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LOST TREASURES
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: ; . " Gold and "Jewels Still Waiting to be -Found
by Some Modern Adventurer. '
- BY
BUFFINGTON
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IB greatest . treasure in . the
United States, a vast turn tbat
awalta some om'i finding, U one
concernlnc which I bare song at
the exact truth for the several years
that I hare followed thlt (ad of col
lecting treasure-trove data. The pub
lication of the itory or stories about It
may bring to light the men who can
ay definitely what U what. However
any man who caret to set out after it
In a business-like manner may turn
himself Into a multi-mllllonalre be
tween Christmas and Fourth of July.
This much la certain: aomewhere
on the upper reacbea of the Missouri
river lie four large barges, lost In
1866, laoded to their utmost capacity
with gold estimated in amount from
(7,000.000 to $25,000,000.
Just at the close of the civil war
some rumors of the finding of gold in
the Black Hills of Dakota and Mon
tana drifted Into the towns on the
border of civilisation in the northwest.
It seems odd to think that fifty years
ago that region was a frontier, but
there are hundreds of old Indians now
living on the reservations who then
were fighting braves and fifty years
ago they bad never seen a white
man's face.
In the spring of 1866 some old pros
pectors in the back drift from Califor
nia found gold In one of the tributaries
of the Missouri, said now to be the
north fork of the Cheyenne. Why it Is
no more certain will appear. Others
of thier ilk "smelled" the discovery
and a band of no more than forty
drew into the region, making a won
derful strike, the richest that has ever
been made on America soil according
to all accounts. The strike was made
In what is now called Deadmen's
Gulch, named to suit the story, but
called In the old records Federation,
Desperation and Starvation Gulches.
The gold was alluvial, washed down
from the northern ledges, now being
worked by the rich Caledonia Qaurti
Vina Cnmnanv near Deadwood. The
gravel banks and flats were inexpres
sibly rich with It and all summer the
forty men tolled feverishly, extracting
as much as they could before the win
ter should descend upon them, shut
off their fish, game and vegetable food
supply and drive them to civilization,
where the knowledge of " the vast
wealth of the Black Hills and the re
mainder of the auriferous region would
become public property.
When the ground froze and they
could work no longer they cut timber
and made four large barges of shallow
draft and on them laoded the gold in
provision boxes, and mule and deer
skins made into rawhide sacks. Even
then they were compelled to leave
some of it behind because the barges
iwould not carry it.
' The hostile Indians who had not
dared attack so large a party in the
mining camp with its excellent de
fenses and those who were apparently
,on friendly terms with the miners now
took a hand in the game. After the
hardy forty had reached the Missouri
and had negotiated a portion of its
distance they tied up one night, not
long before Christmas. They were at
tacked by . a large band of Indians,
who massacred every living soul, sank
the barges and took all their belong
ings except the gold, of which they did
not know the value. Some accounts
hold the Blackfeet responsible, others
the Ogalala. : ,
F How the news ever got to the world
I cannot say, save as the Indians told
of it and friends of the dead men
traced them into the country from
which they never came out. Gradual
ly the story took form and It set the
prospectors wild. They ranged the
region from the Bad Lands to the Big
Horn river for twenty-seven years and
then came the great discovery In the
Black Hills.
The gold left behind at the point of
embarkation was finally found. Old
workings which showed the vast
quantities taken out by the forty pros
pectors were discovered and for a few
years a torrent of alluvial gold poured
out of the Black Hills. Then the whole
thing settled down to the staid and
regular quarts proposition. ,
The Kansas City Star some years
ago printed a circumstantial story
stating that a young Indian student at
iHaskell had told a professor that his
father was one of the braves In the
massacre, knew where the barges were
unk and was still living on the reser
vation. It may be that the river has
changed Its course and left the barges
under a thin layer of gravel, easily ac
cessible on dry land. The way to find
the treasure is to trace down the sto
ries, locate some of the old Indians
and Induce them to locate the spot
and point It out from memory. It
should not be difficult
In 1769 there was lost in the Bay of
Islands, at the mouth of the St. Law
rence river, the good ship Primrose,
with s store of gold and silver and
jewels aboard her. The exact amount
of her treasure is unknown, but It
jnust be' vast."';;. 7.''v;.'.5.-'"1 .,,-,.'. v'
Fun of wild romance la the story
f the "Devil Duval's Horde" on the
nn nf tha Rocks of Perco on the
Gasp peninsula, only about twenty-
four hours ride by train, rrom new
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PHILLIPS
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Tork City. Certain British laws must
be 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 publio
about It. The superstitious French
fishermen, unchanged in a hundred
and fifty years, still await the return
of the tierce pilot to claim his own.
