in their new rôle of "freighters" of their own supplies. They went to Wiebita, Kansas-one hundred and sixty-five miles-in six days, with their ponics; loaded sixty-five thousand pouuds of supplics into the wagons, and made the return trip in two weeks, all things being delivered in good condition.

This experiment nolable among tlhe inany unheeded refutations of the constantly repeated assertion that Indians will not work. The agent of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes, testifying before a Sen- ale Committee in 1879, says: "We have run a wagon train, driven by Indians, to Wichita, for three years and over, aud have never had a drunken Indian yet."

Do they waste their inoney, or bring it home "

"They almost invariably spend it for saddles or or somcthing of nse to thcm that is not furnished by the Gov ernment. They have never stolen an oance of sngar, was thoroughly tested; and its results are clothing, coffee, or or waste anything, and have delivered everything in good faith."

anything clse: they have been careful not to injure siugle ease of drunkenness during The agent reports not a the year. The manual labor and boarding-school has one hun- dred and thirteen scholars in it, "all it can accommodate." The children earned four hundred dollars in the year by work of one sort and another, and have "expended the money as judicionsly as would white children of their ages." They bought calico, cottou cloth, shoes, hats, several head of cattle, and one horse. They also "bonght many delicacics for their friends in camp who were sick and in nced."

"One Cheyenne woman tanned robos, traded them for twen- iy-five two-year-old heifers, and gave them to her daughter in the school, **The hoys have one hbundred and twenty acres of corn undcr cultivation, ten aercs of potatoes, broom-corn sugar-cane, peanuts, melons, and a good variety of vegetables. They are entitled to one-half the crop for enltivating it."