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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1908-06-19

One lot Of Mems Nullfers and cloth top
Oxfords, 80 variety, Sale price :. .9sc
We have the Celebrated Saif TT line of
Shoes, also Ovfords, Gun Metal, Wei Kid
Patent Leather and Tans, 80 variety,
Sale price,. ....... $50
400 Saf-ti shoes and Oxfords buttons
and lace, all feathers, Slaughter sale $33s
w L Douglas $3.50 shoe, all shapes and
toes, button and lace, Sale price. ...2 90
W L Douglas 81 shoe. all shapes and toes
Sale price ............ ......... SO 3S
One lot boys patent leather Oxfords, reg
ular $50 value, Sale price. ...... $2.75
All our chidrens Shoes will be reduced
from % to 30 per cent on each pair
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1908-06-19

All wool Cashmeres Serges and
Fancy Worsteds, single and double
breasted, and are real good valves for
$3.50 to SIT so. Prices are not con-
sdered when it comes to the value OF
this high grade of clothing. Each suit
is this seasons latest pattern and are
all up,to-date and are tailored with
the best of workmanship. We have a
large line of sizes to select from and
will be an easy matter to get fit at
the remarkably low price of $119O
Pants! Pants!
800 pair of Work Pants, Cottonade
and Linens. Sl.00 and S125 value.
Slaughtered price per pair. ...... CSC
One lot of Mems Pants, Cashmeres,
Worsteds, Serges and Fancy Mixtures,
some in this lot are worth 300 and
3 so to close oHt at. at........ $198
One lot of the celebrated Jack Rab
bit line OF Pants in Worsteds, Serges
and Fancy Striped and Checked Wor-
sted: also come in brown; sell regular
for 500; Sale price o.. 80. SO 9S
One lot of White Pique Boys Pants;
SOC valne. slaughtered price. .... 25c
One lot of Boys Knee Pants; regu-
lar SOC value. Sale price ..... 3Sc
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1908-06-19
Silks! Silks!

25 pieces Taffeta Silks; they come in
white, blue, pink, champagne. gray.
black and changeable: all extra good
value. Sale price, yard. ........ 7sc
80 pieces China Silk, all colors;
Sale price, per yard .......... 3Sc
One lot OF Silks suitable for Shirt
Waists. Sale price, a yard CSC
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1908-06-19
Shoes ana OXfOrdS

One lot Ladies shoes ard oxfords, plain
and cap toe, regular 81 so, Sale price .$9S
One Lot Ladies Oxfords and shoes in tan
patent and vici, 81 variety, sale price $1.49
One lot Ladies patent leather, vici kid
and tan, all toes and shapes So SO variety,
Sale price ....... ...... ANA. $3.50
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1908-06-19
Staples! Staples!

IS pieces American prints; regular
7c Calico. Sale price yard .... DC
SO pieces Percale all colors; regular
10c and lac values at. 80. &c
90 pieces OF Cheviots, snitable for
shirts and dresses; regular l0c value.
Slaughter Sale price yard .....7t
100 pieces Cotton Checks; regular
n value. Sale price yard. :. -. sc
One lot extra heavy Feather Tick
ing: guaranteed to hold feathers; 25c
value. Sale price a yard. 19c
One lot of Hope Feather Ticking
regular 20c value. Sale price. .12-2c
SO pieces Ticking; regular 15c.
value. Sale price, yard .... go. Sc
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

