The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-05
AN INDIAN REFORMER
NO HEARTS sA. EXPERIENCE CIV
LIKING HIS BRAVES.
This Chief Whose Name Was . Misnomer,
Really Wanted to Raise His People to
the White Mans Level-The Efforts He
Made and How They Resulted.

Made and How They Resulted.
No Heart was one 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 to kill |
reasonably large number of people in the |
Minnesota country in 1862 he hurried over |
to the westward and safely located In Da- |
kota. He reformed and became as a brand |
snatched from the burning. No Hearts |
reformation was bona fide.
Percival ran IA little newspaper In Fair |
banks, and the bottom land whereon No |
Heart and certain of his wives lived was
just across the river. 1t was very handy
for No Heart, and he used TO devote most
of his time to talking to Percival about
the improvement of the Indian race
81 am going TO save the Indian race"
said No Heart TO Percival. 81 am going
TO make it like the white. Why should the
Indian freeze and starve and wear espe-
cially frouzy rags while the white man
lives in town and runs secondhand stores
and barber shops and plays in the city
brass banda" He said this partly in Indi-
an and partly in English, for it was one OF
his earnest moments.
Percival warned him. An Indian Is an
Indian, he told him, and 1t 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 "a most marvellous
suit of clothes to be made for him-broad
cloth, silk lined; patent leather shoes,
high hat, "a shirt of dazzling wilderness.
I In hofn tba Two
Kettle band, he told Percival in his mix
ture of English and Sioux, cit will cause
emulation. In three weeks l expect there
will not be any more Indians wearing G
strings and blankets. What pay ought an
Indian to get as clerk in drug store?"
Thus CARRIED 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 buckskip
and cotton Percival asked about his
| clothes.
at is great success, - said the reform.
| err 'To 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 drunkard, whose hab
| it's need correcting sadly Ii made now
| man of him, did my broadcloth suit, hut
| to my regret in the evening he sold it to
| Lacy at the trading post for a gallon of CO.
| logne and he drank the cologne for the
| alcohol that is in it, and for three days he
! has been the most magnificent sweet smell
ing sort of drunken beast known to the
| Two Kettle band.
81 shall proceed now TO the second
| 4 Il
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 on!'
cried Percival Lord bless you, Injun,
you are chattering around there with a
Sioux mixture of verbosity and long words
that would drive one into a cyclone cellar
for protection. Easy now, easy. Confine
yourself to English, and % caliber English
at that"
"In short said No Heart, 81 am going
to take over To my camp sewing ma
chine, set of popular authors and dou-
BILE seated cutter. Seeing these, can you
understand how my people can fail to be
filled at once with the same ideas as the
whites? Percival, how does one proceed to
establish banking business? i think
Throws His Ratchet at His Mother ought
to be cashier. We shall open next week. "
| Percival looked in awe and wonderment
Mt this remarkable philanthropist and
wished him we'll Two hours later No
Heart, still clad in buckskin and rags, but
driving pair of detected Indian ponies
hitched to most startling and gaudy
sleigh, disappeared toward the frozen riv-
Al M
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 "a key He WAS silent for sever
al minutes, and then, speaking meekly, h'
said
"You have perhaps heard that Throws
His Hatchet ut His Mother, who was tC
have been cashier of the bank, enormously
installing the cutter for u new kind o
folding bed, lay down in it 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 ID i'm ordinary conversation. The books
/ distributed among tho Two Kettle band
and l was called upon today 10y deputa
ton who, representing that the books hat
made enormously successful fuel, request
ed that / get more. My squaws, l regre
to say, are fools. They took the sewing
machine out and cut hole in the ice an,
!, dumped it into the river, for 1t was, the.
said, accurscd.
One day i'm the summer No Heart APP
pearcd before Percival and made fna
! report.
. 1.-The man at the bank, he remarked
"says my money is all drawn out. 1t i
very fortunate l had intended to buy
banjo, roll top desk and gas stove
which l am sure would at last hav'
brought complete civilization to my PEG
pie. But l am thwarted'-in Sioux, o
: coursc-''and am fain 80 give up my en-
} tcrprise. Percival, you have always been
good friend to me and my race. Will yo'
he especially noble now.'
Pcrcival said he would
LET me have go cents to get drunk on,
said No Heart.