Show 8 t d OHe H Red Men by No Means Lacking in Imagination A recent visitor to the Agawa canyon can yon along alone the Alcoma Algoma Central railway rail way ay was astonished to observe on the rock face the well defined head of an anold anold anold old man mon as al though roughly carved by some giant sculptor The Incident started a train of reflection covering the Indian legends of the Northland Haughty white men greedily depriving In ing the Indians of their ancient empire empire em em- pire long fostered the notion that the red men were untutored and possessed pos sensed no Imagination As early curly ai as 1037 1637 however Father Le Jeune a n Jesuit missionary found they were In Inthe Inthe inthe the habit of entertaining themselves by fanciful tales and wrote his opinion ion that the savages In point of Intellect In may be placed In a high rank Education and Instruction alone are wanting Charlevoix said saal Their harangues are full of shining passages passages pas pOI sages lages which would have been applauded applauded ap ap- ap at Rome or Athens Modern Modem Canadian readers know the beauty of ot Indian oratory such luch as those of ot Tecumseh Tecumseh Te- Te or the simple dignity and Imaginative quality of the speeches of ol Crowfoot and other chiefs who met the whites In the seventies and made mode treaties for the surrender surrender- of the Canadian West Vest The Tine The Globe Toron Toronto to |