Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-18

sailors and invent some story tina
would take them away from the isl
and. They succeeded in getting tt
California and from that time thei
constant aim was to establish con
neetion with their hidden treasure
In the meantime they drifted to tn
mines and had checkered career
Each lived in terror that his com
panion would sneak away and ge
possession of the whole treasure, 81
they never dared to lose sight O.
each other. Hating and distrustinf
each other they yet lived closer to
gether than brothers.
AT last the Portuguese died. TIL,
| Irishman, whose name was Pete, hat
| been boy of eighteen when he bul
| led the treasure on Tower Island
now he was seventy, and yet he haf
not entered into possession of hi
riches. He began to be afraid tina
he should die without ever seems
them again. So he revealed the stor
to barber in Gilroy, who had bee.
kind to him.
An expedition was organized ant
! financed by the barber. Old Pet,
went with it to show the way
Though half a century had elapsed
he had not forgotten the place tina
had once been indelibly fixed in hi,
youthful memory. He went straight
to the spot and found everything a
it had been except that a cactus hat
grown over the burial place of tn
treasure. But Pete had grown sus
| picious of his companions, and pei
haps recollecting what he had him
self done in a similar position, h
was afraid they might kill him whel
they had learned the position of tn,
treasure. So long as he was the onl,
one who knew he calculated that h.
was safe. Neither threats nor prom
ises availed to make him reveal tn,
place, and as he dared not do anythin,
alone old Pete found himself will
only few feet of dirt between hin
| and the treasure he had longed TO
i all his life, yet as far away from it a
ever, The expedition returned t
| Guayaqui1, and on the way Pete con
i fided in Captain Levick, who was t.
command of the vessel. He wa
coming back in year, he said,
dig up the treasure.
When the American expedition il
the Lila and Matte visited the isl
ands two years had elapsed since tn
visit of Pete, from which Captail
1evick concluded that he must b.
dead. He therefore thought Their
could be no wrong in digging up tn
treasure and advised the American
| to try it.
The next year the captain am
| mate, with Professor Beck and othe
scientists of the expedition chartere>
the Mary Sachs and set out on an
other scientific expedition. The!
gathered many interesting specimen
and made a good haul of the enor
nous tortoises of the islands, whicl
sell from two to four hundred each
but when it came to looking afte
the buried treasure they found it i'm
| possible to land on Tower Island
They went home disappointed, bu
the treasure seemed to look bette
as it receded, and they resolved t.
try yet another time
The Mary Sachs was charterei
again, and this time she carried gas
olene launches and party of me-
determined to get to the island am
see for themselves if there was an!
truth in the yarn they had been told
This time they succeeded in landinl
on the island and found the spot de
scribed by old Pete, cactus and all
everything, in fact, but the treasure
The sand on the beach is bleachet
by the sun to quite snowy white
ness in the course of a few weeks
but in the place where the treasur-
should have been it was dark, as /
it had been freshly turned up by .
spade, and some object had evident
ly been removed from concealmep
i in it.
Then they knew that they were to.
4 late and had to console themselve
|
petition returned to San Francisco
covered with glory and specimens
but the true inwardness of the tril
remained untold.
| 1t seems that there is a differene
between treasures in real life and il
novels after ALL In real life you ge
the excitement, the murders and rob
berries and everything else that goe
to make sensational story, but TIL
treasure itself melts away when yoi
think it is within your grasp.
| An exception is the man Heating
who is said to have distracted $40,
600 worth of gold and precious stone
from the famous Captain Kidd
treasure on Cocos Island Eyerybod,
has heard of Captain Kidd, the Brit
ish naval officer who turned pirate
and it may be remembered that hi
island is not so very far from tn
Galapagos group, as distances go il
i the vast ocean of the Pacific A Gel
tain Captain Gessler is at present en-
4 gagged in searching for the treasure
4 He has leased the island and ha
| promised TO pay the Nicaraguan Gov
| eminent royalties on what he gets.
4 About the same time that Gessle
set out for Cocos Island a man named
| Smith set out on an expedition witt
| the schooner Harmony, said to b
financed by prominent San Francis
cans, to find hidden treasure in tn
South Sea Islands. He returned With
out any treasure and got into tfoubl
for obtaining money for false pre-
4 fences.
4 ! ?
! The Faith of Celestial.