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Ancient Grave Mounds Are Being Dug Over for Golden Gods (By Frank a Carpenter.) Punte Arena?. Costa Weis. COSTA Rica' aas one of the felled treasure islands of the ?????id. This Is Coco*, which lies southwest of here in tude 0 decrees 32 minutes and In latitude i degrees. 112 minutes and longitude 17 degrees 2 minutes. It is claimed that on the island is burled Kold to the amount of millions ol dollars. One of the treasures was tarried there in 1720 at the time of the revolution in Peru, when the people of Lima and Cailao chartered the little veseel lying at the wharves and OS taped to Cocos with thrlr plate, bullion and other valuables. They were Phased by a Peruvian man-of-war. but outran it In the darkness. They iuaded eleven boatloads of treasure at Cocos amounting in value, it ia said, all :<!<? way from fifty to one hundred mil Ifsjag of dollars. Among the object* v. as a life sised statu?, of the Holy Virgin, made of solid gold, and therei Were smaller golden statues of 6t juseoh. gt. Pater and others. Thar* a as a great quantity of silver plate, and, in all, a vaat treasure. I After burying this, the vessel started tack to Peru, but on its way it met fkfai of he revolutionary men-of-war and was bombarded. Aa a. result every Peruvian on 'board was killed, and only two men, an Knulishman and aa American, were saved. The .unei-icea afterward dlaappcurec* Mis name _ was Thompson. This left the ...ngltshman. a resident or Newfound lags) named Keating, as the sole owner of the secret. Keating went home and ? ?h?rt time later started out two ex? peditions lo get the reasure. In one of these his vessel was wrecked and in the other he and his crew were ar reated at Panama and sent back home. I lid left Uis charts, however, to his ? seenjams, and some years ago they Mere still in the hands of one of them, | Mia. Voucg. who was torn living Inj Uoston. Hoards of the Beceaaeers. Another treasure buried on 'Jucos Is said lj have been lell there by Wil? liam iJampier, who blockaded Panama in 16?< und took during the years fol? lowing a big treasure ship which was ? oraitig north from Peru, intending to Send its sliver and gold jn horses a roes the Isthmus to Porto Hello and tteteee ts spam, Pa easier it in alleged, buried six boatloads of silver aej Cocos f -.n mad.- several trips there after that ?Ith Klmllar freight. There ,s a third story wmch saya ' mt in ISM, during th? resolution when the Central American colonies br>k?- away from Spain, th.- native .Siianlards living here la Costa Rica; loaded s sehooner with gold 1ems and j silver plat* and sent It to Cocos to be j Kept th'-t e until the trotiblee were j over. They gave the treasure* over into the hands of sIt men. eacn -f whom had a chart of the exact place where the stuff was burled. One of these men was killed during; the revolution, ? and two others died from natural causes I i-efore it was over. When peace wan restored the remaining three started tor Coeos to bring buck the wealth. Site of Porte Belle, a tree-are etty wade* the botteaeeere looted. It le ?ew e ejsmrrv fee the eaaad. but their boat was driven on the rocks >t the island and all on board perished. That was about 1S30. Haatlaa the Treaeare. These, facta have ions keen current in thta part of the world, and many people believe that the above-named treasures still exist there. The gov? ernment of Costa Rica has given a number of permits to partlas to hunt for them, and not long ago a squad of soldiers and a scientist in charge ot the C>sta Rlcan government survey went to Cocos aceompanied by a Col? orado man. who claimed that he could hold a stick In his band and that it would turn over ana point ???n when lie passed over gold. I have seen men looking for water m the m>untalns ot Virginia using the forked limb of a peach or apple tree In much the same woy. Well, the Colorado man's charra did not work on Cocos. 1 don't know what was the matter. He went there, but claimed he had not a fair trial. Another set of treasure huntera came here about five years ago from Eng? land, t was at Panama at the time their boat was In the harbor. That ex? pedition was hesded by Karl Pltxwll liam. who is said to hare an Income of $1.'?00.000 a year and to own 100,000 acres of land In Ireland. He had. bought a yacht named the Verenlque and had come out wth Admiral Palliser. why at one time was the commander |j Cut1 Flowers \ ^ I Koip Send Retted Thoughtful 2 ness and Consideration j | The finest flowers are not necessarily the a highest in price?for we ask no more for our a C? choice blooms, sent dewy fresh from our green- Si 9 houses, than you ordinarily pay. | c** Glad to give prices on Cut Flowers, Ij H Plants and Floral Service of even.- de- I ?i ? scriptjon. Just phone Madison 630. I ,<-# I HAMMOND t VIRGINIA'S LARGEST FLORIST, 4 B ! Tel. Mad. fi3t. Iff E. Broad. 