lost treasures ls of americatient, and building up wasted energy with simple but powerful nourish....

As to Kissing.Jack-Do you believe there's mb

erobes in kisses?Gwen-You can search me.

A CURB POR PILES.Cole's Carbolsalve stops itching and palmd cures piles. All drugssists. 2 and 60a.

Its Rank."Do you think telephone operation

can be classed as a profession?""Well, it certainly is a calling."

Ideals."What is your idea of a perfect hus-

band?""One with about a million, who

would lose no time in making me amerry widow."

Job Not Satisfactory."I'm a self-made man," said the

;roud individual."Well, you are all right except as to

your head," commented the listener."How's that?""The part you talk with is too big

for the part you think with."

Mother's Lingual Attainment.The mother of a little boy in Kan-

sas City, Kan., recites negro dialectstories charmingly. Her small son isquite proud of her accomplishmentand frequently boasts of it. One dayrecently, when some of his playmateswere vaunting the achievements oftheir several mothers, the little boybraggingly remarked:

"My mother is smarter than any of'ours; she can talk two languages."

"What are they?" demanded hisaompanions.

"White and colored."

Child's Fear of the Dark.If mothers notice that the brains of

bbeir little ones conjure up uncannysights and thoughts from the shadowsDf a room more or less dark, let thelight burn brightly. To force a childpo become accustomed to the darkness

a grave error, if its nervous systemts so organized that this forcing is

troductive of a fright.The nervous system of a child is a

'ery susceptible organization and theteleterious impressions made upon itwill often make their influence feltUhroughout its whole after life. If thechild asks for a light under such cir.tumstances do not refuse it.

Carrying It Too Far."Scientific management, like any

other good thing, may be carried toexcess."

The speaker was R. MarriottThompson, the San Francisco scienti-tc management expert. He continued,says the New York Tribune:

"We scientific managers mustn't goas far as Hussler went.

"Hussler was the proprietor of atremendous factory where scientificmanagement had reduced the mo-tions of every hand from 800 to 17.flussler attended a very fashionablewedding one day, a wedding wherethe ceremony was performed by abishop assisted by a dean and acanon, and in the most impressivepart of the writ, Hussler, overcome byhis scientific management ideas, rush-ed up to the altar and pushed thebishop and canon rudely back.

"'Here, boys,' he said, 'one's quiteenough for a little job like this.' "

Really Had Best of lit.John Burroughs is well known as

cone of the foremost nature writersin this country. Some time ago hevisited his brother, Eden Burroughs,who lives in the Catskills, at a place

,called Hobart. The two brothers wentfor hunting together. The honor ofthe hunt came to Eden, who shot the-nly fox. So it happened that fox-ikins were worth five dollars at' that

:time, and the successful Nimrod tookmuch pride in telling how he got thebetter of the sage of Slabsides. Later,in boasting to a few friends about itin the presence of his brother John,he was interrupted by, "You havebragged about that fox hunt longenough. You shot the fox, sold theskin and got five dollars. I wrote alittle account of the hunt, and got$75 from the magazine which publish.ed it. So there you are!"

WELL PEOPLE TOOWise Doctor Gives Postum te Con

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A wise doctor tries to give nature itsbest chance by saving the little4trength of the already exhausted partient, and building up wasted energywith simple but powerful nourish.anent.

"Five years ago," writes a doctor'I commenced to use Postum in my

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"I then commenced to recommend itto my patients in place of coffee, as anutritious beverage. The consequenceis, every store in town is now sellingit, as it has become a household ne-cessity in many homes.

"I'm sure I prescribe Postum as oft.en as any one remedy in the MateriaMedica-in almost every case of indi.gestion and nervousness I treat, andwith the best results.

"When I once introduce it into afamily, it is quite sure to remain. 1shall continue to use it and prescribeit in families where I practice.

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LOST TREASURESLS OF AMERICA

Gold and Jewels Still Waiting to beFound by Some Modern Adventurer.

BY

BUFFINGTON PHILLIPS

{ (Copyright, by the Ridgway Co.)

