furniture of their houscs dress in civilized costume, raiso crops-and several hundred Winnebago men assisted the farm ers in adjoining counties during the late barvest in gathering their grain crop, and proved themselves efficient and satisfac tory workmen."

In the winter of 1874 the Wisconsin strays" were moved down to the Nebraska Reservation fomented dissatisfaction in the tribe, and in less than a year They were discontented, more than half of them had wandered back to Wisconsin again; a striking instancc of the differences in the Govern meut's methods of handling different bands of Indians. The tlity Ioneas who ran away from Indian Territory were pur sued and arrested, as if they had been thieves escaping with stolen property; but more than five hundred Winnebagoes, in less than one year, stroll away from their reserve, make their way back to WViseonsin, and nothing is done about it.

In 1875 there ate only two huudred and fonr of the Wiscon- sin "strays" left on the Nebraska Rescrvation. All the others are "baek in their old haunts, where a few seem to be making a sincere effort to take eare of themselves by tuking land under the Homestead Aet."

The Ncbraska Wiunebagoes are reported as bcing "nearly civilized" all are engaged in eivilized pursuits,, "the men work- ing with their own hands, and digging ont of the ground three- fourths of thcir subsistence." They have raised in this year 20,000 bushels of corn, 5800 bnshels of wheat, and 6000 busi cls of oats and vegetables. They have broken 800 acres of new land, and have built 3000 rods of feneing. Nearly one sixth of the entire tribe is in attendanee at schools. The sys- tem of electing chiefs annually works well; the chiefs, in their turn, select twelve Indians to serve for the year as policemen, and they prove efficient in maintaining order

What an advance in six years! Six ycars ago there were but twenty-threo homes and only 300 acres of land under enltiva