Found
San Francisco. Three prospector
slipped In off the desert In battered
old auto recently with a story that be
gins where Jules Verne and Rider
Haggard stopped. It had to do with a
burled city laden with millions of dol
lars' worth Ot" gold and highly pre
served bodies of no less than 700 men
bdiI women who grew to i height of
Ix feet six Inches and upward.
This Golconda of modern times re
mains somewhat of a secret as far as
definite location Is concerned, but tt
Is partly under the Colorado river at
a point along the Callfomla-Arlroria
line, according to the sponsors of Its
existence. It Is reached by a shaft
about 28 miles In length, paved with
blocks held together by red cement,
and lies three miles nnder the surface
according to the prospectors.
They are 0. J. Howard of Houston.
Texas; bis wife, and Reuben King of
Denver and San Antonio,
Howard, acting as simkesman, at
tempted to persuade I'rot A. U Kroe
ber, bead of the anthropology depart
ment of the Cnlverslty of California,
that the university should Ann nee an
expedition to uneartb all this vast
wealth. The scientist Informed How
ard that the university has no funds
for such a purpose. Professor Kroe
ber, as a matter of fact, was inclined
to discount Jie veracity of the Strang
thlngs he beard about the under
ground city of Babylonian elegance,
but hastened to add that "nothing Is
Impossible."
SUCH IS LIFE
SOMETHING TO
TALK ABOUT
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dsaa of Men, University of
llliaois.
Tbey are slipping the hospital g"wn
opoo the patient Just previous to roil
ing linn up to
x, .v r the operating
14L. room to be an
is a look of con
cern on his face
as he Is present
ed by the cur
toonist. He Is
worried, not
about the nitr
ation, but about
the seriousness
of it.
"Listen, Doc." be says to the sur
geon standing over him. "Is this oper
ation going to be somt'tliin' worth
while to talk tib'i(?"
It Is a mutter of grave concern, this
operation business. Surgical o-ra
lions hnve grown so common ami s"
simple (lint lln-re U often little oppor
tunity offered for lurid description and
thrilling conversation. Half the plea
ure of the exirlene Is tnken awnj
when It furnishes nothing worth white
to talk about. There was a time
when driving one's tonsils out was
enough to stir the nelghliorhood to
Its emotional and conversational
depths and when the removal of mi
iipliendlx was us stimulative of talk
as the events eoiuieiied with a c.v
clone. Not so In these days. It lakes
almost complete deletion of one's l
cera today to arouse any excited talk
A friend of mine last year lost bis np
penillx, had hi stomach patched and
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Wonder City
"We are only desert rats," explained
Howard, "but we know we have lo
cated more burled treasure than has
ever been uncovered In this country,
There will be a lot of sorehemls when
we Ond tho help we need and prove
we have the goods.
"We know we are telling a story
hard to believe, but are willing to
take anyone with money to the burled
COAST COACH
Al Shurpe. former coach of Yale
and Cornell football teams, who has
assumed charge of the Washington
university football team which Is shap
ing up well.
Showing Pop Up By Charles Sughroe
a few minor repairs made In his pan
creas all at one sitting, and It didn't
cause a ripple In the community.
We are not satisfied these days to
talk about the ordinary or the com
monplace, we demand the unusual
and the sensational. An ordinary op
eration or event or crime does nut
stimulate thought or Interest any
more. We Insist umd tlie glaring
headlines. Mrs. Craves and Mrs.
Simpson were conversing Id low tones
behind their hands with their eyes
turned furtively toward their neigh
bors. They had something very Inter
esting, very risque, no doubt, to talk
ubouL There was a scandal In the
neighborhood something unusual had
happened, somebody bad gone wrong,
the Irregularity for which they bad
been looking, or hoping almost, per
haps, hnd been discovered, and they
bad something worth while to talk
about.
It Is a curious characteristic of hu
man beings that wo more often limn
otherwise find pleasure In talking
about the abnormal, the disagreeable,
the event discreditable to the erson
concerned.
In one ef t!ie high schools of the
sln'e. I saw It tneiit loiied laiely the;
are givinz to the young women (who
need H hs limn men, I believe) a
course In conversation. The young
people are taught to find In the nun
mohilnre affair of everyday life mat
ters rthlcli lend themselves to being
tatkcil about, and tbey lire shown lew
to work these topics -up sutllclenlly to
make them Inteiesilng. It is a good
Idili. We leach young ieople almost
everyllilnit thoe tiny. Why nol alve
them a little bleu of conversation so
thai II will not be necessary to have
mi e:irtlMiiake or a cyclone or an op
eralli-n for gall stones In Hie commu
nity hcfoie they will be able lo think
up something worth while talking
about.
