The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-02

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with a primitive wiidness. Civilization
makes a man want to dress well and
take fastidious care of his person and
leads him to a taste for a well trimmed
head, as it does q clean shaver check
It is a matter Of fashion entirely, else
women also would discard their pretty
tresses. The lieutenant simply took snap
judgment on his Apache braves, With the
delightful conclusion that short haired
men become civilized rather than that
civilized men become short haired. He
ordered a general barbering, and when
it came of a ton or 50 of raven locks
came off with it.
Many an owner of the locks was shorn
while he wriggled on the ground under
as many of the Indian police as could
sit upon him-shorn as sheep are shorn,
struggling and gurgling the whole while
in futile protest. One dissenting buck
was chased all over the territory before
be was finally caught, thrown down. sat
upon by the entire posse and dehaired
with a large, choppg pair of shears.
Lieutenant Stottler was given charge
of these Indians in December, 1894. Va
rious methods for keeping them in order
had been tried in vain. They were the
terrors Of the neighborhood and appar-
emily ineorrigibie- They wouldn't work,
they wouldn't be educated, they wouldn't
obey the law they wouldn't do anything
that they thought by D chance the
government would like them to do. The
one conspicuous thing which they did dc,
and which, above all, the government
wished they wouldn't do, was to drink
copiousiy and painstakingly Of a liquor
specially designed and brewed by them
selves to create the unh0liest, beastliest,
yilest jag that ever cheered an inebFiated
soul. The lieutenant found the whole
tribe drunk when he arrived on the
scene. He fglrativeiy kicked some 20
~ 80 of them sober and made policemen
OF them. Then he told them to kick the
others into the same novel condition.
They were living in tepees then, wearing
only b~reechciouts and blankets and sub
sisting on food sent them by the govern
ment. For years the government had
been feeding them and permitting them
to lie around IN drunken idleness year in
aud year our. They stole for pastime
and murdered for pleasure. Even among
themselves they sought recreation in
fighting. and a dozen brawls daily were
INDUCED In way OF regular exercise, in
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The 20 bucks which Lieutenant Stot-
tier projected into sobriety with the toe
of his boot had been educated at the ex-
pense OF the government and were pre-
sumed to know better than to run about
like mowgIis OF the Jungle, without re-
strietion and without responsibility. He
began on them and soon had them in
American clothes. thoroughly cleaned,
barbered to a finish and installed into
regular duties. He jolted into their
stolid pates a straight from the shoulder
proposition that if they did not work
they should not eat. When an Indian
attempted Co test this law by laying off
for a day and waiting for food to come
70 him. the food failed to ON The ex-
perimenter got hungry and went to the
foGd-and the way of his going lay
through weary toll. made doubly arduous
as punishment for his previous idleness.
Along with idleness aud drunkenness
fhY Mescaieros had cultivated he kin
drfd fault Of imposing on their women
Lind and hesidee having TO perform the
wretched labor which even the barest
kind OF living made necessary, the squaws
of the tribe had to submit to being
traded back aud forth among The braves
Tor horses and cattle. a hungry father
frequently prefeFeihg to trade away his
eonely daughter to working for the food
which the exchange netfed him.
Lieutenant Stottler. in his three years
Transformation act, changed aJi that
along with the rest. He determined at
the outset that the children Of the tribe
should 10 to school and be educated into
men and wonep with minds Of their
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