Lost Treasures of the Iincas.Strange Traditions of Golden Hoards The Lake of Urcos and Its Chain of Solid Gold.Ninety Million Dollars' Worth of Gold Gotten From Cuzco by the Spaniards. The Gold-Plated Temples of the Sun and Moon.The Mi¬ raculous Gold of the Cathedral and the Lord of the Earth¬ quakes.How a Baby Brought Its Daddy Untold Wealth.The | Treasures of the Lake of the Two Stones and That of the j Granite Giant Near Cuenca. An Indian Millionairess and Her Treacherous Lover.The Gold of the Mountains of Han- ganati.The Indian Hunchback Who Sold Himself to the Devil, nv FTIANIC o. CAllPKNTBII. Urcos, Porn. HAVE you ever hoard of Urcos? Tt is ft little mud town on the rail¬ road between Cuzco and l.ake Tltlcaca. It Is more than two nibs nbove the sen. high up In tlio Andes and rot far from l.ake Urcos, In which are *n!d to he hurled treasures of the tiias worth many millions. When the Span- lards, under 1'lzarro', lindj killed the lnas King. Ataluiulpa, they marched upon Cuzco. The Indians Know tholr greed for tho precious metals, and they took most of their treasurers from tho cap- Itnl city nnd secret 1 y hurled them. Ac- cording to tradition, thoy threw mil- lions of dollars' worth of |?ohl Into this lake, and with other things the great golden chain that rati around their main plaza. This plaza remained Intact until .1 few years ago. It was nhout 50(i feet long atid several huii- dred feet wide, ho that Uie length of the chain was prohahly between 1,000 and 2,000 l'ent. The chain was puro gold, wrought Into links about a foot long nnd as large around as tho wrist of a mnn. Tho links wern so heavy that a ninn could not lilt move than one of them at a time, and it Is said ihat hundreds of Indians wero required 10 carry the chain. They took it up tho Vullev of Cu/.co and threw It Into i ho lake." nnd thero It is supposed to lie to this day, although many have searched for It In vain. The treasure hunters have dived l>n«» trie waters and clawed over the mud near the shore. Tbev have also dragged the lake with grappling hooks, hut in places It Is exceedingly deep, and so far the trens- uro has not been discovered. At one :in»« a syndicate was organized to drain the lake. This syndicate had a capital of $.">,000,000 and lis plan was I to tunnel tho mountainside, Iiut tho j-ock was too tough and the enterprise was abandoned. The treasures of the Incas wore not confined to Cuzco. i have heard stories j of hurled hoards all along the Andes from J'anama to l.ake Titlcaca. I hey had vast quantities of golil and silver in Qtilto,. and at t'rrro tie I'asco I found a party of Americans and ltritish who were prospecting for one of tlie.su hoards. They have already spent thou- Kinds of dollars, and are sinking more every day. While I was before the vault of the Cuv.co Cathedral I was. shown a golden box weighing thirty-I s1n pounds, made ol the plates that w< re torn trom the Inca Temple ol the Sun. and was told that that cathedral was largely built by Inca gold. j understand that the treasures of. gold that wen stored on the holy Is-; lands of the Sun and the Moon were thrown Into I<ake Titlcaca, and I heat other traditions of the vast amounts of gold and silver the Spaniards failed to get. That which they obtained was greater than the wealth of .< roesu;-. The amount taken from the temples of Cuzco alone Is said to have been worth m<-r< than $f>0,0"e.<l0t>1 nnd a part of this went to Cajatnaica to flee the Inca Krnperor Itahtialpa when lie .vas treacherously Imprisoned hy 1'lr.arro. The Inea Kmporor had come In friend¬ ship. H*> was carried to Cajamarca in rt litter of massive gold covered wlih , ](>!h etnb oldered with the plume:- o'. iroplcnl hiriis. This cloth was studded with gold and sliver plates. Ataliual- pn's hair was decorated with gold. Ile| had on a golden crown, and around his jie. k was a collar of emeralds. \t the start 1'lzarro treated Ata- hualpa well, htit a little later on charged hint with treachery, and put him In a prison about fourteen^ ^eet^ square. The Inca King tool: a.'