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city and let him see the treasure with
his own eyes,
"About three years nnd eight months
ago we were prospecting for gold
along the Culifornln-Arliona desert
country. One day I was working In
a 20-foot shaft when my pick broke
through to an rhandoned mining shaft,
tt was paved with square beveled
stones fastened with red cement. They
looked very old. I followed the shaft
for 23 miles and came to the burled
city."
Howard described In detnll how he
entered a great circular chamber with
a table extending almost entirety
across Its diameter, at which were
seated "the almost nude bodies of 73
persons," sit feet six Indies or taller,
with "blue eyes," which were open,
and with "flesh white and linn, hav
ing been preserved In an extraordi
nary manner."
In another room, which Howard
opined might have been the harem,
were the bodies of 200 women.
The city had trapdoors nnd all kinds
of plain and fancy levers and
mechanism, Howard declured.
He suld tiiey cached 1 8,000 Id gold
dust which they retrieved, and King
went to Cheyenne to try to nuance the
expedition, tly the time the trio went
back to the cache the cabin Id which
It bad been secreted hnd been washed
away by the flood of a freshet, he said,
thus delaying them In gelling their
story to the world from which they
hope to obtain finances.
To Follow Old Trail
Kansas City, Mu. Widespread In
terest In the covered wagon train
which will set out from here next
spring for Sacramento, Calif., Is being
Indicated by letters received by the
LUCKY SHOP GIRL
S5 i
ft.
1
Cecil Sainshury. twenty-one year old
grimdsoii of the millionaire founder of
(be great Kngllsli provision firm of that
name, recently married Hilda I'lum
rldge. a shop girl of New Maiden. Mur
rey. They ate shown above on their
honeymoon at Lake Windermere.
Unusual
Hosion - What la authoritatively
said In be the world s largest collec
tion of unusual lltll.i books does not
He under dust protecting glass, within
the deeps of some great museum or
library. It Is gathered In a Utile
bouse In llrookllne.
The collection Is the property ol
James I). Henderson, a I tost on real
estate dealer, and consists of npproxl
mutely 7011 "volumes," few of which
are more than three inches high.
Many are small enough lo rest com
forlalily on a two cent postage stump
In fact, a doxen among the collec
tion may lay valid rlnlm lo ranking
among the world's smallest books. Mr
Nothing Going to Hurt This Baby Orang
sBBBaaBsaMHMSJSSHasMaMssasaaawtflaaMnsMSHSMSSM
A picture of mnternal protection and aollcitude - shown above In the
pose ot "Maggie," the huge orang utan, and her bahy bom recently at the
Philadelphia soo, the first to be born In America. At no time Is the tiny
Infnnt sway from her mother's protective arms.
Chanher of Commerce and Cnpl
Charles B. liavls, sponsor of ihr train
from n.uny parts of the country.
The letters, which contain Informs
tlop relative to covered wugoiii, in
teams and old trails, come from old
"bull Khaikers" (ox team drivers), his
torical soi Icllcs and iersotis Interested
io the reproduction of the life of 1 H 111
The covered wagon cariunn Is ex
pei-ted to start from tho old West win
Ijindlng and travel to Sacramento lo
lake part In the eightieth annual cele
brut Inn o ihe gold rush ot 't'.i.
Captain ha vis' tonienllon that many
lilstorhal societies do not huve sulll
ilciil liifiirmalloD about Hie covered
wagon days has been proved In purl b)
discovery that the Kansas Slate Ills
lorlral society lias Ihi ii iinat'le to as
slst In giving Information about the
covered wugou caravans.
One ol the letters received was from
J. E. Long, sixty five years old, Clare
mure. Okla., who sold be bad not ban
died s team of oxen for several years
hul believes he ran bit a ily with
nine-foot whip, such as used by "bull
hackers."
Long said plenty of oxen teams
could lie obtained In southern lumber
camps.
Another till of In forma Hon received
In the letters Is that some of Hie cov
ered wagons were equipped with
speedometer.
Borne of Hie wagon wheels, the In
formnnl wrote, were as much as eight
feel In diameter. The Sieedomeler
on the wagon constated of a atlck
fastened on s spoke so It would strike
a pari of the wagon. A member nl
the parly would keep record of the
number of limes the stick struck the
wugon.
