— THE JUDGMENT oF WHITE MEN VARIES AS TO HIS CHARACTER. Some Claim Ho Is Honest, but All Admit He Ys Lazy Varied Reports as to His | Numbers—One-fifth Are Civillzed—Hab- | ts of the Real Ned Man. [Special Correspondence.) \ Wasminatos, March 8.—At first view . one wouid say that the room of the com- mittee on Indian affairs would be rather | : the driest place in this capitol. And cer- tainly puggestive of Hnmor kamanitarians, scientista, phil#hitiropists, agents and army officers wht ments upoy the committee in a flood have furnisifed great material for amuse- meat, thong most of it was uninten- © tonal, The weneral reader who desires "#0 kevp up wich the congressional news | 80 far as 1b refers to the Indian question mus: needs cain some preliminary koewl- gi sent © wat i clive about in yeirs no came ‘pevivals of interest in znd a general as- | ganit on oar Indian policy. Helen Hunt Jackson's “Ramone” the “Century of i3 wise: = Dishonor,” Bishop Whipple's work, and | in rapid sucesssion, knows Dawes bill of COMMISKIANOTS Then enn L IeNT, the amon = agency Hui and soon. 1 we thn toner of tho tragedy, uit.of all thesp was a ¢ that something rasticnd was About the same Litime SGpenotendont Porter named Mommas bh aon of Priladelphia | Hexpert spevial agent” to connt tha br ons, aad be did his work well “wwith the firnres thos obtained © geatimsental productions aforesmid Btimuinted by the expestation of an en- fircly pew Dodi system, an army of re Formers afd sozipl philosophers de- | seendal Ups vergent, : oo Areiwin of tue led Man, - A ¥oluminovs work, a sammary “that has len ar tions for the futare, snow going through the government press, The advanced eopy—the only one now in existenco—is in the possession of Senator Manderson, and init and the variows reports, pleas and fades ions is material for a really EER ve cosa on the vagaries of hu faanity. Orne genius argues elaborately tiut the buman race originated at and ground the north pole, as that was nec- Heonrity th nol Jar obs tie earth to be- of all the American Indian isnot greatly | Nevertheless tho boomers and | inve porrid testimonies and docu- | A few | one ot ‘those Odsal : Armia | and the avid i supporting wh an osttline of sogges- | census report just there are in the Unit- fst estimate was made in 1780 and set Hk entire number at 78,000. Two years later Gilbert Imlay collected the reports of travelers and military men and placed the number at 60,000. { Louisiana territory and Florida having { been annexed. in thie year 1820 Superin- | tendent Morse estimated our Indians -at | 71,058. . The secretary of war declared i this an absnrdity and placed their num- ‘hers at 120.888. The next secretary of { war thonght the truth lay between these {extremes and computed the number at’ | $12,000. In 1550 Texas, California, ete, having been annexed, the first reemiar censns of the Fadians was Juss under the super. vision of R.. : . and he made the pumber 88.220. Adding the New York and other eastern Indians, their number was pl i T84. This was high water mark. fle waft { was that the race was rapidly dying out. ‘But in 1870 they were reported at 318,712, Cause of the Variance. And how many are there now? Well, ‘it would take a talented calculator to make ont just what the census office means by its figares. The number is first stated generally at 247.408. Then the diferent kinds of Indians are stated, and the addition makes the number 325 - 464." Tt is added in a foot note that in the five civilized tribes of the Indian nd that the whole poy sat territory is 178,097. mid at Grst seem to be the explanation of the variance, bat this is followed im- i iv by another enamer tion Indians, prisoners, ete, exclrsive of the five civilized tribes, and this agdin ; brings (he number above S, Loa. : narition shows those fo | ratio are issued and the self {the na | mer. ‘ to me plansible is that the 58 000 Indians wi much below the fore | who Hive in the various states as citizens, dress like white men and are counted in the general population are in some of these tables counted as Indians apd in others as common folks, yeck, then we bave in round numbegs 25,000 Indians, "A Few Are Civilized. Of these almost exactly one-fifth are completely civilized—that is, they own ‘and work land, live in well built houses, dress and vote and pay taxes like white men, and incidentally drink whisky and chew tobacoo ‘*allee samee Melican man.” i Another fifth are so far civilized as to be | completely self supporting, and still an- | other fifth, though nominally wards od "| the nation, are practically nnder no gov- | BEXATOR NA CRBON OF THE COMIITIEE | XINDIAN APPAIRS, COte wey for burean habitation; “that i soy onlay yegion, as the res tof | the earth of coder vin a J sotth- yard in every Trey, uot : to each : wn. aborigings, , and that therefore #1 are Urothers—north polar | “brothers, as it were—and equally capa- | t kees of North Carolina and the eastern Of the Indians over ble of civilization and good government. Atiother s gue, aud with what seems | tome good rose, that it is of no earth dy consequence or 4b the original equal ity of man might have boca, since in the 150,000 