FE.E{E greatest treasure in theUnited States, a vast sum that

[ awaits some one's finding, is oneconcerning which I have sought

o the exact truth for the several yearsr. that I have followed this fad, of col-

lecting treasure-trove data. The. pub-g lication of the story or stories about it

may bring to light the men who cansay definitely what is what. Howeverany man who cares to set out after iti- In a business-like manner may turn

t himself into a multi-millionaire be-a tween Christmas and Fourth of July.,t This much is certain: somewhere

Y on the upper reaches of the Missouria river lie four large barges, lost in

f 1866, laoded to their utmost capacityY with gold estimated in amount from

$7,000,000 to $25,000,000.if Just at the close of the civil war

some rumors of the finding of gold ina the Black Hills of Dakota and Mon-

tana drifted into the towns on theborder of civilization in the northwest.It seems odd to think that fifty yearsago that region was a frontier, butSthere are hundreds of old Indians nowf living on the reservations who then

B were fighting braves and fifty yearsago they had never seen a whiteman's face.

9 In the spring of 1866 some old pros-pectors in the back drift from Califor-nia found gold in one of the tributariesof the Missouri, said now to be thenorth fork of the Cheyenne. Why it isno more certain will appear. Othersof thier ilk "smelled" the discoveryand a band of no more than fortydrew into the region, making a won-derful strike, the richest that has everbeen made on America soil accordingto all accounts. The strike was madein what is now called Deadmen'sGulch, named to suit the story, butcalled in the old records Federation,Desperation and Starvation Gulches.

The gold was alluvial, washed downfrom the northern ledges, now beingworked by the rich Caledonia QaurtzMine Company near Deadwood. Thegravel banks and fiats were inexpres-sibly rich with it and all summer theforty men toiled feverishly, extractingas much as they could before the win-ter should descend upon them, shutoff their fish, game and vegetable foodsupply and drive them to civilization,where the knowledge of the vast.L wealth of the Black Hills and the re-mainder of the auriferous region wouldbecome public property.

When the ground froze and theycould work no longer they cut timberand made four large barges of shallowdraft and on them laoded the gold inprovision boxes, and mule and deerskins made into rawhide sacks. Eventhen they were compelled to leavei some of it behind because the bargesI would not carry it.

The hostile Indians who had notdared attack so large a party in themining camp with its excellent de-fenses and those who were apparentlyon friendly terms with the miners nowtook a hand in the' game. After thehardy forty had reached the Missouriand had negotiated a portion of itsdistance they tied up one night, notlong before Christmas. They were at-tacked by a large band of Indians,who massacred every living soul, sankthe barges and took all their belong-ings except the gold, of which they didnot know the value. Some accountshold the Blackfeet responsible, othersthe Ogalala.

How the news ever got to the worldI cannot say, save as the Indians toldof it and friends of the dead mentraced them into the country fromwhich they never came out. Gradual-ly the story took form and it set theprospectors wild. They ranged theregion from the Bad Lands to the BigHorn river for twenty-seven years andthen came the great discovery in theBlack Hills.

The gold left behind at the point ofembarkation was finally found. Oldworkings which showed the vastquantities taken out by the forty pros-pectors were discovered and for a fewyears a torrent of alluvial gold pouredout of the Black Hills. Then the wholething settled down to the staid andregular quartz proposition.

The Kansas City Star some yearsago printed a circumstantial storystating that a young Indian student atHaskell had told a professor that hisfather was one of the braves in themassacre, knew where the barges weresunk and was still living on the reser-vation. It may be that the river haschanged its course and left the bargesunder a thin layer of gravel, easily ac-cessible on dry land. The way to findthe treasure is to trace down the sto-

locate some of the old Indians1 induce them to locate the spot

n,( point it out from memory. It:liould not be difficult.

In 1759 there was lost in the Bay ofIslands, at the mouth of the St. Law-rence river, the good ship Primrose,with a store of gold and silver andjewels aboard her. The exact amountof her treasure is unknown, but itmust be vast.

Full of wild romance is the storyof the "Devil Duval's Horde" on thetop of the Rocks of Perce on the(ia.pe peninsula, only about twenty-four hours ride by train from New

York City. Certain British laws mustbe repealed before it can be recovered.however. It is in one of the out-of-way places of the world and very lit-tle is known by the general publicabout it. The superstitious Frenchfishermen, unchanged in a hundredand fifty years, still await the returnof the fierce pilot to claim his own.

The Rock of Perce, named for theadjacent fishing village, is one of thetrue natural wonders of our continent.When some convulsion of nature rentthe coast this rock was split from thenearby mountain and left standing, agrim monument to the caprice of thegods of sea and land. Several hun-dred feet high, with a comparativelyfiat top, its sides are beetling and oneside is about two hundred feet higherthan the other. Once it was piercedby three arches through any one ofwhich a small ship might sail, but nowone of these has collapsed, leavingonly the two huge galleries.

