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WILLIAM TßEDEUW
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BORALO BILL
Born In Scott County, Iowa, Wil­
liam F. Cody, at 14, joined the
"Pony Express," that group of
daring riders who, braving In- >.
dians and bandits and living on
the constant edge of death, car­
ried the mails from Missouri io
California.
Cody once undertook to supply the work­
ingmen on the Kansas Pacific Railway
with buffalo meat, and so well did he suc­
ceed that he became known as Buffalo
Bill. In 1876 Cody was with the U. S.
Cavalry that went to avenge the death of
Gen. Custer. He encountered Yellow Hand,
the Cheyenne Indian Chief, in a hand-to-
hand contest, fought with knives, and slew
himl In 1883 Cody organized the "Wild
West Show," a spectacular performance
of difficult riding and shooting feats,
which became popular and later toured
Europe. He lies buried in a tomb that was
blasted from solid rock on Lookout Moun­
tain, about twenty miles from Denver, »
1 Colorado.
C Grauet A Dunlap.—WNU Service.
Jade 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.
"My friend,” said a critic, cast­
ing dubious eyes on the Buffaloni-
an, "you are a bit overjeweled to­
night. The best people don’t go
quite so far with the icebergs at a
presidential affair.”
“Is that so?” retorted the bespan­
gled visitor, pulling a bediamond-
ed suspender buckle from under his
armpits, "it has been my experi­
ence that them as has ’em wears
'em.”
Now when it comes to the pos­
session and the wearing of jade,
that is an entirely different matter;
not that there is a lack of it, but
because so few of us ever get hold
of a piece worth wearing.
Not until the beginning of the
present century did jade attract at­
tention among discriminating buy­
ers. Prior to that, comparatively
few, and they Chinese and Indians,
had any conception of where jade
would bring up in the jewel market
of the world. The preferred jade
came from northwest China or Chi­
nese Türkistan, overland to Pei­
ping, where the best jade carvers in
the world turn it into jewelry. From
Yunnan and surrounding provinces,
as well as from Burma, a great
deal of jade reaches Canton, the
finest quality coming into Peiping,
regarded as the central trading
point for the green stone in all its
variations. While there are over
ninety tones, tints, shades and flat
whites called mutton jade, the ver­
dant stone governs the market.
Jade Passion Spreads.
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
ordered. New iade has a way of
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No matter what the Season—a
You become a person of prom­
sampler’s always fun to do, espec-
cially when it offers as colorful ise, not by promising many
a picture, as quaint a verse, as things, but by accomplishing what
this. You’ll find it a grand way to you promise.
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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.
Dowager's Snuff Bottle.
Pei remembers the snuff bottle
once owned by the dowager em­
press, that sold for $20,000, and the
massive jade ring bought for $15,-
000 later cut into three pieces and
disposed of to the wholesalers at
$8,000 per fragment.
“Pure emerald stones are trans­
lucent — not transparent — and
alive,” he said in describing them
to me; “unmistakably liquid green.
In a piece of jade every cloud, no
matter how delicately it may seem
to blend with the translucent green,
is a flaw. Out of a block of rough
jade the cutter who rescues a piece
of pure green translucence is lucky
indeed. The presence of deep and
light green shades, streaks alter­
nating in density from apple to pea
green, puts the specimen in the sec­
ond and third grade column.
“Pale jade, extremely beautiful
when artistically cut, is very attrac­
tive and suits certain complexions
admirably.
It is lovely against
young skins, but beside pure em­
erald jade it cannot compete.
How to Select Jade.
"In selecting jade look only for
deep green translucent stones which
appear to drip color that by some
magic attraction is held in suspen­
sion. Never be led astray by any
other tone, color, cloud effect or
blending. Dark green or nothing.
Fortunes are still to be made in old
jade, which is increasing in value
above all other precious stones.”
Brownlow, an Englishman resid­
ing in Peiping, something of a wiz­
ard at appraising things exclusive
and genuine, put it into expressive
Anglo-Saxon: “When you see some- |
thing that looks like a drop of glist­
ening. deep translucent creme de
menthe on a woman's lip, that's
jade of the finest color and vint­
age. There is no middle ground in
the eye of an expert I am speak­
ing now only of Chinese Turkistan
jade, far and away the superior to I
all other jades. Another name for |
this mineral is nephrite.
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