Show il 4r t FAIR EXCHANGE IJ ft 9r Indian nature was about the same jS > In 1870 as It was In 1SOJ says the author I i j thor of The Trail of Lewis and j Clark In illustration of this he tells i 4 of a time when Lewis and Clark on 1 1 their Journey of exploration toward I a the Northwest found that their stock I J of merchantable property was exhausted j exhaust-ed and they created n new fund by cutting off the buttons from their clothes and adding vials and small tin boxes to their stores With this merchandise mer-chandise two men went out on a trading ask trad-ing expedition nnd returned to camp d laden with roots and other provisions Their experience recalls a certain one of my own writes Mr Wheeler Late in the fall of 1S70 J II Renshawc now of the United States Geographical I Survey and I with n topographic I party were slowly making our way down Meadow Valley Wash In southeastern r south-eastern Nevada Misfortune had been N + I our constant companion and as we reached the banks of Muddy Creek n beautiful clear cold stream one noon we were rather a gloomy set of men We were a month behind time our horses were nlmost exhausted nil our horse feed was gone the grazing was worthless we were out of money and there was no way to get more We felt that we were In rather a serious plight Soon after we camped n flute In dlnn appeared and within a few minutes min-utes several more came to camp We soon found that they had u store of barley and corn nnd an exchange was quickly effected for certain surplus provisions that we had and the poor horses had n full meal I SN When the beans find sugar were exhausted ex-hausted the Indians Inllnmtcd thnt nn old lint or coat would be ncrrptnble for barter This suggested anew line entirely en-tirely amid 10 l make n long story short ue bargained off all our old gnrmiiits for shelled corn and barley until finil ly we had six or eight hundred pounds of splendid grain on our wagon Two revolvers were sold outright for pie clout silver dollars and n niouthorgnii or cheep harmonica was itrrnt medicine medi-cine and brought splendid I I leturni When WP wore dom the Indiana quietly withdrew leaving us rich nod elm crfnl At Hist thought such bartering seems onesided nnd inequitable hum It Is nut so Vhat was of value or interest in-terest to the Indian may have been vaiieesc to its white owner and vice verso To the child u jnmplngjnek Is n pridoiti poispMlon and the Indian In-dian was mid Is jet In many respects nn overgrown child TRANSFERRING THE FLAG In the Battle of Lake Erie III 1811 when Commodore Perry defeated the I British and captured their entire Meet the llaghlp Laurence was shuttered by the uiins of the i Encllsh and Commodore Com-modore Perry was obliged to transfer his flag to the Niagara In Coin muo lore Oliver Hazard Perry the author refers to this transfer as the sub Imest passage III the epic of Erie From the masthead of the helpless i Lawrence the big blue burgee the wliile lettered buglecall upon an azure field had come fluttering down The icnnant followed but the Stiiis and Stripes remained It was not then n surrender as the enemy had thought What was It The next moment fur ilshed a reply for out from under the Ice of the battered hulk dm ted n small bona propelled by oars In the hands of brawny seamen straight for tho I msslng Niagara Erect in the stern stood a splendid stalwart figure the folds of the big blue burgee amid the pennant draped over the broad shoulders shoul-ders the face still calmly Impassive the eyes smoldering Commodore Perry was transferring the Hag Halfsurrounded as it was by the enemys ships the boat swept on through a perfect roaring tornado the commander still strangely impassive erect In the stern Perrys young brothel pleaded with tho Commodore to sit down but ho seemed oblivious Finally his oarsmen fearful for his safety flatly refused to row longer unless un-less he sat down when he complied The men then redoubled their efforts speeding toward the now waiting NI agnrn The storm from the British guns If possible grew in violence tho oars were splintered by musket balls As by a miracle the small crafts tenants ten-ants escaped unscathed A round shot finally came tearing through the boats side In n trice Perry had slipped off the cpauleted coat of his rank the garment he had flonneil on leaving the T iwrcnees deck and stopped the hole with it The boat reached tho side of tho Niagara In safety a quarter of an hour after leaving the Lawrence |