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EXPLODING THE MYTHS OF CAPTAIN KIDD Actual Facts in the Legend ary Career of the Scotch man Who Was Accused of Piracy and for Whose Fabulous Buried Treas ure Adventurers Are Still Seeking. Ths burled treasure of Capt. Kidd la one of the greatest myths of mod ern times. Kldd's gold has been Bought for 200 years. The waters of bays, rivers and lagoons have been swept for the hulk of his sunken ship. Quest of the treasure of Capt. Kldd must always be In vain, for Kldd burlid no treasure, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Neither of the two vessels In which he cruised during his years of free roving was sunk, so there ran bo no sunken hulk of Capt. Kldd's laden with gold or otherwise. The Adventure Galley, In which he began his cruises, was condemned as unseaworthy and burned at Madagas- car. His other ship, the Quedah Mer chant, was burned at Hlspanlola (San Domingo) after Kldd's arrest In Bos ton. The sloop San Antonio, In which Kldd came north, was seized In Bos ton. Fanciful stories have been told of Kldd's visit to Gardiner's Island and his burial of treasure there. The only authentic account of his visit there Is In the testimony of John Gardiner, given under oath at Boston about three weeks after Kldd's visit. It makes no mention of the treasure hav ing been burled. An official abstract of Mr. Gardiner's testimony was as follows: About 20 days ago Mr. Emott, of New York, came to his (Gardiner's) bouse and desired a boat to go to New Tork; furnished him one; that even ing he (Gardiner) saw a sloop (the San Antonio, with six guns riding off (Gardiner's ) Island; two days after ward In the evening Gardiner went on board the sloop to Inquire what she was. When he came on board Capt. Kldd till then unknown to him, asked him how himself and family did; said he was going to Lord Belloniont at Bos ton, and deHlred him to carry two negro boys and one negro girl ashore and keep them until ho returned or his order called for them; about ten WOMAN HELD AT SNAKE'S MERCY From one dunger into another was Mrs. Lydla Smith's predicament, when. In trying to escape a snake, she caught her hair in a wire fence and badly lacerated her scalp before she could be extricated. Mrs. Smith, who lives In Clayton, Del., while on an out ing at Rehobeth, went to a small hen house in the back yard to catch a chicken for dinner. As Uo entered the wire Inclosed yard she found a ----- - i large blackBnake lying at her feet The frightened woman jumped back catching her hair lu the wire nettin overhead, while the frlghte-ied snake glided out the other way. Mrs. Smith' bead was badly torn, some c.f the hal being pulled out by the roots. During a performance In a variety theater ut Copeuhugeu a monkey named Morlts suddenly threw hlmsel Into the arms of a man in the audi enee. It was discovered that the man bad been Morlts' master four year before. The coal bill of the United States navy during 1908 amounted to C, (45,000. Eight times aa much energy Is ex pended la walking upstairs as ontbt level. THE MANOR HOUSE ON GARDINER'S ISLAND. hours after he had taken the negroes, Kldd sent his boat ashore with two bales of goods and a negro boy. Next morning Kldd desired Gard iner to come on board Immediately and bring six sheep with him for his voyage to Boston, which he did; then Kldd desired him to spare a burrel of elder, which he consented to do. Gard iner sent two of his men for It. and while they were gone, Kidd offered Gardiner several pieces of damaged muslin and gengal as a present to his wife, which Kldd put in a bag and handed to him; about a quarter of an hour after, Kldd gave Gardiner two or three pieces of damaged muslin for his own use. An outline of the events thnt led to Kldd's being charged with piracy Is necessary to an understand ing of the situation In which he now found himself. For some years Kidd had been a shipmaster sailing out of New York, and for a time had com manded a privateer, cruising against the French In the West Indies, lie was prosperous, and tradition ulaces In his house In Liberty street the first Turkey carpet seen In New York. In 1G95 fate ordained a change In tl. life of Capt. Kldd. In that your be was In London, commanding the brlg antlne Antlgoa, of New York, when the King appointed Richard Coote, Karl of Holloiiiont, Governor of New THE The Director of the Census Is Edwin Dana Durand, a Michigan man, born in 1871. For two years he was legislative librarian of the New York State Library. For another year he was assistant professor of administra tion nnd finance at Stanford I'nlverslty. From 1900 until 1902 he was secretary of the Industrial commission, and for a short time before going to the censiiB bureau as special expert he was Instructor of economics at Harvard. The history of census taking in this country may be divided Into three periods, determined by fundamental nets of Congress. The first of thtVe extends from 1790 until 1850. During this period the Department of Stato hud charge of the work, while I'nltcd States marshals and their assistants supervised