Boancvillo, Ark.—“Money— rattlesnake—flat rock”— These five words, gasped incoherent ly by a dying man way buck in 1889, in what is now Stigler Okla., caused j M. C. Hall to abandon the ministry; and come to Booneville on the thirty-1 five-year search for buried treasure that transformed him into an almost l egendary character know as the ‘•Wild Man of Magazine Mountain.” led him into adventure as thrilling and as pictureque as any experienced by Stevenson“s seekers after pirate gold—and, finally brought him into possession of a fortune after the weary span of years. With the muttered words of his father. “Uncle Jake” Hal) who died in 1889 at the age of ninety five, as , the only clue .young Hall took up the search for $20,000 in gold which the. aged man was known to have hidden j somewhere. Starts His Search The elder Hall had, a year pre-j vious to his death, been visiting a, farm which he owned near Boonevllle , and the son, believing this was where i the treasure trove would he found, began tils search there. While he was out hunting with an other son on Magazine Mountain, an other of his sons had been accident ally wounded, while standing on a large flat ruck. Years before, the father had been bitten by u rattle-1 snake near a cliff in the same vicinity. Piecing together the broken sentence, of thy father, the treasure hunter conceived the idea that it was some-! where on this mountain that the gold j was buried. So he took up the search, combing the wide expanse of the hill inch by ■ inch, during the years that followed j I He virtually spent all his time on the wind-swept hill, prosecuting his search, and so intent did he become that lie paid little attention to his ap pearance. He grew a beard, and became al most a hermit, living alone on the mountain much of the time. Thus, he became known us the “Wild Man of the Mountain” to residents of the vic inity, and many were the wild stories told of his queer actions, most of these being the product of fanciful imaginations. Recently -Hall, almost depairing of success, now an old man of 00, stum bled unexpectedly upon his buried gold. It was buried in the face of a cliff, near a huge flat rock, at the place where the rattlesnake had bit ten his father, years before. Thus, the words of the father, trying to tell him where the treasure war hidden were explained. The gold was in several' squirrel; skin baps, each labelled with the name of one of the children and one for the mother. There was one large bap of bearskin, contain, np .$ 1 .’>,000, addressed “To The Finder." The “Wild Man of the Mountain” has purchased a fertile farm home near tSigler, Oklahoma, and has set tled down to enjoy the fruits of his , 35 year quest, according to W. P. Morgan of Booneville, hi nephew. New Harmony was Mrst I own to Go “Dry” and Give Women Right to Vote. New Harmony, Ind.,—This little j community which frist offered to America equal political rights for women, universal elementary educa tion, prohibition of liquor, and other reforms then regarded as communis tic, is to be made accessible to tour ists after a century of isolation. Here Thomas Say, zoologists; John Audubon, ornithologist; John Chap plesmitli, engi neer, and Gerard Troost geologist began the works which la ter brought them fame. Huddled in the Wabash valley in the far southewestern “toe” of In diana, New Harmony has kept to it self interesting history, except when those who knew the way here pene trated the hills which hide it from the main highways. Now the Evans ville Motor Club and the Hoosier Automobile Association have joined to mark and improve the trail con-J reeling it with advertised highways. It was in 1815 that George Rapp brought hither from Pennsylvania a group of German followers to estab lish in the wilderness a colony which they named “Harmonic.” All the 800 settlers lived a life of strict selfde nial, shared equally in property, and received the necessities of life from a community depot. The stone build ings they erected are still in use, and on an outer wall of what war. a Rap pist storeroom survives an old sun dial at which the peasants assembled n century ugo to march to the fields. After the Rappists had cultivated 5,000 of their 30,000 acres and built cotton, woolen and four mills, they sold the entire colony in 1824, to Ro bert Owen, wealthy Scotch philanthro pist and special worker. Recruiting I Ids settlers in Scotland, Owen brought many leaders in science and education The community war. named "New Harmony,” and William Maclure, Scotch educator, established and ad vaneetl public school system. But slothfulness vied witli culture and the experiment failed. Equal political rights for women were demanded first by Francis Wright in a speech at New Harmony. It was the first community to declare for abolition of alcoholic liquors. It was an early center of slavery aboli tion. Universal elementary education at public expense without regard to sex or sect was first proclaimed here, and in later years the community introduced to the middle west com pulsory education, its system being the foundation of the Indiana compul sory education system later pattern ed after throughout the west. The first club exclusively for women was formed here, Today the village contains a scant thousand persons. The descendants of its founders have scattered or their blood lias become intermingled with that of subsequent settlers. Halt Is Called On Leg Pictures On Windshields Greensboro, ,— Determination to stop the activities of people who paste picture of women’s legs on au tomobiles is expressed here, with the tax authorities tubing formal legal action, G. M. Ross, of the tax depart ment, has sworn out a warrant a gainst the Greensboro Nehi