The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

• * .?...' V *<*** 'S'M'J"'. J ,k' *' * ... "< "*v".*.\. V ^ .,« .' ' *s yjfe^a. fp^Pfs feV/-' m LI rl £ $ •4# ... 4 ^•jf> r lv' '. A:1- Ms )faifrrjg to be by Some Modem Adventurer C/ , copy&e/rr BY 77t£ le/z&WAy co 4 ^ ILLIONS of dollars' worth of treasure lie today where men of the past centuries have lost or burled it. History teems with ac­ counts of Backs of cities, caches of the stolen treasure-troves con­ cealed from invaders, millions hidden by pirates and buccaneers, wonderful mines of gold or silver tound and then lost, and tteaBure- shlps sunk in shallow wat&cs. Little of it has ever been recovered; the average man prefers to work for a few dollars a week. But the history of the hundreds of treasures, some of them well known and rich in narrative, some of them but vaguely chronicled, is something of absorb­ ing Interest to th® man with the true spirit of ad­ venture In his blood. More gold and silver was produced from the new­ ly discovered Western Hemisphere by the early Spanish and Portuguese adventurers than the world had ever known In Its history. The Spanish Main reeked with it. The Indians, from Mexico to Peru, had so much that they had no use for it. Shipload after shipload went to England, Spain and Portugal. Pirates and privateers raided the ports and the gal­ leons. Governors often cached the treasures of a city to save them from the raiders; blshope and priests hid the wonderful solid gold altars, railings, vessels, and so forth, to keep them safe. Often the governor was slain or captured, perhaps removed, and In many cases the clerics suffered similar fates. Hundreds of millions have been recovered, but the sums remaining unfound are so vast as to be stag­ gering. It is of those unrecovered or only partially recov­ ered that I write, giving all the facts that I have been able to And, hoping to start the seekers on to the quests. Some of it seems so easily recoverable that one could go and almost lay one's hands on It; more of it would require patient effort, digging, draining, diving, searching; still other portions will be found only by the purest chance, as the clues are too vague. There is one astounding store of gold the history of which Is so clear and definite, and the obstacles to recovery so slight, that I will state its claims first. On the Cundinamarca plateau in the Republic of Colombia is a little pond a quarter of a mile across. In the exact center of this pond superstitious Indians dumped gold in fiber bags in such quantities that on the bottom lie hundreds of millions, perhaps several billion dollars' worth. One chief dropped In 9,600 pounds in one day to save the life of a sick daughter, and the votive process went on un­ interruptedly for hundreds of years. It Is easy to see how stupendous the treasure must be and how difficult to estimate accurately. The bulk of the definite Information concerning the lake comes from the journal of Fray Pedro Simon, a Jesuit missionary who dwelt among the Chlbcha Indians near the lake for many years and witnessed the one Incident cited. At the time of the conquest the lake was called Guatavita, "Caretaker of Life." The Indians be­ lieved that In the lakes and springs dwelt the sub- deities, and all the tribes In northern South Amer­ ica believed that In this wonderful little pool, with Its clear cold springs and beautiful shores, dwelt the deity, who had power to save and heal. Gold was to be found everywhere. Its sole use was tor decoration and religious or superstitious offerings. fihren today they still hide the secrets of the deposits, appearing In the towns with little leaf baskets the bottoms of which are covered with gold, which they use to buy all the print-cloths, arms, food and baubles that make up their sim­ ple needs; then they go away to their huts In the mountains. When the Spaniards first came the Indians laughed to find the white men so eager for what they deemed of so little value. But when they saw the white men killing and tortur­ ing their brothers, wives, and children they grew silent and ever since have hidden all their knowl­ edge of gold among themselves. An Indian who leads the way to an Indian mine signs his own death-warrant. Way Pedro 81mon's account of the lake says that It was one of a chain; that It was so small that two fiber ropes could be stretched across It, marking it Into quarters. They crossed in the exact center. Rafts were moored on-shore, and the Indians coming from afar laden with gold would heap it on these rafts In fiber and skin bags. use the ropes to guide the rafts