and collected the data. In the second period, extending from 1850 until the law of 1902 was passed, the Department of the Interior had charge of the work. The lawb of 19i2 nnd 190:1 providing for the permanent organization and changing the bure-.iu from the Interior Department to that of Commerce and Labor mark t lie beginning of the present epoch. As early as 1810 an attempt to include In the census information per taining to manufactures of this country was made, though It met with little success. The uct of 1850 Increased the objects or Inquiry to include mines, manufactures and agriculture, and with each succeeding decade the scope of Inquiry has been enlarged until the mass of Information has become too heavy to handle with ease, nnd much of It Is out of date before It Is put Into available shape. The eleventh census was not published until seven years after It was begun. The tensus of 1SS0 appeared in 1889. For each enormous sums of money are fcpeut, thousands of clerks are employed, tons of literature distributed. The four principal reports of the census of' 1900. those on population, agriculture, manufacturing and vital statistics, filled ten quarto volume, 10,000 pages of printed matter, and with the special reports sustained the claim that In the matter of census taking the I'nltcd States leads In scope of Inquiry, combinations of fi.ets and costs Incurred. ATCHISON GLOBE SIOHT3. So many guarantees are not good! Remember that all children hate to be kissed. We always want to look In when a hack rives by. Some people's hearts are better thau their grammar. The 'trouble with the men opposed to you is they are not fair. It Isn't as hard to keep from being cV it t to b 'eH t,-,.-.-...T4t,u-J4n.J -r-rw.w.1 --I II mi in IUi JIN... L.i. HI :rsn- ! I .M.SMWa.l , ...... .J. . UIsjL , -I 1 ... mmyif H a. , . ,J t- England and New York. Bellomont was ambitious, and saw In the sup pression of piracy, at which the Col onial Governors had been winking, a Held for personal advancement and gain. Before leaving England he asked that un English frigate be sent to sup press the pirates, and not getting It he decided to fit out a privately owned ship. He enst about for a captain, and Robert Livingston, founder of the New York family of that name, who was then In London, recommended Capt. Kldd as the proper man. Kldd was disinclined to take the position, but Bellomont intimated that Kldd's own vessel would be detained In the Thames If he did not, and he yielded. For two yenrs little was heard from the Adventure Galley, either In New York or London, but that little was bad. Ships brought stories that Kldd had turned pirate. Ono report was that lie bad taken a great ship, the Quedah Merchant, and had left his owrt ship to cruise as a pirate In her. This was hard news for Capt. Kldd's wife, faithful and anxious In their New York home, waiting, with their two children, for bis return. It dis turbed Kldd's noblo partners also though for a different reason. Kldd was compromising them. He was not careful enough. Ho must be dropped. So they pent warships to hunt him (JENSU A girl always seems more attractive after her engagement Is announced. lite men all say, "When you want the truth, come to me, and I'll give It to you. An elopement to get married 's about, as foolish as stealing a hort-e for profit. When a woman comes out of a gro eery store, she Is usually chewing something. Think of the millions of people In the world you'd think a lot of If you n SB EOT as a pirate. While his backers were anxiously waiting to hear of his cap ture Kldd appeared unexpectedly In the West Indies, where he touched at Angullla April 1, 1699, heard that he was wanted as a pirate and now de cided to And Bellomont and set him self straight If he could. Capt. Kldd was prepared to swear to Bellomont that be was Innocent of piracy; that he had taken only ships which sailed under French papers, and that whatever acts of a piratical na ture he had committed were by his crew, who had mutinied, and locked him In his cabin until the piracies were accomplished. Kidd approached the land first In Delaware Bay, near Lewes, and sent ashore for supplies. He did not go ashore here, nor did he land any goods. A chest owned by James Glllam, a pirate, who was a passenger on Kidd's vessel from Mada gascar, was landed here by Its owner and placed In safe hands. Several peo ple who sold Kldd supplies were on his vessel. They were later arrested and swore Kldd landed no goods. Kldd's movements from this point on can be traced. He was anxious to communicate with his wife and friends in New York, and to that end he steered for Long Island Sound, entering it at the east end and pro ceeding as far as Oyster Bay. Here he went ashore and sent a messenger to New York with a letter to James Emott, a lawyer, and a message to his wife. Emott, whose practice em braced the defense of pirates, hurried to Oyster Bay and went on board Kldd's sloop, which sailed at once for Rhode Island. Here Emott was land ded In Narragansett Bay, probably near Point Judith, to proceed to Bos ton, Lord Bellomont being