= Bellefonte, Pa., September 23, 1921. ————————————————e SUNK BANK’S MONEY IN WELL How Gold Belonging to Georgia Finan- cial institution Was Kept Out of Sherman's Hands. How the money of the State Bank of Georgia was successfully hidden during Sherman’s march to the sea, and how the entire sum, which was between $150,000 and $200,000, was re- turned to the bank virtually intact, makes a strange story. An old sub- scriber sends us the tale. On the evening of November 28, 1864, Wallace Cuniming, cashier of the Bank at Savannah, was ordered to take the money out of danger, for Sherman was approaching the city. Cumming's wife, who subsequently wrote the story of the adventure for her grandchildren, accompanied him on a special train that was hurrying to cross the Altamaha river before the southern troops cut the bridge. The gold was packed in nail kegs. At Thomasville they hired an empty store and placed the kegs of gold there. Jerry, one of Cummings servants, took turns with a man named Ross in guarding the store at night. Later they transported the money to Macon, where the State bank had a branch office. In April, 1865, news came that another federal force was making its way southward, and what to do with the money became again an anxious question. Finally they decided to wear what gold they could, bury some and sink the rest in a deep well. Each mem- ber of the family of Mr. and Mrs. | Thomas Nesbit, with whom the Cum- ming family had lived for six months, ! wore wide belts made of heavy linen, which they had stitched full of $20 gold pieces. That of course took care | of a comparatively small sum. Every | day Mr. Cumming made several trips | between the house and the bank, and on each trip came home loaded with | money. Nesbit, who owned a large ! fron foundry. cast a long, round iron bar, about the width of a $20 gold piece, and sharpened at one end. One night Nesbit and Cumming went out | into the front yard, which was a mass | of rosebushes in full bloom. They | \ thrust the rod down close to the roots | y of a bush and as deep as their united strength could sink it; then they filled the hole with gold eagles, which they | i i dropped in one by one, and threw loose earth over the top. In that way they buried between $30,000 and $40- : 000; and they kept a record of how much was buried under each rosebush. The rest of the money they sewed up | in little bags, which they placed in boxes and let down into a deep well. Two days after the gold was buried the ‘Yankee army took possession of Macon and seized the assets of two or three other banks in Savannah. Cumming was captured, but all that the army found in his vault was several barrels of Confederate money . and a few hundred dollars in silver that he had not had time to hide. The money remained in the garden and in the well more than two years, and all of it was recovered and re- turned to the bank at Savannah ex- cept one small package of gold $1 pieces, which was lost in the mud and water.—Youth’s Companion. Hard Fate of Brilliant Woman. French newspapers are making ter- rible revelations of the poverty in which many of the greatest French savants are found to live. : The first woman doctor to practice | medicine in France, Mme. Madeleine Bres, has just been discovered by the - newspapers living in extreme poverty i and completely blind. She is 82 years old. Mme. Bres was a poor man’s child, and when a child was employed in the hospital conducted by the Sisters of Charity at Nimes. When she was 15 years old she married a bus conduc- tor, who was jealous of her attain- ments. After marriage she took les- sons in Latin and gained her degree at 28. Later, by special intervention of the Empress Eugenie, she was en- abled to attend examinations in medi- cine and study under the most noted French physicians. After practicing for 50 years, how- ever, her sight failed and for some years she had lived on the verge of starvation, refusing the invitation of the public charity authorities to enter the paupers’ home.—London Herald. Not Needed. A certain Democratic candidate for a state office in the last election tells a story on himself, and he evidently appreciates the humor in it, now. «I was billed for a speech at a coun- ty seat,” his story goes, “and the Re- publican county chairman saw my an- nouncement. He immediately wired to his state speakers’ committee: «Send one of the best speakers you have for Thursday night. So-and-So is to speak here the night before. «] went to the town and made my speech. The next day the Republican county chairman wired his speakers’ pureau: ‘Cancel all arrangements for meeting tonight. now.’ "—Indianapolis News. ee —————— Giant Gas Tank Being Built. The second largest gas holder in the world is under construction in Baltimore. When fully inflated the gas tank will stand 228 feet high and will have a capacity of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas. —————————————— ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” It is not needed CRIGINAL HORSE HAD CLAWS Skel~tens of Prehistoric Animals Show That Nature Gave Them Some- what Strange Equipment. Seventeen skeletons of the so-called “Clawed Horse” of prehistoric times from the Agate Spring fossil quarry of western Nebraska have been placed in storage, for lack of exhibiting space, at the American museum of natural history, New York. The varied skeletonic combinations of Moropus and deductions therefrom are described by Professors Osborn and Matthew, as follows: “The Moropus was a distant rela- tive of the rhinoceros, the tapir, and the horse. It is about the size of a rhinoceros but very Gifferent in form; the hedd and neck are like those of the herse. The rounded back resembles that of a tapir, and the legs, although massive like those of the rhinoceros, are much longer. The teeth and feet are Very distinctive. The teeth show that the animal browsed on vegetation. “Moropus belongs with rhinoceros, tapirs and horses to the order of Per- issodactyls, or hoofed mammals with an odd number of toes on the hind foot. The ruminants, camels, pigs and | hippopotamuses have an even number of toes either two or four. Moropus has three toes. The feet with their great claws are more like those of ant eaters and similar digging mam- mals than of any of the hoofed mam- mals to which Moropus really belongs. It is suggested that the claws were designed to aid in scraping away the sand in dry river beds or other suit- able places to obtain drink.” pE— GRACE DARLING REAL HEROINE Bravery of Frail Girl Thrilied All England—Died of Consumption at an Early Age. J Grace Darling, one of the greatest heroines of British marine -history, | won undying fame when but twenty- three years old, and of frail physique, by accompanying her father, and in- | | | | | | spiring him to the effort of saving the lives of some passengers wrecked in a terrific gale that swept the seas near her island home. The Forfarshire sailed from Hull with 22 cabin passengers, 19 steer- on a ship | age passengers and a crew of 20 on | a day in September, 3838. Passage was made through the Farne islands’ charmel, and the ship entered Ber- wick bay. Here the gale was at its worst, and the ship was swept on the Farne island rocks. The mate and eight 'of the crew, with one cabin passenger, hurried away in a lifeboat. Grace Darling. itated to launch their lifeboat on the lieavy sea, “she jumped into it, and he followed her. raised a huge subscription list. Four ' years later Grace Darling died of con- - ' sumption. : ————————————————— Just Like a Man. Mrs. Binks—What was it I told yeu a little while ago, John? Mr. Binks—I don’t know, dear, 1 really wasn’t listening. Mrs. Blink—Now isn’t that like a man? It is too provoking! And I can’t think what it was I said to him.— Minneapolis Journal. The screams of | the other survivors' were heard by When her father hes- ! On the first trip they rescued nine, and on a later trip her: ! father saved four more. The British government, gave her a money grant,” - and the public, thrilled by the story, .. ie HAS MARS REALLY BEEN SIGNALING US? It is again recorded that Marconi has heard wireless signals of an “un- earthly” nature. These mysterious dots and dashes, a dot and three dash- es grouped, to be more exact, are only to be intercepted by apparatus tuned to the prodigious electric wave length of 150,000 meters, which is five times longer than any radio wave used on our earth. A dot and three dashes in combina- tion form the character “V” in our wireless alphabet, and it is a strange coincidence that radio stations on earth use the letter “V” for a purpose which would agree with the supposed objective of the supposed wave from another planet—that is, to test out communication. Unfortunately, we have no wireless station of adequate power or wave length to answer a mysterious caller across the great etheric void. If we had such an apparatus, the least we could do would be to reply with many answering “Vs” followed by repeated “ok:” and after several exchanges of "such mutual greeting the year 1921 would be remembered in history as the date of the first epochal interchange of intelligence between planets. Nor would we stop at such meager communication. With evidence that Mars is a much older world than ours, it is reasonable to suppose that its in- habitants are masters of astronomy as well as other arts and sciences, sO that any event observable by both worlds would be a subject for further mutual understanding. For example, if we experienced an eclipse of the sun by our moon, we might say to Mars and all other planets, “Moon eclipse sun,” 1 whereupon their three-story thinkers who also had observed the phenome- non with their telescopes would know the characters of telegraphic code with which we describe our planet, its sat- ellite and our great luminary. Those who scoff at such a possibili- ty as radio from Mars will do well to reflect that it is a matter of no more than twenty years since we transmit- ted wireless over the face of the earth in terms of a few yards instead