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Nell’s Golden
Galleon
By CLARISSA MACKIE
<© IMI. by McClur* Newspaper Syndicate.)
“When my ship comes In," sighed
Maud Blont as 6he slipped another
sheet of paper into the typwriter, "I
shall throw this wretched machine out
of the window 1”
“With never a thought of the inno*
cent passerby, who might be the tar
get?" smiled Nell Woods, looking up
from her work.
“Oh, well! No danger of my ship
coming in—it has probably foundered
somewhere oft the coast of Nowhere
—too heavily freighted with gold, per
haps. What’s the use of wishing for
money and love and everything—
nothing ever happens to me!"
“Never mind, Maud, don’t worry,
and some day it will come sailing into
port.’’
Maud lifted her shoulders express
ively, found a package of chewing
gum, and went back to her typing.
Nell raised great, dark eyes, soft with
much dreaming, and looked out of her
window at the panorama of New York
harbor on a sunny May morning.
From her window on one of the upper
floors of a tall office building she
could see the ships come sailing home
—she could see them set sail again
for foreign shores. She loved them
all, even the busy little tugs that bul
lied their way about the other craft;
she built many strange fancies about
the ships, and the most elusive one of
all was her ship that some day would
come sailing home through the nar
rows.
It was no ordinary ship, this one
of Nell’s dreams—lt had grown to
be a wonderful old Spanish galleon,
freighted with gold and silver and
Jewels, and its steersman was a dash
ing lover who would bear her away
from the tedious office forever—she
would never see another hall bedroom
again—never eat another meal in a
cheap restaurant She never said
“When ray ship comes In," but “When
my golden galleon comes home."
Sometimes she wondered why she
was so anxious to leave New York.
She had been Just au anxious to leave
Sunport, where she had been born.
When her parents died and her aunt
offered her a home, Nell refused.
“I must see the world, auntie," she
explained. “I cannot be buried alive
here. Some day I will come home
again—now I must go."
So they let her go, and two years
had passed away. She had tired of
New York with Its fictitious air of
friendliness to the stranger within its
gates. "New York is Sunport grown
up,” declared Nell whimsically one
day. This summer she was going to
Sunport for her vacation. "Perhaps
my golden galleon will come sailing
through the inlet and find a harbor
there," and so Nell took her dreams
with her to Sunport.
Every day she went out on the
beach beyond her aunt’s house and
read and sewed, and sometimes
dreamed. Mrs. Lynn scolded her for
her solitary habits. “Lem Barker was
looking for your coming, Nell. If he
had been home you would not have
been alone. I’ll warrant!" The good
woman nodded wisely over this re
minder of Nell’s old admirer.
“Where Is Lem?" asked Nell lazily.
“Went to the fißhlng grounds with
the fleet—he*R making money hand
over flst—he’s bought your old place
from Adam Marsh, and fixed It all up.
Bome folks say he's going to be mar
ried.”
Nell shrugged. Lem Barker, still a
fisherman—she thought of the smartly
dressed men who had occupied the of
fices in New York; some of them were
her co-workers. How they would
laugh to see I^m—to hear his drawl!
“Well, I must get In one last sunbath
on the bench, auntie," she said; “I
think It is going to storm."
Mrs. Lynn lifted a weatherwise eye
to the sky. “A bnd blow," she pre
dicted. with a worried look on her
motherly face. “I hope the boats will
get in before It strikes."
“I hope ho," returned Nell, running
down to the beach and plunging Into
the churning gray waves.
But the ships did not come home
before the storm broke. It was a
dreadful gale and not a soul In Sun
port slept a wink while It lasted.
Nearly every home had a man out
among the fleet of fishing vessels, and
hundreds of eyes were strained toward
the Inlet ns the storm increased In
fury.
At last telegrams cutne straggling
In—message thut carried Joy or woe
to many homes. A few Sunport men
had gone down with their little boats,
the rest were coming home. There
was one man missing—Lein Barker.
No one had seen him or his gallant
little boat Nellie since the storm
struck the banks.
Nell Woods felt oddly anxiouH about
the missing man. She hud felt a ten
derness for Lem In the days before
she bad felt the call of the city—he
hu<l been kind to her parents during
duys of illness, and if she had re
mained In Suni»ort It is very likely
that she would have mnrrled Lem
Barker and remained In her own
home.
But ambition bad called, muny
months Intervened—and she could not
▼lsuulize Lem, save as a blushing,
bashful country youth with big hands.
Though she shnddered at the recollec
tion of her passing fancy for him, she
watched for his sail, as did many of
her neighbors. Lem Barker’s folk
were all dead, and some one mast look
for his homecoming. One by one the
neighbors shook their heada and gave
np the task.
