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Their Firm Was Founded Only 817 Years Ago Díame >nd Dick Found I □ After Many Years : Famoui Shot Now Practic ing Physician. Norfolk. Neb.—Diamond Dick, noted frontier character, pony express rider and one of the moat deadly marksmen produced, who th« West Ima quietly dropped out of sight a quarter of a century ago, has just been dis covered In Norfolk In the person of Dr. Richard J. Tanner, on« of the fore most physician« In Madison county. For more than twenty year« Tanner bus been practicing medicine In Nor folk nnd no one even suspected that ths physician wan Diamond Dick, who used to shoot pennies off tbe head« of persons Just to show what he could do with n gun. Diamond Dirk's Identity was mad« known when he volunteered to take part In a rodeo the local American Legion post was putting on. An Inti mate friend of Tanner “tipped It off" to some of the Committee that the doc tor was n dead shot nnd might be In- duced to give a «demonstration.” Tan ner put on an exhibition of shooting that fairly took away the breath of the audience nnd ended In his seknowb edgment Hint li« Is the famous Dia mond Dick, once known nil over Amer ica for his shooting. In his exhibition Tanner used th« tame two old pearl handled 45 caliber revolvers and the repenting rille he the Black hills through the worst In dian Infested district In the trans Ml» tourl country. • Draws Salary and Quits. Diamond Dick was at the height of of the rifle and both targets were In pieces. Pits Ac« of Sped««. A target board was brought out. Tanner ahot ring» about It. He cut the heart out of an ace of epade». He tired over bls «boulder, using u mirror. Ho tired left handed. He tired between bls leg«. And every time lie Bred tbe target showed a bull'» eye. A friend took an apple, placed It on a »tick about three feet long and held it out. Diamond Dick fired Just on« ■hot nnd the apple went to piece». The Tokyo Lad 1» Honored for Great Generosity Washington.- Genlchiro Y«ma ds. a Tokyo boy, 1» told In a letter by John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, that he was responsible for “one of th« moat remarkable Instances of self-denial and generosity 1 ever encountered or beard of.” Yamada, upon receiving hl« $1.50 "annual allowance” J from bls parents, forwarded the entire sum to the American lied Cross to help relief work after tbe Hants Barbara earthquake, saying he recalled “the great sympathy and kind «»»Istance" from tbe United State« after the similar Tokyo occuri*nre. re shown R W. Farmen. Jr., at the right; R. W. Farmen. Sr., left, nd young It Farmen. grandson, owners of a basket weaving cone, rn which ,,» been in operation for 817 years. The original firm of sons, organised la 1’08. Is still flourishing at North Walshain. Norrms. England. ♦ : iJÚ'h SEEKS VETERAN IN ASYLUMS AND JAILS Mother Hunts for Son, World War Soldier. Diamond Dick. friend offered to hold an apple In his hands, but 'tanner refused to fire at IL But In 1800 he used to shoot an apple off n girl'« head twice «sch day. Finally Tanner's friend« »tuck a penny Into a «lit In an apple, «tuck the apple on the end of a stick and held It up. “Crack” went the rifle. The penny was gone. The apple was Intact. Marquette, Mich.—Traveling about the country visiting penal Institutions and asylums, hoping to find some trace of her son, Joe Anderson. World war veteran, who disappeared from Detroit, March 6. 1024. Mrs. Margaret Anderson, sixty seven, has arrived here. Her «on enlisted when he wag not yet sixteen and was assigned to Com- ¡»any K of the One Hundred and Thir ty ninth Infantry. He wa» gassed over sea«. Later he was charged with desertion, convicted and sent to I-eav- enwortb prison. Mrs. Anderson walked from her home at Sioux Falls to Wash ington. where she «ought clemency for her son from President Harding. She contended Joe was not responsible for his act because of having been gassed. President Harding paroled film. After bls parole Joe went to work at his trade u» machinist. At the end of nine months he suddenly dlsap- ¡»eared and the mother has never heard anything of him since. Mrs. Anderson visited the Ford plants here nt L'Anse nnd the asylum at Newberry. She said her son might be going under the name of John E. Johnson nnd has always given his ad dress as Steven» Point. WIs. He 1» over six feet tall, thin nnd of blond complexion and has a scar on his chest on the left side where he was wounded In the war. She said she is making her way to Chicago, visiting asylums