The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-23
ANIN1IAN.REF0RMER
KQ. HEARTS SAD EXPERIENCE CIV
lLIzlNc HIS BRAVES.

Really wanted 70 Raise His People 60
the White nfan's Levcl-The Efrorts Hc
Made and How They Resulted.
No Heart was ono of those Indians who
do not require the episode OF death to apo
theosize them into decency. After he had
done his careful, painstaking best 10 kill a
reasonably large number of people in tho
Minnesota country In 1862 he hurried over
to the westward and safely located in Da-
kota. he reformed and became as q brand
snatched from the burning. No Hearts
reformation was bona fide. w.
Percival ran little newspaper In Fair
banks, and the bottom land whcreon No
Heart and certain Of his wives lived was
just across the river. 1t was very handy
Tor No Heart, and ho.uscd 20 devote most
OF his time to talking to pcrciyal about
the Improvement of the Indian race.
II am going to save the Indian race"
said No Heart to Percival "Iam going
to make IL like the white. Why should the
Indian freeze and starve and wear espe-
eially frouzy rags while the white man
lives In town and runs secondhand stores
and barber shops and plays In tho city
brass bands" He said this partly in Indi-
an and partly In English, for 1t was one OF
his earnest moments.
Percival warned him. An Indian Is an
Indian. he told him, and it is no use try
ing to make him anything else. No Heart
was firm, however, and he set out straight
way to bring about an improvement in the
affairs of his race. He had snug amount
OF money, so he was well equipped to
swing his scheme He went to the tailor
in Fairbanks and caused most marvellous
suit of clothes to be made for him--broad
cloth, silk lined; patent leather shoes,
high hat, shirt of dazzling whiteness.
when appear in this before the Two
Kettle band" he told Percival in his mig
turc of English and Sioux, "it will cause
emulation. In three weeks i expect there
will not be any more Indians wearing g
strings and blankets. What pay ought an
Indian to get as clerk in drug storef''
Thus garbed in all the glory of Solomon
he went across the river to the camp OF
the Two Kettle band. He was gone three
days and reappeared in Percival's office
clad in about cents worth Of buckskin
and cotton. Percival asked about his
clothes.
1T Is a great success, said TIE reform.
er. ITO instill that feeling of self respect
which good apparel brings"-you under
stand, most of his words were of Sioux
manufacture, but that Is what they
meant-"I lent it to Elk Walks Away, a
noted and vehement drunkartl. whose hab-
its need correcting sadly. 1t made new
man Of him, did my broadcloth suit, but
to my regret in the evening he sold it to
Lacy at the trading post for gallon of CO.
logne, and he drank the cologne for the
alcohol that Is in 1t, and for three days he
has been the most magnificent, sweet smell
ing sort of q drunken beast known to the
Two Kettle band.
"I shall proceed now to the second
course" said No Heart. "I'm not discour-
aged To inculcate self esteem and laud.
able ambition to be equal to ones superb
ors we must provide the immediate sur
roundings Of those superiors, where.
fore
Hold on there, No Heart; hold onl"
cried Percival Lord bless you. Injun,
you are chattering around there with a
Sioux mixture OF yerbosity and long words
that would drive one into a cyclone cellar
tor protection. Easy now, easy. Confiue
yourself to English, and 90 caliber English
at that" rr .r...
"In short" said No Heart, "I am going
to take over to my camp q sewing ma.
chine, a set of popular authors and dou.
BILE seated cutter. Seeing these, can you
understand how my people can fail to be
filed at once with the same ideas as the
whitesf Percival, how does one proceed to
establish o banking business! think
Throws His Hatchet at His Mother ought
to be cashier. We shall open next week"
Percival looked in awe and wonderment
at this remarkable philanthropist and
wished him we'll. Two hours later No
Heart, still clad in buckskin and rags, but
driving a pair of detected Indian ponies
hitched to most startling and gaudy
sleigh, disappeared toward the frozen riv.
er. He carried i'm the rear seat sewing
machine and about 90 handsomely bound
books.
He was mounted on one of the ponies
when next he appeared at the office of the
newspaper. Gentle, patient resignation
was depicted upon his face as he quietly
moved into the editorial room and seated
himself on keg. He was silent tor sever
nl minutes, and then, speaking NEE kly he
said:
"You have perhaps heard that Throws
His Hatchet at His Mother, who was to
have been cashier of the bank, enormously
folding bed, lay down in 1t to smoke him.
self to sleep. We buried some of Throws
His Hatchet at His Mother, but there was
not enough ashes left Of the cutter to men-
ton It in ordinary conversation. The books
i distributed among the Two Kettle band,
and I was called upon today by a deputa-
ton, who, representing that the books had
made enormously successful fuel, request
ed that get more. My squaws, I regret
to say, are fools. They took the sewing
machine out and cut hole in the ice and
dumped 1t into the river, for 1t was, they
said, accursed."
One day in the summer No Heart ap-
peared before Percival and made final
report.
"The man at the bank" he remarked,
"says my money is all drawn out. 1t Is
very fortunate. had intended to buy o
banjo, a roll top desk and a gas stove,
which I am sure would at last have
brought complete civilization to my peo-
pie. But l am thwartcd"-in Sioux, OF
course-"and am fain to give up my en-
terprise. Percival, you have always been q
good friend to me and my race. will you
be especially noble nowf"