Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — Not a Savage Indian. [ARTICLE]

Not a Savage Indian.

As an illustration of that sort of salutary reproof which is sometimes administered by an “inferior,” Our Dumb Animals prints an incident communicated by a South Dakota minister. The clergyman had been asked to receive an Indian boy into his family for a few weeks, and had consented to keep the lad If he did not prove to be “too much of a savage.” He turned out to be a pretty good boy, so much so that one day, as a great treat, the mrm lster gave him a gun and told him to. take a holiday and go hunting. The Indian shook his head. “No,” he said, quietly. “Me belong to Band of Mercy. Me not shoot birds or animals, only rattlesnakes.” The minister had been very fond of using that gun, but he says he does not care much for it now.