The Rock of Perce, named for the
adjacent fishing village, Is one of the
true natural wonders of our continent
When some convulsion of nature rent
the coast thla rock was split from the
nearby mountain and left standing, a
grim monument to the caprice of the
gods of sea and land. Several hun
dred foet high, with a comparatively
flat top, its sides are beetling and one
side Is about two hundred feet higher
than the other. Once it was pierced
by three arches through any one of
which a small ship might sail, but now
one of these has collapsed, leaving
only 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 be
became an out-and-out pirate. He
protected the French fishermen and
was generous with them. They, In
their turn, protected him as the Eng
lish peasant protected Dick Turpin.
At last he was hard pressed by the
English, and having in his service a
Micmac Indian who knew a secret
trail to the supposedly inaccessible
Rock of Perce, he collected all his
caches of treasure in the maritime
provinces and brought them to Perce.
The Indian carried a line to the top
of the rock and hauled up a block and
fall. Then two prisoners were hauled
up, and next Duval himself. Boats
containing the great treasure chests
stood by below.
The tradition is that they were a
day ana a moonlight night getting It
all up. Then the Indian -was sent
down and Duval himself was lowered
away. His rapier was dripping with
-c A
blood and when he reached the boat
be stood up, and with a harquebus
shot at the tackle till it was cut clean,
too high up the rocks for any one to
reach. "Devil puval" sailed away and
never returned.
For years the winds battered and
the sun and rains rotted the ropes on
the walls of the rock till at last they
disappeared. So many lives were lost
in attempts to scale the rocks and re
cover the treasure that a law was
passed forbidding any one to make
the attempt without the necessary le
galized concession from the governor oT
the province of Quebec. Only the wild
sea-birds, making their nests in the
top of the rock, know the story of the
two prisoners and the chests of treas
ure on the bleak heights. But an air
ship could learn It
Parlfltnn Island, in the St. Lawrence
river, was an outfitting place for Tory
roMlnff nartloa and an arsenal was es
tablished there. A pay cheat was sent
to the post witn a large sum oi money.
The chest disappeared and its loss was
reported to General Haldlmand at
Mnntroal In 1879. Colonel Horr ot
Can at Vincent received a visit from
a stranger, who requested the use ot
a boat and, being granted it he rowea
to Carleton Island and returned In a
short time with a heavy Iron chest
covered with clinging wet clay. joi-
Unir thtnklna- nothing wrong:.
helped the man row to the steamboat
landing- and he was never heard rrom
a train In a few days William Majo,
one of the owners of the Island, sent
a boy Into the pine thicket for stray
In hnnM anil thT the lad fOUUd
the fiat-stone-lined hole where the
chest had rested.
: tium im two extensive areas of
buried treasure In the thickly popu
lated parts ot tne uniiea siaies. use,
the lesser, is on the general lines ot
Sherman's march to the sea. North
and south of It plantation after plan
tation, town after town,. have their
stories of treasures ranging from a
few hundreds of dollars to hundreds
ot thousands which were burled for
fear the Union army would get them.
Many were never recovered because
nf th faiinM of the owners to locate
the burial places. The surest way to
tlcally two-thirds of the telephone
business of the world is therefore con
centrated In the United States. This
represents -an Investment of $1,729,
000,000, which is certainly a great
sum, in view of the fact that last year
was only the thirty-fifth since Profes
sor Ee!l Invented the tc'rfhone.