“Poor Leramle's gone for good,” said
the last one, shaking his old head
sorrowfully. “He was a good lad, was
Lemmle, and knowed his boat better'n
most folks. Can't seem to see how
he’d let the sea get the better of him
—no, slree! I shan't believe he's losl
yet—" but he went home at last and
Nell was alone, straining her eyes to
ward the mouth of the inlet. It was
the last day of her vacation and she
would have to return to the city on
the morrow; and here was Lem —her
aunt had promised to write and tell
her whether he ever came home.
Nell forgot all about her golden
galleon and the smartly dressed office
men In the city as she remembered the
touch of Lem's strong arm across her
shoulders when her father died; once
his lips had touched her bright hair,
reverently. Lem would take no more
than that, then. Her heart quickened
at the thought of him.
The sun was setting. The water
was turning to yellow liquid under
Its golden touch. What was that In
the Inlet? Nell rubbed he. eyes.
Something shining—something golden?
Yes—lt looked like a galleon. Its stem
heaped high with sliver fish —tons
of them. As It drew near to the old
wharf Nell ran down to meet it. A
fishing sloop, painted yellow from
stem to stem, riding Into port on a
flowing tldel A sail was reefed qnlck
ly and she came to under bare poles.
A chain rattled and there was a fresh
“chunk” as the anchor struck the
water. Nell's hands went to her
throat—lt ached so! Her golden gal
I eon—so this was the way It came?
Now, the dashing lover—how strong
he was, this Lem Barker —like a young
bronze god, his hair blowing back from
his handsome face, breaking Into a
smile at sight of her slim loveliness.
“Oh, Nellie! Is It yon?” he said
hoarsely, as he leaped ashore.
"Yes Lem you are safe, my
dear —”
“Well, darling?" he asked after a
long silence.
She lifted her wonderful eyes to his
sea-bine ones. “My ship has come In
at last,” she sighed contentedly, and
forgot all about the golden galleon she
had dreamed of.
MYSTERIES OF HIDDEN HEAT
Time Will Surely Come When the
Earth Will Yield Up All of a
Her Riches.
Vast stores of heat and power lie
hidden In the bowels of the earth,
waiting to be tapped.
We could do without coal and oil
could we but develop the heat re
sources of the earth.
And in so doing we should probably
find new chemicals and minerals of the
greatest value to the world’s com
merce.
That is the conclusion scientists
have come to, and they are urging
expeditions to solve the mysteries of
the crust of the earth. Already some
use Is being made of the Internal heat
of the earth In the volcanic regions of
Italy, where the steam Issuing from
the ground is tmpped and put to vari
ous uses.
It is suggested that bores should
be sunk to admit water, which would
be converted into steam and could
then be utilized for mechanical pur
poses.
Excavation methods and machinery
have been Improved so much of recent
years that It may be possible to sink
such bores and shafts to a depth of
thirty miles.
At present the deepest well ever
bored is u hole six Inches In diameter
on a farm In the United States. It
has been driven to a depth of 7,579
feet, or nearly a mile and a half.
The deepest mine shaft is at Morro
Velho, Brazil, which goes down about
a mile and a fifth.
As one expert points out, we have
only succeeded In scratching the
earth’s crust. The real wonders have
yet to be reveuled to us.
Riches From the Mind.
In the last analysis a man's mind
is his best source of riches. To him
who works it, no Klondike ever yield
ed richer ores. There is no limit to
the variety of Jewels stored there; the
supply gives out only when men cease
to dig. Columbus got u new continent
out of hIH mind and the marvels of
that new world ure not yet fully
known. Newton got the laws of gravi
ty from Ids mind nnd science has been
revolutionized to stay ever since. Fnr
nduy mined the science of chemistry
from his mind. Edison, Marconi, Hol
land, the Wright brothers and others
hnve chiseled from their minds the
facts that have left blessings to the
race. They did not get them bodiiy
from their minds. They found there
the Ideas and the incentives, and as
they worked the material world was
made to yield returns that blessed the
race.—Grit.
Why Success Succeeds.
It It* surprising how quickly one can
gain the reputation of being n brisk,
lively worker—nnd it Is wonderful how
valuable such a reputation becomes to
n man.
It Ih said of such a fellow: "He Is
a hustler"—nnd knowing that hustling
Is one of the fundamentals of prog
ress, we look for him to get along well
—even putting ourselves out to shove
him up ihe ladder.
That Ih why nothing succeeds like
success.
