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VAST TREASURE IN WRECKS BENEATH WATERS OF INLAND SEAS. Is? Is5 t'K - so. J In twenty year3 between 1878 and 1898 6,000 vessels were wrecked on the Inland seas, marine records show. The loss of cargo In this period of less than one-fourth of the years of navigation on the lakes was $8,000,000. From this estimate It Is figured that the total number of vessels wrecked reaches 14,000 and the amount of treas ure at the bottom of the lakes Is $20, 000,000. String these sunken vessels with their hidden treasures over the 1,000 mile course from Buffalo to Duluth. and there would be one every half mile. The field of romance on the Inland teas Is as great as that of the South seas. Many of thoae vessels with rich cargoes disappeared suddenly and mys teriously, as If smuggled away by an unseen power. Most of thsse cargoei remain to this day for lucky fortune hunters, In the wrecking of 14,000 ships thousands of lives were snuffed out and unwritten acts of heroism played. Many fortunes have been re covered from the bottom of the lakes. Not many years ego a treasure ship came clown from the North, the Wil liam H. Stevens, loaded with $101,880 worth of copper. She went down off Conneaut, O. Unavailing efforts to re cover her treasure were made until Capt. Harris W. Baker, Detroit, fitted out a modern treasure-hunting expedi tion. He recovered $100,000 of the cargo, his share of the treasure being $50,000. On the south shore of Lake Erie, between Erie and Dunkirk, the steamer Dean Richmond lies with $50, 000 In zinc on board. The Richmond disappeared between these two ports and the bodies of the crew were waBhed nnhore. Lake Huron Is called the "Lal'.e of the Sunken Treasure." Near Saginaw bay are more lost ships with valuable cargoes than In any oth er of the great lakes. The steamer City of Detroit, with a $50,000 copper cargo; R. G. Coburn, 100,000 copper cargo, and the steamer Fay, with $20, 000 In steel billets on board, He in the bay. The steamer Kent was sunk off Point Pelee with much money In her hulk. Eight men- lost their lives on the Kent. Whisky and coal form an Important part of the treasure which awaits re covery In the Inland seas. In 1846 the Lexington, Capt. Peer, cleared from Cleveland for Port Huron with a car go of 110 barrels of whisky. The ship foundered In mldlake with all on board. To-day the whisky Is worth $115 per barrel. The Anthony Wayne sank In Lake Erie with 300 barrels of whisky and wine on board. The West moreland sank with a similar cargo. It is said that coal worth $5,000,000 awaits recovery. A terrible event on the inland seas was the loss of the steamer Atlantic off Long Point, Lake Erie, with 300 lives. Not until a quarter of a cen tury had passed was trace of the ship found. Treasure worth $30,000 was taken from her. The Griffin, built by La Salle at the foot of Lake Erie in January, 1679, sailed across Lake Erie, UP the Detroit river and entered Lake Michigan. She started on the return trip in the fall of 1680 with, $12,000 In furs on board. She was never heard of. Treasure hunters are now seeking the $80,000 copper cargo that went down with the steamer Pewablc In a collision with the Meteor in August, 1865. The Pewabic went down In Lake Huron, off Thunder Bay island. Five men have lost their lives In attempts to recover her cargo. The new attempt is being made by a New York syndi cate, which has perfected a Hiving rig that they declare will withstand the water pressure at the depth at which the treasure lies. EARLY LETTER OH THE UNION. Dr. Rimh Feared a Too Quick Pence with England Would Be Harmful. One of the finest specimens of let ters In a recent sale of autographs by Stan V. Henkels In Philadelphia, was written on April 15, 1782, by Dr. Ben jamin Rush, a signer of the declara tion of independence, to Maj.-Gen. Nathanael Greene, says the New York Times. s Dr. Rush was physician-general of the revolutionary army also. He prac ticed hla profession In Philadelphia and during the yellow fever epidemic there in 1783 he treated It success fully and it has been estimated that he saved from death no less than 6,000 persons. He was a firm supporter of the fed eral constitution and his letter Is chiefly about that subject. 