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to talk. 1t is evident that he is planning
to surprise his neignoors when the statue
comes along.
The unwilling ceremony is to be one of
Texas great occasions according to
Mr.. Lee. 1t is to be held next spring. and
work out, Mr. Rockefeller and his family
will be present at the ceremony.
Mr.. Lees Office at his hotel, where he
has his business headquarters, Is Uttered
with plans for the memorial, designs for
the statue and suggestions for the tablets
which are to stand at the base. Jokers
have had their fun sending in inscriptions
which they think ought to be placed on
the tablets, but it is evident that Mr.. Lee
himself will attend to that without outside
aid. Border lines of dollar marks are
favorite decorations with the volunteer
inscription writers, and references to
Standard OIL make up large percentage
of the suggested tributes. But the monu-
ment maker will have none of them.
He does admit, however that it Is diff
cult to inscribe monument erected to a
living man. He complains that the style
in these matters is based upon the propo-
sition that monuments are for the de-
parted only, but as he is a pioneer in up
setting this tradition he will doubtless
solve the problem to his own satisfaction.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Lee says that his mon
ument is. In part the result of desire to
refute the harsh things said against Mr..
Rockefeller by his critics. it is quite likely
that the inscription work will be devoted
to defense of the subjects methods.
His ample fortune, which is variously
estimated by his neighbors. has given the
monument maker an opportunity to copy
his hero's philanthropy. Besides erecting
the memorial. he is credited with many
other kind deeds, but, like his model
citizen, Mr.. Lee is careful of his funds,
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hands to Illustrate a serial story He
was without any authorization from the
project Perhaps he thought that in a
moment of distraction l might give him
Soleilland's hands
This would have been difficult, for
Soleiliand's s. hands never have been pho
tographed. l gave him a print of the
right hand OF a worthy hostler and an
other of the left hand of an honest sheep
flayer-photographs which took ten
years ago to illustrate my album of physi-
cal defects or defornlities stigmata as
revealing a mans calling. What was
my establishment next day to see my two
photographs reproduced in the reporters
paper undar the headlines: The Satyr-
Assassin and Anthropom atry. Sol=il-
lands Hands. etc. etc Then followed
an article in which it was stated that M
Alphonsa Bertil!on has measured and
amined from the c.iminalist's point of
view Solsilland's physical defects. The
monster hands show characteristic
design. Their reformation clearly proves
thai they have been used to handling the
hammer and packing and cording par
cells.
II protested. but my protest passed I'M
needed. 1t is pity. for 1T would hav,
prevented Prof. Lonbroso from the I'M
plcasantness of Inistaking for the hands
of born criminal these of two honest
workmen who were good enough to pose
before my apparatus ten years ago. What
the profs ssor mistook for sign of de-
gensracy is merely professional de-
formity. The hostler is subjeet.t, re-
traction of the flexible terdons of the
hand His little, finger is .sfiffened and
separated by the action of water and
acids. which are also responsible for the
Strengthening out of the folds OF the
palm
x K
But the cup of bitterness was not yet
full. 1t was bad enough that Prof. Lom-
broso's data should have played him false.
1t wos worse still than even regarding
the data as correct the deductions there
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THE ABNORMAL RIGHT HAND.

need to do so; they find money more
easily by other means Ugliness is. there
fore. concomitant quality of female
thieves. And yet you would not argue
that ugliness indicates a thief.
*
Anatomy can be of very little service
in determining a criminal. There are.
however, exterior signs and NOV ements
well-nigh infallible. 1t is quite a mistake
to argue that because a man has a sloping
forehead or a small brain that he Is des-
tined to be criminal. But it is a fact
that criminals are those who are ill
equipped in the struggle for life. Many
people think that criminals are clever
people and wonder why they did not turn
their talent to better account. But my ex-
perience does not bear out this view.
find them deficient in ability. as Is proved
by the fact that they almost invariably
play the same trick over and over again
until they are caught I remember one
remarkable instance of this.
de was a swndler who had been a
jeweler by trade. He would go into a
shop, choose articles which his p-acticed
eye told him were valuable, and say:
They are for my sick mother. Send them
round to our hotel for her to look at
When the jewelry arrived he would take
it ostensibly to his mothers bedroom and
disappear by another exit. Well. he was
caught at last and for some years the
trick ceased. Recently it began again,
and l said Immediately: That must be
So-and-So. He must be out of prison.
And, sure enough, he was. But he had
not the ability to invent another trick,
and so he was caught again almost in
stantly. This is one of hundreds that 1
could mention.
Yes, criminals are people who are
wanting badly equipped Cor the battle
of life. but you may believe me there is
no such thing the bump of crimnality."
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the subjects which excite his ambition
or eXalt his religious ideal and the like.