. gtt'-'!cs recently filed show that
In f " ' a tv.--re are l.te'.rtbones
r--r 1 i l a, a f;nre eicetled
Iom a tMunn la to burv it. It seems
The earth in some mysterious way
spreads a mantle of oblivion which
can not be pierced by the memory of
man and takes back to her bosom the
treasure that was wrested from her.
The other area is' In the east be-
ginnlg at about Camden, N. J., and ex
tending north to Albany, ana tnenoe
t6 Portland, Maine. Jn tbat field lived
the rich Royalist and Tory families.
The sudden turning of the tide found
tha Tarlu In noaseaslon of a great
quantity of gold coin, gold and sliver
plate and Jewels, and fearing they
would lose these, they tranea mem
and then fled. Comparatively little of
it was ever exhumed and the area Is
dotted thickly with localities where a
search would be htichly profitable. Of
them I can mention a few only.
. At Sound Beach, Conn., lives Mrs.
Jane Louden, 101 years of age. Her
husband, knowing tbat on the home
farm a wealthy Tory family had burled
gold, hunted until he found several
pots containing several thousand dol
lars each. A neighbor also acquired
sudden wealth which he did not ex
ninin. Fverv an knew there was a
great Joint family cache somewhere
near.
it waa known for many years that
on Lord Edmeston's estate near West
Edmeston. N, Y, his personal repre
sentative, Perdlfer Carr, had buried a
treasure. . The property known as the
Burdick Farm, having been bought by
Henry F. Burdick In 1850, was the
site. In 1904 a tenant named Cheese
borough plowed Into a case of china
and glass, breaking half of it before he
realized what the obstruction was. By
reason of design and quality the re
mainder, however, was wortn a smaii
fortune to dealers In antiques. . It was
the Edmeston ware. The law suit that
followed for possession made the case
famous. Where Is the remainder of
the treasure?
Joel Coryell, sexton at Romulus, N.
T., digging a grave on what was a
Tory estate in 1776. found a large
quantity of money in an old pot. The
grave belonged to Thomas Mann, but
Coryell kept the gold.
Walter Butler, the notorious Mo
hawk Valley Tory, returned to the val
wv at the end of the war with a force
of Tories and Indians to dig up the
treasures he had buried and those tnat
had been burled by other wealthy
Tories who had told him where to re
cover it in their behalf. When he had
finished his work and was returning,
the pursuing Colonials under Colonel
Marlnus Wlllet overtook the treasure
squad beyond Johnson's Hall on the
bank of the West Canada In northern
Herkimer county.
The treasure was too heavy for the
K
fleeing party so It was dumped In the
shallows and horses were ridden
through the water to make it muddy.
Butler was killed, the raiders driven
away and the spoils await present-day
seekers.
While there Is some doubt as to au
thenticity, there is said to be a $16,
000,000 cache of Spanish doublons,
burled by Captain Kidd, on Esopus
Island In the Hudson river, not far
from New York City, while at the very
gate of New York is a forgotten treas
ure ot many hundreds of thousands.
This famous treasure was lost when
the British frigate Hesarar, a pay ship
sent in for the British soldiers during
the revolutionary war, went down In
the East river. It will be easy to look
up the old Admiralty records and get
the full information that may lead to
the finding of the treasure. ..'
' The facts pertaining to Klooper
Smith's horde are as follows: "Der
Klopper" was a very brutal and much
feared knight of the road on the west
shores of the Hudson from Nyack to
the Catakins and he robbed the
wealthy Dutch In an unmerciful man
ner. He had no opportunities for
spending his Ill-gotten wealth and
hoarded It somewhere. At last he was
captured and before his execution at
Newburg confided to a keeper who had
been kind to him that he had sacks of
gold and silver and Jewels burled In a
spot on Storm King Mountain, Just
north of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, some
thirty-five miles north of New York
City. No search has ever been made.