Of the Franco-Prussian war, when the
city was badly injured, to take up the
vital matter of proper sewerage. The
French sewers are the best, because the
simplest and the cheapest. Being put in
when underground railways, telephone
and telegraph wires and other conduits
were little known, they had the right OF
way.
The typical Paris sewer Of the bigger
sort is really conduit on top, through
which all sorts of pipes and wires are
strung. Beneath the pipes and on top
of the sewer itself the tracks OF the va
rious underground railways and street.
car lines have been placed. Beneath all
this in a sort of false bottom arrange
ment, the actual sewage is taken to
the Seine River and thence to the sea.
Birmingham, England, has also q hne
sewerage system, and here the waste
material is disposed of on vast beds OF
finely crushed stone. So thoroughly is
the work done that the fnal discharge
from the disposal beds is absolutely
healthier as regards dangerous disease
germs or baciili than the drinking water
Of many a small town in this country.
In Baltimore, a city with nearly e00,-
600 population, about s2o,ooo,o00 IL to be
spent on modern sewers, although ap-
proximately 5000, 900 is devoted to get
ting rid Of the storm and surface drain
age. Disposal beds Of crushed stone
after the Birmingham method VIII be
used. Chicago discharged for years into
natural waterways, to the great wrath
Of St. Louis, Mo-. which claimed a pollu-
tion OF the Mississippi River. Now Chi
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cago is facing the absolute necessity OF
building disposal beds that shall change
its sewage into the harmless fluid sent
out by Birmingham and London.
Many Problems Encountered.
The vast size Of these great sewers,
especially the disposal or outfall sewers
which carry the main portion Of all the
collected material to the disposal beds to
be refined and have the germs killed, has
made the engineering problems very diff
cult.
The connecting and laying Of the small
sewerage pipes which connect with the
individual houses is very small, although,
OF course, the expense mounts into the
millions In great cities. When city be-
gins to dig into the very heart Of its
streets it fnds conduits and pipes Of
every sort and description. And these
have been run through the street bed
with little or no consideration for any
possible after need Of sewer construc-
tion.
This great mass Of pipes frequently
checks the work. Again railroad tunnels
underlie nearly every city of Importance
and the sewers cannot possibly go through
them. Yet a sewer once started has to
continue on a declining grade with the
proper curves and proportionate size OF
piping. Water. gas, steam and nearly
every other class Of pipes can be bent or
twisted as the engineering exigencies OF
the problem may demand, but the sewer
pipes once started must 90 straight, and
must 70 on a down grade unless pump
ing stations are installed. which work
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posal OF the two plans for getting rid
of sewage, the first-namey, simple dis
charge Into some running body Of water
is so easily understood as to need no ex-
PLANTATION. The second method, which en-
gineers call disposal, is merely getting
rid Of the offensive nature OF the sew
age by altering the sewage either through
beds Of sand or through beds Of stone
broken into small particles. After the
sewage has run through one filtration
bed, 1t has lost much of its offensive ma
ture. The second bed of stone Is always
smaller as to the size Of the stone par
ticIes, and a third bed Of sand or very
small pieces of stone usually clears up
the Sewage into yellow liquid, which,
while It has some odor, has lost Its pow
er to carry disease germs. This is the
second method as distinguished from mere
ly carrying away the sewage and let
ting 1t run into some big river or the
ocean.
The storm-water problem is always
solved by carrying Il to some outlying
point Of the city's boundaries and dis
charging 1t into a natural waterbed TO
continue its road to tidewater at its
own opportunity.
Where the city lies close to some great
and swiftly flowing body Of water en-
gineers have allowed the sewers to be
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directed toward It, and at various points
the polluted material is discharged into
1t and thus safely swept beyond the city
district. Few cities, however, can do
this, which is the hrst method mentioned
in this article.
London, lying on the Thames River.
and not far from the coast Of an island,
cannot discharge its waste material into
the Thames River, as it would pollute
the stream and cause disease. All Of
Londons sewerage is taken TO vast re-
duction plants on the banks of the
Thames River and there, by chemical
processes, the material is reduced to
state described as ''sludge."
Three enormous tank steamers, big as
the average ocean liner, daily carry of
thousands of tons of this siudge far out
to sea, where it Is dumped overheard
through patent chutes and allowed to
seek the ocean bottom.
Actual discharge f sewage In Its
natural state into freely flowing deep
water Is now practically unheard Of in
the case Of a big metropolis. Philadel-
phia has been doing this for a number
OF years into the susquehanna River, but
the terrific amount of law suits being ae'
cumulated against the city have already
alarmed its rulers, and now experts are
being asked as to the cost and methods
that may be employed to dispose Of its
sewage In a state unobnoxious to human
existence and not dangerous to human life.
Methods Used IN Large Citiea.
In Paris the French began SO long
ago as 1873. or shortly after the close
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
Early Christians in China