People are always willing to believe
that Intense activity Is founded on
true ability and a good purpose, and
will play that vitalising force in their
efforts.—l/outstana Grocer.
THE GILPIN OBSERVER
COLORADO’S CROP
REPORT FOR 1920
6tate Crop Service Bulletin Bhewe
Greatest Production in His
tory of State.
IteUra Nwrepoptr Union News Servlet.
Colorado’s agricultural output In
1920 was the largest in the history of
the state. The total area under cul
tivation, according to compilations
made by the State Co-operative Crop
Reporting Service from the reports of
county assessors, was 5,035,339 acres,
compared with 5,050,951 acres in 1919.
The total farm output for the season
Just ended far exceeds that for the pre
ceding season. One example will il
lustrate this. The area devoted to
wheat in the state in 1920 was 1,471,242
acres, compared with 1,524,594 acres
the preceding year. The 1920 output,
however, was 27,117,000 bushels, com
pared with only 18,435,000 acres In '
1919.
But the value of the 1920 crop was
more than $30,000,000 less than that !
of the 1919 crop, the result of a very I
sharp falling off in the prices of all '
farm crops since harvest time. The
value of all Colorado crops, including
fruits, for 1920, based upon prices pre- i
vailing on or about Dec. 1, was $167,- j
553,934, compared with $199,947,000 for j
the 1919 crop at prices prevailing on or
about Dec. 1 that year. While the
1920 wheat crop was more than 9,000,-
000 bushels greater than that of 1919,
its value was only $36,008,000, com
pared with a value of $37,240,000 for
the 1919 crop. The 1920 potato crop
was only about 240,000 bushels less
than the 1919 crop, but the value of
the former at prices prevailing on Dec.
1 was only $8,695,000, compared with
a value of $18,870,000 for the crop of
the preceding year.
Yet the value of the 1920 farm out
put was greater than that for any pre
vious year except 1919. The 1918 crop
was sold at war prices, but its total
value was only about $151,000,000,
while the 1913 crop, which was mar
keted before the World war began,
was worth considerably less than half
as much as that of 1920.
Wheat was Colorado's leading crop
In 1920, both in acreage and value.
Most of this crop is winter wheat, the
area devoted to the winter grain show
ing rather substantial Increases each
year, while the acreage of spring
wheat remains about stationary. Win
ter wheat is grown chiefly without ir
rigation, while the reports of county
assessors to the State Immigration De
partment show that about 50 per cent
of the spring wheat irrigated.
Corn Is the second crop in the state
in acreage and fourth In value. Re
ports of assessors show 1,203,792 acres
devoted to corn in 1920, of which 70
per cent was harvested for grain and
the remainder cut for silage or fodder
or fed in the field. The total value of
the crop was a little in excess of $20,-
000,000, of which $12,210,000 was the
value of the grain harvested. This crop
is growing rapidly In popularity In the
state, the corn area ns reported by the
census bureau In 1909 going only about
326,000 acres. It is grown chiefly In
the eastern part of the state, Yuma
county being the leader, with about
128,000 acres.
Alfalfa Is the third crop in the state
in both acreuge and value. Reports of
assessors showed about 724,000 acres
devoted to alfalfa In Colorado in 1920,
and the production was 2,173,000 tons.
This was worth at prices prevailing on
Doc. 1 about $26,000,000. The total
area devoted to tame hay is about 1,-
000.000 acres, other varieties being
timothy, red clover, timothy and clover
mixed, sweet clover, millet, sudan
gruss, field peas, other tame grasses
and grains cut green, chiefly rye, oats
and barley. The total production of
tame hay in the state in 1920 was about
2,803,000 tons, worth approximately
$.'13,637,000. There is also about 254,-
000 acres devoted to wild hay, with a
production of 294,000 tons, worth about
$4,115,500.
Sugar beets is the second crop In
the state in value and eighth in acre
age. Reports of the sugar companies,
operating in the state, show that about
221,500 acres of sugar beets were har
vested in Colorado In 1920, producing
2,309,907 tons, worth to the farmers
$27,135,135. This crop is grown almost
exclusively under irrigation and has
proved to he one of the most tvmuner
ntive crops grown in Colorado. Re
ports of sugar companies Indicate that
the average price paid farmers per ton
for their beets In the state in 1920 was
$11.45.
The potato crop was fifth in value
among the state’s crops in 1920, rank
ing next below corn. Last year, how
ever, It wns fourth In value, surpassing
corn by nhout $2,000,000, nnd ranking
only slightly below sugar beets. It
comes far down the list in acreage, be
ing surpassed by oats, barley, rye,
grain, sorghums and wild buy.
