The Holbrook news., 1912-06-21
STILL SEEK TREASURE
PEOPLE OF SCOTCH HIcHLANDs
 FIRM IN FAITH.
Tradition of Buried Wealth LIngerS and Is Occasionally Made Stronger by FInds-some Heavy Gold
 Ornaments Unearthed.

For centuries the search for ancient
 treasure has been pursued in the glens
 and wild places of the highlands of
 Scotland, and sometimes unexpected
 finds" have been made, writes the
 duke of Argyll in Youths Companion.
 For instance, a tradition that treas
 ure was hidden at Inyerary had long been handed down. According to the
 legend, it would never be found except
 by a stranger. Generation after gen.
 eration of children searched for it. If a badger made hole in the hillside the children believed that the bad ger had the scent, and dug up his bur row; but no young or old badger ever came forth with bangles on it's neck or its nose. The children watched every rabbit scrape or hen scrape to see if animal or bird had been at tracted by anything shining under the sod or in the sand.
 Then drainage was introduced. For merly the glen was too wet to be cul- tivated, except on dry slopes where water could not gather, and a hand blow did all the necessary throwing. But now red tiled pipes were put down to drain of water from fiatter ground, and it was possible to sow in com paratively level places.
 One pretty piece of grass land un- der cliff was pointed out as a good bit for blowing. From the precipice above q great rock had fallen in long past ages. This had to be removed. The man at the blow tail was a stranger, an EngIishman.
 He put bag of powder under the rock to blow 1t up. The explosion followed, the partly splintered rock heaved. and fell on its side. Under heath where it had been was a gleam of the lost treasurel There were three bautiful, heavy gold brackets, two of which had cups at their ends The treasure had been found, and by a stranger" as prophesied.
 Those bracelets were beautifully wrought; one of them had plain ends where the wrist was slipped through. As for the pair with the hollow cups, ln old tradition was recalled which declared that no person who had com nitted fault could be forgiven unless tAO Supo OA 6OAu at tue gap III tue bracelets were filled with his peniten- dal tears. There is just room for the nose, like the wrist to slip in between he golden ends, and it is possible to hold the cups under the two eyes.
 Sometimes ignorant men who have Iound such bracelets have looked on he gold as mere brass. In one case ! number of bracelets found in an Island of the Hebrides were used as drawer handles for an old pine chest of drawers, A peddler came to the cottage, found that the old chest had very heavy handles, and gave 15 shil- hngs, or $3.75, for 1t He took it away and sold the old handles for R2O each
 Such heavy ornaments as the brace let's must have been a burden to a Celtic beauty. For a warrior the gold Waa beaten out until it was thin, for then it was more portable and easily | worked Patterns of all kinds could be punched in it, so as to give a good sfrect in front We can imagine how grand an old chief from Brittany or Wales or Ireland looked with a shin Ing yellow band on his conicaI helmet, 3 broad plate of gold on his right shoulder and on his left a long yellow mantle girt in by the belt itself.