there. Capt. Kldd's advocate arrived In Boston on June 13, 1609, and went at once to Bellomont's lodgings. Bellomont prom ised Kidd security "if he would prove himself as Innocent as Emott said he was." About June 25 Kidd headed for Bos ton, after taking on a pilot from Rhode Island one Benjamin Bevins. Thi3 pilot naturally had charge of the sloop, and no treasure could have been landed without his knowledge. He was later a witness for the govern ment. The San Antonio put In at Tarpaulin Cove, a convenient harbor on Vineyard Sound, and there Kldd landed "a bale and two barrels of goods," which were "left with the man there," to be called for on his return. The bale and barrels were duly recov ered, like all the rest of Kidd's prop erty. The value of the goods and treasure recovered from Kidd tallies fairly clearly with his probable share of the total 'booty of his voyage, less the goods left on the Quedah Mer chant, which were sold by Bolton at St. Thomas. The exact nature of the treasure Kldd turned over to Mr. Gard iner is known from an Inventory made by five commissioners sent by Massa chusetts to collect Kldd's property. The original of this Inventory still exists. The treasure left at Gardiner's Island was listed in It as follows: Ounces. No. 1 One bag gold dust 60 No. 2 One bag coined gold 11 And in it silver 124 No. 3 One bag dust gold 24:;i No. 4 One bag, three silver rings and sundry precious stones .... W One bag unpolished atones 4T One pure crystal und brazer atones, two Corni-lson rings, two small ngates, two ame thysts, all In the same bag. No. 5 One bag silver buttons und a lamp 20 No. C One bag broken (diver ... .173'. j No. 7 one bag gold bars 35:1 No. 8 One bag gold liars 23S'... No, 9 One bag dust gold 59 '-j No. 10 One bag silver bars 212 No. 11 Ono bug silver burs .... 309 Besides this treasure the commis sioners seized on the San Antonio and at Mrs. Kldd's lodgings about as much more. TURKEY GETS REVENGE FOR TEASING 7 YEARS AGO. Does a turkey gobbler possess the same remarkable mental faculties as does the elephant? A turkey on the farm of Amos Holllster, near Benton, wasn., was teasea into anger over seven years ago by a little girl with, yellow curls. The other day the same little girl, now grown Into woman hood, wearing the dresses of the day's style, appeared upon the lawn of the same rami ana was attacked ny a gobbler enraged beyond all turkey sense, and continued the fight until he was subdued and placed In a pen Over seven years ago .Mtss Elsie Gun ther visited the farm of her uncle and teased the gobbler with a cane which had ribbons tied to It. The turkey chased her around the barnyard. The Incident was forgotten and school work and business kept the niece from agnln visiting her uncle until seven years had passed. Miss Gunther, free from school duties and languishing for the free air of the country, went to the Benton farm last wee'.;. The first thing she did was to trip across the barnyard toward the cow pens as she had done years ago Before she was across the lawn a big turkey gobbler, the same one which attacked her seven years ago, flew at her face and sturck her a blow that almost threw her Into a heap. The turkey continued his attack until Hoi lister captured and imprisoned him. Most Mexican cheese conus from Pennsylvania the native variety dry and of an Insipid flavor. Shanghai machine made Ice, shipped to Nanking along the new lino of rail way, sells In the latter metropolis for $1.00 per 100 pounds. Native missionary teachers In the schools of Shantung, China, are na Id at th rate of 2 a mouth for wome n and $il for men. Frogs may do some harm to fish In a pond, but German experts have de elded that this is outweighed by the good they do in destroying injurious V w It is a happy coincidence that the year which witnessed the entrance of the White Star-Dominion Line La ur emic should also be the centenary year of the Introduction of steam navigation on the St. Lawrence. The Idea of applying steam power to the boats which a hundred years ago car ried on the limited transportation be tween Montreal and Quebec origin ated with the late Hon. John Molson, whose name Is perpetuated to-day In one of the banking Institutions of Canada, which bears the family name. The "Accommodation" was the name of the Molson steamboat, and she was built on the bank of the St. Lawrence at Montreal In the summer of 1S09. and the event was fraught with great Importance to the trade of the coun try, greater by far probably, than the prime mover In Its accomplishment even dared to Imagine. The steamboat "Accommodation." which ushered In such an epoch mark ing period In the history of Canada, was 75 feet long on the keel and 85 feet on deck. She had berths for twenty passengers which it was prom ised would be considerably augment ed the following year. She received her impulse from an open double- spoked, perpendicular wheel on each side without any circular band or rim. In the Old Days. In the old" days hardships innumer able presented themselves in the land, Journey, whilst dangers by day and by night stared the hardy voyageurs In