Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1916 — Page 2

FINDS BURIED GOLD BUT CAN'T GET IT

CLERGYMAN SURE HE HAS DIS COVERED TREASURE BURIED BY PERRY BEFORE LAKE ERIE BATTLf EXCAVATES FOR IT BY NIGHT Huge Oak Planks Block Him in Quest for Wealth, He Says.

Sandusky, O.—Rev. John Coup, Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Regiment, O. V. L, an inmate of cottage N, Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, says he has found gold and silver of almost inestimable value, buried by members of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s crew in the campaign preceding the battles of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. The gray haired old man says he was aided in his search by a delicate Instrument, of his Own invention —an instrument very much like the one used in the oil fields of eastern Pennsylvania, Northwestern Ohio and Northern Indiana for locating oil and gas veins in the early days of the development of the fields of those States. “I will only say npw that the place where this treasure was buried is in East Sandusky, near the shore of Sandusky Bay,” said Mr. Coup. "I have been there with a trusted friend of mine. We have excavated by night but have not been able to get to the treasure as yet. It won’t be long, however until we are both rich, for the gold and silver Is there.” Mr. Coup said further that the reason why he has been unable to unearth the treasure is that huge oak planks apparently laid above and beneath the gold and silver thought to have been buried have been encountered. Residents of East Sandusky have been discussing mysterious lights that have been seen moving slowly in the vicinity of the western shore of Big Island for some time past late at night. It Is thought now that these lights were carried by Mr. Coup and the man who is aiding-him,— An examination of the island has, however, failed to develop any indication that a quest for wealth is or has been prosecuted there.

WOMEN ENVY MAN’S COOKIES

Thrashing Laborer Beats Them All on Farming Circuit. Madison, Wis.— “Cooking for the thrashers” has been the stock expression for all that is wearisome In farming households for many vears. It meant extra help in the kitchen—hustle and worry and stew, bake and broil and fret from 5 a. m. until after 8 o’clock at night. But in Dane county the farmers’ wives have no need to worry. That county can boast of one thrasher man who is such an exceedingly skillful and resourceful cook that he can beat the best of women competitors. C. A. Bailv of De Forest is the man. At the Windsor fall festival he carried off one first prize on devil’s food cake, another first on cocoanut cookies, first prize on baking powder biscuits, second prize on lemon pie and sweep stakes on canned peaches. “It’s a shame I couldn’t have spared more time from my work with the gang or I would have entered something in every class in the outfit," smilingly declared Bally to a group .of people who were admiring his dainties.” ' , He then leaned back complacently against the show case and putting his thumbs In the armholes of his vest, told the gaping group his best recipes. His defeated rivals icily turned their backs and began examining the crazy quilts and tatting. Bailey Ibids fair to rival the famous Baker Bunn of Baraboo.

GIRL- RESTS ON RATTLESNAKE

Cotton Picker Thought Reptile Was a Sack on Ground San Angelo, Tex. —Flora Hanson, a 16 year old cotton picker on the Stanley Turner ranch, near here, Bat on a rattlesnake for fifteen minutes, thinking the snake was a cotton sack. The snake permitted her to sit In peace, and It was not until the girl reached for her cotton sack to begTh her day's labor that she learned of her mistake. The snake was more than 4 feet in length. That the reptile was cold in the early morning is the only reason that can be ascribed for its not biting the girl.

So the Calf Kept on.

New York.—As a train stopped at a little Ohio station the passengers heard the plaintive bawling of a calf, which was being wheeled along the platform in a crate. "There's some one complaining, conductor,” safa a traveler, looking for a bit of fun. * ' ... "Not to me,” answered the mild ola ticket taker. "Never heard a passenger’s complaint With that much sense "

Breaks Arm Nine Times.

Horton, Kan.— Lawrence Gossett, aged 9, broken his right arm for the rfinth time. The bone of the arm hee been broken at almost exactly the place each time.

