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try to give to the struggling people in our own race, in our own midst. The conditions are not so very different in many ways. The Indians need friendly, sane and wise councel, and the missionary work is needed among the whites as well as the Indians where ever the two races are thrown together.

Did I tell you that Joel Lyndall came to see me. I could not quite get at what he is doing. He said, if I understood him correctly, that a tract of land in Wisconsin was given to Big Elk, and that he could claim it as one of the heirs of Big Elk. I don't know who could have given land in Wisconsin to Big Elk in those days. I never heard of it did you? — He said that the University of Penn. had made him a Doctor. I don't know what he meant. I think he said Doctor of Laws. He said a college in Ohio I think it was, had also [[strikethrough]] given [[/strikethrough]] made him Doctor. It was all so queer I did not try to