Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 30 August 1894 — Page 3
SAY A JO BILL.
& Dashing Indian Trader Who Speaks the Red Men's Tongue.,.
Denver Special: One of the best known and most unique characters of the great southeast is Navajo Bill, the only trader who can do business with the Navajo Indians. It is often stated that General McCook is the best informed man on the Navajo tribe, but even the soldier must yield the palm to Dr. Wallace, who spends at least six months yearly among the Navajoesr living in their houses, or ''trogans," as they are called, eating, drinking, sleeping and fraternizing with them. It is said there is not one of the 18.000 members of this interesting tribe who is of an age to understand the word friendship who would not do anything for the dashing white trader who comes among them veai'ly to cheer, encourage and visit them.
Dr. Wallace is a remarkable man. For years he has sojourned among the Utes, Moquis and Navajoes. Think how proud you would be if you could speak one Indian language correctly! Well, Dr. Wallace speaks
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a half dozen with equal fluency. He suggests and outlines designs for the Navajo weaving and silver work. His suggestions are quickly reproduced and as faithfully as their rude skill will permit.
He is a connoisseur and collector of curios, a crack shot and famous horseman, a man of picturesque and striking personality. Men speak enthusiastically of his daring, good judgment and individual charm, and even the dusky bells of the tribes he visits are not insensible to his attractions.
No more dashing or delightfully dare-devilish figure in all that country of picturesque figures can be imagined than Navajo Bill aecoutered for a ride to the reservation. His costume is a cross between that of a Mexican rancher's and a miner's, There is the flapping sombrero as big as the wheel of a Fifth avenue brougham. There are the" "shapo" or buckskin leggings jauntily frilled with leathern fringes there are the corduroy coats and scarlet neckcloth and jingliDg spurs, and lariat and Mexican saddle, with a Navajo blanket specially woven for him by a plump young squaw, and there is a crowd of cowboys, miners, half breeds and greasers to give him a send off, wish him "so long" and a speedy return.
In DurangoDr. Wallace is one of the attractions. His retreat at the La Plata Miners' club is one of the shows of the town. His collection of Aztec pottery, Navajo blankets and silver work represents the labor of years and many thousands of dollars. The walls are literally covered with blankets, saddles, bridles, rugs, weapons, baskets, pipes and silver ornaments. There are over fifty different varieties of Navajo weaving. Perhaps the specimen of greatest value is the blanket given Dr. Wallace by Manuelito, the late chief of all the Navajoes, for it is a mark of great esteem when a Navajo gives a white man any sort of present, as their grasping natures area proverb in this country^
The silver work is especially beautiful. The most skillful silver workran of the Navajo reservation is L'ash-le-ki. During his recent eight months' stay among the Navajoes *.)r. Wallace spent three days with his Indian silversmith watching lie tediously slow process of making faree spoons to order. Indians, being never pressed for time, a spoon a day was the order of work. As the Navajoes cannot get bar silver to work with, all the ornaments and spoons are made from silver dollars. Dr. Wallace wrote out the word "Navajo" for Pash-le-ki, who faithfully reproduced it in the handles of the spoons. The silver articles include buckles, nose rings, earrings, bracelets, belts, necklaces, anklets, oridles, spurs, powder horns and a thousand and one trinkets.
But that which appeals most to t.he lover of the quaint and curious is Dr. Wallace's collection of pottery, which surpasses any collection in the State of Colorado—Aztec, Moqui, CJte and Navajo—besides the many valuable specimens secured from the cliff and mesa dwellings. Then, too, there is an immense display of arrowheads, tomahawks, spearheads, flint knives and stonesiun#s Wrapped in rawhide. There are buckskin garments, moccasins, gems, skulls of ancient warriors unearthed from Indian tombs, bows, arrows—a wonderful and artistically jumbled collection, calculated to drive a connoisseur wild.
Navajo Bill himself is a stalwart,brawny, athletic blonde, with the Softest of fluffy, curly bangg, piercing eyes, and a rolicking geniality of manner. A friend of the writer who accompanied Dr. Wallace on a recent trip to the reservation said: "It was wonderful to see the way
those grim faces relaxed'at' sight of him. Think of being able do make an Indian smile! Why, I'd rather do it than conquer a kingdom, and so, I fancy, would Wallace. He's really fond of those people,,and that no doubt is the secret of his immense success with them."
