JOSH AND THE BORDER INJUN. Yu inform me, mi dear sir, that yu are a member ov the sosiety “for the prevenshun ov kruelty tew animiles.” Allow me tew simpathize with yu, bi saying, that i am glad ov it. It iz a nobel institushun, and stands _ahed_ ov the prevenshun ov kruelty tew humans. It iz a fakt, that thoze who are kind tew animiles, are kind tew humans. I am not acquainted with Mr. Bergh, the president ov yure assosiashun, whom yu speak ov so kindly, i dont kno him personally, but i kno him at a distance, he is very tall. In yure letter tew me, yu speak very tenderly about the Injuns, and ask me, “if thare aint sum way, tew alleviate the condishun ov the nobel red man on our frontier.” Yu say yu are willing tew bekum a missionary, and go amung them, and labur for their good. The injun, mi dear sir, iz a pekuliar kuss. He haz the most ardent simpathizers amung thoze who dont kno him the muchest. In the komposishun ov the skool girl, the injun maiden bekums a brik, and when the boys speak about him, they speak ov his bo and arrows, and hiz nobel natur. Most people kno the injun from the Hiawatha stand point, but i git mi informashun from the kritter himself. I dont liv amungst him now, but in the early years ov mi misfortunes, in this latitude, i bekum striktly acquainted with the nobel injun az he iz, not so mutch az he ought tew be, nor az poets hav tost him up. I hav saw him in hiz natiff buty at home, and hav mi opinyun ov him, which i am willing tew impart tew yu, at fust cost. Mi advice tew yu, iz tew stay with Mr. Bergh, and stick tew the stage hoss, and make him az comfortable az yu kan, and not waste enny philanthropy, nor hallelujah, on the border injun. Thare ain’t a more villainous individual, now loafing around loose, on the footstool, than Mr. Lo, the injun. The minnit an injun bekums what yu kall civilized, that minnit he iz spilte. A civilized injun aint ov enny more use tew himself, az a means ov grace, nor ennyboddy else, than a tame deer. If thare could be found an iland, in the depths of the sea, whare it waz sure, no white man, nor blak man, nor blue man, would ever go, it mite do tew stock it, with the injuns now residing on our border, and let them civilize each other. I am willing tew admit, thare iz a difference in the various tribes ov injuns. Sum are wuss than others, but civilizashun haz never been ov enny uze tew an injun. If yu ask enny border man, one who knos the kritters, he will tell yu the same story. Sunday skools are a good place tew learn the katekism, and git the hang ov the 10 commandments, but tew kno the injun, mi dear sir, yu must go amungst him. Yu kant studdy injun, and lay around a meeting house all the time, i am sorry for this, but i dont konsider that i am tew blame for it. As i sed above, stick tew the omnibust hoss, he iz, in mi opinyun, a more fit, and better paying investment, for yure kindness, than the best Blackfeet injun thare iz now in the rocky mountains.