Show MILANS GOLDEN KEYS LOST Emblem of Submission to Austria Bergamo Robbed of Colleonlo Will Rome Milan and Dergamo have Just discovered tho loss of certain artistic treasures From the great Sforza Castle sacred to tho memory of tho Sforza dukes of Milan tho famous fa-mous and historical golden keys of Milan nro missing They had always been kept In a glass case In the Renaissance museum of tho castle reposing on an antique brocade cushion whoso warm red tint served to throw into relief the huge golden keys To tho Milanese these keys have a great If painful Interest as they were specially made for tho symbolical ceremony of tho submission of Milan to Austrian domination and so until lately served to keep patriotism awake In the hearts of tho Milanese who hato Austria much worse than they do the devil No traco of tho thieves has yet been found The theft is quite Incomprehensible Incompre-hensible as tho Intrinsic value of the keys I Is small Bergamos loss Is heavier both I sentimentally and financially Berga mo was the birthplace of tho great mediaeval warrior Bartholomeo Col leonl who made tho name of Venice ring throughout tho world and who had as Ruskin said tho most beautiful beauti-ful monument In the world raised to him by a grateful republic but his last testament remained to his birthplace and It Is this which has been stolen from tho town archives when and by whom nobody knows It had been cared for jealously for BOO or COO years by proud fellow townsmen It is now probably reposing repos-ing in some foreign collectors cabinet |