Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 September 1894 — Page 4

THE BANNER TIMES, GREEN CASTLE. INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1891

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J. R. LEATHERMAN. PHYSICIAN : AND :SURE0N, Kooins 2, :i, 4 and 5, Alien lIlcK‘k, GREENCASTLE. I l l l INDIANA Special Attention Oiv**n to I)is<*as(*8 of Women and <diildi'4*n.

CITY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor. Jonathan Birch Treasurer John Gilmore Clerk .lames M. Hurley Marshal William E. Starr Engineer Arthur Throop Attorney Thomas T. Moore See. Board of Health ..Euirene Hawkins M. I> rou veil, men. 1st Ward... Tiioina-* Abrams. J. L. Handel 2nd ” Edmund IN*rklns, James Briiiires 3rd ” John Riley, John K. Miller Street Commissioner J. I). Cutler Fire Chief Geo. B. Cooper A. Brook way. ) Mrs. Mary Birch, >School Trustees. I>. 1^. Anderson. ) K. A. Ojrif, Superintendent of city schools. rOREST HILL CEMETERY HOARD OK DIRECT*

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By CHARLES B. LEWIS >M. QUADi. [Copyriifht, l.'flU, by Charles B. l/Owis.] Oiip evoniiiK in June, 18(5!), a iniui accoxted me on the Strand, London, and asked me for alms on the grounds that he was a sailor just put ashore from a vessel and had not even a penny in his pockets. I questioned him pretty sharply, and when I found that he was indeed a seafaring man I asked him to accompany me to a public house aud have a bite to eat. He was an old man and ha-1 sailed in all sorts of crafts and upon every sea, and having peeu a sailor myself it was only natural that I should be interested in him. Before we parted for the night I paid his way for a week and made an appointment to see him two days later. When I called, he had a story to tell m& He had been rescued from Triton island, in the China sea, by a native craft and had been later on transferred to the English sailing ship Rodney, homeward bound with a cargo of Chinese goods. The sailor, whoso name was John Andrews, was an Englishman, but had not been home for years. He was given a berth aboard the Rodney as a foremast hand at regular wages, but on arriving in London the captain refused to pay him a single

shilling.

I questioned this part of the story in my own mind, but later on, when I came to hunt up the captain, he confirmed the sailor’s assertions. His excuse for re-

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UK HAD REMOVED ALL THE BARS FROM HER BOLD. fusing to pay over the wages was that the man had told a yarn about a treasure ship ami kept his crew on the point of mutiny for many weeks. He fully believed that but for his unceasing vigilance Andrews would have induced the crew to seize the ship, murder the officers and sail away after a mythical treasure ship. The story which Andrews told me was a long one and replete with details. The gist of it was that a French bark on which ho was making a voyage was wrecked on Paracel reefs, to the north t of Triton island, and that as the sole survivor he floated to the island on a bit of wreckage. As the distance is 85 miles, this vas the tough part of his j story, though at the season of the year when he was wrecked the wind would be continuously in his favor, and the j feat was not widely improbable. He had I no reason for deception, and I finally canto to believe the statement. The island of Triton was not inhabited, and he had lived there for three months without the means of building a fire. He lived on wild fruits and shellfish and had become pretty well reduced when some shell gatherers took him off i Thus far his adventures were of no parf ticular interest to a stranger, but he had ! something good to finish up with. On the northeast coast of the island is a nameless river. Where that river falls into the sea is a long and narrow bay, being not over 100 feet wide by j half a mile long. The water is deep enough to float a man-of-war. On the English charts it is named "Hidden bay,” hut on the American no name is | given. At the head of this bay, high - and dry above water, Andrews found the hulk of a big Chinese junk. From her position he figured that she had run into the bay for water or shelter, an 1 that she had been heaved out by some violent commotion of the water, like that which takes place with a submarine earthquake. Her cable and anchor were ont to corroborate this theory, and shv. had lost her masts, bulwarks and everything above deck, as if swept by waves. The junk It./ 30 feet above high tide, and if full of water when thrown up it had soon dr lined out through a great hole in her 1 all. She had such a decayed and weather Iteahn look that Andrews had no hopes of finding anything of value under her hatches. In the course of half a day’s search, however, he found that she had a cargo of Chinese silver ban, each one of the value of $50. lu the course of 10 days he removed all the bars from her hold and carried them into the bashes a few yards away. In number they counted up enough to make the value of the cargo $80,000. He did not attempt to bury it, but considered the treasure fairly well concealed in the bushes. The junk ho knew to be a government vessel, and from the fact of her being where she was, with the cargo still aboard, he bilieved that her entire crew had been drowned and the craft given up for lost. Ten days after he had taken out the treasure Andrews was taken off the island. As to the story of inciting the crew of the Rodney to mutiny, he vigorously denied it. He -had told the sailors of be ing wrecked on an island and of finding a treasure ship, but not a man aboard had a thought of mutiny. Andrews’ hope was that he might fall in with some man who would fit out a craft and recover the treasure and do the fair thing by him in return for his information. Ho would, he said, bo glad to make one of the crew in case a vessel was fitted out. Having been bitten several times on a search for treasure, I questioned the man until the subject was thoroughly exhausted. He was a respectable, plain spoken man, aud I could not ask him a nnestion oouceruimi the island and the