EDITII SESSIONS TUPPER.
OX THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
The Enigmatical "Slang" in Which Trades Are Made.
Harper's Weekly.
Many of the phrases used in Wall Street, as well as the methods of business on the Stock Exchange, are enigmas to outsiders. What are know as "privileges"' are not officially recognized by the Exchange. Yet these "privileges"' form an important part in the daily life of some of the members of the Exchange. These "privileges'' are known as "puts." "calls," "straddles," and "spreads." All are purchased by speculators as an insurance against losses iu their operations in the market. A ^put" is a contract given to receive and pay for stock at a price below the current marketprice for a cash consideration,usually one per cent. A "call" is a contract to deliver stock at a price above the current quotation for a similar consideration. A "straddle" is a dual privilege either to receive or deliver stock at a price usually -from two to three per cent, above or below the market figure, the consideration being about one per cent, A "spread" is a privilege in two separate contracts, one a "put," the other a "call,'' the consideration for which is usually larger than in the other options, say one and a half per cent. There are many other terms used on the Stock Exchange which may be briefly stated and explained. A "break" in the market is a serious decline caused by astringency in the money market or any other similarly potent factor in stock speculations. The bear clique attacks the market, and holders unible to carry the load of stocks sell out. A marked decline in values follows 1 hi market thereupon breaks down. "Ballooning" is to work up a stock far beyond its intrinsic worth by favorable stories, fictitious sale, or other cognate means, "Block": a number of shares, say five thousand or ten thousand, massed together and sold or bought in a lump. To "buy in" is the act of purchasing stock in order to meet a "short" contract, or to enable one to return stock which has been borrowed. "Carying" stock is to hold stockwith expectation of selling it at an advance. A "clique" is combination of operators controlling vast capital in order to expand or break down the market. "Conversions": bonds are frequenth' issued with a provision whereby they can at any moment be exchanged for equivalent stock such securities are called convertible,and the act of substitution is styled "conversion.'" "Corners": when the market is over sold the "shorts" are compelled to deliver, finding themselves in a "corner." "Collaterals" any kind of securities given in pawn when money is borrowed. To "cover": where stock has been sold "short" and the market advances, the seller buys in order to protect himself oa the day of delivery: this is "covering" one's "shorts," "Differences": the price at which a stock is bargained for and the rate on the day of delivery are usually not the same the variation is known as the "difference," and occasionally brokers pay over this money balance instead of furnishing the stock but such cases are .'-arc. A "drop" in a stock is equivalent to a "break," except that it may possibly be due to wholly natural causes. "Forcing" quotations is where brokers wish to keep up the pric? of a stock, and this is generally accomplished by tranactions among themselves. This is known also as "washing." To be more explicit, "washing" is where one broker arranges *ith another to buy a certain stock when he offers it for sale. The bargain .s fictitious, and the effect, when this fact is not detected, is to keep the stock quoted, and, if the plotters buy and sell it to a high figure, to afford a basis for actual transaction. "Watering a stock" is the artifice employed to double the quantity of a stock without improving its quantity. "Long" in stocks is where an operator is carrying stock or a rise. To "load" up is where operators buy very heavily. To be "short" of the market is where an operator has sold stock which is not vet actually iu his possession. "Milking the Steet": the act of cliques or great, operators who hold certain stocks so well in hand that they may cause any fluctuaions they please,and by alternately lifting and depressing the price of the shares take all the floating money in the market. This is also know as "shearing the lambs." A "point" is a theory or a fact regarding stocks on which one bases a speculation. The market is 'off" when prices have fallen either in a week, a day, or even an afternoon. A"pool" is the stock and money contributed by a clique to carry through a "corner." To "unload" is to sell out a stock which has been carried for some time. There are other phrases in the Stock Exchange vocabulary, but the foregoing are those most \ised in the daily, routine. lr ifrcpacatory, Exchange.
He—So you are going to take lessons on the harp. Why do you prefer that to the piano?
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Miss Alice Moore, of Cleveland is one of the few women who have made a century run on a bicycle. A century run means to ride 100
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The little girl who practices four hours every day on the piano is entitled to a great deal of credit which she does not receive from her neighbors.
Anna Shager, of Duluth, a short time ago, brought a contest against Amos Carr on pine lands near Elephant Lake, northwest of Duluth. The contest growing somewhat bitter and expensive, Carr fixed up an agreement with her. The contest has been declared off, and Tuesday they will be married.
