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INSANITY IN THE HOUSE OF
GUELPH.

The shameful death of Prince Alfred
of SaXc-Coburg-GOtha. eldest son of the
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, need
surprise no one familiar with the history
of the English royal family.
The insanity which attacked the young
prince, aggravated perhaps by his de-
baucheries, affords a striking warning
that the hereditary curse which has af-
tiicted the Guelphs and those associated
with them for 200 years still exists and
can never be stamped out.
From his birth the prince was fore
doomed to mental oblivion. AS a baby
and as a boy he was frail, n it was
feared he could never reach manhood.
As his majority grew nearer he began to
display signs of dementia peculiar to his
race, and while death will be generally
attributed to the excuses which made
HIM the scandal of European royalty, no
one familiar with his childhood expected
any other end to his hapless life.
1t would be almost impossible to say
| where the Guelph badness had it's origin.
| One might go back to George I, whose in
| sane brother and sister lived to hand
down the lunacy which has afflicted so
! many continental royalties allied to the
| house of Guelph.
The historians tell us of eccentricities of
dress and demeanor of George l, but 1t
cannot be said tina his peculiarities
| reached actual madness.
To George III the 1carcely noticeable
faint descended. But the intermarriage
of cousins had produced a stronger strain
of mania, not only in George III, but in
many of his sons and Daughters.
The insanity Of the misguided old gen
tleman who tried Conclusions with Wash
ington and thus founded the United
States is recent history. 1t lasted for al
most twenty years and it delivered Eng
land to the regency of a degraded black
guard. E.
The insanity of George III was passive
and docile. 1t was a gradual decay of the
faculties. The regent, afterWard George
", was one of the few men of the race
to escape, but in his brother and success
sor, William ", it reappeared. The last
weeks of the life of this bluff seaman
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in the front ranks Of pugilism in the An
tipodes. His first appearance in this
country was in a battle with Billy Nc
Carthy. They met in the California
Athletic club on May 30, and Fitz won in
nine rounds. He hen journeyed to New
Orleans, where he defeated Arthur Up
ham.
On January IA Jack Dempsey, the ia
NOUS Nonpareil, was put to sleep by Fitz
after a one-sided fight, in the thirteenth
round. Fitz tried his level best to induce
Dempsey to give in when he saw that he
had no chance of winning, and prolonged
the fight in a vain endeavor to avoid
knocking Dempsey out.
Fits next victim was Abe Congle,
whom he disposed of in two rounds. This
fight took place in Chicago on April %.
Three days later, in Minneapolis, he won
from the BLACK PEARL in four ounds
He was then matched to meet Peter
Maher at New Orleans. The fight tool,
I place on March 2, 1892. Maher was prac-
tically a green mar then. but he came
near putting Fitz out early in the fight,
The Cornishman showed wonderful re-
Cooperative powers, however, and at the
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MANY VICTORIES.