In the hey-day of Mississippi river
steamboat traffic, a great deal ot sun
ken treasure accumulated In the Ohio,
Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, Red
and Arkansas rivers. A pay boat on
Hs Way to Grant's army at Vlcksburg
with more than two million dollars
aboard was fired by some of her crew
who meant to rob her. The paymas
ter's men defended the money tin the
boat sank. James B. Eads, who built
the Eads bridge at St Louis and the
Eads Jetties at the mouth of the Mis
sissippi, Invented an apparatus by use
of which he could reach some of the
treasure-wrecks In shallow water and
recovered several million dollars. All
by no American city except Los An
geles, where there are 24 Instruments
per 100 population. Copenhagen and
Christiana also have good service,
and it is well patronized; but London,
Paris, Vienna and St Petersburg are
far down In the list of telephone-using
cities. - 1 '
The relative use of the three great
methods of communication first
class mall, telegraph and telephone
in the United Etates in 1309 was 41 9,
0.4 and ES.7 per cent, re r vv'y,
wl.;:e in Eurcre dart s t'.s .-. y-r
of It could be reached with compara
tive ease now. , ?m. '
' Just above Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a
steamboat said to have been the Car
lyle J. Harrison, with several hundred
thousand dollars In gold to pay for
cotton, was sunk in I860. None of it
has ever been recovered. t ; '
There la a' fascinating story about
an old barge that Is buried In the Mis
souri sand-flats near Fort Rice, North
Dakota. With It is buried silver worth
more than half a million dollars. At
the time when the unsuccessful pros
pectors were " tolling, empty, handed,
back from the gold fields of California,
a little band of men struck rich find
near what Is now Virginia City, Mon
tana. ' ' - '"' - '
The built a rude camp and. with the
poor implements that they had, work
ed feverishly for many months until
they had taken out all that their
packs could carry across the miles of
uncivilized country they must cross to
the navigable rivers of the upper Mis
souri. Tolling across the mountains,
always in danger of massacre, facing
starvation and privations, breaking
roads in the frozen flats and biasing
trails through the forests, they finally
reached the river near Painted Woods,
and there built a rude barge and load
ed It to the water's edge with the rich
silver ore. , '
Travallns bv night in constant fear
ot Indian outbreaks, they wended slow
ly down the partly frozen river, know-ins-
that soon they would reach the
frontier town and safety. It was in
u and h few scattered settlements
had been deserted. No Indians had
been seen for days and, taking cour
age, they traveled faster and witn less
f.iitinn when thev were near Fort
Rice they were attacked by the In
dians and all ot the little band were
killed with the exception of one man,
Pierre Laselle.
Irnorant of the wealth aboard, the
Redskins sunk the float, and Plerro
Laselle escaped to Fort Rice leaving
behind him no trace of the expedition;
tha aerrat of the hardships and toil
and wealth were with the river and
with him. He told no 'one anything
about it for some time not until he
had enlisted is the army and maneu
vered so as to get back to be near his
tiwaaure. Then he took an old uuax-
er, named Richard Pope, Into his con
fidence and at the urgent request or
the Quaker his son was also told the
secret.
Throa months later the lltle party,
well armed and well provisioned, went
nnintiy to the soot that Laselle remem
bered so well only to find that the
river course had changed and a Bar
of sand had formed over the barge.
Not dismayed, however, they dug un
til they found the prow of the old
axnw and on the very eve of success
thv tnn were attacked by the Indians
and Laselle was killed! Pope and his
son, too badly frightened to worx
anln within the year, went back with
the secret to the town and while there
young Pope died.