*siifne iujd scratched a mark on the wall as high up as he could reach, telling J-Mzarrn that he would fill the room to that hflght with gold It he could onl> be free. This proposition was accept¬ ed. and gold In the shape of vases, utensils and plates was brought in from all parts of the empire. It was jnelted down by the Indians under the direction of the Spaniards. When the j>rls"ii room waa tilled to above the mark made by Atahualpu. ho was te- leased. Hut he was still kept under surveillance, and a little later was ac¬ cused of plotting against tho Span- lards. Ho was given a mock trial, and wns condemned to he burned, his exe¬ cution being brought about largely by Friar Valverde, who was afterward made T'.ishop of Cuzco. During my stay in Cuzco I visited the Temple of the Sun, upon whose foundations now stand the church and convent of the r»omlnleai.s. This was kojiwn l«y the Incas as "The Ouican- chn." or the "place of gold." It was rectanculnr on three sides, with a great oval at the hack, and its walls were two stories high anil altogether about 1,20" feet l-ng. These walls were surrounded by a thick eornici or border of gold about eight inches wide, and where the wall Joined tho roof thero was a broad golden hand. 1 h© roof was covered with gold, and tho Inner walls of the temple were liter¬ ally plated with It. vegetables and vines of all sorts being engraved upon them. Opposite the entrance to tin; temple was a mighty plate solid gold, heavily Incrustcd with emeralds and prt nous stones. This j i.ted a hu/nan face ^ irrounded wit a rays. It was the lina- of t s in whom the Incas worshiped, tin') iivd gold in doing so. They considered tl.i t metal sacrcd to the sun, and often r« ferrod to ;t a.< the tears of that heavenly boily. On hoth sides of the iu.a::e were tin euibalmed bodies of the it as of :,.e pnst, each seated on a chnlr of tolld gold. ]n addition to the 'IV.nj le of the .v hi. the incas had temples t the st:.. tnoon. The traditions say that wero chapels to these heavenly t ... In the great temple at <'uzco, and it : whispered that evidence.-- of :h<-. h.tvi recently been discovered. When I v\ en- through the church my guide w.us i.oi permitted to go with m« Tiio holy father in charge performed duty himself, and the guide thought that it ¦was to prevent me from leari. ng what they )iad recently discovered. All of tho ornaments and utensils de¬ voted to the religion of the It i- were Jnado of gold or silver. In J:,«. j- at hall of tho sun thero wen . Mi-n #;wers which held the water, us* o at the tlm© of the sacrlllces; and there w- tc. twolvo silver Jars lllled with Indian Tlie I»oril iif the ICurthqunk e.«. A iiriwcHrtlon In Ciimmi. TIu» flKiirc l« filNtrilfi) to mc c rnsn liy Rrnil iihIIn of .solid Kolit. The Hkirt 1* Im-riiKf oil with illntiiomln. Tin* ontlu-- ilrnl vrns Imllt l»y nn Im-n hoard. \Mother trrnmirc Mory Ik tli nt of nn Inilliiu vtoiiiiiii KIO jrnrN olil. I vlnKril the Temple of Ihr Son, known n« the rorlcnn- t'lui, or pnlnrr of Koltl. TIiIk Ii iu vrnltn 1,201) fret loop, n llh II ciililrn I'llrn Ice i>l|;lit lnrlirn ivlilp. Thp founihilion of the I'lillilliiK nIiouii In Die iiletti re mil n jinrt of flir original Mrueltiru. LmMsiiuuiJUALU^ \\\ iiimimii iuf i;t 5IITCII OK TIIR IXC"A CiO!,I> WAS ItrrilKl) IX I.AKR TITIfACA. corn. There was a golden llama with a golden fleece; and also golden birds anil golden (lowers, all of life size. Tho Spaniards found a vast amount of gold in the cemeteries of the J nous, Somo of thoso inonarehs, after death, had their royal bowls tilled with gold. (Sold was burled with thorn. There Is a record that one Garcia Gultorres pal<l one-fifth of the treasures he found in (ho graveyards at Trujillo to tIk- Span¬ ish crown. This was only 20 per cent of (ho whole, and It shows that his discoveries netted him «IT7. castei- liuios of (hat precious metal. They are now finding Bold in the esc.t vations being made at Teohuanaco. and that in (he shape of gold and silver plates tacked to tho heads of mumnitos and skulls. The building of the great granite rathedral in Ouzeo, which stands on tin? pin ....a near (tie ardent site of one of the Jura palaces, was brought about by the discovery of an Jnca treasure. lis origin was in a miraculous dream oC (ho bishop, tn this dream the wrgin Mary appeared before the .bishop. and told him that she wanted a cathedral In Cu/.co. She fixed (lie location on the ancient plaza of tho Incas, and described the grand build¬ ing as ii now Is. Tho bishop replied that his people were poor, thn( ho had no money, and that he could not pos- slbly raise (lie sum needed. Thereupon (ho Madonna directed him to ifo to a place near I'ustco and dir.. There he would uncoxer some of (he lost trea¬ sures of the Incas. This was duly re¬ ported to (he people, and, as the story roes, they went with tho ]>lshop In a groat procession lo the place destg- liated. They dug down Into the enjlh, and (hem found a large stone of gold. I( was wi(h this gold that they began the cathedral which, although here far off from the sea, and between the walls of tho Andes, is one of the finest churches of tho Now World. I have already described tho Ca- thoflr.'il of Cu/eo. All told, it Is per¬ haps morn gorgeous than was Cor!