Snake meat is said to make the DISPOSE
ton irritable and the nature coarse; and
for this reason a sort of superstition has
kept the mountaineers from feeding it to
their women.
OF the many snakes in this country
the two most familiar ones are the
rattlesnake and the copperhead, both of
| whom are poison snakes.
| OF these the rattlesnake is probably
the more abundant and better known
! indeed, it is one Of the most widely
known maxi in the world, rivalling in
reputation the far-famed cobra of India.
This is due to it's odd and unique charac-
~teristic in the way of a tail.
| R~attlcSnakeS are fOund only in the
| New World, there being about twenty
different species in North America, and
two in South America. The rattle is
a chain-like succession of horny cups
of skin, fitting loosely one in another.
The rattle is formed and added to by
each shedding of the skin, when a new
button" grows on. Some snake ex-
ports maintain that the number of but
tons indicates the number of years of
its life, and there is another theory
that a scientist, or even a skilled
woodsman, can tell from the formation
of the last button whether the snake
has ever bitten a human being. The noise
of the rattle of this cauda series Of bony
shells is a good deal like that given forth
by a locust on a hot August day, except
that the note is thinner The man WHO
hears this thrilling noise for the first time
in some lonely mountain pass never for
gets it. It can be heard at least 1OC
I feet although the snake rarely makes
it at that distance from an intruder
1t waits until it is within fifteen or twenty
feet, unless surprised at closer quarters
and you may depend upon it that the
snake will always sound it's warning be-
fore striking. If it can it will get away
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Slattery out in two rounds. In Septem-
Der of the same year he gave Mlllard
Gender the same dose in one round in
Admission, Ala.
Then Fitz was pitted against Jim Hall.
He met him in New Orleans on March 8,
1898, n put him to sleep in four rounds.
After that battle Fitz met several prac-
tically unknown men. They all fell be-
fore his sledgehammer blows. Phil Mayo,
III two rounds, at Chicago, and a man
named Warner, in one round, in Balti-
more, We're among his victims.
On September 5, 1898, he met Jack
Hickey in Newark, N. j., n won from
him in three POUNDS. On une II of the
next year he fought Joe Choynski a five
round draw in Boston.
Frank Kellar of Buffalo was given a
dose of that terrible fist on July rs, 1894,
and on September 2S of the same year he
knocked Dan Creedon out in two rounds.
This latter battle occurred at New Or
leans
The neXt man to go down before Fitz
was AL Allish, who went out in three
1895, he was matched against Corbett.
This match was declared off and the one
with Peter Maher substituted.
Fitz and Maher met at Langtry, Texas,
after no end of trouble in finding a battle
ground. and as the entire sporting public
knows, the big lriShman was down and
out in one round. Maher and Fitz then
boxed three round in Madison Square
Garden. No decision was given.
On September II, 1896, Fitz was again
matched to meet Corbett. On October %
he signed articles to box Thomas Shar-
key, and IN December 2 Fitz was prac-
tically robbed of a victory by Sharkey
going down on a fake foul
In his Corbett fight Fitzsimmons origi-
- H., r. 49,, l1-., ,-l,aL 49, 4
him famous. He has promised us a new
blOWI
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SUICIDE.

A valuable camel, working in IN oil
mill in Africa, was beaten by it's driver.
Seeing that the camel had treasured up
the injury, and was only waiting a favor
able chance for revenge. the driver kept
a strict watch upon the animal. Time
passed away. The camel, knowing that
it was watched, was quiet and obedient,
and the driver began to think that the
beating was forgotten, when one night,
after several months had gone by, the
man was sleeping upon a raised plat
form in the mill, while as is customary,
the camel was stabbed in a corner.
Happening to awake, the driver saw
by the bright moonlight that, when all
was quiet, the animal looked cautiously
around, rose softly, and stealing toward
a spot where a bundle of clothes and q
hurnous, thrown careleSsly ON the
ground, resembled a sleeping figure, cast
itself with violence upon them, rolling
with all it's weight and tearing them
most viciously with it's teeth. Satisfied
that its revenge was complete, the camel
was returning to it's corner, when the
driver sat up and spoke. AT the sound
of his voice, and realizing the mistake it
had made. the animal was so mortified
at the failure and discovery Of it's
scheme that it dashed it's head a/;ainst
the wall and died on the spot.-London
Telegraph.
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If st. Patrick could have lived in these
days instead of having lived fifteen nun
bred years ago, he would doubtless have
found more opportunity for the display OF
his peculiar powers than he did in those
days.
st. Patrick. born in Scotland of French
parents, distinguished himself by saving
ireland from the devil. He drove out the
firewater of those days; banished idols
from the Emerald Isle; strengthened the
power of the pope; and, finally, destroyed
all the snakes of the island, for which all
Irishmen have ever since been grateful.
We have not the idols in this country
and we love the o but we have snakes
here; and these in sufficient numbers TO
have kept st. Patrick very busy indeed
had he been among us.
Scattered over the length and breadth
of the United States are twenty varieties
of snakes, all of the most desperately
poisonous kind; while crawling to and fro
over the surface of the country are a
hundred other varieties, not poisonous,
but very unpleasant to meet.
Now, any animal which can infiict a
bite or a wound is poisonous. The
bite may not be necessarily filled with
venom, but the wound may grow worse
and death may follow the puncture of the
skin.
st. Patrick knew what he was doing
when he drove the snakes out of the
island of his adoption, for no more dis
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'cOttOn-mOuth" Is. derived from the fact
that the scales surrounding the mouth are
dingy white, in marked contrast to the
darker scales of the rest Of the head.
These two are the only poisonous
snakes in North America, with the ex-
ception of the handsome red and black
and yellow coral snake" which is found
in Florida and other southern states,
though it is more at home in the tropics.
But in Mexico, Central and South Amer
lea live large meek-looking coral snakes,
with beady black eyes; the dreaded FER
de-lances," which are practically huge
copperheads, growing sometimes eight
+ feet or more in length, with great, sharp
fangs an inch and a half long, and
hanging from the shelter of some moss
hung palmetto, and several other less
known poisonous snakes, "tabobaS, y
"tamagafs' and banana snakes" small,
bright yellow fellows, %peppered with
black spots and living in the punches Of
bananas, where they prey upon the birds
which come to feed on the fruit.
Here, too, are found great "~verugosas,"
one of the two species of South American
rattlesnakes, and, because tropical, pos
sessing more deadly venom than their
northern cousins.
The United States has one variety of
snake which st. Patrick surely never saw.
Or If he did he kept still about it, for
, lueTe IS III IecoIu VI llS Slaughter IA ~"
famous deeds. This is the sea serpent,
| which is part snake and part fish, and
which this time of year comes crawling
| upon the beach to terrify the fisher folk
and astonish the sailors. The sea serpent
is indigenous to North America. No tales
of it have ever come in the waters OF
Florida, and is at it's largest in the st.
Sebastian and the Gulf. In the spring,
when the warm water comes in waves
toward the north, the sea serpent accom-
| panies it and appears off the coast of the
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Snakes St. Patrick Never Saw
KEPT THE SAINT BUSY BAN1sHING THEM.

