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...theory which has stood the test of time. In about 1085, a foreign invasion from the East frightened the monks who piled up in that cave all their manuscripts and paintings, and walled up the entrance. They must have been killed or scattered, and the memory of the hoard died out. It was rediscovered by chance in 1900, but luck had it that in the course of the next few years no Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein...
...heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...
...simply as food and drink?as Woman. In New Orleans, an exquisitely voluptuous Creole girl, schooled in Paris, takes him?great-bodied, red-bronze of complexion?to herself as Man. They part, still lovers, and the episode is invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig, to decide to quit picayune political hacking and try working with his big hands...
...lack of banking accommodations has acted as a brake upon overdevelopment of business activity. While frequently painful in application, this brake nevertheless was fundamentally salutary. Now the brake has apparently been removed, except in so far as the Reserve System can enforce such a policy irrespective of the gold hoard in its vaults...
Thus far, only an infinitesimal part of America's huge gold hoard has been drawn abroad. It is by no means certain that the movement will long continue ; even if it should, it would take a long time to drain away the huge gold surplus now in the country...