- eaneini, tho Jnca Temple of (ho Sun. it is a vast museum of gold carvings and beautiful paintings, one of Its treasures is a life-sized fliruro of the Christ fastened to a wooden cross by great nails of solid gold The figure is decorated with Jewels, and tho ped¬ estal or car upon which (ho cross :- tanils Is plated with silver and lu- crusted with <ilamonds. This image Is greatly revered by the lndir.i:s and alno by the othei people of ('uzco. Tliey carry ti around through tho streets on ilood Monday, at which time they kneel down on the sidewalks and pray before It. They call i( the Lord of tho Karthquakos. and believe that their fit y Is safe from seismic disturbances as long as tho annual procession takes place. This comes from a tradition that the Chi i t wa? once left in tin church be- yoml the hour usually set for the pro- c«-.--: ion, when the mountains began to! wway, ai d an earthquake occured w! ;. ii i: was thought would swallow the *'i( > Thereupon the Christ was' Inc..g!it out and (lie earth ceased its qu:iking A >.< .' r story of lost treasure re- lat- t'i a i'hzi.'o white man of Spanibh di-.' lit whom the Kord blessed with niii .erou children. i( is the custom here tha( a godf.idior shall look after .. in: pro\ <le Jut" his godchild; and so, as this man was poor, he tried to add to iiis resource!? by getting a corpsl of hi od godfathers. So as tho infants f air." one after another he named each j In honor of orio of the distinguished citizens of the (own. -The citizens, however, did liot respond, and the man .rf'iv poorer and poorer. At last lie .r I had nine babies, each of whom had I.rci given rich godf'ither, i>u( (here v. a s :.> help forthcoming. The father! wore that h^ would leave the rich and chose aii/lhu imtron of hla next ' oiltId the first man ho met on tho street after !ts birth. In duo tlmo the stork on me again, And the man, rushing out, saw a poor Indian driving: a caravan of llamas Into the town. He stopped hi in and told 111 in he wanted him to he godfather to his child. Tho Indian objected, saying that ho wrs poor nnil not (It to he godfather to a white child. The man then told of his vow and dually persuaded the Indian to accept the position. In duo time the baby was baptized and tho Indian appeared at the cere¬ mony as lis godfather. Tlo kissed Ida godson as he left the church and the in \'< day ...line hack Into t'u/.' o with u s. ore ef llamas, loaded with wood. Iftt too!: thl'i wood to the father of Ills godchild, saving that ho had brought win*.I ln» could and that he must ac¬ cept the wood as a gift. The man was thanked and the wood was duly stored away in the court of tho house. Some time after that tlie bundles of sticks anil roots were opened, and Inside each was found a great Iwr of gold In nng- is ami dust. in the meantime, the Indian had disappeared, and could not l>e found. The man took the gold and built two large houses on tho strooi calb d Triumph. If you do not believe this; story come to Cti7.co, and tho peo¬ ple will show you the street anil point out the houses. Another treasure story Is tho tale of an Indian woman 100 years old. It re- lates to a great hoard of gold that was hidden In tho Amies by one of the chiefs, who was murdered before ho came hack to Cuzoo. This treasure has low? been searched for In vain by both foreigners and Peruvians. Xot long ago this old Indian woman, be¬ ing about to die, sent word to a haei- endado of Spanish decent for whom she had worked, asking hint t<> hasten to her. llo reached lier hut in the mountains Just In time to get her last message. This was that her maternal grandmother, who had died eighty years before, bad given her a word that would Indicate where this troaa- urn lay. The word was an Indian one and it meant the T,ake of tho Two Stones. Tho old woman was ones- lionet!, but she would toll nothing more. That night she filed. Tin story went forth and the whole country was searched by