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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

world recognizes, was model of vir-
tuOuS dOmeSticity, as was her husband
the prince consort. In fact, vice and
the tendency to it seem to have skip
ped every other generation in the Brit
ish royal line for the past 200 years and
to have appeared only internationally.
AS to the life led by the present king
when Prince of Wales rumor has fully
outlined its character, and the deduc
ton may be fairly made as to whether
its general trend was contributory to
health or to disease.
While there may be no faint in his
ancestry traceable to the disease per Sc
and only a basis for hypothesis. it is
different when his immediate relatives
are taken as subjects of investigation.
1t was only a little more than a year
ago, for instance, or in July, 1900, that
his brother, Prince Alfred, duke of Ed
inburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha,
died of heart failure, superinduced by
cancer of the tongue. A year later. in
August, 1901, his sister, the empress
dowager of Germany, passed away. the
victim of dropsy accompanying the
same disease-cancer. The malady
which caused her death had it's begin
ming ten years previously and brought
her intense suffering. but did not
threaten to be fatal until November of
last year She was unable to leave her
couch when Queen Victoria was at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

He exacted tribute from the city of
Charleston, he ravaged the coast towns
in every direction, numbering and plum
dering, and became such a terror to
American commerce that the colonial
government took hand in his extinc
ton. Brave Lieutenant Maynard
sought him out in the armed sloop
Pearl one day in November, 171S, found
him at his rendezvous in the sound and
engaged him forthwith. The contest
was one of the bloodiest on record. The
pirates first swept the sloop's deck with
a cannon fire that killed more than
twenty men, then boarded it and en-
gagged the enemy hand to hand. The
principal contest was between Black
beard and Lieutenant Maynard and
was long and bloody, but terminated
in victory for the gallant officer, who
soon was sailing into port with the pi-
rates head at the end of his bowsprit
Blackbeard's treasure is supposed to be
buried all along the coast of North Car
DINA, the governor of which state it
was shown at the trial of the surviving
pirates, was in collision with him. The
coast country is full of traditions of
Blackboard, and he has been the buga-
years. At the mouth of Symon's creek
near the Pamlico, one story goes a
great iron bound chest could be seen a
century ago buried in the sands but all
endeavors to recover it were frustrated
by the elements, the sea rising, thunder
rolling and lightning flashing each time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
THE HOSTESS, REVENGE.

A gentleman who was invited out tc
dine lately observed that the chande-
lier over the dining room table was OF
peculiar construction. so that there was
a light over the head of each guest.
The globes We're of various colors. some
amber, some red and some blue
What is the object of having the
globes of different color?" the guest
asked of his hostess.
why, you see." said she. when one
gives dinner or tea one must invite
some people whom one perfectly hates.
Now, last Tuesday 1 gave a supper and
l had to invite two women whom de-
spise. But 1 had to invite them, or
some of the young men 1 wanted
wouldn't come. 1 had my revenge on
my fair enemies, however. 1 placed
each of these two women under one Of
those pale blue lights at the tabia
They are usually considered beautiful
women. but under that light they had
the most CHASTITY look you ever saw.
They were perfect scarecrows. They
seemed TO have aged twenty years the
minute they sat down. The men no.
ticed it, of course, but they did not di-
vine what caused it, They were quite
taken aback and awfully glum at first
But finally one of them turned. with
ly little thing that was sitting under
ruby colored light. Why she was per
fectly charming under 1t. So you see
that when 1 want people to look per-
fectly hideous 1 put them under the
blue lights. 1t kills everything
The gentleman looked up. He was
under a blue light
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

depredations of the buccaneers and 9TH
ers Spain lost many millions, and with
out their aid she always reckoned the
average annual loss at $1,000.000 from
hurricanes alone.
The buccaneers sacked such cities as
Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Maracaibo,
Colon and Porto BelIo and harried the
Spanish fleet so that very few of the
treasure ships ever made their voyages
unscathed.
The typical buccaneer is found in the
person of Henry Morgan, a Welshman,
who went to the West Indies when
young, fell in with the buccaneers of
Tortuga and finally became chief vii
cious murders on the Spanish main,
sacking cities and putting their inhab-
itants to torture and the sword. To-
ward the end of his career of crime he
landed on the isthmus and marched
overland upon the then wealthy city of
Panama This city he robbed of all it's
treasures, to the amount, it is estimat-
ed, of Sic, ZOO, 900. and, compelling several
hundred prisoners to accompany him
on his return journey, marched back
across the isthmuS to the Caribbean
side He capped the climax of his
atrocities by cring his prisoners,
own men. he made for the island of
Santa Catalina, about hundred miles
east of the Mosquito coast and not far
from Roncador reef, where the Kear-
sarge was sunk few years ago. There.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
PATS READY EXCUSE.