and indus trial centers In hope of finding some trace of her missing son. light. At that time he wns traveling «round the country with n circus. giv ing an exhibition of fancy rifle nnd pls lol »hooting, He hull been doing this of his stunts wns leverai yenra. to «hoot n penny otT the head of a companion. One day he drew his salary and quietly vanished. Trapped in Ice Box A month later Richard J. Tanner J. Nick Cormoose, Millville. matriculated nt Cotner < braskn. A couple of years later he sixteen year« old. went Into the re enrolled nt Nebraska Wesleyan. Five frigerator of the Royal Confectionery or »lx years Inter he bad w on his medi company to get some Ice cream, nnd cal degree nnd was a full fledged doc- while he was eating the door swung shut. More than two hours later he was n He practiced a year or t found, unconscious ami almost frozen Kansas town nnd then came to death. He was soon revived. folk, where be has ever since lived. Tanner like« to recall the early days among the West's great gun tutor« and pioneer« He knew Wild Bill Hickok, CallfoAd« J<>e, Calamity June. Dead wood Dick. Texa» Jack, Buffalo Bill. Pawnee 11111« etc. He had fought Indiana nil the way from the Platte to the Belle Fourche nnd nothing but hl« wonderful ability to handle Ids guns nnd to outride Ids enemies kept hl» scalp on top of Ids bend time after time. French Scientists Give Rec Diamond Dick’s resurrection was ipe 1 hey Use. more dramatic than bls disappearance. It had been whispered around Norfolk that one of Its cltlxens who had been New York.—A few months ngo the a crack »hot In other days would do world wns startled by the announce ment that Professor Nagaoka In Jn- some shooting nt the rodeo. The time came and Tanner rode Into pan and Professor Mlethe In Germany the arena. He was dressed In his old hud succeeded In making gold out of mercury. The process wns not yet of buckskin«. Somebody threw a glass ball up Into commercial value» but »till the trans the air. Tanner looked nt It a mo mutation of the elements so ardently ment, threw up bls gun nnd tired. The sought by the ancient alchemists hail been effected. Now conies the asser ball went to pieces. A trap sent a clny pigeon sailing tion that some alchemists of the old --------- have succeeded In through the air. Tnnner didn’t mem school In Frunce doing tlie same thing, but this time It to tnke nny alm or to pay much atten tion, but the clny pigeon went nil to Is rcnl alchemy. The French have scorned all mmlern pieces following the crack of his rifle. Two targets came sidling out In dif methods, nnd do not employ electric ferent directions. Two sharp cracks discharges or high tension currents. Say They Get Gold by Alchemy of Old * Here’s Your Chance to Get a Buffalo ■’ll Will Play Golf in Twenty Countries I that, when the steamship Empress of Scotland leaves New York next De cember ot a 12»day cruise of the world, carrying with her the Round New York.—We have often heard the World Golf club made up of tour of singing skippers, literary skippers, ists who have been Invited by prac poetical skippers. musical skippers tically all the golf clubs in the 20 and »kippers who have become famous countries to be visited to match their as doctors and scientists, but we hnve skill against the local champions. Cap rarely heard of a skipper who ranks tain I-atta should be In command. Traveling the seven seas, strange with some of the best golf amateurs. The “golfing sea captain.” IL G. races, unusual customs, as well as un- Latta, Is well known on »be Atlantic familiar caddies, will greet the golf as a man to be feared on the golf ing skipper and his golf enthusiasts. Plan Unique Cruise. links and there is hardly a port which Imagine the skipper ar.d his touring he has entered where he has not . played the ancient and honorable golfers teeing off at Naples, with Vesuvius for a background; at Cairo, game of Scotland. Captain Latta was not originally In- where the links are the sands of the tended for a seafaring life, having desert and where one wears tennis been placed In an <»ffice as a youth un- shoes, with the Sphinx afar off as a “silent gallery”; in India, with gor geously covered elephants, your car riers to the links, on the side lines nnd some golden-topped mosque in the distance; at Batavia, on the Island of Java, that mysterious country and subtropical paradise of the romances of Joseph Conrad, the late seafaring novelist, where the gallery will be made up of natives attired In a riot of Batik silks: at Manila, the queen city of “The Pearl of the Orient” ; In China and Japan, where 'ricklshas ‘Golfing Skipper’ to Conduct Unique World Cruise. » Oxford, England.