Show The men wood was struck at 120 feet and the with timber was struck went into this tunnel to explore and soft stone at 152 feet This time however they struck the had gone but a short distance when about box on its edge and the chisel worked they discovered a large pit eight feet square and open as far as down past it to 157 feet when soft They bored they could see The pit was opened stone was again struck was through this and found it three feet up and at 38 feet a platform struck thick Under this they found ten feet The pit from this depth was open of puddle clay and at 170 feet they and well cribbed down to a depth of struck Iron pieces of which they 108 feet The workers at once pumped brought up but they did not attempt work the shaft w'as discovered full the pit out and commenced digging to get through it of water It was then decided to sink but had a great deal of trouble in After they gave up the boring they a new shaft and to tunnel under the keeping the water out and it was aft- decided that the best plan was to "money pit” and to take the treas- er a great deal of work and time the sink another pit A pit was accordingure out from below The pit was sunk 113 fdet was at last struck At this ly started hut at 108 feet the water to a depth of 110 feet and just as depth the water became very heavy drove them out Starting a new pit the workers thought that the treas- and the pumps had all they could do was cheaper than pumping so again ure was theirs the water burst in on to keep it out The pit was eight a new pit was started but much them and the men barely escaped feet square At this time one of the further awrny from the “money pit” with their lives This ended the effort and It was not till 1S48 that operations were resumed but again the water forced the toilers to stop working In 1803 another effort was made to overcome the water and obtain the treasure The undertaking proved to be most difficult as the flow of water was very heavy About this time the men who were engaged in the underground work got the idea that the shaft was in danger of caving in and refused to enter Halifax Syndicate Tries s An examination was made of the shaft and experts found it to be in a very unsafe condition and it w’as The pump was forthwith condemned withdrawn and the shaft was abanThe doned and work suspended management were at their wits’ end and did not know what to do or what course to take to surmount the overHowever it apflowing difficulty pears that in the meantime some Halifax men had been interested and entered into an agreement to clear out the “money pit” and recover the treasure for a share of the amount so received This syndicate spent a lot of money sinking a new shaft and made heroic efforts to overcome the flow of water but w’ere forced to abandon it It was at this time that a copper coin weighing an ounce and a half dated 1317 and a stone boatsMap of Workings On Oak Island wain’s whistle were found in the bot' went w’rong and before she This was sunk to a depth of 160 feet pumps tom of the pit Among the other “signs” which led could be repaired the pit filled up and if it had not been for the ill luck that always followed them at the discoverers to dig were the re- with water Oak Island the mystery would have mains of a hoisting block such as Is Strike Chest by Boring been solved At 160 feet without a used on sailing craft hanging to the pipe moment’s warning with a great rush They swung in a limb of a tree which overhung the through the water to the bottom of “money pit” One of the ten foot- the pit and commenced boring with the water once more broke in marks found in the “money pit” was the idea of Caving of the Tunnel striking the treasure at a a layer of putty This was used in the The “money pit” at once began to depth of not greater than 125 feet glazing of the windows of a house No one dreamed of there being any- fill and circumstances at once showed was a perfect connection thing below that depth They bored that there the two pits This was just through puddle clay down to a depth between of 130 feet- and struck nothing but what was wanted although not quite several pieces of wood from 120 to deep enough They at once tore the cribbing and everything else to pieces 126 feet started They another hole and Upon close examination it showed struck iron at 126 feet They struck that no vent had been made for the water on the down stroke of the pisthis iron on the edge and ton and it took them more than a them from getting the three-incweek to fix this mistake and get the pipe deeper They however got a small chisel and succeeded in pass- pumps running againIn the meantime the pit had been ing the iron and worked down without piping the hole At 153 feet they standing full of water with the cribThe in a damaged cpndition struck wood They put a common au- bing tunnel at a ger at the end of the rods and bored water worked into the in and caved it level through the wood When the auger That was the end of thefenture went through the wood it dipped two or three Inches and then struck some- Since that time three pJts'Tiave been sunk but they have1 all proved failhard that they could not bore thing through The auger was worked for ures The present theory is that a' tunnel some time in an attempt to get it Smith’s Cove into deeper but it