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Played a Star Role In the History
of Some Nations.
COST ONE KING HIS LIFE.
The Herring Fisheries Proved an Im
portant Factor In the Overthrow and
Ultimate Execution by the Headsman
of Charles I. of England.
A tale as stirring as any fiction could
be based on the part played by tho sea
herring In the history of some of tho
principal countries, writes Hugh M.
Smith lu tho National Geographic Mag
azine. Its spawning and feeding
grounds have determined the locatlou
of cities, and lu several Instances tho
actual destluy of nations and the fate
of inouarchs appear to have been in
volved lu the herrlug fishery. Even
today the herring Is a factor lu em
pire.
Countries in which the quest of the
herring Is an important Industry are
the United States, the Canadian prov
inces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Quebec and British Columbia, New
foundland. England, Scotland. Wales
! and Ireland, Norway, Sweden aud
Denmark, Russia, Germauy, Holland,
i Belgium, Frauce, Japan and Siberia, i
The prosecution of the herring fish- |
ery and trade has been considered not
beneath the dignity of nobility and
royalty. Fltz-Greeno Ualleck tells us
that?
I Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt.
Tho Duko of Norfolk deals In malt,
The Douglas In rod herrings.
In 1C77 the Duke of York and other
personages of rank formed a corpora
tion called "the Company of the Royal
Fishery of England" for the purpose
of carrying ou the herring fishery In
the North sea. They built a fleet of
Dutch "busses" and mauued them
with Dutch fishermen and then were
bankrupted by tho capture of their
vessels during a war with France. In
1720 some 2,000 of "the principal gen
tlemen of Scotland" formed a com
pany for herring fishing, but were
quickly disrupted, leaving a mournful
' lot of stockholders.
Tn 1700 the Prince of Wales became
president, or governor, of a herring
i fishery, with a capital of $2,r>00.000,
i whose members "were among the first
men In the kingdom." one of the pro
! moters being General James Ogle
thorpe. founder of the state of Geor
gia. Stock was taken with eagerness,
vessels were built quickly, and efforts
were made to learn the secrets of the
Dutch methods of curing herring, but
the company soon suspended, and its
failure cast ou the English herring
fishery an odium that continued for a
long time.
It Is a matter of great historical In
, terest that the herring fisheries should
; have been a prime and perhaps tho
' most Important factor in the over
I throw of Charles I., whose attitude
toward the development of home aud
I colonial fisheries was most unreason
able and unfortunate. At a time when
the Dutch herring fishery had attained
' such magnitude and importance that
i it was regarded as the "right nrm of
Holland" and when the sturdy Dutch
! fishermen were pursuing their lucra
j tlve calling under the encouragement
I of their government the English peo
ple were chafing under the grievous
restrictions Imposed by royal approval
on all who desired to engage in fishing
anywhere off the American coast be
tween the fortieth aud forty-eighth de
grees of north lutitude.
This effort ou the part of the crown
to interfere with the cherished privi
lege of "free fishing ' had begun under
Jntues and was bequeathed to Charles
and was perhaps the first in the series
of farreachlug differences that sprung
up relative to the prerogative of the
crown as against the rights of the sub
ject.
At the same time there was another
restriction placed on the fishermen at
home. When James ascended the
throne of England his navy consisted
of but thirteen vessels, and Charles
succeeded to a war fleet but little
stronger and utterly Inadequate to
cope with the navy of the Dutch or
French.
After Charles had been successfully
! opposed by the commons In his plan to
[ have no fishing conducted on the
' American shores except by permission
of the company of "noblemen, knights
and gentlemen" knowu as the council
of Plymouth he levied "ship money"
on the fishiug and mercantile vessels
at home In order to build up his navy,
with the distinct object of breaking
up tho Dutch herring fishery on the
shores of England and driving tho
Dutch from "the four narrow seas"
over which England claimed Jurisdic
tion.
At the expense of the fisheries and
navigation Charles finally fitted out
the largest war fleet England had ever
had and succeeded lu his purpose, so
far as the Dutch were concerned, but
the levying of "ship money" stirred
up civil war at home, and Charles paid
the extreme penalty.
The Exception.
"What are the dining hours at your
clubr
"From 5 to 8 for all except the com
mittee."
"Why the exception?"
"Because rule 5 says. 'The commit
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vacancy In their body.' " ? Boston
Transcript.
Troublesome Teeth.
The Young One? Do your teeth ever
give you trouble?
The Old One? Ob. yes. I mislay 'em
?ometlmes.-Yonkers Statesman.
LITERARY FORGERIES
Versatility and Cleverness of a
Shrewd Scotch Lad.
FOOLED THE CONNOISSEURS.
He Poured Forth His Extraordinary
Documents In Profution to Supply
the Demand and Wa? Finally Ex
posed by a Simple Little Slip.
From the days of Isldor Mercntcr,
who forged letters of the bishops of
Homo with such skill and success that
they were treasured for centuries In
the Itoman archives, to the days of
Ireland, the notorious forger of Shake
spearean plays and letters, and Chat
terton, the clever and ill fated boy
who died miserably In his attic, there
havo never been wanting unprincipled
inon who could forge ancient manu
scripts so elever.'y that leading experts
have been deceived.