The sorghums rank fourth In acre
age in 1920, with n total of about 445,-
000 ncres, consisting of 29.8,720 acres
of grain sorghums, 112,798 ncres of
sweet sorghums and 28,329 ncres of Su
dan grasM. The total value of all
sorghums for 1920 wus above $8,000,-
000.
The acreage devoted to beans In
Colorado In 1920 was considerably
short of that for 1919, though the pro
duction was slightly larger, due to a
more favorable season. Assessor’s re
ports showed about 03,000 acres of
beaux In the state In 1920, compared
with 90,000 acres In 1019, 252,000 ncres
in 1918 nnd 250,000 ncres in 1917.
Though this has been proved to be a
good crop for the eastern counties of
the state, so far as production is con
cerned, the price has been unfavorable
for the past three years, and the acre
age lias been rather rapidly reduced.
FIND LIKENESS
OF AUGUSTUS
Archaeologist Discovers Splendid
Statue of Roman Emperor
at Tivoli.
LIFELIKE STUDY BY ARTIST
Valuable Addition to Portrait, of Ro
man Emperors and Is Only One
Extant Done During Em
peror's Ufa.
Rome.—Tivoli, that lovely little city
perched above Rome, called Tlbur by
the ancient Romans, has just given to
tbe archaeological world two new art
treasures —an auguateum, or hall,
and a splendid bead of Emperor Au
gustus.
Prof. Alesslo Valle, one of tbe arch
aeologists wbo have made Tivoli a
special study, long believed that
Tivoli should reveal an ancient hall
of Importance, considering tbe flour
ishing state of tbe city In Roman
days. He began to dig near a newly
discovered weights and measures of
fice, also dating from tbe Roman em
pire, thinking that the public weights
and measures must surely be near
some Important hall.
He was not mistaken. He has
opened up a hall with a Roman pave
ment of white and green marble
which looks as if It were put down
this morning, so fresh Is it, and the
statue of Augustus, broaen but with
the head Intact, as the picture shows,
with the lifelike lines cut out of the
marble by some unknown sculptor of
evident genius.
Likeness of Augustus.
The statue Is a likeness of Augus
tas when lie had grown old. An In
scription underneath It, which dedi
cates the statue to the gods, “for the
happy return In good health of onr
Augustus Caesar," proves it was done
during the famous emperor’s lifetime,
a votive offering to the gods by a
loyal Tivoli citizen who signs himself
300 SPIES IN THE
AMERICAN ARMY
Amazing Story of German Es
pionage During the War
Is Disclosed.
DESERTER MAKES CONFESSION
Former Officer Telle of Being Bent
From Germany With Other Cadete
to Enlist in the United
Btatee Army.
New York. —An amazing story of
German espionuge during the war
was disclosed when John Willet, for
mer captain in the Forty-eighth Uni
ted States Infantry, confessd be was
really Hans Willers, a cadet in the
German army until 1914, when he was
sent to this country with 300 other
cadets to joint the Amerlcun army and
become United States officers.
Willet admitted he had absconded
with SO,OOO of his company's funds at
Camp Sevier on November 28, 1018, a
few weeks after the armistice, and de
serted.
It wus this offense and not any sus
picion of his spy role which resulted
In his arrest here when Hugh J. Hun
nlgun, formerly a first lieutenant In
the Forty-eighth, recognized the de
aerter on the street and hailed a po
llcemun.
Hints at Treason In Washington.
“You would be surprised how many
high German olficluls held Jobs In
Washington during the war, Willet
told Detective Sergeunt O’Leary. The
prisoner mude tills statement after ho
had narrated how he came here and
wliut he would have done had his regi
ment been sent to Franca.
“I would have led my meu to
slaughter, aud could have been use
ful to my own country in many other
ways," Willet declared, according to
Where Italy and Jugo-Sl avia Are Negotiating
View of ep old quarter In Itmmllo, where the Italians and Jugo-Slnvs formulated their treaty, and are settling their
Not Stopped by Coal Shortage
Kennebunkport, Me., has a grist mill, operated by the tide. It was erected
In 1838 and has never stopped since then. Unaffected by shortage of coal or
“daylight saving” laws. It goes steadily on, working four hours and then rest
ing four. As the moon Is an hour slower each day compared with the sun,
however, the miller has to change hlB hours somewhat
M. Veranus Dlifllus. The same man
gave the public weights and measures
to the city.
