Show INDIANS AT SCHOOL WHITE MANS institution IS 18 LIKED BY THE little one ones climb down immense rock to get instruction and teach ere praise their good behavior durino during lesson hours tho the homo home of the branch of the mogul indians is a mesa feet high upon which the old indians practice the snake dance and other 1 faor ito ceremonies of the tribe but it Is probable that the coming generation or perhaps the present one will grow out r C these things tho the white man with ith his school house and mid other usages of civilization has found the young indians and made friends of them A few years ago theo indians of tho the mesa were considered hostile because they exhibited more opposition to the influence of the whites than did the other Alo aloyuis quis when it was proposed to build a school house at tho the base of the mesa and to place all the children in school tho the parents stubbornly refused to permit it but a house was wag built and after long and persistent effort every child of proper ago age was as enrolled as a pupil tho the indians who bud had eo so vigorously opposed at first became zealous friends of the school us as soon as they saw aw tho the r of it IL tho the enterprise has been very vm sue cels ful and now ono one may stand near the school at 7 in the morning and looking up at tho the plateau feet abobo see suddenly a curious thing little children looking liko like dolla dolls begin to appear over tho the edge of tho the mesa ono one child comes into view behind another and id soon tho the face of tho the great greit rock Is alive with the little creatures cra tures as they descend in id single file tho the steep zigzag path lead ing to the base of the mesa and the school the little folk seem to bo be banging to the wall aall of tho the immense rock as they slowly descend tho face jf of it it they keep pouring over the edgo edge at the top and the head of ado line has reached tho the school on the plain below before the last of it leaves the mesa when the straggling line comes fully into view it Is nearly a half mile long A fanciful person might seo see in Us its convolutions on the pata some resemblance to tho the movements mants of nf n snake and think of it as tho the snake dance with which the young indians have replaced that of weir grandfathers in this school there aro are children and in regularity of attendance atten danco it is said sad to head the list of indian day schools in all the country A alno largo large new now building costing between and has taken tho the place of the first schoolhouse new clothes such as white children wear arc are supplied the pupils when they enter school tho the children are fond of their lessons and the teachers have but few complaints to make of bad behavior youths companion way california cast her vote mr alien allen solemnly folded tho the telegram and banded it back and remarked your fathers telegram deminds me of a friend of mine who went to colorado not lung long afterward hie his wife received a telegram which read jim thrown thron off a broncho and his neck both legs and one arm broken A little later in tho the midst of her tears the widow received another message from the sympathetic cowboys it read matters not so bad jims arm not broken 01 new york times |