A LABRADOR SPRING 
only necessary to suggest that it might be the 
rule in future to lock the store except when the 
clerk was present. The square deal is ap- 
preciated by civilized and savage alike. 
When one thinks of the treachery and deceit 
that have been practised by the whites in 
America in their dealings with the Indians and 
of the degradation and death wrought by the 
white man’s cupidity, his diseases and his 
whiskey, one can not but be filled with shame 
and remorse, that this, the noblest race of 
primitive men, should have been treated so 
vilely. The unusually fine character of the 
unspoiled Indian we are discovering when it is 
too late, although Catlin pointed it out long 
ago, and for many years the inhuman saying 
has been flippantly repeated that there is ‘‘ No 
good Indian but a dead one.”’ 
In former times the Indians coming from the 
interior erected their wigwams at Mingan near 
the trading post. Hind says. ‘‘ Four hundred 
Montagnais had pitched their tents at Mingan, 
a fortnight before we arrived, there to dispose 
of their furs, the produce of the preceding 
winter’s hunt, and to join in the religious 
ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church 
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