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Bellefonte, Pa., September 23, 1921.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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GRACE DARLING REAL HEROINE
Bravery of Frail Girl Thrilied All
England—Died of Consumption
at an Early Age.
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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-
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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. :
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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, ..
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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,”
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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
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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
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Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Syrups. It is pleasant.
Morphine nor other narcotic substance.
remedy that
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What is
Drops and Soothing
neither Opium,
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Imitations and * Just-as-good » are but
nts that trifle with
Bought, and which has been
health of
riment.
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for yourself,
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and endanger the
ence against
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-. Wind, Colic and Diarrhoea; rallaying Feverishness arising
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7 the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natusal sleep.
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CASTORIA ALWAYS
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If your salesmen spend unproductive 1i ne going from
because of slow transportation, is is
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their time—time that might just as well be t
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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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.
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