Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — Buried Treasures. [ARTICLE]

Buried Treasures.

# Before the coal famine becomes a reminiscence, It may be well to record a curious incident that happened not very long ago at a military academy In New Jersey. An unsuspected supply of coal was found beneath the cellars of the academy. It seems that a year previous to that date the principal of the school Improved a favorable opportunity to put in a big supply of fuel Into his cellars. In some unaccountable way the coal began to decrease very rapidly. A year afterward, When fuel was at a premium, while the janitor was searching around for coal, to his surprise be found that the

cover of an old well had broken beneath the weight of the coal originally laid In and allowed It, unbeknown to the school ''authorities, to settle Into the opening. The five tons or more of black diamonds thus Involuntarily stowed away proved a species of burled treasure of a very bandy kind to hare around In a time of coal scarcity.

A cotton mill to. be built at Quito, the capital of Ecuador, must be carrletl on the backs of mules through the Andes, passing a point 16,000 feet in altitude. Vn. Winslow's Soonass 8»n to* (UMna