatum in the
lordly tone of one born to the execu
tive. "What about setting up that of
fice in Canada?" He turned to McNeil
suddenly.
"Well. I dunno. Nelse." McNeil
chewed for a full minute and a half
before continuing. 'They're not s'
easy up there. Everything haa to be
explained to 'em so goll darned clear
before they'll fork over. Besides."
hla mouth wrinkled into a playful
smirk "one of us might want f take
a little run up there for 'is health,
supposln anything leaked out, an' In
that case lt d hardly be neutral ground
see T"
"Smith's" teeth snapped Impatiently
over his long blak cigar. "Nothing's
going to leak out," he said with some
sharpness, '"so don't get that bee in
your bonnet. But if tke stuff won't
take in Canada, why, try it on some
where else. Keep It going give it a
boost. God! if I could Just shelve this
Congreaslonal business, . wouldn't I
give 'em a run in Wall Street? Well,
I guesa yes!" He glared fiercely at
McNeil and Eph, who grinned at tha
humor of their partner's declaration.
They knew very well that the debu
tante Senator would give up every
cent in the world sooner than his po
tlttlcal prestige and the nascent social
position on which he doted.
"The only weak spot in this thing,
boy." went on the pink aspirant,
yanking at the collar which seemed
to bind the rolls of flesh that formed
his neck: "the only weak spot in all
this Is ths fact that that muling, yellow-faced
ex-secretary of mine knows
every damn thing about it. I had her
well scared while she was with me,
but now the dago's got her. the Lord
knows whether t not she'll squeal."
Hodgklna half closed his hard blue
eyes in speculation. "You can bet
ahe'd find out first if It was worth.
and Organization of the American
He Is of the tribe of old Geronimo, t"he
last of the warlike chiefs. Geronimo
was a young warrior serving under old
Chief Natchez In Arizona forty years
ago. The Piute Indians were . frlendB
with the white men and hereditary
enemies of the Apaches. It was In the
shadow of the great Four Peaks one
Summer's day that these friendly In
dians surprised an Apache camp In the
absence of the warriors and captured
Its women and children. The Apacha
child t"aajah, which means "beckon
ing," was among those captured. Later
Wasajah was sold to a wealthy Italian
American by the name of Gentile,
whose home was In Chicago, but who
was at that time prospecting In Ari
zona. Mr. Gentile adopted the Indian
boy. took him East and gave htm a
thorough education. In the publlo
schools of Chicago and In college and
medical school afterward Wasajah,
who waa given the name of Carlos
Montezuma, led bla classes. Today he
ranks among the great physicians and
surgeons of the country.
One of Dr. Montezuma's favorite stor
ies strong Illustrates the mental
equality of the Indian and white man.
The doctor can Just remember that
before his capture the Apaches had
among them a white boy of his own
her while to keep a tight face," he
said cutely. "The dago, he'd see to
that, even if she forgot. Spaniards are
greedier than any Jew pawnbroker on
earth."
"Foolln with the ladies ain't any
aafe way to spend your playtime,
Nelse," said McNeil, succulently re
proving. "The cunnln things are too
devilish uncertain. I sh'd think you'd
a known that a girl with a face like
the Sacred Sphinx an' those crocodile
eyes would 'a' left you ditched; come
some more tony fellah."
"Smith" looked up resentfully, show
ing his Irritation at the slur. In the
pompous strut with which ha began
to pace the office. "I guess she didn't
leave a UnHed States Senator, with
fifty 'thousand a year, for a trifling,
Uly-llvered diplomat because she
wanted a tonler fellah." he bristled.
"She got tired of her Job, that was all.
Well, for more than one reason, I'm
sorry she pulled out." He stroked his
plump chin meditatively. "She had the
closest mouth and keenest eyes ever
I saw, and I almost think I'd have
married her if she had stayed on. A
wife like that'd be a paying proposi
tion, eh, boys?"
He forgot his injury and clapped
Hodgklna on the shoulder in an ex
cess of good humor. "Well, the little
widow Is still on the carpet, and I
might do worse I might do worse."
He rubbed his hands together suavely.
"Yes, and headed straight for here
may be In town, for all I know. Oh,
she doesn't think anything of him: Just
a favorite cousin, you know, and all
that. I made her believe It was Ilk.
pulling teeth to get him out helped
her game along, you know but all I
had to do waa Just to drop a hint In
Stelnbach's ear and ha fixed It with
the Governor."
