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SAY BURIED GOLD IS TAKEN.
Hanover (N. - T0wnsf0lk Excited
Over . Rich Discovery
Near Village.

Buried treasure, recovered after be-
ing hidden in the earth for more than
century has excited the townsfolk of
Hanover, small village about three
miles from Morristown, n. j. An iron
pot. rusty and falling apart from age,
was found at the bottom of an open
hole six feet deep on the land of the
Walker homestead, imbedded in four
walls of stout masonry.
The opening in the ground had been
made at midnight the night before by
three strangers, who were seen at work
by Harvey Edwards, farmer, and
their actions were so mysterious that
he, instead of investigating. retreated
into his own house, locked and barred
all the windows save one in the attic,
from which he watched the silent fig
ures digging furiously until almost
daylight. The nearest constable lived
a mile away. Edwards had no weapon
in the house but an old shotgun, and he
did not dare to venture out until the
men packed their tools into bags and
walked rapidly up the road leading
from the village. The next after
noon dozen residents in the neigh
borhood went to look at the excava-
tions and the old iron pot. and the
opinion was unanimous that the
had by some means come into
the possession Of the secret Of the hid
ing place of $50, 700 in gold which disap-
peared in the revolutionary war after
/ had been deposited with Aaron kitch-
III, a patriot and one of the first menu
bers of the continental congress from
East jersey.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26
STEAMBOAT BELL.


There hangs in the belfry Of the little
Christian church In the town of Savan-
nah, in Andrew county, this state, bell
which has an interesting history. In
1852, As years ago. there occurred al
Lexington the most disastrous accident
which ever befeu 4 steamboat ON the
Missouri river, one attended with the
greatest loss of human life, says the
Kansas City Journal.
The Saluda, q side-wheel steamer
with a battery of two boilers, was on
her way up the river with a cargo oi
general merchandise, and her cabin and
lower deck crowded with passengers
the most of whom were Mormons. The
river was unusually high and the current
as it came around the point just above
the town was strong. To add to the
difficulties the river was full of float
ing ice which had broken loose from Z
gorge higher up.
Capt. Francis 7. Belt, commander OF
the boat, had made repeated efforts tc
stem the rapid current, but had as
often failed. At last, on the morning
of April 9, after waiting several days
for the flood to subside, he again or.
dered steam to be raised for final ef-
fort. He went to the engine-room.
looked at the steam gauge and asked
the engineer how many more pounds
of steam she could stand. On being an.
swered that she had already every
pound that she could safely carry, he
gave the command: Fill her up; put
on more steam," and remarked to the
engineer with an oath that he would
round the point or blow her up. H.
retired to the hurricane roof, rang the
bell and gave the final order to "Cast
loose the lines"
The bow of the boat turned gently
out into the stream as it was caught
by the current. The engines made one
revolution. Then came the terrible ex.
plosion and all was chaos. darkness and
death. The number OF those who lost
their lives by the explosion was never
known. About 100 bodies were recov.
cred, and it was supposed that there
were as many more victims whose bod.
les were never found. Nearly all the
officers of the boat were killed, among
them Capt. Belt; the clerk, Joseph
Blackburn; the two pilots, Charles lie
Berge and Lewis Garrett, both of whom
were at the wheel, and the second en-.
gineer, Josiah Choncy, who was on
watch at the time. Capt. Belt was at
his post on the hurricane deck, stand.
ing with his hand resting on the bell.
when the crash came. He was blown
high up in the air and his body when
found was broken, mangled mass Of
flesh and boneA
The bell which had just sounded the
death knell Of so many unfortunate
ones. was blown high upon the bank
where it was found uninjured. 1t was
bought, with what remained of the
wreck, by old Casper Gruber, who after.
ward sold it to the Christian church al
Savannah, aId for nearly half cen.
fury it has hung in the belfry there.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