'He says: "It Is true France has done wonders for ub. But may not even this have a beneficial effect on our country here after. It seems Intended by heaven to teach us the necessity of a perpetual union and confederation. If the com bined force of all the States was un equal to the power of Britain, what can be expected from the spirit or re sources of any one of them? I am so perfectly satlsflod that the future peace, safety, freedom of America depend upon our union that I view the debt of our country with pleasure, especially that part of It we owe to ourselves. Our danger at present arises principally from two causes. First, a too speedy peace with Britain, and, second, from Britain's acknowledging our independence, I wish the first may.be deferred till a naval war has given us as many fleets and admirals as a land war has given us armies and generals. The last event would un nerve the resentments of America and Introduce among us all the conse quence of English habits and manners with English manufactures. To pre vent this aud enable us to transmit our feeling to posterity, I wish Brit tin for fifty years to come may con tinue In all her acts of government to call us 'rebels' and 'deluded subjects." We stand in need of all the follies and vices of our enemies to give us a national character." On Sept. 23, 1783, the definitive treaty of peace was signed, by which the Independence of tho thirteen United States was acknowledged by Great Britain. It was not, however, until after Jay's treaty in 1794 that this original treaty of peace was fully executed by Great Britain. Dr. Rush's letter sold for $30. A CANAL CARRIED ACROSS A CANAL IN A TANK. ' ' " ' ' ft , ' ' ' ft. ? V :x ; if ? 4 I n x . t ui ? fcV'! 1. 3 -"t 'nk -W ' . The Wonder of Science. It was left for the exhibitor of a phonograph in tho streets of Utrecht, according to an American traveler, to put the finishing touch to the wonder ful Invention. There was tho sound of a military band In full blast, aud then suddenly the tune stopped and "Halt!" srang hoarsely out upon the a!r. . "Who's that Interrupting the con cert?" flippantly inquired the Ameri can, edging close to the operator. "That," said the man, surveying him blandly, "was the voice of Napoleon Bonaparte, giving the order at thd Battle of Waterloo." V 1 i hVt.i r it 11 4 -jut? t it H V. a8l 1 s 1 VfYv.': KM V 1 V THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL CROSSING MANCHESTER SHIB CANAL. The Manchester ship canal, a remarkable feat of engineering, presents, perhaps, no more curious feature than the Barton aqueduct, which is here il lustrated. By means of this the old Bridgewater canal Is carried across the more modern ship canal. Tho aqueduct, which Weighs 14,000 tons, has a water-tight gate at either end. These gates are closed when It is necessary to make way for a vessel on the canal below, and the aqueduct Is swung aside on a pivot, the water on Its top being held, as it were, In a tank, two walls of which aro formed by the water-tight gates. The Manchester ship canal, which gives access for sea going vessels, was begun in 1887, and was opened on the first day of 1894.. It starts at Eastham, on the left bank of the Mersey estuary, some four miles above Birkenhead. It has a breadth of 172 feet at tho surface and 120 feet at the bottom, and a depth of twenty-six feet. That is being Incrensed by two feet. the Quite So. "New thought will beautify plainest girl." "That may be so, but very few girls are going to give up lotions for no tions." Milwaukee Journal. liter Coutempt. "1 s'pose you wouldn't marry me i I were the only man on earth?" "I wouldn't even bo engaged to you," responded the girl, "if you were the only man at a summer resort." Loula yill Courier-Journal. Ill Synlem. "It Is all very well to laugh at U3 suburbanites," said one of them, "but I think my scheme is a pretty good one." "And that Is?" "I rent my country home for the sumnir for enough money to take my wife and me to Europe and pay all our expenses during the rented period. We can live so much cheaper over there that I am actually ahead of the game, and, as we take a different route every summer, we are seeing all of Europe on a quiet Installment plan that we like very much and that we should not fool we could airora ex cept for the extra Income from our home." "But you don't get any good of a country home except In the summer, and, being away, you miss all that you really bought the place for." "No, Indeed. That Is a theory you city people have. On the contrary, we people who really like to live In the country enjoy It greatly in the fall when the woods are at their most gorgeous garb and our chrysanthe mums are the wonder of all the neigh bors: and In the spring we take great delight In our hotbeds of early salads, radishes, tiny onions, crocuses, violets and other flowers and vegetables, aa well as in the miracles of spring woods and wild Hewers. We even enjoy the country In winter but It would be Idle lo talk to a city nun about that, I suppose." Chicago Inter i Oce He Had Seen a Few. The senior partner of the dry goods establishment was freeing his mind concerning the styles of head gear that had come under his observation. "The fashions in hats this season," he said, "are absolutely the worst and most un becoming I have ever seen in an ex perlence of more than forty years." "Oh, I don't know," said the junloi partner, who was more tolerant. "They have the charm of novelty, at any rate." "The 'charm' of novelty!" exclaimed the other. "Tom, have you seen any thing new in this spring's styles that you can honestly say you admire?' "Ye-es, I mink I have," hesitatingly answered the junior partner. "I'd like to know what!" "Why, the girls." The Force