to the cen­ ter and then throw in the gold, an old and sacred man of the tribe or family reciting invocations to the spirit ot the lake. What I have related has been common property among men interested In treasure-seeking, and parts of the facts have been printed both In Amer­ ica and England, but this Is the first time that all the known facts have been given. There Is today on the plateau a lake called Guatavita, but It does not answer Fray Pedro Simon's description. On the 15th of April, 1643, there set sail from what is now Colon the Spanish galleon Santa Marta, commanded by a master-at-arms called K1 Tlgre de Joasco, and bearing vice-governor Her­ nando Arojas y Alencon, with a considerable com­ pany of wounded and fever-broken Spanish sol­ diers, a scattering of priests and some business travelers. She was headed for Cadiz and Vigo. Her cargo was almost entirely gold to the value of about $2 it ,000,000. It was not supposed that any one aboard was aware that there was anything extraordinarily valuable aboard, except the master, Governor .Arojas, and two priests of the ship's company, gome one organized a mutiny among the return­ ing soldiers and sailors and. while the ship was heavily armed to defend herself against pirates or privateers, she waB very easily taken over by |wr own crew some time during the first week out, 'Two boatloads of prisoners were abandoned on th* sandy shore of tike pallsadoes off the harbor of Kingston, Jamaica, but El Tlgre de Joasco and Governor Arojas were not among them, and somewhere in the chinks of history their fate has slipped through and been lost. Tile marooned people were very quickly picked 7 tjju Buffindlon Phillip SECURES PHOTO OF TIGERIIUUNGLE An Englishman Has an Exoittno Moment When He Cinemato­ graphs Beast in India. © ANIMAL ATTACKS MAN The Big Cat, Eleven Feet In Length, Had 8lain a Bullock and Dragged It Into the Jungle for a Feast. up by small boats and landed in Kingston, and a Dutch privateer by the name of Warblngton hur­ ried In pursuit. The record of what transpired during the chase and the fight Is not clear--is even too vague to be pertinent, but a month later Warblngton sailed Into what Is now New York harbor and reported that he had fought the Santa Marta twice and been worsted, but had followed her to the Windward Passage, as It Is now known, and north to the Islands now bearing the name Fortune Islands, given them by reason of this very happening. Here the crew cached the treasure,, as they could not enter any important port and account for themselves and could not enter a small port and dispose of their hoard. It Is positive that In these islands the cache was made, because when the Santa Marta reached Puerto el Principe shortly thereafter she was discharged. In the Fortune Islands was the only place she could have sent the treasure ashore. The governor of Puerto el Principe was about to arrest the crew on suspicion of their having committed piracy, when they put to sea, and later the hulk, burned to the water's edge, was found near Cape Maysl. The men were never heard of, but, as they were quarreling and fighting among themselves in Puerto el Principe, It Is logical to suppose that there was a second mutiny with much bloodshed, that the ship was fired and that those who did not Jump Into the sea were burned to death. Two other galleons were robbed that same year by mutinous crews, but the treasures were safely landed by the mutineers, one crew at Lisbon and the other at Genoa. These must not be confused with the Santa Marta affair. The Fortune Islands are quite small, are In­ habited almost solely by Bahama blacks, are al­ most out of touch with the world, though but four days' sail from New, York and ens from Nassau or Havana. From the charts It may be seen that there Is but one spot where the Santa Marta could have anchored to put ashore so heavy a cargo, and there ought to be little difficulty In locating the cache on the low-lying Island. So far as I know, there has never been any attempt made at recovery. There are many, many alluring sunken treas­ ures on both coasts. Many of these are so fa­ miliar as to need but the merest mention. Large sums and great effort have been expend­ ed to recover the millions in California gold of the old Golden Gate, definitely located on the Mex­ ican coast. Admiral Francis Drake's Marigold carried the bulk of his spoils up to the time of her loss on the west coast near Pledranegra. In 1697 Admiral De Montis, with a combined fleet of royal ships and colonial privateers, at­ tacked, captured and sacked Cartagena and de­ parted In two