—Had Christopher Columbus known as much of English theological Uterature as he knew of navigation he might have saved him self a deal of pains In his effort to prove the world was round. He might have consulted a musty tome recently dug out of the dust of Oxford’s hoary libraries, a “Metrical Lives of the Saints,” written by a monk at the end of the Thirteenth century, in which it Is set forth that: “As an appeal the urthe is round, so . that evermo Half of the urthe the sonne bischyneth, hou so hit evere go.” He would have been told that the moon Itself gives no light, that the earth Is bigger than the moon, and the ' sun 165 times bigger than the earth. They »till follow the recipe of the medieval sorcerers. But. In contrast belt. Yet personal encounter between Corsica Is Full of Interest to natives is still a commonplace. to their ancient brothers, they are not nt all secretive about their work, and “Corsica, where women go safely the Tourist. have published their procedure In full, alone by night and gendarmes travel no that every one enn now go ahead Washington.—Corsica. Mediterrane In pairs by day, where there are hun nnd produce gold In his spare time. an Island, in tbe neighborhood of dreds of bridges and no rivers, where The Idea Is very simple. Take 125 which France lost five brave sea everyone expects the visitor to pay parts of pure silver, seven parts of faring airmen, in a disaster compara verbal tribute to ‘Kalliste’ (Most Beau- ■ bisulphite of arsenic and three parts ble to the loss of the PN-9 No. 1. Is tlful) and few can name the moun- - of sulphide of antimony. Melt this described as follows in a communica tains in whose shadow they were - and keep it at a temperature of 1,000 tion to the National Geographic so born! degrees centigrade for some four “Banditry Is' still a byword and ciety. hours and you will obtain a yellowish "Submerged by wave after wave of thievery 14 abhorred. The Innkeepers Captain Latta, the “ Golfing Shipper. * metal. This must be melted again. । history and conquest, home of a race boast of what grand things they would nnd again ten parts of the arsenic com til his twentieth year when he went full of passion but free • from low do if there were more tourists, and pound should be added very gradually. to sea on a sailing vessel of which his crime, the scented Isle south of the neglect the few they have, The sun And ngaln you must keep the temper uncle was the master. After sailing Cote d'Azur offers a distinctive reward gives the land Its charm ; and the ature at 1.000 degrees centigrade for The round the world for nine years, play to those who leave the rush and dis snow, its beauty and health. four hour«. ing golf at every port he could, and play of the continent to visit vendetta roads are blocked by horses, mules Finally you add ten parts of potas getting his master’s • certificate, he and donkeys, few of them laden, and land. sium nitrate, ten parts of ammonium joined the fleet of the Canadian Pa “Corsica, like every other country, the automobile,- even for the- singl*^ chloride, ten parts of borax nnd some cific railway In 1905 and has since is a land of contrasts. But more than traveler, offers the cheapest means of powdered soup, which Is supposed to then carried that company's flag the most. It Is the land of paradox. Be transftortation. The'perfume of the 4 purify tbe metal, which will now ngaln farthest north of any of his fellow hind the striking beauty of tbe Island, maquis and the smells of the streets take on n white color. Your labors are officers to Archangel, and the farthest concealed beneath the commonplace are alike Indescribable.” • • now finished, and you will be reward exteriors of the people, there Is a mys south, around Cape Hom. ed by finding one quarter of 1 per cent tery, a contrary quality which first es Rushes for the Links. of gold In the residue. capes observation and later intrudes Michigan Breeds Herd During the past two winters when To prove that It Is not a fnke, M. everywhere. Probably nowhere is a of Pure Albino Deer Tolllvet Castelot, tbe president of the he piloted his steamship on cruises generalization more likely to be true Detroit, Mich.