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Kidd, 'ax evervhady knows, fell 8 victim to temptation and turned . LEAGPERRINS SAUCE The Original and Genuine Worcestershire The greatest globe-trotter of the century, Well known and appreciated throughout the world. 167 J. M. DOUGLAS & CO., Canadian Agents, Established, 1857. TYPEWRITING! We have an experienced stenographer and typist and We are prepared to do strictly first class copying of all kinds. Headquarters for Tyvewrit. ors, Repairs and Supplies. - J. R.:C. Dobb, &: Co. B71 Wellington street. pirate himself. There was much suspicion at the time that Lord Bellomont was really backing Kidd in the pirate venture and 'was not at all averse to making money that way, as long as his own participation in the nefarions bugi- ness was got disclosed. Kidd, in his "protest," which is inelnded in the documents says: "The ship- being bought, rigged. manned, and named the 'Adventure Galley." the Tord Rellomont encour aged me to proceed, by assuring me that the noble'lords above mentioned (the Duke of Shrewsbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Romney, and Ad- miral Russell) should stifle all eom plaints that should be made in Eng land. and he himself .would prevent all clamors in those parts where he was governor by condemning all the goods and treasure I should bring in and disposing of them privately, and satisfying the owners for such part ag should be due to them" These accusations Lord Bellomont, of course, bitterly resents, and de clares that the pirates have cost him, more trouble and torment than any business during .his whole life. and "he is not a brass farthing the better for them, One of the most interesting diselo- arires made by these documents is that it seems to have been hard at that time to tell just who were pir ates and. who, were not. so dishonest were the King's own officers. Gardi- ner. the deputy lieutenant of Rhode Island, refuses to give up to the earl ali the pirates in his hands and "has writ me an evasive. tricking letter," writes the earl. "He is an ill man Capt. Gullock assures me that a sil ver tankard of his that was in the ship Bradish (one of "Kidd's 'créwy ran away with and was seen in Gardi- ner's house. "It ia scandalous that such a man should be in the King's serviee." He adds that 'he is continning the search for Kidd's treasure, "but with- out munch success" "A Capt. Thomas Clarke," he continues, "was said to have £10,000 or 212,000 in his hands, and I have confined him in the fort at New York. 1 was in hopes he was going to give it up, but some pettifogging lawyers advised him to set me at defiance." In another letter he writes: "The preserving of Kidd and the rest and hindering their escape out of prison is in gréat measure owing to the re- wards I gave the sheriff and keeper of. the prison here in New York, and the caresses and good words they had every day from me." Up to the last Kidd protested his innocence and said that far from be- ing a pirate himself he had done his level best to capture the famous pir- ate ship, Mocha, with all its vast store of treasure. But Joseph Palmer, one of fils men, turned state's evidence to save his own skin and deposed that he had encouraged and aided the Mocha instead of attempting to cap- ture it Kidd is spoken of in the correspon- denen as a "villainous monster," and everybody seems to be disgusted with the whole affair. The earl writes: "Sir Edmund Harrison, who sent me to America, gave me a terrible hard Presbyterian gripe in the articles be. tween him and me," and he speaks elsewhere of being given a "Preshy- terian gripe" apparently the worst possible thing that could befall an English nobleman of the seventeenth century. N Frequently in the eorrespondenee the earl complains that his salary of $12,000 is inadequate and beseeches > woathior isdow of GC * coal. We . It's the kind that > the most heat, and. b and his friends to. use their influence to get it increased. He makes frequent allusions to his rights in the booty captured with the pirates. "1 am told as vice-admiral of these seas" he writes in one place, "I have a right to a third part of them; if the rest of the lords come in for snacks I shall be satisfied." ------------------ i? Hunting For Treasure. Mr. Wigglesworth, 'an Englishman, who lives at Arcis, is tp make a search for mysterious treasure buried by one of his ancestors in that portion of the wall of Joan of Are's tower at Rouen which formed the old dungeon of the castle. The treasure had been a family tradition, but its whereabouts was unknown. Mr. Wigglesworth states that one of his ancestors was a Bailie, or Moyar, of Rcuen, at the time when 32g «5 Tug NEW LIGHT HAS RECENTLY CAREER ™ DEADLY HOUSE mv. | they came to the conclusion that all . children one 'oughs. THE DAILY orst Known Disseminater of Disease Germs. ' The common house fly is one of the greatest enemies of man. He is one of the worst disseminators of dis- ease known. In spreading evil he so far surpasses the mosquito as to ren- der the needle-beaked insect a neglig- ible quantity by comparison. He thrives where the mosquito would die of inanition. He is omnipresent, and the amount of danger that he can spread over a city absolutely stag- gers he imagination. With one kick of a hind leg, for instance, he can distribute among men, women and Jrandred thousand dis- S. have long known that her intestinal diseases erm which arises from fecal matter, but they have been ata logs to know how se germs have been disseminated. New York health officials claim te have solved the puz- zle. They have traced the erime home to the house fly, have caught him with the goods on. This