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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-12-26, Page 7............. THE BRUSSELS POST 'r lh l:a P a*DAY, IeNC. :lath, 11 2S. Cream Grading iti1cans ITI'TER CREAM ETTER I uTTI.R 1:91"l'ER PRICES We are now immured to Grade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each tiny we lift it. We gather with covered truck to keep sun off it. We pay a premium of 1 cent per lb. butter fat for Specials over that of No. 1 grade, and 3 cents per Ib, but- ter -fat for No 1 grade over that of No. Z grade. The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario putter is the elimination of second and off grade cream. Tllie. may be accomplished by paying the producer of good treats 0 better price per pound of butter -fat taut is pale) to the producers of poor cream. We solicit y;c1r patronage and co-operation for better market. ' mere We will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seaforth Creamery 4,4 r 22_4 1.5• Tieing the Authentic Nrrretive of 2 Treozure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903—Now First Public. Given to thec. BY ' E :IAlfe�. LEGALIJENNE 1 1 • Copyright by Doubleday, Page ,0 Company Back 1 CHAPTEel I. Introduces the Secretary of the Treace ury of His Britannic MzJeoty's Gov- ernment at Nassau, New Prov!. dente, Bahama Islands. During the summer of 1908 I was paying what must have seemed like an Interminable visit to my old friend John Saunders, who at that time tilled with becoming dignity the high-sound- ing office of secretary of the treasury of his majesty's government, in the quaint little town of Nassau. In the Island oC New Providence, one of those Bahama islands that lie half lost to the world to the southeast of the Cnribhenn sen and forma some- what neglected portion of the Brit'sh West Indies. Time was when they had a sounding name for themselves In the world; when the now sleepy little harbor gave shelter to rousing freebooters and tarry pirates, tearing In there un- der full sail with their loot from the Spanish Main. But those heroic days aro gone, and Nassau is given up to a sleepy trade In sponges end tortoise shell, and peace Is no name for the drowsy tenor of the days under the palm trees and the scarlet poincianas. Here a handful of Englishmen, clothed in the white linen suits of the tropics, carry on the government after the traditional manner of Brit- ish colonies from time ilnmemorlal, each of them, like my friend, not with- out an English smile at the humor of the thing, supporting the dignity of offices with impressive names—lord chief justice, attorney general, speak- er of the house, lord high admiral, colonial secretary and so forth. ' My friend the secretary of the treasury is a man Possessing in no un- common degree that rare and most at- tractive of human qualities, compan- ionableness, As we sit together in the hush of his snuggery of an evening, surrounded by guns, fishing lines and old prints, there ere limes When we scarcely exchange a dozen wordsbe- tween dinner and bedtime, and yet we have all the time a keen end sat- isfying sense of companionship, It is John Saunders' gift. Companionship seems quietly to ooze out of him without the need of words. 8' And occasionally we have as tilted in those evening conclaves a pig, slow - Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that will do credit to your buslneas. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and if it requiresreplenishing call us by telephone 81. -The Post Publishing House e,illlnle, erom -I a1('r ,y(ltati dill l't'd ,alt of the same kidney. In he drops with a nod and a smile, and Lukes his pitted In the smoke cloud or our am ine:ions, radiating without the effort of speech that good thing—humanity; though one must not forget the 000 subject on which now and again the good Charlie ebstor achieves "l,s eloquence In spite of himself—duck shooting, John Saunders' subject is shark fishing. Duck shooting and shark fishing. It is enough. Here, for sen- sible men, is a sufficient basis for life- long friendship, and nnwearying, in- exhaustible companionship. It was in this peace of John Saun- ders' snuggery one July evening in 00, the h • . 