LITTLE "NO GOOD” LAKE ABODE OF EVIL SPIRITS

I Btrange*t Body of Water In th j United States —It Cornea and Goes .Regularly. Port Angeles, Wash. —The most sin gular body of water in the United States is that of a small lake in the western portion of the state of Washington, known by the Chinook Indians as "Nao Skookum”—meaning "no good,” To the inhabitants of the Indian villages this lake is a great mystery as well as a source of great fear, for they believe the underground crevices that feed the lake are full of “evil spirits.” The lake covers perhaps fifty acres of ground and fish and waterfowl are more than plentiful—for about nine months of the year. North of the lake towers Mt. Olympus of the Olympic range, while to the south and west are the coast range of great hills. In western Washington the rainy season usually lasts something like nine months and a week or so after the rain sets in “Nao Skookum” lake grows very much in circumference and in depth, but after a weeks dry weather its waters vanish, taking with them the fish and, so the Chinooks declare, the waterfowl, too. When the tain stops all the Indians in the neighborhood gather on the shore of the lake in order to get as much fish as possible while there is yet time. Hour after hour the waters sink lower and lower, until the last of it drains down the great holes and crevices at the bottom of the lake. Underground openings of immeasurable length, and as yet untracod by human eye, take the water from the lake, till what was once the bottom of a deep body of water is open to the sky. Then and there the superstitious Indians desert the vicinity of the lake, nor will they again go near it until, the rain again comes and the waters return with a rush and fill almost to overflowing what scientists claim was once the crater of a volcano. When it is empty the Indians declare that the thunderous roars and groans issue from the great crevices in the lake’s bottom and they will not

venture near It, for “it is the voice of the evil spirits,” they declare. They again return to fish when the rain sets in and the waters surge quickly up the subterranean openings throwing up fish and great waves and —so the ignorant Indians claim —the waterfowl. In from thirty to forty ‘hours where there had been a great ted of mud all Is deep water and the lake of “Nao Skookum" Is again spark-, ling id the sunlight.* Scientists explain the most singular occurrence by stating that the lake is connected by means of its underground openings with great bodies of water, some on a higher level, under the great snow capped peaks of the mountain ranges nearby, others on a lower level than Itself, and that the ducks and other waterfowl come and go from the Pacific and Puget Sound. But no one can convince a Chinook of anything but that they are thrown up with the fish and rushing waters.

BEAR BITES HIS WOODEN LEG

Farmer Escapes When Locomotive Scares off the Beast. Sunbury, Pa. —John Davidson, a Catawissa Mountain farmer, who lives near the town of that name, says he is glad be has a wooden leg, for it saved him serious hurts in a battle with a bear. Davidson says he was riding back along the Susquehanna, at a point where the river skirts - dense mountain growths, when he saw a black bear fishing in the river. It would dive down and come up with a fish in its mouth. Angered by his approach, bruin dropped a fish and gave chase, but Davidson drew his revolver and fired. He missed and the animal came on after him and bit and clawed at his wooden leg. He fired again and then a freight train approached on a railroad near by. This together with the tooting of the locomotives whistle, frightened the beast and it dropped to ita feet and ambled off into the woods.

WASHINGTON MOST WASTEFUL

Leads all American Cities In Throwing Away Fpod Washington, D. C —The federal government conducts many kinds of investigations, but Washington was hardly prepared to learn that United States agents had been digging into the garbage dumps of the country. As & re&ult of- thislatest inquiry, the department of agriculture announces that - Washington is the most wasteful city in the United States. Careful examinations of the contents of garbage cans were made with a view to determine what percentage of food products daily thrown away might have been put to wholesome use had housewives of the various cities conducted their establishments more economically. A complete report on the Tederal Government’s investigation will be published soon. .. t - r *

Rabbit Discloses Treasure

Pratt, Kan.—A Mexican bunting near here, ran a rabbit into a hole. He pulled bunny out, but the rabbit held to a sleeve in a man’s jacket The jacket contained a large swag of heavy silverware. -

The woman who neglects her husband's shirt front is scarcely the Wife of his bosom.

MR. FIRE WALKER TRAPPED AT LAST

BASALT Rocks, over which taHITIANS PRANCE, ARE POOR CONDUCTORS OF HEAT GAMBOL DOFS NOT CAUSE PAIN New York Museum Takee Heavy Fgll Out of "Holy Men” With Ita Expose.