is how the fly was unmasked. Under the direction of Dr. Daniel D. - Jackson, fly-traps were placed this summer on piers, under piers one block from the river and so on, around the waterfront in the various bor- Inspectors were detailed to gather the captive flies, which were taken to the laboratory, and daily re- cords made of their numbers and the material on the body, mouth and leys of the insecte examined. To. prove by experiment, captured flies were thoroughly cleaned and then allowed to walk over infected material. They were again examined and the mater- ial which they carried was analyzed. In one instance, a fly captured on South street this summer was found to be carrying 100,000 fecal bacteria, showing the affinity to dangerous germs of this active medium of dis- semination. . Dr. Jackson, who made most of the experiments, declares solemnly, that the flies are responsible for 5000 of the 7,000 deaths annually in New York from typhoid and other intestinal diseases. DEAD FOOD FOR SNAKES. Successful Attempts to Cultivate Rep- tiles In the Zoo. "Can the snakes in the zoo be civil- ized?" Tt is a vital problem, especial- ly to the ravenous reptiles that swal- low their food while it is alive and kieking. Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, the secretary of the Zoological Society, London,' and Mr. R. I. Pocock, the superintendent of the gardens, have been gauging the niceties of the rep- tilian palate by a series of interesting Re xe says The Daily News. ease-laden ge Medical men typhoid and of are due 10 a "/These experimenjs were made in the reptile house at feeding time. After carefully 'noting the way jin which the reptiles ate and the Manner in which they approached their prey, the snakes would swallow warm, freshly-killed food, and that small ani- mals and birds, which are generally the lavorite dish of captive snakes, were not frightened when put into the e Even the great python, which thought nothing in the old days of swallowing a live goat, a couple of rabbits and several pigeons, was sat- ished with the same menu when served "dead." One of the resilts of these experi- ments. is that a motion will be brought forward at the next meeting of the society recommending the eouncil to discontinue the feeding of the snakes with live animals. There are still one or two fastidious reptiles in the zoo that will not take their food dead, bat the civilizing influence of the offi- cials is being brought to bear upon them. It is contended by those who wish to see the live diet continued that a python or a boa constrictor ean kill its prey mcre humanely than most people who visit the reptile are cap- able of--that it is killed more neatly and with greater suddenness. There are others who contend that dead food is not a natural diet. In spite of this, Dr. Hornaday of New York was sue cessful in inducing venomous snakes to swallow freshly-killed food. Fox-Hunting Curates. To The London Times a corre spondent writes: "Once when a duke of Grafton was thrown into a ditch a young curate, who hid been close- ly competing with him for pride of place, shouted, 'Lie still, your grace,' and cleared him and his hunter and the fence at a bound. So pleased was the duke with the performance that he declared he would give the young divine his first vacant living, and not long afterward carried out the pro- mise, vowing that if the curate had stopped. to pull him out of the dyke he would never have patronized him. 'Sporting: parsons' are still to be found in almost every county to-day whe can hold their own in the first flight when hounds run hard, and some of the keenest fox hunters in all times have been supplied from the ranks of the clergy. Even the warning against their "hawkynge, huntynge and dansynge," in the reign of Henry VI., appears to have had very little effect. i "It is difficult, indeed, to under stand why riding to hounds should be considered an unclerical practice, for if skill with bat and ball is com- mendable in a curate it seems some- what illogical to condemn the love of field sports in a vicar, and men of the stamp of Rev. Jack Russell Rev. Charles Kingsley, were not worse clergymen for being ardent hunters, But reverend masters hounds are becoming searce. Dodging the Rules. or the fox of BRITISH WIG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. 1908. 1S BRITAIN TO LOSE INDIA? Native Woman In América Stirring | Up Sympathy For Hindoss. Dfiven irom her eountry by British | secret agents, according ww. her own | story, Mrs' Phikx'wyi Kustom Cama, | wife of a Bom. ay solicitor, recently | arrived in New York from. India, a the interest of a propaganda for the | release of that country from the British. i She says she has been driven from | country to country by British secret | agents, who are constantly on her | track, and that she is never free from { espionage. - i Even while she was talking to a re- porter two 'women, acknowledging themselves to be Epglishwotaen, sat i near, and one was detected making surreptitious ndtes of every word Mrs Cama uttered. Mrs. Cama was aware of the surveil- lance. In 4 distinet voice she threw down the gauntlet, informing them she feared neither them mor their country, "The British - Government," she said, may drive me out of America, as it'his griven me out of Germany, Italy and "France, but it will simply drive me to some other land where | will spread the truth and show the | people how England rules her col onies. They may kill me, they may imprison my eon: Boy who is in Bom | bay, the Government cannot quench this fire, which in the end means the freedom of India." Mrs. Cama dresses in the flowing | fantastic robes of her