wreck which he could not readily answer. When I produced a chart of the | China sea, he located Triton island at a glance, and his information as to the three different bays and the banks and reefs to the west corresponded with the i description on the chart. He was willing to take $3,000 in cash and able seaman’s wages for the trip. And after talking with him for the best part of a day I set out to see what could lie done. 1 knew several shipowners aud several trading houses, and in the course of four or five days I hail the matter arranged. I Five of us were to make up a purse for the expense and share and share alike. Of course the arrangement was not | concluded until the other four had seen Andrews and heard his story and satisI fl 4 '' 1 themselves as to its truth. It was agm-d by till of us that he was telling a straight story. After carefully canvassing the matter it was thought best that Andrews and I take steamer to Singapore, and there hire and man a sailing craft to fetch away the money. If we had the luck to get it and get back to Singapore, we could transship it into an Lnglifth steamer for homo. Twenty-four hours after reaching this conc lusion we had liegun our voyage. On shore and on the steamer I found Andrews a quiet, sober man, taking a drink now and then, as all sailors do. but not permitting liquor to get the best of him. Had I found him otherwise than stated I should have been worried for fear he would betray our secret. When we reached Singapore, the first move was to find and charter a craft. I made the search alone, and after a couple of days I got hold of a clipjkt which had been in the opium trade. I had to give a reason for baying and fitting her out, and I made the excuse that I was going up to Korea to open trade with one of the new ports lately thrown open to foreigners. I wanted a crew of English sptaking sailors, and it was 10 days before the clipper had her complement. I got a Yankee captain an English chief officer, a German sec’ end mate, and the rest of tho men were American, English, German, French aud Danish. I cautioned Andrews over and over again not to drop a hint of what we were after. Indeed we pretended not to know each other in public, and lie shipped as one of the crew without anv one knowing that ho had come to Singapore with me. I had chartered tho craft and was making some needed repairs when I went to Bee Andrews at Lis boarding house one night and found him blind drunk. By a few careless inquiries I learned that he had Item knocking about all day with two strangers, one of whom was the mate of an American tea vessel, who had bc-on p it ashore with fever a few weeks before and was now able to be alsiut again. A great fear came into my heart when I found Andrews drunk. The chances were even i p that he had blabbed in his cups, ami even if he had not located the island trouble would come from his talk. In the port of Singapore one finds Chinese, Malays. Japs. Borneans, Hindoos and Arabs, and they are all shrewd keen fellows and up to anvthing. It ii a place, too, where a lot of sharp Engishinen and Americans are a 1 wavs knocking about in search of adventures and dollars, aud if Andrews had dr..n pod a hint we should be followed if not headed off. I couldn’t arouse him from his stupor that night, but next morning I found him quite sobered up and very much ashamed of himself. He plainly told me that ho feared ho had said somet) ng during the day. Ho had not intended to go on a spree, and it was his belief ,j mt lw ha( , becu ,i ru ^ le was frightened and repentant, but the harm had been done, and our only recourse we- to push things along as fast as posdble. Two days before we were ready v, sail an Arab dhow, which had been berthed near our craft and aboard of which I had seen the Yankee mate and several other English speaknig people, sailed away to the north leaving the harltor at night and as secretly as possible. From the moment of her departure I felt eure that she was acting on a hint dropped by Andrews. It was a question of how much he had told. If ho had not mentioned the name of the island, then we still had a good show. That a Chiiieso junk with a cargo of bar silver aboard hail ecu lost in a typhoon nine years before I gathered from the Eng-

