WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 101, 27 January 1928, Page 8

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

NOTES AT RANDOM

(By

T.D.H.)

They are teaching girls tq shoot in. Russia.—Perhaps on the principle of ladies first. . Buried treasure has always attracted mankind, but surprisingly little of it ever seems to come to light.- A "message to-day reports an expedition about to set off” in. search of a trifle of £12,000,000 supposed to have been buried by the pious Jesuit missionaries in Bolivia. Pizarro and his companions, when they sacked Peru, had the pleasure of quarrelling over about £4,000,0d0 of Inca treasure, and the Incas are supposed to have successfully concealed a vastly greater quantity, but although all sorts of people, from the late Sir Clements Markham downwards, have been vastly interested in the matter, the Inca hoards, if they exist, have still to be discovered. * The supposedly lost British explorer, Colonel P. K. Fawcett, is alleged to be somewhere out in the interior of Brazil looking for a mysterious city of which native tradition in South America says a lot. This city is supposed to be situated somewhere south-west of Diamantino, which is eight degrees south of the Equator. The existence of the citv is based on an Indian legend that God’ put two brothers on earth and that one went West and founded the Inca tribes, while the other stayed in the centre of Matto Grosso, where at the order of God to build a capital, he made a city appear from the earth with houses whose walls were of gold and roofs of diamonds. HenrySavage Landor claimed to have discovered white Indians near the supposed spot of this city, but was' contradicted bv the noted Brazilian explorer, General Rondon. Colonel Fawcett left New York for Rio de Janeiro on January 10, 1925, so he lias spent quite a while limiting for his mystery citv. Whether be ‘expected to pick the diamonds off the roofs is another matter. f

In Asia thev have hunted far and wide for the immense buried treasure of Darius, but perhaps Darius and bis friends did not forget it so completely as has been supposed. Britain has seen numerous hunts for treasure in sunken galleons of the Spanish Armada, but rot a verv great deal has come to light even from 'the most famous of these, the supposed treasure ship of the Armada lying at the bottom of Tobermory Bav.

Over and over again the whole of England has been swept by war, and every such disturbance has been the wholesale concealment of treasure. Not onlv that, but the habit of using the earth as a bank has been followed even in times of peace, and many of those who sccretlv buried their treasures died, without revealing their resting places. In many country places one finds tne tradition of buried treasure, and it may be taken that in almost every case there is some' 1 foundation for the story. At Bransil. near Malvern; at Hulme Castle; at Stokesav, in Shropshire, and many P <h»- places near the Welsh border such stories persist. There are similar legends all P along both sides of the Scottish border. Vast wealth is believed to be hidden near or under Hermitage Castle, also at AddleborouHi in Yorkshire. • • • _

In America the treasure hunters are turning to radio in their pursuit of the fabled treasure trove of the pirates and. buccaneers planted around the shore. ,f the Caribbean A. successful seat ch at Panama was reported last v ear hut treasure hunters appear to have avoided disclosure of the value ofthen find, and the indications are that it was not verv sensational. It is con tended, however, that there are great possibilities in a new radio device: for locating buried metal, and that presen lv the'long-sought goods will come to .light. According to the “New York Times? the radio treasure J l }' 111 ' f s e^ la SU t wo vision of the Republic of Panama, two Englishman and one American having a four-vear Jorgln enterprise. Since captured Panama City m 1671,a that has grown richer withthe ■ that the old .city is virtually a treas lire chest. We know that Morgan go Httle for his pains except renown. Fighting outside the city anffi benea 1 its walls delayed him, so that ther was plenty of time for the besieged gems and gold , At leas biff calleon escaped, loaded \vitli ncn s When Morgan staled the walls his > men shattered the city looking • Thev found booty, though much _ less than had been expected. San Jose s Church was destroyed by the buccaneers- and it is about the old founda tions now., that treasure will be sought.

The coldest spot in the world is Verkhovansk, Siberia. On January io, 1865, the thermometer there registered 90.4 below zero. Uns is the record for all time. In the United States, Miles Citv, Montana, holds the record 1-65 degrees below zero.

Air “big Bill” Thompson Alavor of Chicago, has removed the public Health, commissioner, Dr. Herman Dundesen, who was recently elected of the American Public Healt 1 j ■ non «md has appo.nted in ms place voting Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, who made a new face on me when I was burned several vears ago ,m a § cion ” This indicates that Big Bill s health is the public health ot Chicago. Add to the wonders of the United States Mail Service. A letter addressed as follows: — wood John was promptly and correctly delivered to John Underwood, of Andover, Massacliusetts. ______ SS Gentleman'of tlm Old sThool--I hear poor old Smithson has passed He was ninety-four. becon Ditto-Yes he never really recovered Prom'the shock that the modern girl gave him in the seventies. requiem for lost AVLATORS God line with silver every wave that To-niglJ'above their far-flung resting And fnnge’ with amethyst of twilight’s Each°whitecap drifting with a starlit grace; God, let the music of the winds fall A s V ■ ’•••* hands upon the sea to The r° ISht of the waves, their fall, and Be softTs tender footsteps, let the light Of silver stars drift like a candle S flame From old cathedral altars, and the moon Throw pale white moonbeams, like rose-petals, down Where breezes in those ghostly spaces croon. God, let them hear our prayers for them to-night, Out there above the sea’s eternal erv • • • God, let them know the courage of their hearts Has won for them a lasting Victory I —Daniel Whitehead Hickey.