treasure hunters, all s-ek- ing for the l.ako of Two Stones. At last a narrow valley was discovered containing a lake In which there were two tall rocks rising: high over the water. Tho Investigators drained the lake. They dug down tinder the larg¬ est .stone and there found a platform of masonry, covering a chamber in which tho treasure was found. Tho so' ret was kept from tho officials for fear of confiscation. And so no one knows just how much gold was dis¬ covered, but it was of such great value that It made all of those who partici¬ pated in the division rich. Another of those Inoa traditions re¬ lates to a cave In a mountain called Pillchau, near Cuenea, in Kcuador. This cave contains a mighty«.treasure of gold, but Its cntranco is closed by a giant of granite under whoso arm is a hole which is open only once a year, and that on _»!ood Friday. Then, and then only, the giant raises his arm and the man who can be there at that time can crawl In under it and got an Immense treasure of gold. As tho story goes, the gold is in piles so labeled that only one pile is to bo taken at a time. If one man takes only the assigned quantity lie .will got away safely. l>ut if ho is greedy and takes more ho will ho squeezed to death by the arm of the giant as lie goes out. This is tho belief hold by tho In¬ dians. Many superstitious people have looked for that cave, but so far neither the cave nor tho giant has yet been discovered. A fairly well authenticated tradition refers to an Inca named Kuminagui, w ho is said to have carried away tho gold anl silver of Quito and burled thorn. Those treasures wcro taken from ill'- palaces of Atahualpa and from lho temples and convents of the vlrglm of tho sun at that place. K Is said that Riitno of tho 14 o 1«I was .started to «':lja:i>area In order that It i might iilil In freeing Atahualpa, hut f that Uumin.'igul feared the treachery of tlie Sapni.il'is and burled the »1«! on the way. This story came t«. the Spaniards', and Sebastian <le }'.otialcaza r, one of tho subordinate uflleors under I'lzarro, took 1!>0 men and started for Quito, searching ah ll path <>f llumina^ul, hut litidiim nothing. In the meantime Kuminagui had dug traps in t h*«- trails ;.irl made mares to destroy the enemy and their ln>rs« lie also set timto Quito ami killed the virgins of tho sun hrforo l'.enah-.'V.ar appeared, lie tin :i climbed t<> the hi:th mountain behind the city, where 1" was finally taken by Hei.alcazar. lie was tortured to death to make him t. -1! whero the golden hoard was .*... creted, but ho showed no sign <>f weak¬ ness. and the kmuvb of the location 'of the treasure died with him. There Is a story told in Cu/.o «>f :*n Indian girl who was in love with a Spaniard. The Spaniard h id taken ad¬ vantage <>f her affection, but he would not make her a proposal of marrlauo until she told him that she could make him the richest man in 1'eru. lie thereupon promised to marry her if she would prove that she could <h> what she proposed, and at her request went with her one night into the mountains. There he was blindfolded ami led through ravine after ravino until ho llnally came to a cave. Here tho bandages were taken off his eyes and his sweetheart said: "Heboid! There is the gold that 1 am ready t<i give you when wo are married." The Spaniard looked down and saw a great jille of golden bars and a col¬ lection of golden vessels curiously carved. It is .supposed that they were from the treasures f>f Atahualpa. The greedy man attempted to sei/.o some <¦ f the largiest piece's nearest him, but tho girl pulled him back, saying: "Those thi;j£rs are sacred until we are wedded, and if you attempt to touch any of them or take away any, my friends, who are hero at hand, will certainly kill you." Tiie girl was so earnest the Spaniard grew scared, lie threw down the gold v>;W^ t v.. ggli! Every detail of the wedding ceremony comes In for so much critical attention that the very best floral service Is none too good. When you cfc.n have the facili¬ ties of £40,000 feet of greenhouses at your ser¬ vice. at no higher coat, you'll sea tho wisdom of having HAMMOND SRKVICE. For esti¬ mates, plcsso 8 $8 ftn Telephone Madison 0.10. The hind of tudinn who hurried thi- (rrn.nirr. The mini In a ((uii'liiilt. n de- Mvendnut of the slnvr* of I >. «> Ihi jim. anil submitted nR.iin to he blindfolded. When he returned to Onsen ho Informed the authorities, and an order was is¬ sued for tit" arrest of the ^irl. The officers went to her Inn. hut tiiey found that she and all the res' of tlio fam¬ ily had left for the mountains. And that w;»s the last of the treasure. There :<<-f records left hv thf> Span¬ iard;; describing several localities where they think some of these !n<"» treasures may !