Reservations, and endeavors to have them driven back where they belong.

The Indians are thus surrounded by enemies, and they can only hope for a
short period of freedom; then they must go back home, and take their
punishment for truancy.

* * * * *

Word comes from Mexico that the President, General Diaz, has made a
treaty with a tribe of Indians called the Yaquis, who have defied the
government rule since the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century.

These people have, for over two hundred years, refused to pay taxes or
obey any laws but their own. They have lived in their own mountainous
country, and successfully repelled attempts to dislodge them or make
them obey the Mexican laws.

It is said that our troubles with the Indians have been slight when
compared with those of the Mexicans with the Yaquis.

President Diaz, who is half an Indian himself, has at last found a means
of making peace with them.

He has taken a lesson from his experiences in dealing with the brigands,
who at one time infested Mexico.

At first he attempted to conquer these robbers by sending soldiers out
after them; but finding that this plan was a total failure, he adopted
another, which was the old principle of setting a thief to catch a
thief. He offered them pardons if they would enlist in a new body of