The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-17

carrying clans IoT p1AioSe eiiu AieS grace to man.
 Pray to-day and trust the morrow.
 Pay to-day and I'll trust to-rrorrow.
 Parson Bob was one of the Christians of our dadd;es (nearly an extinct epe- cies.) Seven days in the week he gave full and lawful measures, heaping and running over, particularly upon the seventh. No struck measure from Bob when dealing out free grace and saliva tion. It was said in later years he ru- ined his fine voice in trying to drawn the snores of his sleeping audience.
 Now if you, wish te continue your tour to Fort Nathan Hale,-q give the whole name as a lady from St. Louis remarked: "Why don't they give the dear boy who in dying regretted that he had but one life to lay down for his country his whole glorious name, so strangers may know he is not without honor even in his own home" As sim pie Fort Hale" it would pass for any Hale.
 Pass along salvation Beach" to Green Lady Beach, so-called from a most remarkable tree formerly growing in the shore bank unlike any tree in these parts; it's trunk and limbs twisted into bow knots covered with evergreen foliage gave the form of woman in full paint and feather. It seemed a spe- cies of the "Banyan tree and summed by the boys after dark as uncanny | Tradition claimed that pirate vessel struck upon "Sunken Reef and sunk, 1 drowning most of the crew, The bodies floated on shore and were buried in a pit on the top of the bank out of which grew this strange tree twisted and con- torted to show the torture of the damned.
 It is fair to suppose that some strange nuts were in the pocket of one of the pirates that sprouted and twist. ed their trunks together, forming this freak. People of good ears and imagi-, l nation often heard strange sounds from the Green Lady when the PaWwawwes were hcwling up a storm, and we chil- dren were taught that to rest easy in our last home ]" we must do the best we know how in this.
 The most picturesque feathers in New Haven harbor were destroyed in l the building of the New fort, with oth-5 CTS the far famed Green Lady
 The old fort and further on the bar racks and magazine stood upon two 1 high Black Rock bluffs. The fort rocks standing we'll out into the harbor and nearly surrounded by water except by a causeway leading up to the fort. It 1 was horseshoe in shape, of brick and lstone, with fine brick archway for an entrance. The parapet was eight feet broad so cannon could be fired in every \ direction
 | The barracks and magazine a thou sand feet to the north was upon what was known as Kings Island. a tree crowned bluff of an acre. A part of the original "Raynham Honestead,n and sold to the United States, Had it been left in it's original form it would have made a very beautiful and useful ad- dition to the park, but with the old fort I it was all leveled. The material was used for the present useless structure. 1t has been suggested that the moat of l the present fort could be used as a ter l apin farm and the casemates to hold some of the very undesirable emigrants until ships could me found to carry them back to the country they had left for that country's good. Is there any ray of hope for this country with the sewers of the world emptying it's cor ruption on to us. with politicians to guard the sluice- gate? I fear we will have to take Parson Bob's advice and I sing the siren song,
 l Pray to-day and trust the morrow, I Trust or, trust oh-o-o-o.n
 During the Revolution the British i general Sir Henry Clinton. command l ing in New York, circulated procla- l mation throughout Connecticut, offer I ing to the slaves freedom and portion
 of land if they would leave their mas ters and settle in Long Island. A bright negro named ''Larky" belonging to a family living in the neighborhood of Fort Nathan Hale Park conceived
 the idea of taking colony over to
 Long Island; so getting together a
 number of families they helped them
 selves to large seine boat and started I one dark night with their household goods for the Long Island shore. The night was dark and foggy; not able to see their way; so after tugging with l their oars until near morning they piled
 their boat high and dry upon the Sal
 vation Beach, Larky thinking of
 course this must be the island for which they started, jumped on shore
 and exclaimed, This am deed de land ob promise. This am de land ob free- l dom fo' sure. Gemmen and ladies, well
 come to Long Island, de land ob milk and honey" Hearing the growing of T chickens, Larky exclaimed, Dat music
 beats re milk and honey rations, and
 the men started with true native in-
 stinct in the direction of the roost.
 Leaving the women to start the fire for
 chicken breakfast, going some dis
 tance through the fog they came sud-
 denly upon a man milking cows, whom
 "Larky'' recognized as a neighbor of
 his masters. HBless de Lord, Boss, 5 how yo' get over her with all de cows
 and yearlings. Ain't dis de Long Is
 land?"
 "Why. boy, you are drunk or turned
 fool. Hurry up and drive home your
 own cows yonder Your eyes and ears
 must be fog-stuffed. Don't you hear
 your masters milk horn" .'y The true inwardness of the case was
 this. The negroes had lost their way in
 the fog and got turned around. So af-
 ter rowing all night in the sound had