money for themselves. They preferred
TO do this rather than pay few thou
sand each to the young man who had
run them into corner at their own
game. in the way of a settlement. That
would be public recognition of the
young trader, and that would mean
business to him.
When the big elevator Interests be-
gan dumping corn on him Phillips
needed ready cash to take care of it.
His friend Dan Hill was ready to
hypothecate his property. but property
cannot be sold every hour of the day.
He had to have cash. Hill stood firmly
by the young broker. and was im-
pressed with his enthusiasm. and Phil
lips, with this knowledge, went to q
representative Chicago financier of un-
limited means. This mans name is
withheld by his own request. He did
not purchase bushel of corn for him.
self. and seeks no publicity. He had
opportunity of getting all the ready
cash he might need from any Chicago
banking house, as his name to a check
commands millions. The acquaintance
with Phillips was only slight, but the
capitalist knew of the young man al
an honest. shrewd fellow; he knew him
to be clever; the details of the deal
were carefully explained. 1t was
pointed out how there could be no pos
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

had the corn, knowing his limited n.
sources, Immediately called for ten
per cent. margins. The margins were
paid, much to the disappointment Of
the big elevator interests. But they
were determined to down the young
speculative star who had sprung into
existence and had outwitted them in
their own market before they knew it.
They had money and they had corn.
They began to deliver corn. They
took it around to Phillips in small lots
Ut first of 10000, 10000 and 10000 BUSH
els, and again to their disappointment
they saw the corn taken. Phillips
could handle these small lots, because
it did not take much money.
The big operators who were caught
had to begin to work the big drying
plants to get corn to deliver. They
were apparently willing to spend ST.
100000 to bankrupt young Phillips or
make him sell his line of corn; there
fore, they spent money freely to buy
new and wet corn. paying more for it
than they had sold contract corn to
Phillips for. They could not get the
corn ready for delivery short of IS
cents bushel with anything like even
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

ness, and all of the other newspaper
correspondents are ''scooped."
Whenever there is a river and har-
Dor bill reported from committee
of the house the representatives of
newspapers interested in river and
harbor improvements divide up the
bill, each taking a part of it and 60
ing over every item, not solely with
view to giving his own paper the
local news, but with view of looking
after the interests of the other CORE
spondents in this syndicate of fellow
workers. AS a result each one of
them gives his paper better and more
complete service than any one cor
respondent could do, working on the
bill by himself.
For example, one correspondent OF
a paper in Buffalo, another each in
Detroit, Chicago, Grand Rapids and
ST. Paul. will go over the bill with
view of getting all of the items of
interest to readers residing within
the vicinity of the great lakes. When
they have concluded their work they
get together and make up complete
dispatches. The result is that they
completely cover the case, and any
one correspondent outside of this
combination will be likely to fall
short of the successful work Of the
combined workers.
So there are trusts forming every
where and in all sorts of business.
In union there is strength, and
wherever men can trust each other
in combining their work and capital
it is to be expected that they will do
so. The writer had hard expert
ence with the combine on great lake
news about ten years ago. and
achieved success only by accident. The
combine had worked up their bill with
customary skill, and it was good
work, too. But late in the evening
your correspondent. representing the
Detroit Tribune, Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin and ST. Paul Globe, found
Congressman Sam Stephenson, of
Michigan, a member of the commit
tee, who knew the bill by heart be-
cause of his careful painstaking work
upon every item of it, and dear old
Sam dictated a dispatch which COW
cred the great lakes even more COM
pletely and entertainingly than it was
told by the combine boys. Ste
phenson gave reasons for each appro.
priation, and that of course nobody
but a member of the committee could
do. Until this day the writer has
never told his competitors how he
managed to get up such a good dis,
patch. As matter of fact it was
Sam Stephenson's work, and the cor
respondent was merely an amanusn-
sis.
The stories Of how the Washington
strive for exclusive
news for the papers served by them
would ill volumes, and all of them
would be interesting, particularly to
the newspaper men, the editors as
well as the news gatherers.
SMITH d. FRY.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26
EXACT DATE OF THE FLOOD
Old Testament Facts ON which the
Southern Bishop Raised His
Question.

