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large annual interest in the satisfaction 

 of seeing its benefits to large numbers. 

 If he received this in money, it could in 

 no way afford so good and satisfactory 

 returns. He recently remarked : "Oh, 

 I'm rich enough. I have a home, small, 

 but large enough for me, and as good 

 clothes as I care for, just the kind of 

 simple food which is best for me, and 

 plenty of friends. Vanderbilt has no 

 more, and I have not his care and 

 anxiety." 

 The Alumni Record of his alma mater 



dent was authorized by Congress to 

 select and appoint for life half a dozen 

 or more men known for their public 

 work and philanthropy, etc., as a 

 " United States Board of Indian Com- 

 missioners," to report directly to him- 

 self. They have been called the " Presi- 

 dent's Private Indian Cabinet." This 

 Board supervise all letting of contracts 

 and the quality of articles, also the pay- 

 ment of bills, and generally looking 

 after the welfare of the Indians. Mr. 

 Orange Judd was appointed as the 



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Orange Judd's 70th Birthday Anniversary. 



began in 1850, and first published in 

 1859, is a model of its kind. The last 

 edition (1883) is a large octavo volume 

 of over 800 pages. The trustees value 

 its usefulness to the university so much 

 that they have provided for a series of 

 decennial editions, the next of which, 

 brought up to date, and probably much 

 enlarged, will be issued in 1893. 



During Gen. Grant's Presidency a 

 unique provision was made to help 

 remedy the disgraceful wrongs and out- 

 rages upon the Aborigines. The Presi- 



" Agricultural Member," and continued 

 until after his prostration in 1883, 

 when he felt compelled to resign from 

 longer service. In 1880 he spent 46 

 days at the Reservation along the upper 

 Missouri, from Sioux City to 200 miles 

 above the Yellowstone, investigated 

 numerous wrongs and irregularities. 

 and effected sundry changes in the 

 methods of introducing farming imple- 

 ments, live stock, etc., among the In- 

 dians. His report to the President, a 

 closely printed document of 61 pages, 



