tion on the whole reservation; the people were uddled to- gether in ravines and bottom-lands, and were and exposure.

In 1876 the WVinncbagoes are reported again as "fast emerg ing from a condition of dependence upon their annual appro- priations. acres of lund. Many have fine farms, and are wholly support ing themselves and fanilies by their own industry. issue of rations has been discontinued, except to the Wisconsin dying of discase Each hcad of a family has a patent for eighty The braneh of the tribe and to the sick-list."

In what does this report ditffer frotn the report which would be renderod from any small farming village in the United wholly supporting themselves and their families by their own industry;" a smali minority of worthless or disabled people being fed by charity-i e., being fed on food bonght, at least in part, by interest money due on capital made by sales of land in which they had a certain reck- onable share of ownership. Every one of the United States has in nearly every county an almshonse, in which just such a class of worthless and disabled persons will be found; and so crowded appreciable a burden is their sup- port on the tax-payers of State and connty, that there are per- on betwcen the authorities of neighbor- ing distriets as to the ownership and fesponsibility of individ ual paupers: for the paupers in civilized almshouses are never persons who have had proceeds of land sales invested" for their benefit, the interest to be paid to them "anunally for ever." It is for nobody's interest to keep them panpers, or to The large majority States are these almshouses, and so petual disputes going take care of them as such. quietly established primitive

We now find the Winnebagoes once more in comfortable homes-as they werc, in their own fashion, in 1822, when Dr. Morse visited them on the shores of their beautiful lake; as they were, after our eivilized fashjon, in 1862, on the healthful and fertile up-lands of Minne-