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Show EAST SALT LAKE TIMES ( The sign for a man on horseback Is mude by straddling the index and middle Auger ovir i"o closed Angers of the oII.it bund. Once an Mole Tequop Indian that he hud been to Washington and seen u circus in which a white iicin rode a horse that Jumped over Ave other he mude the horses, man and white a for sign then for a man on a horse. Then he placed Ave horses in a row uud had his white man on a horse run down an THE REST OF THE SUIT Incline and make the leap. ' jVfitrrJfaR j&KrEa&IT" In telling ubout the elephant he had to improvise, bo to apeak, lie stretched An Oregon man was trying to sell ont his arm In front, with the band curved In and l horse. The animal was broken-wlndedown. Then he reached down c.nd picked up an but sleek. The owner trotted apple and curved his arm and bund up to his ilm around for inspection, and, brlng-nmouth. In excellent Imitation of an elephant's him back to the prospect he trunk. stroked the horse's back and reSigns often have more than one meaning. An marked: "Hasn't he a lovely coat?" Indian says I am a Pawnee," by making a V of The prospect removed his pipe and his Arat and second Angers and mending his arm. Mid, ns he looked at the heaving In conversation the same sign means wolf, the AnAanks of the animal : Yeuh, his coat's gers Indicating the ears. The snme algn also all right, but I don't like his punts." means wisdom, Inasmuch as the wolf Is consid- Everybody's Muguxlne. ered a pretty wise sort of animal and he is or ha would have been exterminated long ago. The AS AT PRESENT same two Angers pointed to the ground say, I have considered." It Is a pleasure to watch an Indian talking In the Sign Language. lie makes his signs In graceful movements In a small space In front of him. There la a surface line about three feet from the ground. Lieutenant Scott and by the way he la a great n of Benjamin Krankllu began his study of the Sign Language early In his career, lie was assigned to active duty in the Seventh cavalry at Bismarck, Dakota, the full of 1876, and took part In the Sioux campaign of that year. The next year he was in the Nex Perce expedition. In fact, from 1876 to 1879 he was busy lighting various tribes In Indian Territory, Kansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Dakota, Nebraska and Montana. Then for ten years or so he was on routine duty, principally with the Plains Indiana. Greece, my friend. Is the very eradle of culture and art I" "Tbat's why It's rficked so bard at times, I suppose." fj THE EtJZEUNG PCI 'vEin I II truly the world great est baking powto 'i It has Pure Foods g Better Bakings for over one third of a sen tury ly One Way of Seeing It To business tlmt betimes and go to it Rlinkespenre. When Is the surest sign that a la In love?" When he divorces his wife." with dZ great-grandso- Uncertain Quantity Ross But you asked tor s day off a month ago, because your wife was dying and now you ask another for the aame reason. Clerk Can't help It, sir. I'm very sorry, bat you can never depend on my wife for anything. dlackfeelr By JOHN DICKINSON 8HERMAN SIOUX cannot tulk Comanche and n Comanche cannot talk But all three Indiana Cheyenne. sit down on a blanket and that all the afternoon ubout any old thing from a iny race to Liberty bonda and from a clrcua to William Ilohenzollern. It will nut be what you would call a noisy conversation exactly, because these three Indians will use the Sign Language of the American Plains Indian. On the other liund It will not be like three deaf and dumb persons mnklng let-- " ters with their Angers. Fur this Sign Language U a real language. And there Is one paleface who cun Join the talkfest und outtalk ull three Los, for he bus a larger vocabulary than uny Pour Indlun on the Plains. The white mun, you know, can always beat the Indlun nt his own game, when he seta his mind to it. And tlmt's saying a good deal, for the American Indian la the best natural fighter this world has ever seen. If you doubt that, brush up your history by reading about Braddock and St. Clulr and Custer. Yet Dunlel Boone, Oeorge Rogers Clark, Kit Carson, Old Jim Brldger, John Colter and other heroes of our frontier days the Indian that's why they survived and achieved immortality. This one white man who cun outtalk any in the Sign Language Is known to all Indians as Mole Tequop In "Who's Who you cun read a lot about Mole Tequop from the vlewqiolnt of the pulefuce by turning to MuJ. Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott, U. S. A." The Indians will tell you as "Who's Who" does not that Mole Tequop knows more (bail a thousand signs which represent several thousand American words. And he should know considerable alsiut I be Sign l.unguagi1. for be wus graduated from West Point a second lieutenant in the United Stales army eleven days after Custer und -- fit) of bis troopers were wiped out In 1S70 by Sitting Hull on the I.iitle llig Horn und bus been studying the universal language of the Plains ever sim-elie knows so much ubout it in fact that I'lielu Sum relieved him from active duty In 11T for a year and set him down In the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian lnslltutlim to write a work on the subject. And bus Mole Tequnp's study of the Sign LanIt bus indeed For guage been worth while? this veteran liaa also brains anil character uud personality and the archives of the War show that many an Impending outbreak of tribes all over tls West was headed olT by Mole Tequop and much bbssly frontier fighting thereby averted. General Scott was born In Kentucky In 1S5.' and should have been retired by luw In 1917. Hut be was then chief of stuff of the United him In that States unny and the nation necdi-So he wus kept on active year of emergency. he Is a duty until 1919. Now, at seventy-one- , member of the Hoard of Indian CVinniissloiiers. This board, created In 1869, la a body of unpuld cltisens appointed by the President. It Is not a bureuu or division of any dcjmrtment, but Is purjiosely kept Independent und Is afforded of investigation that It may freely express an Impartial and Intelligent opinion regardIndian legislation and admining the much-vexe- d istration. General Scott, as a member of tills bourd and a friend of the Indian, paid a visit the other day to the ItlHCkfeet on their reservation along the euatern boundary of Glacier National park In Homans. The photograph reproduced shows Mole Tequop and Chief Under Bears starting In d In-Jla- n . Feeling on a long confab In the Sign Language. strong?" Is what the white man's bunds are saying. "Yes," say the Indinn's hands. Back of them rises the shadowy form of the Plains Indian of the old days, holding his right arm aloft with ids palm open in the peace sign. A full length photograph of General Scott at the present time shows what a soldierly figure Is this veteran, even In his old age. "Another photograph shows a group at Browning, where Sup?. F. C. Campbell has his office. The sketch shows General Scott making the sign for bighorn, the picturesque ltocky Mountain sheep, whose most striking characteristic la his large horns, curving down and in. Tills bighorn sign Illustrates a basic fact of the Sign Language: The Indian almost Invariably takes the most salient feature of anything In making a sign for It "Take? Oh, yes; the Sign Language Is a growing lunguuge or else It could not survive. If It did not adapt Itself to matters be disthe times, how could cussed? When an Indian wants to make the sign of the former kaiser of the German empire, now hiding In exile, he simply Interlocks six fingers and two thumbs, puts his hands across his mouth and sticks up his two Index fingers toward his eyes In other words, to the Indian the big thing about the Genuan kaiser Is Ids mustache. Remember, please, that about 12,000 American Indians responded to the call to the colors In the World war and they are talking about it yet. Some of the signs, however, are not so obvious. This Is to be expected, since the Sign Language Is an old, old language. It probably had Its beginning when the tribes, each with a language of Its own, met on the Plains In their hunting expedition. So some of Its signs long antedate the advent of Europeans. (me of the very old signs, of course, Is that for buffalo. Mole Tequop sfiya that for many years lie Inquired ubout It und lnvarluhly the answer wns: "My father tohl me that wus the sign for buffalo." Now, the buffalo sign Is this: You make a fist of the left hand, small finger down. You draw the Index finger of the r!ght hand hack from the hollow made between tbe thumb and Mote Tequop, standindex finger of the t. ing on a bluff und looking down on Indians shooting buffiilo, realized that the outstanding feature of n buffalo wus Ills hump, suggesting the formation between index finger and thumb of the list. Hie index linger of the right hand la the arrow, Its withdrawal the drawing of the Imw und the whole action la that of shooting the huffulo. Are you skeptical over Indians talking about Liberty bond In the Sign Language? Remember, please, Ibut Indians bought over Jll.'i.tlOO.OOO of I.lla-rtbonds and that Indians nowaduys are very rich from oil lands, many of them. So naturally they have to talk (ihmit dollars, rush, credits and Interest. Moreover, the Indian mind Is delightfully direct and logical on these subjects. The sign fur the dollar in the Sign Lunguuge Is exactly us you yourself would make It the outline of the silver dollar made liy curving the Index finger and the thumb. The sign for cash Is the placing of this dollar sign In the palm of the other band money in hand. Credit Is by making a writing motion In the pul in the entries In the account hooks of the white man. And Interest? Why, the Indian Just naturally makes the dollar sign, then the credit sign and then the child sign. If interest isn't the child of Invested money, wlint Is It? With Ms eye for the characteristic feature of everylhlng, the Indian Is usuully delightfully direct In the Sign Language. For exangile, the white man was the only one who wore a hat. So the sign fur white man Is the passing of the Index finger along the line on the forehead Where the brim of the hat comes. fl-- Always the young lieutenant wns Interested In the Sign Language. lie recognized In It a medium of successful diplomacy with the Indians. As s rule the Indian scouts employed by the cavnlry were useless as Interpreters. He saw that the first step to gaining the confidence of the various tribes was to be able to talk with them. Lieutenant Scott was fortunate In early gaining the friendship of a remarkable Indian, a Kiowa. The Klowns have probably killed more white men, In proportion to their numbers, than Is the most famous any other tribe. Yet peacemaker the Plains have ever seen. He had a deep love for the Indian, und the intelligence to see that In the long run their resistance to the white man was hopeless. He has proved his soldier courage many times tinder fire. He has also had the moral courage to stand np at the council fire and tell the assembled warriors the exact became the guide, truth of the situation. philosopher and friend of the young cavalry lieuof the Sign tenant, taught him Hie Language and gave him a deep Insight Into the Indian mind. Together they headed off many a bloody outbreak. Today a tepee stands on the reservation at Fort Sill, Okla., Isolated from the rest of the post. In It lives seventy years of age and sole survivor of the Kiowa scout detachment lie Is still a sergeant on full iay and allowance and he Is unique in the army of the United States In that he Is never to be retired or demoted until the post bugler blows "taps" over his soldiers grave. It was General Scott who secured for his friend and follow peacemaker and clever scout this unique reward for his services. The army lias built him a comfortable shack, furnished. But will have none of It, except to use It as a storehouse the range he uses as a sort of chiffonier. General Scott's long und enviable Indian record contains many notation like this: "Settled by diplomacy . In fact, he seems to have been the federal governments main reliance In muny times of threatened trouble. From 1894 to 1897 he wus In charge of bund of C'hlrlruhua In l!SiS afier lm had served In Cuba Apaelics. as adjutant and In the Philippines as governor o' the Kulu nrrhlix-higand had been four years superintendent of tin: I'liiu q states Military urad-oniwith the rank of colonel he was sent to settle the troubles of Navajo In New Mexico and Klckuiioos In Arizona. In Hill he was smoothing over matters with the Ilopl Indians In New Mexico. In 1912 he took charge of the settlement In Oklahoma und New .Mexico of the Apnclie prisoners of war. In 19i;i lie settled by diplomacy the Navajo Indian trouble at Beautiful Mountain, Arts. In 1913 he settled the Piute trouble at Illuff, Utah when lie was a major general and chief of stuff. And Mole Tequop certainly possessed the of the fighting Indians of the Plains as a soldier, for In 1S92 ln enlisted and commanded Troop L, Seventh cavalry, made up of Kiowa, and Apui-hIndian. lie held them to the service through five years of enlistment. t The war slng.-fitting climax to Major General Scott's career as a soldier by putting him on the front line at Arras and Ctinlon In command of the Seventy-eightdivision, A. K. F.t where he won his I). H. M. Perhaps, however, Hugh Lenox Hcott Is doing right now ns Mole Tequop the beHt work of his long career In the of Ida eountry. Certain It la that when lifts Ms right hand wiili njutu palm and spreads his blanket on tin- - ground thereby saying In the Sign Language, "I enmy in ace and friendship. Conte and sit down ; I wHnt to talk" the wildest Plains Indian will Hu Invitation and listen with open mind. And these days of new riches and new cltlxenahlp and a new federal policy In the making are days when the Indian needs a tried and proved frlead who understands him. nb-el- y d gn-M- Holding the Cook "I see s muslcsl stock company has visiting prims donna from time to time. She la advertised as s guest s artist" "Well?" "I wonder If hold a cook." SWMP-ROO- T Thousands of women have kidney and hot tls of LIQUID bladder trouble and never suspect it. daily dustmf. dransdsJsSftSL Womens complaints often prove to he with on. sweep of your du.t,lwhigj snas.rurnltura.woodwisk.satsssilawiuw look l.k. aothigg else but kidney trouble, or the yjldn, mult of kidney or bladder dines lie. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition they may cause the other organs to become diseased. Pain in the back, headache, loss of are oftentimea ambition, ncmunwMa UpUl HIEEI aymptoms of kidney trouble. cumi Dont delay atarting treatment. 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