After many years the old Quaker
took another man, named Emerson,
and with the drawings that Laselle
and he had made they went back to
the place of trove and found that the
sand bar had grown and that tne river
ran many hundreds of feet away from
tho annt where tha fortune lay burled
in glistening sands. Where Pope said
the old diggings would be louna a
young cottonwood tree was flourish
ing. They spent weeks digging for
many feet around the place, but found
nothing, Some mistake had evidently
been made in following out the former
instructions, but the barge was mere,
t.xiiaa Pane and Laselle found it on
their first visit Pope is dead, but
Emerson is still alive and has tne om
drawings, letters and records. ' Maybe
he can be Induced to part with ft, and
maybe not,' but somewhere in the flats
near Fort Rice Is a snug little fortune
awaiting some finder.
Behind the city of St Augustine, In
some likely spot another rich treasure
is located. When it was a rich Span
ish town, a favorite putting-ln port for
the heavily laden Spanish galleons
that were coming through the Straits
of Florida to avoid sailing the waters
made dangerous by Peter the Terrible
and Sir Henry Morgan, Its wealth at
tracted the attention of the free-boot-ers
and word of their preparations to
attack and loot the city was carried
to the captain-general. ;
Vnr xrMtira the city was in a state of
rreat nerturbatlon and when some
English ships, probably privateers, ap
peared off the coast the puouc 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
tans appeared with his fleet. Then
the St. Augustlnlans tnougni iney
could safely bring back their wealth.
To their horror the three prominent
men entrusted witn the secreting oi
it nithar could not find It or pretend
ed they could not One fled to Spain
before the anger of his tenow-citixens
and his flight cost the Uvea of the oth
er two. They were assassinated as
soon as the flignt became known..
Tha archives of the Spanish admir
alty have full record of the affair and
the true key to the treasure trove can
best be found by searching the ramiiy
nanara nf tha man who fled. He never
returned, but without doubt he left
the valuable Information to his heirs.
Where millions await the finder In
wilder and more uncertain spots Is
far more Interesting ground than the
lnralltiaa where thousands lie under
the very noses of the townspeople, or
where the plow passes every year over
the buried trove. AH through the'
west are rich mines which, have been
found and lost .. . 7. i
the percentages were 74.4, 1.7 and
23.9 respectively. The total numbers
of messages sent by all three methods
in the two divisions were practically
the same bout 21,000,000.000. En
gineering Record.
Pat'ence and Poultry. .
A man d mt need a big lot of
money to build up a profitable poultry
buRhiess. r t be does need a lot ol
f';.'inc9 and perseverance mlxel with
an ar -nt f .Ira to E'.-t In w.rdi
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motes mm
fara 4k
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Gapes can be cured.
Clean out the sheep fold.
Market the useless rooster.
Plant some trees In the pasture.
Try keeping a few. sheep on the
farm. '
Sit on the milk stool dont pound
the cow with it
Hot, close weather brings lota ot
lie to the dirty pen. -:
Improved breeds ot hogs are Im
proving the hogs profit
Are there any dead heads In your
dairy? If so weed them out
First-class fruit will command a
flrst-clasa trade at first-clan price.
Shorts are a more economical feed
for sows and growing pigs than for
cows. '
A boy and dog make a poor combi
nation to bring the cow home from
pasture.
In spraying, drenching la not de
sired; stop spraying Just before drip
ping begins.
He who attends to the repair ot ma
chinery before using it saves both
time and money.
When a dairyman learns to use the
Babcock test be Is started on the way
to hla economic salvation.
Frequent cultivation the remainder
of the summer will fit the strawberry
bed for Its text year's work. -
The best dairyman is clean, not
because he has to be, but because It
It second nature for him to be.
When the calf gets old enough to
turn out to grass be sure and continue
feeding a ration of grain or milk.
As the marketing season advances
the patrons' of co-operative . elevator
companies congratulate themselves.
The dairy cow has a capacity for
a great amount ot feed and unless this
feed Is provided she cannot do her
best '
Milk may be tested for butterfat at
different temperature.' It 1 well to
have it between 60 and 80 degree
Fahrenheit
It 1 hard to see where those pig
that are growing up In a dry pen are
going to make very much profit for
their owner. 1
Never use crate or boxes more
than once. Neat clean ' boxes sell
first even though the fruit may not
be up to the standard In every way.