sections, the last ships being the treasure-bearers. They were intercepted by the English and one wag blown up by a shot into her magazine and sank In the harbor; another went ashore near by; and a third was beached on Clsne Cay. To recover the treasure, location can be effected through a study of the British ad­ miralty records, and at least one of the three should lie In shallow water. The so-called Captain George B. Boynton, by all odds the greatest adventurer of modern times, would have made the records of Drake, Morgan and De Ruyter look pale and sickly had he lived in the good old days. Until his death In Brooklyn .some months ago at an advanced age, he carried the knowledge of a number of treasure-troves, the richest of which Is an unnamed galleon in a Venezuela harbor. Before leaving the subject of the buccaneers, another sunken treasure should be cited. In 1686 a Captain Phlpps of the British navy learned of a sunken buccaneer vessel with a great treasure aboard on the shore or near the Tortugas and was sent by James II. of England to effect recov ery. He found the treasure, removed only a pari of It, and then sailed away, owing to the approach of two Spanish men-of-war. He was about to re turn, when the revolution of 1688 broke out and he was deterred. In the admiralty archives ar« all details of this uncompleted task. What was easy for Captain Phlpps should be still easier with modern methods. For the past twenty years Mexican antiquarians have been expecting the announcement ot the finding of a vast treasure in the State of Puebla. The third royal Spanish viceroy after Cortes suc­ ceeded In torturing from the chiefs of a tribe In Jalisco the secrets of the hiding-places of all ol the tribal store of gold and sliver, and by great efforts brought It to Tacuba, where It was con­ cealed during a period when the suzerainty ol New Spain was more or less uncertain. A dummy treasure-train was organized and started for Vera Cruz, and the word went forth that It carried the treasure. Some weeks later the real treasure- train of one hundred and eighty mules set out with only the usual small guard. In some way the word got abroad, and the train was attacked by a mixed force of adventurers and Indians at a point within sight of the white tops of Popocatepetl and Ixtacclhuatl. The de­ fenders of the treasure succeeded In escaping with the loss of five mules and their burdens, but while passing through a gorge on the route of the old trail, now followed more or less closely by the Mexican railroad, they decided It was best to cache the treasure. A cave In the gorge w as chosen and three hun­ dred and twenty bags of gold and silver, con­ taining several million dollars' worth, depending on how much more gold there was than sliver, were stored away, while the train proceeded to Orizaba. Some fifteen miles from the site of the present town the same band again attacked the train and killed, nearly all the guard. Since the development of the region in which the cave must lie has begun, Its discovery is only a matter of time, and It might be effected with compara­ tive ease. There cannot be many gorges, and caves are not frequent. The chances for finding the right one are rather strong. It has never been attempted. No small spot on the face of the earth has been so productive of treasure-hunting adventure as Cocos Island off the coast of Costa Rica. The west coast pirate Bonlta before his death insisted that he had planted more than two mil­ lion dollars In gold, silver, Jewels and plate on the Island, but his specific directions were lost by his Ignorant executioners. A party of Mexican political refugees, several of them of the famous Romero family or its con­ nections, fleeing from the wrath of Santa Anna In 1848, planted under a stone arch on the island more than one million dollars, the revolutionary fund with which they expected to gain control of the government. The third treasure Is the greatest and most im­ portant. There is a little doubt as to whether it Is located on Cocos or is In the Gallapagos group, off the coast of Peru. The traditions ail say the latter place, but after a digest of all sources of Information I am convinced that Cocos Is the spot. Among the smaller treasures of which there Is record It is well to mention the seven large can­ non filled with gold-pieces by the pirate Villazon and burle<l on an Island at the very southernmost part of the Bay of Campeachy; the reported cache on the top of the eminence immediately north of the city df Santiago de Cuba, to be reached only by a difficult trail starting In near Dos Camlnos; the mysterious and probably non-existent Havana municipal treasure, said to have been assembled at the time of the English attack and concealed within tiie ramparts of Morro Castle so effectually that It was never found again. London.