By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Drawing by Ray Walters. HO dead lomance modern year A. D. sald that in in these days, this 19277 Pleces of eight! Doub of the Pirate TREAS- loons! Treasures Spanish Main! 1! BURIED URE! Ww ords RO back memo- Do those ries to you—memories of y bring our bovhoe Son's long days when you first read Steven Island”? That ago, perhaps, and yet— Here are have appeared within the last and see if o' thrill: NEW Park an ap “Treasure was three dispatches which in our few weeks. Read them they don’t give you a sort of Regidents v are wi illages to a Park that city « a ot of the type worn by bucklers two centuries ; n the rock-encrus found a woman's gold large pearl Phe boot where a ck ip a month ago A raiders at the short the ted ring, was found ne fiir tio farbine band ied by a woman spot The won and w a ruthless “bobbed -halr plunderer, original bandit NEW ORLE. »f treasure the Louisiana marshes ing the buried Lafitte The buccaneer is said to have cached vast stores nf doubloons and pleces of eight along the great coastal stretch southwest of New Orleans Reported disco are Verm rausnd i One neo NS raterious ill range across They are seek spoils of the pirate Jean bands hunters st very of a buried treas- | Hon bay a year ago considerable excitement party treasure seekers went | to far as to pull up a post by gov. | sernment believing the mark- near of aot evidently one of gurvevors, ‘hat the stake was Lafitte that two once lived of Lake Ings made by It Is said Mtte’s band of the city of La- vicinity | members in the Charles CLEVELAND, OHIO, ~ Doubloons, | plecgs of elght, and other treasures of | he Spanish Main, to the value of $50, 100.000, He buried on a island, ready for the person ling to dig, according to QGeorge in) Simmons, curator of arni- hology of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, who has just returned from the island. The cache includes | much golden plunder taken from the Inca Indians by #he Spaniards, who in turn were robbed by the two pirates who buried the loot a century ago on ‘he island off the coast of Brazil One of the hoards, Simmons says, amounts to $40,000,000, and was buried by the Spanish pirate, Jose Santos, who captured a ship laden with gold South American | who Is andelabra from the churches of Ama, Peru. More than $8,000,000 more was buried on the same Ialand by an Eng- fish pirate, who styled himself "Zul. miro.” Records of this cache were T. Rs Diplomacy “I remember once, while serving as a correspondent in Washington,” sald Sam Langdon of St. Louls, "how I chanced to be present at a diplomatic conference in which intrigue and guile were so manifest as to be almost an affront, Finally Mr. Roosevelt, hav- ing stood it as long as he could, jumped to his feet and exclaimed: “Gentlemen, you can't get away with it! Let me say in plain United States, i kept Ru ship until he Elght expeditions were the tre between most of ther ne ast of the and were in sian v quarte died the AS Ure 1500 but ver island the had rea realy iuch items are not at all uncommon { newspapers and probably will therein for many For, among our most ie to Rp pear Years to come cherished traditions is the belief that the main at some time in his career buried a part of his loot re covered t And (wherever Y is) It lies ing the lucky discoverer, 1 y pirate who sailed somewhere and never there “there to this await. t day whom through blind chance or because he h whi come across some old document i enrich him on bevond his wildest the trail, it will AS a oat- ter of fact it is much more likely that puts dreams indered than he » ten of average pirate squ of ns in treasure in fact heen spent his il t t i-gotten gal buried, ths hat not one yf buried foundation and that mofiey has in the efforts to find this hidden wealth than the the all have stories « slightest ut these facts, even If they conid definitely established, probably would fail to dim the lure of the sup he enthusiasm of those who go to That lure and that enthusl- asm are hased upon a universal human wenkness—the “get-rich-quick” .desire, Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe is as much out buried treasure angle of that de. gire. So long as the tradition of hid. successive have the great Ameri can sport of hunting pirate gold, detect even the presence though they more than Immediately could metals of buried were 50 the feet solid rock. the historic Cocos island, which lles of Costa Rica and which was a favorite lair of pirates In the old freebooting days. In fact Cocos Island has been a magnet for treasure seekers for many years becanse there that a flush in the hand Is worth two on the face, and for that reason, the United States of America Is standing pat.” Harsh Puritanism In 1659 