Douglas Island news., 1910-08-17

Plassey, Give was brought up for trial by the British parliament on the Oma- chand case, Give in his first speech said that he had given straw paper to Omachand, that all of the council had signed it, that it was now 16 years, yet the government had never taken any steps to prosecute the council mem bers. Omachand was spy, traitor and blackmailer, had betrayed them over and over again He considered 1t as blackmail and considered that they had no right to pay him. It was wrong, but it was fighting the devil with fire and he would do it again. "Now," he said, GI ask this assembly in deciding on ther question of my honor not to forget their own." He was freed after long, tiresome, expensive trial. He was suf- fering from painful incurable internal trouble and was forced to take opium from time to time to relieve it. After the trial the trouble seemed to grow worse, he was thoroughly discouraged by the way his country had treated him and few weeks later he took an over dose of opium and it killed him.
 Warren Hastings spent the best years of his life in building up British h. dia. He was also tried, the trial lasting nine years and breaking Hastings, though he was acquitted Those two men did more for India than any other fifty, yet there is not a statue nor mon ument for Give in all India. But there are other countries. Dupleix was re- called in disgrace after giving his life to France and soon after died miser- ably. His successor, Lally, was good general, but did not understand native character. He was recalled, tried and beheaded, nobody knows why.
 When Cortez went home from Mexico he was disgraced and every body avoid ed him. The last we hear of him was one day the king was in his carriage holding street reception. Cortez strolled up to the carriage and looked in. "Who are you?" asked the king. "I am man who gave you more prov inces than your ancestors left you cities" He was never heard of again. Columbus was treated with ingratitude and if you read the close of Daniel Boone's life you will think he was too.
 The little church yard at St. Johns church is interesting. Here is the tomb of Admiral Watson, who helped Give to retake Calcutta and was member of the council. Near by is the tomb of Job Charnock, the founder of Calcutta. Once in travelling in India he found crowd of natives putting woman on pile of wood to burn her with her dead husband. He freed her, carried her off and married her. Dr. Wm. Hamilton, whom l mentioned before, is buried be- side him. 1 think have seen more ab- surdities on tombstones than anywhere else. There is one tomb over an old lady and it would do as tomb for hundred of her relatives, for there is biography of all of them on the tomb. She was married four times, the last time at 82 years. Strange to say, the inscription says she did not have any children by her last marriage. It is a pity. With her eighty.two years ex- perience she would have known a good deal about caring for children.
 The site of the black hole is marked out on the pavement and there is monument where the bodies were thrown in the ditch HolwelI went to England and lived nearly forty years after spending the night in the black hole.
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