the face when they made , their Journey between Quebec and Mont real. The heavy and swift flowing currents of the river made the up ward Journey very difficult, and many laborious detours had to be made to accomplish the Journey. To go on with the historical sid'; of the narrative, it may be stated, the Montreal Star says, that with all its inconvlences, the mode of travel in troduced by Hon. John Molson was a success, for the following year we find him applying to the legislature of the Province of Quebec "for the exclu sive right and privilege of construct ing and navigating a steamboat or steamboats within the limits of the province for a space of fifteen years." In 1812 he built another and larger steamer of 130 feet keel and 24 feet beam. The name of which vessel was "Swiftsure." Following the "Swiftsure," Mr. Molson proceeded to carry out his Idea of operating -a fleet of river steamers, and the construction of each one led to Improvements In mat ter of size and accommodation. Up to about 1818 a great many peo ple preferred to drive In caleches over rough roads between Montreal and Quebec, but by that time the service SPAIN'S REV0LUTI0N-A A TRAMWAY CAR OVERTURNED BY THE RIOTERS. During the recent revolution in Spain the tramway system of Barcelona was attacked by the rioters at many points, the track being destroyed and cars overturned and burnt. In the fighting and rioting' women nnd children took a conspicuous part, for the rioters when confronted with troop placed the children In the front line, the women in the second, and the men themselves formed a third. Under cover of the women and children the men attacked the police or soldiers, who were unable to discharge their rifles against defenceless women and children. PROVERBS AND PHRASES. Virtue consists In action. Latin. Vainglory blossoms but never bears. French. No weather is ill If the wlud be still. Spanish. When It thunders the thief becomes honest. Dutch. What the eye sees not the heart rues ot. French. Knotty timber requires sharp ivedees. German. i 31EAMIBOAT . had been so greatly Improved that the steamboats came Into more gen eral favor. A few years afterwards attention was devoted to the building of power ful tug boats so that sailing vessels ' could be towed up the river against the current. At one time oxen were yoked up and driven to the river side, waiting to assist. In addition to the oxen there was one horse as leader. This system prevailed up to the year 1832. At that prrlod wharves did not exist; the boats drew up to the shore as close as possible and made fast to piles temporarily driven In the bank of the river. The firBt records of accidents to steamboats In the St. Lawrence are those of the "Waterloo" and "John Bull." The former foundered In Lake St. Peter and was replaced by the "John Bull." a fine boat 190 feet long, which was burned In 183S. It was re lated or the latter boat that sh earned more money while at anchor than while In operation. This arose out of the fact that she burned so much coal that she was unprofitable, but while at anchor was often used as the official residence of His Excel lency the Governor-General, Lord Dur ham. The third steamboat accident or which there Is a record, was that of the "Montreal," which was lost in a snow storm near Batiscan in Novem ber, 1S53. First Iron Steamers. The first Iron steamers came Into use on the St. Lawrence about 1843, the pioneers of that class being the "Prince Albeit" and "Iron Duke,'' which were used as ferry boats be tween Montreal on the one side, and St. Lambert and Laprairie on the south shore. This was long before the Victoria Bridge was built, and passengers from the south by the Champlaln and St. Lawrence Railway were landed on the south side and were conveyed across the river by these steamers. These boats were built in Scotland and brought out in sections, being put together In Mont real. The year 1845 saw the advent of the Richelieu Steamboat Company, which wns destined to play an impor tant part In St. Lawrence navigation in after years, much larger than the originators of the service ever dreamed. From the modest beginning of running some market boats to Sorel to enable farmers to market their produce in Montreal, the company has by steady growth and amalgamation with other companies, developed into one with assets exceeding $4,000,000 to its credit, and operating steamers of all sizes, through and local, from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Law rence. SCENE OF WRECKAGE. 