But for versatility aud cleverness
none of these forgers of past centuries
could approach the cleverness of a
young Scotchman who years ago pro- ,
iluced a long succession of forged man- ;
uscrlpts which completely baffled the
counoisseurs of the world. The true
and full story of these remarkable
forgeries Is almost unknown and is so
extraordinary that It may well be told, i
It was in Edinburgh that this in
comparable forger practiced his arts,
and It was by an accident that he was
tempted to embark on a career which,
after a spell of great success, involved j
him In disaster. One day tho princi- j
pal of an Edinburgh firm of lawyers i
told one of his clerks to clear out sev
eral boxes full of old documents, the;
accumulation of many years. Among '
them were several documents and au- ;
tographs the value of which the clerk i
was quick to recognize, aud he had no
difficulty iu finding purchasers for
them. As the supply was limited and ;
the demand constantly Increasing It [
occurred to him to supplement the gen i
ulne documents with others of his 1
own manufacture, and as he developed
a remarkable skill In forging and had :
already won the confidence of a large
uumber of collectors he found It easy \
to dispose of as many forgeries as he
rould produce at very profitable prices. |
Many of them were sold to collectors
In different parts of the world, others j
were disposed of by auction, and the |
remainder were pawned and sold as ,
unredeemed pledges. These forgeries
covered a very wide range aud Includ
ed autographs and letters by Crom
well, Mary, queen of Scots; James VI.,
Prince Charlie, John Knox, Hob Roy, j
Burns, Scott. Thackeray, Carlyle, Sails- j
bury, Gladstone, Lord Nelson and
many other men of uote as well as
vast quantities of Jacobite correspond
ence.
So cleverly were the forgeries exe
cuted that the largest purchaser of
Scott's letters was a gentleman who
as a boy had carried most of the great
author's manuscripts from Abbotsford
to his Edinburgh publishers aud was
as familiar with Scott's handwriting
as his own, aud the head of the firm
that published Lord Byron's works
purchased forty-seven letters purport
ing to be Lord Byron's for the sum of j
?123 7s. Cd. A very large collection of j
these manuscripts was purchased for 1
a sum of over ?4,000 and presented to I
the Lenox library. New York, where
they were for some time regarded with
reverence as the chief treasure of the
library, and another collection was
presented to the city of Edinburgh.
Although these forgeries were pour
ed on the market in such profusion, no .
suspicion seems to have been aroused. ,
They were accepted without question j
by the experts and found ready pur- 1
chasers at large prices. Whether the '
forger's success made him careless or
whether it was due to one of those re
markable oversights to which the most
skillful criminals seem liable and
which bring their career to a close, the
forger was at last exposed through a j
mistake of which such a clever man
should scarcely have been capable.
Among the mauy forgeries he pro
duced a poem signed by Robert Burns.
It was called "The Poor Man's Pray
er" and opened with this stanza:
Amidst the moro Important tolls of state.
The counsels laboring In tho patriotic
soil;
Though Europe from thy voice expect her .
fate.
And thy keen glanco extend from polo |
to pole.
This poem, which consisted of nine
teen verses, might well have escaped
detection with the rest but for the ;
fact that a gentleman to whom the
poem was 6hown discovered the iden- i
tlcal verses in the London Magazine
of 1700 In a poem addressed to the
Earl of Chatham by one Simon Hodge,
laborer.
Thus it appeared that if the verses
were actually written by Burns the
poet must have opened them under
the pseudonym of Simon Hodge at tho
very immature age of a poet of seven
years. Suspicion once aroused, doubt
was at once cast on the hundreds of
other documents which had emanated
from the same source. The Lenox col
lection was submitted to the experts
of the British museum and pronounced
"a worthless lot of forgeries," and col
lectors all the world over awoke to the
painful discovery that their treasures
of old manscrlpts were scarcely worth
the paper they were written on. The
forger's career was brought to a sud
den termination. He was brought up
for trial and sentenced to a term of
Imprisonment, thus closing a career of
forgery which for daring, cleverness
and success has perhaps never been
equaled.? New York Press.
Great trees give more shade than
fruit.? German Proverb.
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In tho Justice Court, Forty Mile Pre
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Alaska.
Beforo Elmer R. Brady, Commissioner
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Summons for Publication.
Arthur E. Pretty, Plaintiff vs A. L.
Bragg and J. F. Brandstatt, Defend
ants.
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and answer the complaint of the plain
tiff herein, and now on file in this
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judgement for the want thereof will
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sum of six hundred dollars, ($600,00),
and tho cost and an attorney's fee In
said action.
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vices rendered by the plaintiff to
the defendents.
Dated at Steel Creek, Alaska this
6th day of November, 1909.
(Seal) Elmer R. Brady,
Commissioner and ex-offlcio Justice
of the Peace. *
Date of first publication Dec. 2, 1909.
Date of last publication, Jan. C, 1910.
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Final publication Jan. C, 1910.
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