Show AWAKtNKU IIISIOIIV crrlDgto the latter days one of he ancient Propbels sayi Wheroloro I the things t of all nations IIIal I al ball bo made known yea all things hall bo mado known to the children of men There Is I nothing secret save It hall be revealed Of course It Is not Insisted that every ntlgnlflcant event which has Iran plrid will be brought the knowledge is blstory ol each Individual that dwell on esrlb But there II the eeson that all eeeentlal knowledge 01 be past ehall be revealed In later Imrs oinneotlon with this Idea be June Century has a peculiar revelation of knowledge that bal been bidden l < for centuries past Tbe Item II not ot great slgnluoince but lIe discovery dis-covery shows how simple a mOlD can be made available to preserve the ilstory ot an event ami bring It to light notwithstanding earnest clInGs to efface U I from the world record Mr Eugene P Andrew < a Cornell graduate < studying lu the American classical school at Athens Oreece tells In Ibe Century bow In I worked out the riddle l of the Parthenon which has itffljd Ibe researcbea ol the most erudite ol antiquarians For centuries cen-turies theie have puzileil over the uailholes In the architrave of the east front ot Ibo Parthenon I six parallel lines borod Into I the marble ol that clatalo edifice II has been believed that these boles were used to fasten metal letters the rent of the building two thousand years or more ago but what Ibo letters were or what they spelled has been unknown The cleverest guess was tbII the characters Immortalizsd the message that Alexander the Great sent to Atbens only a hundred yeara after the completion of the Parthenon Hut this was only conjecture Mr Andrews also puzzled and guessed Tuen be want to work with icon Yankee persistence and < skill 11J a rope thrown over the front ot the Parthenon and with an arrangement 01 pulleys and a cradle ha drew him telf up to the level of the architrave and for the first time Inspected the boles at dote range A caiuil obierva fen showed that there had been no leis than 250 letters nhereas Alex anders message contained but 94 In order lo study Ibo combinations at Idiure the young man made use of moistened sheets opsqueezi piper which were preeied down ou tbe surface sur-face of the marble and I tquetzsd or driven Into the boles VVben dried Ibo diode gave a fan simile la relief of tbe arrangement ol the holes and Ibe sheets were hung In order on Ibo walls of 1 hu room aod there studied for weeks The holes quickly nsolved tbenmlvia Into certain comblnallins 01 three or four each several ol Ibo combinations recurring regularly and by their form tujgettlng some nf the Greok canitnl letters Three holes for Irslanco In the shape ot a pyramid l would suggest Alpha Delta or Ij mbJa II the pyramid waa Inverted Ibe bolei probably hell the lettersTsu or Upillon Cirelu moo uremeuti tlltlerenllated even Blmllar combinations and one alter another the letters were unintitakably Idem lied At last alter weeks of absorbing work Ibo result stood clearly revealed and with It I a truth whIch upset the ancient theories ol the savanti The loicrlptlen Is I now shown to have been attached not B C but A D and tbe monarch whoto fame was celebrated on the Parthenon was not Alexander the treat but the Infamous Ilimin emperor Nero The translation 01 the Inscription as now revealoj Ii TilE OOUhOII OF THE ABEOlJt CJDS AND THE COUNCIL OF Tilt SIX JlUriDHLD AND Im ATHENIAN 1EOlLU KIllCT A BTAIUK OF EMlEKOU IGlOO CISilt CLAUDIUS AUOOoTOS QYI < MAN ICUa BON OF OOD WHILE J1I1HUUS CLAUDIUS KGVJU8 19 ACIINQ AS UtN KIIAL OVtll 1HB HUlLlTUi FOR Till tiaUTli hOlE AND WllILk UK IB OVKItbKKll AND LAWUlVKli This shows that the letter were at toctiei about A JU 01 when Qrcice was a njrniu province The general Novlue was responsible lor the tablet being erected In benor of Neros visit tint the cruelty of the Hunan emperor em-peror wrought that rnonaichi downfall down-fall and his bled Pam was chiseled trim every atone tbet bore It I In 3rmo Donbtless the Inscription was tern down at the tame lime But the Hellholes remained and eighteen centuries cen-turies later tecsme the means of roo ullng tD Ibe 01 lody Ibll which people of the first osutnry ol our era doubtless thought waa forevsr ersked loom publlo kODwldKe or obllloo but which yet remains Ineffaceable history |