That Christianity should have been
recognized Mongolian religion, favored by
the Emperors of China before the saw
ages OF Northern Europe had embraced
the faith, upsets the conventional ideas
Of religious history. The famous Mes
torian monument is dated 7S1 A. D.
1t was erected after the Christians had
fourished in China for nearly 800 years.
Lost, regained, forgotten and rediscov-
cred, the shaft establishes the tenets Of
that ancient church, the favors of EN-
perors. the rise OF Buddhism as an arch
enemy and even the customs of the
Christian worshippers beyond n reason
able doubt.
Hardly less remarkable is the story Of
how the facsimile of the HISTORIAN stone
found its way to New York. Visitors
to the Metropolitan Museum will see
copy so exact that they might be looking
at the original in China. 1t is the only
replica In existence. There is not likely
to be another from the original In many
years to come.
To obtain 1t, Fritz Won Holm,
Dane, 26 years old, journeyed 1900 miles
into the interior of China to Sianfu,
the ancient capital of the empire, bribed
priests, hoodwinked missionaries, en-
gagged In intrigues with the Chinese gov
ernment through the Russian Embassy,
faced the danger of seeing his work
destroyed many times, and finally brought
the replica to New York, where he had
obtained the funds which made his ex-
ploit possible.
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less satisfactorily and at a far greater
expense to the taxpayers.
Concrete, reinforced where the work
must come near the top of the street
bed, is being greatly used in the latest
sewer work as In all other construction.
Brick work for the lower sections which
are topped of with concrete is usually
turned out for service in the main sew
ers through which a horse and wagon
could almost be driven. tall man can
walk with ease and comfort through ali
but the smaller sewer sections.
The methods of paying for these mod
ern sewers with the tremendous aggre-
gate of close to billion dollars has been
worked out to a nicely. Long time
loans, secured by city stock redeemable
In rs to 80 years, enables the citizens
to spread the paying Of the cost over
long terms of years. In this way future
generations who win enjoy the benefits
of the present great era of sewer con-
struction will also be compelled to shoul-
der some of the indebtedness.
The German engineers who drew the
plans for bewering the capital Of the
German empire had a different problem
to deal with altogether than what was
offered in Paris. Berlin, with Its more
than a million Of population, is yet an
inland town. Situated on the Spree, an
insignificant stream, 1t was evident from
the start that Its sewerage was cut OF
from simple discharge into open water.
With the natural German thoroughness
the Germans discovered q method not
only of getting rid OF their sewerage,
but they have dnally begun to make
money out Of IT, Enormous sandy areas
IN the nsighborhood OF Berlin have been
transferred into the richest truck farms
in Europe through the use Of the sludge
obtained from the filtration beds Of the
Berlin disposal farm for sewerage.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

wAA ANUEL MoURA is now withered
H and worn with age. But in the
kSk heydey OF his youth. 80 years
ago. no more daring deep-sea diver went
round the world In quest Of profit or
the sheer love Of adventure.
A story OF an immense treasure OF pir-
ate gold. with daring plans Of this old
Agorean soldier Of fortune to recover 1t.
comes from New Bedford, Mass. This
great treasure consists Of 100000 Eng
lish sovereigns or 100000 in glittering
coin. It exists without a doubt but the
green seas curl over 1t. the fishes swim
back and forth above that hidden for
tune. and to the thunder Of the surf
dead mems bones guard the secret well.
The Ship La Plata.
In the year 1884 the treasure ship La
plata cleared from Lima. Peru. bound
round the Horn for Cadiz, Spain. In
her hold were nine great oaken chests.
and each chest contained the sum of
81. 900, 600. This immense treasure. strange
to say. was In English sovereigns. Why
il was in English coin no one at this
dav is able to explain. The natural In
ference would have been that the golden
treasure would have been In Spanish
doubloons or pieces-of-eight Or, per-
hans. It should have consisted of solid
ingots of the precious metals for which
the brave adventurers Of Spain conquered
the continent of South America and won
with their bright swords a new empire
of fabulous richness IN the Western Hem
isphere. From the old records we even
know the name Of the captain OF this
Raileon which was freighted with treas
ure at for the ransom of kings. He was
called Jean Rose and he was a French
man. The ship and her precious cargo,
however, belonged to grandees Of Spain,
and the crew was Spanish.
The good ship La Plata rounded the
Horn In safety, and under a full press
Of canvas started on the long voyage up
the Atlantic toward home.
In the neigbborhood Of the Cape Verde
Islands a pirate ship manned by the
same class Of English bulldogs Of the
sea who had followed Drake and Haw-
kins when they harried the Spanish Main,
was cruising back and forth on the look
out for treasure ships from Peru sailing
homeward to Cadiz, at that time the port
of entry for the navigation which flowed
in a steady stream from the Western
possessions Of the Spanish colonies back
to the home country.
Little did Jean Rose the gallant com
mander Of the La Plata, dream that be-
tween him and the safety of the home
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coast of the island. Down to him came,
over 40 years ago, the account of the
great booty at the bottom of the sea,
tale strange but true, poured into, his
fascinated ears by his doddering old
father, then nearly a century old. Then
and there Manuel Moura determined TO
get possession of the treasure. Different
things prevented his search through all
the years that he followed the sea. but
the thought Of the piles Of yellow gold
awaiting him never left his mind day or
night.
Moura became a deep-sea diver, and
long time ago he recovered large quan.
titles of gold and silver coin from several
sunken ships near the Cape Verde ISL
ands. 1t was 40 years ago that Moura
spent two years diving for treasure at
Cape Verde In that time he brought up
from the nav of the sea between $1,000
and 5000 In gold coin, recovered from
rotting timbers Of a lost Spanish pirate
ship. That he did this is an unqestioned
fact, as he had a long legal contest In
the courts of Rhode Island over his
share of 1t with a merchant of that state
named Moses Green. He had turned
the treasure over to Green for safe-keep-
ing as it was taken from the sea. He
eventually recovered his share Of 1t from
Green. The court records of this cele-
brated case are open to all who care
to read.
The expedition which was 80 successful
in recovering part of that treasure sailed
from Providence In 1868. After repeated
failures it located several wrecks on the
Bona Vista reef. There three iron boxes
of gold were found. These were located
close to where the great treasure Of the
sunken pirate, with 100000 in gold,
lay.
Moura did not disclose to others the
location of the greater treasure.
A Life of Adventure.
Moura made many other expeditions In
search of valuables and treasure lost in
other ships, but never did he fail to re-
member that on that hidden reef, un-
known to others, there was still waiting
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

