Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-06-27

him up in a wayside hovel, where he
had crouched down to lie. and saved at
least part Of his baggage.
WROTE A NOTE.
''Footsore, exhausted and beyond
hope of recovery" he wrote, 81 pen
these lines to inform my superiors that
Colonel r. s chest, with the following
contents. has been buried by the
roadside near Grodno, under pine tree
some 200 yards south of the camp
which General Brissot's command occu-
pied on the evening of the 23d inst.
Emile Bernier, Captain of Dragons
with date and collateral address.
Captain Bernier's grandson commu-
nicated at once with the War Depart
ment, and that department, with its
Russian confreres, who pledged their
word of honor that Mons B. would re-
ceive a suitable reward if researches
should lead to any practical result.
But those researches hung fire. Near
Grodno' might mean half a mile or
five miles from town, perhaps even
ten miles, east or west. Along that
stretch of 20 possible miles there were
thousands of pine trees, also stumps
of trees that might have flourished in
1872 "Roadside?' North side or south?
And how deep under ground? Had
Captain Bernier worked with a spade?
At last the Russian Government re-
quested the Captains grandson to
come in person and bring the original
of the document along; also, any avail
able information as to the locality of
General Brissot's bivouac, on the
night of November %, 1912. They
promised him every possible assistance
and one-third of whatever he might
contrive to find
HAD ALL VANISHED.
But the men who had shivered in
brissot's bivouac had all themselves
vanished to the realm of underground
secrets, and according to last accounts,
the searcher have found nothing but
difficulties, of which Captain Bernier's
grandson probably received his promis-
ed percentage.
The dying Captain wrote his men,
orandum for the information of COM
rades to whom word would have
been sufficient, but the Steward of the
Minneapolis Sporting Club could have
afforded to have been a little more ex-
plicit What did you do with all
your savings, Tom?" asked friend at
the bedside of the departing major
domo. Couldn't you tell a chum,
rather than let outsiders find it by
accident. ?"
Yves, | might as we'll" said the
steward, rousing himself as from a
trance. Il did bury it, and you'll find
it---opposite the-middle of the stone
wall"
iHOSO NC4S ulS last WOIuS, ana IN |
vestigation revealed the fact that there |
were at least 80 different stone walls |
on the premises, clubhouse, restaurant |
and lot of stone built
kennels. The neighbors are still dig
ging
Yet what piles of long forgotten
plunder will turn up in the predicted |
era OF universal subsoil blowing!
Thousands of ship loads undoubted- |
ly, on the coasts of Italy alone, at the
mouth of the Tiber, that swallowed the |
wealth OF three continents; in the har-
Dor OF Syracuse, with its record of 100
sleges; in the shore hills of Agrigen-
tum' the great CITY," par excellence,
during several prosperous centuries of
commerce.
But thousands of buried treasures
VIII also continue to battle the trickster
d the divining rod. The Doodle guard
hg gnomes of the under world have
aiken them in charge on their own
.erms, and like large class of ovar-
ground administrators will contrive to
'etain both the interest and the cani-
d. F. L. OSWALD