2$ The Commonwealth Bank Is a Safe Bank Not because of its large assets, not because of its steel vault, bat because of the personality of the men in charge of the bank's affairs. The officers and directors of this bank are thorough? going business men who keep closely in touch with the pulse of trade and finance, and they always forego any possibility of gain where there is any risk involved. Your account is solicited. Commonwealth Bank 12 North Ninth Street. Assets Over One Mllborn Dollars. WUUam L. Walten-.President F. P. McCams?sB.Vies fTaaidesit S. K* WoJtera.? ??...??????????-????-...Vloavl^iamtfasit H. C Plw?OBi* ..???????????.?.?. *~* ... ?_ M mw*m>+* OswahaBm' BRANCHES: If2 East Broad Sfroat, TwoDty-flfth a?jd Bread Srrasts, B?i" ?i - - ?-???ii ?r.iTf.i ?-?^L. .? _ a phatosrrapa of tfce image*. of the British Beet on the Pacific. The admiral had been sent to Cocoa t>y the government some years before to In? vestigate the claims of a man named Hartford, an I2n**lisaman, who had a concession from Costa Kica to hunt for this treasure. He was tri the Imper leuae at the time, and he and his sail? ors did some atgglng and then went away. PaUlser, however, was confident that the treasure existed, and he got the earl to put up $300.000 to pur c?aa? this yacht and equipment. They had a full corps of men, including sail? ors and diggars. They came *round through ths Strait of Magellan ana made the island all right. In looking for the treasure, however, they used dynamite, and in the explosion which followed the earl and the admiral were eo badly Injured by rocks that, to make a long" story abort, tney went back to Panama with nothing but disgust for: their pains. J Another party started out to look for this treasure was beaded by a New? foundland woman, the widow of a ship chandler. She went over to the Pacific and outfitted a ship from Victoria. Her captain was a man named Fred Hacket*, and shs had with her a trans? fer from Hartford of his permission from tbs Costa Riesa government to search for treasure on Cocoa, the un? derstanding betas; that the latter was; to have half >f the find. When she came to Cocoa the island was inhabited by a castaway who was dressed like: Robinson Crusoe. He had nothing- on' bat skins of beasts, and he iooked crazy. At first he could w-tt speak, but I sfter they had given him some whis I key he told In broken language his I et-ry. He said he and others had had I a concession from Costa Rica to { search for this treasure, but that the ' others had become disgusted and left. , He could not say how long he had been i on the Island. At first he hsd kept I I tally of tbs days by notching a stick, i I but he list ths stick, and he had about! ? given up In despair when ths *c homer! '. arrived. In ths meantime other parties. In- j . eluding some of oar canal employes. , j have been planning to excavate Cocoa. | I but so far no one baa discovered either ithe buccaneer hoard or the Madonna 'of gold. I am told that concessions i can bs gotten from the Costa Rican 'govsrnment If any one cares to search. The HMeea ?atd ef Cestnl America. There Is no doubt that there are great treasures hidden on the islands and also on the continental part of Central America. On Mona Island ?2S*.0#0 worth of silver is buried. This Is not far "root Porto Rico, j I have myself seen here and at Pan? ama at least a half peck of solid gold ' images which have been taken frees the eld grave mounds of Central America. No one knows who burled them, sad sotne ease see that they date back for hujhhrede and even thousands of years 1 haw a quart of these Images la the bank of Esraaa dc Co. In Psaaaaa City, sad I am told that Miner C Keith has a collection of them la Mew Terfc which to said to be worth eoseia* headred thousand dol? lars I took a shadesjieph of the images la the Psssms bank The- are of all lasses, frees that er a maa's thumb nail to the saint af year hand. Some are ?alte heavy, sag the gold In them mast he worth several hundred doll are. ?cane ]iprieset frage, ethers Mrds and some are weans a with a hawh heed of Mather, er what 1 sarge very mach like it- Mm i i. the asset at the Images have aa Egyptian cast, sad they re? mind awe of the treasures feaad ta the pyramlda The meet of these -Saws from aha Chlrloei pint lace, la the northers part of the P It Jetae Can*. I am told that a large part at ehest the Otatf off Agee Dale*. At Sea Jose there I? a iswaaw who has seme ^ 'Franklin, who has them for sale for a native, says that they are probably 1.900 or 2,000 years old The workmanship on these images is exquisite. Some of them are beauti? fully carved and some are lifelike in feature. Among the treasures of Mr. Ehrman are a great many breastplates of solid gold. These are round disks with a nipple in the -centre ranging lc diameter from two to six inches. Tbe