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can see that it cannot be done from the bottom it must be done from the top. I have no doubt that you see your part in the same way. Where we have one land agent you would say that we should have twenty, I say where we have one Carlisle school we should have we should have fifty, for no other school is a Carlisle school, none of them are working on Carlisle lines although they all came into being on the pretence of imitating Carlisle.

The children arrived safely from Lapawai. Isn't that progress-five Indians[[crossed out s]] [[handwritten ^youth]] leave[[handwritten ing]] Fort Lapawai and come to Carlisle alone? And five too who had had no experience in traveling. That shows a great deal to me. I am very glad to  undertake the couple. They both look into my face with such trust and kindly feeling beaming from their black eyes that I am more glad to help them afte[[handwritten r]] what you write than I can tell. They all drop into our work; there are no idlers at Carlisle to-day. We have five buildings on hand and granolithic walks all over the ground,- brick, mortar, earth, sand, cement, lumber, iron-pipe, stone etc., have all to be handled from morning until night. When it doesn't rain our grounds are covered with busy workmen and busy Indians helping.

Tell Mr. Corbett if you see him that we shall give Paul a good chance to work up with brain and musle. As yet I see no weakness.

Steven Reubens is out in the country for the summer and has not yet seen his son. How glad he will be when he returns in September! But the boy is too small to be here and I was a little