Show MODERN CAPT KIDD BUCCANEERING EXPLOITS OF NICHOLAS J + WEAVER Without Actual Violence This Accomplished Accom-plished Scoundrel Was as Veritable a Freebooter as the Famous Pirate Lived Well by His Wits While piracy and buccaneering are generally supposed to have faded Into the past the career of Nicholas J Weaver the report of whoso death recently re-cently reached this country from the antipodes Is as thrilling as over were the exploits of a Capt Kldd Representing Repre-senting himself as Commodore of the Atlantic and New York Yacht clubs c I da I rah III I r1 I NICHOLAS J WEA It this remarkable freebooter lived by I virtual piracy when ho circumnavigated circumnavigat-ed the earth with his yacht Norna five or six years ago Starting originally with the novel Idea of taking such writers as Kipling and Frank R Stockton Stock-ton on a visit to remote corners of tho world and having them write a monthly month-ly magazine of travel six months after sailing tho New York company got weary of meeting his drafts and went out of existence Nothing daunted Weaver kept bravely on his way and for threo years managed to keep not only himself him-self afloat but a yacht u Railing master mas-ter a mate eight sailors a steward and a cook Quito a goodly company to bo supported by the wits of ono man For Weaver had nothing else to draw on and jot contrived to continue con-tinue as far as New Zealand via Europe Eu-rope and Asia simply by means of tho depredations bogus drafts and so on he committed at various ports along the way Reaching England tho Norna annexed an-nexed another gentleman adventurer named Frank Tarbaux who had risen from comparative commonplaceness to tho upper regions of society and finance Tarbaux who was seen In New York a few months ago and fled to South Africa before his arrest could bo negotiated was a sort of buccaneer oven before meeting with Commodore Weaver Nice Monte Carlo indeed the entire Rlvleran coast aro strewn with wrecks In the wake of this marine highwayman Having for several seasons sea-sons a handsome yacht In tho Mediterranean Medi-terranean to which gaming lambs wero lured and shorn Tarbaux and his accomplices plied their piratical craft so profitably that no Spanish Main ever yielded richer booty than the Mediterranean to them Only 5t s I RANK TARBAU when tho field was exhausted did ho Join forces with Weaver on that memorable mem-orable cruise |