gold is a thin plate and is unalloyed. He has also a bracelet which would tit around the Sleeps of a prize fighter and which is about four inches wide. This is also of solid gold. I understand that many such images are being discovered and that in all cases they come from these gkave mounds of the past. Geld Burled la Lakes. Some of the lakes of the Central American highlands are said to contain treasures put there by the Indiana at the time they were persecuted by the Spaniards. There is one on the top of a mountain in Colombia, not far from Panama, out of which images like thosa I hav* described have been taken. The most of them have been found near the shore, and It is said that a party of Englishmen are now I GE0.W. I ANDERSON & SONS 215 E. Broad Street. Curtains .And Portieres .All the Novelties, Scrim, Cluny. Irish Point. Marie Antoinette, Tam? boured. Every kind to select from. Wilton and Axminster Rugs New Patterns Added to the Mourn la.ua?. where at*** ?*>?*??? of ?tl-er MM korled. i ?: Admiral Paillarr o- fcla w*y ta haut U???mi tm Cues* Ialaaa. Coata Riea. TW aahaawau aa at tare wtaerm._ planning: to drain the lake and mine the bed for the treaanree. They are making; a tunnel to let off the water. I heard of similar treasure hoards in this same region of South America. There is one In Ecuador aald to con? tain the treasures of the I ocas, and another in Peru where it is claimed that something like IH.OOO.OOO worth of gold waa thrown at the time Plsarro broke faith with Atahualpa and caus? ed his death. Tou may remember part of the story. I Pizarro had conquered Peru and was taking away the stiver by the ship? load. That metal was so common that ? , the Spaniards had their horses shod; with it. It was at this time that Pi- i zaxro. the Spanish general, had cap- j tured the Inca King, Atahualpa, who) waa also a sort of a prophet and high priest of the peopla He offered to ransom the latter if the Indians would | I flU the room in which the King was i imprisoned with gold. [ The room was seventeen feet wide, twenty feet long and nine feet high. .The gold was brought. In in great quantities. It comprised gold plates torn from the Temple of the Sun at Cuzco. gold vases wonderfully carved. Immense gold basins and hundreds of drinking cups and dishes of various kinds. There was so much of it that it took ths Indian goldsmith a whols month, working day and night, to east It Into ingots, and so much that it filled the room, aa Plsarro demanded, j After Plsarro got ths gold he treaeher I oualy killed the Xing, and It is said I that ths Indians then gathered togeth I er such gold aa they had left and buried it In that unknown lake. There are said to be gold hoards st I the bottom of Lake Titlcaoe. hat that can never he drained. There era other 'sold hoards in the nitrate fields far {ther south, and Indeed no one knows just where the greatest treasures of the past lie. It Is very probable that there is some on the Isthmus of Pan? ama, and the excavation of old Panama City, which Is about to begin when the ' new road there Is completed, will un? earth some which were hidden at the time that Morgan took and destroyed the city. Morgan Is said to have ta? ken away ITS horseloads of Jewels, sil? ver and gold, and he tortured the poo- | pie to make them coafesa where the I money wae hidden. The Peart tasaaea ef the Weesens J If treasures are found at old Pan- j ama It is not improbable that jewels and pearls may be found among them. > The waters adjoining- Panama and eth-1 er parts of Central America has long seen noted for their magnificent pearls. Some of those ia the crown ef Spain came from here, and in the eathedrei* In Senile and Toledo are strings and clusters ef pearls whloh the early explorers tooh from the In-' diene. <~olimhus met natives wearing ruga* of pearls while he was In this part of the world, snd he tooh owe pearl weighing tne gralas home to ths Qaaen. fortes found blach Bear la which came from the waters of Uswer California while Ferdinand r?e Sate Is said to have robbed one ef the Indian queens of a great string ef fine There *r? pearl ha,irise rest salalli Panama Bey. and the dinna hi ?01*? e* now. I find paarte, for sale hare la Pant* Areaaa. aad the aaJtaas ad the ? hotel table* will untie heats ha thetr , llaVllrttlT*>l f^?1v*-'T*at aaJrwf %*ot jfOfi tt) aseaP? ftMasaa fc^WMfi H*rtfM. t%*BM4) Qj? tlM \^99Xk7%9 4aaTV ? awty eaeda hat ether* are as bag as a pea. la the er ores jar* win saa little , aiWiiB ef eaert* whiea aaa ha liafrhi hy the hw far an esrt* ef srfhss. bat1 as a rule flat peart* aim a what eery entail er aat perfeeely re and, X was] set* ?hat ewe was take* eat a few' years ago which weighed fifty carats, and I have heard of another which a twelve-year-old boy found in an oyater and sold for M,?x>. it was taken to Panama, and there sold to a banker, and