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Show THE SUPPLY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1915 HERALD-REPUBLICA- N, ' ' I 1 'INCH tricity-wh!-yoa-wa- I nue. hi. hats-cleane- d by-ele- c- e,tablihmnt, it fte Hint ways ep our conrerifaUon, which left htm dry of information, I shook hands with him and told him I was orry I couldn't believe him. And a month afterward I landed on tho cos ft of this Gaudymala with $1,300 that I had been saring up for fire years. I thought I knew what Indians liked, and I fixed my?elf accordingly. I ioaded down foar pack males with red woollen blankets, wrought iron palls, jew-- j elled aid combs for the ladles, glass neck laces an! safety razor?. I hired a black more, who was supposed to be a mule It turned drirer and an interpreter by twelve, in Tbird ave-Once a yoa are alI do not know his secret cuter proceM, bat eery four days jour hat ced to be cleaned again. Finch i a leathern, tallow, alow footed maa. between twnty and forty. You would sty he iti tad ben brought np a IIix t tret. busb-elrna- n tminei il When . likes to talk, so I had my hat e,m-- d even ftenr thin It deserved, hop-tu- t out that he could Interpret mules all right, Pinch might let me into on of the but he drove the English language much too hard. His name sounded like a Yale r?tn ef tl.e veathop. when you push it in wrong side up, Oo afternoon I dropped in and found key hut I called him McCIintock, which was atone. He b'SMQ to anoint rr.j close to the noue. d Pantmt with hi rajterion ?: "Well, this gold Tillage was forty miles f! l.'d that ailrsctfd dust and dirt like a up In the mountains and it took us nine one afternoon Mc- days to find it. a They suy the Ia4ian Ttf.it Vta under Ctir.bxk led the other mules and myself '.irat-r,- " said I, for a Uilr. over a rawhide bridge stretched across a "No I'lr.ch. 'Don't you it. $iid precipice fire thousand feet deep, it Jn!Lm or w hit- - tnm rot;! I ?y under s'err.ed to me. The hoofs of the beasts much wafer that Say. do yon pay drummed on :t Ju$t like before George M. attention to pliti''? I see in t!; paper Cohan makes his first entrance oa thc a law they've pa.er ntttn- afont k Ij-- w- ra lt Ii.t " W. I. says the King, all of sud- plaza of the village. The Indians swarmed den, 'I'll give you a square deal. It around by the hundred and looked the aiu't often I get to talk to a white man, bargain counter over. & shook red blanand I'll gire you a show for your money. kets at 'em, flashed finger rings and ear It may be these constituents of mine bobs, tried pearl necklaces and side combs haTe a few grains of gold dust hid away on the women and a line of red hosiery in their clothes. you may get on the men. 'Twas no use. They looked out theee goods you've brought up and on like hungry graven images, but I never tee if you can make any sales. Now, made a sale. I asked McCIintock what I'm going to introduce myself unofficially. was the trouble. Mac yawned three or My name is Shaue Patrick Shane. I four times, rolled a cigarette, made one or own this tribe of Peche Indians by right two confidential side remarks to a mule, of conquest single handed and unafraid. and then condescended to inform me that I drifted up here four year3 ego flnd.won the people" had no money. cm by my tize and complexion and "Just then up strolls King Patrick, big nerve. I learned their language in six and red and royal as usual, with the gold weeks it's easy; you simply emit a string chain over his chest and his cigar in front of consonants ae long as your breath of him. holds out and then point at what you're "'How's business, W. D. ?' he asks. " 'Fine Fays I. 