Bottling Company, agents of which stuck many leg pictures on the windshield of automobiles when they were park ed. The charge is engaging in adver tising without a license. The city will endeavor to establish the right to demand a license tax for advertising The case is slated to come up for trial this week. A. D. Cone, manager of the Nehi company, is the defend ant in the case. City authorities had their atten tion brought to the case when T. D. Dupuy private citizen, secured a war rant charging Nehi concern with de facing his personal property by glu ing one of the stickers to his automo bile windshield without securing his permission. The Nehi Company was fined $50 for doing that it was point ed out anybody else whose car had been so defaced coufd secure a like warrant. Marriage isn’t a failure. The shoe business isn’t a failure just because somebody gets shoes that don't fit.. Even if chemists should perfect syn thetic food, it would be necessary to raise enough wheat to gamble with Doubtless the only thing that keeps exployers from settling in the Arctic regions is the low grade of publicity up there. Words Of Next Governor (From Cha; lotto News) Max Gardner was the orator at the Armistice Day ceremonies in1 Greensboro Wednesday and after pay- j inp tribute to the fa Hen soldiery ui j the World War and in spiring the lin ing to renewed endeavor to jusli- j t'y their sacrifice, with the usual j picturesque Gardnc force of thought and beauty of diction, lie said some other things that are of especial .,ig nificance because they .will be con strued and interpreted as the sent'i- j ments of the next Governor of North' Carolina. liiU. fiuauiuuz uruti -' vs* iwwo papers that have somewhat copiously reported the Gardner message found, in their judgment,, a place to lay the emphasis upon what he said in re ference to the adoption of the Austra-1 lian ballot system in the State. Perhaps that was daring enough to compel attention, especially from the lips of one who, The Greensboro News keeps on saying lost the elec tion to Mr. Morrison because he had the courage and audacity and un timely zeal to champion woman suf frage before his party had progress ed so far in its thought with him. i Concerning the elimination of the present balloting methods in the State and the inauguration of the Australian ballot system, Mr. Gard ner was emphatic, to be sure and in so being displayed that type of line plunging manhood which has always been so admirable in him. His words Concerning this subject have a m.ii tant ring about them. They are these: On a modern democracy the life of a people is expressed at the ballot 'box. The boasted scept er and crown of a free people is^ 1 an untrammeled ballot. Our elec tions have been as free from corruption and injustic as human nature and partisan feeling will permit, but l am convinced that the time has come in our State when we should stand abreast of our sister Commonwealths and offer to the electorate of North Carolina a secret ballot in con , formity to the Australian law. My feelings are that we should maintain an election law so fair and fre? that it will secure be yond the shadow of a doubt un challenged expression of popular will. 1 therefore urge the Ameri can Legion to throw the weight of its powerful influence to the enactment by pur next General Assembly of the Australian bal lot. There is ne evasion or equivocation in these expressions end the peopic of the State will unquestionably find in the Gardner who is later to be come the more 'active candidate for . Ivir ballots for the gubernatorial honor: a man who will bo found on one .side of the fence or the other, never straddling or dodging an issue, a: flat-footed and emphatic on other issues as he has dared to be on this, whatever the consequences. But the more important declara tions of the Gardner speech were not centered, in the judgement of this newspaper, upon the Australian bal lot, hut upon his attitude to the great issue of Commonwealth pro gress and what he had to say about this constitutes what we may reason ably interpret as a prototype of his forthcoming platform. And of this more anon. Another way to have a:i exciting ad venture is to say “Hello, Sweetie” to the stout spinster in mannish garb. If only the umpire would begin a little while before the game and warm up his eye. MARRIAGE QKlaozr. ....on— The Iowa bureau of child welfare I -it.; 00,000 Iowans who are inelig ible t:i marry. These include the in itiates of insane asyum and all other whom the hoard knows to be unfit for marriage. If tiie last classification means what it says, perhaps; but human ly. Who is fit for marriage? Certainly not the selfish, the in considerate, the stupid, the lazy, the moody or the unclean. Not thc.se who can not have a diff ernenee of opinion without quarrel ing over it. Not those who stand too rigidly for their own way, or yield loo weakly to the other’s Not the too intense or the too placid; those who measure marriage wholly by happiness or wholly by duty; those who are too alike or two unlike—not, in fact, most cf us. Indeed, i! is doubtful if anybody , is lit for marriage but the angels— ! and they don’t. For u-<, we must get along as best we can. And considering the unprom isi.'g nature most of the material, we do surprisingly well. i Your Boy And Girl (Yorkville Enquirer.) I “I Want my boy and girl to have an easier time in life than I have.” You have often heard that remark, and it sounds very pleasant; but is it logical ? Just when did your boy | and your girl become entitled to bet ter things in this world than you have? Is your endeavor to do better by your boy or girl, beyond certain limits, fair to your boy and girl? i And then just what