During a severe engagement an irish
private was espied by his captain in the
act of beating a hasty retreat. The
man had been a favorite with his SUI
pericr officer, and when the latter ap-
preached him on the subject the fol-
lowing day it was in a spirit more Of
sorrow than of anger.
II must confess, Pat" he said, that
your action in the engagement yester-
day surprised me.
AN what's the rayson of that, sor?'
Reason enough, Pat. Didn't you
promise me you'd be in the thickest of
the fight, and didn't I catch you actual
ly running away, you rascaI?"
Running away, is it? 'Dade. cap
tain, but We desave yourself. 1t was in
remembrance of my promise sor. that
OF was runnin' around troyin' to foind
out jist where the foight was thickest."
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presumably vastly greater than that
which was found, that has been the OBJ
ject of search for the past 200 years.
Kids career terminated exactly 200
years ago, for he was hung in England
in May, 17O1; but he soon had a rival in
the person of the notorious Edward
Teach, better known to history as
Blackboard the Pirate and whose OPP
erations were extended from the West
Indies to the Carolina coast. During
the last quarter of the seventeenth CEN
fury and the first quarter of the eight
zenith the rovers of the sea were in
their glory, but of them all there was
none so famous as the dreaded Black
beard. His headquarters were in the
West Indies, notably in the Danish is
land of st. Thomas, where his castle is
pointed out today on one of the three
hills upon which the town of Charlotte
Amalia is built. After making many
good man walk the plank in Car
ibbean waters and committing terrible
atrocities Blackboard came north and
made his rendezvous in Pamlico sound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
NKEN TREASURE SHIPS AND WHERE'

I 1t is said, he buried the bulk of his
treasure, after which he murdered all,
or nearly all, of the men who knew of it's
location and sailed for Jamaica He
was called to account by the British
government for his many crimes, but
with his vast wealth not only purchas-
ed exemption, but title. from that dis
reputable monarch, Charles IL, and
now lives in history as Sir Henry Nor
gan, at one time governor of Jamaica.
1t was not like Sir Henry Morgan to
leave any portion of his ill gotten mil
lions on the island where he buried it,
but during the past twenty years or so
the stories of it's continued existence
there have been revived, and several
expeditions have been made with
view to recover it. So far as known, all
nave been fruitless, but a cave, reached
only by submarine passage, has been
found in which were discovered traces
of occupancy and of concealed plumber
of some sort
That Santa Catalina and Tortuga
contain buried treasure in vast
amounts is undoubtedly true, and as
neither island is very large it would
seem an easy thing to discover it. But
the former is subject to violent hurri-
canes, and the currents surrounding it
are treacherous, while Tortuga is own
ed by the semibarbarous Haitians, who
Jeaiously resent any intrusion of for
eigners especially of white people, and
will neither explore for treasure them
selves nor permit any one else to do so.
Pirates and buccaneers concealed
their plumber all along the coasts of the
Caribbean, not only on the Spanish
main, but in many islands, and indica-
lions of buried gold are constantly COM
ing to light, especially in the Danish is
lands of st. Thomas and st. John, in the
Pearl islands off Venezuela, in Porto
Rico, Cuba and Santo Domingo.
So far as sunken galleons filled with
gold and silver are concerned, the is
land of Cuba is almost girdled with
them. In the year 1875 a great treasure
galleon was sunk northwesterly from
Key West; in 1717 five Spanish galleons
with 100000 in bullion aboard, were
sunk in the channel between Florida
and Cuba; in 1880 more than fifteen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

acter renders it perfectly legitimate to
inquire as to the possible contributOry
causes of such a -malady either in his
own life or the lives of his ancestors.
Ihough the facts collected by inSur-
ance companies go to show that the
danger from inheriting cancer is not so
great as commonly supposed, yet the
pathologists hold to the theory that it
may be and often is transmitted dis
ease Going back, then, as far in King
Edwards ancestral line as the reign of
the f1rst of the Georges, widening the
scope of causation and taking cogni
zance of the legacy of hate bequeathed
oy that monarch to his descendants,
one cannot avoid the conclusion that
the corroding vices of the first George
and the unrestrained passions of
George II. have exerted a baleful inf1u-
ence upon those that followed after
them Though George III. was highly
moral, as contrasted with his father
and grandfather. yet during the latter
portion of his long life of eighty-two
years he was hopelessly insane, while
his erratic temper. at times passing be-
yond all restraint, is a matter of his
tory. George ~. was both immoral
and dissipated- William l. who sue
ceeded him, was equally vice ridden
and left to his country a burden of
shame in his numerous illegitimate chill
dren- His niece Victoria, as all the
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treasure seekers neared the place where
the chest lay. Then there was La Fitte,
whose scene of operations was the gulf
of Mexico and his nominal headquarters
at New Orleans. He and his crews did
valiant service for the American army
under General Jackson, but previously,
tradition relates, they had ravaged
many a bit of coast and hidden away
millions in treasure. Some of it has
been recovered, according to accounts,
as well as the ill gotten gains of such
river pirates as Murrel, McCabe and
Mason, whose last feat was the murder
of a paymaster of the United States
army and his men at the same time
and the carrying off of $50, 900.
In an enumeration of the locations
where piraticaI and other treasure is
concealed it will be less difficult to
mention than to find space for them all,
for traditions point to scores of islands
and headlands all the way from the
bay of Fundy to the gulf of Mexico.
There has been a persistent hunt for
years for Captain Kidd's and other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
King Edward and the New
\ Ray Cure For Cancer.

