Show NEW INDIAN commissioner robert gordon valentine the newly appointed indian commissioner Is only 36 a fact which leads some irreverent members of the elder contingent ting elit to remark that the chorus at washington la is full of and all the leading men are juveniles nevertheless mr valentino valentine is so well in touch with the affairs of the indian bureau that he was the personal choice of retiring commissioner leupp for the succession valentines Vale ntinos knowledge of the indian was mostly gained back in massachusetts where the only indians are those who come along with the medicine shows but he knows lo 10 because lie he knows the poor whito while men pretty well wel at least those new england persons who pride themselves on follo following whig cold ice cold facts rather than fancy and sentimental theory believe they know poor weak human nature the cigar store indian with the red blanket and the roost ctr feathers and the bear footh necklace will not be in favor with the new valentino valentine regime any more than helas he was with the preceding leupp administration valentine admits that next to a coroners certificate the best certificate of goodness lo 10 can hav Is to chuck ills his fe feathers athers put on overalls and a hickory shirt grab a shovel and get to work with the other amerl ameri cans the indian of romance arid and leath er rig look as good to valentine as the indian with big crops all cultivated and his hia farm wor work k up to date after graduating from harvard valentine was a teacher a bank clerk and then a newspaper writer the latter job led to hla his political preferment Z |