Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11

If | had knew that education comes
so high: and had of been told abo ut this
matriculation business when | was east
TO see the White Father, / would have
| touched him for aid. He was very
| kindly toward me and wished TO know
what he could do for my people. said
that we wished to know more OF the
white mans religions, to ask the differ
| ent White Fathers at Washington this
question, so that we might know, and
! their answers have been different. One
| White Father, when we asked him this
! question, told US TO go to! So we still
! grOpe in darkness.
| note what you say regarding the
band, and trust that you shall learn to
play upon 1t II you can have suitable
uniform and buy an orpheclyde. You
| know how anxious / am 10 see you get
an education, and that | shall try TO
keep you In funds II possible, but IL wor-
rles me at first to do IL because you
| know what a poor farnsr | am. The In
dian, however, suffers, but be does not
weep. He can endure anguish, but he
| disdains to cry like woman. am an
aged hemlock: so is your mother.
Possibly some day when you get edu-
| Gated you may redeem your people.
! You may be the Moses OF our race. In
! the future you may get position In a
| bank. and then times with my people
will not be so scarce as they are now.
| want you to learn all the languages
and to spell the hardest word, as did
| Bruno Demi-J johnson, who went TO the
Indian tchool at Haskell and is writing
| this letter for me. Learn also 10 respect
| the laws OF the land In which you live
and how TO turn jack from the bottom
OF the pack without ostentation.
| shall try to meet your, demands for
means to prosecute your studies to the
bitter end. / have had no advantages
myself, but nature endowed me richly
with massive brain, and no man ever
outclassed me except your mother, and
that was when had my skates or, as
YOU say at college. having been out the
| night before brooding over the wrongs
Of my people.
want you to become familiar with
! the laws OF your country, so that you can
| keep out OF jail and not plead guilty, as
| | did In Kansas City once, not knowing
then that 1t was customary TO plead not
guilty and then let the other side find
out whether you are or not.
III had my life 10 live over again !
would get n classlcie education and keep
storein Kansas, dealing In drugs, paints,
| oils, dyestuifs, toys, notions and stomach
| bitters for mechanical purposes.
Try TO study economy along with your
other branches, az ] hate 10 beef the old
cow before cold weather, and the calf
| is too small to turn into money order
yet.
Learn all the languages, as / say, so
| that YOU can talk as well with for
eigner from New YORK as you can with
an American.
Learn astronomy. / am most sixty
years OF age and did not know Til yes
] terday that the sun is %, 600, 900 OF miles
from here. These things are pathetic
when YOU come TO think about IL. There
was no one near 10 tell me when was
| lad that IL would take train OF cars
263 years 10 go 10 the sun, even IL there
was no accidents. / was giddy young
thing ard thought only Of the present.
To 20 fishing as soon as the law was up
was my delight, and 20 lead an outdoor
life was the thing that my physician
thought best for me at the time.
Sol did not know until recently that
It took $4,000 years for the light OF a
star to reach the earth, aud even then
that 1t does not amount TO much. L
grew up wild and free, and would have
laughed 70 see the man who could over
| take and matriculate me.
Look at Alexander the Great! i did
] not know that he studied elocutIon
without Aristotle. / did not know that
an educated man could take the tariff,
for instance, and use It ss an excuse for
leading an immoral life.
But was left 10 ruu wild, as IL were,
making faces at people In the spring
| time OF life. and now In the autumn OF
nv DAYS my name is Dennis Here on
the Cherokee Strip / am all The time
brought ia contact with inferior people
who have never been east. Since have
been east my self can see how rough
and coarse we are here in the west We
are honest and open hearted. but we
lack refinement IM
We had little merrymaki7
| when got home frDm Washin