>.' found. One of these -i 11. chapter of t?o- "1 >. rretero" of Y.tl- vorde. Valverde died in .Spain, after When Hairy Growths Appear on Your Face (Helps to I'.eauty) Women who realize the value of a soft, clear, hairless skin will do well to keep a small package of powdered delatono handy to use whenever the obnoxious growths appear, because with the aid of this powder the skin can he kept free from hair or fuzz. The simplicity of this method for banishing hairs makes it easy for any woman to employ it in the privacy of lier own home, and the time required to remove oven a stubborn growth Is loss than five minutes. Knough pow¬ dered delatono and water is mixed into . i paste to thickly cover the hairs and after two or three minutes It Is rub¬ bed off ami the skin washed to remove the remaining delatone. This will leave the skin hairless and witohut spot or blemish. Buying the delatone iti ::n original package Insures Its purity and strength..Advertisement. having returned from tho mountains of I.langanat I. In Ketiador. Ho was known to have k" no many times into tho mountains, anil to have brought out n great quantity or gold, whoso char- iirlors sIiowmI !t to bo a part of tho treasures of Atahualpa. Upon dying Ynlvcrdo loft directions giving the routo to whore tho gold lay, ami tho King of Spain nont this de¬ scription to Anihato. a town now on tho railroad between the roast nml Quito, ami ordered the oflicers tlioro to search for the treasure. I under¬ stand that tho manuscript of tiio King's letter Is still on record. I abbreviate tlx- description: It tolls the searcher for the treasure to stand on tho mountain of t iuapa, with his bncls to Asnbato, and look to the cant. From there lie will see three mountains In tho form of a triangle surrounding an nrtitlolal lake, into which the ancients, when they hoard of tho de.'tth of the lnran King, threw tho goi<l they hail pre¬ pared for his ransom. The Spanish dl- roctions then show one Just how to got there, and tho dangers ho Is liable to Incur on the way. By following them ho will finally como Into a bog filled with grains of gold that can bo washed out In a stream near-by, and still farther 011 is a certain cavo where was the furnaco through which tho Indians melted their ores. This 1b on tho left- hand Bide of the'mountain. Tho direc¬ tions aro quite Intricate, and no far no one lias yet found the treiilauro. Returning again to the treasures of Atahualpa, burled by Riiinlnngul, thero waa an Indian boy named Cat una, tho Bon of 0110 of tho Inca chiefs, who waa with his father at tho time the hoard was secreted. This boy was Injured In one of tho battles and was supposed t<> bo dead. Ilo was taken up by one of the Spaniards, and he recovered, lit* Injuries were ho severe, however, that his features woro distorted and ho bo- camo a hunchback. The Spaniard who adopted him, as it were, was a Cap¬ tain Suarez. lie taught him to read and write, and made him a Christian. He treated the Indian boy ho well that he came t<> love him. and his htart was tilled with gratitude. Ivator on Snare?, bccatno unfortunate In liis speculations, and his house waa | about to bo sold i»y his creditors, when (.'a tun a told him that If I10 wonl-i make a secret vault un't^r she rc»i ('donee ami give him some Instruments for gohl smelting he could And onouc'i gold to pay oft bis debts. Me also mad" hi;* master promise not to say where the gold came from. Suarcn agreed to this, and Catuna supplied so much treasure that he became a.ricli man. Ilo gave a great ileal to the church, and when he died, in 1550, ho made Caluna his lieir. After that fat una gave very liberally to the church, and ho was knowti t" have so much money that he was ques- tlotted ;<s t" the source whence be de- rived bis great wealth. lie answered that ho had made a compact with the evil one, to wliom 11 «. had sold lus S"!il for this gold. This statement wan credited, and the iniirc ea.sly because I at that time the Indians were bellevod to have regular Intercourse with the devil. 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