New York—ls this yam should by any chance be read around some Tahitian fireside, the firewalking industry in the South Sea Islands, which is one of the hottest drawing cards (he holy men have for amassing Cocoanuts will suffer a severe slump. In fact, considering the ardent temperament of the average Tahitian, the flames of wrath which will attend the expose- will make the fire walkers’ bonfire look like a smudge pot. For this is a revelation of why smdke colored, thiny skinned gentlemen, arrayed in fibre skirts and some beads about the neck, can lead yodel ing believers over a holy fire without Incineration. The statistics or whatever the facts are called which burst fond -illusions, have been garnered by the American Museum of Natural History, and are set forth in the South Sea Island hall there, with chocolate colored figures and much printfed mat ter, to make them plain to all who pass by. The Tahitian fire walker earns a comfortable living and an enormous amount of veneration through an ability to lead his devoted congregation in syncopated prayer at the edge of a burning chasm. The long trench in which the flame spurts up is piled with rocks of porous basalt Just before the hurried journey over the flaming pit begins, an attendant cares for the stone with large leaves. Then the priest, wearing a crown of flowers on his head and a large bunch of “ti” (Dracaena terminalis, they are, say the museum experts) in his hands, walks around the fire. He converses at length and with some eloquence with his friends, the supernaturals, who are going to cool the flames. Then after cocking an experienced eye at the basalt, he walks over the center ridge of stone above the fire, and his disciples very unhappy in mind and bare of feet, follow him.-* They all walk back and forth several times, and, of course, everybody is deeply impressed.

The museum after expatiating upon the dramatic effects of this hot coal gambol, explains that basalt, rock, being extremely porous, is a poor con ductor of heat. Although the bottom of the rock may be pink with fire, the top is merely hot, and has no effect upon the toughened sole of the natives’ feet. There is a figure of a fire uralkex modeled after one who belongs to the union in the museum exhibit and there are also figures of a kava-brewer, a roof maker, a coooanut grater and a firemaker. The models are arranged co show the daily life of the Tahitians and to explode their cherished belief in that remunerative religious rite, the fiery hesitation.

CHILD SMOTHERS IN COTTON

Little Girl Digs Wole In Pile and Turnbkee InGuthrie, Okla»-The 9 year old daughter of Paul Bltebie, a farmer living near Prague, 30 mites west of here, was drowned in a pile of cotton in her father’s field. When the little gfed was missed her parents started out to search for her. Her father finally saw her shoes m top of the huge mound of cotton, and closer examination disclosed her body burled, head first, In the fluffy mass. She evidently had dug a hole in the pile and then accidentally fallen into it, the loose cotton packing about hex and smothering her.

ALFALFA FIELD 33 YEARS OLD

Kgnsas Grovrth Still Is In Thriving Condition Topeka, Kan—C. kohler, secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, has found fields of alfalfa sown 30 years ago still growing and producing good- crops. —He- just- has sent a notice to the 1.600 correspondents of the board, asking them to report the earliest sowing and the oldest fields of alfalfa fn their communities. "The oldest fields reported are in Hamilton and Rooks counties," Mr. Mobler said. "One Hamilton county field is 33 years old, and there is one in Hamilton and one in Rooks that are 32 years old and the owner says both are doing well."

FOXES ARE FAMILIES PETS

They’re Tame and Quiet Save When Strangers Appear. Williamsport. Pa. —While most families make pets of cats and dogs, the* family of Clyde Hartman of Warrens ville, make an exception to this rule, by having three small lbxes as pets. The animals are tame and Quiet in the hands of Mr*. Hartman, but when betag approached by strangers they be come as wild as their brothers and sisters in the forests. The foxes wero caught when very, young by Hart- ' BHtßa "

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LITTLE RED ROCK SOLD FOR $32,000