FOUND HIM I1LIKD DRUNK, lish consul. The news was public property, and if any one got the idea that she was wrecked on an island instead of foundering -t sea a dozen searching expeditious would bo started out in no time,. Wo worked day and night to get off, and as we were only •18 hours behind tho dhow I hoped to overtake and pass her. She had left with a fair wind, and all the way np to the gulf of Siam we had wretched luck. It was either a head wind or light breezes, and we soon gave up all hope of overtaking the other craft. Wo were out only one day when we found a Malay craft in our wake, and she hung there three days and nights. Andrews' wagging tongue had sent her after us, no doubt, but luck came our way to drop her astern. On the fourth day a sudden squall swept down aud dismasted her. and before she

could repair damages we were out ot sight. It was a long, wretched voyage we had up the China sea, and we had scarce ly shaken off pursuit when Andrews fell sick. His only ailment was remorse. For many long months he had dreamed and anticipated and planned on what he would do when that treasure was recovered His share of it, with wages added, would enable him to leave the sea and spend tho rest of his days on land. He had already voyaged thousands of miles as a preface, and the fear that ho had been idiotic enough to betray the secret harassed him until he was made ill. It was his advice that we run the clipper into the harbor and as close to the wreck as possible, aud when we finally found the island dead ahead of us one morning at daybreak the course was altered to enter the harbor. The dhow we had not seen since she weighed anchor tit Singapore and skulked away. We hoped we had outrun her, even with the start she had. On arriving off the mouth of the harbor a boat was seut in to see if tho place was clear. She found no craft and went far enough up to see tho wreck of tho junk. We then lowered another boat and towed the clipper in. Only the two of us knew the object of tho voyage, and while I was more or less excited Andrews was so overcome that he could scarcely get about. A boat pulled us to the shore, and we entered the thicket wherein he had hidden the silver. It did not take us a minute to discover th.at it had been removed. Tho bars iiad been there, as was easily seen by traces left in the soil, but they were there no longer. In place of them were traces of sailorft’ shoes, and on the shore near the wrick were the ashes of a campfire. Some one had been all over tho old hulk, and the lire had been made with planks ripped out of her hold. We beat up the locality, thinking the bars might In.vo been removed to a new place, and before wo were done with tho search wo took in the whole island. When we had to face the fact that some one had get ahead of us and secured the treasure, Andrews was so upset by it that he took to his bed and 'fid nothing but lament and call down curses on his own head. Tho day before we were ready to leave he died, and we buried him where he had heaped up tho silver bars. In digging his grave we came across a bar which had been pressed down beneath the surface of the soft soil. If proof were lacking before, we had it in the bar. It was passing strange that a sailor should have been wrecked here, discovered the treasure, sailed a distance of 12.000 miles and returned to be buried on tho site of his good luck. We of course suspected that tho dhow had got tho money, but knew nothing positive until the day we buried Andrews. Then one of tho men picked up a piece of paper which had once been affixed *> a tree, but had been detached by the wind. On it was scrawled in pencil and by a sailor’s hand: "When you go to hunt for a treasure, don’t take a drunken man along to give things away. The Yankee mate and his friends are much obliged to tho man who gabbled. ” III Gip LaikI of Hiawatha, The Indian warrior is well trained not only in tho use of his weapons, but in the valu-ble lessons of strategy. He studies intelligently tho signs existing about him, in tho trampled grass and earth, the broken twig, the size and number of fires tuid their remains. From earliest childhood he learns to be a patient hunter, but above all he studies to conquer himself, to be patient in suffering. fearless in battle, indifferent to death, and when captured to endure torture nobly and to look his enemies calmly in the face. In the bloody wars, waged with e-er varying fortune against his hateful enemies, the Sioux, could be found good examples of true heroism and unselfish deeds of daring. The Indian is now as well armed as the white man, but in olden times his arms consisted of a warclub, spear, bow and arrows, a scalping knife and the famous tomahawk. All these have disappeared from use unless we except the tomahawk, which is still retained more as an emblem of authority than us a weapon of war. These tomahawks arc made of steel and brass, a combined pipe and battle ax in one. Tho handle is usually ornamented with brass tacks aud strips of otter skin. The peace pipe is a very gorgeous affair, the stem of vvtiieh is decorated with gay ribbons, horsehair and beadwork. The bowl is obtained in barter from the Sioux and conies from the famous red pipe stone quarries of Dakota. The pipes used at councils are very often valuable and highly ornamented, and the ceremonies observed in lighting, presenting aud smoking them are exceedingly interesting to witness.—W. Thornton Parker, M. D., in Home and Country. ILvu’h Mum* Woorri*. Ibsen, according to a foreign interviewer, must be a very singular person and decidedly superstitious. He confessed that lie could not get inspiration during his writing if there was not a tray before him which contained a little bear in wood, a little black devil holding a wax candle and several little rabbits and cats made of copper. "This may appear to you to be ridiculous,’’ said Ibsen, "but so it is. As to the use I make of them, that is my secret, and I shall not divulge it to you or any one else. ”—Loudon Court Journal. Terrapin Kapiflly Becoming Extinct. It is said that that rare delicacy, the terrapin, which is found only in Cb«sapeake bay and its tributaries, is rapidly becoming extinct. Fifteen years ago ' terrapin hunter conld capture 50 or <I A a day; now he is lucky if he gets three or four. Then terrapin were i^fiont 60 cents apiece; now they range from $ 4 to $9, according to size. There are about 16.000 in a pond at Crisfield, and it is said that there are not 5,060 more on earth, and terrapin raising has been tried without success.—Springfield Retmblican.