--Photographing the tiger In his native Jungle must be an ex­ citing sport, judging from the accounts of Cherry Kearton, who has just re­ turned to London after visiting India and Borneo. Mr. Kearton gives the following account of how he cinemato- graphed r large tiger: "It took me twenty days before I could find the tiger,,though tiger spoor was plentiful. The tiger I got had seized a bullock by the nose and had dragged him on all fours into dense Jungle, forming e tunnel by doing so. "I went on my hands and knees along part of this tunnel, and found one of the legs of the bullock newly eaten. "So I returned and arranged a drive with 400 men, cleared a space in the jungle fifteen yards wide where the tiger was to be driven, put up a thin leaf screen to hide me from the beast and waited on the ground--not up a tree--for him. "I had no firearms, but I had three spearmen lying on the ground beside me. Photographs taken from a tree would not giVte the true result. "I waited there for half an hour. I knew that the tiger was approaching by the beaters, who were up trees, tapping like woodpeckers. The others were on the ground, making hideous sounds with every noisy thing they possessed. "The tiger came down the tunnel and out into the open, and I photo- to <£> .??• sag 1 w$W\ ml? Mer -A. Rapacious Pike pike's reputation for cruelty voractousness Is such that It haB !>een popularly dubbed the "water It is probable, however, that many species of sea fish are equally, If not a great deal more, rapacious. L&rg» dogfish, congers, pollack, cod, are especially ferocious, while halibut will very often seise ftin other targe Hah. An English waa "playing" a large conger when a huge halibut swam up to and savagely bit at It--a proceeding that cost the halibut Its own life for on its making for the wounded conger a sec­ ond time the boatman contrived to gaff and haul It aboard. There have been many examples df pike being found dead, choked by their own species, and these flsh not Infrequent attack another pike that has been hooked by a fisherman. True 8p«clflc. Here at last 1b the cure for seasick­ ness, for which deckloads and cabin- loads of pale and helpless sufferers have been waiting, lo! these many years. Select a large tree, preferably an elm or a maple with low-hanging branches, a lilac or even a gooseberry bush will suffice. Lie full length In. a hammock on shady side, or, If the grass is a hammock la unnecessary. - Place the right hand under the back of the head--be sure not to place It on the forehead--and shift your position so as to keep in the shade. Wbeneved you feel an attack of sea­ sickness coming on while on ship­ board, ask the captain to let you off. and find the necessary ingredients to fill this prescription. Clip this and paste It in your hat Otherwise, you may not be able to re­ member It when yon need lt^-Chloajm Evening Post. He Waited on the Ground. graphed him. Directly he got half way across he gave vent to a number of most terrific coughs. "When he had gone the game ran­ ger, a native, who was on the ground beside me got up and said: 'That ti­ ger is over eleven feet long, the big­ gest tiger I have ever seen.' "The natives wanted me to kill the tiger, &nce it was about to become a man eater; stealing village cattle is always the sign that that is going to happen. They could not understand why I only wanted to turn a handle at the animal. "Fifteen men, skying that they would be the next victims, got behind a bush with spears, and when the tiger was driven up to them three of the men rushed out with their weapons. "The tiger leaped from the dense Jungle, the man on the right and the man on the left bolted, the man in the middle turned to emulate them, but fell on his face. "Upon him the tiger threw himsett with his claws in his shoulder lik* % flash of lightning, and put his heftd down to the back of the man's neak. "I, six to eight feet up a tree, shout­ ed, thinking he was going to bite through the man's spinal column. The beast looked up at me, gave another of his great coughs, growled Bava«ely at me, and then jumped sideways and disappeared into the jungle." Many Idle Men in Frisco. San Francisco, Cal.