Cowboy Saye He Chanced to Pick it Up In Draw One Day. Omaha, Neb.—How A. C. Olson, a well known young horseman of Pine found $32,500, is related in a letter written to the Bee by P. G. Rosa of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Ross states that he was returning from the San Francisco fair when a cowboy boarded the train at Sidney, Neb. This cowboy proved to be an old friend, whom he had first met in Welser, Idaho, when but 14 years old. Ross was in the smoking car talking with a New York precious stone dealer when Olson boarded the train and ■ took a seat opposite. They recognized each other. The letter continues: "Olson pulled out a bottle of beer and while searching his pockets for an opener pulled out a shingle nail, two small stones and one large red looking stone. Brown, the precious stone dealer looked at it carefully, ana asked what he called it. “Oh, It’s just a little red stone I chanced to pick up in a draw one day said Olson. “Brown asked what he was going to do with it, and Olson said he was going to have it mounted and present it to a friend. “Weil, what’ll you take for it?” asked Brown. “Oh I don’t care to sell it,” said Olson. “They dickered for a while and finally Brown said: “I’ll give you SIO,OOO for it.” “Well, Mr. Olson came near fainting right there. You could have knocked his eyes off with a stick, and he reached for the little red stone, looking at it for a while. —Finally Brown said, “well are you going to sell?” - Mr. Olson studied a while and then said, “What is the best you will give ?’’ "And finally, after parleying till we were near North Platte, Neb., Brown had come to $30,000. “Wanting to go to bed,” said Olson, "I’ll take $35,000.” Brown said, “No, it’s more than I’ll give,” and left the car, but soon returned and offered $32,500, and they finally came to an agreement, after Brown had promised to cut two small stones out and mount them. I asked Olson what he was going to do with the money. “Well” he said, "I’ll go home in a couple of weeks, pay my debts, buy some more calves and start a new business that I have always wanted to go Into since I was a boy.”

ENOUGH TO KILL 40 PERSONS

San Francisco "Fiend” Requires 30 Times as Much Dope as Ordinary Habitual. San Francisco, Cal—Twenty grains of cocaine and morphine a day. Enough to kill 40 men. And 80 times the amount the average dope fiend consumes. Fifteen years at it, too. This is the human dope marvel found by the State Board of Pharmacy in its combing of the San Francisco underworld. "Dopy Phil” Harris is his name. Thirty-four years his age and healthy add robust looking at that. The pharmacy board officials confess themselves dumbfounded. ."This man,is a marvel,” said Secretary Zeh of the pharmacy board today. “He consumes enough dope every day to kill 40 average men. He requires 80 times as much hop as an ordinary drug user consumes. Yet to look at him you’d think he had lived all his life on some baby’s malted milk. Take the dope away from him, though, for 48 hours and he would die in the next 24.

BALDHEADS NEVER INSANE

Wisconsin Doctor Gives Grain of Comfort to Hairless Men. Monroe, Wis.—Hare is a grain of comfort for the baldheaded men. Nq matter to what extent they are compelled to bear the ridicule of their friends because of their shining domes the fact that it is falling out ir a guarantee they will never be inmates of an insane asylum. So says Dr. Robert B. Clark who has made a lifelong study of insanity. "I have examined several hundred patients as. to their sanity,” said Dr. Clark. "I have had the opportunity of studying many hundreds of others, and in all my experience I have yet with a single exception to see an insane man who was baldheaded.” - Asked why, the doctor declared himself entirely in the dark.

Twins Return With Riches

Milwaukee, Wis.—With less than a dollar between them ’he Poppert twins—Oscar and Walter—left MU waukee fifteen years ago to seek tljetr fortune in the Klondike. A few days ago they returned as owners of mining property in Alaska said to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. They are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Poppert 394 Twenty-seventh avenue. The adventures of the Toppert twins rival those read about in the wildest of Alaskan tales. The first years in the North were spent in “whaling” on-rickety vessels, their cruises taking them to Siberia, Chiua§ Japan and the Hawaiian Islands. Later they herded cattle and finally, with a team of dogs, set out for the interior of Alaska, The men are row known as the most daring explorers in the Arctic region.

