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FAKERS IN HISTORY.

a WRITER i1 one Of the current mag
L i aziues takes Sc on himself 10 autici-
pate history He IS not concerned that
our generation Cs-uot De sure as a. Dr.
Cook-ye- he finds the Cook data In
consistent and So he labels the ex-
TIr-er, wherever he fz and whatever his
present physical condition. wherever his
other records are and whatever they
may be. ---he monumental faEer Of all
tho ages
Suppose We look I7to that p minute
We win n0t go back as rs- as we might.
II We did we should find that -'aT the
ees" bad produced fe5arz with long
distance, ground and lofty. Graero-
Roman and ce-ch-a=-C=t~r-rzu records
% make any modern Er some II get in
their class one deliver. whose mind
sleeves history for the curious. has al
ready published fin -hfs newspaper a
table -har begins with TTe-oI0rus and
ends with Mark Twain. whose Tramp
Abroad" las the au-ho- rra-ely but
E-uor0-er~ confessed depended largely
uu0r the rraurirr Of his secretary while
the author rode i1 rup railroad train
Spain Looked
Upon Columbus As Crazy.
5Ta7co Polo found the gates az Venice
locked against Hiu- Columbus was
crazy as wen as n fraud. said Spain
Drake was n pirate Thought England
end was uot far wrong
Whether OF not Bacon had a1E Fart
fu the writing Of Ehe Ee=rea-eau
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lnto IL with something Of the plunginE
reckIezsness Of youth He came out OF
It-twenty-three years later--a man on
whom middle age had imprinted itself
deep. The fight was a frht OF bone
and muscle and ErlstIe and grit.
The Eskimos had come TO know
him and trust him Fighting cold and
hunger dragging himself on and on
toward frozen horizon. be- had yet
the spirit % make friends Of the ma
tives, to earn and hold their coufdeu~a-
when he set forth this last time be
knew what IL All meaut-and ne knew
that 90 the terrors OF tho Polar Sea
would De added the terror. iucompre-
heusihIe 70 US. OF a siE-months' night
But he went And ne won his goal
Would & be any wonder. then. IL th-
man who had spent the moral fiber 90
buy such "a victory should collapse
when be came out Of tho North
Would it he strange p FEz ssIf-control
v-avered an Instant Would he 10
more than SOU or if he hrrEe out IN
what he believed 70 be only an i1dtE-
nant refutatiou OF a fakeZ
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
All Praise
is Mater Of Oninion.

Point or view is the big element Iu
matters Of opinion. And al praise and
condemnation. we should remember,
are opinion ard nothing else II you
accept the showing against Cook as
proof that be did not reach the Pole,
are YOU 70 blame a man whose life
work was the thing Cook had claimed
to 10 ~ he 6rrourrez she claim as
gold hrlek7-- And If YOU do not a--
ca7t the showing against Cook as proof
--a- b. r-L -n- --.-- IL En--- ---
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Great Fraud
Topples Over Early.

The great structure Of bUncombe and
fraud toppIed over IN the early 1905.
The highest names in England were
involved in the vTecksge- Those who
had wanted u believe were now forced
to a sickeninE unbeIieE The damage
reached 10 every bank IN the United
Kingdom
Wright was arrested in New York
He had done noting for which ne
could be punished under American law
He fought vainIy against extraditiOn-
When. s. bseGUentlv. he stood before
the bar Of England 70 answer for his
fake. he had resolved on a stroke which
left him master even to the end He
would TX trs sentences. he would DO the
Furnishing and not all her maiesty's
council could prevent
On the blC-ter before him as he waited
10 be ssnterCed he let his pencil trace
round and round a curious double circle
Continued on Seventh PaEe)
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Things Told
Are What We Believe

