Show HHE WISE INDIAN Agent lilyfcons Story of a Trade Between Be-tween Two of his Charges Indians soon part with their money And in doing so they frequently display remarkable traits of business character charac-ter Agent Myton of the Ulntah reservation reser-vation tells of a number of partings with the lucre Incident to his recent payments of rental and other Incomes An hour after one old buck received 276 in cash he was Been driving about the reservation In a splendid twohorse carriage car-riage The Indian had no means of carting the products of his range or fields no waGon no cow little clothing and less to eat Reprimanded for his Improvidence he replied that white man rides in carriages why not Indian In-dian He was told that he should have purchased a common heavy wagon such as could be used for farm work and another Indians purchase of such a wagon was told to him as a wise purchase pur-chase The Indian grunted at every word looked troubled but gave no evidence evi-dence of being favorably Impressed Next day Agent Myton saw his Indian of spendthrift inclinations riding about In Just such a wagon as had been named for him and upon Inquiry It w as learned that he had traded his 250 carriage car-riage for the wagon that as soon as he had been upbraided the previous day he didnt do a thing but hunt up the wise Indian who had bought a Jolt wagon and propose a trade How did you trade was aglfed Carriage his waon mine was the reply The trade was vehicle for vehicle The farm wagon cost the first purchaser 70 the carriage 250 The wise Indian took tho carriage back to the seller and got two wagon two sots of harness blankets and a number of other necessaries When the first Indian was told of the trade made by the Indian who got his carriage he expressed no regret He simply grunted shrugged his shoulders and exclaimed lie wise Indian I |