G. WASHINGTON RELICS SHOWN

COLLECTION OF MEMENTOEB OF FATHER OF COUNTRY HEART TOUCHING DISPLAY me VARIETY OF MATERIAL SHOWN Infant Robe Worn at Christening Vlca With Old Continental Uniform Washington, D. C—“ Among the many interesting objects pertaining to the history of this country, there is probably nothing which touches the hearts of true Americans more quickly than the reliefs and mementoes of “The Father of His Country," George Washington, many of which are displayed at the old building of the United States National Museum in Washington,” says a statement issued by the Smithsonian Institution. “This collection consists of a variety of material gathered from numerous sources. While composed largely of articles of domestic and artistic interest owned by Washington at Mt. Vernon, the collection also includes mementoes of his life in the field during the War of the Revolution, and a number of other miscellaneous relics of greater or less importance. “The most noteworthy objects are: Four pieces of plaster statuary, and a face mask; several portraits and engravings; many pieces of furniture, including Washington’s easy chair, tables, chairs, mirrors, bedstead and footstool; numerous candelabra, lamps and candlesticks; glass and chlnaware and table furnishings; as well as many personal relics. These latter perhaps represent more to the visitor, since they were the Individual property of this great statesman and warrior. “There are two interesting costumes worn by Washington; the first an infant’s robe of white brocade silk, lined with old rose China silk, used on the occasion of his christening, and the other a continental army uniform, worn when he resigned his commission as commander in chief of the continental army at Annapolis, Md., December 13, 1783. Representing as these costumes do, two such separated periods of the life, they tend to remind the observer of the great things which were accomplished by Washington between the times these diversified cos lumes were worn. Other articles of wearing apparel comprise a waistcoat and what were known as small clothes or knee breeches. “Three tents with poles, pegs and pouches, a mess chest, spyglass, field glass, portable writing case and shaving glass, make up the field equipment used by Washington in his campaign. Other relics, including an iron treasure chest and a zither and case, a music case of mahogany, a Chinese tea chest and a gold medal commemorating hia death besides a number of other "miscellaneous articles complete one of the most interesting collections of historical objects in this country. “Since many of the articles relate so pertinently to the home of Washington, a brief mention of its history Is here made. “Mount Vernon House, historically the most interesting of American mansions and closely associated with nearly all the objects hereto described, was erected in 1743 for Lawrence Washington, the half brother of George, and so named in honor of Admiral Edward Vernon, B. N., under whose command Lawrenee Washington had served during the British expedition against Cartagena in 1741. The property passed into the hands of

George after the death of Lawrence In 1752 and the house w»s later Improved and enlarged. “When Mrs. Washington died In 1802, Mount Vernon became In accordance with Washington’s will, the property of his nephew, Bushrod Washington who In turn bequeathed it to his nephew, John Augustine Washington, from whom It passed to a son of the same name, and in 1858 was purchased from him by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. "By an act of Congress, approved June 20, 1878, the Gevernment purchased a collection of Washington relics from G. W. Lewis and others, the heirs of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, the adopted daughter of Washington, and the wife of his nephew, MaJ. Lawrence Lewis. After the death of Mrs. Washington, in 1802, these objects had passed into the hands i of Mrs. Lewis, and on her death in 1852, were received by her heirs, who held thorn until their purchase by the govern ment In 1878, when they were deposited in the United States Patent Office, where they remained until transferred to the United States Na tlonal Museum in 1883. “The objects purchased from th® Lewis heirs form the greater portion of the WAshlngtoniana in the museum, and are designated as belonging to the •Lewis collection.’ The sources of other Washington relics received by the museum at various times as loans qt gifts, are noted on the descriptive labels.*

Lewistown, Pa. —Mrs. B. Ballentine, of this place has In her possession a large steak platter that is over 167 years old. She .can trace Its existence back „tbat many yearn