C-eduI0ysness IS not the miracle II
is the normal operation Of the mind. We
train ourselves to doubt II we follow
or~ first fncIirations we believe every
body and everything until the airship
comes down. And this natural tendency
is buoyed into a kind OF insanity when
the thing told IS a thing We want 70
believe As far back as % B G q
certain Roman reported % MS cnieI
that the Germans were not strong IN
numbers Il have Observed noted the
author OF the Gallo Memoirs. that men
are apt 70 believe what they want 20
believe
Circuses live on this aptitude But
not circuses only.
In the late 70's there appeared above
the financial horizon OF London a GER
tain Whitaker Wright Here was TO
nennVess adventure. no side-shOw Op-
orator with giant carefully chiseled
from soft stone. no pretending student
of an abstr1se science Here was q
millionaire. a rich miner with an &C
count IL a hank CapanIe OF sustaining
an env3abIe credit
The Hs.- ler-s temperament was never
better en- odie5. seemingly Wright was
-v nature quiet. conservative, keen
Others m .Eht do the talking. He vas
content L. prick their bubbles. choose
the good investment from the bad. and
advance his choice by q sort Of fnau-
CfsT force which seemed as gentle as
II was productive. and he knew min
ing
To this distinctly unusual equipment,
Wright added one factor more: He knew
i- 10 he as easy 10 make friends with
the rich and powerful as with lesser
-.r-- 50 with working means far great
r- than Cook S. with q deliberate puT-
nose 20 7ufIrt injury on others for nis
own gain IN contrast with this poor rE-
r-oueTs achievement IN iDjuTnE only
himself. Whitaker Wright set forth on
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RECORDED HAVE FLOURISHED IN AMAZING MANNER
ALMOST GAIN OF FRAUD HAS HAD SHORT LIFE
WOMEN HAVE PLAYED
ROLES OF CHARLATANS
Each Succeeded in Playing Music Costing
Victims Millions

a scheme of fakes 20 turn the screw on
all financial Britain
Gets Capital
For Mine In Australia
He had one good mine in Australia.
On its directorate he put certain dis
tinEIisheO British citizens Why not
They knew as everybody knew, IN
the mine was all that Wright cor
claim for It. With the credit Of III
names ne persuaded certain Other =
men-statesmsn as well as ngbIer
fuanciers as well as country ge
Tren-to serve on the board II
company
II was not hard 70 DO this
were all % reap huge profits
thought. they were believing VII
wanted 20 believe The secon
pany being started, there was O.
more prestige 70 use IN star
third And 50 on TIE w
traIia Exploration CoInpsny
British America Corporsti
London and Globe Fina..
psny." and others piled up-Inder
scrutiny OF EnEland's searching law
capitalization Of one hundred and
ten million dollars A table OF his
boards OF directors read like Turke-s
Feerage, with a seasoning from the Al
manach de Gotha-
He built a luxurious country palace,
with Spacious halls. extensive grounds,
artificial lakes. costly statusry and a
private theater- West Australia TX
pIoration vent up from few shiIIInEs
10 thirty pounds a share His name
alone would SCI the stock Of any cor
pOratiOn- For a time he ranked as one
OF the Ereates- promoters IN the world
Yet he did not have 4 single substan-
tiAI asset beyond the one good mine
with which he started and In which,
had he not chosen deliberately 70 fleece
the wsE1d- re could have found abun-
dant opportunity for usefulness ana
abundant financial security
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.LAURELS Of COOK
QUICKLY DISPLACED
Admiring Public Loses No
Time in Snatching
WreathS.
CONTINUED from First Page)

% believe. finally. that he took astro-
good faith in his notebooks. and gave
them 10 the world Notwithstanding thar
on reference 10 the nautical aImanacs
they Dut his observation Of the sun
On a given day. April Z. 339 miles south
of the place where he claimed to be
on that date.
Cook May
Be Victim OF Delusion.
But il IS not so hard 10 believe that
Dr. Cook did not wiIfulIy set out 10
deceive Il is not so hard TO believe he
IS vcftim rather than a cheat. II is
rot so hard 10 Ieaven the findings OF
his chosen judges OF Copenhagen with
a little charity.
Sheep herdeTs out IN Wyoming tell
strange stories Of the effect Of the cold.
Men from one ranch. they say, STUN
be into the corral OF another viid-eyed.
s5uy, deranged- They have gone mad
from the glitter Of the snow They have
lost their bearings OF mind as well as
feet
And this passing madness, say these
herders OF the American North, comes
quickly on such as must wander
through falling snow. Round and round
u vhirrs- The eyes catch IT, The
Ids blink through it mistfIy- A hun
-drsd yards. a rod foot ahead they can
make out the vhirling fakes. Which
ever way they turn, down comes the
white torrent IN exactly the same way
Some sit stiU and lose TIE snow. and
consciousness, and life. Some dash
through It and fall headIonE to lie IN
the thick. soft shroud Until late in the
next spring Some trudge ahead and
land in the first shelter-'Ioons--'
Broken Ice
And Glisteni1g Snow.
There are many who think something
IKE this is the explanation of Dr.
cooks failure The deIusion that he
reached the Pole may in all probability
have come upon any AnEl0-SaxOn wan
dedng through the lands Of Eueznere,
GrinneH. Grant and AxeI Hei5erg
Broken ice and glistening snow are hard
assailsnts against mans reason The
monotony Of the salt desert beyond salt
Lake IS nothing 70 the torturinE dreari-
ness Of the ArCtics-
Tramp half a day through the snow
that frames the pines. the oaks. the
country roads, the suburban houses Of
your own neighborhood. Then think OF
an entire day Of it, A week month.
It will be easier for you to understand
that man might 20 into the frozen
north. tI7-nD about # aimlessly from the
18th OF 1l.e month 10 the 23d Of the
third month after, and come out pos
Z se=sed Of a deIusion that he had been to
,Pg-5atory- TO say nothing Of the North
Pole
The awakening would come. Of course.
= II would come with q cold terror to any
honest man Wherever II broke upon
hinl-on the lecture platform. in his
home surrounded by a trusting family,
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dramas 4 e certaLn shakesreare "a -

dramas Il Es certain Shakespeare did not
write them all.
Titan. Georgeone, Van Dycke, and
Cor0t gave their names 10 scores OF
paintings done almost entirely by stu
dents
DisraeI spoke an oratio1 on the death
Of the Duke Of Wellington which thrilled
Europe until some one discovered il To-
be only a translation OF one earlier de-
Iivered by a Frenchman over the body
OF WelIinEtOn's great antagonist, Ma
polc0u-
The two bubbles Of the South seas
and the Mississippi put soap in the eyes
Of the foremost nations Of the world
when they burst
Who wrote the revelations that made
NIahommet a prophet
Our own day has produced its quota
The ewes that fan on this rage have in
the past year, the past decade, the past
generation. fallen on some fakes That in
point Of profit 10 the perpeIrator ought
70 caution us all against calling Dr..
Cook or any o5her explorer 'the monu-
mental faker" OF our time, not 70 speak
- "aIl the ages
Connecticut western news., 1910-11-17
General Markets.

BUTTER Steady; receipts, u,1s2 pack ages: prices unchanged.
 CHEESE-Steady; receipts, 5,206 boxes: prices unchanged.
 EGGS-Firm: receipts. S,676 cases; state, Pennsylvania and nearby, hennery, white, per. dozen, 42a55c.; brown. 40a42c.; gath cred, white 40a4Sc.; brown. 3oa40c.; fresh gathered. extra firsts, 34a36c.; firsts. 30a S3c.; seconds. 27a29c.; refrigerator. special marks. 26a261Hc.: firsts, 25a2511c.
 POTAT OES-Weaker; Maine. per bag. s1.5Oa1. .65; state S1.40a1.50; Long Island. per bbl.. $150a2; Jersey, per bag, a.50a1.75.
 LIVE POULTRY-Firm; chickens, per lb.. 13a141kc: fowls. 13a1412c.; geese. 13a14c.
 DRESSED POULTRY-Chickens firm or; chickens, western. roasting, 14c. mixed weights, 12a1212c.
 MEATS-Country dressed veal calves. prime, per lb., 141za15c.; common to good. ea14c.
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home. Much excitement al51
 among the M Ml:,icans of the Nj -n' community, ii ceen miles east of .- -s- in Tex, ovei the assassination o Il Mexican farmer by two negro Dc. ;.
 Two persons were killed and t1. e- burned in a fire in the five story apart ment house Rosalind at 374 Manhat- tan avenue, New York. The lives O. many other tenants were saved in a series of rescues as daring and spec taculur as any on the records of the fire department.
 Democratic Councilman Elect John T. Wayman of Trenton, N. J., commit ted suicide by hanging. His body was found hanging from a rope fastened to rafter in his barn. MT. Wayman served in council in 1907 and 1908 and was defeated in 1909, but was success ful in the last election.
 While on her way to cash money or ders Mrs. Louisa Anderson, sixty-five years old, of West Sixty-fourth street New York, was knocked down by q taxicab and killed just after she had turned into Broadway.
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nEarue Alexander Stephens
 or No-r2 Clay, the junior Unit
 cd States senator fir 'n
 Georria, died from heart disease at the Robertson san ltarium in Atlanta after a long i'll. ness. His death was as peaceful as 1t was sudden. He was talking to his son Herbert. when he suddenly ceased to speak and fell back dead. In the morning and early afternoon the sena. tor appeared in better spirits than usual. The attending physicians said that he was apparently recovering from slight attack of heart disease.
 Representative William W. Foulkrod of the Fifth Pennsylvania district, died at his home in Philadelphia without knowing the result of the election, when he was defeated by Michael Don- ohue, Democrat, for reelection. MT. Foulkrod was so Ill at the time that he was not informed of the result Close attention to his duties in con- gress, it is said, broke down his health, and in the campaign he was confined to his bed.
 Ira 0. Knapp, a veteran member of the Christian Science board of al. rectors, died at his home in Boston. He was one of the pioneer members of the First Church of Christ, Scientist. of Boston, the mother church of the de nomination, and was one of the original members of the Christian Science board of directors, serving eighteen years in that capacity. Mir Knapp was the first president of the organization.
 James Buckingham Hunnewell, the author, died at his home in Boston. He had been in i'll health for about six months. MT. Hunnewell was born in Charlestown in 1880. For many years he was in the mercantile business principally in Honolulu. He wrote many publications, largely of a his. torical nature.
 John Lafarge, the artist, of New York and Newport, died at the Butler hospital in Providence. He was brought to the hospital about three months ago from Newport following 8 general breakdown, and his death was not unexpected. His wife was at the bedside when death came.
 George E. Romanes, son of the Brit ish scientist. George John Romanes originator of the Romanes lecture de livered annually at Oxford, died from tuberculosis in Colorado Springs, Colo The Romanes lecture was last deliv' cred by ex-President Roosevelt.
 Brigadier General Beverly Hol. combe Robertson, one of the few sur vivors of the famous black horse cav airy which distinguished itself in the Virginia campaigns of the civil war died at his home in Washington. He was eighty-three years old. F.. Stafford Mansfield White, who had been connected with the Journal oi 1 Commerce for the last fifteen years 1 died at the home of his brother-in-law E. Willard Sweeney. in Brooklyn, N 1 '. He was forty years old.
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NEWS
 OF OUR N EIGH BORS.