—On Grand Island, a through tbe West Indies, he was just French Society of Alchemists, lias had and false at the same time. game refuge In Lake Superior, is a several chemists of renown repeat the ns enthusiastic as the tourists to go "One goes to Corsica, as did Bos- experiment, and declares that all of ashore, not so much to sightsee as to well's friend, expecting to find every herd of partial and pure albino deer —the result of breeding from Albinos try the local links and pit himself them hnve confirmed tbe results. bandit a menace. He remains to find The history of the transmutation of against the local stars, and many a the man with the gun the most unro- originally taken by capture. Men have one precious metnl Into another goes local star succumbed to his prowess mantle of mortals. Melodrama heroes previously bred albinism into various animals, as the white rats and mice, back to the Middle Ages, but Francis with the clubs. have accomplished more with the gllt- and domestic rabbits, but this experi Golf has probably made Scotland as Bacon Is really the man who first put ter of a silver spoon held revolver alchemy on n scientific basis In Ids well known as her famous bards, her wise than the most Tartarlnesque of ment constitutes tbe first attempt at famous book, “The New Atlantis. Sir fighting chiefs and clans, her pipers Corsicans attempt when loaded to the such selective breedings with any of the large mammals. Robert Boyle founded’ his "Invisible and her plaids, and it Is only proper That which has been accomplished College” on that structure, nnd nfter on Grand Island, and with comparative several experiences and transmuta ease, is difficult of accomplishment In tion« this Institution became the a state of nature where the albino is Royal society (under the reign of cruelly conspicuous and speedily hunt Charles II), the first scientific society ed down by man or the hunting beasts. In Europe. There have been occasional reports German» Fall. of albino deer in Oregon. Always the In the meantime, news comes from white coat proves the animal's undo Germany that three other physicists. ing. There Is no rest until it Is slain. Erich Tlede, Arthur Schleede nnd Frieda Goldschmidt, hnve repented the experiments of Mlethe without tbe Father, 42, Mother, 41; lightest success. Using chemically They Have 10 Children pure mercury anil subjecting It to the Attleboro, Mass.—Mr. and Mrs. Jo »nine infusion treatment a« did seph Sheldon, of Broggs Corner dis Mlethe, they have not been able to trict, are claiming records for family find even the smallest traces of gold honors. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon were In It. Also we are Informed that Doc married when he was sixteen and his tor Aston, the world famous physical wife fifteen, and they have ten chll- chemist of the Cavendish laboratory dren now, at the age of forty-two and In Cambridge, England, has decld forty-one. None of the children has cd that If gold Is made from mercury ever had a day's lllpes», and only once It must be heavier than ordinary gold has the doctor been called to the Shel Unfortunately for the electrical al don house, except to assist the stork, hemlsts, their analysis showed that that occasion being when Joseph, Jr., heir gold made from mercury was Above are shown Crow Indians watching tor a sight oi me buffalo herd the eldest, stuck a Ash hook In his precisely the same as ordinary gold, the spectacular mimic hunt In Yellowstone National park. In which the hand. vhich Is another severe blow for In days of their fathers were revived. I Item. h UNÖCÄWQO o T Earth Round, Monk Said Long Before Columbus VENDETTALAND IS LAND OF CONTRASTS AND MYSTERY Revive Their Old-Time Hunting Uncle Sam has about a hundred bull buffaloes to «pare, and anyone who wants one for a pet should write to the Department of the Interior. Arno B. Cammeror (right) will examine the application and if It 1« approved a buffalo with a head like the one above will be sent for the cost of catching and crating—about $85. carry one to the green and the netting la either a pagoda or cherry-blossomed trees; at Honolulu to the distant music of ukuleles and the odor ot pineapples carried on the breeze from fur off groves, and then to try the golf links of sun-kls«ed California, of Pan ama and of Havana. The uniqueness of thl« golfing cruise around tbe world with a golfing skip- . per has never been attempted, and when the "Empress of Scotland pulls into her dock at New York next spring the story wfil be told of how at Delhi, up near the Himalaya moun tains, either Captain Latta or one of the tounsts, holed out In three, beat ing the local maharajah, who probably played with gem-studded clubs and was attended by silken and golden- robed caddies.