the subjects which excite his ambition
or exalt his religious ideal and the like.
X
What is the palmist's trick in order to
abuse the credulity of the public? Max
ing skeleton-key answers which are appli-
cable to any and every event. 1t is all
very we'll for palmist to tell girl that
she will marry a rich husband, but what
l want to know is this: Given hundred
women who have married rich husbands,
are there certain peculiarities in their
hands common to all or the greater part
of the hundred?
ut is the same with phrenology and
graphology. Graphology, the new branch
of occultism, plays the part of society
game, fortune-telling, which, by appearing
to take the handwriting as the basis.
really relies more or less consciously on
the angel and demon which are at the bot
tom of all humanity, and makes it pos
sbla to say in yelled terms many secret
things which each applies to himself and
thinks he has succeeded in discriminating.
With the aid of little natural persp'cac-
ity the graphologist ends by believing in
his pretended science; the mind is once
more the dupe of the heart.
Prof. Cesare Lomb-oso takes charac-
teristcs which are accidental and access
sorry to the individual and constructs out
of them the past, present and future OF
that Individual The anatomical charac-
teristics on which he relies could only
serve a posteriori. They have but very
little scientific value as indicating bias
toward criminality. One must use excess
sive caution on such ground.
For instance. if you observe the patches
of prisoners brought into a police station
you will not fail to remark that nearly all
the women arrested for theft are ugly.
Why? Simply because the women of the
people that are favored with good looks
are seldom driven to steal; they have no
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Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown.
All Rights Strictly Reserved.
PARIS. November IA. is

All Rights Strictly Reserved.
PARIS, November IA, 1907.
ANY years ago an irreverent
NH quiz sent Lavater the cast of
NH a great man labeled as being
~ that of a notorious criminal,
and in eulogistic terms re-
quested the favor of the Swiss savant' s
opinion. Lavater, who was the chief
exponent of the anthropolog.cal theories
of that period, promptly discovered that
the great man had signs and bumps of
crjminality sufficient to hang a hundred
jailhirds. When the joke leaked out learn
ed Europe was convused with laughter
at poor Lavater's expense
The recent discontinue of Prof Cesare
Lombroso. the famous Italian, whose
name stands for all that is modern and
up-to-date in the theory of criminal ism,
was, if possible, more painful still In
order to understand the significance of
the incident and to see how much light
palmistry. it will be worth while to give
here more details of the story of Prof
Lombroso's unfortunate discovery than
appeared in the press dispatches.
When man named Solei.land was ar
iesisu last spring. charged with Killing a
little girl in circumstances of unspeak-
able horror, Paris newspaper printed a
reproduction of two hands which it de-
clared to be those of the assassin Months
passed by. Soleilland was duly t,isd,
found guilty and sentenced to the gui:lo-
tine and the opponents of capital pun
fshment began to bestir themselves.
One of the latter, in the fervor of the
cause. DethOnPlt himself Of p,-of
broso, and in the innocence of his heart
sent the photograph of Soleilland's hands
to the Industrious criminalist, who pres
emily wrote to the Temps, the leading
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HFT OF FotMnAr1oM FOR RocKEEE1hEE MoNR1ENT

to run for President on the democratic
ticket next year. He'd be elected sure
Mr.. Lee Is tall and straight, keen-eyed
and shrewd-looking. He is rich, too, and
is looked upon as a person of consequence
In his home section. He dresses plainly,
explaining that he is too busy to bother
about clothes, but there is something in
his bearing which marks him as man
above the ordinary. He owns a hosiery
at Denton, which he has named the John
D. Rockefeller Hotel" another mark of
his esteem for the Oil king.
Besides his firm conviction as to Mr.
monument. Mr. Lee has equally strong
ideas about how the monument should be
built. In fact, he has superlntended the
work as far as it has gone, and he has
helped with his own hands on the founda-
ton.
For months Mr.. Lees teams have been
busy hauling stones Of all sizes to a farm
two miles from Denton, where the memo
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rial Is being erected. These stones range
In size from pebbles to great powders,
and they are being piled in a heap for
the foundation.
In the language of Mr. Lee Every
rock In the pile stands for a noble deed
Mr.. Rockefeller has DONE"
1t was limited by frivolous and slangy
person that the multitude of rocks might
well be symbolical Of the richest man s
pile" but Mr.. Lees project is a serious
one. and he declines to notice the sug-
gestion.
X X
Surmounting the rugged foundation will
be heroic statue of Mr.. Rockefeller, and
about its base four tablets will tell of his
good works.
Mr.. Lee expects to spend $4,000 on the
statue itself. He has ordered the statue
from a bronze-casting firm in New York,
but of this particular feature he declines
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Modern Conversation.
ON the Lady's Pictorial.

from the Lady's Pictorial. - -
We should all be bored to death If we
were called upon to dine with some of the
notable conversatjonalists of former days.
TO begin with. our dinners are happily
much too short for the kind Of CONVERSE
ton that illumined the feast aforetime.
We have cut down our courses, reduced
the number of our wines and accelerated
the pace at which we have dinners served.
Consequently we have to say all there Is
to be said in crystallized form. In short.
we have to come to the point without
delay.
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LEFT HAND OF HONEST SHEPHERD
French evening paper, the following let
ter:

French evening paper, the following let
ter:
4
ITO the director of the Temps:
Having received the photograph of
Soleilland's hands, I have acquired the
conviction that in spite of all the learned
observations already made science has
not yet pronounced its last word on him.
The right hand presents altogether the
aspect of what in nervo- pathology is
termed apes hand'-that is to say. 1t
possesses the atrophy of the hypotenary;
IN other words. its subital margin. in
stead of being slightly convex, is abso-
lutely rectilinear, and in the direct pro-
longation of the forearm.
Besides. the transversal lines Of his
palm, instead of being oblique and two
in number, are reduced to single hori
zontal line, such as NJ. Carrusa and my
self have observed among the lower apes
and most epileptics idiots and born GRIM
little finger is wide apart from the others,
as in the case of apes, and the length of
the middle finger is the same as that of
the ring finger. The left hand. larger
than the other. is, on the contrary. per-
fectly normal and offers no popularity.
body, therefore, that / have had an OPP
portunity Of examining asymmetry is
united with atavism and taken in con-
junction with the chromatic asymmetry
previously noted in the iris. warrants the
assumption of other asymmetries in the
thoraX and head, etc.
ITO grasp the importance of these
anomalies it is well to bear in mind that
/ have found in the born criminal an
epileptic, of which he (So!eillanO is
variety. not only an atavic. but also a
pathological foundation, finding express
sion especially in excessive asymmetry. 1t
is as though several individuals had been
melted down into one single individual
for the misfortune of humanity. All this
should make us reflect before pronouncing
a final Judgment on Soleilland.
"CESARE LOMBROSO.
The masters words were read with
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awe In the city Of light and duly tele-
graphed to all parts of the world Need
less to say the pro-Soeillandists were de-
lighted, for they read therein the strong
est argument against the execution of
the death>sentence.
day or two later a morning daily the
,Eclair, appeared with a mighty headline
La Cafe de Lombroso'' Qombrosos
Blunder), and as subheading HE Mis-
takes the Hands of Two Honest and
Thoroughly Normal Workmen for Those
of Soleilland.'
truth more comcal catastrophe 1t would
have been difficult to conceive. Prof.
Lonabroso had found the terrible destiny
of Soleilland writ large on a hand that
was not Soleillands at all. He had de-
tected "a chromatic aSymmetry already
noted in the iris and with a formidable
array of atavism. asymmetry, pathology
and the like had proved UP to the hilt that
Soleilland was born criminal-cou'd
not help himself, in fact-and all this
lar had he not erred. He had spotted
the left hand as being normal, and thus
resisted the temptation of proving Soleil-
land doubly helpless.
The irony of the situation was apparent
directly it became known that M. Ber-
tillon, the chief of the anthropometrical
bureau and famous the world over as the
author of the Bertillon system of identi-
flying criminals. was the unconscious and
innocent cause of Lombroso's blunder
The Eclair had had the idea of asking NJ.
Bertillon whether he had supplied the
photographs of Soleillands hands, and
this is what it learned:
You are perhaps not aware" said the
chief of the anthropometrical bureau,
that it is absolutely forbidden to COM
municate judicial photographs to the
press The project of police must give
his sanction before this can be done.
When the press was full of details of
Soleillands life reporter came and asked
me for some photographs of criminals
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JOhn u. ROcKeIeIler MS wealth..
u Those whose ideals range along
the higher plane Of golf playing
may be jealous Of the oil kings skill on
the links.
But the seekers after undying fame
those who dream fondly Of leaving behind
them a name for poste:ity to bless-have
Just cause now to envy the worlds rich
est man unique distinction which has
been thrust upon him.
For MIR. Rockefeller's career has in
spired an amendment to a world old ira
d.tion-the tradition which has to do with
perpetuating in stone and bronze the
memory of the earth's great spirits.
Custom has decreed that monuments
shall be erected to men who have done
well enough in life to deserve recognition
in DEATH and the shades Of the departed
are supposed to be pleased in a ghostly
way at the tardy tribute.
But Mr.. Rockefeller need not walt until
he reaches the spirit land to enjoy this
sensation. He is to have a monument
raised to his virtues while he Is yet awe,
and he will be able to stand before the
statue which will hand down his name to
poste-ity and realize something of the
impression the memento will make on fu-
ture generations.
True enough. he has raised costly struc-
lures which stand today as monuments to
his philanthropy. But this particular
monument will be different Mr.. Rookie
Teller knows nothing of II: he was not
consulted in the matter, and the memorial
will rise as voluntary tribute from one
of his admirers who believes in deeds Of
praise rather than words.
~
A. G. Lee of Denton, Tex, Is the man
who is erecting the Rockefeller monu-
ment. Somebody asked him why, the
other day, and Mr., Lee showed plainly
that, his ideas on the subject were en-
phat'c and deeply rooted.
Why" hi answered; why because
John ~. Rockefeller IL. the greatest man
in the world. l wish they could ret him
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Ambassador Criticizes
Countrymen in America
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