At the end of Ihe day's Journey, Hie
number of miles covered would lie vnni
puled from the numlier of revolutions
the wagon wheel bad made.
Thus the number of miles from one
Library
Henderson demonstrates that 12
volumes may be supported at once In
a single tablespoon.
The books used for this HterRry
feat ure a Koran; an Kngllsli dic
tionary of I2.is words; a Galileo
honk, said to he the smallest In the
world with a moveable type; a Team
menl; the Mite, which up to 1K!M
was ruled the world's smallest book ,
a Holier! (turns; a I'etll I'oticeli Ihe
r'retirb constitution, In a gold stamped
leather binding; a Clta, written In
Rntiskrli; a Tusclie Knlemlar; a Turns
Mosche. judged the sinalli-sl of Jiwlnh
hooks; and a book of KcotilNh Irish
songs, wllh the music Included.
place to another Was learned and maps
were made showing Ihe distances he
I ween landmarks, trading posts, water
holes, rivers and other impurlatil
places along the trails.
FOR FALL DAYS
Velvets, broadcloths nnd woolen
mixtures ure the favored fabrics for
fall coats.
Colors on tin extremely Important
Item In chic. Light and dark shades
of blue nnd dark nrowns. beige and
blink being the most popular at the
beginning of Hie season.
I (oris tiimson appears In a very
new tint) charming version of the full
mode In the dim, "Heart Trouble." It
Is of gray broadcloth smartly cut and
trimmed wllh platinum nmy fox. A
wide suede hell of gray lends an air
of youth and dnsh that Is most pleas
ing.
A girl never tries
to extinguish the
spark as long as a
man has money to
burn.
4
LIFE'S
LITTLE
JESTS
AN APT PUPIL
After a particularly frightful shot,!
tils partner turned lo him and Iti
quired: j
"How long, may I ask, have youl
been playing golf)"
"Oh, about live years," wiis thai
reply. i
"Iteally," said the (Irst sealhlng1y,
"I had tin bleu It was piisslblo lot
acquire audi appalling tgnoriinca oft
the game lu so short a time.
AGAINST THEIR POLICY
Insurance Agent Madam, Is your
son engaged In a harardous occupa
tion) Lady Why no Indeed, lies a col
lege student.
I A. Well, you kimw this company f
doesn't pay anything on suicides.
Wrong End
"I'll ct hlesl'" I
Hold rtapptr Mr biisst:
Bui courra I know 'Ivnuldn't b
Whirs h did nI It nmit.
Mutt Fall (a Ritt
"Paddy," wild bis little daughter
as they watched an airplane, "do you
think they will ever gel to heaven fly
ing away up like llialt"
"Not by going any up, my dear."
was Ihe reply; "they are more likely!
to do It by coming down. "Vancouver
Province.
A Mighty Stat
To young boys were telling about,
great deeds, w lien one who was a pro
fessor's son Hike up and sold bla
futher occupied Ihe chair of applied
phyHcs at Cambridge.
"Pal's nutting." replied Ihe other,;
"mine occupied the teat of applleil
electricity at Sing Sing "
Making It Up
Customer (to watchmaker) I told
ynu that my watch lost Imlf an hour
every day, and now, that you hnve re
paired II. II gains half an hour every
day.
Watchmaker Well, don't complain.
It's only working to catch up lost
lime.
COMFORT NO OBJECT
"This slum Ills you iierfectly. ma
dam. You'll Hnd It very comfortable
"Then give me a sine sniar,
please." ,
Correct
There sr nitlvrs of voire t
And niefira nf Ions; )
liul lh hsl of sit nifttra
I meat r slnnst '
Going and Coming
The Hooking . Agent Old your
"Uncle Tom" lent show have a long
run on the road)
The U'lid Nol a very long run.
(tut we hud a nice little hike getting
buck.
When th Sap Flow
Marks There lire summer, winter
nnd h ill ii mu resorts, but never any
for spring.
I'arks That's because spring Is
giHid enough for anyone nnywbete.
Tha Beginner
Club I'ro. Have you played much
golf)
Novice Well, a fairish bit, ot
course.
Club I'ro. H'm let's see how you
shape up. Take your stance.
Novice Which rliih Is limit i
it n i Hi f .
Si i
OTj 1)11 B
. Subffo SuaTfcttion
Wife Will ynu help ma with (ha
dlshea tonight, John
Jlhn Yea, but why not tell me you
need a new aet and be done with It!