ended for Indians as well as
for ex-slaves; and when it was decided to extend the accommodation for
such pupils, where could so competent a teacher be found for them as
Booker Washington? The acceptance on the part of the latter of such an
office of course made it necessary for other connections of
comparatively long standing to be severed, but the path of duty seemed
to be clearly marked out, though the coloured pupils in the school in
West Virginia would sorely miss their greatly-valued teacher.

Booker Washington's situation was now strangely anomalous. In their own
eyes, and even in the eye of United States law, the Red folk were quite
above those who happened to be black. In ante-emancipation days the Reds
had actually been the owners of a number of Blacks as slaves. We believe
that it may be assumed that even in the present day a Red man would be
cordially welcomed at many hotels where negroes would be refused
accommodation. Thus Booker Washington's large class of some scores of
Indians would regard themselves as being socially quite superior to
their tutor! A thoroughly well-educated negro had now to seek the
improvement of a semi-wild assembly who might be disposed to resent such
innovations as white people's civilisation suggested. Why should they
have shorter hair? Why should the ancestral blanket be superseded by the
conventional dress sanctioned by the United States President and the
people he governed? On the whole, however, Booker Washington found
these strange pupils to be amenable to reason; they were quite
tractable when kindly treated.

The American Indians are an interesting nation of aborigines, and in
course of an admirable article on their characteristics, habits and
present condition, by Dr C. W. Greene, in _Chambers's Encyclopaedia_, it
is remarked that "their physical and mental characters are much the same
from the Arctic Ocean to Fuegia." The tribes differ somewhat, some being
devoted to hunting, according to the ancient, uncivilised way, others
take to the tilling of the ground. One tribe may be warlike, another
will be more effeminate, while both sexes appear to have a liking for
athletic exercises. The following descriptive passage is borrowed from
Dr Greene's article:--

"Their physical characters are a certain tallness and robustness, with
an erect posture of the body; a skull narrowing from the eyebrows
upward; prominence of the cheek-bones; the eyes black, deep-set, and
having, it is