The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-27
thew believed. the splendid stake for DOS.


a temporary truce, they joined in dig
ging, and unearthed-an old broken cast
iron chowderpot.
Some party of excursionists had used,
and doubtless accidentally broken the
old utensil, and had then tlimbled it into
hole, where it was in time covered by
the drifting sand; but to this day there
are old residenters" in that neighbor-
hood who firmly believe that when
Charles Greenwood's mattock struck
metal it was indeed Captain Kyds
Treasure chest, from which it rebounded,
but that while the fight was going on
between the brothers it was changed by
the magic art of its guardian demons to
the semblance of broken iron pot, in
which form it was of course cast aside
as worthless, and so left for them to re-
transform back TO its reality as a box
full of gold and diamonds.
If you doubt it, they will say to you,
triumphantly;
Then where's the pot the which no
living man has yet SEEN"
From time 10 time the clairvoyants
and spiritualistic mediums have been
employed by credulous people in this
part of New Jersey in endeavors to locate
the treasure, but uniformly with such
i'll success that hope in that direction
has all died away.
The clairvoyants, it is explained, can
not be brought en- rapport with things Of
which there is nothing left as sort of
leading trace or clue.
Now, if we had Captain Kyd's re-
volver, or one of his shoes, or suthin,"
argued an old Red Banker, ait would
be easy as smoke"
AS for the failure of the spiritualistic
mediums to compel the guardian demons
to attend and give up their secret, the
explanation is accorded that
Them sort of bein's amt no common
and jerk into circle by the scruff Of
their necks. These are regular devils,
and Spanish at that, not understanding
our lingo, most likely, and carih' nothin'
for such light-waisted proceedings"
But very lately new power has been
brought to bear upon the recalcitrant
COLLINS by the aid of tie higher order
of what would be on the Pacific Slope
known as spook sharps," but who
here bear the nobler- sounding title of
"Theosophists."
Although the parties who furnish the
information knew not the identity of the
august persons who brought their
science to bear upon this knotty old
problem, there is sufficient in their story
that is indicative of certain individual
tiles with which no others can be con-
fused in this community that little, if
hot hn &c
the Grand Hierophant and the Arch
High Priestess of the Rosy Cross have
been viewed by profane eyes. And the
story thereof is this:
Alta very late hour ON the evening of
Friday, the 2lst inst, two men, who had
been on "a sort of nocturnal prowl about
Red Bank-upon some secret mission
which, they Reluctantly admit, was not
wholly disconnected with the existence
of soft-shell crab-yens in that vicinity
were surprised to see moving slowly to-
ward them, on lonely road, two-horoe
carriage. The deep sand deadened the
noise of the whee S, but as the vehicle
appro ched them, trey could hear the
painting of the overburdened horses, the
creaking of the body Of the carriage,
which seemed to sway with an enormous
load, and the smothered curses of the
driver. Satisfied by the sounds that it
was no mere phantom carriage, the
young men viewed it with curious
wonder.
Either from the innate shrinking
modesty, which almost uniformly marks
parties who depart from the conventional
sy TENS of commerce in the matter of
poultry soft-shell crabs and melons, or
for some other unexplained reason, the
young men stood aside from the road in
a thick clump of bushes, until the car
riage had passed, and then following in
its rear.
After going about half mile, leaving
the main road and turning into field
near the edge of the woods, the horses
stopped, a murmur of voices in consul
tation was heard from the interior of
the carriage, and then one of the doors
was opened. First there descended
from it man of medium height, stout
build, martial mien and very big
beard. To him were handed out one by
one, some implements for digging and
other articles, the uses of which were
not apparent to the young men. Then
a cond man, tall and thin, came forth,
and last of all revealed the cause of the
creaking of the carriage and the painting
of the horses; an enormous woman, tall
and wide and thick, who descended the
steps slowly, and-while the carriage
seemed to jump upward upon being re-
leased from her weight. so as to almost
unseat the driver-said selemnly in the
deep tones of heavy grenadier:
The conditions are favorable, Henri,
give me cigarette"
The driver, evidently in obedience to
previously-received instructions, turned
the vehicle about and drove rapidly
away. The large woman lighted her
cigarette, and stood putting, medita-
lively.
By this time the moon shone out so
clear that every motion of either mem
Der Of the group was perfectly distinct
to the watchers.
The military-looking man taking up a
vase poured into it something from a
bottle, and straightway there foated
above the mouth of the vase a greenish
-phorescent light, not like fame,
but with rather the appearance of lumi-
nous cloud.
&C me-" said he, "this is the place
and this the hou-' mighty agencies sur
round us, beings that brook no delay,
and we want to sling things round here
lively and get through this job"
The woman threw away the stump of
her cigarette. Z" In India on e." said
she, " when nv friend, the sage Ramjun-
dr. lot