vast hordes of human beings which the
twentieth century has driven together TO
make up the great urban populations OF
the modern world demand almost ineal-
culable sums for the sewerage systems
imperatiyely needed.
The estimated cost OF sewer construc-
tion which is now under way. or for
which plans have been made or ordered,
will total close to a billion of dollars.
Thus It is plainly evident that no other
problem entirely connected with the mod
ern big cities is nearly as expensive as
proper sewering. And underneath the
very bottom Of all things In London,
Paris, New York, ETC., have been pushed
sewer tunnels. Practically every one of
the cities in the list Of the 100 leaders
Of the worlds urban population have Crap
pied with the task. The exceptions are
the great scattered cities Of Asia.
There are two great problems In tack
ling the engineering features Of sewer
ing a great city. First and lesser of
the two evils is the storm water; name
Iy, surface drainage OF the city. Second
the carrying sway Of the strictly sewerage
parts Of q city's refuse.
Method Of Disposal.
There are two methods OF getting rid
Of sswass-nameIy, discharge or dis
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for him treasure large enough to buy
a principality.
After closing his connection with the
Moses Green expedition, Moura and an as.
sistant remained in the Cabe Verde
Islands to hunt for an English vessel
cast away in 1s4s. His assistant was
John Nelson, another daring deep-sea
diver and ocean rover. The English shin
was brig, and she was loaded with
railroad Iron and money. The money
and the cargo were to be used in build
ing a railroad. the first ever projected
in Africa. Moura had heard of the
fate of the brig from a woman who kept
a hotel in the islands Her son, who
was on the lost ship had spent several
years in an unsuccessful attempt to
recover the money part of the cargo.
This man had saved the manifest of the
brig. Moura saw 1t, with its record of
the gold aboard, and he commenced
work to recover the treasure. He To-
Gated the brig, and eventually found the
chest, partially covered with sand. The
lighter with which be worked was poorly
equipped, and the chest was too heavy
to be moved from its bed of clinging sand
Will lHe hGuh iiSSlhB Win WhlNn nS
had to delve. While he was ct work he
was seized with yellow fever and was
forced to return home.
These adventures in search of buried
treasure are only a few of the stirring
episodes in the adventurous life Of the
brave old diver.
still After the Gold.
Moura Is now too old for diving. but
he is anxious to get younger men in
terested with him, that he may make a
successful effort to recover the other and
far greater treasure that still lies faith
oms deep off the Cape Verde. and above
which the skeleton eyes of those old
English pirates keep a ghostly watch and
ward. 1t is there, and only awaits a
determined effort on the part Of some
few venturesome souls to lift 1t from
its centurles-old resting place amid the
shattered hulk of the sunken freebooter
of the Spanish Main.
Moura has cha showing the exact
location on the hidden reef where the
lost pirate ship rests with its immense
golden treasure. W. JONES.
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port this black rover of the sea was ly-
Ing In wait.
Records of legends give no clues, after
the elapse Of over $50 years, as to the
name of this bold sea rover or It's cap
tain or the personnel Of it's crew, but we
may be sure 1t was manned by hardy
dare devils.
CutIass and Pike.
OF the Cape Verde Islands the La
Plata fell in with the pirate ship. A
fierce battle ensued and the La Plata
made the best resistance 1t was capable
of, but could not stand before the head
long valor and desperate recklessness of
the pirates. The treasure ship was cap
tured at last and when the English
boarders, cutlasses between their teeth
and pistols and pixies in hand, finally
burst like a storm over her high bull
warks the scuppers of the beaten La
Plata were ankle-deep In blood and her
