The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 103, Jan. 1881, U. of Illinois Press

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IAN U ARY ~ 88 ~ as a thirty-one-year-old white farmer, married with five children. Sugg owned real estate valued at $s6,ooo and personal property worth $36,ooo. 3 Samuel Chapman Armstrong. 4 John B. H. Gaff, reported in the census of 1880 as a forty-year-old white man born in Massachusetts, married with one child. 5 There is no record that Edward Sugg graduated. An Article in the Southern Workman ''Hampton, Va., January ~ 88 ~] INCIDENTS OF INDIAN LIFE AT HAMPTON A letter received recently from the U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs,~ informs us that a gentleman is now in the West, looking up more Indians to be educated at Hampton and Carlisle. These are to come from Arizona and New Mexico, and will probably reach here some time in January. As yet we have had no Indians from either of these territories, at this school. If a few representatives can be secured from these two territories, they will no doubt in a few months, cause a general interest in the matter of education to be awakened in those parts. ''Strike while the iron is hot,'' is an old adage that will apply very properly to the Indian question now. The Indians, throughout the greater part of the Western plain, are now beginning to see the importance of education. While a part of them have begun to make efforts in the right direction, is it not the most auspicious time to move the whole Indian race at once? With the boat once started from the sand bar, no force must be relaxed until she sails in the broad deep sea. THE HEALTH QUESTION A little experience with Indians will teach one that the trouble with their health comes not so much from a change of climate as from carelessness on their part. The Indians are slow to learn that when they adopt the white man's dress, they must also adopt his health laws. They must be taught that they can not wear two coats to-day, and tomorrow none, a dry shirt to-day, and to-morrow a wet one. They appear to have an idea that their bodies are weather proof. Some will seemingly take as much delight in playing out of doors when the rain pours as when the sun shines. To get their feet wet and keep IO3