If you are careless or neglectful of
spraying and get poor results this sea
son don't say that spraying doesn't
pay. It does pay and pay big Inter
est .
It (a always safest to take no
chances with a bull, no matter how
eood his reputation beforehand. It Is
so often the "gentle" animals that
cause accidents.
There are two crops which cannot
as a rule be grown In the same par
ish, sheep and dogs. Sheep are most
profitable but dogs are the favorite
with too many farmer.
A great many farmer do not real
ise that grass supplies a feed entirely
different from corn and tbat It 1 a
bad practice to change entirely and
suddenly from one to the other.
, Never Introduce a new bird Into tha
regular yard until It has been duly
quarantined. Keep It alone for a week
and note Its condition, appetite, etc.
Disease Is often introduced Into a
Sock by carelessness In this matter.
i Too many forget to speak kindly to
their horse, hence never have a kind
horse. Get the affection of i your
horse, and yon have taken a most
Important step toward getting his best
service. ' . .
1 The grower who will sort his apples
Into two or more grades, packed well,
will get more money for his fruit than
the on who throws all kinds together
In a barrel and place a layer of tyie
beat ones on top. - '.
The best time to kill weeds of any
kind Is when they are small. Never
let weeds go to seed. Stop the foun
tain of the .trouble by planting only
clean seed. VA good fanning mill will
solve the problem of clean seed.
. It Is better to keep dirt out of the
milk pall in the first place than to
have to strain It out after milking.
Much dirt dissolves quickly in warm
milk.' This contamination causes bac
teria to develop and bad milk and
cream often result - ; f
Tomatoes should be canned In their
own Juices. The TJ. S. department of
sericulture consider that the ad !"nn
of water or of extra Juices Is i ad 1
teration. and If it makes c "rx.,.l
canneries observe this rule low tnn
more ought it be obsnrvo-d ia trivate
rnnr f-5 where one wants the best for
f
Milk the cows cieaa. 7
Every farm needs silo.
.Give all farm animal purs water.
' . .v- ., - ' . -t '.
Stunted ' calves don't make good
cowa.
S you can ralss a good steer why
raise a poor onet .
; The pig eating sow Is usually the
result ot bad feeding. -
Learn to handle harass fast, on and
off, It saves so much time.
Tb world keeps finding new user
for corn and corn products.
A roadside filled with tall weeds U
a great harboring place for files. -
Get tb old hens started for market
as soon as they have laid their litter
out .
The most eloquent friends the silo
has are those men who have fed
silage. ......
Ona a-nnd thlna- about tha Incuba
tor, It never leaves the neat before the
Job I don.
A little salt dally for the cow 1
better than the weekly salting on Sun
day morning. I
The breeding boar should not only
be a good Individual, but be backed by
good ancestors.
Sunshine Is nature's best disinfect
ant and the pens and houses cannot
have too much of It'
Clover Is an exceptionally good
cattle roughage, but at present prices '
its use Is quite prohibitive. - I
Roosters of all breeds should be
separated from bens when they molt
It takes them longer than bene.
Pisa allowed to make their beds on
manure piles soon become scuffy and
affected with a dry hacking cough.
If th heifer doesn't how up wen
with her first calf and give promise of
being a profitable cow better get rid
of her.
There Is no question but what the
thin blanket keeps the flies off, but
however thin It may be It makes tha
horse warm.
If one of your hogs gets a grudge
against another, put them in sep
arate pens. They will do better and
grow taster.
If a bog dies on the farm, no matter
from what cause, take no chances, but
remove the body a long distance from
the feeding lota and burn It
Removing ' stumps certainly pays.
They not only occupy space which is
valuable but they also cause all 'sorts
of trouble and inconvenience.
Tn hiinehlna-. alfalfa should 1 be
handled by hand, as bunching with a
mVa lnaaa manv nf the leaves. Rain
Is very injurious to the out-hay. r
Provide shade and shelter for calves.
Keep salt and fresh water before
them all the time. Dehorn before fly
time. Halter break every calf while
young.
