Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners in the last four and a half years W while hile I 1 have been a missionary to t the lie indians I 1 have become an un blushing beggar and it is only by the generous response e of kindhearted people far and near that we have been able to carry on and do what little good we have accomplished complis hed all that we have received has been scrupulously applied I 1 for the best good of these unfortunate people and no one will question that they are the better for our efforts the big P problem in the way of temporary aid is not to save the indians from want as we know want and as it applies to us but to save them from their own ignorance their improvident ways of squandering their means and their materials te rials of spending their earnings to the poorest kind of advantage wasting their substance and pouring their money and everything else down the bottomless rat hole of gambling I 1 am interested right now in a man who never gambles for he has no eyes to tell one card from another and a woman who toils and suffers and meets as best she can th the situations which are new and strange to her she is a cripple a widow and she is trying to support three small children she lives in a miserable little tent ragged and torn in order to be near enough to the school so her oldest child can attend there is a little hogon away off among the rocks and trees to which she goes when the weather becomes too severe but it is a long and perilous journey for the little girl to come alons alone from thereto there to school the man as I 1 said is blind and has to be led wherever he goes lie he is less than 50 years old and he has a daughter in her teens on whom he depends for the care that lie he has to have but such unremitting ren 1 bitting vigilance as he has t to 0 have is not to be expected from froin a teenage teen age girl and he lias has to wait long long hours alone and suffer cold and want for many things which he is helpless liel pless to do for himself lie he receives a monthly check from the government but between his own inability to make a wise use of it and the inability or the cupidity of those on whom he has to depend he realizes but a small part of what might be made to supply most of his immediate wants he has a hogon in the sagebrush country eight or ten miles below blanding and when lie he is left there alone he be can just wait however hungry or cold lie he may be till someone comes he came and wanted me to get some kind of a house for him here in town some place from which he might be heard if he calls and where people would not leave him to freeze band and starve it have to be much of a house 12 by 14 feet of or even 10 by 12 with no floor his people would line it with pasteboard paste board boxes and other heavy paper cover the roof with tar board shut out the wind and make it at least as warm as the old man is accustomed to having his dwelling places from it he be might follow the fence and learn in time to find his way around town he is an optimist chivalrous and brave and when lie he tells me his story without a whimper it moves something within me the kind of house that would do for him would do also for the crippled woman fifty dollars with what they could do with our help would cover the cash cost of the two houses the woman is too modest to say a word about how great her need but she is as chivalrous as the blind tri man an though not too proud to take the house and b be delighted with it if it were j offered her ALBERT R LYMAN LYMA |