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COLONEL
CODY
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Cody once undertook to supply ihs work
ingm en on the K ansas Pacific Railway
with buffalo m e a l and to well did he suc
ceed that he becam e known a s Builalo
BILL In 1878 Cody w as with the U. S.
Cavalry that went to avenge the death of
Gen. Custer. He encountered Yallow Hand,
the C heyenne Indian Chief. In a hand to-
h and contest fought with knives, and slew
him I In 1883 Cody organised the "Wild
W est Show,** a spectacular performance
of difficult riding and shooting leats.
w hich becam e popular and later toured
Europe. He lies buried In a tomb theft w as
blasted from solid rock on Lookout Moun
tain. about twenty miles trom Denver.
Colorado.
COMt
without
it betray«.. ntcoa
self'
Pattern 1187 co m es to you with
a transfer pattern of a sam p ler
12 l 4 by IS l-4 inches; color s u g
gestions; m aterial requirem en ts;
illustrations of nil stitch es used
Send IS cen ts in sta m p s or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sew ing C ircle N eed lecru fl
Dept.. 82 Eighth A ve., N ew York.
W I L L I A M TBED EE1C
MUCH
t COMt roust
f.ry: at first it dJcJ
use up scrap« of cotton or silk
floss, and « d esign that works up
in no time, for the background is
plain. Wouldn't it go beautifully in
u young girl's room? P erch an ce
that Young M iss w ill w ant to do
this eusy cross stitch d esign her
G B ÏA T SC O U T S
Bora In Scott County. Io w a Wil
liam F. Cody, at 14. iolnod tha
"Pony Express." that group of
darin g ridar« who. b ra rln g In-
i^imia a&d b e n d iti a n d living on
iha constant *dg« oi death, car
ried the mail« horn Missouri lo
n "‘ **»* which l*.,
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NOSMIUTAM
Write plainly pattern num ber
your nam e and address.
Pattern 1187
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Do Y o u r P r o m i s e s
No m atter what the Season— a
You becom e a person of prom
sam pler's always fun to do, e s p e
cially when it offers as colorful ise, not by prom ising m any
a picture, as quaint a verse, as things, but by accom p lish in g what
this. You'll find it a grand way to you prom ise.
F A. K,>t>rt, ll- ‘-u rn 1^
MOKTEZCMA MOCSTAOi |n
• Orosset a D unlap.— WNU Service.
Jsde Experts Watch for Missing
Treasures to Reappear
CHINA.
BUFFALO politician, long
deceased, turned up in
Washington at the McKinley
inaugural ball garbed in more
kinds of diamonds than had
ever before been seen in the
District of Columbia at a gov
ernmental function.
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changing its luster. Old jade hav
ing already undergone this trans
formation and completely recovered
is more sought after. Today those
Chinese who sold liberally during
the depression are offering all sorts
of prices to get the jade back.
From Canton. Peiping and even
Burma, the dealers are watching
for these rare pieces to come again
into the stream of traffic. Jade
street, Peiping, trading almost ex
clusively in the jewel from which
it takes its name, is haunted by
eagle-eyed Chinese lying in wait for
the green stone to return. Mr. Pei,
of No. 14, A. makes a pre-break
fast journey to the opposite side of
the city where the jade wholesalers
open up at seven each morning and
close at ten. He is expecting to
see missing treasures reappear for
sale.
day -
A nd T il
Jsde Passion Spreads.
ard at a
Following the Boxer upheaval,
which suddenly released a great
deal of beautiful jade formerly the
property of the Chinese aristocrats
and noblemen, a passion for Jade
spread throughout the world; prin-
cipally among people who had the
price, but no savvy as to quality.
Much of the best Jade extant fell
Into unworthy hands, to be bandied
about in a market economically dis-
and ^em
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WHO DRESSED W THAT**
HIS TORN ARM ! A LOT
SAID HE HAD
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COFFEE - NERVES . DUNK'.
-MADE HIM QUIT
COFFEE AND
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Dowager*« Snuff Bottle.
Pei remembers the snuff bottle
“My friend,” said a critic, .cast once owned by the dowager em
ing dubious eyes on the Buffaloni- press, that sold for $20,000, and the
en, “you are a bit over jeweled to massive Jade ring bought for $13.-
night. The best people don’t go 000 later cut into three pieces and
quite so far with the icebergs at a disposed of to the wholesalers at
$8,000 per fragment.
presidential affair.”
“Is that so?” retorted the bespan
“Pure emerald stones are trans
gled visitor, pulling a bediamond- lucent — not transparent — and
ed suspender buckle from under his alive,” he said in describing them
armpits, “it has been my experi to me; “unmistakably liquid green.
ence that them as has ’em wears In a piece of jade every cloud, no
'em.”
matter how delicately it may seem
Now when it comes to the pos to blend with the translucent green,
session and the wearing of jade, is a flaw. Out of a block of rough
that is an entirely different matter; jade the cutter who rescues a piece
not that there is a lack of it, but of pure green translucence is lucky
because so few of us ever get hold indeed. The presence of deep and
of a piece worth wearing.
light green shades, streak* alter
Not until the beginning of the nating in density from apple to pea
present century did jade attract at green, puts the specimen in the sec
tention among discriminating buy ond and third grade column.
ers. Prior to that, comparatively
“Pale jade, extremely beautiful
few, and they Chinese and Indians, when artistically cut, is very attrac
had any conception of where jade tive and suits certain complexion*
would bring up in the jewel market admirably. It is lovely against
of the world. The preferred jade young skins, but beside pure em
came from northwest China or Chi erald jade it cannot compete.
How to Select Jade.
nese Turkistan, overland to Pei
“In selecting jade look only for
ping, where the best jade carvers in
the world turn it into jewelry. From deep green translucent stones which
Yunnan and surrounding provinces, appear to drip color that by some
as well as from Burma, a great magic attraction is held in suspen
deal of jade reaches Canton, the sion. Never be led astray by any
finest quality coming into Peiping, , other tone, color, cloud effect or
regarded as the central trading blending
point for the green stone in all its fortunes
variations. While there are over ^ade’ wh
ninety tones, tints, shades and flat above al
whites called mutton jade, the ver- . Brown
dant stone governs the m arket
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New iade has a way o
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