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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-27
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-27
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-27
FINAL CLEANUP SALE IN MUS. LIN UNDERWEAR, COR-
 SETS, ETC,


 Women's White Petticoats. Made with wide tiounce of cluster H. s. tucks, regular price 79c. cleanup sale price .... .... 69c
 Women's Corset Covers. Trimmed with three rows of H. S. lawn rufaes, regular price soc, cleanup sale price .,... S9c each
 Children's Drawers. Good quality cambric, with tucked cambric ruffle, regular price 19c, cleanup price .... .... 15c pair Women's Nainsook Drawers. Have tucked lawn ruffie finished with wide torchon lace, regular price soc, cleanup price 39c pair Women's High Neck Gowns. Long kimona sleeve, yoke of fam cy tucking, regular price $1.E0, cleanup price ... ... $1.15 each
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-05
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1907
DEFEAT.

Hudson County Republicans nave
done themselves proud IN shaking off
the Dickinson collar. as they did last
night in the primaries for the
election for members of the general
committee. The colonel and longtime
boss appears to have been over
whelmingly defeated throughout the
county. In his own home district he
was beaten nearly Ave to one. and there
was a double humiliation in this, as in
addition to the abundant reasons for
retiring him, he was guilty Of attempted
treachcry to his erstwhile lieutenant,
County Clerk Rotterdam. When the
new county committee meets next
month, 1t is claimed that the Dickinson
forces will muster only 100 out of the
total membership of $50.
But 1t is not only the Hudson County
Republicans that will rejoice over the
throwing off of the Dickinson yoke.
The party throughout the State will
feel that it has been purged. No
greater scandal has smirched its skirts
than the Dickinson episode. The man
holding the high office of Secretary of
State. who ran away from facing the
charges of gross immortality by aban-
doning his suit for 'vindication' under
the pretext of not wishing to compro-
mise party success in the fall CAM
paign, and on the solemn pledge that
he would resign his State office If he
failed of that vindication, secured a
reappointment, promising also to re-
new his suit against Pagan and then
~Tepudiated both, has become as a
stencil in the nostriis of his party and
OF the State.
Colonel Samuel d. Dickinson must
now renew his libel suit and secure
that v~indication or he must forthwith
resign the ONCE of the Secretary Of
State.o OF New Jersey. Indeed he should
do botn. The alternative, IL his hide
is too thick to move him to an act GU OF
common decency, is for the Governor
to take such measures as will force
him out.
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IMPORTATION AND EDUCATION.

The dictum of President Wilson, of
Princeton, that information is not edu-
cation" is in line with the best expert
ence of our colleges.
Only in exceptional cases does a man
find the information impaired in books
and lectures the sole benefit of his col
lege career. Very often such informa-
ton is subordinated in the Importance
Of it's influence TO the associations
formed among classmates and instruc-
tors.
The truly educated person is the one
who knows men as well as books. The
college training gives the opportunity
of intimate mountaineering with men
of varied talents and ideas. 1t throws
them together in sports and studies and
Y~eereations, in all of which. however
trivial, a common standard of decency
and fair-play is insisted upon 1t assoc
states in close daily communion men
Wholesome Of them, at least, and all Of
them If they perform the services for
which their college days are designed
20 prepare them-wlll become leaders
In thought and action in their day and
generation. Surely such fellowship
leaves its indeiible impress in the re-
nnement Of character, and surmounts
in educative value the mere knowledge
Of physics or medieval history or po-
lltical science which goes along with it.
1t is not strictly this aspect OF the
situation. however, t'lat President VIII
son has in mind. He insists that en-
lightenment. or the u~nloadlng Of mis-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-05
A SIMPLER CITY GOVERNMENT.