in time It reached Paris, where it was valued at $10.003. Not long ago some pearls were found near our canal sanatorium on Taboga Island, and one of them brought sz.jae. The moat of the pearls, however, come from the Pearl Islands, which lie on the west side of Panama Bay. about thirty miles from the islands on' which we are now building the aurttfleatlons which command the western end of the Panama Canal. There are sixteen ot tbeae islands, the most of them smalL They are populated chiefly by the In? diana who are engaged In pearl diving. The men use diving suits, and they bring up the pearl oraters In the shell. After the shells are on board the boats they are opened and the oysters, are searched over for pearls, the shells being cleaned and sold to make but? tons, knife handles and other such things in which mother of pearl is employed. I am told that the shells found are worth about us much aa the j pearls, and that they are the sure part of the profit The divers may work for days without finding a pearl, hut the' shells always sell, and it la on that account that the business ie profitable. In talking with on* SB* her* I asked htm wa that pearls could be smew a grain of sand lnakia aa that it irritated Its se-urete the ?olutton the pearl. He replied faith in the theory, ml found pearls of considerable very young oysters, and Ubkt no rule as to just anker* s.ud he: "A pearl is like aa onion, of a serW r>! coats, and ye off the ou;s!do one to find.I? intact. As a rule the pearls i are small and not of great though there Is no telling ones may be discovered." V Pearl es nig eat mm I aru told that the Pearl been fished for. pearls for years, and that pearl fishing la on all along this coast tu California to Mexico. The of the flulf of 1*.wer California, been exporled since the days Of i and more than !,:'80 oune shipped to spa'ti In one yea waa in 1713. About two pa diver found a pearl aa hip; ah a ridge egg, and it waa sent 1 where it sold for $5.000. ? Trafst waa of a light steel eohvr, bat j black at the baae. On the other side of the) *?> pearls have been found Off aha of South America. It la Venezuela is producing sou* $000,00) worth every year. It ks ?- vion which ia called the Pearls." and it waa from f* on the Island of Margerita that * ] of 230 carats waa taken In 1S7S. pearl was worth perhaps $*} became the property of the Spa-ln. Another gem Whioh Spanish crown came from the of Mexico. It weigha 440 gralm (Copyright. 1912. by Prank Ck p enter.) DURHAM m T Special to The Times Durham. S. C. November Gertrude Duncan entertained ths> I bera of the Junior T. W. A. Worth Durham Baptist Church evening at her home on Street The house waa prettily ated with flowers and autumn and the T. W. A. colora Samt music were the amusements of evening. Cheese sand wichen I chocolate were served. Miss Sarah Harlan, after a her sister, Mra. E. R. Leyburn, returned to her home in RlohmoneV Mrs. R. R Crawford, of Mill ia the gueat of Mra. J. B. Wall Mias Elizabeth Colllna la friends in High Point Mias Clara Kennedy to few days in tb* city with bar Mrs. R W. Williams. She will friends in Greensboro before ing to her home In Richmond. Misses Alberta Boon* and Cheatham are on a vialt to I Mrs. A. J. Trogler, Sr.. of and Mr. and Mra A. J. Trogler, two children, of Cincinnati, are guests of Mrs. It B> Mark ham. - Ernest Sears has returned tab home in Bay City. Texas, after a j to hia parents. Mr. and Mra. Sears, on Morris Street Mrs. Joseph Graham waa heat the Senior Bridge Club Thursday ternoon at her home on Street Auction bridge eras the) and refreshments were served la courses. In addition to the ? members of the club, Mra . has as guests Mra P. X*. . of New York; Mra W. W. OUre ; Mrs. W. L. Wall, of Hillsboro, a: i' member of the club. The Cornelian Literary Society in the girls' literary hall at the School Friday afternoon and waa tended by more than 10-0 garbs, society is composed of many of girls of the High School, and to ing splendid work In developing 1 minds and talents of the _. I along the lines of rant talmas* ? good literature, I Miss Bessie Erwin, who has ! guest of Miss Helen Slooum, in I etteville. returned homo [ left Tuesday for Charlotte, wi ! is the guest of Mrs. Miles Hb Mr. and Mrs, O T. Leonard bare 1 turned to Greensboro, after Rev. and Mrs. B, C Crave* lav city. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Goldaboro. who have been the of Mr. and Mra. J. J. returned home. Mlaa Grace Johnson has returned her home In Chatlotte after a Mra C. C. Howerton, in this city. Health and Beauty Hints BY MRS. MAE MARTYN _____ Mi?* B X ? The werry and bother or \mmm%m ?air-n.t. an? ?mm*^**JSfmJS* ? fcelr rt*T op eaA conceal that du.!, ???lrtn?T - unkempt ?ppearaaoe you spee* I " anil ba ?mi* avoided if reu weu.d jatop shampoola? f?? 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