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Show TREASURE HIDDEN IN EARTH. Priceless Relics So Concealed Must Some Day Be Restored to the Light of Day. The actual prosaic instances of treasure trove and the Old World ceremonial involving "crowner's quest law" to decide the legal rights are to be found in any text book on the subject. More interesting, with a certain cer-tain fascination of romance, is the reflection re-flection that even in our own country, there are probably numerous buried boards, says the London Chronicle. One cannot always ignore tradition, and throughout the length and breadth of the land are to be found old legends of hidden treasure, sometimes some-times guarded by a curse, sometimes by a special warder. There Is probability prob-ability almost amounting to certainty that valuables were hidden by the Romans, and even more probably by the Romano Britons. The treasures of the Incas and of pirates such as KIdd are still existent In theory; the buried wealth of India is among the rudimentary facts known to all students stu-dents of the east. But perhaps most startling and alluring al-luring of all is the theory that among the treasure trove to be at some time recovered from Persian sands or ruins are the Sacred Breastplate and the mysterious Urim and Thummim of the Jewish priesthood. |