In the discussion of the features of
a new city charter it would be well
TO keep in view the idea of simplicity.
1t has been said that the best govern
ment is that which governs the least,
and certainly the best municipal
government should be that which is
the least complicated. Checks and
safeguards must be provided. but the
object should be to get away as far
as possible from bureaucracy and red
tape.
The prevalent plan of municipal
government is based on the idea of the
State government, with an executive,
a legislative and judiciary depart
ments. That plan has been worked TO
excess. We have a municipal legis-
lature, with more than half the mem
bership of the House of Assembly of
New Jersey; a school board of the
same number, both boards represent
ing ward units. Then we have a Board
of Works. with it's members elected at
large, which has quasi-legislative
powers.
This is too much machinery. There
are too many cooks to spoil the NUM-
cipal broth. A Common Council rep
resenting larger units and smaller in
n. embership would be less unwieldy.
The people have already decided in
favor of a small appointive school
board. 1t is proper that the mayoralty
term should be extended. 1t takes a
year at least for a new Mayor to bf
familiarized with the public business
and it's duties.
Whatever changes shall be made By
the charter revisions. let us hope thai
they VIII be in the direction of 8
simpler governmental machinery.
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THE A

Those members of the elected school
board, lately abolished by the people
by referendum, who are arranging to
take the people into court by injunc-
ton, or otherwise, for the purpose of
defeating the peoples will as expressed
in the referendum, are counting an I'M
popularity thai perhaps few men would
like to incur.
For some years tho inefficiency and
scandals of the board have bred a
feeling of contempt for that body that
is highly prejudicial to the interests Of
public education. The conclusion has
been reached that our system of ward
representation in the management of
the public schools is wrong and vicious
in principle. The desire is to establish
an administration that Shall be ef1i-
cient and trustworthy. The people
place a high value on their public
schools and do not want to see them
retrograde. The annual cost of public
education is very large, n is con-
stantiy growing, and the people who
own tho schools and pay the bills have
a right to say who shall manage them.
But certain members of the abolished
elective board propose to stand in the
way. They have secretly caballed to
procure the annulment of the purpose
expressed in the referendum last
tate to these men to stand out of the
way and let the will of the people
prevail.
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OUR M1sMArAaED INSTITUTIONS.

In whatever department or commits
sion of the State government the probe
is put, evils. defects and abuses are
disclosed, and it is evident that a gen.
eral plan of reform must be adopted.
The State prison management, which
has been inquired into this week, is
no exception to the rule. There has
been systematic petty graft, the book
keeping is primitive and admits of all
kinds of Irregularities. and it is con-
fessed that the prison laws are yio-
lated.
1t was shown in the latter respect
that the laws governing the prison
were intended for q community of
about 100, whereas there are now 1,90o
oonvicts. A revision of these laws is
necessary. as well as the institution
of a new and better system of ac-
counting. 1t may be said that the
showing made by the State prison
management is c%reditabie compared
with that of the management Of the
Railway Reformatory, which deserves
10 be turned out neck and heels, but
1t Is bad enough,
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infeHniatiOn,a 10 the -a~esidesatasn, saszl
mentions disparagingiy that the
greater part of the work that we are
doing in our colleges today is to i'm
part information" This is a fine dis
ti%nction, for how misinformation can
be unioaded without the substitution of
other information is not easy of dis
cernment.
Information, or the correction of mis-
information, is, of course, not 10 be
sighted. The ancients were men of
reasoning power and intelligence not
Inferior to our own, and it Is only in his
greater store of information that the
average educated man of today excels
the average educated man of 1000 years
ago. But, for all this, it is not here,
but in their effect upon the upbuilding
of character, that our educational in
situations have their greatest oppor-
tunity of beneficence.
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THE DEAD HAND.

The dead hand may hold within its
grasp many rich beneflcences for hui
mainly. Girard College. at Philadel-
phia, is a splendid example. The wis
dom and foresight of old stephen Girard
established an Institution that has
grown to immense proportions. because
of the rules m restrictions in stephen
Girard's win. But they we're broadly
and literally conceived. They were
aimed at narrowness. Girard was re-
solved that no particular creed and pc
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-05
PROFITS AT THE rwo-cENT RATE

