New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

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TO come out" after Lady 49,
Fortune had cast a negotiable E74}
smile in his direction ss
The Jade piece and 49, 1&N ~
beautiful ornament, and YkS&.
doubt, of far greater intrinsic &E
value than of us, lacking SSH$<
cOnnoisseurship to Chinese su
art, had any means of suppos- 3sgMlII u
ing 1t was superbly carved
piece of solid Jade of perfect
color, more than a foot high
and of equal breadth and width The carving showed
little forest of noble trees the branches bark and
the leaves being brought out in miraculous
detail On branch of the middle tree sat many
preenlng pheasants, and at the base OF this tree
little Chinese boy, nearly naked stood in the act of
letting fly arrow at the birds the branch One
required no great familiarity with Chinese craftsman
ship to discern upon studying this piece of Jade that
It must have taken some patient Chinese artist
many months if not Years, of diligent effort to
achieve the quaint and beautiful piece of carving
Nevertheless, Turk 5 piece of Jade one of our
stock Jokes at his expense When he swadded it in
piece OF black cambria and started to carry IT out
thereby indicating that once more he was on a lee
plt1abe qulpS about the " ade of Poverty and
such like We were equally contemplate in our
sings when he brought the piece of carved Jade
back, still wrapped in its black cambria. No doubt
purpose to force him to tell us about where
how, why, and from whom he had obtained the Jade
carving But he had steadily refused to satisfy our
curiosity
Souvenir of Little Pete, he had always replied
chopply, when we'd asked him about the piece of
nm the meaning OF that somewhat cryptic observa-
This time, however-the occasion of the Jade
carving fourth safe return within four months from
the three-bals epository-found Turk in an eX-
pansve humor. The world swan in rose for that
wanderer when he was in funds and there had been
something left over and above the price Of the jade
pieces redemption Wherefore, taking note of his
cheertulneSS he entered the room whist
ling, and carefully deposited the carving in its old
place atop OF his bookcase, We bawled him in
unison:
Where did you get it,"
Souvenir of Little Pete he replied as usual,
but could see that the story ready to pop. for
Turk 5 eyes were kindling with pent-up narrative
Little Pete one of us snorted Who is or was
Little Pete? Any kin 10 Little Bov Blue Did
Little Pete lose his sheep like Little Bo-Peep?
Maybe he was a second cousin of Little lack Hor-
ners: Dispense with that wheeze about Little
Pete. why don't YOU: What want to know is this:
Where did YOU get that hunk of jade"
Thus we heCtored him into spinning the story of
his Jade carving.
1T only goes to show what a bunch Of uninforned
= landlocked, stlck-ln- -One-spot Crustaceans YOU
fellows are, Turk began grlnning reprOvingly. that
YOU don I know who Little Pete was Did YOU ever
hear OF Charlemagne or Napoleon; Ever by any
chance read or hear about person bv the name of
JULIUS Cesar: There was a nifty old Chink once
five or SIX thousand Years ago by the name of Con-
tuclus; ever hear of that one. Little before your
time, OF course; but, then, Hannibal and
llamilcar, and vet those two last still figure in
the betting, too In a manner OF speaking
oh, YOU have heard of Confucius. then, have YOU?
Mighty queer then call it, that YOU never heard of
Ii t.e Pete Both We're Cinnamon Both were in a
class by themselves among ChnkS ContuCiuS of
course, cdshed III a long time ahead of Little Pete;
but that all the more reason why you farmers
ought TO know about the later
Seeing that the pack of YOU still look dense and
bovine, however, I'll give You line or two this
Little Pete. Until about ten years ago Little Pete
that 5 all the name the Chink ever had wanted
the leading Highlander in North America He
lived IN opuence and luxury and things in san Fran