decks strewn with the dead and dying.
Jean Rose, like the gallant gentleman
of France he was. died sword In hand on
the deck of his ship.
What few survived walked the plank.
After the immense treasure, which had
been so gallantly but unavailingly de-
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neers were celebrating their recent vic
tory with wine and rum and wassail,
tornado blew up from the west, and soon
the corsair was fleeing like some fright
ened thing through bowling storm.
On and on through the black wraek OF
wind and wave, while the lightning
flashed and the heavens seemed to split
nsunder, the wicked ship few. She ran
to destruction. for at midnight, at ter
rife speed, she was dashed with frightful
violence on the rockbound coast of one
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of the Cape Verde Islands. In an hour
the doomed vessel had been beaten to
pieces on the jagged rocks and every
soul on board. with one or two excep-
tions, had mlrserably perished.
The few survivors were thrown up on
the beach and there rescued by kind
hearted natives.
Here appears the most marvellous part
of this true story. The survivors, or at
least one of them. remained on the
island and through him and his descend
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Tended by Jean Rose and his swarthy
crew, was removed to the pirate ship.
which Haunted the black flag with the
skull and cross-bones triumphantly at the
main, the La Plata was fred. and as the
pirate ship sailed away with its immense
booty the doomed galleon blew up and
soon sank beneath the surface with its
load of slaughtered sailors.
The victors, however, we're not destined
to escape with their ill-gotten treasure,
and that night, when the fierce bucca-
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H BILLION OF DOLLARS is the
amount civilized man has set
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H BILLION OF DOLLARS is the
% amount civilized man has set
aside for placing effective sew
ers under the great cities Of the modern
world.
In every city of the first class up-to'
date sewerage systems have been par
italy laid, are being now installed or are
under active preparation for immedlate
construction.
All this is due not to the politician or
to the statesman, but to the physician
The greatest triumph of modern medl-
cine was achieved when science discover
ed that man was his own worst enemy
so far as his own health was concerned.
That is to say, medicine as an exact
science has proved that 90 per cent. of
all known diseases that affect humanity
came from humanity itself In some form
or other.
City's Most Costly Feature.
1t costs more to properly sewer a city
OF q million inhabitants than to build
ana operate its street railways, to light
it or to keep It spotlessly clean; even
more than to pave 1t, when the cost Of
getting rid Of the sewage in most cases
Is considered. Yet nothing is SO ir1por-
tant to urban populations as sewers that
actually perform their work. 1t is a
matter Of life and death to all concerned
When mankind resided, as nature origi-
nally expected the race to live, In widely
scattered population Of a nomadic ten
dsncy, rarely camping two nights In sue
cessioa at one place, sewerage was
problem that needed no sowing. But the
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ants came down by word Of mouth for
more than two centuries the tale Of the
fate that black night years ago which
overlook the sea wolves and of the Inn
mense treasure which lay fathoms deep
amid the ribs of their shattered ship off
that ironbound coast.
Manuel Moura.
Manuel Moura is direct descendant Of
one of the survivors of the wild crew
that perished that awful night OF the
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'Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle Of rum
.S=...k 4ha Ae-4I had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho, and bottle of ruml
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There are two methods OF getting I'D
Of sswage-namely, discharge or dis