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ONCE A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR
send a message. Senator Nixon heard him, called for the instrument, and
proceeded to climb the nearest telegraph pole with all the agility of one fond
of the art. He cut in, and in less than five minutes was calling for a certain
station down the line, which he had called thousands of times in his youthful
days.
Now, everybody does not know, perhaps, that a telegraph operator’s man
ner of sending Is equally as distinct as his manner of writing or speaking,
and those who have ever known his touch remember it Just exactly as they
would remember his voice if they had ever heard it. The operator at the
station he was calling happened to be the old one, and he had not heard Sen
ator Nixon’s touch for 20 years, but recognized it at once.
"Where the Sam Hill did you come from, and where are you?” came over
the wire to Nixon.
"On top of a telegraph pole,” replied Nixon. “Send us a wrecking train.'
And you better believe the wrecking train was sent in a hurry. Since
then Senator Nixon has been a hero with the people on that train.
IS DOING MUCH FOR PEACE
touch of imagination that might at this moment arouse the people of Europe
to a full sense of the folly and barbarism of armaments and war. But his
temperament makes him proceed slow ly and cautiously within the conven
tional lilies of diplomacy.
TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING
The plan, not altogether novel In its oentral features, yet truly astounding
in the imposing magnitude contemplated, proposes that every family in th«
United States shall utilize the spare ground attached to its dwelling forth«
raising of the vegetables used on the home table. It is obviously impossible
» shut one’s eyes to the fact that there are many thousands, perhaps mil
lions, of families who, living in city localities so densely populated and sc
sompletely bricked, have no spare ground available for even a foot of parsley
MEXICO’S NEW AMBASSADOR
capital of the mining state of Hlldalgo. From 1897 to 1903 he was postmas
ter general of Mexico, and on April 16, 1903, he was promoted to be treasure;
of the nation. The new ambassador is 51 years old.
United States Senator George S
Nixon of Nevada ts a man of varied
attainments. He never held an office
in his life except one term in ths
state legislature as a state representa
tive until he was sent to the United
States senate. Senator Nixon got_his
start in life as a telegraph operator,
It must have been mighty paying, as
he is now the owner of several banks,
land and a theater or two, all oi
which are said to be worth at least
20 millions of .dollars.
A story of one of his feats of
telegraphy has recently been told, He
was on one of the California limiteds
a few years ago, when there was a
wreck. They were away off from no
where, so to speak, with the methods
of communication cut off. The con
ductor of the limited said that they
had a telegraph instrument aboard,
and always carried it, but unfortu
nately there was no one that could
Never before has the peace move
ment evoked such unanimous en
thusiasm in Great Britain. The mosi
striking fact is the cordial response
given by the German official press t<
the overtures of Foreign Minister Sil
Edward Grey.
Os all the great European news
papers the Paris Temps alone strikei
a discordant note, but its cynica
doubts are drowned by the cordia.
welcome extended to the movement
by the other French papers.
Sir Edward Grey himself is optim
istic, and he is a man of singularlj
calm and unemotional character
Peace advocates here, while warmlj
appreciating his work, wish that ht
was endowed with more fire and en
ergy to avail himself of the presen'
temper on both sides of the Atlantic
to mark an immediate and declsivt
advance in the good w’ork. Thor
oughly sincere, determined and single
minded, Sir Edward Grey lacks the
With this spring the city of Mem
phis, Tenn., inaugurates an experi
ment which, it is believed, by the
foremost authority in the farmers
co-operative demonstration work al
Washington will prove the practica
bility of a plan capable of reducing
the cost of lining in America bj
the cost of living in America bj
reduce it half that amount.
Dr. S. A. Knapp, the chief of the
co-operative demonstration office li
the department of agriculture a:
Washington, in announcing the in
auguration of the Memphis experi
ment, dwells particularly on the es
ficiemy of boys in showing that, bj
the use of proper modern methods
enormously increased crops can be
raised on ground which gave previous
ly but meager returns to the toil an<
the crude systems in vogue amonj
;-he men farmers of their respective
districts. In brief, the corn-club plan
is to be applied to town back yards
The latest addition to the diplomat
ic corps at the nation’s capital is Man
uel de Zamacona e Inclan, who was
selected by President Diaz as Mexi
can ambassador to the United States
as a successor of Francisco Leon de
la Barra, who has accepted the pos’
of minister of foreign affairs in the
new Diaz cabinet. Senor Inclan ii
at present the financial representative
of the government of Mexico in Lon
don. He has had considerable expe
rience in diplomacy.