1 4 three of us being duly met and ensconced. In our respective arm- chaire, that we got onto the subleet or hulled treasure. it wits 1 who start- ed ug '1T by asking John what he kit, a ah0ut huried treasure. At this John laughed his runny little quiet laugh. "Buried trmrsurel" he said; "will, I have little doubt that the islands are full of it—if loo only knew how to get at it." "Seriously?" I asked. Certainly. Why not? Weren't these islands for nearly three centu- ries the stamping ground of all the pirates of the Spanish Main? Morgan Was here. Blnekbeard was here. The very governors themselves were little better than pirates. This room we are sitting in was the den of one of the biggest rogues of them all—John Tin- ker—the governor When Bruce was here building Port Montague at the east end yonder; building It against pirates, and little else but pirates at. the Government house all the time. A great old time Tinker gave the poor fellow. Yon can rend all about It in his 'Memoirs.' Nassau was the ren- dezvous for all the cutthroats of the Caribbean sea, Here they came in with their loot, their doubloons and pieces of eight;" rind John's eyes twin- kled with enjoyment of the rich old romantic words, as though they were old port. "Here they squandered much of It, no doubt, but they couldn't squander it nil, Solna of them were thrifty knaves, too, and these, looking around for some place of safety, would naturally think of the bush. The niggers keep their little Bosoms there to thle day," "It Is then' form et ntocklug," put In Charlie Webster, "Precisely, Well, as I was saying, those old fellows would bury their hoards in some cave or other, and then go oaf—and get hanged. Their ghosts perhaps came hack. But their money Is still here, lots of it, you bet your life." "Do they ever make any finds?" 1 asked. "Nothing big that I know ot. A jug full of old coins now and then. 1 "Those Oid Fellows Would Bury Their Hoards." found one a year or tiro ago In my garden here—burled down among the roots of that old fig tree." "Then." put In Charlie, "there was that m.(!stttlolis stranser over at North +rhea.• c'•,1,# 6••d'?el'•4•.b•d•9k6'be!i• IFFATHLIth( 0 WANTED • •0 Y • • IIi;�h('st market Olice • paidf'r your here the15 ,N M } a Yolhhk eyed'se-aseese-eei•set•e..eo-t'r,ea+sel ei es Cay. I11''s supposed to havo gob away with quite u pile." ""fell toe about him," said I. "Well, there usedto be an old ee- entrie character In the town here—a halfbreed by the name -of Andrews, 'John will remember him—" John melded. "He Tined to go around all the time with a big umbrella, and muttering to himself. We used to think him half crazy. Gone so brooding over this very subject of buried treasure. Bet- col- look out, young mom I"—smiling at me. "ale used to be always grubblug about In the hush. Well, several years ago there came a visitor from New York, and he got thick with the old fellow. They used 10 go about a lot together, and were often off on so- called fishing trips for days on end. Actually, 1t is believed, they were after something on North Cay. At an eeenls Bnm0 months afterward the New Yorker disnppeured as he had ?line mud pus not been heard from eitlee, But se ce then they Mee found a sort of brick vltult over there which nits evidently been excavated. I hove 1(1'1 it myself. A sort of walled diem - me There, It's supposed the New Yorker forma som0111I11 or other, lil.n's the s r to for hal ICs worth,"Y As Charlie finiswhat John slapped his Se(9, "The Ile vc1Y ttil."