"What was he up for counterfeit
ing T' Hodgklna wrote on rapidly as
he fired the question.
"No. embesxlement. Nothing very
serious: Just sixty thousand or so. The
widow set it up for him. and I ruess
he's as spruce as ever now. Right
foxy boy, George Ford."
"You bet he is," chimed in McNeil.
"George waa right there with the goods
during the Siwash rake-off. Made a
tidy little hundred thousand, so be told
me."
"Wonder If he's out for a Job right
now!" "Smith" stopped walking and
stared again at his shiny black boots.
"I wouldn't mind buying up a paper
or two and letting George run 'em
not a little bit. I guess between him
and the little widow I could Just about
settle that prlaeflghting angel that's
wandered into Congress, what?"
"Corkin' Idea, old pal," McNeil
nudged him approvingly "an'- gives
you a chance f get sweet with the
widow. Huhuh!" He went into a
spasm of enjoyment over the .delicate
bit of facetiousness.
"Well. I don't knew." Senator "Smith"
buttoned on his dignity with his Prince
Albert. "With my social position,
seems to me, I might look higher." He
had momentarily forgotten his predilec
tion for the ex-secretary. "However,
matrimony ain't the deal right now.
We?ve got to get more capital and get
it quick, if we're going to continue this
thing on the a. t- Can that Irishman J
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age who had been taken in some raid.
It was thirty years later that Dr. Mon
tezuma returned to the San Carlos res
ervation, where he had been born.
There he noticed a man who parent
age was evidently white, but who lived
the life of the reservation Indian. Dr.
Montezuma approached this man and
spoke to him In English. The man an
swered with a typical Indian grunt. He
could not understand. Dr. Montezuma
investigated the history of this . man
and traced him back to the captive boy
of his youth. He had spent his life
among the Ildlans as an Indian, and
showed no more Intelligence, energy or
desire for better living than the other
talk?" He Jerked his sleek white head
once more toward the outer office.
"Yes. he puts it right up to 'em."
answered McNeil. "Fine thing es, he
believes in it strong himself. Yesfday
he made up his mind V put half his
first month's salary into shares, but I
told him f hold off awhile, stock might
go down." he winked at "Smith" sig
nificantly. "Thought we might want t'
let-him in on it later, y' know."
"Smith" nodded, reaching for his hat.
"Well, everything seems to be looking
pretty rosy," he observed, as he
brushed his clothes carefully before the
cracked glass in the corner. "I'll
drop in on Monday, Just to see what's
doing; and. by the way, when you go
out to Ohio again, see if you can't get
something out of King that'll look well
In print. You know the kind. Bo
long."
He let himself out of a aide-door
opening Into the alley and walked
swiftly across to the opposite office
building and from there out Into the
street.
"Ah, Senator." an agreeable voice
came up behind him,- "fine afternoon
for a little flyer. Isn't It?"
Harwood's face turned a splotched
crimson. "What do do you mean?" he
stammered. s
"Why. haven't you seen the airship?"
asked Mr. Howard Innocently: "even
Congress adjourned for ten minutes
to run out and look atflt"
The Senator eyed him with furtive
relief, not unmixed with embarrass
ment. "No," he said smoothly. "I
haven't seen it, haven't been at the
Capitol all day in fact. I've Just come
from my dentist's."
"Unpleasant person, one's dentist,"
commented Mr. Howard with sympa
thy. "Always reeks of a mean ad
vantage and er violet-water. Did he
have to drill you much or was it an
enamel fllllngr' he added, catching
sight of a froth of strawberry tulle
billowing out of an electric auto at
the corner.
"No, no filling," Senator Harwood
smiled gummlly, "Just a lot of prepara
tion work."
-I Hee like a bogus broker winning
confidence. Sorry to leave you, but
this is my car." Ho went out to it
leisurely, leaving tho Sewator to blink
after him In a atew of uncomfortable
speculation.
"Now, isn't this Just the best luck!"
He found himself suddenly confronted
by a great deal of veil and two co
quettish green eyes. "I'm Just going
down to meet George, too," purred Lu
cille; "he comes In on the four fifty
five from Chicago. Won't you come
along?" "
"Yes," Harwood assented shortly,
"get in; I want to talk business."
