THE NEPHEW OF HIS UNCLE.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 215, 16 February 1875, Page 3

THE NEPHEW OF HIS UNCLE.

(From the Lincoln Tribune.) He was a smart child of the forest primeval—that is to say, he Avas an Indian, and he had come from his home in the Utah valley, in company with another of his tribe, to receive the education of the pale face at Lincoln University, For a time all went well, for be mastered the English alphabet and could understand many words of the language. But a feAv days ago his demeanor changed. He Avas the nepheAv of a chief, and failed to receive from the whites, and especially the professors, the homage he thought his due. Gradually this idea grew upon him, and the result Avas that the professors Avere astonished. They were having a meeting when there suddenly appeared in their midst the apparition of a raging brave, clad in all the Indian toggery, daubed fearfully with Avar paint and armed with knife and revolver. He didn’t scalp anybody, but announced his intention of going to his Western home on foot. He didn’t say exactly that he heard in dreams the sobbing of the winds in Western pine trees moaning over bis absence, and that the Great Spirit of the mountains commanded bis return, but he said simply that he Avas going. He was finally induced to stay over another night and on the next morning Messrs John B. Randall and Edward Bingham, two of the teachers in the institution, accompanied him to Philadelphia and placed him aboard the train at Omaha, in charge of the conductor. The copper-colored nephew of a great chief is probably by this time again hunting the bounding buffalo and the lonely emigrant, and forcing some dusky beauty of his tribe to carry his tent poles and baggage, while he supports the dignity he failed to sustain at Lincoln University. It may be alluded to that the authorities in the University bestoAved upon this noble red man the Avhite man’s name of ‘ John Patterson,’ so that he was, to some extent at least, justified in turning his back upon civilisation. No man could assert his manhood under such a name.