4 The August meteors, according to a leading astronomer, form a stream so broad that the earth, though it travels faster than eighteen miles a second, takes seven weeks to cross It. Importations of lobsters Into the t'Dited States In 1908 amounted to 8, 212.K45 pounds, valued at $1,401,449, and nearly all from Canada. The Canadian government has sold 2'.).000,000 of the speclul postage stamps issued in commemoration of Quebec's tercentenary. A CRUIID OF BREAD. Its D fieri on the Tip of n VIc4o Viomtn'a Sow, "Isn't it terrible," said the society woman, "what a tiny thing can prov ft tragedy to poor, self vaunting man kind! A speck almost invisible In the eye of an athlete may dlsempower him , utterly nnd render him as helpless as a baby. And a lost hairpin or the brcnklng of a buckle may transform the most smartly groomed woman Into an object of amusement to all observ er. "At a dinner I attended not long ago a lady sitting opposite me lodged In some lnexplalnable manner a large crumb of bread directly on the end ef her nose without being conscious of the fact, and there it remained. The ludicrous effect was beyond the power of words to describe or of human rlsibles to resist. She Is an extremely vivacious woman, . generous with pmlles and little bows and motions of her head, and as she chatted gayly with those about her It was impos sible for us to restrain our unseemly mirth. Naturally she thought this was caused by her remarks, and shs continued to toss off Jests with a lightsome air. We were all in agony, but no one summoned courage to tell her, each of us preferring to leave that kindly act to another. After a time she addressed a remark to her husband, who sat next to her and,. , had been devoting himself to the lady at lils other side. He turned to look at his wife, and In an Instant a clever touch of his napkin removed the dls- tortlng fragment, but I can never for get it as long as I live." New York Preas. SHORT METER SERMONS. ( fnlfr of All Thlng-a. Jesus Christ is both the condemna tion of what we are nnd the promise of what we can be. He Is the centei of nil things, and the final Interpreta tion or the universe. Rev. R. M. Lit tie, Presbyterian. Pittsburg. Art of l.lvlnrr. The greatest thing in living is in knowing how to get along with other people. The highest state of happi ness can only come from the most per fect companionship. Rev. W. W. Bu tard, Boston. rVrnonul Sacc-eas. Our personal success in work foi God depends mur-h upon our methods, for we have to deal with men as w find them und not as we should desir them to be. Rev. George Adams, Methodist, Brooklyn. Need of To-day. The need of to-day is a creed wit! a God In It big enough to worshlg with all your heart and soul and strength. The main postulate of oui creed must be, "I believe in God, th Father Almighty." Rev. Murdoch Mo Leod, Presbyterian, Tacoma. Dumb ed. Need Is never so desperate as w.ies it Is dumb. It is never so apparent to the eye of God, never so apparent to His pity as when shut up in th soul of some speechless man. Rev, James M. Barkley, Presbyterian, Den or. Chrlatlanltr'a Failure. If Christianity falls as a world pow r it will fall because the Individual falls as a Christian to Incarnate in his life the spirit and life of his Lord ' which means that he fails to be B Christ man. Rev. L.- O. Rotenbach, Presbyterian, Brooklyn. llnmllltr- To serve Is not mean. It Is Christ like. It Is not to cringe. No gentle man In Rome in the old day evei thought humility a virtue. Humility was left for slaves to cultivate. Rev, Statom, Presbyterian, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Knowlrilffe of God. That knowledge of God may b yours and mine If, with all our hearts, we seek it; If we will only give His spirit fair play with our spirit with open heart and conscience to receivj His guidance and teaching. Rev, George A. Smith, Presbyterian, Glas gow. - I.oyaltr- The noblest word in the catalogm of social virtue Is "Loyalty." That in volves obedience, and Christian obedl ence means doing the common neces sary tasks of life in the spirit ol Christ, which Is the spirit of love and sacrifice. Rev. Harris G. Hale, Con regatlonallst, Brookllne, Mass. Slnclnar Afloat. The best time and place to hear a medley of national airs is sailing day on the pier of a steamship bound for some, European port that Is a distrib uting center for the entire continent Many persons seem to think that per sons going to Europe or returning therefrom should be sped on their way or welcomed home by an outburst of song. Accordingly, when the mu sically Inclined hear of friends who are about to embark they repair to the pier In large numbers and sing their adieus. The International con cert Is frequently amusing as well as confusing. Here a band blures out the German national anthem, there representatives of a singing society shout some other tune of the father land, while In a dozen otbjer different places a do7.en other groups of stay-at-homes sing or play a dozen other airs of other countries. It Is all very In spiriting, very cosmopolitan, and makes the bustle on the piers of the ordinary conservative steamship lines seem like mere Sunday school quiet. The Safe C'oarae. This clerk may have been impudent, but no doubt the customer smiled In spite of herself. The story Is told by a writer in the Christian Guardian. "Mow do you tell bad eggaT" asked the young housewife. "I never told any." replied the gro cery clerk, "but if I did have any thing to tell a bad egg, I'd break II gently." A boy hates to have visiting women kiss him; It makes him ashamed, and the other boys hear about It, and laugh at him. What most churches need is ml isUrs who are alls to waken mta.