'It's a bargain day asking for. " I conquered ein spectacularly goos:nish. I've got one more line of goods to on King Shane, 'and then I went at 'emioffcr before I shut up shop. I'll try 'em with economical politics, law, sleight of with safety razors. I've got two gross that hand and a kind of New Knglaud ethics I bought at a fire sale and parsimony. Every Sunday, or as "Shane laughs till some kind of mame-luk- e near as I can guess at it, I preach to 'cm or private secretary he carries with in the council house (Pin thc council) on him has to hold him tip. the law of supply and demand. I praise " 'O my sainted Aunt Jerusha I' says he, To-morro- w ! " 'They put it in quills says I 'and then " 'I'll tell you what you are says J. they empty it in jars and then into sacks You're a plain, contemptible miser. Y'ou of twenty-fivpounds each. I got it preach supply and you forget demand. straight. Now, supply I goes on, 'is never any'"W. D. says Shane, laughing and thing but supply. On the contrary says chewing his cigar, 'I don't often see a I, 'demand is a much broader syllogism white man, and I feel like putting you and assertion. Demand includes the rights on. I don't think you'll get away from of our women and children and charity here alive, anyhow, so I'm going to tell and friendship and even a little begging on the street corners. They've both got you. Come over here And I've got a to harmonize j equally "He draws aside a silk fibre curtain in a few things up my commercial sleeve yet corner of the room and shows me a pile of says I. 'that may jostle your preconcelvr-- j buckskin sacks. e " !Forty of 'em Bays Shane. 'One arroba in each one. In round numbers $220,000 worth of gold dust you see there. It's all mine. It belongs to the Grand Yacuma. They bring it all to me. Two hundred and twenty thousand dollars think of that, you glass bead pedler says Shane, 'and all mine " 'Little good it does you says I, contemptuously and hatefully. .'And so you are the government depository this of moneyless money makers. Don't gang you pay enough interest on it to enable one of your depositors to buy au Augusta ideas of politics and economy "The nest morning I had McCIintock bring up another mule load of goods to the plaza and open it, up: The people gathered around the same as before. "I got out the finest line of necklaces, bracelets, hair combs and earrings that I carried, and had the women put 'em on. And then I played trumps. "Out of my last pack I opened up a half gross of hand mirrors, with solid tinfoil backs, and passed 'em around among the ladies. That was the first introduction of looking glasses among the Pccbe Indians. "Shane walks by, with his big laugh. i ln. tag. cadl'd the Uw of supply and demand. I rt; '.itO'd to him a wet! a I ro il l that tli referenc wj to a J w and not to a legal .atutr. T didn's kair." aid Finch. "I hoard - I l.vt! about it a year or o ago. hut in a onesided Tray. said I, "political orators in k a deal. In fact. they n'vir give it a jrr'-at. I i p you hrird some of thoe Uage was built of mud and stone an ! hsd no streets. Some few yellow and brown persons popped their heads out of dvjrs, looking about lie Welsh rabbit with Worcester sauce oa 'em. Ont of the highest house, that had a kind of a por h around it, steps a big white man, red as a beet in color, dressed ia fine tatned deerskin clothe,, with a gold chain around hi, neck, smoking" a cigar. I've 'Tt pfdhlco-e"-t'tii;t'- n i t or t&e eat d." It from a kin.? you buy upon the doorstep. I know a piano player yon the keys of the cityV. In a cheap who ha ft hot lions ia Tm a poor traveller says I. 'EspeAfrica, a bellboy who fought in the Urit-l- h cially mule back. You'll excuse me. Do an the Zulus, express array agitr."t you run a hack line or only a bluff? Srirrr wh.e Ifft arm had been cracked " e 'Segregate yourself from your pseudo-equinl.ke a Meter's claw for a Jtewpot of pays he, 'and come c quadruped of boat when the I'atjsor.iaii catmibaU fci resuer hove in s'iht. So a tat "He raises a finger and a villager runs cleaner who Lad Wen a friend of a king op. lid not oppress me. " Th;s man will take care of your out"A w hand? .nkcd Fin h. with his fit says he, 'and I'll take care of you 3ry, barren jrnile. i ira.:H me mio me i'i:kM uuun-"lie Ye." aid I. "and half ar u:rh wider and sets out the chairs and a kind of a I h jd had a nw !3i 1 f ic 'laj" before. drink the color of milk. It was thc finest '"I meet s nun or ttisht. saul 1'iaih, room I ever saw. The stone walls was a man irown as cf in-ld- n-- nu.ff. with ErmeT in eterr f hwejcrknu krl ia S two jenf a?". p..