When one arowth of alfalfa Is re
moved, another one comes on lm
nodtatatv. Tint if the first KTowth re
mains while the second one starts.
then the second suffers. ;
Whan the tiles are taken out of
the pasture this fall they should not be
turned suddenly Into the cornfield or
fed all the new corn they can eat
Make the change gradually.
Whan strawberries are. through
fmltlnr ramova the mulch and aire
cultivation. If the plants have made
a rank growth, mow off the tops 01
th plants with the mower.
it ia tha verv noorest sort of policy
to store potatoes intended for seed In
a basement in which there is a rur
naoe as it usually results In a lower
ing of the vitality ot the seed. ;
Th in anv way skrimo the food ot
a growing animal, chicken, pig, lamb,
calf or colt 1 to Invite sure loss. A
thrifty, growing young animal, u
kept thrifty and growing, la always a
money maker...,
A low down, handy-wagon Is of
great value In orchard and garden
vnrk fluch waeons are easily loaded,
The tires are wide and they can be
taken Into fields where the ground
too soft to use narrow tired wagons.
Ducks kept entirely on land, must
have deep drinking vessels, so they
can get their;, head under water.
Where Shallow vessels or troughs are
naed ther sum ud about the eyes, be
come listless, sit about lose their ap
petite, and eventually me.
' 'The three sixes of roasting fowls
amall madlnm and lanre can best be
secured . by the ' Wyandotte. Ply-
mnnth Rocks ana 11 ran mas. resneo-
tlvely.. The Rhode Island Reds can
be substituted for the Plymouth Rocks
If desired. - " '
The fellow who thinks that - the
nmaaina- of a beef animal on a dairy
animal or vice versa will unite the
good qualities of both In the offspring
dnaa not think of the chances of unit
lng the poor qualities. Just this thing
often happens, so we would advise at
all times against, taking cnances.
Stick to dairy type a. : v ;
The farm shop, where a new double
tree or wagon-tongue can be made
of a strip ot Iron welded on . short
order is a handy adjunct to the farm
tbat happens to have a man who has
a nnck of using tools. A bolt a piece
cf harness or a neck-yoke" is sure to
break in the busiest part of the sea
son, and for the farmer who live 15
or 20 miles from a good hlac! b. Hh
It is nothing short of a calan-.!'y. Cos
break may tie up the farm worUng
force for a whole day.
LWMONAL
SUlMSaiOOL
m Lesson
(By B. O. SELLERS, Director of Evenlhs
uapanmani, IM atoouy own uauuia
Chicago.)
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LESSON FOR SEPT. 1. .
DEATH ' OF JOHN TH si BAPTIST
LESSON TTCXT Mark S-.14-H.
omjiKN Txrxx "Ba thou faithful unto
death, and I will give that the crown of
Ufe."-Rev. 1:10.
The story of Hamlet and Banquo'a
ghost Is no more vivid or dramatlo
than the story ot th tragedy ot John
th Baptist v .
"And King Herod heart of him,"
r. 4. Of course Herod would bear of
the rising young cousin of John who
was creating such a stir throughout
Galilee. His coarse, slnfuL licentious,
heart cringed at the rebuk of such a
Ufa of nurltv. ona that performed SO
many good deeds, on who was con
stantly mlnlerlng to others a con
trasted with th life of Herod, who
only ministered to hi own selfish
lust. Small wonder he should ex
claim, "it ia John whom I beheaded,"
and on can bear In fancy the rising
tid of terror that surged urougn nia
heart a he must have screamed, "He
Is risen from th dead I .The first
three verses of the lesson are a vivid
picture of how th tame ot this young
Galilean affected the conscience
stricken and guilty-hearted usurper
upon th throne. 1
Whn waa thla Herod? lu the first
place, be was guilty ot the sin of In- .
naaL far ha had married the Wife Of
his brother Philip, who was still liv
ing., From verse eighteen of the les
son we learn further that the bold and
courageous John hr.d rebuked him of
this evil and as a result Herod had .
cast him into prison, and though he
mar have desired, yet he did not a
yet dare to take hi Ufa. Added to
this Is th anger of a lnful woman.