Captain Duval was a French priva-teer who returned only a small por-tion of his loot from English and oth-er ships to the French authorities,and after the declaration of peace he Ibecame an out-and-out pirate. HeProtected the French fishermen andwas generous with them. They, intheir turn, protected him as the Eng-lish peasant protected Dick Turpin.

At last he was hard pressed by theEnglish, and having in his service aMicmac Indian who knew a secrettrail to the supposedly inaccessibleRock of Perce, he collected all hiscaches of treasure in the maritimeprovinces and brought them to Perce.The Indian carried a line to the topof the rock and hauled up a block andfall. Then two prisoners were hauledup, and next Duval himself. Boatscontaining the great treasure chestsstood by below.

The tradition is that they were aday and a moonlight night getting itall up. Then the Indian was sentdown and Duval himself was loweredaway. His rapier was dripping with

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blood and when he reached the boathe stood up, and with a harquebusshot at the tackle till it was cut clean,too high up the rocks for any one toreach. "Devil Duval" sailed away andnever returned.

For years the winds battered andthe sun and rains rotted the ropes onthe walls of the rock till at last theydisappeared. So many lives were lostin attempts to scale the rocks and re-cover the treasure that a law waspassed forbidding any one to makethe attempt without the necessary le-galized concession from the governor o

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the province of Quebec. Only the wildsea-birds, making their nests in thetop of the rock, knqw the story of thetwo prisoners and the chests of treas-ure on the bleak heights. But an air-ship could learn it.

Carleton Island, in the St. Lawrenceriver, was an outfitting place for Toryraiding parties and an arsenal was es-tablished there. A pay chest was sentto the post with a large sum of money.The chest disappeared and its loss wasreported to General Haldimand atMontreal. In 1879, Colonel Horr ofCape St. Vincent, received a visit froma stranger, who requested the use ofa boat and, being granted it, he rowedto Carleton Island and returned in ashort time with a heavy iron chestcovered with clinging wet clay. Col-onel Horr, thinking nothing wrong.helped the man row to the steamboatlanding and he was never heard fromagain. In a few days William Majo.one of the owners of the island, senta boy into the pine thicket for stray-ing horses and there the lad foundthe flat-stone-lined hole where thechest had rested.

There are two extensive areas ofburied treasure in the thickly popu-lated parts of the United States. One,the lesser, is on the general lines ofSherman's march to the sea. Northand south of it, plantation after plan-tation, town after town, have theirstories of treasures ranging from afew hundreds of dollars to hundredsof thousands which were buried forfear the Union army would get them.Many were never recovered becauseof the failure of the owners to locatethe burial places. The surest way to

lose a treasure is to bury it, it seems.The earth in some mysterious way*preads a mantle of oblivion whichcan not be pierced by the memory ofman and takes back to her bosom thetreasure that was wrested from her.

The other area is in the east, be-ginnig at about Camden, N. J., and ex-tending north to Albany and thenceto Portland, Maine. In that field livedthe rich Royalist and Tory families.

The sudden turning of the tide foundthe Tories in possession of a greatquantity of gold coin, gold and silverplate and Jewels, and fearing theywould lose these, they buried themand then fled. Comparatively little ofit was ever exhumed and the area isdotted thickly with localities where asearch would be highly profitable. Ofthem I can mention a few only.

At Sound Beach, Conn., lives Mrs.Jane Louden, 101 years of age. Herhusband, ,knowing that on the homefarm a wealthy Tory family had buriedgold, hunted until he found severalpots containing several thousand dol-lars each. A neighbor also acquiredsudden wealth which he did not ex-plain. Every one knew there was agreat joint family cache somewherenear.

It was known for many years thaton Lord Edmeston's estate near WestEdmeston, N. Y., his personal repre-sentative, Perdifer Carr, had buried atreasure. The property known as theBurdick Farm, having been bought byHenry F. Burdick in 1850, was thesite. In 1904fa tenant named Cheese-borough plowed into a case of chinaand glass, breaking half of it before herealized what the obstruction was. Byreason of design and quality the re- 1mainder, however, was worth a smallfortune to dealers in antiques. It wasthe Edmeston ware. The law suit thatfollowed for possession made the casefamous. Where is the remainder ofthe treasure?

Joel Coryell, sexton at Romulus, N.Y., digging a grave on what was aTory estate in 1776, found a largequantity of money in an old pot. The 1grave belonged to Thomas Mann, butCoryell kept the gold.