He studied in the United Statei
and Europe when a young man, anc
in 1878-80 filled the position of at
tache to the Mexican legation ii
Washington while his father, Manue
M. de Zamacona, was minister. Fron
1880 to 1895 he was secretary to th<
local board of the Mexican Centra
railway. From 1895 to 1897 he was
paymaster to the military command
ery of the federal district and admin
istrator of the stamp tax at Pachuca
SEA’S BURIED BOLD
LURE OF LOST TREASURE HUNT
ING NOT ALL FICTION.
Millions Hidden Under Ocean —Some
Has Been Recovered, but Much
Remains to Be Found —
Case of John Phipps.
Boston. —Not all the tales of vast
treasures buried deep under the sea
are evolved In the minds of novelists.
Robert Louis Stevenson and a dozen
other writers have made such stories
famous, but there nave been men,
real men, who have profited by se
crets of buried gold, real gold. In
fact, some of the real stories of lost
and recovered treasure can give
points to romance and beat It with
ease.
The successful adventures of John
Phipps are a case in point. Phipps,
who ha^ been a ship s carpenter, to
wards the encl of the peventeenth
century, spent years trying to con
vince various peers that there lay a
vast Spanish treasure under the sea
off Hispaniola. At last, the Duke of
Albemarle lent him a ship, with the
result that, after a year of adventure
Phipps returned to England, bringing
with him recovered treasure worth
$1,000,000.
Phipps’ welcome when he returned
to England with this freight resulted,
through the influence of the Duke of
Albemarle, who shared his treasure,
in knighthoo-d and an appointment as
governor of Massachusetts.
Ever since the time of Phiy/s, the
search for gold has gone on. How
ever, although centuries have passed,
many a million still lies on the bot
tom of the ocean, and it may continue
there centuries longer.
Perhaps the most valuable sunken
treasure in the world is now lying at
the bottom of Vigo bay. The Spanish.
In 1702, to avoid capture, scuttled
their largest ships laden with treas
ure, the harvest of four years’ loot
ing in Mexico. The treasure, in gold,
silver and previous stones, is esti
mated to be worth $10,000,000.
On one of the islands of the Lee
ward group in the West Indies, either
Marie Galanti or Descada La Fitte, a
French pirate of 100 years ago, buried
gold and specie to the value of $1,000,-
000.
Among the other treasures of the
ocean is the wreck of the Black
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Laden With Treasure.
Prince, which lies at the bottom of
the sea off Sevastopol. The Black
Prince was dispatched to Sevastopol
with a general cargo for the army and
$500,000 as service pay. It was sunk
the day of its arrival by Russian gun
fire, and went down with its cargo
and treasure, none of which has ever
been recovered. Another English ves
sel containing a large amount in spe
cie is the East Indlaman Grosvenor,
now lying under water off St. John’s,
Cape Colony.
As an amusing instance of the way
In which lost treasure can grow by
rumor, Captain Kidd’s hoard is in
structive. When Kidd was hanged in
London in May, 1701, a shipmate of
Kidd’s said that the captain had hid
den about $1,500 worth of plate and
coin, which he had not been able to
recover. From this small beginning
sprang the innumerable stories of
Captain Kidd’s hoards, the last of
which placed the amount at $5,000,000
Find $1,250,000 in Old House.
London. —Treasure trove to the
value of $1,250,000 Is reported from
Jersey, where It was uncovered by
Athelstan Riley while he was pulling
down-the ruins of an old manor house
built In the thirteenth century with
the object of using the stone to en
large his present manor.
The discovery includes ancient urns
filled with spade guineas bearing the
British arms on a spade-shaped shield.
One urn bears the monogram of Em
peror Vespasian, the Roman who flour
ished in the first century.
Bay Travels 10,000 Miles.
Atchison, Kan. —Howard, son ol
Major and Mrs. Horace D. Bloom
bergh, who arrived in Atchison with
his mother the other day, since his
birth, seven weeks ago, has traveled
ten thousand miles. He came from
Manila to San Francisco on an army
transport. He is believed to be the
greatest traveled baby of his age in
the United States.
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