Some people have had fun lately
over the reported rejection Of eight
candidates for the African Methodist
ministry in the south by the examin-
ing bishop because they could not tel!
the date of the food. Nevertheless,
the bishop who asked the question
knew what he was doing. 1t may not
have been fair question, but there
is concise answer to it in the Bible.
and he no doubt thought that the
eight candidates, if they were well
versed in the Old Testament, would
answer it at once, says the New
York Sun.
The date of the flood was 1856 years
after the birth of Adam, in the Sec
ond month and the seventeenth day.
1t began then and continued for 10
days and nights. This is how it is
figured: The third verse of the fifth
chapter of Genesis reads thus: "And
Adam lived 100 years and begat a SON
in his own likeness, after his image;
and called his name Seth" Then, in
the sixth verse, 1t is told that Seth
lived los years and begat Enos.
Adam, says the fourth verse, lived
500 years, after the birth of Seth, and
the latter after the birth of Enos
lived sO7 years. So it goes on. Enos
begat Cainan when he was 90; Cainan
begat Mahalaleel when he was IS;
Mahalaleel begat Jared when he was
65; Jared begat Enoch when he was
1852. Methusaleh was born to Enoch
when the latter was SIS, and when
Methusaleh was 1877 Pc begat Lamech,
and Lamech's son, Noah, came into
the world when the father was 1so.
This brings us down to the birth of
Moab. which, according to the added
ages of the several patriarchs at the
time their sons were born, occurred
1 ,056 years after the birth of Adam.
In the seventh chapter of Genesis
the eleventh verse reads as follows:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second month. the seven
teenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up and all the win
dows of heaven were opened" This
was The food. and it came to pass in
the year 1856 after the birth of
Adam
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26
THE PHILLIPS DEAL.
Most Interesting Episode in Board
Of Trade History.
Authentic Story Of How the Clever
Young Spectator Managed to
Squeeze Some Of ChicagO's
"Big Guns"
Especial Chicago Letter.]

Especial SnlCdSO Lettef.l
ME November corn deal on the
Chicago board of trade, manip-
ulated by George H. Phillips,
will go down in speculative history as
one of the finest and most artistic
market operations of the dying CEN
tury. Its hero went out of it as
quietly as he went into it. Nobody
knew when he got into it. Few knew
when he went out of it.
In commercial circles his play" is
talked Of as the ''prettiest deal ever
seen in Chicago markets" He quiet
ly slipped out of his corn two days
before the end of the month, just
4S hours before anybody expected it.
The big men who held corn back,
expecting to see Phillips lose his
head and bid the price up to a dol
lar or more, when they would unload
it upon him, were disappointed. They
are holding the corn. Phillips has their
money. Phillips sold them corn
when they did not know it. just as he
bought it from them before they
knew what was going on.
The inception OF the deal is an in
teresting story. 1t comes from in
side sources and may be deemed
reasonably authentic. Mr.. Phillips
was close student of the market
situation on corn for several months
past. He had number of large deals
in the last May option for himself
and customers, and made a nice little
bunch of money out of it. He knew
that the farmers had depleted their
cribs of old corn. which had been sold
when the price mounted to As cents
during the summer, which gave the
farmers an average of 40 cents at
their home markets. He realized the
enormous demand for corn for home
consumption and for shipment. He
found that with practically only one
crop of corn on hand, while esti-
mated TO be as large as the last year,
depleted reserves were prompting
the cattle feeders of the west to
pay 30 cents and better for the new
crop. He discovered that while a
Noih NdS
to market, only small percentage of
it was contract. He saw the situa-
ton. He talked with friends and con-
fided his beliefs. They were finan-
cially unable to support him in a
trial Of his theory that it would net
a handsome profit to buy November
corn. Phillips knew the big houses
were all selling corn, and that they
would sell all they could of it. A
couple of million bushels would take
all in sight, and Phillips wanted it.
He lay awake nights scheming as to
methods to accomplish it.
The last week in October, without
any definite plan ahead of him, but
confident his position was right. he
purch ased big line of November corn
for his own account. His original in
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

sAe wanted . Real Sensible Beck ana
She Took RohiAsoA
CRuoOe.