The purest flower that bloom 1 a
godly woman. The vllet and most
vindictive creature upon earth is
mnat frannantlv a fallen woman. We
need to remember in this case that
Herocstoa was aware of the heights
from which she had fallen for sho
waa of Jewish descent She had first
married Herod PhlllD I. then eloped .
tn marry thla Herod Antlnas. Who WaS
also her step-uncle and who at the
time had a wife living. ;
John Just Man.
This precipitated a war which re-'
anltad in the overthrow and utter
loss of the army belonging to the
father of Herod's lawful wife. Why
did Herod hesitate to comply with all
that Herodias desired? Verse 20 tells
us, because John "was a Just man and
an holy." Righteousness is often a
man a auraat safeeuard. Herod WBS
not altogether devoid of conscience as
we have already seen, ana wis is
further evidence of that fact Verse
20 adds that when Herod heard him
he was, "perplexed and heard him
aiadiv."' We believe that Herod was
seeking some sort of a recanting upon
the part of John, that he , was giaa
(anxious) to hear from his lips some
nrt nf atatamant that WOUld JUStlfX
his liberation and was perplexed over
the persistence of John, who, though
In prison, never for one moment low
ered his standard of divine righteous
ness, nor trimmed his . sails so as to
catch the wind of Herod' popular
favor. That this was John's attitude
and that it was known to Herodias is
avtdant from the beginning of the
verse 21, "and when a convenient day
was come." Herodias waa all too
ready and willing to seise her oppor
tunity, "v.
Tn evidence her denth of depravity
ant elan har anxiety, note that Hero- -
dlas wa willing to sacrifice the mod
esty of her own daughter to gain her
end. The use of the word "herseir
r v ia evidence that it waa
ait nnnaual thlna- for this daughter ot
a queen thus to exhibit herself. " -
Now note the oath of the liquor ana
lust-drunken king. What an appalling;
aniat. What a terrible consequence.
What lengths men will go to "keep
their word" given thoughtlessly or utr
tarad in the heat of passion. This Is
one of the blackest pictures of his
tory. A lust-driven, licentious poten
tate a rebuked but vindictive queen.
slave of tbeacNsame passions.-'
' - Not Real Sorrow..
Tha child of the home thrust forth
before the gase of the court to help se
cure th end of a murderous mother.
A godly, fearless Saint who had a great
message from a great God, and, with
out halting, hesitancy or compromise
continued to deliver that message till '
stricken down In the midt of an orgy
of passion. Herod' sorrow was noi
"unto repentance" (v. 26) but rather
that of a guilty conscience. -V i
We need now to return again to the-'
first verse of the lesson and. wo can t
well believe It must have been a sad
wall, "He is risen" (v. 1). History
ten u Herod lost hi kingdom , and
that he' and Herodias died in exile.
Let u turn from this awful plcturo
and look at John. How different Thna
die be who waa the greatest born of
a woman. Thu died one who dared
to rebuke evil In high places. y One
who would not compromise to savo
his life, and one who waa faithful nnto
death (see the Golden Text). .Can we
hesitate to believe that 'John received
his crown? .
A suggested outline for this lesson
is as follows: '-' . , v.-r-;
L A Terror-Strleken ConsolonoF
v. 14-16. "
1. Jesus' name spread abroad, 14.
.2.' Men sought to explain Jesus, v.
15. - ' '
8. Herod's guilty conscience, v. H.
It A Wicked Woman's Hatred, v.
175.
J. The effect of righteous life, .
2. Herod's downward steps.
13. The End of a Faithful Preach
er, v. 2MJ. "
1. Herod's wh" -l oath. .
2. John's p' ..' (2 Tim. 2-12).
t. John's r 1 ((Sora. 8-18).
4. Co: t I t end with that ct
' Leroi. .