years stuce man first moO more one than are dogs and foxes, ‘which are ome original.” He proves, to his own satisfaction at least, that the Indian isa | “true wild man”—not wil d in the sense | thal £2 wits San cio BR Lapnas wild by | living in the woods, bat wild like the | chimpanzee. © Admitting for Atgniicot’s sake that he might become civilized in 10,000 or 20,000 years, he goes on to show that it #8 idle that Le can expect to be allowed that mnch time and afldaces the conclu- son that his only hope is miscegenation. ‘By a judicious mixture with the white “people and by intermarriage among the advanced tribes the thing might be done. The instances to prove that all the noted Indians were the result of tribal mix- . fares are quite numerous. Keokuk was French and Sac. Tecumseh had a Shaw- pee fallior and a mother of sowe other | «tribe; Logan, an Iroquois father and a Pelaware mother; Gsceola, an Fuglish | father aad a Creek mother 7, and 20 on. A Sigh and a Shudder. Highly amusing are the quotations | made from different authors showing ¥ the judgment of white men varied eo given tribes, Thas, of the Indians who live or did live along the borders of - Uish and Nevada and Wyoming and Idsblo (8nd 1 mention these particularly | I personally know most. abort | becunies thier, Hale ri Howe Baneroft ka: col- : ( Jeote in score of opinions, Thess range ol ments that the Shoshones, or ko, and Bar teving, treacherous and traly devilish “up throngh a nn wagant ealo- Ly aes y and fidelity, v aud Brenchley, who vis- feed ITrobh in 155% and went thence to Califorvia, declare that the Shoshones are very rigid in their morals”. and again that they worthy. bat Jazy,” and yet again that _ they aie a very intelligent race.’ I geading vicitire deserthe’ them in terms Png oifsuss alo reproduciion ia » fami: ly paper. As to their bravery 1 have nothing to gay, as they were happily at peace when I was among them, bat their moral: 7onnet be mentinal without s av oo Modis, Hen Sigh, aut near genera #31 TEETARCe Can _gearcely be viewed without asl Ret ider A (Gaestion of Numbers. The sl raages! feature, howe er, is thai the strictly oficial accounts differ quite #8 widely as those of casual travelers, appeared on | earth the hmman branches have diverged | ? 80 completely that they are “practically | believed to have come from | nnacks are lazy, sensual, all the 8 -ades of honor and are “honest and trust: | Sao { | ernmental supervision. Of the 133.417 | reservation Indians a very large num- | ber are self supporting. The Navajoes, i for instance, although living in hat | seems at first view an almost complete | desert and on a plateau where there is frost every mouth in the year, own LL 400,000 sheep and have such a surplus i of horses that they sell large numbers | every year. The conclusion both of the census an- thorities and the Indidn bureau is that | the Indians are certainly not decreasing and are probably increasing. The five i show a steady zain by births over deaths as do the New York indians, the Chero- Indians generally. 20 years of age 7.455 can read, and of those under 20 years of age 13,087, while there are 30.433 of the noneivilized In- diazis who can speak tolerably plain Eng- lish. : An Indian Dude. (After quoting various testimonies Mr. ‘Donaldson makes the following summa- ry: “The real reservation Indian is filthy {in person and habits. He eats uncooked | food and vermin, changes. his clothes when they dro, off from decay, is of- | fensive in odor and thriftless in all things. ! He is the constant and agrecable ¢om- panion of every kind of vermin. On the bank of a river stood an Indian in the land of the Piutes, some years ago, in ed in an abandoned society coat, but- toned backward, a pair of eyeglasses and a high white hat with a crape band. He was an Indian dude, the euvy of his ‘tribe. That might he was murdered by a fellow Indian and thrown into the river, and the next day his Fmarderet ap- peared in the dress suit.” Certificates of Character. i Iz the same document the facetions Mr. Donaldson presents some specimens of the certificates of characters presented : by roaming Indians, among then these: i Rose Fork, Ida., July 4, 1568, This Indian's name is Taytol:r. He is a thoroughbred. He goes withoat the bell tap- ping. He is also a gentleman, and you can bet “your life he will do what he agrees todo. Make “him your {riend, for he is a good one. square thing by him, and Lhe is & honey cooler. Do ro vthing meun to him, and he is a Jonah acd iid get even, Brace him up with food 3 Sr but bee of and plenty of it. Wintian Thor: taxp U SCLE. Baipcen, U. T., Jane 1, 157, presented by a Washakie Shewbione. This wiil .be “Dirty Pete," alse’ lock your valuables cp in your fireproof when you see since ying. for he isa great beg- | gar. In the re ne ; i meat, tur: monde whether it's ¢ cooked or not, Ten to 12 ponad 3 of good meat bear, elk, fur ncues him, Hea ith the neat) 3 3 napkin ett He snot a is so dirty. He eounts.in dirt or two when the agent rounds the band up fo { Treat him weil, His faults are few and vice t gmallones, His word's goal, : Jaues Brrnarg. Inconclusion, it need only be sald i that these who