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Show people will not be inclined' to question, it Indeed, maDy who have made a study "f ttit Indian will, we believe, le found to-irrii , wholly with the judge. What the Indiaa needs is a civilizing influence. The favorie , weapons of the early settler and of tn.e regular army, while" eminently ealmit, are entirley too deadly. Literature f3 found to have hut little effect upon hm as he his inclined to use hooks for iire wood, and we wade his shot gun with tract? and weekly newspapers of an clevy big character. New chtiies and fariujn, implements and house furnishing goAxls , seem to do hut little more for him; hi is j apt to lauirU at and refuse to wear ,lhe j first named, and to exchange the oLiers . for the hot and rebellious liquors of I the, pale-face. Even education does not sieui to lift him as could be hoped, havting , lisaily, little or no effect on his moral! or j social nature. ' j The spectacle of a young red brother j who can read Sophocles iu the original j stealing the post trader's dog for soap meat j is not an edifying one. But soap is quite! another thing. That he needs it there j can be no doubt; that it will do as much for him as judge Perkins expected can only j be told by giving it a fair trial. Soap will j come to the Indian has a complete novelty. At present he knows morn about the pro- j cession of the equinoxes than he does about I soap. lie will have hard work to dispose J of it except in the right way. lie cannot' eat it, it will make but indifferent wadding, and he will hud it'iiiificult to barter it for liquor since the dealers in this substance in his immediate neighborhood are almost invariably as little acquainted with the I peculiar virtue of soap as he "himself is. j On the whole we believe that a new day j is dawning fur the north Amerc.au Indians. In-dians. I i JUltGi; rZlifilXS' JtLfJUICST. A Philanthropic St. Paul Man's Effort to Civilize the Indians. Now York Dribuno. Judtre Perkins lonn a,ro became convinced thut vh:tt tlnj Indian really needed was not the firearm, tlio white necktie nor tfie the Siilibath reading mailer. lie decided that what the copper colored t;entlinen of the forest and plain needed more than any-thins; any-thins; else was soap. Judge Terkins therefore, there-fore, resolved to place a piece of soap in the hand of every Indian in the United States, and drew his will accordingly. The peculiar bequest of Judge Perkins cannot fail to attract much attention and probably some criticism. But it must be bome iu mind when bestowing the latter that the judge had hail much experience with the Indian. The Judge should have known what the red brother needs, and if he says it is soap a great many western |