would pot go down and runs through from to the opposite when brought up the bore was the “money pit” This pit is very close to the cleaned in a basin and the dirt shore washed out the same as if looking for tunnel and the water broke into the pit from it gold It' is now generally believed that A piece of parchment with several tunnel running to the cove was the of was wood the result this of pieces either choked by work done on the washing shore by the Halifax syndicate or by New Pit Sunk and Filled the dynamite used by the company Another hole was then started and working in 1896 NEW SEARCH FOR BURIED TREASURE OF CAPTAIN KIDDyS For more than two centuries adventurous and ever hopeful persons have been seeking the treasure which that bloody pirate Capt Kidd is supposed to have buried in Chester Basin Nova that Now it is announced Scotia another organized search for the vast amount of gold and jewels is to be made Capt Kidd was said to have secreted this treasure estimated at more than $10000000 when on one of his cruises about 200 years ago he landed on Oak Island many Probably thousands of dollars have been spent in unavailing search for the loot About the close of the eighteenth century that part of the country was sparsely settled and the island in question was without an inhabitant In 1795 three men — Smith McGinnis and Vaughan — visited the island and while rambling over the western part of it came to a spot of which the unusual and strange conditions at once attracted their attention It had every appearance of having been cleared Red clover and many years before other plants altogether foreign to the soil were growing Near the center stood a large dak tree with marks on the trunk One of the lower and larger branches of this the outer end of which had been sawed off projected directly over the center of a deep circular depression in the land about 13 feet in diameter These and other “signs” led the three men mentioned to commence work soon after Old Shaft Discovered They started digging in the spot where they had found the depression and as they got down they discovered a well defined shaft the walls of which were hard and solid and it is said that in some places old pick marks were to be seen while within the walls the earth was so soft that picks were not required On reaching a depth of ten feet an oak plank was struck They kept on digging until a depth of 30 feet was reached finding oak platforms at each ten feet At this point the earth proved to be too heavy for them Superstitious beliefs were in full force in that part of the country at that time and on In a Revolutionary Camp Letter of Gen Strategies Captain Kidd’s House In New York City this account they were unable to get built there afterw'ard Other layers These articles are any help to continue the work and were charcoal were obliged to abandon it usually found among the stores of of six or seven seagoing craft Among other things After an interval years accounts of the wonderful dis- that go to prove that these things had were put there by seagoing men Is coveries made at Oak Island over all the province and a an iron ringbolt imbedded in the spread gold seeking expedition was formed rock This can be seen only at very Work was at once low tide and can be' accounted for In in Truro N S resumed and the shaft was excavated no other wray than that it was put to a depth of 90 feet Marks were there to moor vessels to long ago found every ten feet as before and Attempt to Pump Out Pit an iron bar wTas frequently “Used in taIn 1896 a new Nova Scotian comAt the mark king soundings a flat stone two feet long and 14 pany was organized to look for the In the autumn of that year On it treasure inches wide was discovered were cut characters which an expert work was again started with two enread as follows: “Ten feet' below are gines and steam pumps with the inThis tention of pumping out th$ "money two million pounds buried” pit" and forming a way down the pit gave the searchers renewed hope This was Saturday night Monday which was then opened to a depth of morning when the men returned to 58 feet At 108 feet a tunnel cribbed Greene of 1777 Piscussing in a Sale A particularly good letter of Gen Nathaniel Greene was sold in Philadelphia a few days ago the New York It is addressed to Gen Times says Varnura and is dated “Camp at Cross It is in Roads August 17 1777” part: “I readily acknowledge the propriety of your observation that delays are dangerous and that the prime of the season is wasting while we are basking-i- n the sunshine of Pennsyloften comes vania but repentance too late Could we have divined how Howe would have directed his Gen future operations some part of your plan might have been carried into execution The destruction of Gen army is one of the first objects upon the continent but how to effect it is the question “You see' he moves with caution notwithstanding our army flies before him It is now a month since he his adlanded at Skenesborough vanced parties have advanced only about twenty or thirty miles and nothing or next to nothing to oppose him Sure I am he never would have dared to penetrate an Inch if he had met with a serious opposition “Could I persuade myself that Bur- - goyne would not retreat upon the northern army's being reinforced I would run all the