--After si* In­ spection of places where unem­ ployed congregate, Gov. Hiram W. Johnson instructed the state labor commissioner today to make a thor­ ough investigation with a view to ac­ counting for the number of unemploy­ ed skilled laborers in San Francisco. Governor Johnson said there are many skilled mechanics out of employ­ ment here who came to San Francis­ co In the belief that work had com­ menced on the Panama-Pacific inter­ national exposition. The governor said he would author­ ize the hastening of work on public enterprises as a means of relieving the distress. Aids Divorced Husband. Youngstown, O.--With the consent >©f her second husband, &rs. W. Ed­ ward Crider cared for her former hus­ band, Albert E. Dawson, for three weeks, until he passed away. > Her former husband became illlwlth tuberculosis and was about to be tak­ en to the Infirmary, when the former wife heard of his plight. She had him 'taken to the Crider home instead. Dawson was formerly a prosperous real estate dealer in Springfield, O, and came here about six years ago. USEFUL SUBSTITUTES FOR THE USUAL HAY CROPS ON ILLINOIS FARMS! 8oy Beane Grown for Hay. By ARTHUR LUMBRICK, Agricultural Experiment Station* University of Illinois. Owing to the fact that'clover failed In so many parts of the state during the past season there will be a mark­ ed shortage in the hay crop for this year. To supply this need, it will be necessary for the farmers to use some quick growing crop that will ma­ ture within a few weeks from the time of sowing. • For this purpose there is nothing better than a mixture of oats and Canada field peas. It Is suggest­ ed that the oats be drilled in at the rate of a bushel per acre and the Can­ ada field peas be drilled in, driving the other way across the field at the rate of about three pecks to a bushel per acre. The growing season of these two plants is about the same and one will be able to take off a hay crop by the middle or last of June. If It is desir­ ed to have green forage to feed either young stock or dairy cattle several different seedings may be made so as to provide green stuff for a longer pe­ riod. When there Is a shortage of pasture grass, it is often desirable to have some crops to be used in this mahner. Only enough of the green hay should be cut to feed for one day. If one chooses, he may let the oats and pea mixture grow until about the time when the oats are in the milk stage and the crop can then be cut soMEliiwiî OF CIVILIZATION By MRS. OLAF N. GULDLIN. Chairman Home Economics, General Federation of Women's Clubs. It is related that one of the early astronomers kept cursing and wishing that he might have been present In the creative days to have offered God a few suggestions. But when the true principles of astronomy began to be understood, the astronomer kept prais­ ing God and exclaiming: "Oh, God, how great is thy creation! How In­ finite Is thy majesty!" When we look everywhere, read statistics on sin, sickness and sorrow, we might feel like the early as­ tronomer. But as we realize that our concept of civilization is not the real concept, we see that if we are to have a better civilization we must raise our viewpoints to a higher standard of what constitutes real civilization. Civ­ ilization in a democracy must pass through the individual. We are an in­ tegral part. It will be reflected In our Institutions, municipalities, homes. If we have not reached the best inter­ pretation of what constitutes the best Mrs. Olaf N. Guldlln. civilization, we must clarlTy our own minds and see civilisation in its large aspect. To be explicit, it is claimed that the average life of the white slave victim Is five years, it is also said that 60,000 die annually, that 60,000 new recruita must be supplied from the ranks of womankind. We can legislate, but we cannot cure It until mankind perceives that there is a higher standard upon wnich to base our estimate of life. These standards that result in Jails, prisons, reforma­ tories are the standards that many call civilisation. » With our present day enlighten­ ment we are beginning to realize these institutions can be greatly reduced. That 1s the reason I am talking domes­ tic science, because I believe it holds the key to unlock many phases of these conditions. In the first place, if we try to bring on the millennium It will take the united work of all good men and Women. With housework dis­ organised as It Is at present. It takes about all the strength, time and money to manage the homes. Un­ less we can simplify the labor to give us more time for study and growth, we can hardly be the means through which a better civilisation can pasa. and cured for hay ta the ordinary man­ ner. As the oat and pea hay can be re­ moved by about the middle of June, there is still time to grow another