^ fory you!" ." he said; "•hy have 1 never thought of it be - "What do you mann, John?" we botb asked, "Why mourn at the office I've got the very thing. A pity 1 haven't got it here. You must come in and see It tomorrow." "What on earth is It? Why do you keep us guessing?" "Why, It's an old manuscript that came into my hands a short tune ago. Charlie, you remember old Wicks—old Billy 1\'latae—'Wrecker' Wicks, they called him—" "I should say I do. A wonderful old villain—" "But the document, for heaven's sake," I said. "Tile rloctunont first; the story will keep." "Well, they were pulling down Wicks' own house just lately, and out of the rafters there fell a roll of pa- per—now T'nl coining to It—ti roll 01 paper, purporting to he the account of the burying of a certain treasure, tell- ing the place where it Is buried, and giving directions 'for finding 11—" llhau•lie mut I exclaimed together; and John centinuel, with tantalizing deliberation: "It's a statement purporting to be made by some fellow on his dearth• bell—n line fellow dying out In Texas— a quondam pirate, anxious to tnalte his pence tit the 01111 and to give his friends the benefit of his knowledge." "011, John!" said I, "1 shan't sleep a wink tonight" "1 don't take ;much stock in It," said John. "I'm inclined to think its a hoax. Someone trying to fool the old fellow, . But, boys, Lt's bed- time, anyhow. Come down to the office in the morning and we'll look It over." So our meeting broke up for the time being, and taking my candle I went upstairs, to dream of caves over- flowing with goldpieces, and John Tin- ker, fierce and nnistaclhioed, standing over me, a cutlass between itis teeth and a revolver in each hand. CHAPTER 11.• The Narrative of Henry P. Toblase ex -Pirate, as Dictated on His Death- bed, in the Year of Our Lord 1859. The good John had scarcely made Ills leisurely, distinguished :Imminence at his desk on the morrow when I too entered by one door and Charlie Web- ster by the other. "Now Inc'the document," we both, exclaimed ii) a breath. "Here it )s," he said, tektite top a realer grimy -looking roll of feel.o'11p (('0111 111 ('rni(1 of him, width, as lie !:olaed out, was rvidonty the work of a p.'rsnn of very little etlucallee, and loom to retie ns f111on's; County of TrertserState of Texas, December 1800, Peeling my and is near, 1 make the fel. lowing 01111e( 101 of my own free trill and without solicitation. In run exereise of all lay fat union, end feel that 1 am doing my duty by so dente, I was born in the city of Liverpool, Ling - land tan the fit 11 cloy of Deoutnbcr 1714). My father was a soman and when 1 was Andtl happened, that when,eooccupation. passa0 from Spain to the West ladies, our shlp was attacked by free -trader's, as they called Lhemselves, but they !vers pirates. Wo all did our beat, but were ever - powered, and tate whole crew, except three, Were killed. I was one of the three they did not hill. They caroled es on board their ship and kept us teed next day when they asked us to loth them, They tried to get tie to loin thele willing- ly, but We Woutd net, when they becanie enraged and loaded three -canteen and lashed each one of us before the month of each cannon and told us to take oar choice to ]cin them, ns they would touch the guns and that damn quick. It is use- less to say we accepted everything before death, so We came one of the plratee' crew, Both of my companions were killed in less time than six months, but I was with thorn for More then two years, 1n which time we collected a vent quantity of money from different 'hips we captured 'and wa burled a creat amount In t.. different lits! I helped to bury It wltgg my own Monad, The location of which 11 le my purpoee he point out, 8o that it can be found withouttrouble in the Bahama Islands. Attar I had boon with thorn for more than awn yeers we were attacked. by a large warship and our commander told us to tight 1'ur our )h'cn, a8 it would be detail If w'e were taken. Bet the .vine of our ship were too small for the war - .41111, so our ship son began 10 •i- k, when the man-of-wsr ran ,,1e, e ,'le of our vessels and tried to board us, bat we tc,•te sinking i' , fast 00 sine loot in haul 1,11 99.1111, when sin. easel writ it 11- , Ihhlg Ott b. r 1 on/ 2 e -Lp. ,1 by vwoo- ming hamar the 9.