About the first railroad company to
retaliate for the t~wo-cent-fare law by
cutting down its accommodations and
threatening to jack up its communication
rates was the Philadelphia and Read
ing. or course. the excuse was that
the road could not afford to carry pas
niger at a fat rate of two cents a
mile without loss.
Rebellion of the commuters of the
Reading soon restored the travelling
facilities. and the report of the officials
for October shows that the net earn
ings for that month exceeded those of
October, 1906, by 1852, 465, while for all
the Reading companies the increase for
the four months from July / to Novem-
Der / amounted to $1.529,6eo over the
corresponding period last year.
Experience has shown that reduced
fares invariably create new business
more than enough to Offset the diff
ference. The trainers of the two-cent
fare law knew this, and, for hat mat
ter. SO did the railway officials. but
the latter wouldn't admit it until the
publication of the report compelled the
showing Of the facts.
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state RaiIroad commls.ion.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Won't you please have the goodness
to publish the correction of two errors
made in the report of the doings of
the Railroad Commissioners at their
session held November 26th?
j. Commissioners Congdon did not
state that he is in favor of a commits
sion to have in charge railroad mat
tiers exclusively" He is not in favor
of such a commission, and IL he were.
and should so announce his opinion 1t
would seem like an attempt to have
himself continued in his present office
by creating sentiment favoring the
existing commission, and he, on the
contrary, prefers to be not "perpetu-
ated."
2. Commissioner Wilson had not been
absent for several meetings. He
missed two meetings by reason of ILL.,
ness, and Commissioner Congdon
thought it would be a proper courtesy
to defer action on an important subject
until a full board could be in session.
JOS. w. CONGDON.
Patterson necanher 4 1Qn7
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Paterson, december i, 1907.
RedemptIon Of paper Money.

the Editor Of the Evening Star:
VIII you please give me some Informal
ton on what paper money is redeemed
and how redeemed by the United States
Treasury? e. M. C.
according to the present law United
States notes, treasury notes of 1890, gold
certificates and silver certificates, unfit
for circulation, when not mutilated so that
less than three-ffths OF the original pro-
portions remains, may be presented to the
treasury or any assistant treasury for ex-
change, at face value, for new United
States paper currency. Fractional cur
rency notes are redeemable in lawful
money.
United States notes, treasury notes OF
1890, fractional currency notes, gold certi-
~ficates, silver certificates and national bank
notes. when mutilated so that less than
three-hfths. but clearly more than two
tifths, of the original proportions remains,
are redeemable by the treasurer only, at
one-half the face value of the whole note
or certificate. Fragments not clearly more
than two-hfths are not redeemed, unless
accompanied by the evidence required in
the following paragraph:
Fragments less than three-fifths are re-
deemed at the the face value of the Who'll
note when accompanied by an ffidavit of
the owner or other persons having knowl-
edge of the facts that the missing portions
have been totally destroyed. The affidavit
must state the cause and manner of the
mutilation, and must be sworn and sub
scribed to before an officer qualified to
administer oaths, who must affix his Off
eial seal thereto, and the character of the
afiant must be certified to be good by
such officer or some one having an official
! seal. Signatures by mark C) must be
witnessed by two persons who can write,
and who must give their places Of resi-
dence. The treasurer will exercise such
discretion under this regulation as may
seem to him needful to protect the United
States from fraud. Fragments not re-
deemable are rejected and returned.-Ed.]
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whacki whack:

1t seemed positively fiendish cruelty on
the part Of the village schoolmaster to
keep his juvenile class confined to the
stuffy little schoolroom on such a swelter-
ing day, but it must be remembered that
the poor man was suffering quite as much
as they.
Little Willie Thickhead. however. did not
realize this, and he was waiting eagerly
for a chance to give VEN TO his feelings.
And at last he got 1t.
Spell matrimony.' said the dominic, And
Willie spelt it correctly.
That's right, Willie" said the master
encouragingly. Now define It,"
Il don't know exactly what 1t means, .
said the willy Willie innocently; but"
and here all his pent-up resentment gushed
~forth-"it's the talk of the village that
you've got quite enough of it,
Willie had previously intended going for
q drive In a friendly Trademarks cart. but
for some mysterious reason he decided,
after the lesson, to go swimming instead
Answers.
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VIEWS. OF EDITORS.


Speaker Cannon and tue Rouse
Speaker Cannon is a droll man. and
often is drollest when he appears most
serious. In addressing the House OF Rep
resentatives. after his election as Speaker,
he soberly informed the members that 10
them belongs the peculiar, the delicate
and the alI5surpassing function OF inter
preting and putting in definite form the
will Of the people" He did not add that
the function which the House is thus ex-
pected to perform depends on the VIII OIL
the Speaker. and that any member VINO
undertook to interpret and put In DEFINITE
form what he thought to be the will OK
the people, without obtaining beforehand
the permission Of the Speaker, would ana
himself hopelessly inarticulate.
The present House was elected more
than a year age, and 1t has just now met
to interpret the will of the people," when
he subject of paramount public interest
is such as the members did not thin or
in November. 1906. Even if the House were
fresh from the people. however, 1t is domi-
mated by a gentleman who has indicated
more than once his conviction that the
people frequently are too fresh.'-Boston
Globe.
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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.-Dr. Ed
ward Anthony Spitzka, professor of
general anatomy at Jefferson College,
and one of the foremost anthropological
scholars in the world, in a remarka-
Bile report upon his study of the brains
of seven of Americas foremost sci
entists, last night revealed the fact that
the brain of Walt Whitman had been
lost to science.
An employee of a hospital had let
slip to the floor the jar in which the
brain was preserved. 1t had broken
and the precious organ within was de-
stroyed.
Not even the pieces of this marvellous
organ which might have mean so much
to science was saved. The brain of
the man who evolved a philosophy, a
cult that has spread all over the world,
was lost to posterity by the slippery
fingers Of a SIS a week employee.
That the future American brain is to
dominate the human powers of the
earth is the first important conclusion
reached by DR.. Spltzka, through his
investigation which was conducted on
behalf of the American Philosophical
Society.
His second most important statement
was 70 the effect that the brains of
geniuses can easily be determined by
their weight. They weigh far more
than the average brain.
DIR. Spitzka, in an interview last
night. deplored the loss of whitman's
suits might have been obtained had it
been saved.
His researches were based upon ex-
aminations upon the brains of the fol-
lowing eminent men:
DR.. Joseph Leidy, DR.. Philip Leidy.
J. w. White, sr.. Andrew j. Parker,
Harrison Allen, DR.. Edward D.. Cope
and DIR. William Pepper.
When the executors of the estate of
the late Walt Whitman in this city
were informed of the loss of the brain
of the philosopher they declared thai 1t
was a breach Of implied trust. Horace
L. Traubel, literary executor of the will,
declared hat none of the executors
had ever been informed that the brain
had been lost to science.
Thomas B. Harmed, a brother-in-law
of Traubel and legal executor of the
estate. also seemed to be angry, but
would not express himself until he
made sure Of all the facts. The ex-
ecutors. il is understood, will begin
an investigation Of the matter today.
In the course of his investigation,
DR.. Spitzka. who Is professor of gem
eral anatomy of Jefferson Medical Col
lege. and is devoting his life to scien-
tific research, examined in addition to
the specimens mentioned above, the
brains of four other intellectually emf
men; ten brains of ordinary. yer
age, healthy men, who. committed muir
der and were executed for it, and eight
brains of European races, compris-
ing Eskimos, Japanese and Papuans.
DIR. Spitzka says that persons possess
ing great intellectual capacity, persons
excelling in the creative arts. the
sciences and in human affairs In gem
eral are apt to have heavier, larger
brains than those of the ordinary
population,
He found that while in the lower
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SCIENTISTS DEPLORE LOSS -.
OF WALT WHITMAN'S BRAIN

