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
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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
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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.
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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.
