Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
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but is always ready for tomorrow.
His Lungs Are Good.


His Lungs Are Good.
The Indian humps over no desk and
brea Ties no foul air His figure is straight
his lungs large. Some tribes. it is true, are
dying off, but this is because their lives
have become crampad and because they
have caught diseases from the whites. Few
Indians carry surplus stomachs around
with them. l know 1909 Indians who iivc
on one reservat on. Among them all only
one is really fat. His name is Black
Thunder. but because ne has been such a
glutton his tribesmen have nicknarnod
him Lazy Dos.
The eye OF the Indian is not early
dimmed Even the oldest ones wear no
spactacles. They are trained to see far.
Necessity las forced them to look sharp
either 10 take note Of a far-aWay enemy or
to find an animal lurking in the woods.
His teeth are large and even. They do no.
decay: and ii takes derrick almost to pull
one ou-. Long black hair is the pride %
the buck quite as much of the squaw.
This he usually reaches back and pla is
into two queues. Around these, when he
dresses un, he wraps strips from the skin
of some rare animal An Indian agent out
west once thought that the meanness of
the Indian. ike the strength of Samson
lay in his hair. He cut off the pg-ta.ls OF
several Warriors. They sued The govern
ment and got large damages.
The Indian, like US ALL is vain He has
good way Of showing it, over his face
he snears DIS pant, mostly red and vel
low: and into his hair he sticks lonc
feathers. HIS clothes are the gayest col
ored he can get His trousers which are
Just two legs, he usually makes of green
His shirt is often red Over these he casts
spotted blanket or one of brilliant stripes
An Indian will go broke at a ribbon ease
buying bright silk bands for his hat and
for the name of his pony.
Some Like Firewater.
Drunkenness has become the besetting
sin of many Indians. One of them when he
wants firewater. will swap his birthrighs
for a bottle. Not ali of the Indians drink
though. Those who do not are hard on the
ones who do. The first punishment to the
young buck who has drunk too much is to
tie him to a post and let him stay there
until he sobeTs up. Ii an Indian takcs a
notion TO qu t. though. he is firm; he doesn't
have to take the gold cure.
Open-hearted to a fault is the Indian
Once II while a rich one will hold what
they call . pot-latch At this time he
viii bring together all of his friends and
give away everything that he has-to the
last rag he wears.
To Make Money Grow.
An Indian can raise ponies and rent
his land, but he does not know how to in
vest. An old Nez Perces chief had heard
that the white man made money grow"
He sold several hundred ponies, getting
a $50 gold piece for each one. The money
he planted in the ground. but it would not
even aprout for him. He told one of his
white friends about this. This friend got
a wholesale grocer of Portland Oregon
to take the old chiefs money and put it
out at interest. Each year the Nez Perces
would go dcwn to Portland and have his
money, interest and all. piled before him
to see how much it had grown"
But the Indian is no fool. Back in SO