countrywomen. a Ae she contin "there is a National Political Party. There | are tio ions in the party, the Modemists and the Extremists. The Moderniste are simply the represen | tatives of the Enghsh Governnignt, | ing as natives. The Ex- | tremists are the real natives of In- | dia, who wish to be free. { "The plan of the Extremists, of which I am one, is to refuse absolute ly to pay the exorbitant taxes imposed | by England. We realize that we are the richest possession of the erown. | We realize that we grow every par- ticle of raw material owned by Eng | land, but we are unable to manufac- | ture it into the finished product. In- stead, it must be sent to England and | then shipped back to us { "The real estate tax must be done away with. Not only do we have to pay an acreage tax, but we have to pay a tax on the net income from our | crops. This eombined tax now amounts to 65 per cent per annum of the value of the land. i "But the struggle will last only a few months more. When the tax col- lectors try to levy their tribute again they will be met with a refusal to pay. | They may throw the natives in jail, | they may flog them until the flesh is cut to pieces, and that bruised flesh will be the opening gun of a war that | will echo throughout the eivilized world. "Even then the natives will not re- bel. They will take their floggings, | they will be throwa into jails, they | wil bear everything without protest But the coffers of England will re- main empty. The taxes will remain un . i "Then it is expected old England will throw regiment after regiment inte India. The native regiments, | commanded by English officers, will | be asked to shoot down their coun- | trymen, and they will refuse. When | England fires the first gun--then will | come rebellion." ! The movement represented by Mis Cama is so far advanced that the leaders have chosen a name and a | flag for the country when a republic The country is to known as the Unit- pf Colonies of India. e flag is three broad bars of dif- | ferent hue. The bar at the top iz the | green of Mohammedanism, on which are eight lotus flowers, symbolizing the eight provinees of India. The ven: tre bar is in the old gold of Buddha The third bar is the crimson of Hin- | doostar, on which representations of the san and moon appear in white The King's Surname. - The question is often asked as to whether King Edward has a surname, and if he became a private gentleman whether his name would not be Mr Guelph. This has recently been dis- cussed by Mr. T. P. O'Connog. who is emphatic on the point. He says in the conclusion of a long article "When we come to the dynasty known indifferently as the Dynasty of Han- | over or of Brunswick, or of Guelph we must trace the male ancestry in another line. Now it has been very generally supposed that the surname | of that family was Guelph. It was not. The family was egnobled and in a small way, sovereign long be- fore hereditary surnames existed They never required or uséd a sur- | name, and never had one. With the death of her iste Majesty Queen Vio toria, the Brunswick Dynasty ended, and with His Majesty King Edward | VII. the Dynasty of BSaxeLoburg Gotha commenced ere again, a new line of male ancestry must be | The Popularity of | BAKING POWDER THE FAVORITE IN CANADIAN HOMES FOR MANY YEARS. TRY IT. Sold Everywhere E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES. in the Dominion by the Best Dealers. "TORONTO, ONT. MADE IN CANADA. a ---------------------- USED POISONED DARTS. Extrdordinary Story of Threats Made Against an English Farmer. An extraurdinary story was related at Preston County Police Court re cently, wher a painter named John | Balshaw was charged with sending | threatening letters to George T. Hunt, | his former employes, a farmer of Ine | glehead Cottage, Broughton. Mysterious letters, signed "The Don," had been found, it was stated, | on Mr. Hunt's doorstep and in his | | grounds threatening to kill his son, | poison. his cattle and burn down his farm unless $6500 ere paid. One letter ran as follows: "On Monday 1 was standing be- hind a wall, and, unseen By 'any one, blew a thorn dart, which struck your son's hand. I. used a Brazilian Indian _blowpipe and "a poisoned | thorn. The /piincture is' almost indis- cerniblagbut in'six hours the doctors | in all the (our continents will be-use- less. e only cure is the sscret balm I possess, having received it from my father, who was a full-blooded In- dian. Sixty-five hundred dollars must be placed in the drive near the gate- post to suve the boy's life." Another read: "You had better worst brigand than play with the Don. You are not dealing with a lunatic, but with six desperate men in desperate straifs, wanting to go back to their own country." In another Mr. Hunt was warned that half a mile of electric wire was being connected with a quantity of | nitro-glycerine to blow up his farm. Further letters were received, in which | trifle with the { the writer, "Carlos," said he wished | to save Mr. 'Hunt from the "Don's | devilish schemes," and would do so' | for $150. has never inherited any surname, and | has no male who ever had | one. The origin of most royal houses | was similar throughout Europe, and | kings and their families, speaking | , never had or used surnames signed their Christian names | So uiversally was this the | that it . igid eti te | gpa "ould | i Hh | PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS OF NEW ZEALAND. Balshaw! when arrested denied hav. ing written the letters. Rooks of ad- venture telling of "Don Carlos." and | poisoned arrows, were found in his | house. 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