agreeable animal lives upon the face
Of the earth than the reptile. And it
is a useless animal also. The snake has
never been found of service to the human
race in any way sufficient to Justify it's
existence. Snakeskin is tanned, dressed
and prepared for ornaments, and for
small articles of wearing apparel such as
belts and the like. And in the mountains
there is an edible variety of black snake.
It's meat is sweet, fine and very white.
In the south the entrails of the snake
applied warm are used as a cure for
rheumatism, II the grease from the
entrails is used for bone-felOns. Canni-
balls make a greater use of the snake,
for they eat it in every variety, just as
we eat all kinds of fish. They cool the
snake whole and eat it after splitting it
down the back with a sharp stick.
The cannibal method of eating a snake
is interesting. They take a large snake
and coil 1t round and round, as you wind
a piece of whalebone. 1t is so large that
it must be tied in place and the head
twisted underneath. This is dom While
the snake is alive. Meanwhile the cooks
nave been preparing a great hole in
the ground, which is filled with burning
wood. When the snake is ready to be
roasted they smother the fire, and thrust
the snake into the hole. 1t is covered up
with straw and left until thoroughly
cooked. 1t is then taken out and eaten
with avidity.
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Canada about this

northern states and Canada about this
time.
The size Of the sea serpent is a diff
cult thing to determine. Tales of it diff
fer so greatly. A Chicago museum show
ed the skeleton of a sea serpent this last
winter, which was fully twenty feet long.
A preserved sea serpent in a BoWery
museum was sixteen feet. Both of these
animals had long sleek bodies covered
with scales. AT the sides were fms MAX
ing them very like a fish, although the
big pointed head proclaimed the snake
family.
1t has been suggested that the North
American sea serpent is a species Of
the eel. An overgrown eel, perhaps. But
on the other hand the sea serpent has
characteristics which are foreign to the
eel family, and so the sea eel theory which
is brought up annually must be aban-
doned.
1t can be said for the sea serpent that
he is a timid creature, and not niger
Gus. For although he appears regularly
every spring he has never been known
to do damage to man or boat.
There is no country which produces as
many snakes as North America. Africa
Is overrun with snakes in certain parts,
but is free from them in others. Europe
is snake infested in the mountains. but
North America has snakes upon every
inch of it's soil where the virgin forest is
undisturbed, or more accurately speak
ing, where mar does not live. You go to
walk of a Sunday afternoon in the SUBJ
urbs and a little garter snake comes
twisting round your feet. You take a
days drive in the country and you find
the little grass snakes and in the woods
and mountains there are unquestion-
ably black snakes, copperheads, coach
whips and mOccasinS. So St. Patrick
could have been kept busy.
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Bob FiZSilnODS and His Finishes
THE ASTONISHING RECORD OF A PUGn1sT WHO HAS KNOCKED OUT
MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED MEN-HE HAS PROM
Used US A NEW BLOW.