-ke- l.ui-e- .t- Io-- - n '. I hunr all over with eating, t. , a ftilk fr lS il " 'He say says McCIintock, 'that tha people not know that gold dust will buy thei? things. The women very mad. The Grand Yacuma tell them it no good, but for keep to make bad spirits keep away " 'You can't keep bad spirits away from money says I. 'They say goes on McCIintock, 'the Yacuma fool them. They raise plenty row " 'Going I Going!' says I. 'Gold dust or cash takes the entire stock. The dust weighed before you, and taken at $10 the ounce the highest price on the Guady mala coast "Then the crowd disperses all of a sud den, and I don't know what's up. Mac and me packs away the hand mirrors and jewelry they had handed back to us, and we led the mules back to the corral they had set apart for our garage. , "While we was there we hear great noises of shouting, and down across the plaza runs Patrick Shane, hot foot, with his clothes ripped half off, and scratches on his face like a cat had fought him hard for every one of its lives. " 'They're looting the treasury, W. D. he sings out 'They're going to kill me and you, too. Unlimber a couple of mules at once. We'll have to make a getaway in a couple of minutes " 'They've found out says I, 'the truth heard down at Casey's," said the cop, in rumbling, husky tones, "that there was going to be a picnic of the Hat Cleaners' Union over at Bergen Beach shawl, and there reJ and yellow rags oa the floor, rnatf,'waji and Angora ;oat ".e and jars of red pottery d3co?irse; dice in a box to fill aces and sixes. "I Is that right?" "Sure, said Finch. "There'll be a dandy Sunday. time." "Gimme and enough 1bjhIvk furniture nmfurnhh half a dozen ea.ide cottages. t. i: j" t of 1 !. lie sas that M:r ' In the first place. Fays the man, 'you try do,o Ttain mountain in . . want to know who I am. I'm ole lesce ..titi that he ta!N .v.:dmala i full of laLd proprietor of this tnbe of Indians. it out t. He says the Indian, caI, ni! thc fJriin(i Jacuma, which streaav !a tUur.il qs; 'j, to tay Kinj or Main I'inRer of the 1. 'In '.ian: bunch. 1'tc got more power here than 'Oh. t;ern:jii;i r ajn charge of dyna- T here's Ir.dn; in th South I trl! a chirgfi d'affaires . . . tte mite and a charge account at Tiffany 'romluned. In fact, I'm the Big Stick, trade. The h'!v- .- f - th fa-dry iKith as many extra knot on it as there are all en the In Uar u u fUU of tfac LllsiUnia. Ob. I read the papery now and then u I. 3Ts he. 'Now. let's hear your entitlethUnithrertations Tin tir.-yo- u he goes on, 'and the meeting will J ht am t liuffalo I.u In lians: aients rare driter k about the law of supply and demand.' " 'It's the women, mostly says the King. 'And they used to admire me so' " 'They hadn't seen looking glasses, then says I. " 'They've got knives and hatchets says Shane. 'Hurry!' 'You "'Take that roan mule says-I- . and your law of supply! I'll ride the dun, for he's two knots per hour the faster. The roan has a stiff knee, but he may make it says I. Tf you'd included reciprocity in your political platform I might have given you the dun says I. "Shane and McCIintock and me mounted our mules and rode across the rawhide bridge just as the Peches reached the other side and begun firing stones and long knives at us. We cut the thong i that held up our end of the bridge and headed for the coast." A tall, bulky policeman came into Finch's shop at that moment and leaned an elbow on the showcase. Finch nodded at him friendly. of features and build, also head waiters aH I'iorh. I h"ar and cops. In a Indian of of tribe whit the Licj "lie walks up and takes a look at ns, South .Vnerica while McCIintock disembarks and begins I was Interested, but not surprised. to Interpret to the lead mule while he to knee a mother's The big ctty is like smokes a cigarette. many who hate atrayed far and focal " 'Hello, Cultlnsky says the fine man the roadj roofh beneath their uncertain to me. 