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Show SEEKING BURIED TREASURE. Down in Texas a Galveston citizen who has attained at-tained the age of 80 years has fitted out an expedition expedi-tion to seek for the .treasures in gold and silver supposed to have been buried by the piratical outfits out-fits which swept the seas in the days of Captain Kidd and Jean Lafitte. The search is based on ancient parchments which the Texan has but recently re-cently deciphered, and a few million is the reward they expect to find. This, at least, is the story as it comes to us through the unimpeachable source of the Sunday newspaper. The treasures of the pirates have furnished for generations a source of adventurous search, and no little fiction has been based on the adventures of parties seeking the lost treasures. ' Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson each have contributed a tale of intense interest, and many other writers have used the subject. In the search of the Texan, therefore, it is to be hoped the expedition will be accompanied by a fluent writer, one gifted with., imagination enough to supply the details which will no doubt be lacking in the journey. It would be fortunate indeed if the expedition should find the golden fleece and bring it back to legitimate channels, chan-nels, but greater good fortune would it be if the story of adventure could be told by an experienced writer. Instinctively the death's head of "The Gold Bug" and the stalwart figure of Captain Silver Sil-ver of "Treasure Island" are recalled by this announced an-nounced search. But if the parchments with this obscure meaning bring not forth the unlimited doubloons and pieces of eight, at least an expectant, world will join in wishing the enterprising Texan bon voyage. |