••rr, f tl . )1 s .119 Sank, without bahtg v ,.r.'1 )1 I!lug +!n to the 811111 Mall dart...lien 1 1..71 to a porflou of lore ere:,' I 1 :I t t1115 not far away. And tit (hat 1 11o914ll, The next morning the ship was net .e'••0. I was plritw) up by a pes..,ittil 000001 the next day 9.8 a shlpwi r0 ct.elutrn. And lot me say hear, I know that no one camped :dive fro n our vesee) te,r ept etyself and tilos,. that 1''r' taken by the man-of-war And Ihone were ill eee+•nted as, plr11011 s r ))taw that no ether men knows of 11119 lura,"re nx'egrt n,t•sclf :uta It must be std Is inhere we buried it until today and uu1 'i'0 000 get n though this etntem• nt It will remain there always and do no one any gond. Therefore, it is your duty to trace It up and got IL for your own lo1neat. 110 well as others, so delay not, lout act as soon as possible. I will neer describe the places, locations, marks, etc., etc., so plainly that it can bo found, without any trolhle, The first is a sem of one million and a half dollars (31.001,00w— At this point John paused. We all took a long breath, and Charlie Web- ster gave a soft whistle and smocked his lips, "A million and a half dollars. What hot" • Then I, happening to cast my eye through the open door, caught sight of a face gazing through the Ironwork of the outer office with a fixed and glittering expression, a face anything but prepossessing, the face of a half- breed, deeply pockmarked, with a coarse hook nose and evil -looking eyes, unnaturally close together. It was evident from his expression that he had not missed a word of the reacting. "There is someone In the outer of- fice," I said, and John rose and went out. "Good I God mnrnig. R n r. Saunders" said an unpleasantly soft and cringing voice. "Good morning,"" said John, some- Whatgrumpily," 4.t 1s it you want?" 10 wns sninedetnil of account, which, being dispatched. the man shuttled off, with evident reluctance, cashing a long, inquisitive look at us seated at the desk, and John, tiling up the man- uscript once more, resumed: a sum of one million and one half dollars—burled at a cay known as Dead Men's Shuns, near Nassau, in the Bahama islands. About fifty feet (50 ft.) south of Dile Dead lien's Shoes Is a rock, on which we cut the form of a compose. And twenty feet (20 ft.) East from the cay Is another rock on which we cut a cross (X). Under this rook it is burled four feet (4 ft.) deep. The other is a sum of one million dollars (11,000,000), It is buried on what was known as Short Shrift island; on the highest point of this Short Shrift Island Is a large cabbage wood stump and twenty feet (20 ft.) south of that stump •Is the treasure, burled five feet (5 ft.) deep and can be found without difficulty, Short Shrift island is a place where passing vessels stop to get fresh water. No great distance from Nassau, so it can be easily, found. • The first pod was taken from a Spanish merchant and it is in Spanish sliver dollars. The other on Short Shrift island 1s 1n different kinds of money, taken from dif- ferent ships of different nations—it is an good money. Now friends, I have told you all that 18 necessary for you to know to re000L: these treasures and I leave It In your !lands and it is my request that when you road this, you will at once take steps to recover it, and when you get it, it is my wish that you one It In a way most good to yourself and others, This Is all I ask. I am, truly your friend, HENRY P. TOBIAS "Henry P. Tobias?" said Chari'!, Webster. "Never heard of him. D1; you, John?" "Never I" And then there was a stir to the outer oftce. Someone was asking for the secretary of the treasury. So John rose. "I must get to work now, boys. We can ,talk it over tonight" And then, handing me the manuscript: "Take it home with you, if you like, and look It over at your leisure." As Charlie Webster and I passed out into the street I noticed the fel- Iow of the sinister pockmarked visage standing near the window of the in- ner office. The window wns open, and anyone standing outside could welly have heard everything that passed Inside. As the fellow caught my eye he smiled unpleasantly and slunk off down the street. "\Yho Is that relioW?" I asked Char- lie, "He's e queer -looking specimen," "}es! lye's no good. Yet he's more GRAND DUKE IN U. S. Grand Duke Alexander, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Russian Czar, Nicholas II, who arrived an the United State. He is recognized today as one of the heads of the Russian Imperial family. Singe the revolution -the Grand Duho has lived in Paris, where he engaged in liter- ary work. •'Who is That Fellow?" 