HEREDITARY DESCENT IN ANCIENT GREECE. 7 



when we compare the present time with ten years 

 ago. Here is an officer whose language we shall do 

 well to weigh verbatim: "Two things were notice- 

 able : first, the cleanly appearance of all the Indians. 

 I saw no sights from which to turn with disgust, as 

 upon former visits ; and I could not but remark this 

 change. Three years ago, when I first visited these 

 bands, I found them dirty, ragged and filthy, lazy 

 and ignorant, in a degree beyond any thing I had 

 ever imagined. Their blankets, clothing, and hair 

 were perfectly alive with vermin ; and they had the 

 woodlands covered with birch-bark wigwams. To- 

 day I found them generally dressed in civilized cos- 

 tume, their hair combed, and their faces and clean 

 white shirts showing that some one has taught them 

 the use of soap and water." First chapter of the 

 gospel! "The absence of the birch-bark wigwam 

 assures me that many have taken advantage of the 

 teachings of Mr. and Mrs. Holt, and built houses in 

 which to live and entertain their friends." But Mr. 

 and Mrs. Holt wished to institute a manual-labor 

 boarding-school, and what was their only trouble? 

 There was nothing in their pockets, because you 

 put nothing there. They desired to establish a dis- 

 trict school on that agency. The little building they 

 possessed, they had to close early in June, because 

 of the lack of funds. But all through the Indian 

 reservations we find the desire for little churches 

 and little schools, especially manual-labor boarding- 

 schools, increasing. 



A significant Indian scene lately occurred at Wash- 



