Zurich Herald, 1955-02-17, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst; Since my
wife died four years ago, my
little son and his sister have
lived with _.er parents. Over
a year ago I fell in love with a
grand girl, and we are anxious
to marry to make a home for
the children. My wife's family
have met her, but they oppose
the idea of my marrying again,
and unfortunately they've tried
to influence the youngsters.
"When we do marry, shall we
take them to live with us right
away, or wait a while?—Or must
I give up this lovely girl and
allow my wife's family to run
my life?
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MAKE HASTE SLOWLY
* It is not uncommon that
* older people resent anyone
* taking their daughter's place;
* also, they are probably re-
* luctant to give up the child-
* ren. Wouldn't it be tactful to
* wait until your fiancee can
* know. these parents, and also
* the children, better than she
* does now? Once she wins the
* affection of the youngsters
* they all will feel differently
* toward her.
* Take the children to visit
* the girl on weekends, so they
* will begin to associate her
* with the pleasures you provide
* for them. When the day of
* your marriage arrives, of
* course they will attend the
* ceremony.
* have you thought of settling
* in another part of town when
* you remarry? If this is pram
* ticable, the four of you would
* not be under such close sur-
* veillance.. The children can
* visit their grandparents regu-
* tarty with you and your wife;
* as they see the youngsters
* happy in their new life they
* will more fairly credit her ef-
* forts. It usually works out
* this way, and I hope it will
* with you.
* I trust you will not con-
* sider giving up this fine girl.
* It is not always possible to
* please the entire family in
* any marriage, particularly a
* second one.
* * *
WIDOW IS LONELY
"Dear Anne Hirst: Since my
husband died three years ago, I
have come to this city from the
middle west to be near my mar-
ried son. I hasten to say that
we all get along wonderfully.
But I, personally, am so lone-
some! I am NOT out to marry
again; I just want companion-
ship of my own age.
"I've heard that in some towns
there are nice clubs where older
people meet each other, Is there
one here that you can recom-
mend?
MRS. F. R."
'k Your problem is a common
e one. No matter how interested
* in her children a widow is, she
* misses the friendship of those
* of her generation.
'k In many cities I know clubs
* exist to encourage older people
* to meet each other. Most of
* them are well managed, and
* a boon to middle-aged men
* and women. I am not, how-
* ever, familiar with any in
* your town.
* I suggest you call up the
* editor of your newspaper. If
* he does not know of one, he
* can find out if any exist, and
* I know he'll be happy to do
* so.
* * *
If a delicate situation con-
fronts you, ask Anne Hirst's
opinion. Her understanding of
family relations makes her
peculiarly successful in guiding
her readers. Write her at Box
1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor-
onto, Ont,
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT—Angus, a mixed -breed dog, belong-
Ing to the Rod Van Avery family, got the shock of its Life when
this rat jlarnped tsff the piano right in front of his nose. The rat
Is one of five that the family is taking care of during midyear
school e.xalrlinations.
1T'S ONLY PLAYTIME — Polly the parrot and Pluto the kitten have
a nightly cut-up. The seven -month-old kitten .climbs atop the
parrot's cage and slaps at Polly, while Polly gets into the fun
with a few gentle nips at the offending kitten.
H'tiffO !CL S.
" Gvrzn.doltme P Clarke
This is the first day for a week
without an early morning sub-
zero temperature. Yes, it has
been cold — but we were afraid
to wish for a change in the
weather in case it might be for
the worse! You never know, we
might get a storm from the east
and be snowed in -- and then
what? Even though the high-
way is cleared, there is still
one's osvn lane to contend with.
What with one thing and an-
other, last week was quite a
week. While it was so intensely
cold, Partner developed an acute
attack of neuritis. One day we
had to get someone in to help at
the barn with the chores, espe-
cially as a young heifer chose
that day to have her first calf.
However, mother and son came
throught all right and Partner
has more or less returned to
normal.
Saturday Bob and .Toy were
here for supper. Bob looked
over all the 60 cycle motors and
was satisfied they were all in
good running order. It comes in
handy sometimes having a
mechanically -minded person in
the family. He also brought
along some kind of stuff for my
car that acts as a cleaner and
conditioner for the motor.
On Sunday, Dee, Arthur and
Dave .arrived for a short visit.