'How did you get in the game? I trr.l. At dnsk thy come horae and ait didn't see any chips. Who give 1 . . cart tall fUow, spouting on the subject seen I'oited States Senators of his style cvr hr 'Remind 'em that Tom Watson's gom back to Georgia says I. 'McCIintock wares his hand affection? ately at ouo of his mules and then hurls a few stickf uls of minion type at the mob of shoppers. "A gutta percha Indian man, with a lady hanging on his arm, with thrca strings of my fish scale jewelry and imitation marble beads around her neck, stands up on a block of stone and makes that sounds like a man shaking 'kiu.. five tickets," said the cop, throwing a five dollar bill on the showcase. "Why," said Finch, "ain't you going it a little too" "Go to h ," said the cop. "You got 'em to sell, ain't you? Somebody's got to buy 'em. Wish I could go along' "Business looking up any?" he asked. I was glad to see Finch so well thought of in his neighborhood. supply and knock demand. I uee the 'ain't you one of the Babes in the Goods, (Maine) Pullman carbon diamond, worth "'Business looking up any?' he asks. " 'Its looking at itself right now says I. And then in came a wee girl of seven, ?ame text every time. You wouldn't W. DI Don't you know that no Indians $200, for $4.83?' blue eyes and a " 'Listen says Patrick Shane, with the "Byand by a kind of murmur goes with dirty face and pure think, W. D. says Shane, 'that I had ever shave? They pull out their whiskers imutched and insufficient dress. instead sweat coming out on his brow. 'I'm con- - through the crowd. The women had looked poetry in me, would you? "Mamma says," she recited, shrilly, "'Well says I. 'I wouldn't know "'Well says I, 'that's just what these,fident with you, as you have, somehow, into the magic crystal and seen that they "that you must give me eighty cents for razors would do for em they wouldn't 'enlisted my regards. Did you ever.' he was beautiful, and was confiding the sewhether to call it poetry or not the milkman and iiTh". i to the. men. The men seemed to be grocer and nineteen for cret of epen , 'em: the gold " 'feel the have used power 'furnishes kick if says, avoirdupois any coming they Shane, 'Tennyson says , with five cents for me to buy hokey-poke- y wfjreiMuui.fr ...u11, not the troy weight of it, but the sixteen urging the lack of money and the hard yi i. i 8tn known as one poetic gospel I preach. I always con- once but she didn't say that," the elf con S:i rm Infers and Asphs. and they was; w D i';nci,. Occupation, capitalist. sidered him the boss poet. . Here's the "Shane went away, and I could hear ounces to the pound force of it?' limes just before the election, but their excluded, with a hopeful but honest grin. M inuamtants when Maurna was Kio.ddrr9. 541 Kast Thirty-secondhim laughing a block, if there had beenj "'Never says I. 'I never take in any cuses didn't go. way the text goes: Finch shelled out the money, counting it Xcw York cLirs iu the Noble Grand. "Then was my time bad money o. i : y war'i the g dd out of i of any block. twice, bu I noticed that the total sura to tdmlre, !f a ruin could learn It, were grinning. 'It ain't the For. not called ani "I an from McCIintock floor and 'em the to on I Liu- - reomitai.i s!rea:;ii. away 'it "'Tell "Shaue McCIintock, m. the brown!'1 low says Le, seen own says irore drop. the small girl received was one dollar it go down on the Than to mil air day like a Sultan of M in a ain't money I want tell 'em I'll take gold throws bis arms over the sacks of gold mated conversation with his mules and that . will tf an.l thn ' first time you've tv at and four cents. cardea of aplcc. Stdottcr. I can tell by the way you hand told him to do some interpreting. dol- dust. 