There has been a larger demand for our Commencement number, containing General Howard's and Chief Joseph's picture, than we can supply, hence we print the pictures again.  They are both noble veterans whose kindly faces are worthy of a second study:
   A striking incident of the anniversary exercises at the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa., last month, is set forth in the RED MAN AND HELPER, the school publication, just at hand.  This was the presence of Gen O.O. Howard and Joseph, chief of the Nez Perces the commander in a most remarkable Indian war, of which Gen. Howard has written in his book, "Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces in Peace and War."  The official accounts characterize that as "one of the most extraordinary Indian wars of which there "is any record," because of the courage and skill displayed by the Indians.  They abstained from scalping, let the captive women go free, did not commit indiscriminate murder of peaceful families, as was usual in such warfare, and fought with rear guards, skirmish lines and field fortifications.
   The meeting of the two leaders in that war 27 years after it ended in Chief Joseph's suppression, and the things they said to the Indian boys and girls at Carlisle, make a picture out of the ordinary.  Thus Gen. Howard said: --

   "There are no people we honor more than we do the Indians.  You will say, 'But didn't you fight the Indians?' Yes.  I am an army officer.  I would fight you if you rose up against the flag.  I want it understood that when I fought with Joseph I was ordered by the government at Washington to take Joseph and his Indians to the reservation that was set aside for them.   Joseph said he would not go on any reservation.   A majority of the band had agreed to leave and go to the place designated.  But Joseph and White Bird and Looking Glass were left out.  They did not understand that a majority rules. They would not agree to be ignored and left out in the division of land when the best of it was to go to someone else.  After the Indians accepted the reservation the government of the United States reduced it and reduced it again, and the Indians rebelled and I was sent to carry out the government's instructions.  I could not do otherwise.  I did my best to perform the duty.  Some would not come.  I understood the reason then.  But it is all past.  It took a great war. I would have done anything to avoid the war, even to giving my life. But the time had come when we had to fight.  There come times when a fight is a mighty good thing and when it is over let's lay down all our feelings and look up to God and see if we cannot get a better basis on which to live and work together."

   Col. Pratt, the head of the school, in calling out the other leader, said: "I present to you Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces in Washington. Gen Howard and Joseph fought each other in '77, two years before Carlisle began.  Their line of battle was 1400 miles long.  We think Gettysburg a big battlefield, and we are proud of it.  Joseph would not go on his reservation, and had his way for a time.  He really never did go there.  I have always regarded Chief Joseph as one of our great Indians.  He kept ahead of Gen. Howard for 1400 miles." THE RED MAN AND HELPER prints pictures of Howard and Joseph, sitting side by side.  The speech of the Indian, as interpreted to the audience, was as follows: ---

   "Friends, I meet here my friend, Gen. Howard.  I used to be so anxious to meet him.  I wanted to kill him in war.  Today I am glad to meet him, and glad to meet everybody here, and to be friends with Gen. Howard.  We are both old men, still we live and I am glad.  We both fought in many wars and we are both alive.  Ever since the war I have made up my mind to be friendly to the whites and to everybody. I wish you, my friends, would believe me as I believe myself in my heart in what I say.  When my friend, Gen. Howard, and I fought together, I had no idea that we would ever sit down to a meal together, as today, but we have and I am glad.  I have lost many friends and many men, women and children, but I have no grievance against any of the white people, Gen. Howard or any one.  If Gen. Howard dies first, of course I will be sorry.  I understand and I know that learning of books is a nice thing, and I have some children here in school from my tribe that are trying to learn something, and I am thankful to know there are some of my children here struggling to learn the white man's ways and his books.  I repeat again I have no enmity against anybody.  I want to be friends to everybody.  I wish my children would learn more and more every day, so they can mingle with the white people and do business with them as well as anybody else.  I shall try to get Indians to send their children to school."

   Not always has Chief Joseph been of this mind.  The white man has kept him moving, and he has been philosopher enough to accept that which he must.  He belonged to the non-treaty band of the Nez Perces, which occupied the Wallowa reservation in Oregon, and opposed the introduction of schools there.  Interrogated regarding this attitude, he replied:---
   "No, we do not want schools or schoolhouses on the Wallowa reservation."
   "Why do you not want schools?" asked the commission.
   "They will teach us to have churches."
   "And why do you not want churches?"
   "They will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do on the Nez Perce reservation and other places.  We do not want to learn that.  We may quarrel with men sometimes, but we never quarrel about God.  We do not want to learn that."
   The observation of the untutored red man was disconcertingly keen, to be sure.  But time has taught Chief Joseph to bow to the inevitable.  He now accepts the situation as the white man has made it:
   "I wish my children would learn more and more every day, so they can mingle with the white man and do business with them, as well as anybody else."  It is the only way of salvation left for the Indians who are to follow - and a very straight and narrow way at that.