By the end of the next week, George
Ford, a middle-sized gentleman, with
carefully parted hair and eyes like
sloes, was known to have bought the
Evening, and the Philadelphia Day, and
to be personally superintending both
papers. As Carter had said. Mr. Ford
was not unknown to Washington, but
his enforced retirement from affairs
In general during the past few years
had left his sympathies somewhat
vague in people's remembrance. So
there was some discussion as to his
first moves, These were a marvel of ,
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This End the Leading Indians of the
Indian Association.
people of the wigwam. Tho inter
change in racial surroundings of these
two boys reflects more credit upon the
Indian than upon the white.
Charles E. Dagenett.
One of the living demonstrations of
a successful Indian, who is making
himself an example and an inspira
tion to this fellows. Is Charlea E. Dag
enett. Dagenett is a Peoria Indian,
though not a fullblood. He was edu
cated at Carlisle, and upon finishing
school returned to the reservation.
There his experience waa just what the
experience of every other young In
dian is after spending ten years In the
schools surrounded with every conven
ience of civilized life. When one of
these young Indians goes back home he
finds his father and mother, sisters and
brothers, all living in one tepee, sleep
ing on the ground and getting their
meals on a fire which is built on the
floor in the center of the room. The
boys have .many dress suitcases,
much good linen and an ambition to
live as they have lived at the school.
But they are thrust back into this old
environment. It Is impossible for
them to maintain even an approach to
the grade of living that they "have
learned at school.
Tho weight of numbers overpowers
them and soon they have slipped back
into the old manner of life. The res
ervation offers no opportunity for civ
ilized employment and there seems no
escape from the life of their fathers.
Charles Dagenett determined that he
would not retrograde. Flret he be
came a clerk at the agency and later
gtt into the Indian school service. He
it was who conceived the idea of es
tablishing an agency to find employ
ment for the Indians. Three years ago
hei began this work. Now he has a
half dozen assistants, the field is cov
ered from Canada to Mexico and every
caution. During the first week after
the Evening had changed hands, no no
table change was made in the paper,
except the Insertion of a modest col
umn signed "The TatMer." Its pointed
paragraphs had a strangely familiar
ring to some people, ahd yet no one,
except Carter and Mrs. Steele, knew
why.
Mrs. Page had found it the better
part of diplomacy to ignore her rela
tionshlp to George Ford, Journalist
and man of all schemes, during the
period of her establishment, and while
said George Ford was somewhat close
ly housed at Little Rock, Ark. Now
that both of them were safely float
ing on the sluggish waters of toler
ance, they found It still worth their
while to remain acquaintances. Mr.
Ford -rented a very expensive apart
ment at Stonelelgh Court, and dined
only Infrequently at the ahowly little
house off Dupont Circle; he seemed to
be 'absorbed in the intricacies of edi
torials and the composition of a Sun
day magazine.
For another week after the institu
tion of the Tattler nothing out of the
usual journalistic humdrum appeared
in the Evening. Then, like a cloud
burst came a scathing editorial on the
President's" pet hobby the Secret Serv
ice and close on the heels of that fol
lowed an open argument as to the Jus
tice of his attitude in settling the At
lanta race riots. Mr. Ford had been
far-sighted: the paper doubled circu
lation within a week, and letters
poured in by the hundred, addressed
to the "Open Court" department. The
editor had only to employ a few more
clerks and to sit back while the battlo
raged. Of course, in short order,
Steele's name was dragged Into the
discussion, through the prudent me
dium of public correspondence, and
then, as Mr. Ford . complacently- re
marked, they were off.
Ewart, editor of the Post, and Bar
ing, up In New York, did what they
could to ridicule the sensationalism,
getting out their heaviest- ammunition
in defense of both the President and
the Senator, and not a few independent
Journals followed their lead.
Through all the uproar of conflict
ing statements, Steele managed to go
on with his work clear-headed, though
bitterly disappointed. He had no doubt
as to Harwood's being at the bottom of
the whole attack. He knew, too. that
Harwood was actively afraid of the
secret service report soon to be read,
and that he would play every card he
held to ruin Steele while his (Har
wood's) influence lasted. Anthony had
relinquished all hope of his own re
election, but he was Jealous of every
breath against the President's pros
pects, and the fact that only a few
precious months lay between the pres
ent agitation and the Presidential poll
ing, left him worried to the limit of
endurance. '
Steele's relation with the man of the
Big Stick bad been singularly close
and satisfactory to both of them; be
fore his sucession to McKlnley, and as
President of the Senate, the chief had
been on the friendliest terms with the
youngest Senator, and now that he was
head of things, he had shown the same
disposition, to take Steele into the in
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year thousands of Indians, educated
and otherwise, are found employment.