of Habit. One of the campers had done some thing peculiarly Idiotic, and the dean said, "Dick reminds me of Thomas' colt." "What about Thomas' colt?" asked Dick, cheerfully. "Why," the dean responded readily, "where I lived In Maine when I was a boy an old man named Thomas raised horses. He once put out to pasture a colt, which had been fed from Its birth in a box stall and wa tered at the trough In the yard. "The pasture lay across a small riv er, and In the middle of the day the colt swam the stream to go up to th barnyard for a drink of water." WHO MAKES BURGLARS' KITSP Pew Shop Where the Jlmmr Caa Be Bonght. Every little while, said a London detective, recently, the police arrest a man with a set of burglar's tools in his possession, and one naturally won ders where they all come from. It Is easy to buy a gun of any description and the most reputable person would not be alarmed to be seen purchasing the most wicked looking knife ever made, but who would know where to get a Jimmy or a device for drilling into a safe or any of the many tools used by the professional burglar In the pursuit of his calling? There probably are places in the large cities where these things are made and sold to the user, but such places are exceedingly scarce. It may seem a little strange to learn that most of the tools used In burglaries are made by mechanics who are look ed upon as respectable men In the community. , When a burglar wants any particular tool made he goe3 to a mechanic who can do the job, and pays him perhaps five times what it is actually worth for making the tool and keeping quiet about it. Many de tectives can recall cases of this kind that have come to light In London. One In particular occurred some years ago, when an escaped convict named Williams went to a blacksmith in the East End and got him to make a lot of drills to be used in safe crack ing. He personally superintended the tempering of the steel, but when the job was nearly completed it leaked out, and Williams was arrested. In this instance the blacksmith knew nothing of the use to which the tools were to be put: Most of the tools used by burglars are secured in the same way. The only regular establishment ever discovered where they were made was In the East End. This was years ago, and the place was soon pounced upon. w shpt Sf tor The New York Building Code, sec tions 153-155, provides that, on the refusal of an owner of an unsafe building to make It safe or remove it, a report of the building shall be made to a court, which, if it finds that the building is unsafe, shall com mand the commissioner of buildings to take it down or make it safe, and that the expense thereof shall constitute a Hen on the premises. Section 157 provides that if a building collapses the city may remove the debris, to be paid for out of the fund, under sec tion 158. In the case of In re Jenkins, 115 New York Supplement, 385, such provisions are construed by the New York Supreme Court, and it is held that the city has no lien on property for expenses incurred In removing de bris of a collapsed building and the bodies of people burled beneath the ruins, and Is directly liable to the contractor employed to do the work. The Maine Supreme Court's refer ence in a previous decision to a search warrant as "a sharp and heavy police weapon to be used most carefully lest it wound the security or liberty of the citizen," is f11y justified by the con duct of the officers as related in Buck ley vs. Beaulieu, 71 Atlantic Reporter, (0. Under the authority of a warrant to search certain premises for intoxi cating liquors, and armed with axes, pickaxes and crowbars, they entered the house and made a search from attic to cellar, and even dug into the floor of the cellar. On finding no liquors, and Btrongly suspecting they were somewhere concealed about the house, they broke into and tore out a strip from the interior walls of the rooms below stairs entirely round each room, and dropped the debris upon the floors and carpets. All this was done In the hope of finding, not the liquors, but some pipe or other clue leading to the liquors. The' officers then de parted, leaving the occupants to re move the debris, and-leaving the plain tiff, the owner, to restore his house and make it again habitable. Such conduct was declared by the court to be unlawful, and such a search en tlrely unreasonable and In excess of the officers' authority. It was no de fense to an action for damages that they acted In good faith, in the full belief that the occupant was keeping liquors in the house In violation of the law. Glanders In a JIan. Glanders is a disease of horses, but one from which, unfortunately, human beings are not entirely exempt. For merly cases of human glanders were thought to be exceedingly few and far between, the statistics of the registrar general in England, for example, show ing a mortality of only one or two a year. Latterly, however, with im proved means of diagnosis at our com mand, it has been proved