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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C.,' FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936.
PAGE SEVEN
WILL HARK SITE OF 7
AARON BURR'S PLOT
f Blennerhasset Island to Be
Site of Memorial.
Chicago. Historic Blennerhasset Is
land In the Ohio river,; rich. In early
American lore, Is to be converted Jnto
a park as the fulfillment of a" lifelong
ambition.
Amos Kllgore Gordon,' Standard Oil
s official, who roamed the laiand 50 years
ago as a boy, recently added the re
malnder of the Island to the 40-ncr
farm that had been In possession of his
i family since 1827, says the Chicago
: Tribune. .; t
t Gordon said the historical traditions
the Island Interested hluj when be
;was a boy, Largest and most fertile
iiri the , Ohio flve"r, the' Island became
the home of Harmon Blennftrhass'ett,
; wealthy Irish immigrant who came to
: America in 1797 to escape the turmoil
I In Ireland. Blennerhassett's became
: far-famed as a "paradise in the Ohio."
Burr Visited Island.
It was there that Aaron Burr in 1806,
Just out of offlce as Vice President of
the United States, met Blennerlinssett
and Interested him in a scheme for
creating an empire In the West
Blennerhasset t, tired of scholarly se
clusion at his retreat, joined the con
, splracy. He furnished boats and pro-
e-fylsions for an expedition nnd traveled
with Burr in the South and West at
: tempted to raise a following.
But disaster soon overtook the ex
pedition. In 1800 President Thomas
Jefferson issued a warning to citizens
against Burr's designs and demanded
;tnat he be brought to justice.
In December of the same year,
;CowieB Mead, secretary of the Missis
sippi territory, issued a proclamation
I for the arrest of the conspirators,
j Blennerhassett, financially mined,
; sought refuge In one place and then
another. Finally, despairing ot re
pairing his fortunes in this country,
i be went to Montreal, then to England
; and finally to the Island of Guernsey,
1 where he died in 183L
Noted for Beauty.
! In 1R27 rtnrrtnn'n
1 tMHUMIkMV
George Neal, Jr., bought 140 acres on
the island when the Blennerhasset es
tate was settled. Recently, at Parkers
burg, W. Va., Gordon purchased the re
maining acres on the Island.
i Daring the Civil war the Island al
ternately was in the bands of Union
jand Confederate soldiers. A large hoi
ilow sycamore tree, estimated to be 400
t years old, was need by 'soldiers In hld
H Even in Colonial days, when George
I Washington c surveyed land In the vi
I clnlty and patented a farm nearby, in
; what was called "Washington', bot
toms," the Island was a noted beaoty
spot.
! Essentially, Gordon says. It Is the
; same today, and when cleared will be
i a noteworthy landmark of early Amerl-
can development He plant to open
ithe park to visitors.
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Lincoln Neprt A
cate the long-sought burial grounds,
explained Rodriguez, who believes the
two finds will serve to link definitely
the civilization of the ancient Incas of
the Andes with a contemporary Indo
Iranlan culture, via a trans-Pacific
bridge of islands or possibly the fa
bled continent of Mu of which Easter
Is the sole remaining speck.
Rodriguez explained further that leg
ends of the Polynesians now on the
island have it that the ancient race
was wiped out by a cataclysmic erup
tion of the two sacred volcanoes, Rana
Roroka and Rnna Kao.
Calls Role of Heart in
Affection a Minor One
Palo Alto, Calif. If you are In love
and want to demonstrate it to the be
loved one don't make a melodramatic
clutch with both hands at the region of
your heart, advises Dr. Calvin P. Stone,
Stanford professor of psychology. . 1
If the object of your affections hap-j
pens to be a modern up-to-date young)
woman with a thorough knowledge oft
the latest tendencies of medical
science she may think you are mere
ly suffering from heart trouble. i
Instead, whatever gymnastics yonf
feel impelled to perform, concentrate
them on the region of the pituitary
gland at the bnse of the skull, S8
Doctor Stone. a
The heart may get a little kick opt
of being In love, lie says, with a manl
festation of Increased blood action, but
the real Impulses of the emotions of
courtship, marriage and love coma
from the pituitary gland.
Even the Increased heart action, he
says, is probably due only to the In
creased secretions of the pituitary
gland, and this Is what has caused the
world In the past to think It was the
heart that was responsible for the
whole affair.
USE
called back to Spain to answer
charges of plotting against Christo
pher Columbus, took all the gold'avall
able and had It cast into a table, which
be took on board his ship.
Dent believes the boat on which the
governor sailed sunk In shallow water
off a small coral Island.
If the expedition falls, Dent plans to
go to Honduras to search for Inca
silver.
To Hunt for Gold Table
Aboard Sunken Galleon
La Plata, Mo. Two Mluonrians are
t j planning a trip In search of a 8,800
, pound gold table which they believe
( was aboard a galleon reported to hare
jbeen sank In the' Caribbean sea about
four centuries ago.
Lester Dent, fiction writer, and Ken
ineth Slen will sail in Dent's 60-foot
schooner. In which the owner made a
(Similar trip several years ago. -1
The story on which, they base Ithelr
Ihope for recovery of $1,600,000 In gold
.lsjbat the Spanish governor of Cuba.
Taunts of Girls Came
50 Murders in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya Colony. The taunts
of native girls, who tell their admirers
first to get blood on their spears be
fore courting, has been responsible for
50 murders In the Samburu district in
recent months, headmen told a British
officer sent to Investigate.
The only solution, headmen said, was
to "marry them off young." But early
marriage Is forbidden by tbe age-grade
law. called Uklleko.
The officer left 19 policemen, to be
supported by the headmen, until the
murderers are produced. As the head
men's annual Incomes average $15,
swift Justice Is expected.
Duckbill Platypus
Brings Owner Fame
Washington Ellis 8. Joseph, 300
pound dealer la strange and rare
animals, Is famed as the only man
who ever brought a duck-bill platy
pus Into captivity.
Aside from this, Joseph once pre
sented an Australian city with the
largest chimpanzee In captivity,
knows every corner of the earth
by heart, and virtually can name
every animal that Inhabits them.
He has walked from one coast of
Africa to the other collecting ani
mals and reptiles.
Born in Bombay and educated In
China, Joseph la an Australian citi
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AGE-OLD MYSTERY
Secret of Easter Island Is Be
lieved Found.
San Francisco. Few who boarded
the little Chilean naval tanker Malpo
after her arrival from Valparaiso on
an annual training cruise realized that
her drab outline probably contains the
long-sought secret of Easter Island,
lonely volcanic islet 2,000 miles west
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The Malpo made a six-day stop at
Easter Island en route north, and by
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arcbeologlsts have been searching for
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The ancient cemetery was found
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Images, or Mohais which ring the
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The Malpo's officers brought aboard
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Both Lieut. Exequlel Rodriguez, an
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entirely removed from the 382 Poly
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Rodriguez also disclosed that in the
past few months a French expedition,
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almost Identical to the similar picture
language of a contemporary Indo civi
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