e toret a radical chs ange of our i LGOh 1 i Indian systen: to Ue inangurated by this | “i that sort of | CONITYSS will i i | Pp sinted J: Hn BeEapiz. ilmost certainly be disap A pre Jeet is on foot to introduce i the United States the edible 4 ipan. If 1s patbered off the granite wis in the Japanese mountains and contains lar Ze quan tities of slarch i B other gels tinous sulistances, ———— ¢ weed in the census at 400,- Only © 10 yen later the census reported the total at 254,501, and the genéral opinion | ta vive great care, fand Tommy, have bes .a constant rig . . eT { who icrritory the white and colored people to- | fare. sbout FWiCe AS RUMErONS as | a ramninnd po! at he woald give up the Wa | jifa of 1s Lis | seals wonid : i ation nam- { captured the zed, half civilized, resorva- | . ay | of the smaller isla «and this again brings | ithe others and sdint oft 1 T3iRte 1} la pnd made a noise, driving many soils ps s y : § The only explanation that seems | If this be cor- ‘stands hamor, because he does thing eivilized tribes of the Indian Territory | ever will have, | an affection for me, | almost everything that I say 't pounds o the bracing air of a May morning, dress- | get it. Do the | Lane. - (the tambourine in front of Bibby. : ie hands you this, as Le isalways hun. | i arm, and | certainly thought he would | take a big piece out of it before I could Me wa Hose, or | Keep. him away about five feet when Le presents it; | | Rie great pets, i have any Jerked { He dos't are : inne with an e {if they only kiuew he Lbanly talk te me. tad Indian, be ut he 5 bis steel! I made of © ‘umd nto | lichen of ; thieg when be uses an instrument, and {Rn ¢ y CAPTAIN WESTON TELLS ABOUT i. THREE PERFORMERS. | Aow [io and a Fass Germar Fisherman Captured Dobby, Bibby anid Tommy. Some of Their Tricks—They Live Upen _ Salt Water Fish. Of 211 the different animals that ze to make up the animal kingdom a fish is perhass the strangest that shonid be chosen for training, yet tho acts done by the threo ecals under Captain Waston's guidance show that even a fish ean do woendertal things, Those now pertorm- ing every day are the oldest seals in yaptivity. Seals are extremely delicate, and they rarely "=e away from their native sea and rocks for than a vear, and yet these seals, Br by, Bibby “43 jer Grits reg- Hore nlarly for six years, andonbtediy due to (he fact that they birthplaces of ut when they The exact spot of the thexe sealgis not known, | were yonngsters they wera of the islands off Coxshaven in Germany, The Ge rman government does to protect its {isheries, and as so menace to fish the govern. ment paya a reward of 5 marks for the capture of each seal, There i8 a famous seal fisherman in Gérmany Worthman, and shen Captain Weston, had bern. on many se: and whaling exp wditisng in the North sea, ving tiior and becaino that the pe novel and profi Warthinan, and tod : 1yioy Banner it ocenrred to nm went to three alee Thera are ynany elnpfds 1 haven, one of the chosen. In describ tain Weston said: Wa stretehiodd the net of 1 ang side of ene ada and then went to mba the woe gainst the net, We had (a because the ter and work very dived down bee lr 1 2} gute qiy, ROHN gral became entin minutes under water. When we finally about 20 seals, but when they fonnd themselves altogether they became on- raged and fought among themselves, biting. ecratching and tearing, even killing ona another, until there wore only three left, and these three are the | same three | have today, Ono has only a faint teach a fish, for such a seal really is. It looks easy tosea one of my seals ay the banjo or a harp, bat it took me | three months of hard work every day | to teach them to do this even in an im- at it long enough to learn. I 'have never before known 8 seal to | live in captivity over one year, and yet } have had mine many times that, | am often surprised at their intelligence, Especially is this true of Bobby, the clown. I behave that that fish nader. : ® at times which actually make me laagh, to say nothing about the audience, He is the best seal | ever had, the best | and that hier | ALOW3S » Bim, Yes, the care of seals is a great ope. I keep ther in a tank, and above fhe water is a shelf for them to He on when they fecl so inclined, changed re times a day, and 20 salt are pat into the water at each change, Iresh water, you know. They are as plump and fat today as thoy were lying on their pative rocks in the North sea, and they know a great deal mors about the world than would have known. It may surprise some people, but it 8 nevertheless ¢ fact, that these three seals eat 300 pounds fish, such as herring or founder, and | attribite their lang life to the fact that | am very careful with their food. The fish are washel and cleaned and the heads cut off just aa carefully and just as cleanly as though going on a hotel tabie. The scal does not chew a fish, but swallows it whole, and it would sarprise you to see how a great mass of fish will disappear when three seals ge! at it. All the accomplishments of these seals are not shown. They have been tanght water tricks. cent piece into & tank of water, and, small as the piece: on the bottom, at a