Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1916 — INDIAN STUDENT IS GRATEFUL [ARTICLE]

INDIAN STUDENT IS GRATEFUL

Nez Perce Urges All.Redmen Who Can to Go to the Carlisle Indian School. Carlisle, Pa—Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps of the Carlisle Indian school, is in receipt of a letter from Stephen Reuben, a Nez Perce Indian, who left the school 33 years ago. Mr. Reuben says he has not escaped the tion of the reservation, but he is thankful that he has been given strength and courage to rise when he fell and “stand like a man.” He urges the pupils to make use of their opportunities hpre, for they will be thankful some day, as he is today, for what Carlisle is doing for the Indians. He says among other things: “I allowed not my hair to grow below my ears. I wear still the stiff head collar on my neck and I wear a good suit like I had on while at Carlisle. I am living on a farm, raise grain, vegetables and fruit, and drive six horses with train wagons Just like I did in Buck county, Pennsylvania. I built a house- for myself from what I learned of the carpenter’s trade at Carlisle. I have 1,524 fruit trees, onehalf bearing fruit now.”