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Show I WILD MEN IN UNEAPKTO OHIO ' I: I It Is Not Necessary to I Journey to Africa to I Find Unexplored Land, I Nor Are All the Wild I Men , In the World Con- fined In Circuses and I Sideshows. I In a Bit of Jungle In Northern I Ohio, Dense and Thick With I Great Trees and Heavy Un- H derbrush, Dwells This Her- I mit, Jerry Clayton Some- I thing About Him, and Why He Is a Wild Man, "Not for Profit." ' Those in search of adventure, it Hl appears, may find it by taking pass- Hi age Jo darkest Africa, employing a : long train of pa b bearers, pun bas ing an expensive equipment and then forcing a path into the hitherto trackless v. ilds of the jungle. Or again, it may be gathered from the steamship prospt !Cl uses that one may pick up stray bits of excitement by sailing lo South America, there I risking hordes of natives, malaria j and all sorts of fever just to catch .1 a glimpse of a small piece of rcck- H ing woodland unknown to the out- I side world. Neither excursion would be ree-j ree-j oramended as a summer vacation I trip for a hard-working department. store clerk, but still the quest for 1 1 excitement and adventure cannot be ruthlessly frowned upon Had it " not been for the love of adventure. Christopher Columbus would have 1 stuck to the business of catching carp. Queen Isabella would not i have put a ilcket on the crown jew- j els and an Indian would now be I j mayor of New York. Had It not been for his unsatiable love of adventure ad-venture Doc Cook of magazine fame I would have left the Eskimo to his fate and the north pole would not be j flying an American flag Had John D Rockefeller been less fond of ex- I cltement, the good old Common Peo- I pie would be in the possession of I several millions of dollars now en- ;j tered in the bank book of the peer- j less financier. J But the real point of this Is in- I tended to show that young men are I no longer compelled to sail to Africa I in search of adventure The story I seeks to bring adventure to the back yard of every well regulated fam- Uy, so to speak It has been dis- i covered after a great deal of care- I ful investigating that there are I measureless tracts of waste land 1 never violated by the presence of J; man or boy. I All one has to do is to decide to , go on a little trip of exploration ' Then look carefully on the office I map for the wildest spot and start out on the little jaunt armed only J with an ax and a pair of extra shoes. .'J The extra shoes are a necessity un- I less one thinks far enough ahead to I A wear rubber boots. A peerless explorer started out a short time ago to determine if it I ;n were a fact that unexplored cor- I ' v ners of Ohio actually existed; and 1 if so were there any real bona fide e-jjj wild men suitable for use on county J fair midways? Tlie unexplored "( laud was found and promptly ex- FVl plored. The wild man was located. JjfcjSiJ duly labeled, but the sorrowful part gfc&i of it all is that he will not appear roll on any county fair circuit this year. iEgaj The New York Central, as well QjftH as several other railroads, runs into Sandusky. Ohio, every day. taking '''Sjjjl and leaving passengers in the regu- ;Js lar wa" When one steps into a ho- jfiSB tel bus at the station and rumbles j9L along the road to the city proper he gjH finds it difficult to believe that with- SflS in a few short hours he will be dig ging into Jungles never imagined by the duskiest chief of all Zululand. Sandusky would he built on the open lake were it not for a little piece of land that juts into Lake Erie, forming Sandusky harbor. This extension is generally known as Cedar Point and is more or li B9 popular with summer boys and girls during three or four months of ihe year. One end of the point, the end tliat forces its nose into the open lake, is built up in the summer resort re-sort way. but as one walks back toward Rye beach and the mainland he realizes that he is in a ver wild country There are mysterious stories about this portion of the point People who live at Rye beach say that the entire point has never been explored, explor-ed, that there are strange paasages, wild swamps overgrown with swamp rice, a tangle of small irees and little lit-tle streams to interrupt the traveler trav-eler Others will tell you that the wild portion of the point is inhabited by strange men who live in shacks and dine suiupt uously on fish and game. The question has been a mooted one and had been argued pro and con, until finally something happened. It was just after the ice hud gone out of the lake and the gulls were disporting themselves in the harbor in true gull-like fashion Sandusky was rubbing its eyes one windy morning when a strange figure walked down 1 tie main street. He looked like Robinson Crusoe and acted act-ed like a sailor out