The trials Of Librarians in city Libraries
have often been cited; those Of the guardi-
ans of small country Libraries are of DIFF
-ferent character, but require perhaps the
exercise Of even greater patience, says
Youths Companion.
ma wants you should pick her out .
book" said freckle-faced girl to the bright
young woman in charge Of the free library OF
. New England village; "and she don't want
. serious one, she says, nor she don't want
love story, without it's founded on fact.
Nor Of course, she don't want anything shes
ever read before"
The librarian tapped her pencil thought
fully on the desk, without = trace Of de-
spair which chance listener to this dialogue
expected to see on her face.
Nor she don't want anything that's
chopped up into short stories, she says.
continued the girl, bent on the librarian's
further enlightenment, "and she wants con-
sider'ble going on, and lot of pictures, ma
does. And she told me partic'lar to say
she di6i't want no dIlec' stories; she says
she knows well enough how folks in the
country talk"
Still the librarian thoughfully tapped her
pencil, apparently waiting for further IN
structions.
"She wants real sensible book, the kind
"ma's" emissary; then suddenly she leaned
over the librarian. '.Say," she whispered,
hoarsely, ''if there's one Of the Robinson
Cruzo books in, mn said you'd better gimme
certainly" said the librarian, pleasant
", and a moment later the well-thumbed
copy of the famous adventures had changed
hands, and the happy possessor Of it de-
parted wreathed in smiles.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

TN every county Of the civilized world
i the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
are known. Not only do they minister
to the spiritual and intellectual needs OF
the charge. committed to their care
but they also minister to their bodily
needs.
With SO many children to take care OF
and to protect fromclima and disease,
these wise and prudent Sisters have
found Peruna never-failing safeguard.
Columbus. O., July 10, 1900.
The Peruna Medicine Co., City:
Gentlemen-'A number Of years ago
our attention was called to DR.. Hart
mans Peruna, and since then We have
used it with wonderful results for grip.
coughs, colds. and catarrhal diseases OF
the head and stomach.
"For grip and winter catarrh espe-
cially it has been of great service to the
inmates of this institution. Sisters OF
the Good Shepherd.
The following letter Is from Con-
gresham Meekison. Of Napoleon. Ohio:
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26
OF HUMAN NATURE
t. the Idea Of an Ins1f-
ance Agent who Was Inter.
ested in the Fire.

'Talk about the frailties Of human ma
ture," said well-known insurance agent the
other day, relates the Kansas City Journal,
mo one else has so good an opportunity to
discover them as an insurance man. An IN
cident occurred a few days ago that showed
me a side of a neighbor's character WHICH
i had never suspected to exist. A fire broke
out in his home, and, do you know, that
man went three blocks to a telephone to re-
port it, when there was phone right in his
house.
II saw the frs soon after it started, and
rushed to give assistance. 1t was while help.
ing to pack the things out that discovered
the phone, and turned in the alarm. Now,
it takes a strong stretch Of the imagination
to believe that the owner had forgotten
there was telephone in his house. That he
should have acted as he did undermines
ones faith in people in general.
"Think of it. There l was sweating and
endangering my life to save his property,
while he was anxious, evidently, to have it
burn. Such conduct doesn't encourage one
to exert himself for others"
"By the way" interrupted listener, did
any Of your companies hold policy on that
house?" :.
"Now, you are asking leading question" /"
replied the insurance man, with guileless
smile. ''What am saying is that the ac-
tions of that man are sad commentary On
human nature"
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26

lee. For example, the correspondent
OF New York paper runs. across an
item of no value to his readers, but
which would prove to be very inter.
esting to the readers of q Chicago
paper. Forthwith he sends that item
to the correspondent Of a Chicago
paper. In return more than likely
day will not pass until the CORE
spondent Of Chicago paper finds
something which will be valuable to
his friend from New York, and he
sends it to him.
Then there are agreements among
half dozen correspondents that they
will divide all news Of general in
terest. Thus it often happens that
one newspaper each in New York,
Chicago. st. Louis, Omaha. Denver
and San Francisco will have an ex-
elusive item of valuable news. One
man out of the party has found some
thing interesting and has divided it
with his partners in this news bosi-
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-01-26
Newfoundland. Iron Ore.

What the gold reefs of johannesburg
are to the Transvaal, the Wabana iron
beds are to Newfoundland They form
immense deposits of rich red hematite
ore, three miles long and several hun
dred feet wide, and showing $4,000, COO
tons in sight above water. The beds
dip downward at an angle of eight de-
grees, and it is believed that they ex-
terd below the sea in practically un-
limited quantity, though what is now
in sight will suffice for generations
work. To all intents and purposes the
mine is open quarry. The ore is got
ct by chopping off a surface covering
of earth and rock and then loosening
the hematite with charges Of dyna-
mite.-Chicago Daily News.