of the present range of 10,000 miles. The skeptical may also meditate on the fact that, unless our astronomers and telescopes deceive us, the Martians have worked wonders on their sphere, building a network of canals from pole to pole across the face of the planet, so that the melting snows of their polar regions, which provide their only source of moisture, may render their little world inhabitable. Is it beyond imagination that such ap- parently energetic and intelligent in- habitants of another world, which is slowly drying up, should attempt com- munication with their more fortunate neighbors and, as their plight becomes more desperate, call for help? In any event, since the report of supposed wireless from another world is given by no less an authority than Marconi himself, the keenest interest will be manifest in further attempts to confirm this remarkable possibility. Imagine the sensations of the wireless operator as he carefully tunes his new- ly built receiver to the great wave and fairly squeezes his brain in an attempt to catch the transcendental letter “Vv —If yon want all the news when it is news, read the “Watchman.” Children Cry for Fletcher’s VX]: The Kind You Have Always in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- : ALE sonal supervision eince its infancy. ; Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Infants and Children— Never attempt to relieve your ba you would use CAS Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Syrups. It is pleasant. Morphine nor other narcotic substance. remedy that % as n What is Drops and Soothing neither Opium, _age is its guarantee. Imitations and * Just-as-good » are but nts that trifle with Bought, and which has been health of riment. y with a for yourself, ORIA and endanger the ence against been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, -. Wind, Colic and Diarrhoea; rallaying Feverishness arising .., therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids 7 the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natusal sleep. .. % The Children’s Comfort—The Mothes’s Friend. Th ; rie te @ in Use Fo CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought CETERA RE money lost. gonds. THE UNIVERSAL CAR : prospect to prospect, lowest possible cost. cars, you will enable them to devote more energy to selling If your salesmen spend unproductive 1i ne going from because of slow transportation, is is Siow transportation robs them of part of their time—time that might just as well be t BEATTY MOTOR CO, Bellefonte, Pa. urned into sales. A Ford Runabout furnishes quick transportation at the By equipping your salesmen with Ford Shoes. AlsRlsnlanon Free! Free! A Hard Rubber Self Filling Fountain Pen FREE with each pair of School Shoes. We made a special effort to purchase the very best quality of School Shoes for this fall and winter and we werc not only successfull in getting quality, but we have them at prices far below any other store. To prove this we will give to every Boy and Girl in Centre county who purchases a pair of shoes from us a Fountain Pen that is made of hard rub- ber, self filling, and the pen will give the best of sat- isfaction. We want to sell you School Shoes. Yeager's Shoe Store THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA. 58-27 Jf ra Ji =Ii Uc 1] Hic LC Sf] Lt [em Tre Sh RR EA Cy LIE] el Led ESR UC] on |] - A A an ior £ SRE 2 AL ! The most interesting news to every man and woman who is Our sales bring you in quest of the new, at a reasonable price. the newest, the best, at absolutely lowest prices. Sweaters We are selling the most beautiful Sweaters, all wool, in La- dies’, Misses’ and Children’s from $2.48 up. Waists and Over Blouses Our line of Waists and Over Blouses is magnificent. Waists in fine cotton voiles beautifully trimmed. Over Blouses in Can- ton, Crepe, Georgettes and Crepe de Chines in all the new colors, Flesh, Navy and Gypsy Henna, Jade, Taupe and Brown, White, Red, at prices attractively low. Ready-to-Wear Our line of Fall and Winter Coats is most complete. Coats Plush, strictly tailored, silk lined and fur trimmed, in all the new shades, Reindeer, Brown, Navy, Taupe, and Black, at prices that will delight the most economical in Polo, Velour, Bolivia, Silk buyer. : Coat Suits Women’s and Misses’ Coat Suits. lours, Serges, Oxford, Heather Mixtures, Dresses Our line of silk and wool one-piece dresses will please every All colors and beautifully trimmed and embroid- Lady and Miss. ered, styles up to the minute, prices lowest. Stylish Stouts We are specializing in the Stylish Stout, sizes from 46 to We can fit you in Coats, Waists, Coat Suits and Dresses. We take pleasure in showing the new models. Shoes Save money on Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Buy them from us. We have never seen these suits equalled at the prices we are selling them. Tricotine, Ve- all the new shades in strictly tailored or embroidered and fur trimmed from $20.00 up. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers