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MRS E. B. WILLIAMS.

Mrs Elnore B. Williams, wife of Ma rion B.William, who had been seriously ill for several weeks, passed away at her home on Snday, November F aged 46 years. The funeral which was large ly attended was held from her late home on Thursday afternoon, Novem- Der 2l at two o'clock. The burial was in the cemetery near the Baptist church. The Easton Grange of which Mrs Williams was member attended the funeral in body. Mrs Williams is survived by her husband, one daughter, Miss Grace Williams, and one son, Mil ton Williams. She will also be missed by a large circle of friends.
 MT and Mrs W. w Ferris were called to Greenfield Hill on Sunday through the death of MT Ferris brother, John Ferris.
 Philo Lyon is in Bridgeport having his eyes treated.
 E. Rich of Bridgeport was recently entertained at G. B. Fuckers.
 MT Rockwell, caretaker for Attorney A. L. Livermore, has moved to Dan- bury.
 Miss Ida M. Tarbell and friends, Mir Borden and Miss Mollie Best of New York City, recently visited at Miss Tar bells home.
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ing his time spent at Stonyhurst col
lege, vet he was absolutely ignorant of
both and did not even know a French
book from a Latin book. His knowledge
of some things and his ignorance of Others
gave the lawyers and the public the
widest possible field for divergence in
their opinions of the truth or falsity of
the claimant.
During the trial the defendant sought
TO prove that the claimant was not Roger
Charles Tichborne, but a man who was
originally a butcher in London, and that
his name was Arthur orion; that he
went to South America and there
changed his name to Thomas Castro;
that he went to Australia and opened a
meat market in the town of Wagga
Wagga, and that now this same man
was falsely and fraudulently represent
ing himself to be Roger Charles Itch
borne.
1t was in connection with this part
of the defense that the questions were
asked by the counsel for the defend
ants which afterwards laid him open to
charges of perjury. do you say, so
help you God, that you are Roger
Charles Tichborne?' 81 say so help me
God, that l am Roger Charles Itch
borne" do you say so help you God,
that you are not Arthur Orton?" 81
say, so help me God, that | am not Ar
thur Orton." This solemn declaration on
the part of the claimant won for him
thousands of believers and brought
money into his Golfers in a stream.
A strong piece of evidence which was
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the judges charge took up three weeks
and the whole case, from the start to
finish, consumed 1883 days. The jury found
the defendant guilty of perjury on both
charges and the claimant was sentenced
to fourteen years imprisonment.
But the end of the trial did not end
public interest in the claimant. The GER
tiicates had been purchased by people
who believed In the honesty and truth
that vast sums of money had been paid
the jurors in the trial. The question
acted like a wedge driven into the popu-
lation and it would have been difficult
to say on which side the proponderance
of belief lay. The friends of the claim
ant kept the matter alive by promises
of another civil suit to recover possess
sion of the estates, and even while the
claimant was In the penltentiary, prep
arations were being made to renew the
legal battle.
After twelve years In Jail the claimant
was given his liberty. His liberation
acted like a tocsin of war to his adher-
ents who again rallied to his side. Money
was needed to employ counsel and defray
the expenses of getting up the neces-
sary evidence. Many and various meth
DDS were employed. not the last sue
cessful being the sale of certificates. The
claimant himself lent his aid by accept
ing an engagement from Il vaudeville
company with which he travelled, exhib-
iting himself and briefly stating his his
tory. 1t is just as well here to mention
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THE death of man in New York
one day last week who claimed to
L be the true Roger Charles Itch
borne, and heir to vast estates in Eng
land, serves to recall the story of an
other man who, more than thirty years
ago. convulsed England by making
similar claim, and who was the means
of insttuting two law suits, one civil
and one criminal, which rank among the
longest and most celebrated suits ever
tried in that or any other country.
The Tichborne estate is one of the
Oldest and wealthiest in England. Out
side the immortal residence in which the
Tichborne family has lived for genera
tons, the annual income from rents is
over $4,000. Roger Charles Tichborne,
the sole heir to the great estate, was
born in France in 1929 and was educated
in Paris and afterwards in the famous
Jasuit college at Stonghurst, in England.
While still young man, he was seized
with desire to travel around the world
and in Pursuance of that desire he sailed
from England for Valparaiso in 1853. His
next voyage was in a vessel called the
Bella, which sailed from Rio de Janeiro
to. New York in 1854. On the voyage the
Bella was lost and all hands; one of her
boats was picked up at sea some time
after. Tichborne was supposed to have
been among the number that was lost.
Years passed and Roger was never
heard of. but Lady Tichborne refused
to believe her son was dead. After the
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ANBI7IONS OF DIVERS KINDS BYJ C. HlDEN DID,

, anything that is worth doing, don't put
any brakes on his ambition but give it
every encouragement. Such an ambition
is the spur and the basis OF everything
that deserves to be called success"
There is u floating tradition that two
college students used to go apart and
pray together: Lord, make us preach
ers; If it be Thy will, make us good
preachers; but, If not, then make us con-
tented to be poor preachers" These
young men have been greatly applauded
for their humility" I cannot join in
such applause, for do not believe that
any man ought to be contented to be a
poor preacher.
Self dissatisfaction Is the prime condi-
ton of progress-intelectual, moral spir-
itual. The Digger Indian is proverbially
hard to civiliZe. and the reason Is that
he Is perfectly satisfied with his wigwam,
his ragged blanket and his diet or roots,
bugs and worms. You can do nothing
with him until you awaken new wants
within him.
The hardest man to instruct is the man
who knows it ALL 1t was a great sage
who said that there is more hope of a
fool than of the man who Is wise In his
own conceit. Almost any experienced
pastor will tell you that the hardest man
to reach with the gospel Is not the hard
drinker, nor the gambler, nor even the
| crook" but the respectable man who
is perfectly satisfied with his moral"
life and always insisting that he lis as
good as his neighbors and better than
| the average church member"
If you are satisfied with yourself there
Is little hope of your progress in any
direction and least of all In a spiritual
! direction The greatest OF all Teachers
said: blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness: for they
| shall he filed" There is no relish OF
salvation in God I thank Thee that
am not as other men," but God, be mer-
ciful to me. a sinner was the prayer
that reached the throne.
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tanned in the will Against these parties
the claimant" by which name he was
then best known, instituted a suit in
ejectment for the recovery of the estates.
'Then began a legal battle in which the
greatest lawyers in England took oppo-
site sides. The claimant raised funds
to carry on the law suit by issuing GER
tificates promising payment of three
times the sum advanced by the purchaser
of the certificate. These certificates
ranged in value from a shilling to a
pound, with the promise to redeem for
three times the amount when the claim
ant won his case, and the sale realized
an enormous amount of money.
The battle went on in the courts day
after day. The burden of proof was on
the claimant to make good his claims,
and this he attempted to do by showing
his knowledge of the family history and
of circumstances connected with the
youth of the person whom he claimed
to be. In the course of his examination
and cross-examnation he showed a
knowledge of things, family skeletons
and scandals, which were not supposed
to be known by anyone except the imme-
diate members of the home circle, while
of other matters, which no member of
the family could help knowing, he was
completely ignorant. He was questioned
about his studies in French and Latin,
the former of which he spoke fiuently
while in France, and the latter, in which
he had made considerable progress dur
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exposition, a congregation of peace and
not fo- war.
1t may be rightly affirmed that there
would be no exposition in 1907 but for the
past services of military and naval
bodies Had the English navy been
crushed and destroyed by the Spanish
Armada in 1885, the English settlement
of Virginia would not have been effected;
and a history of this land may have
been made by another people In the
Colonial and Revolutionary wars of our
country, the military and naval forces
have borne honorable parts, often of de-
cisive importance. The story of America
cannot be written without many chapters
upon the real services and devotion of
those men who put on the uniform OF
the army and navy, or wore that of the
citizen soldery. The celebration of the
birth and growth of the nation would be
incomplete without the presence of those
arms which made the communication
possible. The Congress recognized the
army and navy and the militia as an
element of our national life and history
worthy of representation at gathering
of citizens of all states, to rejoice over
the past and gather fraternal and pa
triotic spirit for the future.
War is a calamity always to be de-
pored but not always to be avoided
War is to be judged as to its object, its
necessity or possibility Of honorable
avoidance. No American will affirm or
admit that the War of the Revolution
was, on the part OF the coonists, an
unjust war, that it did not possess the
elements of honor and necessity which
secure the approval of mankind. There
are righteous causes of war, and wars
of gross injustice. The hopes of many
people are fixed upon a peaceful settle
ment of international disputes, n hope
held perhaps, not more earnestly than
by those who, in the event OF war Will
have to do the fighting. But as long as
wars Of ambition, Of annexation and Of
conquest occur, a people Is not justified
in neglecting means of rghtful defense
England without navy would have
been helpless and broken before the
Spanish Armada And today our own ma
tion cannot dsband its army and navy
while 1t has great interests to guard
in the presence Of vast forces to which
it may be opposed. Had the United States
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death of Sir Roger Tichborne, which
occurred about 1860, his widow, still cher
ishing the beliegf that her son was alive,
advertised all over the world for him,
especially in the Australian newspapers
In reply to these advertisements came
a letter from Sydney, Australia, in which
the writer stated that he was the Roger
Charles Tichborne sought for and, fur
Their, asking for money to pay his pas
sage back to England. Lady Tichborne
sent him the necessary money and in
due course the man arrived who claimed
to be her son.
At that time Lady Tichborne was old
and feeble, and it was said her mind
had become somewhat unsettled by grief
for the loss of her son. She received
the visitor with all mothers love and
welcome and he became an inmate of the
Tichborne home, where he lived until
Lady Tichbornes death in 1865 But the
other members of the family, from the
very first, repudated the stranger and
regarded him as an imposter, who had
by some means or other picked up some
knowledge of the family history which
he supplemented during his residence and
intimate relations with Lady Tichborne
while she regarded him as her son and
heir to the estates.
The executors of the will of Sir Roger
Tichborne, believing that the son, Roger
Charles, was dead, had distributed the
estate among the other members of the
family. according to the instructions con-
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the settlement effected at jamestown on
the thirteenth day of May in the year
sixteen hundred and seven.
1.-The most fitting form of such cele-
bratioa would be to hold a great EXPOSE
ton in some one of the cities of Vir-
ginia in which all our sister states. and,
if possible all the English speaking peo~
pie of the earth, shall be invited to par
ticipate, and where shall be displayed the
products of peace and the fruits of free
institutions in all realms.
ut is the opinion of the general as
sembly of Virginia that such exposition
should be held at some place adjacent to
the waters of Hampton Roads, wherein
the navies of all nations may rendezvous
in honor of the hardy mariners who
braved the dangers Of the deep to estab-
fish the colony"
And in the act it Is further declared ::
1.-THE company shall select a suitable
name designating the said exposition,
which name shall be commensurate with
the great significance of the event it
commentaries, and shall contain the
name of no city. 1t shall also have
power to erect at Jamestown or elsewhere
a suitable permanent memorial of such
character as to it may seem most ap-
propriate and proper, the execution of a
memorial at jamestown to be subject to
the consent and the design to be subject
to the approval of the Association for
tn Preservation of Virginia Antiqui>
ties
On March 3, 1905, Congress passed an
act, which declared in part: Whereas
it is desirable to commemorate in d
fitting and appropriate manner the birth
of the American nation, the first perman-
ent settlement of English-speaking peo-
pie on the American continent made at
jamestown, Va, on the 18th day of May,
1867, in order that the great events of
American history which have resulted
therefrom may be accumulated to the
present and future generations of Ameri-
can citizens: and whereas the section of
the commonwealth of Virginia where the
frs. permanent settlement was made con-
spicuous in history of the American ma
ton by reason of the vital and mo-
mentous events which have taken place
there in the Colonial, Revolutionary and
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FAMOUS TICHBORNE CASE RECALLED

the cause of as much controversy arose
over the question of tattoo marks which
it was stated the true Roger Charles
Tichborne had on his arm, but of which
the claimant showed no traces. Here the
experts came on the scene, some of
whom testified that tatto marks can be
oblterated or will fade .out, and others
to the effect that these marks cannot
be removed except by surgical operation,
which would leave a scar to show where
the mark had been. Every point was
fiercely contested, and after the trial had
lasted 103 days the jury declared they
had heard enough to satisfy them that
the claimant was an imposter, and thus
ended the first of these celebrated cases.
That was in the year 1872.
The following year Roger Charles Itch
borne, ahas Arthur Ortor, was put on
trial in the Old Bailey on two charges
of wilful perjury; first in swearing that
he was Roger Charles Tichborne and sec
ond in swearing he was not Arthur Orton.
Again the whole history of the Tichborne
family, with all its skeletons and scan
dals was dragged to light the French
and Latin books were again presented,
but this time the defendant had learned
to distinguish between them. Much of
the testimony in the former case served
to increase the defendants knowledge of
the family by which he strengthened his
claim that he was Tichborne and not
Orton The tattoo marks were again the
subject of much expert testimony and
thus, day after day. the case dragged
along. The arguments of counsel and
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BY F. |. MONKS.

that the claimant, when he first arrived
in England, at the time OF the trials and
after his release from jail. was man
of very corpulent proportions, weighing
about 800 pounds, and always dressed to
the limit.
In the course of his vaudeville engage
ments his company reached Dublin and
was billed to perform at Dan Lowry's
music hall. Great prominence was given
to the fact that Roger Charles Tlohborne
would appear on the stage, and In his
own words, tell the story of his life and
his claims to the Tlchborne estates. An
immense audience attended to see this
remarkable man. At the proper time and
to the accompaniment of slow fddling
a big corpulent, pompous looking indi-
vidual, dressed in evening suit, a dia-
mond sparkling In his square yard Of
shirt front, walked across the stage
When he reached the center the adding
stopped and he surveyed the house for
a moment; then in slow and almost sepul-
chral tones. but quite audible. he said:
Ladies and gentlemen" (by the way
there were no laules present., i am
badly used man." Having said this he
paused and during the pause someone
in the peanut gallery, initiating the
speaker in tone and manner of delivery
said, 20. you look it,
That was the end. The ineongrulty
of the mans words and appearance
caught at once and amid shouts of de-
risive laughter the claimant left the stage
and was unheard Of until years after
when he confessed the imposture.
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Civil war eras of the nation, including
not only the first permanent settlement
of English-speakin ! oople, but also the
scene of the capitulation of Lord Corn
wallis at Yorktown, and the scene of
the first naval conflict between armor-
clad vessels, the Monitor and Merrimac
therefore be it enacted that there shall
be inaugurated In the year 1907. on and
near the waters of Hampton Roads, in
the state of Virginia, as herein provided,
an international naval, marine and mill
tary celebration, beginning May 10, and
ending not later than November /, 1907
The act appropriated $25O,O00 for the ex-
penses of the celebration, which included
$4,000 for a permanent monument upon
the place of the first permanent English
settlement at jamestown, and authorized
the President Ito issue a proclamation
of the celebration, setting forth the
event to be commemorated, inviting for
eign nations to participate by sending
their naval vessels and such reresenta-
lions of their military organizations as
may be practicable and to have such por-
tons of our army and navy assembled
there during the said celebration as may
be compatible with the public service"
The militia of the several states were
also invited to participate.
This celebration, directed by Congress,
is in close proximity both in time and
place. to the jamestown Ter-Centennial
exposition organized under the law OF
Virginia, and 1t was undoubtedly intended
as an aid to that exposition, but the two
arrangements are entirely separate in
control and in character. Congress en-
tered into a direct national participation
in the exposition by law passed in
1906, which will be presently explained.
Officers of the army and navy are
obedent to law. the loyal servants OF
the people. and they do not indulge in
commentator or criticism of their rulers.