The Mothcr-ln-law. She was my dieem'e fulfillment ami my Joy, This lovely woman whom you call your wife. You sported at your play, an idle boy, When I first felt the stirring of her life Within my startled being. 1 was thrilled With such intensity of love, it filled The very universe! But words are vain— No man can comprehend that wild, sweet

pain.

You smiled in childhood’s slumber while I felt Tho agonies of labor, and the nights I, weeping o'er the little sufferer knelt. You. wandering on through dreamland's fair deilghtr. Flung out your lengthening limbs and slept and grew. While I, awake, saved this dear wife for you. She was my heart's loved idol and my pride. 1 taught her all those graces which you praise; I dreamed of coming years, when at my side She should lend luster to my fading days; Should cling to me as she to you clings now. The young fruit hanging to the withered bough. But. lo! the blossom was so fair a sight. You plucked It from me—for your own de-

light.

Well, you are worthy of her—oh, thank God— And yet I think you do not realize How liurning were the sands o’er which I trod To boar and rear this woman you so prize. It was no easy thing to see her go Even Into the arms of one she worshiped so. How strong, how vast, how awful seems the power Of this new love which fills a maiden’s heart For one who never bore a single hour Of pain for her, which tears her life apart From all its moorings and controls her more Than ail the ties the years have held before, Which crow ns a stranger with a kingly grace And gives the one who bore her—second place. Phe lutes me still, and yet were death to say, "Choose now between them,” you would be her choice. God meant it to be so—it is Ids way. But can you wonder if while I rejoice In her content this thought hurts like a knife, "No longer necessary to her life?” « My pleasure in her joy is hitter sweet. Your very goodness sometimes hurts my

heart.