that many persons have had glanders and died of it with the real nature of the disease wirecognized. The ulcers have been diagnosed as tuberculosis, as those of typhoid, of smallpox, or of some form of blood poisoning, and they have been treated accordingly, with, of course, fatal re sults; for glanders Is a very dreadful disease, the cure of which depends upon prompt and radical measures. To-day there is no excuse for any failure in correct diagnosis, because the special bacillus causing glanders called the Bacillus mallei is peculiar to this disease. It Is naturally those whose work keeps them in close contact with horses who are most in danger of glanders, and it has also been known to attack several members of a family where the father worked in a stable, and one case has been reported where a wash erwoman caught it from infected cloth ing. Glanders may be either acuta or chronic. There may be a slow succes sion of abscesses attacking the mus cles, or crawling along the lymphatic system for months. Sometimes, after surgical treatment, these abscesses will heal, and there will be no further symptoms; sometimes a slow chronic case will suddenly burst out into a violent acute one, and death ensue. Other cases are acute from the first, and may be mistaken for blood-poison ing from some other cause, or for an acute specific fever until the terrible eruption appears, too late for any treat ment to be of avail. As to the treatment, there is little that is cheerful to be said. Thorough cutting out of the local sore Is the one and only thing on which to- pin any faith. Attempts have been made to get an antitoxic serum, but so far these have not been successful. The best fight against "glanders has been in the line of eradication of the disease by means of the mallein test on all suspicious animals. Any horse which reacts to this test is at once killed. In England It is now the rule that most of the large stables are reg ularly tested with mallein. Stablemen and all people working round horses should bo taught the val ue of cleanliness, and especially the need of great care when troubled with any abrasion of the skin or open wound, however small. , A Fitting Deduction. "Do you know what an oath is, lit tle girn" "Yes, sir; I must always tell the truth." "If you always tell the truth, wher will you go when you die?" "Up to heaven." "And if you tell lies?" "To the naughty place, sir." "Are you sure of that?" "Quite." "Let her be sworn. It Is quite clear she knows a great deal more than I do." Modern Society. Going Oat. Mr. B. There, I've let my cigar go out. Do you know that it spoils cigar, no matter how good it is, if you allow it to go out? Mrs. B. Yes; a ctgar is a good deal like a man In that respect Lock at Laat. "I's done had de proof dat dar's luck In a rabbit's foot." said Erastua Finkly. "What were de proof?" "I done sold de one I't been carry- in' so long to a superstitious white lady fob to biU." Washington Star. Ington, jumped from $12 at Nenkel'i sale on April 3, 1906, to $24. i The Increase in price wa3 not con fined to revolutionary autographs. A letter by Lord George Gordon Byron, June 22, 1821, to Signor Albaghetti, brought $25 at Henkel's, in Philadel phia, in 1906, but now went for $28. A letter signed but not written by. Robert Blake, British, admiral during Cromwell'B time, sold for $8 at Mer-win-Clayton's, March 23, 1906, but now brought $25. THE MORALITY OF "WRINKLES. Maage and Care Still Fall to De fraud Time. "What saddens me mobt," said the Western woman, on her first visit o Atlantic City, "is not the tiresome monotony of all these directoire gowns, but the expressionless same ness of the faces above them. What has become of all the fine old lines of character and individuality?" "Been massaged away," was the laughing reply; "skin food and a trained masseuse for an hour everjr day, with a cup of chocolate and a nap after it; and once begun, the process has to be kept up, or thd wrinkles show worse than before. "You are an unsophisticated ranch- woman," the speaker continued, smil ing up into the fine, mobile face over which a flush of astonishment and scorn was creeping; "and I am a busy wife and mother, with neither the( time nor the money to waste in elab- orate defenses against ugliness and; wrinkles. Perhaps in her old age we may benefit others by being a hor rible warning to them." The two women were swallowed up by the crowd on the board walk. spite of their silvery hair, artistically j dressed, without monstrosities of puffs ; and pompadours, their faces glowed with a youthfulness and animation bespeaking sturdy living, mental alert- ! ness, forces long maturing and years well spent. Their handsome hats and : gowns, which seemed to clothe rather j than bedizen them," could not' conceal I the grace, 'dignity and elasticity of all their movements. A lady who In the crowd had been pressed so close to them that she could not but overhear their conver sation said to herself that should they live to be a