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THE HESPERIAN. & v M tility. The starvation is the worst feature of the whole matter. The famous Red Cloud, a friendly Indian, gives a pathetic account of the feeling and condition of his fellows. Says he in words of wonderful pathos and power: uWc felt that wc were mocked in onr misery. We had no nows papers and no one to speak for us. We had no redress. Our rations were again reduced. You who cat three times each day, and see your children well and happy around you, can't understand what starving Indians feel. We were faint with hunger and maddened by despair. Wc held our dy ing children, and felt their little bodies tremble as their souls went out and left only a dead weight in our hands. They were not very heavy, but we ourselves were very faint, and tl'c dead weighed us down. There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some one had again been talking of the Son of God, and said He had come. The people did not know; they did not care. They snatched at the hope. They screamed like crazy men to Him for for mercy. They caught at the promises they heard He had made." This, to be sure, is only from "poor Lo,'' yet it carries with it an indictment of terrible import. Injustice and oppression have always sown the seeds for a harvest of calamities. Will they in tnis case? The future Indian pol icy of this government will determine. EXCHANGE. One of our exchanges speaks of a new college paper as being "bright and breezy." We suppose he uses the word brcery, because the wind cannot refrain from blowing through the whiskers found on some of the chestnuts therein con tained. A plan to collect locals has been adop.tcd by some college papers that seems to be a good one." A box is left in some convenient place where anyone wishing to do so may drop a local into it. It might be a good plan for The Hespkrian to adopt this method, in order to aid the local editors. A sug gestion would be in order, however, to have a lock placed on the box and the locals dropped through a slot. This would prevent them from being read before the paper should appear. Two papers now appear on our table from the Illinois Wcsleyan university. They are the Elite yournal and the Wesleyan Echo, The Echo is a new paper and we do not like to erticihe it to any great extent, but wc certainly think that it has had a premature birth, and do not predict for it a very long existence. The exchange editor of the Echo is also its literary editor; but wc fail to see anything literary in his column. Of course it is not to be supposed that the Echo's exchange list is very large, yet perhaps it has no exchanges at all, but this docs not hinder the editor from filling up this column with literary matter. It seems to us the better plan would be for the Echo to combine its forces with the forces of the Elite Journal, then perhaps one good paper could be gotten out. A few of the exchange editors connected with some of the exchanges that lie on our table seem to have gotten the ida into their heads that in the exchange column is the place to discuss matters and exchange opinions upon various college topics. This is certainly an erroneous idea, and the sooner they get this notion out of their heads the better it will be for them and alio for their paper. The name of the column alone, "exchange," shows that its editor should deal only with the exchange papers from other colleges, and if one cannot find material enough in from twentyfive to one hundred college papers to make an interesting column there must be some thing radically wrong with tljc papers, or else U is the fault of the editor. Which is it ? As far as The Hesperian is con cerned we hold that it is the duty of the editor-in-chief to dis cuss college topics, and we do not wish to usurp his position. The Kentucky University Tablet is just such a paper as wc like to get hold of when perusing our numerous ex changes. The December number appears to us like on oasis in a desert. It is a plain sheet, somewhat resembling, as its name indicates, a writing tablet. It differs from a few of our exchanges in as much as it does not all run to cover, but con tains the best portion on the inside. The literary portion of the paper is very interesting as well as the editorials. The following, from one of the editorials, contains excellent thougt, and should be heeded by all: "Courtesy is one of the most lovely of all the traits of n beautiful character. It is a truth, which daily experiences teach us, that he is most popular who is most courteous. The man who treats others without due regard is the one upon whom the contempt of humanity falls. He who shows in his actions that he cares naught for the pleasure uud happiness of others, that the ob ject of all his thoughts, the course of his ambition is self grat fication, even though it be at the expense of broken bonds of friendship, violated trusts or lacerated hearts, is the one who is friendless, unpitied in misfortune, unlamcntcd in death, and in whose calamites his acquaintances acknowl edge the justice of fate. It is therefore important that in all the walks of life wc cultivate this excellent trait of char acter." . To our exchanges, one and all, greeting. It has always been the intention of the editors ofTllF. HESPERIAN, and especially of the exchange editors, to express their opinions in these columns without fear or favor. They have always been ready to suggest reform where reform has been needed. This has called forth the wrath, whether justly or unjustly we shall not undertake to say, of a number of editors. That is all right. We do not care particularly if an editor does get a little wrathy once in a while and prescribes a cup of hot water for us to take after each meal, for even hot water is better than no water at all; but we cannot agree with the exchange editor of the Richmond College Messenger, the one, by the way, who prescribed the cup of hot water, when he says that The Hesperian is an "exceedingly narrow-minded and faultfinding paper." He is, evidently, notablc to see that a paper may be fault-finding and still not be in the least, narrow-minded. Because one paper undertakes to correct certain faults found in another, is that any reason why the former should be called narrow-minded? We think not Everything that has appeared in The Hesperian in the past, and everthing that will appear in this column during the present year, while under the supervision of the present editor, has been, and will continue to be, said with all due respect, and in all kindness, to whomever or whatever we may have occasion to write about. At the same time we freely grant the right to any one to criticise us in whatcvej way they think is right. As wc confidently expected when we wiote the criticism, the Niagara Index has displayed itself in its usual asinine style in its reply to what was at least intended to be a straightforward, gcntlemanty thrust. Like many chicken hearted small boys that we have seen, the Index stands away oil, and through its tears belches forth such scurrilous epithets as only the youthful brain of an Index editor can produce. That um thrust went to the quick, and was duly realized, is evident from the wincing of our opponent. The Index has a noble reputation in the line of scurrilous and villtfyiiig abuse. lb reputation is fully sustained thjs.tinvtj,