Dave made good use of his legs,
exploring every nook and cor-
ner and going about a mile a
minute. He just loves the dogs
and the dogs are equally de-
lighted to have him aaRound, But
we couldn't make a fuss of him
at all, as he was far too busy to
want to be bothered with his
grandparents. The pump handle
in the kitchen was a great at-
traction. , He also thought it a
good idea to squeeze his way
into inaccessible places — behind
the chesterfield and under the
coffee table and chairs. We
brought out his Christmas -
present, kiddie -car, but he is
still a little too small for it. So,
not being able to ride it proper-
ly Dave decided it was more
fun to carry it around. This he
did until he got tangled up in
the pedals and fell over it a
few times. As the weather was
still very cold yesterday, they
started for home before dark.
Just a short visit but long
enough for us to keep track of
our grandson's development.
Well, now -.. that always
helps! Mitchie-White has just
jumped up on my des.;. and
sprawled himself across the top
of it regardless of ' typewriter,
pentrays, notepads and a few
other odds and ends, His plain-
tive meow is an indication he is
is prepared to be petted or play-
ed with, whichever I prefer,
just so long as he get some at-
tention. Sorry, Mitchie, I'm
afraid the attention you get will
be a removal to the kitchen.
Mrs. R ... , Illinois --- thank •
you so much for your nice let-
ter and kind words. Hope you
enjoyed the books. Another I
am sure you would like is "Love
is Eternal" by Irving Stone. It
concerns the family life of
Abraham Lincoln and is both
entertaining and informative.
Reading it,one can be thankful
that civil wars are no longer
a threat.
At the present time everyone
IS feeling uneasy about the For -
11100a eltuetiene All democratic
THE END—You won't be seeing
Mamie Van Doren posing with
her mouth open in the future.
In response to reports that she's
another Marilyn Monroe, Mamie
says: "i'm keeping my mouth
shut in cheesecake photos until
they quit saying such things."
nations are anxious for a world
at peace. We get very weary of
continual conflict, which, it
would seem, should be avoid-
able among civilized people.
And yet there is hardly a period
in history without its record of
war, either on land or at sea.
War between nations is bad
enough but, as I said before, we
can be thankful civil war is a
thing of the past, insofar as
English-speaking nations are
concerned. Civil wars ceased as
people came to have a better
understanding of the problems
affecting both sides. Maybe
global war will likewise cease
when international problems
are . more clearly understood.
And contributing towards this
better understanding is the Wo-.
men's Institute of Canada. That
one really appreciates in read-
ing through that excellent lit-
tle magazine "For Home and
Country" especially in regard to
International Day programmes.
Many branches report addresses
by New Canadians at their
meetings.
I do hope every W.I. member
takes time to read " Horne and
Country' from cover to cover.
It is packed full of worthwhile
information. "Here and There
With the Institutes" is a chal-
lenge in itself. You scan it
hastily at first, seeking the name
of your own branch. If it isn't
there you ask yourself why.
"Could it be that our Branch was
not considered worthy of men-
tion? If not, why not and
what can we do about it?"
Incidentally I wonder how
many W. I. members appreciate
the tremendous amount of work
and expense of "Horne and
Country." Do you know that
46,000 copies of each issue are
sentout and that the publication
cost of even one issue is ap-
proximately $3,000? And yet,
for a nominal subscription sent
in by each branch, ever: mem-
ber of the W. I. is entitled to
a COPY of "Horne and Country"
free of charge. The least we can
do is give it the careful read-
ing it deserves, don't you think?
Hundred ion Treasure Hunt
For years men have searched,
and are still searching, for the
fabulous gold -mine that lies hid-
den in the barren, rattlesnake -
infested Superstition. Mountains
of Arizona, The "Lost Dutch-
man" it is called. Its 'existence is
certain, Yet since 1895 everyone
who has set out to find it has
met with a violent end.
The outer reaches of the
Superstition Mountains resemble
the walls of a mediaeval fortress,
says Sims Ely in his enthralling
book, "The Lost Dutchman
Mine". Towering over the
desert, they enclose hundreds of
square miles • of tortured land
that was once the haunt of the
predatory Apache, a country of
soft pudding stone, gashed and
carved into fantastic shapes,
criss-crossed by yawning
chasms.
Bare of vegetation, almost
waterless in summer, it's a place
where shadows lengthen eerily at
sundown, where compass direc-
tions are undependable, where
a man can easily become lost or
a prey to ambush.
Such a man was Adolph Ruth,
who ventured there alone in
June of 1931, never to return.
With his dismembered skeleton
were found notebook jottings,
including Julius Caesar's cele-
brated quotation: "Veni, vidi,
vici" (I came, I saw, I con-
quered). Was it a triumphant
cry that he had discovered the
location of the mine? It's a
question --like the question of
his murder—that may never be
answered, the author says.
