The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04

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when l got home from Washington,
who Is spending the summer with us,
Pittsburg for my rheumatic.
Those who opened him with suitable
exercises said that on the inside he
looked like a mardy graw, whatever
that is.
/ want you to become refined and
get good manners. The government
will pay for the bulk of your educa-
ton, but l want you to also learn Ell
quette and roulette while east. Our
table manners, too, here on the Chero-
kee Strip r very tart and tacky, l
find. Even Black Hawk, the great
orator, while dining with Lord Balti-
more, | am told, put sugar and cream
on his olives and blew the pits across
the room at q mark.
1t Is such things as these that have
kept the Indian back and induced peo-
pie to hesitate about inviting him to
the annual dinner of the bong tong.
Sitting Bull was just beginning to
obtain social recognition at Washing
ton when in reaching across the table
one day at the white house to help
himself to the presidents kummel he
dragged the corner of his Pullman
blanket through the butter by mistake
and then, with a merry laugh, wiped
it on his hair.
This afterward embittered his whole
life, and he hardly went out any more
after that, regarding life at the capitol
as hollow and artificial.
1t has been the unfortunate history
OF u eminent red man that whenever
their talents have thrown them into
good society they have almost uni
versally corked themselves. Look at
Red Shirt in Paris, and Poor Dog, in
London 1t is but q repetition of our
sad history as a people.
Red Shirt During the engagement of
the Wild West show in France was in
vited to dine with President Carnot
and Ferdinand de Lesseps- pronounced
de Les seps-at the restaurant of Bra
bant, the French Delmonico, and when
the pale green pistacheiee cream came
on, and the finger bowl, Red Shirt, the
great warrior, who looks almost ex-
actly like Napoleon, the first emperor,
In order to show Carnot and his gang
that he had travelled and observed q
great deal, evidently took the ice
cream brick for a cake of CASTLE soar
and bathed with it freely in the finger
bowl, coming out after awhile, to run
along the bank and restore his Cir
culation.
Ny dear son, the Indian nation has
suffered on account of these things,
for they get into the papers and hurt
us. You must learn not only the
habits of the Modes, the Persians and
the Free Will BAptists, but how to
hold your knife at table. That is
what you are there for. That is what
l am beehng the old cow for. That is
what l am going to wear your old
baseball suit next winter for. That is
why your mother ,weeps at night and
wears your pajamas by day.
Poor Dog hurt our people as much in
England as Black Hawk did us good
by his speeches. He was invited to
me, and while the party was strolling
through the grounds, the queen, having
bean frightened by q mouse, Poor
Dog, thinking to show his gallantry,
gave chase to the mouse, and when he
caught it under the chair of the
Princess Alexandra, ate it in order to
show her majesty that there was no
deception about it.
These matters of history connected
with the rise and the fall of the red
man give me q pain In the neck. You
may redeem your people, my son, and
astonish these pilgrims who came here
to our country because they couldn't
make a living in Europe, and who
now ask us to work for them and take
an order on the store.
I have already said much through
the hand Of Demi Johnson, and he
grows wear with much writing, so l
will soon cease, but l cannot do so
without asking you nee more to weigh
well what | have said.
AS I said at the beginning, I am an
aged hemlock. In my limbs the katy
dds and the wild woOdtick nestle. To
you [ look for the redemption of our
race. You can do it if you will. Come
home prepared to pull the Pawnee out
of his hole and emancipate him. The
government will aid you. So will 1.
I am not wealthy, but my credit is
good.
Once I went on my own bonds to
appear before the court on the 9th day
of October in Omaha, and I had to get
I'D out of a sickbed and ride eighteen
miles, but 1 did it, my son, I did it
me and my case of smallpox together.
I always do what 1 say l will.
The red man may suffer, but he dis
dams to cry like a womao. He may
ged tramped onto, but he never squeals.
That is one thing that l notice about
me that l like.
1 When do you have to pay another
naturalization fee2 Let me know in
advance, because / have to hustle
sometimes to make it.
IF you @ any of the government l
wish you would say that it is about
time some one from our place should
visit the White Father at Washington,
and remaining in Washington five or
six weeks to lay before him the wrongs
of my people, and to get a few more OF