Dagenett furnished upon contract the
Indians who stopped the great break
through which the Colorado River
three years ago was pouring its flood
Into the Salton Sea. He has a hundred
Blackfeet Indians at work on an irri
gation project in Montana. Almost an
entire tribe of Ute Indians have been
through him, given employment on the
Burlington Railroad in South Dakota.
The cantaloupes that came from Rocky
Ford, in Colorado, are largely raised
by Indian labor. Two of the railroads
maintaining large shops at Denver have
been induced to give employment to the
young Indian boys who have attained
mechanical skill in the manual train
ing school. These examples are but
typical of the things that are being ac
complished through the efforts of this
educated Indian. He Is getting the In
dians profitable employment at white
man's, work, and the Indian is making
good.
Dagenett is married to a woman of his
own race, who. like him. is a graduate
of Carlisle. At Albuquerque they have
established a model home, and here the
young people of their race, who, upon
leaving school, are puzzled as to how
to begin their lives in a strange world,
are received and advised and often put
In the way of attaining success.
D. Charles A. Eastman.
Probably the greatest writer that the
Indian race has yet produced. Is Dr.
Charles A. Eastman, who has come to
be styled "The Voice of the Silent Man."
Dr. Eastman was the son of Chief Many
Lightnings of the Santee Dakota
tribe. His mother was but half In
dian, being the daughter of an Army
officer who early served In the North
west. He was born on the reservation
and as a lad was taken to Canada
after the great Minnesota massacre of
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ner circle. Indeed, with characteris
tic impetuosity, he had declared that
the Junior Senator from Ohio was one
of the few men on the floor who had
not begged, bought or stolen his way
there a compliment which did not
tend to increase either man's popu
larity with an already antagonistic
Congress. But the President had no
respect for the rules of finesse. He
often told Steele that he lost time phi
landering with people's moods and
whimsies. "When you hit, hit to kill,
is my motto!" he said, squinting up his
eyes into mere slits of aggression. But
since the preceding Wrinter he had not
felt called upon to preach radicalism
to his friend; neck to neck they had
pushed the railroad reform bill; neck
to neck they had fought for larger ap
propriations for the Secret Service Bu
reau. And when-Steele had branched
out into so-called socialistic legislation
the President had warmly and publicly
approved. He had, moreover, shown
not the slightest hesitancy in entrust
ing to Anthony the most delicate arbi
tration of the present session or of
any session, for that matter
When the situation at Atlanta,
threatened violence, Steele had been
the first to realize it and to warn the
Administration of the imminence of
riot. He had been the one to prevent
inestimable bloodshed, to secure a more
humane treatment of the Inferior race
than the country had ever seen' since
Lincoln's day, and to ward off, almost
as by miracle, the frightful horrors of
a race war. The President and a few
other people realized all this. - but
Steele saw only a contemptuous Con-'
gress, a secretly exultant band of ne
groes and a wholly indignant nation
as the sum of his accomplishment. The
strain of the continuous brain work
told on him to the extent of almost
baffling his courage when it came to
further problems; only Juliet knew the
struggle it was costing him to keep
on with the work of arbitration in tha
face of all sorts of criticism.
Juliet lost much of her own buoy
ancy In the daily expenditure for An
thony's encouragement, but she had oc
casionally the infinite reward of his
assurance "I don't know what I
should do without you, my dear" and
that made up for all things. She was
entirely happy over being once more
essential to him, once more first in his
confidence. In fact, the contrast of
her state of1 heart this Winter with
the unhappiness of the year before,
gave her a guilty thrill, for she re
alized that, sardonically, the meaning
of the two seasons had been Just re
versed for Anthony. Only one thing
stood out as satisfactory: He had been
too much occupied to give any thought
to personal problems. He seemed to
have no absorption outside of politics.
And that was an absorption which
claimed most of Juliet's attention, too;
her days Included a campaign which,
socially, constituted a masterpiece of
engineering. The only respite came In
the odd hours she snatched for Kath
leen. For over in the old house on K
street another struggle was being1
fought: and Kathleen watched nigh
after night beside the Major, who was
very ill, indeed.
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