HOAXES THAT HAVE PUZZLED PEOPLE

Barmjm’s White Elephant and Huge*’ Famous S2OOO Tom Cat. New York.—Barnum loved to fool the people. A rival showman obtained a white elbphant. Barnum by telegraph tried to obtain it and offered a huge sum. The owner of the real white elephant used Barnum’s telegram as a newspaper advertisement and poster, which made Barnum the more eager to get the animal. Failing in getting the white elephant he cabled all over the world to get one. Then he resorted to subterfuge. He bleached an ordinary elephant, and did it so well that he not only fooled the people who came to see it, but also a learned body of scientists, who gave him a testimonial to the effect that it was a genuine albino elephant, says a writer in the New York Press. No story of hoaxes is complete unless New York’s widely known Joker is mentioned. He is Brian G. Hughes, and he has perpetrated more than a dozen jokes that have made the metropolis chuckle. To perpetuate these hoaxes has cost him much money; but in all of his tricks no one ever has suffered particularly. Probably his most widely known exploit, because it wa3 so successful, was ihe career of his tom cat, Nicodemus, a tenement house cat he purchased for ten cents, and which he advertised as the S2OOO caf’not for sale”. In its class, Nicodemus carried off first prize at the show in Madicon Square Garden. When Hughes decided to enter his cat, which he termed his “Dublin brindle cat Nicodemus,” which he valued at S2OOO, hf inquired “if there would be any objection because of its value, to having it cared for during the show by its reguMr attendant.” There was no objections, and when the show opened a negro, probably Sam Smith, who had taken part in a number of his hoaxes, appeared in a gorgeous livery. During the time that there was a crowd in front of Nicodemus, Smith looked out for the smallest comfort of the animal. A widely known florist sent flowers every day; a celebrated caterer furnished the meals—at least the boxes and baskets so indicated. Spectators, spent many minutes reading the long pedigree of Nicodemus. When the Judges looked over the flowers, the manicure sets, the impressive negro and the pedigree, Nicodemus blinked at a blue ribbon attached to his wicker cage.

GYPSY ROMANCE IS RUINOUS TO HOME

Nomad Enchantress Flits Away While Wife's Love Dies. Chicago, Ill.—Aline the “queen of the gypsies,” has flitted to foreign haunts; Mrs. Caroline Lanask, a long suffering wife has lost faith in her husband’s loyalty, and John Lamask, the central figure in a summer idyll lecounted to Judge Joseph La Buy, has plumbed the depths of misery and found bitterness. ' John had been married seven years and was the father of two children when he met Aline. He threw discretion to the winds, his wife says, and tried to find new happiness crystal gazing with Aline. At first he made only hurried trips to Aline’s headquarters of occultism at 1518 West Twenty-finit street. Later he forgot his wife, his children, even the delicious pot roasts with noodles with which she tempted him. Finally his trips home ceased. Then Aline moved. Silvep quarters for palm readings were growing scarce in the neighborhood. Penitent, Mrs. Lanask says, John wandered back to the family fold, but was denied admittance. His love notes begging forgiveness went into the fire. To cap his troubles, Mrs. Lanask had him arrested for desertion and non-support. She told her story to the judge then threw Aline’s circular on the bench. picked up the card and saw the face of a fascinating brunette drawn on the palm of a hand. “Love, darling, sweetheart. Bun, stars, moon” —these were some of the inscriptions flanking the sketch of Aline. “That’s the cause of all my trouble,’’ said Mrs. Lanask plaintively. "It’s a lie; nothing but blooming bunk,” interrupted J&hrf. But the judge silenceavjiim, put him under SSOO peace bonds, aad ordered him to support his children and leave Mrs. Lanask alohe.

Boys in ’Teens Build Large Barn.

Horton, Kan.—Two of the youngest builders in this section of the country are Leo and Leonard Brandt 1 , who have just finished building a barn 36x40x36, for John Hannah of Wetmore. The hoys, whose ages are 17 and 19 years, did all the work on the barn, from foundation to lightning rods. This is i heir first building. They learned the carpenter trade their father, who Is an expert builder.

Students Shun Ministry.

Millville, N. J.—Prof. E. D. Grlzzell, supervising principal of the Millville High School has told the board of education that he was very much surprised to learn, as a result of a canvass of the 250 students as to what vocation they Intended to follow for iheir life’s work, that not one of them expressed his intention of studying fOf the ministry. He said that this was more surprising from the fact that Millville is known as the city of churches. ----- 7—37*- -

: ' New York City has 2500 factories.