King Edward of England suffer-
ing from that dread disease can
GER? This is a question that has
- been agitating all Europe and
Great Britain for several weeks
in fact. the whole world is interested
in it. There have been numerous de-
malls from apparently authoritative
sources, but when it Is recalled that
similar denials were forthcoming
just prior to the deaths of Gen
eral Grant. Queen Victoria, Emperor
Frederick OF Germany and others they
are received with somewhat of suspi-
cion- Indeed, many well informed peo-
pie abroad seem to think that they
must have some foundation in fact and
that the king is either suffering from
cancer i'll its incipient stages or has a
very alarming condition of the throat.
AS a prominent figure in the world of
royalty King Edward VII. is subject to
the penalty of greatness (although not
in himself, the great alienist Lonbroso
says, anything at all remarkably and
cannot prevent his private affairs from
being discussed by the people at large.
Whenever anything, be it ever so triv-
ial, happens to royalty all the world is
at once interested. Therefore such a
report as this, going forth from high
places, to the effect that King Edward
is suffering from an affection of the
throat that may be cancerous in char
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

FIFE noet wrote more literally
and accurately than ne
knew when he declared:
Fun many a gem Of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomd caves OF ocean
bear
There are millions in 1.-THE ocean
The only difficult thing about the prop
osition is to locate those mli1ons anu
those gems They are there, nave oeen
there for. generations, some of them TOT
hundreds of years. To bring them 10
the LIGHT of dav is a problem that many
minds in the past and IN mooerh liinSS
have tried hard to solve 1t was oiiiS
the other day, in fact, that there We
reported the locating IN Long lsiah1
sound of a wreck that had remained
undiscovered for more than sixty years.
On the night of the 18th of January
1870 TO be exact the steamer Lexington
was burned and sank, with loss OIL lVO
lives carrying down with her hiohe
than $500 600 in United States currency
bank notes and specie For nearly e"o
generations she lay there, but when on
the sixty-first anniversary or her slnA-
ing an account was published OF the ans
asfer the attention of a wrecking COM
pany was drawn to the fact ana q
search instituted, with the result that
there is now "a probability that the oiu
Lexington may be raised and at least
portion of her Sunken treasure ASNo'
cred
The treasure that the Lexington car
ried down to enrich old Davy Jones
locker is no isolated instance, it may
seem needless to rerpark, for when the
records of disasters by sea, OF piracy
and buccaneering are ransacked 1t IS
discovered that the list of sunken ships
containing valuable cargoes is re-
markably long one. Enough treasure
trove. in point of fact, lies around
loose" on land and buried in the sea to
enrich nearly all the inhabitants of the
United States. Ii should not be over
looked in passing that in the vaults
of the British treasury there is hidden
away. some say. more than s.. O00. 900, 600
at all events, by official records, $3.50,
GOO. 0G0-awaiting owners; not claimants
only. for their name is legion. Again,
the pirates and buccaneers who at one
time infested our coasts have the name
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bringing back the products of Spain
and recruits for the American colonies.
Spain, however, was not to have this
rich traffic all to herself, for the Dutch,
French and English soon began to in
quire what there was in it for them
and, to emphasize their inquiry, sent
out men-of-war and privateers to cruise
the Caribbean waters. They took many
valuable prizes, despite the protests of
Spain, and after them came their pri-
vaJeers, who soon degenerated into
freebooters and buccaneers.
On the north coast of Haiti is small
island known as Tortuga, which in the
seventeenth century was made the rem
devious of the buccaneers, comprising
men of various nationalities, but chief
ly French and Dutch, who had been
driven from their homes in the south
ern Caribbees and had taken to piracy
in revenge. They committed many
atrocities not only upon the crews of
the Spanish ships, but upon the inhab-
itants of settlements in the West Indies
and on the Spanish main. Between the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