The first American white man
to see gold from the "Dutchman"
was almost certainly Dr. Abra-
ham D. Thorne, who was forced
to play a sort of "blind man's
buff" for it when he was led
there, blindfolded and on horse-
back, by Apache braves back in
1865. He had doctored the fami-
lies of the Apaches, curing their
children of eye trouble, and as
a reward they took him to a
place where there was "gold on
the ground."
There was, too. When the
Apaches removed his blindfold.
Thorne found himself in a can-
yon with a pile of almost pure
gold at his feet. A sackful was
thrown across his saddle and he
was led away—blindfolded. He
was never able to find his way
back.
Two men who undoubtedly did
know the whereabouts of the
mine were Jacob Waltz and
Jacob Weiser, who were taken
there in 1871' by its owner,
Miguel Peralta, after they had
saved his life in a Mexican
gambling fight. The nine had
been in his family since 1748,
when Ferdinand VI of Spain had
bestowed 3,750 miles of what is
now Arizona on his grandfather
for services to the Crown, plus
the resounding title of Baron of
the Colorados.
In the late 1860's a Mr, James
A. Reavis caused a tremendous
stir by laying claim to the Per-
alta lands, then worth some 100
million dollars. But when his
evidence—ancient Spanish docu-
ments—were scrutinized by legal
experts they discovered that,
held up to the light, they bore
a modern watermark. As for
Mr. Reavis, he turned out to be
the ex -conductor of a St. Louis
horse -bus.
Their share in gold of that
first visit to the Dutchman was
worth $30,000 to Waltz and
Weiser. And, back in Mexico,
Peralta told them that if they
made the money over to him
the mine was theirs to work.
Naturally, they jumped at it.
"The ore was so rich you just
wouldn't believe it," Waltz said
later. "The nuggets of gold
simply fell out when you crush-
ed the rock with hammers." He
described the nine as "a large
pit shaped like a funnel with
the large end up."
But on their second visit to
the "Dutchman" deadly disaster
dogged them. As they approach-
ed they saw two men hammer-
ing there, brown -skinned, strip-
ed to the waist. Apaches, they
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decided —. and shot them dead.
Then saw to their horror that
the men were two of Peralta's
peons ... but worse followed.
They had recovered sufficiently
from the shock of their cold-
blooded murder to start digging
gold out of the mine, when their
mule ruined their flour supply,
eating some of it, trampling on
the rest. Waltz decided to, ride
off to the nearest mill and get
some—a four-day journey. He
was held up through no fault of
his own. And when he got back
—a day late—he found to his
terror that the Apaches had
been. The camp was a shambles.
All that remained of his partner
was his shirt -hanging on a tree,
"BecauseI took the fifth day
I caused the death of my partner,
just as sure as shootin'," Waltz
said later. "Leastways I've al-
ways felt that way. I caused the
death of my best friend and I've
never forgiven myself,"
It weighed so heavily on his
conscience that he lost all inter-
est in the mine. And when he
died, twenty years later, the last
claim to ownership of the Lost
Dutchman—and the secret of its
whereabouts—died with him.
Many have tried to find i. si-ce
and have met violent deaths.
The last serious attempt was in
1947, when James Cravey was
flown into the Superstitions by
helicopter. His beheaded skele-
ton was found some months
later. To the reader's inevitab.e
question—Why, even with mod-
ern resources, is the Dutchman
so difficult to locate?—Sims Ely
provides a convincing answer.
To do so he goes back to the year
1912 when an ageing Indian.
-known as Apache Jack, revealed
how, many years earlier, when
he was only a boy, a number of
Mexicans were working the
mine. The Apaches always stay-
ed near the Mexican camp be-
cause of the food that was hand-
ed out to them . . , until one of
the gold -crazy Mexicans molest-
ed an Apache woman and a ter-
rible running fight lasting three
days ensued. Eventually most
of the Mexicans were wiped out.
And it was then that, having
seen how gold can inflame white
inen's minds, the Apaches de-
cided to obliterate all surface
signs of the mine so that it could
never be found.
The squaws. worked "all one
winter," Apache Jack said, shov-
ing "into the hole" everything
movable, then smoothing the
whole surface over until it look-
ed like the surrounding country.
Sims Ely's book is a true, ex-
citing adventure story that con-
veys to the reader not only his
own conviction that the Dutch-
man Mine exists, but also that
one day it will yield up its Tabu
lous wealth and secrets.
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