The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-11
THE TOWN SUMMER GIRL.

Or. in the wild waves, biilowy,
Is guided by her own fair hand.
Day In, day out, tbs hers to scan
The sea and shore to find a man.
The Summer Girl. I'D in the hills.
Sits lonesome In her hammock swing;
She reads novel for her thrills,
And hears no little love-birds sing.
She wanders far. she braves the tan
In searching vainly for a man.
The Summer Girl. who stays in town.
Is on the everlasting jump.
Until ad her s systems sste11a,a quite run down down
The men are standing in a line
Around the block. or more:
They beg of her to sup or dine.
Or go down to the shore;
They take her out in motor cars,
TO all the roofs In town she goes,
Or take her to the summer shows.
What's sea or mountain? Town is where
The Summer Girl has men to spare.
Albatross Carried Message.
The story OF the rescue of twenty
two starving French sailors from
Antipodes island, printed on Monday,
notify the world Of their distress by
releasing albatrosses with messages
tied to their necks telling of the SER
ious plight of the casatways.
The Idea of using albatrosses as
message carriers was undoubtedly sug-
SCSLCQ W buo ulSl Dt q AcIAdt hdDlS
cident that occurred nearly twenty
one years ago and is known to all
mariners. On September %, 1887, a
dead albatross was found on the beach
at Fremantle. Western Australia,
around whose neck was fastened a bit
| of metal on which had been scratched
in French:
Thirteen shipwrecked men took
| refuge upon the Crozet islands on Au-
gust 4. 1887"
The news was cabled around the
world by Governor Robinson of West
ern Australia, and the French minister
of marine at once ordered the trans
port Meurthe to leave Madagascar for
the Crozets to search for the casta-
ways.
The Meurthe returned from her
search to Madagascar on January 6.
1888. She found no human beings on
the Crozets, but abundant evidence
that one of the four islands had re-
Gently been occupied. and under a
heap of stones was a sheet of paper on
which was written in French with lead
pencil the details Of the wreck of the
ship Tamaris Of Bordeaux with thir-
teen men in the crew. The crew had
lived on the island for nine months
and. their food being exhausted. they
were about to set out for Possession
island.
This island is eighty miles from
Cochous. The Meurthe at once went
there and also to East island, but
| found nothing. and the castaways
| have never been heard of since. 1t is
| quite certain that they were lost in the
perilous passage to Possession island.
These poor fellows never dreamed
| that eight days before they set out the
| bird they sent over the waters had
| finished its wonderful fight and told
| the world of the unhappy situation.
| The winged messenger had made a
| journey of over 1000 miles with few
chances to rest on the way. Natural
| lists and sailors have told us much of
the albatross' remarkable powers and
| endurance on the wing, but no testi-
mony to this fact will outlive the story
| of the bird that was the means of let
| ting the world know that poor casta-
ways in the waste of southern waters
| sorely needed succor.-From a letter
in the New York Sun.
| Catacombs Mined for Gold.
| The famous catacombs of GUIANA
juato must yield I'D their dead in order
| that the gold and silver which lie I'M
derneath the underground chambers
Americans. 1t was while workmen
were excavating for the foundation of
the new station Of the Mexican Central
| railroad here short time ago that a
blast uncovered a vein of gold and
| silver ore Of great richness.
/ WI <AIhCA lScAS, w. Laws oio
Elisha Moore, Immediately acquired
| title to the promising mining claim.
| They traced the vein from the point
where it was uncovered in the cata-
| combs. and thence down the hill and
| through the city park. which is sit
uated in the heart of the city. In or
| der to get out the ore the American
| owners of this claim will have to con-
duct mining operations throughout
| the length Of the Vein. The storehouse
| Of the dead will have to be disturbed,
and mining carried on in the heart of
\ the city.
The long and narrow underground
| chamber in which many skeletons of
| the more distinguished dead are kept
standing long has been one of the
| skeletons were naked until q few years
| ago, when the municipal authorities
| decided that their appearances would
| be improved by draping their bony
| forms with a semblance of clothes.
| The effect of clothing the mummies is
| to add to the government spectacle
| rather than to diminish 1t. At the far
| end of the chamber is a great pile of
human bones taken from the cata-
| comb above and thrown indiscrimi-
nately together.
Many Embarrassing tales are told of
| this chamber of standing mummies.
| According to one story which Is now
| little more than a legend. an American
of San Antonio. Tex. who had been to
the City of Mexico on a trading ex-
petition during the time that Mexico
| was carrying on war against the
| French invaders, was attacked by a
| band of robbers near GuanaJuato. He
| carried large sum of money, and this
| was taken from him. His captors be-
lieved that he was in some way
Identified with the French cause, and,
| in order to bring about his death
through horrible torture. instead of
killing him outright, they threw him
| into the chamber Of the dead. 1t is
related that the depositing of a body
| in the vault five days later led to his
discovery and rescue He was insane.
| His terrible experience had been more
| than his mind could endure.-Guana-
| juato dispatch to New York Press.