The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09
OLD TINES AND THINGS.
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glorious shield? Is it not gift to na- ture's fayorites, like music, or an eye for the beautiful or the gift of genius
 We cannot think alike any more than we can look alike. There always has been and will be natures slights," who very unfortunately criticise Oth- CTS gifts. One of these unfortunates was answered by Kiaf's mother. Ar ger-ar-ger ar-ger. Why will you young-uns tucker out Providence ar ger-in an 'nig-nar that's only knowed for sure by the book lar-ned who leas- ed it from what some others guessed at? Don't ar-ger bout things you don't ] know nothing bout. Ask questions and learn how little the lear-ned know. I sot store by the great Moses cos he's the only Dlan our folks knows on who talked with God chin ter chin, face ter face, till they say his face shined like brass sass kittle.
 Now I tell yer, Moses got it straight.
 Don't try tew know it all; it can't be | did; there's a limit to the mental an
 physical on us. You can lift ''mee- I tin"-er with tack, but you can't pry | sSiSNo hil4i el ilDCIly pOAS. NheNS the best of everything. We are here
 and must wiggIe out ont the best we can. The other fellows in it as well as I you. Stick to common sense and good I judgment and carry a pleasant face round with ye; you'll come out CT this earthly mess somehow. When you git upsot on yourself (rear-in tear-fn mad
 be sure and spite yerself fort; don't I spite other folks; they got troubles nough of their own and don't want to
 be pestered bout your'n.
 I've an idee folks who give the best
 advice follow it the least. But you will
 ar-ger cos it's your Beebzebubian con-
 trariousness. Now the boy in the snow-boa Cfor the old time sleigh was
 a boats next of kin as it hobs up and over the drifts and thank CT marms) ]; did not argue, but could not help think ing that if the hand of Providence
 guided the deacon to the plunder. whose
 guiding Hand, .(doing evil that good may come) sent the British to burn an
 honest rebels house, and the pirates to rob the miner who had dug or stolen lthese igots and was sending them back
 to his home in Spain. his family, no doubt praying most entreatingly for their safe arrival. It looked like rob bing Peter to help Paul out of his scrape. Off sounding again near T sighted people should keep near shore when wading in the mystical ocean of | the unknown and unknoWable. Has not the Master of Life revealed in na- Iture all that is necessary to know until Il he reabsorbs the vital spark back to it's original source. Is not nature the only ,; reliable revelation We can sew up the Trent in the child's doll but it has been < revealed to her that her idol is stuffed
 with sawdust. Rend the vail of life's Il ingress and egress, what might be re- ,, yealed to us older children. I heard my \ father ask, Have you any idea by whom l the gold was buried? We'll, my father during his life and I for many years
 hunted up the traditions of hidden treasure upon our coast, and have con x cluded it was secreted by q New Ha-
 ven man who had been mate with the
 famous Captain Kidd, who was hung in l Boston for piracy; after leaving Cap ! tain Kidd he sailed a vessel under let
 ters of marque from South American republics, drifting naturally into pira-
 cy. he robbed any vessel he met, @ re gardless of flag.
 He was known to have anchored in the solitary cove visiting his family by :. night, and we think from certain cir { cumstances he buried treasure in the wood back of the bluffs to be near by ] his home when he had knocked off go- ;, ing to sea. He was in time taken by a I United States armed vessel, tried, con- NJ victed and hung upon Bedloe's Island His father, a wealthy old sea captain , paupered himself (and with old mans \ signs tottered to his grave; his mother < died heart broken; he was an only son)
 in his endeavor to clear his wayward # boy, but money was not the wand al potent in the days when thieves goi
 their just dues at very short notice Tradition says he left a chart of the
 woods of Morris Point and Solitary \ Cove with ranges to given points. Al
 all events "he left a Corsairs' name te
 other times" for the once beautiful t wooded valley between the bluffs is stil : known as the Pirates Vale. My father said, Deacon, I believe your conclusions may be correct, for know well the I history of the unfortunate family an6 ,5t we have in the house at this time g
 large red oak chest of foreign make ' brought by my father when this pi
 rates effects were sold at auction 1T
 New YosK. It is used to store blankets in the summer and is known as the pi.
 rates chest. How well the boy alof
 knew the old chest, for it was large enough to hold four of us in our play Iof Genevra, but we took good care tt < put a broomstick between the lid anG
 lock to avoid second spring-locl
 fastened her down for ever" tragedy
 You may well believe there was ar
 uncommonly happy boy aloft when ln' lheard the deacon's horse leave tht
 hitching post, for he had run a yer! close shave of being caught not only. a. !, a truant, but as an 'eve-dropur" b!
 his dog Watch coming in and whin ing and barking up at the sleigh, m!
 father remarking, There must be- {
 dog or cat in the old boat" sent hin
 out with ..Vamose." But all's wei
 that ends well, for was now in full
 possession of the truth of the mysteri
 ous tradition that had ever hung owe