Robert Fitzsimmons has the battle of
his life before him. He thought he a
fought it when he knocked out Corbett
on st. Patrick's day, 1897, in Carson City.
But now a younger--and some say
cleverer-man than Corbett is to face
Fitz; and he and his wife and the public
feel that there is to be a crisis.
F~itzsimnnons, knowing the task that is
before him, will, as usual, be trained to
the hour. Although Fitz is a scientific
phenomenon in the pugilistic sphere, he
trains exactly opposite to the way he
fights. There is no rougher trainer among
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The Duke of Cumberland. Until his sue

The Duke of Cumberland, until his sue
were passed in almost complete oblivion.
cessiOn to the kingdom of Hanover, had
occupied Clarence house, one of the rec
ognized official residences of the reigninS
family. One mild morning in March 1917,
the dukes valet, Genlis, was found in
a corridor leading to the royal apart
mentS, dead, with his throat cut. The
corpse had been hacked to pieces.
The tragedy was never explained, and
as the %coroner's jury was chosen from
the royal tradesmen there was no danger
of any other verdict that murder by a
person or persons unknown But the
inquest did not conceal the fact hat Cen
lis had been killed. with a sword that
formed part of a panoply of arms in the
dukes bedroom.
Not only were the walls and furniture
spattered with blood, but a trail of
bloody footprints led from the dukes
bedroom to the end of the corridor, where
the body was found.
The doors of the corridor and the dukes
room were LOCKED on the inside, and it is
difficult to see how any one but the man
afterward known as King Ernest of Han
over could v committed the murder.
OF the Guelph cousins King Frederick
| William of Prussia, brother of the old
Emperor William, spent the last three
years Of his life in lunacy. The king of
Wurtemberg yielded the control of his
government to his clever wife, Queen Oh
ga, who. when his d~ebaucheries out
ragged public opinion, had him put under
restraint.
King John of Saxony murdered one Of
his attendants. He was generally be-
lieved to have survived his official fun
eral for years, living in restraint in a
monastery in the Hartz mountains.
FINALLY preceding the death of young
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he was but a child. He has spent the
major portion of his life in the Antipodes.
Fitzsimmons stands 5 feet 11A inches,
and weighs abou 100 pounds.
The New Z~ealander claims to have
knocked out more than 800 men during
his pugilistic career. His official record
docs not show this, but those who know
Fitz best believe hat he has lone just
what he claims. He has been meeting
all corners in this country, Australia and
New Zealand, and has stopped every
man that has faced him.
Fitzsimmons landed in this country in
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May, 1890. He had a brilliant record, but
it was somewhat furnished through a
dubious defeat sustained at the hands of
Jim Hall. Fritz always insists that he
laid down in this contest for a considera-
ton. Hall said he won on his merits n
there was no agreement. Fftz, however,
has since disposed of Hall in a manner
that convinced the average follower of
pugilism hat Hall was not in the same
class as FltE.
Fitz defeated a score of men who stood
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fighters thai F~itzsimmons. He likes to
rough it, wrestle and strain all his mus
Giles; and it is this work that has enabled
him to receive several good cracks on the
jaw without "fazing' him. Bob has al
ready started in to train, and u special
sporting correspondent has secured a
photograph of Fitz and his trainer doing
their daily stunts
Robert Fitzsimmons was born at Els
ton, Cornwall, England, on June 4, 1852.
His parents moved to New Zealand when
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

Prince Alfred, came the complete mental
collapse of the Duke Of Teck, the son-in-
law of Queen Victoria.
The British public, deluded for a period
into the belief that the royal family had
been cleared of the cancer, ask now on
whom next will fall the curse of the
house of Hanover.
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end Of twelve rounds had Maher so far
gone that he refused to continue when
the vi sounded for the next round. Il
MANY VICTORIES. '
Fitz came north after the Maher fight,
and on April 80 met James Farrell in
Newark, N. j. He put him in the land
of dreams in two ounds A week later
Joe Godfrey met the same fate in one
round in Philadelphia, and then, coming
back to New York, Fitz knocked Jerry
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-11
EAST PROVIDENCE.

