Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-10-19

Q-AI ly. Designing persons are
always trying to secure what
does not rightfully belong to them and
there never has been a relaxation from
the efforts to keep valuables from the
reach of such INSCRIPTIONS persons.
The result of the thousands of years
of such efforts is the modern safe de-
post vaults.
The history of mans efforts to retain
possession of the gold and jewels he
had accumulated is romantic and fas-
cinating, from the time when he used
10 bury them to the present day. A
local trust company has issued an at
Tractively illustrated account of these
efforts. which was gotten up for it and
copyrighted by Boston printing COM
pany. BY their courtesy the following
has been prepared:
That burying treasure was once the
ordinary method of concealment is in
dicated ny such references as appear
in the thirteenth chapter of st. Mat
thew. 1.-THE kingdom of heaven is like
unto treasure hid in q field; the which
when man hath found he hideth. and
for joy thereof goeth and selleth all
that he hath. and buyeth that field"
Syria and other eastern countries are
said to he full Of treasure buried before
battles and never dug up. No one can
estimate the worlds buried treasure
As soon as America was discovered
It was overrun with Spanish adven
turers attracted by stories of the
hurled treasure of the South Amer
ican Indians The aborigines of Co
Iumbia the Chibchas. built mounds il
memory of their dead and filled then
with sacrificial stores of gold and
Jewels The invaders secured immense
booty from these mounds. and it j,
said that one chief gave up treasure
worth $4,000, another $4,000 wortl
I'm gold strips anu still another S65.00t
worth of emeralds and gold. But /
was the booty from the sacred lake o
Guatavita that the Spaniards mos
desired At the great religious fes
rivals on this lake 1t Is said that offer
ings of gold, silver and gems wer
thrown into the water to appease tn
serpent reputed to dwell at the bot
tom.
Although various efforts We're mad
by Spaniards to drain the lake an
secure the gold and gems ii was no
until seventeen years ago that an Ems
fish company secured leased right
from Colombia and succeeded in drain
ing off the water. II has been eStimat
ed that there are on the bottom O
the lake 120,OOO00O pounds of goI(
however correct that may be. Man
thousand dollars worth already hay
been recovered.
Odd Hiding Places.
Stories are told of other treasure
hidden and never recovered including
the S15.00000O national Treasure o
Peru. then it is pointed out that gradu
AlIy man became aware that bette
protection must be afforded TIL,
Egyptians concealed much in the sof
walls and floors of their houses. prob
ably to outwit the tax gatherers, whC
called not infrequently. The Egyptian,
had wooden chests for clothing ant
family treasures, but they used then
little for keeping gold an, Jewels
In Egypt the church amt state were
identical. and the crown levels ant
public revenue, as well rs the sacrifi
cial offerings, were kept in the well
built treasure houses within the tenn
pies, the only buildings in the Coun
try erected with durable materials
The earliest public treasury of which
there is public record belonged Il
RameseS III, who is reputed to have
reigned about 1900 r. c. 1t was 6
large stone affair and vaulted. The
treasure was kept in clay vases witt
covers in the form of human heads
Among the temples with secret cryptS
was the one of granite. Mt Edfu.
Keys recently found in the ruins al
ThebeS with straight shauks five
inches long and a bar at right angle,
with three teeth prove that the Egyp
tians were familiar with certain prin
ciples of lock-making until lately sup
posed to be modern ideas ii is evident
that they used tumhlers to hold the
holt fast until moved by the key. Key
were first designed only to move th'
bolt and were NOT removable. The frs
mention of key to be taken from ;
lock occurs in Judges, g ;23-25; used t.
faSten the suWmer parlor of Eglon
king Of Moab.
Treasures Of Greek temples still
stand. TIE oldest and rne one hes
preserved is at the oracle of Delphi
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