to spend his month's pay. It was a man. That was evidenced by his long whiskers which swept to his knees. His hair, heavy and gray, fell on his shoulders shoul-ders and gave him a peculiar prophetlike proph-etlike appearance. His clothing, like Kipling's water carrier, was nothing noth-ing much before and less tbau half of that behind. Shoes he had none. Neither did he have any money, but ou his back he bore a load of musk-rat musk-rat skins that would sink a Spauish pirate ship He traded the skins for liquid refreshments, applying same on the premises; then he disappeared, disap-peared, and uo one has seen him since. It isn't exactly corren io say that no one has seen him because a certain intrepid explorer sought out the wild man in his lair and ate roast duck with him a short tune afterward. It should be know n that the boats to Cedar Point do not run early In April, but an old launch was secured secur-ed and the trip was made across the harbor Then the previously mentioned men-tioned intrepid explorer encased himself in an English slip-on a pair of rubber boots and pieced an ax over his shoulder After bidding goodby to the captain the trip was on About three miles from the summer sum-mer resort toward Ihe mainland. Ihe tangle of trees suddenly grows dense. Poplars oaks, fir and pine trees twine their branches together in such a way as to make progress almost impossible. Little trickling streams running across the point from the lake to the harbor do not particularly serve to make walking walk-ing easy Great grayish puddles ol water, acres of swamp land inhabited inhabit-ed by scores of blacksnakes and ponderous bullfrogs combine to make that portion of the point an excellent locality to shun after curfew-All of this beautiful scenery is miles away from the summer re-Bort re-Bort and as one advances through the tangle of underbrush he finds that if it has been explored the explorer ex-plorer failed to leave any marks of his visit The path grew more dense every foot, but the intrepid explorer was not to be daunted He was looking for a wild man if one could bo found and thereby end all those arguments ar-guments across the buy Finally after several hours of battling a clearing was noted, but it was only a clearing a sandy waste overgrown over-grown bv real broad leafed cactus 0er in one corner something was growing that was noi cactus. A second sec-ond look showed the growtii to be nothing more nor less than young onions. It has a i ways been accepted as gosp. i truth hai wild men live on nothing but lemon pie. but here plainly was a wild man who lived on onions. The explorer dropped his ax and made a note of the peculiar pe-culiar fact and then shunted toward a break in the dense wood just as a gigantic figure, loug hatred and beared, appeared on the edge of the clearing and shouted iu perfectly goud United States; "Hey, you, get out of my onions." Th explorer picked up his ax and started in to chop out a patch through which to make the return irip to the boat landing win n the wild man lumbered up, took him bv the hand, led him through the wood to another small clearing and sat down Then the w ild man produc ed a battered old pipe, filled it and looked over Ins isitor. If you have never been in a wild man's front yard you have no idea what real comfort Is. This one had everything the heart desires. His shack wasn't much to speak of. but it was a cozy little home, built entirely en-tirely of drift wood. It was- placed between two great trees and contained con-tained but a single room The wild man couldn't stand up straight in the place, but theu he had no need to stand up straight. His bunk teas in one corner, a rudely constructed lable was in Ihe other and in the back there was a fireplace in w hich a coal fire was burning Apd pv I the coal fire a big fat duck was simmering. sim-mering. Then Jerry Clayton. Hie wild man, began to tell all about himself Jerry Jer-ry had been a boy once many years ago. down at Three-Mile bay. New-York New-York state, which is supposed to he somewhere on Lake Ontario. Jerry liked being a boy. and although 1 was more than fifty years ago thai he first had the experience, he liked it so well, that he decided to keep right on working at it. Jerry would rather fish ot shoot ducks than go to school. Ho preferred pre-ferred setting traps to play ing one-old-cat and finally his father gave him up as a bad job. Jerry wouldn't work. He figured that the world owed hini s living and he decided to let the world deliver it to him on a silver platter. It was a good inanj years ago that taMHsfl v: Jerry Clayton drifted up the lakes and linally spotted Cedar Point jut-ling jut-ling into the lake near Sandusky The summer resort wasn't as popular popu-lar as it is now, so he built himself a little hut and has lived Ihere ever aim e Once in a w hjb