the Puritans, through the general court of Massachusetts, are sald to have enacted an ordinance providing “that everybody who Is found observing by abstinence from labor, feasting or otherwise, any such day as Christmas day, shall for every such offense be fined 5 shillings.” henticated of the is apparently matin i rew the Mary the Dear valued 812,006 O00 it at £35.000.000 nts Dist ts put a SCO 0.0060 more than after. Bo ¢ tha not tried t« wealth, As late a of British hing vast irty scientists sot but if they successfol, is yet to hear of It tren nat purpose, or » ¢lse have been the ire Kidd which the famous is supposed to have along the New is nearly as famous vhere after as It is part of his loot f Montauk YX. when a-pirating, but Was re. his And | of Captain Kidd's gold that LIE 1g lit true that on point returned that Gardiner's Long from on he in after B arrest § r been recovered. a The have wealth amous Blackbeard is sald to buried part of his piratical in New Jersey wi “gold diggers” have at various places In mare wrefore made the dirt fly New Jersey but at Burlington, Legend says that Sir Henry Morgan hid part of his loot beneath the soil of Oak island, off the coast of Maine, and than 8200000 spent time to Oak fo recover it has been particularly nore been digging on So far the nothing. The gold of Jean Lafitte has kept treasure seekers busy at various places the coast of Louisiana This legend is almost a buried-treasure yarn. There has from Island result time net along and Texas, date of 1813, which tells of the burial by Lafitte and his men of 70,000 doub- loons and a bar of silver. It Is signed and has as, its seal the usual pirate a dagger. There occur also the words “mutiny,” “eruelty” and “Inquisition” and on the other side is a rude map which is the key to the location of the hoard. men who stumbled upon the place where they were sure that the treasure then went back to spades to dig and could not find the place again. So there “there” is) lles Lafitte's buried treas ure worth £1.120000 for someone, and get It.” First Golf Club The first golf club used on the first golf course west of the Mississippi is to be enshrined In a place of honor at the Wichita Country club. Prof. C. FP. Clark was the first one to Introduce golf to the residents of this city in Kansas, I ——— Which Is Worse? We ask you, man to man, which is worse, profanity, or declaring that something Is “perfectly darling 7" Little Rock Democrat BEST RECORD YET An old gentleman, watch in hand, stopped a passing Instructor at a bathing pool. “Instructor,’ longest time anybody ever stayed un- der water?” “Why, about five minutes, I guess,” sald the Instructor. “Then,” sald the old “there's a fat business there In the deep part who has broken all the been timing him. He's over nine minutes now, see for yourself, that signs of coming up yet, gentleman, man over of the records, I've been down and you can he shows no "” pool FAIR ENOUGH THEN ———— pretty Joe falr game of ih keep yer eye ob A Bad Effect MOS Chorus Girl Archeology The chorus girl had Her picked up a sel thought to know entific work It was a and what It was about. “Well, It the primal GOR “But who's the hero?” named Algae” roommate novel wanted seems we all emerged from “Seems to he a par That's a Thought had been visiting a certain evening Just the Thing A society of these quick and where n was taken Into one rendy restaurants you rest your provender on the broad sr * saho those chairs de. another ive Realism “What are you dol: "Broad: “But son "1 supply " hoes dave Ig these days isting with an opera singer.” can't sing™ » the coughs" RUIN IVY “She clings to him like ivy.” “Well, he's an old ruin” Forgotten Lore Of Risa m China has a lot, The records plainly show But most of it those folks fargot Some centuries ago. ——— —. Circumstances Unfavorable Doctor—You have a strong constitu tion, and under favorable circum stances you ought to live to be nearly a hundred. doctor. 1 am married, you know. Barred “Would you like two balcony seats for the opera, Nora?" “Thanks, ma'am, but my friend wouldn't sit upstairs, him bein’ so mu steal” From Bad to Worse Frank--The doctor told me that I'd have a tobacco heart If I didn't stop buying cigarettes. Fred—Yes? Frank-—82 1 started buying choco lates, and now I have a sweetheart. — The Progressive Grocer, Linger Longer Clever Actress—Oh, I'm getting ter ribly old. Dve just reached twenty. Manager-Huh, dearle, what de tained you? load? th-crisp —— English Criminal Custom Hue and ery is the old mon horn to robbers and felon was English com- law process viresd with township, and county rsuing “with and volee" township to county all NOTICE! To Livestock Owners or Hogs, by All Means Read This. 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