'era sixteen 'em Tell allow I'll dust. til! rethey thej empty Vn, into rvd jars "'You see, I teach em to cut out de lars an ounce for It in trade. That's what tsrun "capitalist" " 'Tell 'em says I, 'that gold dust will "That's the right kin of a law," love v ' Roys he. 'I want to fee! marked Finch, as he carefully broke some and then they pack it ia bukskinj ..j uVi ,hJs bos5 plain whal j comc for mandthat sur-Dlis thc main thing. I I'm out for the dust and night, its my buy for them these befitting ornaments for ithe touch o. of the stitches of my hatband so that it how I come to came. teach em not to desire anything beyond "Mac interprets, and you'd have thought Mcki of one arroba each an erroba i'and in life. I come in this room and kings and queens of the earth. Tell 'em j pleasure would assuredly come off within a few " o!d dust V says he, looking as puz their simplest needs. A little muttou. a a twenty-fiv- e pounds -- and store it in a; squadron of cops had charged the crowd Im a king and a rich man. I'll be a the yellow sand they wash out of the 'xled as a baby that's got a feather tuek little cocoa and a little fruit brought up to disperse it. ISvcry unclere nephew and millionnaire in another year. The pile's waters for the High Sanctified Yacoinay days, "the law of supply and demand. But Mone houe. with an engraving of a idul 111 to work together. all hcy want to aunt-- s njece 0f cm faf jen its molasses finger. , 'That's funny. from the caust-th- at's inside of getting bigger every month. I've got the and Chop Suey of the tribe will buy the they've both got auay over a t marcelled with hair, playing flute, .1 .; he went on, with his dry smile, This ain't a gold mining country. And maKe em ,nappy, i ve got. ? em cuhauaiucu. .two minutes whole tribe washing out the sands in the precious jewels and charms that will bet," th door "she'll get jelly beans'' with that nickel you invested all your capital on a They make their own clothes and hats out "At the royal palace that night me and creeks. I'm the happiest man in the make them beautiful and preserve and she likes 'em. What's supply if there's n "'How do they work off this unearth stranger's story? Well, well! These In- of a vegetable fibre and straw, and they're the King talked it over. world, W. D. I just want to be near this pickle them from evil spirits. Tell 'em dlmand for it?" dians of mine they are the last of the a contented lot. It's a great thing winds " increment? I asks. "They've got the dust hid out some- gold and know it'n mine and it's increas- the Tittsburg banks are paying four per of Peehes are simple as children. up Shane, 'to have made a people happ where "What ever became of the King?" I 'They don't iays the man. 'It's a tribe says J, 'or tbey wouldn't have been ing every day. Now, you know says cent interest on deposits by mail, while instiThey know nothing of the purchasing by the incultivation of such sirrple . custodian of thc asked curiously. so sensitive about it he, 'why my Indians .voiildn't buy your this czjc of "III fares the land with the great power of gold. I'ra afraid tutions been " 'They haven't says Shane. 'What's' goods. They can't. They bring all the publie funds ain't even paying attention. "Oh, I might have told you," said Finch. you've of velocity where wealth accumuon he. imposed "Well, the next day, with thc King's this gag you've got about gold? You been dust to me. I'm their king. I've taught Keep telling 'em, Mac,' says I, 'to let That was Shane came in and bought the fays I ain't there and any reciprocity' lates "'Maybe o says I, .'but it sounded permission, I has McCIintock open up feading Kdward Allen Poe? They ain't j'em not to desire or admire. You might the gold dust family do their work. Talk i tickets. He came back with me and he's AiLtr thi maa and me got through pretty straight to me $ U couple sacks of my goods ia the little 0t any gold. to 'em like a born says I. on the force now,' 'as well shut ud fchou r-- J intit. f...w r! J -- ." Mi aret fi-II- : r ! "I -y I anti-Bryani- te |