But it may not be improper for one of
them tc point good reasons for the act
of Congress and the appropriateness of
participation by the army and navy in
the great national event but keeping in
vie, that their presence will not be the
main feature but will be collateral and
subsidiary to the arrangements and OBJ
jects of the jamestown Ter-Centennial
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age" in England went wild over the
New Philosophy" which was the philos-
ophy of Bacon.
1t really does seem to be true that the
love of fame Is "the last infirmity of no.
BILE minds" Long before paradise Lost
was written we find Milton saying that
he hoped to leave behind him something
so written that posterity would not will
ingly let it die"
If YOU long for reputation, do some
thing eputable-something that Will be
worth thinking about reading about,
talking about after you are gone. AS to
the existence of many mute. inglorious
Millions" the world is apt to be skepti-
cal. II the real fire of genius burns
tiercely in the soul, 1t Is almost sure TO
break out into visible flame. Burns had
poor materials to work upon ana poor IN
struments to work with when he wrote
Tam O'Shanter,' but genius has
touched It and made 1t immortal" The
Scottish plowman, too, had his ambition
and longed .for poor aud Scotland $
sake, to leave something behind him. II
n were only a song, that might keep his
name in remembrance. Ana ne became
the first of British song-writers, without
a second. On this department OF Burns
work Carlyle, in his splendid essay, does
the poet full justice; but tnat so anie
and acute a critic as Cariyie couP ever
have reached the decision that Tam
a. Shanter" might have been written by
a man of mere talent and without
genius is certainly phenomenon In crit
icism.
The mere desire to get ones self talked
about and read about can scarcely be
called a love of fame 1t Is the product
of a diseased state Of the MIND. Ihere
is nothing wholesome IN IT, me uesire
70 40 something that shall be worthy OF
the attention and the admiration of good
and intelligent people is perfectly
healthy and legitimate feeling, and IL this
be called ambition" then there cannot
be too much ambition in the world.
II your boy has the desire to excel In
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production has grown to more than So
COO, 900 tons in 1896, while the production
of pig iron, during the same period, grew
from 9,202, 702 tons to 25,3e7101 tons. For
each ton of ore raised in 1890 we are
no. raising a little more than three
tons, while for each of iron made in 1890
we are now making about IS tons. At
the close of 1890 there were in the Uni
ted States Dol furnaces of which 1903 were
in blast and PAS were out of blast. In
that year the average output per fur
mace in blast was 1892 tons. At the close
of 1906 there were 429 furnaces, of which
$40 were in blast and SO out of blast.
The average output per furnace in blast
was a. 432 tons; these latter figures be-
ing obtained by dividing the total out
put of pig iron by the number of fur
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BY WILLIAM B. PHILLIPS

as in 1906 and it is not thought there is
much difference, one way or another, the
construction of larger furnaces and more
rapid driving are the main factors in
the Increased production per furnace.
More rapid driving means more capable
men, better machinery and better coke.
1t may not mean a lessened cost ae-
count, on the average, although in many
important instances this is doubtless true.
In some parts of the country the cost
of making iron has increased during the
last ten years while in other parts 1t
has reduced. In Alabama the lowest cost
seems to have been in 1894. 1911, al
though in 1896 the cost at some furnaces,
was s58 These figures are inclusive of
ore, limestone, coke, labor, supplies, cur
rent repairs general expenses, refining,
taxes, insurance and bad debts In 1890,
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WHERE ALL THE IRON ORE COMES FROM

naces in blast at the close of the year
At the close of June. 1906 there were
1913 furnaces in blast and the output for
the first six months was 1859 .250 tons.
Witt $40 furnaces in blast at the close
of the year the output for the preceding
six months was 12,724,9A tons. If We al
low that during the entire year there
was an average of 1871 furnaces in blast
the production per furnace was 1856
tons We may allow, therefore, that the
average production per furnace in blast
last year was about 75, 900 tons as against
about 10000 for 1890
The period of 1s90-1906 has been charae-
terized by the erection of larger fur
naces and the more rapid driving of
the smaller ones. Allowing that about
the same quality of ore was used in 1890