Walter Butler, the notorious Mo-hawk Valley Tory, returned to the val-ley at the end of the war with a forceof Tories and Indians to dig up thetreasures he had buried and those thathad been buried by other wealthyTories who had told him where to re-cover it in their behalf. When he hadfinished his work and was returning,the pursuing Colonials under ColonelMarinus Willet, overtook the treasuresquad beyond Johnson's Hall on thebank of the West Canada in northernHerkimer county.

The treasure was too heavy for the

fleeing party so it was dumped in theshallows and horses were riddenthrough the water to make it muddy.Butler was killed, the raiders drivenaway and the spoils await present-dayseekers.

While there is some doubt as to au-thenticity, there is said to be a $16,-000,000 cache of Spanish doublons,buried by Captain Kidd, on EsopusIsland in the Hudson river, not far'from New York City, while at the verygate of New York is a forgotten treas-ure of many hundreds of thousands.This famous treasure was lost whenthe British frigate Hesarar, a pay shipsent in for the British soldiers duringthe fevolutionary war, went down inthe East river. It will be easy to lookup the old Admiralty records and getthe full information that may lead tothe finding of the treasure.

The facts pertaining to KlopperSmith's horde are as follows: "DerKlopper" was a very brutal and muchfeared knight of the road on the westshores of the Hudson from Nyack tothe Catskills and he robbed thewealthy Dutch in an unmerciful man-ner. He had no opportunities forspending his ill-gotten wealth andhoarded it somewhere. At last he wascaptured and before his execution atNewburg confided to a keeper who hadbeen kind to him that he had sacks ofgold and silver and Jewels buried in aspot on Storm King Mountain, justnorth of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, somethirty-five miles north of New YorkCity. No search has ever been made.

In the hey-day of Mississippi riversteamboat traffic, a great deal of sun-ken treasure accumulated in the Ohio,Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, Redand Arkansas rivers. A pay boat onits way to Grant's army at Vicksburgwith more than two million dollarsaboard was fired by some of her crewwho meant to rob her. The paymas-ter's men defended the money till theboat sank. James B. Eads, who builtthe Eads- bridge at St. Louis and theEads jetties at the mouth of the Mis-sissippi, invented an apparatus by useof which he could reach some of thetreasure-wrecks in shallow water andrecovered several million dollars. All

5. of it could be reached with conapatlit tire ease now.

Just above Pine Bluff, Arkansas, '*A steamboat said to have been the sa'a

1e lyld J. Harrison, with several ihndred

thousand dollars in gold to pay fOic dotton, was sunk in 1869. None of i•

K has ever been recovered.

There is a fascinating story aboutan old barge that is buried in the Mis.souri sand-flats near Fort Rice, NorthDakota. With it is buried silver worth

t more than half a million dollars. Atr the time when the unsuccessful pros-

y pectors were toiling, empty handed,a back from the gold fields of California,a little band of men struck a rich findnear what is now Virginia City, Mon.tana.

The built a rude, camp and, with thepoor implements that they had, work.ed feverishly for many months untilthey had taken out all that theirpacks could carry across the miles ofuncivilized country they must cross tothe navigable rivers of the upper Mis-sourl. Toiling across the mountains,always in danger of massacre, facingstarvation and privations, breakingroads in the frozen flats and blazingtrails through the forests, they finally

t reached, the river near Painted Woods,t and there built a rude barge and load-ed it to the water's edge with the richsilver ore.

Traveling by night, in constant fearr of Indian outbreaks, they wended slow-ly down the partly frozen river, know-ing that soon they would reach thei frontier town and safety. It was in

'64 and the few scattered settlementshad' been deserted. No Indians hadbeen seen for days and, taking cour-I age, they traveled faster and with lesscaution. When they were near FortRice they were attacked by the In-dians and all of the little band werekilled with the exception of one man,Pierre Laselle.

Ignorant of the wealth aboard, theRedskins sunk the float, and PierreLaselle escaped to Fort Rice leavingbehind him no trace of the expedition;the secret of the hardships and toiland wealth were with the river andwith him. He told no one anythingabout it for some time--not until hehad enlisted in the army and maneu-vered so as to get back to be near histreasure. Then he took an old Quak-er, named Richard Pope, into his con-fidence and at the urgent request ofthe Quaker his son was also told thesecret.