Because for her lily’s drama seems complete Without the mother’s oft repeated part. Be patient with me! She was mine so long Who now is yours. One must lie strong To meet such loss without the least regret. And so forgive roe if my eves are wet. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. uoineinade Soup. First try out and strain the grease. This done, more than half the work is done. Tho directions for making the soap are on every can of potash. You can make hard soap very nice, white and hard. Here is the recipe: Hard soap—eirpty the contents of the can of potash into a kettle with a quart of cold water. Stir it with a spoon or stick. The lye will dissolve immediately and become quite hot. Allow it to cool. Now Dike (i pounds of clean grease, tallow or lard. Melt it until lukewarm; then commence pouring the cold lye into the melted grease gardually in a small stream until it is thoroughly mixed and drops from tho stirrer the thickness of honey. To be properly done the stirring should continue for 10 minutes. It is then ready to pour into any

mold.

If you will follow this recipe closely, yon cannot fail in getting nice soap. There is also a recipe for soft soap on each can of potash.

IWdl I'.SUtC We have some of the best bargains in houses and lots that have lieen offered for years. Hard times has, in a measure, * hell>ed us to roU ductions that the T: casual buyer has only to see to appreciate. .1. M HURLEY i itflce over First National Ba.-.k

A Cheap Sponge l ake. Tim e eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of water and a teacupful of sugar, mix together. One and a half cups of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder aud a pinch of salt, stirred in quickly. Season with a teaspoonful of vanilla or juice of half a lemon. Bake in three jelly pans in a quick oven. For the filling grate 2 good sized apples, add the grated peel and juice of a lemon, a well beaten egg and sugar to taste. Boil five minutes and spread between the layers. This is very good if eaten freslu ( MtNUtgvOUS OF THE DALTONS. Deputy United State* Marnhal Doe* on a Perilou* Trip. Fort Smith, Ark., Sept. 17.—United States Deputy Marshal Smith has returned from a trip that few nieu can make and come back alive. He has been to the rendezvous of the Bill Dalton gang, which was organized by the union of the Bill Cook gang and the remnant of Bill Dalton's old baud. Smith went there alone trying to induce Bill Cook, who formerly worked as a member of Smith’s jsisse, to abandon his life of outlawry. Cook assured him, however, that lie proposed to go ahead in his career, as it was now too .late to turn back. There were 15 men in the gang, and they are now as strong as Bill Dalton’s old baud ever was. JJeputy Marshal Smith, who has the reputation of licing one of the bravest of men in the service of the United States here, found the whereabouts of the baud in a rather peculiar manner. He learned that one of the hand had a sweetheart at Sulpnlpa, I. T., and 10 days ago Smith went there to see her. After considerable persuasion he convinced her that he was alone and prevailed upon her to pilot him to the camp of the bandits. One week ago Wednesday they left Kapulpa and on Sunday morning reached the camp. This is the first authentic news of the movement of the band since the Red Fork (I. T.i express robbery. Sluter «>t General Logiui SulcLleft. Murphysboro, Ills., Sept. 17.—Mrs. Anne Rogers is dead from an overdose of morphine which she took bust Wednesday. Mrs. Rogers was a sister of General John A. Logan. It is not known why she took the fatal dose. She was till years of age, and has two brothers living—Colonel T. M. Logan of this city and James V. Logan of Gluey. Republican Kcvoit. Omaha, St*pt. 17.—Tht* revolt in the Republican piirty of Nebraska, led by E. Rosewater against the the head of the state ticket, Thomas J. Majors, opens its campaign this woek. Mr. Rosewater will stump the state against Majors. He has procured the Congressional Record of the period when Majors was endeavoring to become a representative from Nebraska under the apportionment showing that Majors was convicted of forgery by the committee appointed by congress to investigate the affair. The report is signed by Thomas B. Reed, who was chairman of the committee. The matter was dropped after the indictment had been drawn against Majors and others connected with misrepresenting the state’s position in the District of Columbia.

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