FLORENCE. November 16 1907.
Q IGNoR e. Mayor des PIanches,
- italian ambassador to Washington,
Is publishing in the Italian review,
"Nuova Antologia,' an Interesting series
OF articles concerning his journey across
the United States from Washington by
the Southern Pacific route to California
Especially was he pleased with New Or
leans. which, he says. interests him as do,
Philadelphia and Boston. In that it has a
past Rejoicing that no reporters knew
OF his presence. he wandered about the
old world named streets of the French
quarter. visited the cathedral. the French
market. the home of creole friends. and
at creole club he heard a discussion of
his own race.
What prejudice" he writes they still
have In regard to us, According to these
gentlemen all of our Sicilians are united
In secret society. ALL through hatred
because of the vendetta or by command
are ready to stain their hands with the
most ferocious crimes. are ready to adop.
all means. firearms. stillettos or Just now
preferably poison. because of its smaller
chance of discovery"
He adds that when these crimes occur
among Italians nothing is done, but the
citizens at once rise II the victim be
creole or American.
With the fairness which pervades his
article, signor Mayor des Planches states
that other complaints made against the
Italians have much better foundation 1t
being true that In New Orleans they live
entirely to themselves and under wretch
ed conditions: also. that they do not be-
come American. and that wealth fails to
valnn a M nh 10 nth
as in other nationalities. notably the
Hebrews.
In Los Angeles he was much pleased with
the conditions of the Italian colony. and
also I'm San Francisco. where II numbers
1900 In all grades Of society.
At present the American Literary As
ISOLATION is receiving much attention from
Italians who are making great efforts to
perfect library system in Italy on sim
liar lines
Slgnor Guido Biagi. librarian Of the
1.aurenziana Library OF Florence, has
written stirring article on the deficien-
cies of Italian libraries. He gives an
outline of the American system praise 3
the results attained. describes the train
Ing schools for librarians and urges Italy
to go and do likewise. England, he de-
clares is far behind the United States and
he adds that the English Library Asso-
citation. though her older sister. is an old
spinster. childless old maid. in COM
parison with the A. l.. A.
Senator Arcolio has taken the matter to
the senate. and the Italian parliament has
had repeated to 1t parts of Frank
Pierc- Hills recent speech on the func-
tons OF the public libraries
AS an ACCOMPANIMENT to the movement
book clubs are being started. and the pub
fishers. authors. journalists and librarians
of the Abruzzi have begun the work OF
collecting every volume in existence which
has been written upon that section of
Italy. The Union of Italian Women not
to be out of things. has offered a prize
of LOCO lire to any woman who shall write
volume. to CONNIE morate the centenary
of Garibaldi. which shall be judged by .
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No Old Singers.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
There are two professions, music and
the drama. in which cd age is rarely to
be found. There are. In fact, no old
singers.
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Written for The Star.

for The Star.
ERSONS whose minds cannot rise
above sordid things may envy
John D. Rockefeller his wealth.
Those whose ideals range along
the higher plane of golf playing
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