The Princesses Victoria and Maud, of Wales, have taken to cycling. This is at the express desire of their mother, the Princess of Wales, They have commenced on the triycle.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, is it her most winning best when she visiting the sick and sorrowing in hospitals, and she is especially gen tie to little children. She was affected and amused when an invalid ihild in an accident ward, lately, hyly addressed her as "Mrs. Priness of Wales."
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother has been captured by an Australian "interviewer," who has extracted from her the information that since her son published his "Footnote to History" he has been at daggers drawn with the English and German officials and visitors at Samoa, and now he sees but lew people.
Mrs. John A. Logan has deferred her European trip until October, when she will go abroad for a stay of several months in order to confer with the sculptor, Franklin Simnons, who has been awarded by Congress the making of the bronze statue and pedestal of the late Gen Logan which is to be placed in Washington. Mrs. Logan will occupy nuch of her time while abroad in writing, as she has undertaken to iccomplish considerable literary vork during the next year.
Queen Victoria's statue in Madras was recently marked in a way that was supposed to indicate a spirit ol rebellion on the part of the Hindoos, but it appears now that the marks are such as they put on the statues of their deities and that they were made purely in a spirit of worship. The Queen, indeed, seems to be higlv venerated in India. Her life has been translated into nearly all of the almost innumerable dialects of India, and in Madras the natives sometimes burn iucense and break cocoanuts before her statue as they would at the shrine of a deity
Ouida writes in reference to th exclusion of her novels from the Astor Library, together with the works of Fielding and Smollett: "I am gratified to be excommunicated with Fielding and Smollett. It is lamentable that such bigotry should exist.
Eqnalltj In Saturn.
So far as the Saturnians can be said have any pride in anything, it is in he absolute level which-characterizes their political and social order. They profess to be the only true republicans in the solar system. The fundamental articles of their constitution are these:
All men are born equal, live equal, and die equal. All men are born free—free, that is, to obey the rules laid down for the regulation of their conduct, pursuits, and opinions free to be married to the person selected for them by the physilogieal section of the government, and free to die at such proper period of life as may best suit the convenience and general welfare of the community.
The one great industrial producer of Saturn is the bread-root. The Saturnians find tiiis wholesome and palatable enough, and it is well they do, as they have no other vegetable. It is what I should call a most uninteresting kind of eatable, but it serves as food and drink, having juice enough so that they can get along without water. They have a tough, dry grass, which, matted together, furnishes them with clothes sufficiently warm for their coldblooded constitution and more than sufficiently ugly.
Apiece of ground large enough to furnish bread-root for ten persons is allotted to each head of a household, allowance being made for the possible increase of families. This, however, is not a very important consideration, as the Saturnians are not a prolific race. The great object of life being the product of the largest possible quantity of bread-roots, and women not being so capable in the fields as the stronger sex, females are considered an undesirable addition to society.
The one thing the Saturnians dread and abhor is inequality. The whole object of their laws and customs is to maintain the strictest equality in everything, social relations, property (so far as they can be said to have anything which can be so called), mode of living, dress, and all other matters. It is their boast that nobody ever starved under their government. Nobody goes in rags, for the coarse-libered grass from which they fabricate their clothes is very durable. (I confess I wondered how a woman could live in Saturn. They have no looking-glasses. There is no such article as a ribbon known among them. All their clothes were of one pattern. 1 noticed that there were no pockets in any of their garments, and learned that a pocket would be considered prima facie evidence of theft, as no honest persou would have use for such a secret receptacle.)
Before the revolution, which established the great law of absolute and life-long equality, the inhabitants used to feed at their" own private tables. Since the regeneration of society all meals arc taken iu common. The last relic of barbarism was the use of plates—one or even more to each individual. This "odious relic of an ellete civilization,'" as they called it, has long been superseded by oblong hollow receptacles, one of which is allotted to each twelve persons. A great riot took place when an attempt was made by some fastidious and exclusive egotists to introduce partitions which should partially divide one portion of these receptacles into individual compartments. The Saturnians boast that they have no paupers, no thieves, none of those fictitious values called money —all which things, they hear, are known in that small Saturn nearer the sun than the great planet which is their dwelling-place.—Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Atlantic.
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