Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-24
RED MEMS WRONGS.

Saturday, April 24, 1886. RED MEMS WRONGS.
 An Indian Chiefs HOme-Fhe Power of AGood dExampIe-The Indian Woman HOusewtfery-Hndfan Synpathet ic And Hearty CO.operatfOn With Mis- sion WOrk-Indians' Good Faith.
 An interesting feature of the valuable ad-
 dress by Miss Collins at the church meeting | of the Indian Rights association of this city | was the following, illustrative of the fact
 that the Indians, both men and women, are | teachable and grateful, and can be even ! cleauly: She instanced the effect of example upon
 the lives of Indians, relating the story of her | visit about nine years ago to the nome of Spotted Bear He was ..r1ng sick in bed, in I a room wholIIIy uIsordered, several dirty lit tie .n1ldren lying about on the floor, while his 1 wife was sitting in the middle of, the chaos, | a picture of helpless misery. Miss Collins | gave them what assistance she could. The ! sick man recovered his wife became at
 tentive scholar to whatever Miss Collins | taught. Last year, when Miss Collins health l broke down. as she lay in her ca bin carrying on the missionary work all round by dicta- tion to whatever assistants she could find, 1t was found necessary to establish 8 new mis- sionary society at some distance She sent
  1 if she could do the necessary work. This bright little woman replied that she would go if she was needed, started off at once, spent day or two among the Indians l in the place selected for this work, organized the people into working order, wrote out full report of the exact state in which she found affairs and of the work she had ac- complished, and returned at once to Miss Collins with this report. In the intervening years this family had sent the two boys, ] whom Miss Collins had first met in state of | filth and ignorance, to one of the mission l schools for Indians. The little girl was edu- | cated by the missionaries. When soon after Miss Collins was called to attend Spotted Bear in another attack of illness, she | found the floor of the cabin
 as clean as floor could be; quite neatly | sewed patchwork quilt spread over the | bed on which the sick man lay, and pillow l cases made of bits of colored calico sewed | together in the same neat manner with col | ored ruff1es around the edges.
 | Miss Collins spoke of day on which she | was tired out from oYerwork. It was time ! to prepare the next meal and much outside | work was waiting for her attention. She noticed that her kitchen window sadly need ! ed washing, so, mounting chair, she was ! making the window thoroughly clean when | she noticed an Indian woman standing out side watching her. As soon as she ! dismounted from the chair the woman | her little child who was very sick. Promis \ ing to come in an hour, Miss Collins sent | the woman back to her home. This woman ! had always been very good-natured and ! obliging, but remarkably dirty, in spite of ' teaching to the contrary. What was Miss ! Collins surprise, on following her to the sick child an hour later, to find the window of the poor cabin as clean as possible. When the woman noticed the pleasure and SUI prise in her face she said 'tI saw you wash your window and then knew how to do it." The literal memory of the Indians was il lustrated by the story of little girl who had been taught in the school to say the multi plication tables correctly. When asked how many were three times two she replied ''Six." Her teacher then asked her if one orange cost three cents what must be paid for two oranges To her surprise the child said: "Five cents" Again she was asked how many were three times two and again she replied 'Six." But when the two or anges were again valued she replied persist ently: "Five cents, for asked the man at the store once and he said One orange for three cents, two oranges for ive.'"
 Miss Collins related the story of an Indian boy, the only ot a widowed moth CT, who was told by the medicine man that the only way his mother could recover from a severe illness was by human sacrifice. The boy asked what must be done, and offered himself as her propitiation to the angry gods. They told him that he must cut his body until the blood ran down to the ground, that he must then stand upon hill with his arms stretched upright to the heavens, until the angry spirits were appeas- ed. The boy followed the order without hesitation, and stood in a burning sun, bleeding, with upstretched arms, until he fell from exhaustion and was carried down the hill by his friends. The mother died and the poor boy was left to think that if he could only have been stronger and have borne the agony little longer his mothers fife would have been saved. Miss Collins
 asked how we'll America could afford to deny
 such boys the right to become citizens, while
 hundreds in cities would not turn over 8
 hand to save mothers life; how long the
 nation could disgrace itself by refusing the
 promised education to boys of such courage,
 such pluck, such nobility of character. A
 settlement of our Indians tried to build a
 church and school house. The men hauled
 the logs and put up the walls without any as
 sistance. They then came to the Missouri station asking for a floor and roof. The treasury empty and the men were told to wait. Again and again they came,
 but the missionary board was unable to raise any money for the purpose in the East Fiji
 nnlly one of the Indians came to the mission
 with twenty dollars ill money. He and two
 other men had gotten permission from the agency to cut and haul wood and sell it.
 They had each made five dollars in this way and the women had made and sold moccasins
 until they raised the other five dollars. And
 the giving of this money meant going with out sugar and coffee and living upon the
 barest supply of actual necessity.
 At one time soldier stationed at one of
 the military posts deserted and hid in the Indian country, intending to stay there until the search for him was abandoned and then to steal back unobserved and take the cars for the East. While he was in hid ing a terrible cold snap came on, and he was frOz 1Dnn n of both feet. He was found in this half dead, exhausted condition by party of Indians.
 If he had been killed or left to die, the papers would have been full of the tale; but these Indians took him up, fed him, wrap ped him in their blankets, and upon finding him too weak to be revived in this way, they
 marched, about 100 miles to the post with him their shoulders; the snow lying over the ground in many places more than four feet deep. And no whisper of this kindness was passed from the post to the outside world.
 Miss Collins stated that no treaty made by our government with the Indians had ever been violated by the Indians; that in every case the government had broken the prom ise made by itself while the Indians were | faithful to their word She also stated that interpreters were hired to read treaties to the Indians in other words than those written, | and that the Indians were thus led to sign l treaties which had been misread to them from beginning to end.
 Miss Collins then called attention to the l economical methods pursued by our boards | of missions. There are not nearly enough | missionaries to attend to the work in our own | country among the Indians; one parish | alone covers ground of three hundred miles. | The Romanists making arrangements to | send priests and missionaries to convert the | North American Indians to the Roman | Catholic faith, while our missionaries are | sending people to Paris to convert the | Catholics there, and to Mexico to convert the | Catholics there. The present plan would | should be converted to the Roman Catholic l faith first and then reconverted from that.
 FAIR HAVEN. MT. RueI TuGtIe's Narrow Escape |
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