Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-14
ANINDIAN REFORMER
NO HEARTS SAD EXPERIENCE CIV
LIKING HIS BRAVES.
This Chief, Whose Name Was q Misnomer,
Really Wanted to Raise His People 70
the White Mans Level-The Efforts he
Made and How They Resulted.

Really wanted TO 1SalSe HIS IeoPIo ~
the White Mans Level-The Efforts He
Made and How They Resulted.
No Heart was one Of those Indians whc
do not require the episode of death TO apo,
theosize them into decency. After he mao
done his careful, painstaking best to XIII q
reasonably large number of people IN the
Minnesota country in 1869 he hurried over
to the westward and s;6fly located III Ia,
kota He reformed and became as a bfiha
snatched from the burning. NO Heart
reformation was bona tide.
Percival ran little newspaper IN fa'r
banks, and the bottom land Whereoh NJ
Heart and certain of his wives lNeu was
Just across the river. 1t was very h'huy
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 Il am gong
to make it like the white. Willy 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 bands" He said this partly in lndl
an and partly in English, for it was one OF
his earnest moments
Percivai 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 we'll equipped tc
swing his scheme He went to the tailor
in Fairbanks and caused Il most marvellous
suit of clothes to be made for him-broad-
cloth, silk lined; patent leather shoes,
high hat, u shirt of dazzling whiteness.
''Whcn appear in this before the Two
Kettle band" he told Percival in his mix
ture of English and Sioux, lit 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 n drug store?"
Thus CARRIED in all the glory of Solomon
he went across the river tc the camp OF
the Two Kettle band. He was gone three
days and reappearcd in Pcrcival's office
clad in about cents worth of buckskin
and cotton. Perciyal asked about his
clothes.
1T is a great success" said the reform
err 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
mcant-''I lent it to Elk Walks Away, Il
noted and vehement drunkard, 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 t.
Lacy at the trading post for a gallon of co
lognc, and he drank the cologne for the
a1nohnl bat &c in, nd tI,r,n j,ty. Ia.
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
course" said No Heart II IN not discour
aged To incUlcate self esteem and a laud
able ambition to be equal to ones superb
ors we must provide the immediate sur.
roundings of those superiors, where.
fore
"IIold 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 cellal
for protection. Easy now, easy. Confine
yourself to English, and % caliber English
at that"
SIN Short" said No Heart, 81 am going
to take over to my camp sewing ma
chine a set of popular authors and a 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 docs one proceed to
establish a banking business? / think
| Throws His Ratchet at His Mother ought
to be ca Shier. We shall open next week. y
Pcrcival looked in awe and wonderment
at this remarkable philanthropist and
wished him well. Two hours later Nc
| Heart, still clad in buckskin and rags bu,
driving a pair Of detected Indian ponies
hitched to n most startling and gaudy
sleigh, disappeared toward the frozen riv.
er. He carried in 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 for sever
al minutes, and then, speaking meekly, h.
said:
You have perhaps heard that Throws
His Hatchet at His Mother, who was t.
have been cashier of the bank enormously
| IulSIaklnR tne cutter Tor q new KIND OF
folding bed, lay down in it to smoke him
self to sleep. We buried some of Throws
His Ratchet at His Mother, but there was
not enough ashes left of the cutter to men
ton 1t in ordinary conversation. The books
1 distributed among the Two Kettle band
and was called upon today by deputa
ton, who, representing that the books haG
made enormously successful fuel, request
ed that l get more. My squaws, regrel
to say, are fools. They took the sewing
machine out and cut q hole in the ice anC
dumped it into the river, for it was they
said, accursed."
One day in the summer No Heart ap
pearcd before Percival and made flna
report.
The man at the bank, he remarked
says my money is all drawn out. 1t il
very fortunate. l had intended to buy o
banjo, roll top desk and a gas stove
which l am sure would at last have
brought complete civilization to my PEG
pie. But l am thwarted' in Sioux, OF
coursc-'and am fain to give up my en-
terprisc. Percival, you have always been q
good friend to me and my race. Will you
be especially noble now?"
Percival said he would
Let me have 60 cents to get drunk on u