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

| from tOrCe OF naDlJ ttdu ne DeSn up
here before and not alone? A sudden
conjecture crossed the explorers mind,
and a view halo whoop brought up his
friends at a doubie-quicl;. There were
spade marks about the gravel of the
old foundation, and an hours work re-
suited in the discovery of the nugget
pot. The Secret of the Andes would
have leaked out long ago if the Peru
Wan Prince had really buried his assets
in the presence of all his relatives.
Knight Hagen Of the Libelungen had TO
defy death and an army of $4,000 Huns
to keep his promise of silence, but the
inhuman precaution of the Visigoths
Jornandes. in his History of the
| Goths," states that the diggers in the
bed of the Busero were all slaves, un-
| der the comand of King Alaric's cous-
in, who had them slain the moment
their job was ffninshed, after having
stimulated their energy by promise
/ VI GlliuINlDullOl. Ilt opCtiho VI -Vu
captives,' but they must have been
kept busy that short summer night, if
/ it is true that they turned the river in
three different places to confuse in
| vestigators, and then selected a spot to
bury triple coffin 80 feet deep,
stamped down the gravel and brought
] hopl- tha rivnr tn Uach off tha clrfnpn
marks. The inner coffin was of gold,
! or silver gilded. and the great army
a whole nation, in fact-appears to
have camped three days to arrange the
preliminaries of the transaction.
MYTHICAL TREASURE GROUND.
The lay of Niebelungen is a poetic
modification of an old sun myth, but
not more decideuv so than the Siege of
Troy Paris, King Menelaus and all
The very name of the fair Helen is 4
I Greek metamorphoss of an old San
scrit word, referring to an actor in the
drama of the struggle between the
Light Spirits and the Imps of Dark
ness. 1t has also been pointed out that
Herr Schliemann's Typographical data
would have reduced the great city of
Priam to a mound about the size of
Bellevue Hill N Cincinnati, with four
or five of the alleys at the foot of the
Incline. The Scamander must have
been brook, just deep enough to float
a navy of birch bark canoes. And
that nevertheless excavations yielded
whole museum full of curios proves the
prodigious mass of plunder that must
have been hidden away all the coasts
of the Mediterranean. Not one, not
dozen but about 100 dozen wars. sieges
and rCrayS were needed to reduce tAe
garden lands of the Old World to their
present state of desolation. There are
seaports in Western Asia where the
ruins of four or five different cities are
found on top of each other. though it
would be a mistake to suppose that OBJ
stinate defense generally led to the de-
mclttion of a stormed town. The |
Romans spared and improved 20 con-
quered cities for every one they de-
stroyed, for even Carthage, the metro
polls of their arch enemies. was 'et off |
thrice before they finally adopted the
advice of Cato. But every siege in
Volyed the temptation of treasure-hid-
ing and in an age when armies drag
Sed their catapults over rough noun
tain roads. the capitalists of imperiled
cities often had time to negotiate with
the hobgoblins of the adjoining hills.
STOCKHOLDERS ALL CAUGHT.
The savings bank thus escaped, but
its stockholders rarely did. Prisoners
OF war were generally put in chain
gangs and marched away to the slave
markets of distant provinces to lessen
the risk of their escape. For one who
aid get away, a hundred perished in
the attempt
Now and then the deDositors left
memoranda, but in a great plurality
Of cases their specifications could avail
D'A'5 iNNti bOpOSl dpulSIS, OF were writ
ten for the benefit of friends unknown
to the discoverer of the document. In
1893 when France and Russia were al
ready on excellent terms, a citizen of
Toulouse, in overhauling the MSS. of a
military ancestor. came across a scrap
1f paper which proved to be a Latin
description of treasure buried in 1912.
IN the retreat from Moscow. The Lat
n was that of tyro, but had served
rs momentary purpose of concealment,
md with all its grammatical blunders.
vas intelligent and circumstantial en-
'ugh TO rouse the discoverer to instant
action. A military chest, containing
I9o'ooO francs in gold it seems had to
De abandoned, nearly the entire escort
having been slain by the pursuing Cos
sacks; but one of the surviving officers
'isked his life by tarrying in the neigh
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