grades Of vertebrates the olfactory
nerves are exceedingly we'll developed,
the senses of sight and hearing are
poorly developed, but in man, the OIL
factory nerves are relegated to the
rear, while the senses of sight and
hearing are fully developed. The higher
the type, the more this is SO.
All the characteristics of the human
being can he determined, according to
DIR. Spitzka, from the brain. The in
y~estigator makes a strong plea for the
s-urrendering of all brains of eminent
men to science. He calls the objection
of families to the removal of the brains
of great men mere sentimentality.
No one had more regret that the
brain of Walt Whitman was lost to
science thar DIR. Spitzka himself.
IT want to say a word" the investi-
gator explains. "about the legitimacy
of the demands of science for more
such brains. Investigations of this kind
are chiefly hampered by the objections
of the relatives of the deceased. Under
the prevailing circumstances it Is IN
deed difficult to get permission of the
afflicted family for the removal, preser-
walton and study of the brain.
Upon the marvellous contrasts be-
tween great brains, the investigator
says:
II cannot do more now han to point
out, for instance, certain remarkable
contrasts between he brain OF Joseph
Leidy, the m~orpholog1st, and Professor
Cope. the paleontologist. Cope. judging
from his brain. was more creative n
constructive, philosophical and forrna-
tive than Leidy; Leidy was a Tar
keener observer of things, quicker at
seeing a~nalogies and comparisons,
coupling his multitudinous observations
and systematizations in a superior man.
ner.'
Horace L. Traubel last night said:
81 cannot understand IT. The fact
that such an institution should permit
the care of such precious property to
an attendant who probably had no idea
of the value of what he was handling is
bad enough. But that they shoul
permit the brain to be lost n then
fail to even notify h executors of
Walt Whitman's estate I consider
worse.
'I cannot say just what action will
be taken in the matter, but 1t will be
taken up Immediately n rigid in
quiry made to place the responsibility
for what seems to be a gross careless
ness. The executors viii meet tomor-
row to decide as to just what shall be
done.
THE gratitude of the Authropometri-
cal Society should have caused them to
be courteous enough to advise the eX-
ecutors of this loss. When the autopsy
was performed by DR.. Dercum and Pro-
fessor Cattell and the brain removed,
George Whitman, a brother of the fa-
nous poet and author, at first absolute
ly refused to allow the institution to
have the brain. 1t was not until Drs.
Daniel Longaker and Alexander Nc
A~lister, two of Walt Whitman's physi-
clans, had told of the latter's wishes
that such disposition should be made
of his brain that the permission for the
removal of the brain was given by the
brother. / hardly think we have been
treated fairly, and decidedly some ac-
ton will be taken"
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Two ,Mericnna Men.

Reeg Irish cop dat walk hees beat
By dees peanutta stan,
First two, tree week Wen we are meet
Ees cali me "Dagoman."
An wen he see how mao | gat,
Wheech eesa pleass heem, too,
Wan day he say: watts matter dat,
Amt Dago' name for you?
OATS 'Mericana name, you know,
For man from Italy;
Eet ees no harm for call you so,
Den why be mad weeth me-"
First time he talka deesa way
I am too mad for speak,
But nexta time | justa say:
Gan righta, Meester Neck"
o. my, I nevva hear bayfore
Sooch langwadge like he say;
An he don't look at me no moro
For mebbe two, tree day.
But pretta soon agen I see
Dees beeg policeman
Z Dat com an smile an say to me:
Hello, Italian!
Now, mebbe so you gon' deny
Dat dat'sa name for you?'
/ smila back an max reply:
mo, Irish. dat'sa true"
'.Ha! joe he cry. you theenk dat we
Should call you sMerican?"
Oats gooda 'nough," 1 say, for me,
Eef OATS wat you are, DAN"
So now all times we speaka so
Like gooda 'Merican;
He say to me, GOOD NORMA, Joe"
| say. Good morna, Dan"
IT. A. Daily, in Catholic Standard and
Times,
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Bryan Accepted.

Representative Rhode Island Democrats
returned from the Bryan meeting at Ne"
Haven, nave apparently made up their
minds that the persistent Nebraskan Is to
be nominated for the third time. and are
making ready accordingly to give him TINS
States votes in the convention. In TINS
view they are at one with the majority OF
Democrats throughout the country. In the
last few weeks-since his formal declara-
tion Of willingness-it has come to be gem
orally accepted that Bryan Is to be the
candidate. In a poll of Democratic mem
bers Of Congress. for example. made by the
New York World. it. was found that IN
about the proportion of four to one they
are convinced that his nomination is GER
tain. The minority have no alternative
candidate TO suggest. AS to the spirit IN
which the Nebraskan is accepted, that may
perhaps be indicated in the definition OF a
logical candidate as a man whom nobody
wants but who can't be got rid
dence Tribune. /.