be would forci Ins w.i to the mainland and sell his skiu-. buying large amounts , some salt and once in a while getting boisterous. But for the most part he iluug lo his little shade in the wood. "But the Ctal; Jerry, where do you get ilut"" Jetry smiled broadly and pointer to the shore lino of the lake, visible visi-ble through the trees They was a SCOW loaded with os i q - in h i ovej 3 ou'der about six years ago," he said Then jerry bestirred himself Ho completed roasting the wild duck, cooked a freshly caught pickerel and invited ihe intrepid explorer to dinner, first tilling an old bucket With I I eh I cold waier from a spring just back of the shack Jerry says that he never saw anyone any-one on his part of the point and knows that part of it is unexplored That's why he likes it. All of whi, h proves that the young men of today do not hae to go to Airica in search of adventure. Worrying. "They say that a woman always kuowr, when a man is going to pro-pds pro-pds " observes Ihe man with the in'-gipwlng in'-gipwlng mustache. "Sin does affirms the lady with the contemphuii e i j ea "Thai must, at times, worry her. Doesn't it9" "Not half so much as the other side of the picture. She also knows when a man is not going to pro-dosu." pro-dosu." r-'-. ;- -:- - 1rb In Jamaica, where earthquakes disrupt and fire destroys the houses in ciues and towns, nature is specially speci-ally kind to the man who chooses to live in the country-It country-It provides him, in the branches and leaves of the palm tree, material ma-terial with which to build a light and graceful house that will sustain no injury from an earthquake, and it also gives him, with lavish hand, an abundance of food at a minimum of labor It is not necessary in Jamaica laboriously to plant crops and rear cattle in order to live. The trees of the forest supply the native with all the foods needed in a tropica elimale to sustain life and maintain the proper balance of chemical properties in the bodv's nourishment. While nearly all the Island's many fruits are under cultivation, there are several, like bananas oranges and lemons that grow wild. Yei the cultivated banana iree requires very litlle attention and the native who has two or three near his thatched palm hut mav sleep away the drowsy hours in his hammock as he loves to do. while bis staple food goes on grow ing without attention atten-tion m the front yard There is much nourishment in bananas ba-nanas ami the Jamaicans eat .he',,, iaiu both raw and cook, d Another important food, 0f which northern people read but s -i , sec is -grown ii, perfectfon , j maica This breadfruTt, whiJh Us name implies, is a substitute for bread m its nourishing pro " . The breadfruit of Ja n a,e , coarser kind than thai rf XeEas? ml.an countries, and ot Java, 'he. tree us native k Js . hi, ,i , '-I. The yield ous. in proportion o i,8 sU frtUi being as large as a cat io, 2? "K!l -eor"a I-'l.v it is prepared m, ( ( coasting mashes, and when iofyil LHsflh pared js palatable and highly nour- I ishing. One of the interesting sights of Jamaica to the tourist is a breadfruit bread-fruit tree m full yield Another Important food product j of Jamaica in which the island ranks third in output, is cocoa. Few northern people know how cocoa j grows. The large pods are colored purple or yellow, with many van ing shades, and the tree is high')' picturesque when filled with its yield The cocoa known lo trad is manufactured man-ufactured from ihe seeds of the . plant, which are fermented before j ready for shipment. Cocoa "nibs." a common article of food are com-posed com-posed of the natural shells of the seed. Other preparations of cocoa l are made by grinding ihe shells, f while chocolate is ground cocoa and sugar compressed In ihe exportation of cocoa Jama, Ja-ma, ia ranks second to Cevlon and third to Trinidad A product of the Island of Jamaica Jamai-ca which grows without attention is sago This is the juicy pith of the saso palm, it i prepared by soaking and drying in the form of white nu Is The delicate flavoi of sago is loved by all natives of tropical countries, who know nothing f cooking it as it is cooked for des-sp"s des-sp"s iii northern countries but I niake it oue of thetr staple dishes, J in ihe form of porridge. Different. She nestled in 4iis arms her pinX j eh. t pr. sse, against hifi and her brow n curls fluffing into his ey es. Thai -ah.' that was in the past Here is where you begin to think that v.e are going to spring that good old one aboui her nestling in his arms when she was lour years old and refusing to do so when she , was twenty-four0 Eh? Not much, kind sir. The Fncldeni t. which we referred ! in the opening line occurred t hree i yesrra ago, wi., they were engaged, rhe only reason he think,; f ir oow thai he baa io v. viic a . heck for alimony everj in..uth. |