1 Askee Charlie. half-witted than bad, perhaps. .Hit face le against him, poor devil." And we went our ways till the eve ping, I to post home to the further study of the narrative. There, seater on the pleasant vt:rande. I wont 0101 sentence it carefully, sentence by gent ace While I was reading, someone mallet Inc indoors, I put clown lite slams script on the little bamboo table 0' my side and went In. When I re turned a few moments afterward the IOIInusulpt was gun.: ! CHAPTER 111. I Charter the "Maggie Darling." As luck would have it, the lss, of rather the theft of Henry P. Tobias etc native was not so serious as it at first seemed, for It fortunately chanced that John Saunders had had It copied: but the theft remained none the less mysterious. 1 However, leaving that mystery for Inter solution, John Saunders, Charlie Webster and I spent the next ey'enlnll in a general and particular criticism of the narrative itself. There were several obvious objections to be made against its authenticity. To start with, Tobias, at the time of his deposition. Wag an old man—seventy-five emirs old—and it was more then probable that pts experiences as a pirate would date from his early manhood; the0 were hardly likely to have taken place es late as his fortieth year. The nur- rntive, indeed, suggested their taking mace much earlier, and there would thus be a space of at least forty yea's between the burial of the treasure and his deathbed revelation. It was inners' to ash: Why during ail those 1 , cruet (11(1 11,' 001 r: mot stun retrn'('t' ' 4110 iron'tul'e fur hir,o'tf? Y:u'i:'1r' �rii•el i 1"V 11•e1 Ir'1 tm irt)t telt Y: n' 1 n hon the 11'1,1111111 from rm 't e k of 111.1i11.. to meet, the jean*ey, Ur whni 1,1: bill certainly 1,0.• •'.9011 11,oil 111 ItIll ) !MA ruv'nueaanli f 311'1111or pan'et (111(1 :l4utll(i bstrene to h 0: Ic+r•p 11 10911 With a'u l,tlinil,1,•:r n. cr l in his NJ) m:n1y ) e•, 4 ' 111411 !Chit!.. of it. Ver r it lune While, toe. tite name, elven to the pur11111Ir•d sites or 11: ,Jeenaire e119 a eexeJee ur;. di' hetp9 five llue'onr'h peeve ((0 "1,,.. elmee ('Hut's" and "Shur/ Shot i I:Wit," bel at Met, in al Milli 1,1111/ to 17112, we mule 111,"11 the two. noon•.. Stu for th,• 1'er:lvlti o0 'I'nlli,l', 11 i40 ..111'5''("'', "Dolt, 1,5 Slows" plu'o and t' lie khe ala, run• f,,. a ,,(tam r10 euWM` i%V.Ii ,. ,Iles 1": elemi it flay and It half all frete .' eeetu, one of the bee. 'rineel' lural islands now leetwu tib "1.3ni01 flays." But of "Shot; On island' we sought In vain for t ru err, "All the mune," said I, "the adroit ere slily um; the adventure and that inion slut al half do1L'us—and !hos' :ad Alert's Shueti -- ;and I letetd 1' gni"rtnke It. I ata not gnhlg to bot uir middle -ager! siteptleisnn (limerdli" :e the. Treasure or n1 11'a'rlstlre. ,ere will be the excitement of the u'�81. and all file tow of :he w:•h•" "And some duck perinlpa," added "And some shark fist:leg for ems. ,lin," said John. C' r r * r r r The neyt thing was to sot about otiing a boat and a crew. After looking over much likely and unlikely craft we ^stilly droll"fl oil a two -masted schooner of trim (.tar solid Maid, the ALaeiae Crerit•,t. 42 feet over all and l i heed; : m,: ',eine under twenty tans, web 11^ rens?Bary gasoline engine of 21 1111.".' Potwar, ¢1,d an allege d: le^d of a knee; .. C Next. the clew. "You will treed it c'al,llt,n, a e0011, en eng ineer and a le1e h end." sa3'1 chor- tle, and I beep the eeelein nuts tee °moot. all ree,le That aftosa/n we rn•'nded ,. 'm all up, including tbo euro :. •,,r :1 deckhnnd, and we ars::, ' 'd to -eerie weather pernllttill't, with the (1'e tide, which ret ea:at at six o'clock: en ;fele 112 lane (Continued Next Week) W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T. T. NP RAE M. 8., M. C. P.. dl S. O. M. 0. H., Village of Brneeels. Physiolan, Surgeon, Acoenohenr Office at resit/stirs . nnoette Melville °hareh. William street. 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