Show INDIAN AND NEGRO In these words are augguateJ Uc of the great problems wlncti our na tiun nail bud persulsutly bet before u i rue satisfactory nclutona which will i iuawer all the conditions are yet 03 no meau ruucheJ luuugh the cir toward tuostf solutions may be said to be in tbo right direction Tbe attempi 19 now tu do something toward educating edu-cating the two raced and BO ntiiuti them in a measure to carry on then own lives with some degree of lutcln < enre Ihey are like two wards 01 be UKtioi > but h JT ditfcrtnt sot needing abut difl reot treatment I To see them together as at ihi Hampton scnocl is to teol this will a new strength Tbtrr at tbe month of Cnesaptakt Bay aluioat under tbe guns ol Fur treat Monroe we find one ut tbe ok family mansions of Virginia fillet ffith quite different work from that to which Ua original owner bad probably pro-bably destined In its busy room looking out batween lofty piliaia 01 the quit water of tho bay are cUsse ftha race born into bondage nil ove tbe south bow few years ago I Dunk faces ol all shades throng its passageways way and the walla probally one ornamented with puiutiugs uuv covered uuli blackboards are ustc daily for maps teutoncej and ilma trations Only a few steps friin the old wr lion rises a largo bride building ml of tbe same face Iud full also 01 work intellectual aDd manual The ruina ol Acdcmy Hall tel where a ttw mouth ago the lug soboolbouso stood and where the now one is to rise out of ita ashes while scattered about are the cottagtf r occupied aa dormitories by the nl rumen ru-men and boy and tbe aucalled wig warn Here toe cOurt is being made to fit these young men and women ij some degree AS teachers so that they may LO out into the far oil places aud teach tho colored children Who are the teachers there Young women who have lelt luxurious homes in the north And who are throwing all their courage and endurance into every days demands who are influencing their classes quite as much by the refining power ol their person char actera as by the lessons which they teach At the head ia a clear brain and an iron will Such is the Hampton Hamp-ton school as far ae the negro race is concerned Too chaiacteristica 01 this race we know tutEciently well Ihey are lighthearted aud happy easily irapreesible ambitious to be batter tliaj they are aid as willing as a child to lot that ambition be i seen Desirous of improving their language thy imitate tbe long wont which they muy have noticed used by the whiles and prcsiat ia their use without a meaning till finally J meaning creeps into them and they have a real addition to their vocabulary vocabu-lary In this again they fullo the universal practice of ambitious ambiti-ous children in their efforts to talk Everything is facile in them They are easily mouded are anxious to ba would and tvery feeling shows iUef on tieir faces without any ifiort at concea ment They come to Hampton and go to their class recilatio just as tbey go to their washing or ning sewing planting or reaping between class hours with a neverfailing courage in ppite of all difficulties a cheerful sunny humor and yet with a sense of responsibility delightful to sea and feel Such is the negro rot in iu essential es-sential characteristics Confronted with this race which is i like a wellknown inhabitant of cut dwelling we have the other ward tho Indian for the United States eovernment is Urine also to do some ihing in the way of education for this farofJ and little understood repri entativo of the former owners of lU land While tho negro has to pay his way at Hampton tbo Indian IB paid for by government The Indians come from the farofl reservations escorted by the Indian agent who may have had orders to bring them on They are to be kept in Hump ton two years and then cent back to their tribe to be as a little leaven Perhaps it is not all we ought to do but it is certainly something It is at present an experiment on a very small scale for eo large a government but it is a beginning of what may be a large success There is no difficulty in finding boys whose families are willing to let them come tbojgb it is only to the boys that Any sign of aflectiou is usually shown st parting But to send a girl out of an Indian family means more work for all that are left To diminish the number of bringers of wood and drawers of water is to impose additional burdens on all who remain Thus in tbe last collection collec-tion of Sioux youths from the Yank ton Agency there were only nine girl out of sixteen though the agent made special efforts to find sixteen girls and kept the chance open till the last minute Again the Ira ditional want of respect for the intellectual lectual capacity of the girls may be a reason why tbe Indian hesitates before tacitly admitting that it is worth while to try to do anything with a girl Here again la another wide diflerence between the two raw for while in no raco more than in the negro is woman recogt zd to hon with non on a full equality man in more than the Indian is she look d upon with contempt This ia no race With long yeara of crvitudo behInd them nnd with the instincts of servitude burned Into them by the fnteiul laws of heredity But by tbcie eaina law they bare burned into them a sense of wrung And injustice Tbey bVa stealthily watched tne white man Iud in their inmubt iOjl they find n reluctant re-luctant admission of the fact that ho is thsir superior Tbey tee that tj I hold their ovrn or even any smallest i fraction ol their own they nust learn his language aud his ways Toe admission 13 wrung ftora them by long yean of steady watching of t the tide ol event Like diacrowued kings their chiefs treat with the United States government They do not want to yield but tbo 10lio 01 facts is too Btroig for them t > resist In their inmost hearts tbry to are ambitious to go lha white mans road b > > caudB tbty dimly fuel toat that ia the onnutll l in which tbo stream of the lime rum But they do not want tu appear to want thin oi to acknowledge it Whilu thus one 01 our wards comes to us trustfully and unconcea ly to be pelted to be taught and praised the other withdrawn from our touch dtandi aside and assumes iudiflerenco to our words But we may be very sure that nothing escapes that watchful watch-ful eye or that intense ear She does not want us to think she listens or I cares But she does net forget She can not come to our side Ike the other So ie a little afraid to acknowledge ack-nowledge that she cares for us or for anything Bee u too proud to ask a favor or to thaik us for a kindness There seems to be a sort of intense self consciousness in tbe Indian He watches not only us but himself and in ibis again he is tha exact opposite of the negro la it not evident that for natures so entirely different entirely diOerent methods must be umd When visit irs nrn in the rnniiis nl un V the colored classes at Hampton the pupil are only stimulated tj more ctivity There u no sense of an tegcniiin But when visitors are in be Indian classes the pupils become shy and distrustful Tbey seem con IOUS that they are the objects ol curiosity nnd attention cud this in ittad of pleasing tbem frets them They cannot be unconscious of them lebej and eo they make very haM work for the teacher The viaito i feel as il in tbe way and as if forced to retire And I cannot belcve n 40cd for them to be visited in their I clntsrooma Hud I the power I would put on the door Positive oo admittance and they should be aloue with their teacher in whom heysoon grow to have confidence It stems a positive blocking of the road to subject them 11 scrutiny in tbt painful tflortol 1 their stiff mind Indian to grasp a new language The diau does not mind being noticed il be is doing anything in which he ex eels But when he does not excel Iud la i painfully conscious that be it i dome his work very poorly when be cau follow so slowly the tleir utterances utter-ances of his teacher and she only a young girl his sense of mortification and humiliation makes him sullen Laughing Face will not even smile or show any sign of intelligence nor wIll he condescend to resfpad in anyway any-way txcept by a grunt to bia teachers cfiorl All this before strangers But wneu they are gone Laughing Face aitb much difficulty writes on the board I sorry I not try for his teacntr Anna 0 Bracket in liar pers Magazine for Septembt r |