There has been a decided change Of
opinion since Town Clerk Hunter has
returned TO his desk, and more espe-
cially since the administrative board Of
the Watchemolet Fire District has
looked over its accounts. and found,
that so far as Mr.. Hunter was con-
cerned. they were as they should De.
These two important facts have caused
qltte a number II those who shofl
tine ago Imagined there was a snort
axe 10 hcdg a friflc SOine ot The tu@-
payers arc uuW worried over another
matter and mat Is the expert account
ant VINO 5 getting s. per day of siN
h9gfs. ~ fIst II was supposed tt
ine work woul ra performed in three
or -four days bat when they learned
thai K would taKe perhaps four weeks
or n0re. they began 20 think of the ex-
pepse. The expert Informed the y ws
man yesterday that IL was impossible
10 say how long he would b engaged
upon the BOOKS. but IL would be at
least three weeks longer. This is not
consoling to some of the citizens who
are always crying down With the ex-
penses"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-11

Paine's celery compound during the
last two months-and the proprietors
of this remedy have never known so
great "A call for it-has been due to its
use by thousands of people for whom il
has been prescribed by intelligent
physicians, to restore the patients vi
tality, to purify the blood of the enerv-
ating poison, TO restore the nervous sys-
TEN TO healthy action and to strengthen
the vital organs.
A person viii continue to suffer from
the evil effects of grip for many months
unless he attacks the disease by get
ting rid of the unnatural. unhealthy
poisons I'm the system. supplying the
body with new blood, arousing the
healthful action of the kidneys. liver
and digestive organs, and nourishing
and upbuilding the over-exerted and
debilitated nervous system. All this
and just this Painc's celery compound
will do. In the multitude of cases
where IL has been used, IL has never
failed
\ case well known i'm Chicago is
cited. Mr.. Frank H.. Davidson, who IS
one of the most brilliant and best
known engineers i'm the world. had Just
finished the plans for the great inter-
cepting sewer system of Chicago. which
is To divert the entire sewerage of the
city from Lake Michigan. through the
famous Chicago drainage canal and
down the Mississippi. superintendent
Davidson had worked for months on
this scheme. He was well nigh eX-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-11
TALKED icOUT

Firemen Green and Mains who were
nirht are both reported more comfort
able at the hospital this morning.
walter J. Kelley and Charles Le-
clair were arralgned i'm the district
court this morning charged with the
larceny of watch valued at SO from
Louis Thompson. They were held for
trial on Tuesday.
The ladies of st. Wilhelmina B. 5. So
c!cy. No. 625. &. B. T., gave their fourth
social i'm knights of Columbus hall, 563
Westminster street, last evening. The
attendance was large and a merry time
was enjoyed. The following commit
tees had charge of the affair: Arrange
ments. Miss Margaret Gaffney, chair
lady: Miss Mary Kenney, secretary;
Miss Julia Farrell. treasurer. The floor
directress was Miss Margaret Gaffney.
Miss Mary Kenney was chief of aids
and the assistants: Miss Alice Devine,
Miss Mary Devlin. Miss Mary Gaffney,
Miss NJ Colbert. Miss NJ. Langan, Miss
Mary Sulzer and Miss Katie CoughIin.
The reception committee consisted of
Mrs. j. ODonnell A., Mrs. Il. Whalen,
Miss Padien and Mrs. S. Gordon.
The first ball of the Happy Three was
given I'm Hope hall, Eddy street, last
evening, and proved most enjoyable.
Music was furnished by the Savoy or
chestra. The COMMITTEES in charge We're:
Arrangement, T.. Iaccheri, chairman;
John Dillon, secretary; w. Cuddy.
treasurer; floor directors, w. Cuddy,
John Dillon. u. Iaccheri; assistant floor
director. Joseph Quinn; aids. Edward
Veech. Thomas Veech; reception COM
mittee, John Dillon, w. Cuddy, Il.
Iaccheri