that soap as 1 could furnish-he. o
course, never dreaming / would suppl.
them--I returned to the saleroom.
box of this soap was about to be knock
ed down to the highest bidder when
called out from my corner another bid
The box was declared sold to me and
my name demanded. Charles T
Yerkes, Jr.," / piped out in a shrir
VOICE. was only eleven years old
THE bystanders were amused, bui
their laughter gave place to amaze
ment when I bid in the entire lot OF
twenty-five boxes. 1 promptly deliver.
ed them to the corner grocery and re-
ceived the price agreed upon. Mr.
Halves, the astonished grocer, upor
learning how the purchase had been &C
complished, remarked, We'll, I guess
could have done that myself And
replied that / guessed he could too"
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cancer. It is a gernnicide, acting upon
the tissues by liberating oxygen and
forming ozone and increasing the red
ing the vitality of the blood. Suffering
humanity will be cheered by the BELIEF
that at last a possible cure has been
found for cancer, for, SO far as expert
mentation has progressed, it seems to
have proved effectual in several in
stances, and noted specialists have de-
clared in it's favor. Great advance,
they say, has been made in this direc-
ton since the deaths of the Emperor
Frederick and of General Grant, who
were both victims of the same terrible
cancerous trouble, one in the throat
and the other at the root of the tongue.
Many now living will recall the long
and heroic siege that General Grant
underwent at Mount McGregor in 1885.
At first the trouble appeared only as a
which developed into the cancer that
caused his death. 1t was the belief at
that time, as it is largely now, that in
cancerous cases where internal or deli
ca tie organs are attacked little besides
merely palliative treatment should be
thought Of Surgery has often been ap-
pealed to, but only more as means for
averting immediate dissolution than
with any real hope for a radical cure.
If then, the X ray cure be all its advo-
Gates claim, the discovery, or, rather.
the application, will be hailed with joy
all over the world.
ALLAN GERMAINE
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almost to the gunwales with gold and
silver ores and sometimes with rich
stores of gems. The Philippine fleet
also, by landing it's cargoes at Acapul-
co, the Pacific coast of Mexico, and
transshipping them at Vera Cruz, fol-
lowed this route to Spain after the
way was opened by the Spaniards. For
years and years these richly freighted
galleons sailed to the mother country"
with their millions in silver and gold,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

treasures at Oak island, on the coast of
Nova Scotia, pit having been sunk
more than 100 feet in depth by one indi-
vidual, and it is we'll known that Sable
island is veritable treasure house of
wealth as well as a graveyard of noble
ships.
One of the false leads to conjectural
treasure was that of the sunken British
frigate the Hussar, which went down in
Hell Gate in 1777 1t was supposed to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

as a boy he FIRE
quented a sale
room near hi.
home.
20 n e d a ~
said Mr.. Yerkes
Il noticed sew
eral boxes o.
soap of a Ger
tain brand which
/ had often beer
sent to buy a
the corner gro
Gerry. / though
to myself. 'Tha
will go cheap.
so 1 straightwa.
ran to the cor
ner grocery. and
after drawing
from the grocei
a promise e
pay a certain
price for a.
- -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
HOW CHARLES r. YERKES
BEGAN HIS CAREER

Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago stree
railway magnate who is now buiIdinf
electric lines in London. showed an ear
ly appreciation of the theory of buyin,
and selling to advantage. He tells how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
ALLAN GERMAINE.
THE WORLDS OLDEST STATUE.

There is a statue in village in Egypt
which is said to be the Oldest in the
world, having been in existence more
than 5000 years. 1t is the representa-
ton of one of the chiefs of the domain
wherein it was erected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
WOMEN OF ENDURANCE.

In the bakeries of La Rochefoucauld
in France, it is said that women enter
the ovens when they are at a tempera-
ture of 3o1 degrees.
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Counters

n II
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-13
HAMILTON & co.

Dissolve Partnership, MT. Murray Re
 tiring.
 The we'll known cloak and suit firm of Hamilton & Co.,, at S53 Chapel street, has dissolved partnership by mutual consent. The change took effect Tues day. John T. Murray retires and the business will be continued by William H. Hamilton.
 Hamilton & Go. have been in business about five years, and in that compara- lively brief period have established a most enviable reputation for high class goods at fair prices. The firm, since it's inception, has enjoyed the confidence and patronage of the exclusive, high grade purcha sing public, and the gar ments supplied by the concern have al ways carried the stamp of originality and superiority. Hundreds of custom CTS in this and neighboring cities will be glad to know that the dissolution of partnership will make no material change in the excellence and attrac- tiveness of the store. MT. Hamilton will, as in the past, give every detail his attention, which means that the standard will be maintained.
 MT. Murray, who retires, has been in charge of the wholesale department He intends to leave the city to enter larger field in the same line of bus- ness