A,r,o,1o1a va n Territorial
 Medical society that he has cured leprosy and exhibited young Hawaiian who had leprosy, but whom he cured. This patient had been sent to the Molokai settlement and was recently discharged as cured after an examination by the territorial board of health.
 Major General Pino Guerra has suf- fciently recovered to make a formal declaration to Judge Miyores, who is Investigating the attempted assassina- tion of the commander of the Cuban army in Havana on the night of Oct. %. General Guerra says that imme- diately after leaving the palace and directly under a window of the apart ment in which he left President Go meg he was assailed by two men. Both fired at him, one of them appar- ently using heavy revolver and the other small caliber automatic.
 A private letter received in Los An geles, Cal, from Panama says that on the arrival there of the steamer Aca- pulco three men left the vessel and bought passage for Peru before the ships officers received word that the men supposed to be the Los Angeles Times dynamiters were suspected of being aboard. The men were travel ing together and were plentifully sup piled with money. They boarded the vessel at San Francisco.
 Commander Edwin A. Anderson of the gunboat Yorktown. now at Anna. pala, reported to the navy department at Washington that on the evening of Nov. 10 all the foreign warships there landed forces for the protection of for eign citizens, as an uprising against General Valladares was expected. The disturbances, however, did not mate rialize. and the forces were withdrawn.
 Twelve persons are dead at Leon. Nicaragua, and great many wounded as the result of political demonstra- ton. The government issued orders prohibiting a Liberal manifestation, i and when the Liberals and their ad- herents gathered in the streets to car ry out their plans troops were sent against them. Charles Teller, an American, is among the wounded.
Connecticut western news., 1910-11-17
A TRAINED MAN RAISES HIS OWN SALARY
 the High Cost of Living Does Not Affect Him.
SALARIES ARE RAISED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS OF SCRANTON,
 Re PA, EVERY MONTH. ..a
And Remember That

Knowledge kept locked in universities only chasable with the necessary college education.
 It accessible rich and poo and the only price demanded for it is tme spent young athlete learning Marathon which he we'll dog that os hee technical training The that he subsequently baggng his will complete that ang him build bridges electric locomotives perhaps aeropanes that will be really;practcal .. A...s.. ....# F##
 young what time life will be worth through manhood worth looking back whe age and but little spent.
 But shut its vaue here and there and misery poverty you expect the that whose work done from the that waiting to hide wha the forever
 Mark and Mail the Coupon the Division Office of the INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS,
 P West Main St, Waterbury, Ct
Connecticut western news., 1910-11-17
SPORTING AFFAIRS.

AFFAIRS. of wrestling at the old city hall in Pittsburg Stanlslaus Zbysko, the Polish mat artist. was compelled to admit himself beaten by Dr. B. F. Roller, for by the terms ot the agreement in order to win the Pole had to throw Roller twice within the hour. Zbysko when he made this agreement bit off more than he could chew. He was on the defensive as of ten as Roller. and the latter's skillful tactics soon had the big fellow up in the air. .## .e- E-#.a
 The twelfth annual intercollegiate cross country race, and the third un' der the auspices of the I, 0. A. A. A. A., run over the Princeton CN. J0 siS mile course, was won by the Cornell team with 37 points. Jones of Cornell was the individual winner in the fast time of 33 minutes and 34 seconds. Berna of Cornell was close second with 33 minutes 42 seconds. Lawless of Harvard came in third in 34 min. utes 10 seconds. Harvard's team was second, with seventy points: Yale third, with seventy-three points. Princeton finished sixth and Pennsyl' vania seventh.
 Dick Hoblitzel, the star first base. man of the Cincinnati Reds, for whom so many clubs have made fiattering of fers, will play with the Philliesl next season, according to information re ceived in Philadelphia from q source that hardly may be disputed. In ex' change for Hoblitzel, according to in formation from the same source, Mike Doolan, the lively shortstop of the Phillies, is to go to the Reds.
 Abe Attell, featherweight champion. and Frankie. Conley, holder of the ban. tamweight title, fought fifteen fast rounds to a draw at the West Side Athletic club, in New Orleans. Con- ley did all of the leading and had a shade the better of Attell in almost every round, up to the thirteenth. Both were strong and aggressive at the finish.
 Christopher Mathewson, pitcher ex- traordinary of the New York Giants, is insured to Gotham for three more years. The unmatchable twirler hand ed in his signed contract at the clubs headquarters, and Giant adherents have reason to rejoice.
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Increased Knowledge of YOUR WORK M
 CREASED SALARY.
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The Employer is Willing to PAY the Man Who
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GRIM ES AND A