History lets us date this statue be
tween B. C. 31 and A. D. 14, when
Emperor Augustus died near Naples,
aged seventy-six. Experts say tbe fuce
Is the face of a man of fifty. In the
worn lines, the 111-tempered mouth. Its
upward twist at tbe left side, we have
no flattering picture of tbe great
emperor, but n lifelike study by an
artist who dared to cut his statue as
he saw the human model. For this
reason, and because of Its surely be
ing done in Augustus’ lifetime, It Is
a very valuable addition to tbe col
lection of portraits of the Roman
emperors, and probably the only one
extant of Augustus done during his
lifetime.
The figure, which originally sat on
tbe pedestal at the head of the hall.
Is graceful, as Suetoius, that gos
sipy historian from whom later
scribes have learned nearly all they
the police, In explaining why he and
others were sent to the United States
to enlist In the American army. Willet
was taken to Fort Jay prison on Gov
ernor's Island.
Confronted by two ex-lieutenants of
the Forty-eighth infantry, Sidney P.
Howell, a lawyer, und Francis Hatch,
Willet began to respond to questions.
As to Ills pedigree, he said he was
horn in Germany and educated there.
“I was trained for spy work when
I was a boy and later when I was a
cadet In a German military academy,”
the detectives quote Willet as saying.
“When the World war began In 1914
1 was selected to join a band of cadets
who were to come to the United States
with orders to Join the American army.
Other groups went to the French army
and to the British. About 300 others
came over here with mu. I knew my
military training soon would be recog
nized and that promotion would fol
low, so I enlisted as a private the first
opportunity I got. I had no citizenship
papers—l did not need any.
Enlistsd as Buck Private.
“I enlisted as a buck private in Al
bany soon after my arrival In this
country. Within a very short time my
ability as a soldier was recognized and
I was promoted.
“My heart was nearly broken when
I discovered my regiment probably
would not be sent to France. I would
have died for my country gladly. So,
IS days after the armistice, 1 took the
company fund money and left camp.
"Pm telling you this freely because
1 might as well he dead. Life does not
matter much to me.”
Willet suld that after he deserted
Camp Sevier he started traveling. He
toured the Pacific coast.
In Chicago nhout a year ago he mar
ried an Amerlcun girl named Craw
ford, it Is said.
Willet recently opened a mall order
business lu this city under the name
of Crawford.
know about the Roman emperors,
told us, saying:
Graceful Person.
"He was a very graceful person
through all the stages of life, though
he was very careless In his dress and
would set several barbers to work
upon his hair together, and would
sometimes clip and sometimes shave
his beard, and at the same time
would be reading or writing."
Augustus, though emperor, called
himself a democrat and, says Sue
toius, “always abhorred the title of
lord as n scandalous affront'’ He
tells us, too, that the emperor caught
cold easily and wore woolen under
wear In winter, “with a thick wool
toga."
. This broken statue, with the base
on which It stood, nnearthed after so
long bridges the gulf of centuries and
brings one of tbe greatest rulers the
world ever saw very near.
Love of Music Traps
Robber of Poor Box
Philadelphia.—lt was his love
for music which led to the ar
rest of Jacob. Katz, twenty-four
years old. Katz entered the
Emanuel Lutheran church here
shortly after midnight and
found the poor box which he
emptied of its contents, $3.
Then he found tho new organ.
Katz had musical talent and he
ran his fingers over the keys.
Then he became so absorbed In
the Instrument that he forgot
where he was, pulled out the
dlaphone nnd thundered away.
The strains awakened the pas
tor, Rev. Rudolph Nleder, who
lives next door, and he called
the police.
ORE TOTALS 50,000,000 TONS
Great Lake* Shipments Show Increaae
of 7,700,000 During Year, Say
Duluth Figures.
Duluth, Minn. —The total shipment
of Iron ore for the season reached arv
prnximately 50.000,000 tons, according
to figures announced here.
Iron ora shipped from the head of
the lakes thus far amounts to 47,"07,-
372 tons, with about 30,000 tons i -
malnlng to go out from the Duluth and
Iron Range railroad docks at Two
Harbors and the Chicago & North
western railroad docks at Ashland.
Wls.
Total shipments from all the docks
for the season show an Increase of
approximately 7.700.000 tons over last
year, when 40,067,850 tons ware
shipped.
Children Unshod In Big Shoo Town.
Brockton, Muss.—This city produces
shoes for world-wide distribution and
makes more of some kinds than any
other city, hut Charles I’, Brooks, at
tendance officer pf the school board,
reported that many of Its chlldreu art
unshod. There are at least fifty chll
dren In the city who cannot go to
school because they Inck shoes, ho
said, and some of them have not been
to school In weeks.