The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-16
A NEW TREASURE ISLAND |
AN IRISH BOY FROM NOVA SCOTIA
TELLS A GOOD STORY.

body Like to Buy the Chart and
TRY His Luck9
From the NeU York Sun.
Mark Brennan. a young. bright-eyed Irish
boy, woo came from Cape Breton, Nova
| Scotia, six months ago to take the response
BILE though not very lucrative place of as
sistant porter in st. Johns Roman Catho-
lie College in Fordham, thinks he has
brought from Cape Breton to this town the
news of lost treasure, and he is naturally
anxious to learn through the Sun how the
treasure may be recovered. Marks story
is a curious one. and it would be. perhaps,
more interesting if he had in his possession
more explanatory connecting links of the
the story concern his own family, however,
the reader is. Of course, bound to trust the
boys veracity.
1t is tale of wicked pirate, shrewd
sailorman, a treasure island, and a chart.
1t seems that Marks fathers name is
| Thomas, and at the time Mark was born
| Thomas was a hardware merchant in st.
John, Newfoundland. That was eighteen
| years ago. Marks mother died and his
father married, few years afterward, the
| widow Of sailorman who had died at a
ripe old age many years before. To her
husband Marks stepmother one day told
| the story of the treasure island.
There was in the first half of this century,
Mrs Brennan said, wicked pirate named
Morgan, who belonged to a band of bucca-
neers that sailed in and out of Newfound-
land ports So bold and successful had they
become that the English government
offered a heavy reward for the
capture of the pirates, alive
or dead. Most of them were taken
| and hanged but Morgan was befriended by
Mrs Brennan's sailor husband, whose name
was John Heating. Morgan remained in
hiding on the island until the search for
| him was over, being three months of the
time in Keating's house, after which Keat-
| ing secured for him a passage to Liverpool
on an eastbound vessel that touched at St.
John. The pirate said at parting:
my friend, how can | repay you? You
| have saved my life. have no money, but
here is a map of an island in the Pacific
ocean, off the coast of California, on which
| me and my mates have buried an immense
amount of treasure in gold. Study faith
| fully the chart attached to the map and you
will see the way to find the spot where the
precious metal lies concealed. Farewell! l
shall never be pirate any morem
Mark isn't sure these were the very words
uttered by the pirate, but he knows that
| that was the meaning of what the pirate
| said. Morgan was never heard from again,
| and Mark believes he died in his bed after
spending a peaceful old age, because he
never heard of the British government
hanging a pirate named Morgan who came
! from Newfoundland.
The first missing link in Marks story is
| that he doesn't remember the name of the
| treasure island, in what direction it lay
| from San Francisco, nor yet how far it is
| from that port. His stepmother related
however, that her first husband on securing
the chart of the island said never a word to
any one, but concealed it in his money belt
when he went to sea. A few years
afterward, sailing in the neighbor-
| hood of the treasure island, Heating re-
vealed the existence of the island and the
treasure to the captain of the vessel. The
captain eagerly absorbed the information
and signified his willingness to go halves in
consideration of his sailing out of his course
| The sailorman said "done," and they pro-
ceeded to the island, and, making an ex-
cuse to the crew that they were going after
| fresh water, went ashore in a small boat.
| They found a treasure. and the captain
| loaded himself down with it. 1t was all in
! gold. Mark thinks it was IN Jumps, but he
| was so very young when he heard the story
| that he isn't quite sure what was its shape.
| He remembers, however, that strange
thing happened on the return of the two
men to the vessel. The small boat
| was capsized in the breakers, and the
captaint who had filled his belt and
his pockets with gold, sank like a lump of
lead, while Heating, who had buried his
share in the sand, intending TO return alone
| after it, chung to the boat and was rescued.
Heating was charged by the other sailors
with numbering the captain, because the
captain was known to be an excellent
swimmer. OF course Heating couldn't ex-
| Nlotr hiatt ftla af,,1e
pockets that caused his death by sending
him to Davy Jones' locker, and he was in 6
dreadful pickle for a time. He finally
managed to convince the crew that he haG
no object in numbering the captain, and
that the captain died of cramps in his legs
Going to the island stealthily one night he
succeeded III unearthing the treasure anC
getting back to the ship with it unobserved
Gold is heavy, and there couldn't have beer
very much of it as fortunes go nowadays.
Heating returned to st. John, Newfound
land, with his booty, aud lived a life of east
for some time, when, learning of a shir
that was going TO the Pacific islands il
quest of shells for purposes of ornament. he
bethought himself of his treasure island, OF
whose shores were the most dazzling shell
to be found anywhere. He went before the
mast to avoid observation, and directed th'
captain where to go for pretty shells. Tn,
result was he brought back more treasur
than before.
In his old age Heating repeatedly tolC
his wife that he had not made beginning
of hole in the pile of gold the pirates hat
left, but he was too old to 60 after NOR
himself He bequeathed the chart to hi
wife, and after he joined the silent major
ity the widow came to New York aud go
some capitalists interested in hunting TO
the treasure. They were bad men. The,
got from the widow the name and situation
of the treasure island, and when she offeret
to sell them the chart at good round sum
with all the right to the treasure, the bat
men snapped their fingers at her and said
go to, we don't care snap for your chart
We will find the treasure ourselves"
But the bad men didn't. And now Mark
who seems to have no fear that he may fal
into the hands OF other similar bad men
thinks hiss father and stepniother might b
made rich, and he needn't be assistant por.
ter or his brother a shoemaker to the stu
dents in st. Johns College if somebody will
buy the chart, which his father still holds
and find the treasure island and the treas
ure.
BATTLES WITH BALL AND BAT.