home, was struck by a westbound freight train engine, killing four and fnjuring many others. The conductor was on the track Tagging his car across. Box cars and another engine standing on side track obstructed the view. It is said the approaching train sounded no warning.
 Awaking with the touch of an icy hand upon her cheek,s Miss Annie Neu- meister of Philadelphia was startled to find Harry Mander, for four years her suitor, sitting on the edge of the bed "Not word," commanded Mander, "or will kill you! Goodby," he whispered There was a burst of blinding flame. a crashing report, and Mander fell to the floor, the blood gushing from a gaping hole in his head. Thus ended the young mans courtship of attractive Annie Neumeister, whose affection for him, he believed, had waned.
 Several armed posses comprising 300 men are searching 200 acres of swamp between South Egremont, Conn, and Sheffield ia Massachusetts for four masked men who held up and robbed Paymasterl R. J. Hines of the Woro- noco Construction company of West field Mass, of more than S7,0O0 In money and about $5,00O in checks.
 A Mexican, Damian Rios, who kept n restaurant at Giddings, Tex, was Gssassinated as he was on his way
Connecticut western news., 1910-11-17
FOREIGN
 NOTES OF INTEREST.

II | d VI S F IL d dAAd
 Prince Ferdina q
 Faucigny Lucige fought a duel with swords near Paris. Stewart was slightly wounded, and honor was satisfied. The two men had been at loggerheads for several months. Two duels were arranged be tween them, but the trouble was patched up. A third squabble, how eyer, resulted in the meeting. The cause of the trouble is of personal and private nature
 All Paris is watching the Seine and wondering if last January's ,experi- ences are going to be repeated. The river steamboats have ceased running, they being longer able to pass under the bridges. The conditions are about the same as they were on Jan the subways were flooded The cul- imitation was reached on Jan. 2S. when the flood at the Pont Royal was about thirty-one feet deep. Now it is eighteen feet deep, a fr
 The finding of the special court or ganized to try the plotters against the fife of the Japanese emperor was an nounced. Twenty-six persons were found guilty, including the ringlead- CT, Kotoku, and one woman, the wife of Kotoku. The court recommends ''the severest penalty which means capital punishment for plotters against , the imperial family.
 p,-nI Ixx bn hor 6SIoi nf O winter journey, mental strain and a rupture with his family, Count Leo Tolstoi lies with a high fever in the little railroad station at Astapova, Russia, barely eighty miles from his home at Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoi's daughter Alexandra is acting as his nurse.
 Prince Victor Napoleon, pretender to the French throne, and Princess Clem- entine of Belgium, youngest daughter of the late King Leopold, were mar ried in Moncalieri, Italy. .The romance which eliminated in the wedding was of six years standing The late King Leopold was very much opposed to the match.
 When assisting at the introduction of new German army corps chap lain, Dr. Leinz, chief chaplain of En- peror Williams bodyguard, said it was the kaiser's wish that his soldiers say the Lords prayer every day. { The British admiralty has invited tenders from Clyde shipbuilders for the construction of a large armored cruiser with speed and gun power sur. passing any vessels in the British navy. ~t ". .#
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IF NOT, WHY NOT? If BETTER POSITION WAS OFFERED YOU Would You Be Capable of Filling It?
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HAS YOUR SALARY BEEN RAISED IN PROPO
 TON to Your INCREASED Cost of Living
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Conditions Are Changing. The cost of LIVING goes up How about YOUR IacoI
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in n which have