Three months later the litle party,well armed and well provisioned, wentquietly to the spot that Iaselle remem-bered so well, only to find that theriver course had changed and a barof sand had formed over the barge.Not dismayed, however, they dug un-til they found the prow of the oldscow and on the very eve of successthey too were attacked by the Indiansand Laselle was killed' Pope and hisson, too badly frightened to workagain within the year, went back withthe secret to the town and while thereyoung Pope died.

After many years the old Quakertook another man, named Emerson.and with the drawings that Laselleand he had made they went back tothe place of trove and found that thesand bar had grown and that the riverran many hundreds of feet away from.the spot where the fortune lay buriedin glistening sands. Where Pope saidthe old diggings would be found ayoung cottonwood tree was flourish-ing. They spent weeks digging formany feet around the place, but foundnothing. Some mistake had evidentlybeen made in following out the formerinstructions, but the barge was there,because Pope and Laselle found it ontheir first visit. Pope is dead, butEmerson is still alive and has the olddrawings, letters and records. Maybehe can be induced to part with it, andmaybe not, but somewhere in the flatsnear Fort Rice is a snug little fortuneawaiting some finder.

Behind the city of St. Augustine, insome likely spot, another rich treasureis located. When it was a rich Span-ish town, a favorite putting-in port forthe heavily laden Spanish galleonsthat were coming through the Straitsof Florida to avoid sailing the watersmade dangerous by Peter the Terribleand Sir Henry Morgan, its wealth at-tracted the attention of the free-boot-ers and word of their preparations toattack and loot the city was carriedto the captain-general.

For weeks the city was in a state ofgreat perturbation and when someEnglish ships, probably privateers, ap-peared off the coast, the public treas.ure, the church treasure and the valu.ables of the wealthy citizens were as-sembled, removed inland and hidden.For months the state of suspense con-tinued until the Spanish Admiral Quin-tana appeared with his fleet. Thenthe St. Augustinians thought theycould safely bring back their wealth.To their horror the three prominentmen entrusted with the secreting ofit, either could not find it or pretend-ed they could not. One fled to Spainbefore the anger of his fellow-citizensand his flight cost the lives of the oth-er two. They were assassinated assoon as the flight became known.

The archives of the Spanish admir-alty have full record of the affair andthe true key to the treasure trove canbest be found by searching the familypapers of the man who fled. He neverreturned, but without doubt he leftthe valuable information to his heirs.

Where millions await the finder inwilder and more uncertain spots isfar more interesting ground than thelocalities where thousands lie underthe very noses of the townspeople, orwhere the plow passes every year overthe buried trove. All through thewest are rich mines which have beenfound and lost.

I..t's bagrd' hg to keephous eifin. pr~d t health, but woman whosi e ,wretdtired and iuffering all of

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It's usually the fool who rocks theboat that lives to tell the tale.

Instinctive."So you took your wife to the base

ball game?""Yes," replied Mr. Meekton."Did she enjoy It?""Only part of it. She thought they

wasted a great deal of time runningaround the lot, but she thought the ar-guments with the umpire were quiteinteresting."-Washington Star.

Moving Pictures Popular. ..In a recent number of the Daily

Consular Reports are collected memo-randa from cities and towns in vari-ous distant parts of the world showingthe universal quality of the popularinterest which the moving picturesexcite. England, Japan, Turkey, Mex-ico, India, Australia and the islandsof the sea all have the same story totell; wherever the cinematographgoes it finds an instant and sustainedwelcome.

Matter of Justice.Where shall justice begin, with

those who have power or with thosewho suffer wrong? If exact and idealjustice were done, the weak wouldmake an effort to give to the strongall that is their due, and the strongwould try to put their affairs in orderso that no just cause of complaintshould exist anywhere. The unhappyelement in the relations of the strongand the weak is that both are think-ing too much about exacting justiceand not enough about doing thatwhich is just and right. "Pay whatthou owest" is the cry most oftenheard. "Give me that which is mydue, then I will pay you what I owe."

Accorded Full Title.One of the New Yor, representa-

tives in congress tells of a socialfunction in an assembly district po-litical club on the East side, whereatthe chaiman of the entertainmentcommittee acted as master of cere-monies.

The chairman was very busy intro-ducing the newly-arrived members ofthe club to the guests, who included anumber of municipal officers. Therepresentative mentioned was pre-sented in a way to halve his officialhonors with his wife, as "The Honor-able and Mrs. Congressman Blank."Next came a couple who were notknown to the master of ceremonies,but, after receiving the correct namein a whisper, he announced:

"Mr. and Mrs. Inspector of Hy-drants, Faucets and Shopworks Ca-sey."-Lippincott's.

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