hazard to attempt his destruction but I am well persuaded that he would retreat immediately to Ticonderoga where It would bo out of our power to do him any great injury “Our situation is not a little awkward buried In the country out of the hearing of the enemy His excellency (Washington) is exceeding impatient but it is said if Philadelphia is lost all is ruined It 13 a great object to be sure but not of that great magnitude that it claims “Rest assured we shall not remain idle' long This is a curious campaign In the spring we had the enemy about our ears every hour The northern army could neither see nor hear of an enemy Now they have got the enemy about their heads and we have lost ours “I can assure you I was no advo cate of coming so hastily here for I ever thought Gen Howe’s motions very equivocal but the loss of Philadelphia would injure us more than our taking New York would them and it is not certain our rapid march did not hinder the enemy from coming up the bay to the city That they were moving about the coast for several days is very certain” Thi3 letter brought $195 at tbs Philadelphia sale GREEN Should CORN ON THE COB Aids in Its Eating Be Discouraged Says the Epicure The taste for green corn like that for the symphonies of Ludwig von Beethoven is not universally diffused among the races of men Tho Scotchman though he eats oats with gusto regards corn as a feed rather than a food and the German busy with his rye bread and sauerbraten has no time to master the difficult art of eat- ' ing It Certain misguided persons in an effort to spread the cult of cob have recently devised ingenious hooks and prongs for holding it to the face says the Baltimore Sun The Idea of these Inventors seems to be that tho prejudice against corn among many races is due entirely to the risks attending the orthodox method of eating it corn The hooks make the operation so simple that a novice can master it in one lesWhen son they are employed the fingers do not touch the ear at all Instead it is safely impaled like a beetle on a pin and so all danger to the clothing eye and surrounding public is removed Despite the apparent refinement of this device we are unable to approve it To get the true flavor of green corn one might eat it in the manner followed for centuries by those epicurean eastern shoremen who are the acknowledged Raphaels of the art If the fingers do not touch it how can one get the full measure of warmth? With a steel prong' piercing its vitals how can it appeal’ to the imagination? With all danger of its sudden flight removed where is its old romance? Away with all such mechanical impediments to poetic eating As well kiss a pretty girl through a sieve! HOW TO MAKE DARNING EASY Baste Square of Net Over the and Proceed in the Usual Way Hole The next time you have a hole in a stocking that you dread to tackle a square of net over the hole Draw Then darn in the usual way the threads back and forth through the meshes of the net skipping every in one so that other darning in the opposite direction there is a mesh to darn through on hand for this purpose remKeep nants of black white and ecru net They can be put in a small bag in the darning basket to be in readiness A cotton net with whenever needed considerable body is the best to use Canvas unless for an underweave very soft Is apt to cut the cotton For darning sheerer fabrics ' blonde can be basted on the under side of the hole and filledfn the same way This method must not be used where the hole is in a prominent place baste Cocoanut and Rice Mold Four ounces of ground rice two ounces of desiccated cocoanut one quart of milk two ounces of butter sugar to taste cochineal Mix the ground rice and cocoanut and take sufficient of the milk to make a Put the rest of the smooth paste milk on to boil with the butter stir It into the cocoanut and rice and put on to boil stirring it well till quite smooth and it tastes cooked Pour half into a wet mold then color the rest with cochineal' and add it carefully to the white part When cold turn out and scatter cocoanut over the shape Carrots with Green a cupful of green Wash scrape and Sauce peas till tenchop carrots coarsely enough to make a pint boil In' salted water till tender from 30 to 40 minutes drain season well and pile In the center of a hot dish Put the peas through a sieve add plenty of butter and salt and pour the thick sauce around the carrots Boil der Plain Dutch Sauce Take one ounce of buter one ounce of flour one breakfastcupful of milk one yolk of egg a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice salt and pepper Melt butter add the flour mix very well pour in the milk Stir the sauce until it boils add salt and pepper Remove the pan from the fire stir in the yolk quickly and the vinegar t Pour in a and serve A plain white sauce may be used instead the yolk and acid being omitted This is very cheap French Salad' Dressing teaspoon salt a few grains of cayenne or paprika teaspoon of pepper and if liked Mix teaspoon of prepared mustard add and gradually six tablespoons of best olive oil then add a few drops at a time two to six tablespoons (acto cording taste) of vinegar or lemon Juice and beat until thick and creamy If We Could Pick Our Parents Only the wealthy could have children if babies could select their — parents |