hundred their faces would still be , far more attractive than the smoothed-out faces of fashionable so ciety. She recalled with A smile how the Due de Richelieu visited Voltaire in Paris when both had reached the age of eighty. The shriveled man of letters, in his night-cap, looked bet ter preserved than the duke, who ap peared magnificently dressed In all his decorations, with his wrinkles gath ered up and fastened under his peruke. Youth's Companion. ml PRICE OF AUTOGRAPHS UP. Cue of the Typewriter Make Writ ten Mannacrlpt More Valuable. The tendency to use the typewriter, according to collectors of rare nianu scripts, is to increase gradually but surely the value of autographs. It is becoming difficult to find any but type written letters of eminent men of this era, especially those In public office, The raise in price, however, is notice able also In the letters of distinguish ed persons of past generations. The autographs of the eminent men of the revolutionary period, for Instance, are each season commanding higher fig ures. The latest sale at Anderson's of autographs furnishes proof of this up ward tendency of prices for Important items, the New York Times says. It so happened that some of the inter esting letters had been sold only a few years ago in New York, Philadel phia or Boston. Thus a letter of Robert Benson, Sept 19, 1780, to Col. Richard Varick, relating to passes given to tories by Gen. Horatio Gates, and telling of Clinton's confidence in Benedict Ar nold, whose treason was discovered two days later, fetched only $7 at a sale by Stan. V. Henkels in Philadel phia in 1906, but now it realized $41. A letter of James Duane to Gov. George Clinton, Sept. 7, 1780, in re gard to the defeat of Gen. Gates at Camden, brought $12 at Libbie's in Boston on May 15, 1906, and now real ized $15.50. A manuscript of a special message to Congress by U. S. Grant, while president of the United States, writ ten in pencil on eight quarto pages, sold for $24 at Anderson's in 1906, but now was bid up to $86. A letter of Francis Hopkinson, sign er of the Declaration of Independence, written on May 10, 1780, to Nathaniel Appleton of Boston, which sold for $3.50 at Merwin-Clayton's on Jan. 12, 1906, now fetched $10.50. A letter signed but not written, by Gen. Robert E. Lee and addressed to Gen. U. S. Grant, June 6, 1864, with regard to the burying of the dead and the removal of the wounded after the battle of Cold Harbor on June 3, brought $13 at Anderson's on May 9, 190o, and now realized $24.50. A letter of Col. Robert McGraw, July 29, 1776, to Col. James Wilson, ficrlbln the condition of Fort Wah- A REAL TREAT. An English rural clergyman lives In a mental Isolation which is the sub ject of an amusing yet somewhat pain ful story found in Rev. S. Baring Gould's recent book, "Cornish Charac ters and Strange Events." One day William Pengelly, a geologist well known in his time, was traveling on foot for the purpose of examining the rocks, when he learned that his road lay within a couple of miles of his old mathematical friend, D. His time was very short, put .for "auld lang syne" he decided to visit his friend, whom he had not met for several years. When he reached the rectory, which was in a very secluded district, Mr. and Mrs. D. were fortuntely at home, and received him with their wonted kindness. The salutations were barely over when Pengelly said: "It is now 6 o'clock. I must reacH Wellington to-night, and as it is said to be fully eight miles off, and I am wholly unacquainted with the road, and -with the town when I reach it, I cannot remain with you one minut9 after 8 o'clock." "Oh, very well," said D. "Then we must improve the shining hour. Jane, my dear, be so good as to order tea." Having said this, he left the room. In a few minutes he returned with a book under his arm and 1 his hand3 filled with writing materials,' which he nlaced on the table. Oneninsr the honk- he said: "This is Hind's Trigonometry, and here's a lot of examples for practice. Let us see which can do the greatest number of them by 8 o'clock. I did most of them many, years ago, but i have not looked at them since. Sup pose we begin at this one" which he pointed out "and take them as they come. We can drink our- tea . as we work, so as to lose no time." "All right," said Pengelly, although it. was certainly not the object fo? which, he had come out of his road. v They set to work. No words passed' between them; the servant brought 'sx the tray, Mrs. D. handed them their tea, which they drank now and then, and the time flew on rapidly. At length, finding it to be a quarter to 8, Pengelly said, "We must stop, fo in a quarter ofan hour I must be ou my road." "Very well. Let us see how on mara fltrroa vHth tliua n v .... v . ea one more man Pengelly had. , v-gw D.U, trooa-oy. Do come again as soon as you can. The fanners about here know nothing whatever about trigo nometry." They parted at the rectory door and never met again, for D. died a few, years laUr. ' 1