crop of hay on this land. As soon as the hay 1b taken up the land should be disked thoroughly and a good seed bed prepared. German millet makes a very good crop to be seeded at this time of year as It does well during the hot weather, and makes quite a heavy growth. When seeded alone German millet should be sown at the rate of a peck to the acre. Perhaps a better crop than millet if one can secure the seed 1b a crop of soy beans. One should secure an early variety of beans such as the Ito San or Medium Yellow. These beans should be drilled In with an ordinary grain drill at the rate of four or five pecks per acre. They will make suffi­ cient growth by the time of early frost to produce a considerable quantity of nutritious hay. Cow peas may be used Instead of the soy beans, but are aot BO desirable because they have a more trailing habit and are more difficult to cure. The soy beans when used for bay are handled much the same as any other kind of hay. Soy bean hay has about the same feeding value as good clover hay, being especially rich in protein. One will secure better re­ sults if he will inoculate the land with some soy bean bacteria before sowing the seed. it is this reconstructing process In the home itself that must express Itself In improved living conditions that Is per. haps the best evidence of a better civilization. When we understand in­ telligent feeding, better home sanita­ tion, ventilation, management, build­ ing the homes to make them beautiful, oonvenient to meet all needs, when we introduce modern machinery and real* lsse that civilization expresses Itself In beauty, system, science, order, the tools we work with, we have gone a long way In solving the problem of civilization. Our next step should be to intro­ duce industrial training, domestic sci­ ence and more practical work into our public school system. Our schools prepare children for colleges, but are not adapted to the needs of the great mass of school children. The most modern cities are studying the indus­ trial needs of the community and utilizing school plants to fit children for their life work. The average ehlld ' is interested In these concrete meth­ ods. They are adapted to child life. This does not mean doing away with the cultural studies, but it succeeds in keeping the children In Bchool much longer and fitting them for their life work. Germany, realizing that the people must be trained, to do expert work, la away ahead of hr in industrial edu­ cation. All children at seventeen years of age are in some form of school In Germany; 85 per cent, are in school at twenty years of age. In the United States 18 per cent, are In school at twenty years of age. What is the result of all this? Germany In forty years has grown from a poor nation to the second richest in the world. The German wealth 1s the prod­ uct of their Industries. Germany's amount of foreign trade is almost twice ours. Since 1882 wages In most of the German industries have been doubled. The total Income of all the people has Increased from 12,800,000,- 000 In 1896 to 14,120,000,000 In 1907, doubling In eleven years. We are sell­ ing the Germans raw material and buying finished products from them, interesting as these statistics are, they do not tell the best part of the ssiory. Germany Is adding skill, effi­ ciency, making trained experts out of her people. She is organizing con­ tinuation schools, also schools that run In conjunction with the wnrlr of the industries to give theBe opportu­ nities to the people. Does this mean nothing to a nation? Does It not add moral, spiritual power, when men and women become mas­ ters over their environment and real­ ize the meaning and joy in intelligent labor? Would those same persons oc­ cupied mentally, physically, interested In progress and growth, not secure a greater development under those Im­ proved conditions? Many of these things we have yet to work out our national life. We also like to believe that much of our vice and crime grows out of misdirected energy. Consequently we have the supervised playgrounds, the* drama coming into a real prominence as a recreative and educational force in our American life. Real life should not be prosy or monotonous when alt of man's wonderful creative faculties are called Into being. Can women af­ ford longer to magnify the domestic side of life and when we have money, leisure and time, use them In super­ ficial pastimes to any large extent when the physical, moral and spirit­ ual welfare of mankind cajls?. Will! not the motherheart In woman Unit listen to these larger calls of a mora, ideal state of civilization?