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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
COATS FOR THE
SCHOOL GIRLS
A number of good styles
at little money.

These coats are made in both the
loose fitting or the tight-htting models
and should be Of interest to all who
are thinking of buying a coat this
winter.
From our stock three described:
GIT. Loose coat made OF fancy
gray suiting, lined throughout, velvet
collar, three pockets. Sizes IL and IA
years. Price, S5.75
7s4. semi-ftting coat made in
dark mixtures in desirable striped
effects, velvet collar. Sizes, IS, IS,
II years. Price, $3.50
635. Wooltex Coat. style, loose
fitting comes in dark suitings, attrac-
lively trimmed. Price, SII.5o
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
WOOLTEX
SUPERIORITY
Ten points chosen at Ran
dom which gives proof
positive OfhOw much bet
ter WOO1tex Coats Really
are.

ALI Wooltex cloths are proved
pure wool by acid test. This guaran-
tees: Holding color, appearance and
adds to the comfort.
2-The Wooltex Innings are supe-
rior quality of silk and satin and are
guaranteed to give two years satisfac-
tory wear.
3-The pattern is Gu: full, giving
that hang and sweep so essential to
style. There is no skimping to a
Wooltex Coat, as is seen by stretching
it out.
4-The tailoring on Wooltex Coat
is the work of experts. The coats are
perfectly balanced, collars set close,
shoulders well shaped, and are void of
all dragging down feeling so tiresome
to the wearer.
5-While so inches is the standard
for length, these garments will meas
ure up 10 81 or So inches, and are
extra large over the chest, which helps
TO improve the fit.
6-All Wooltex Goats have shields
at the arm holes, to protect the lining
and improve the fit.
THE surface stitching seen in the
Wooltex garments is pure elk, which
never rusts or ladies'.
8-The Wooltex Innings are really
separate gar m ents, cut by themselves,
as carefully fitted as the outside mate
rial, thus preventing unsightly wrinkling
or puckering.
o-The styles are the combine d eff
forts of large staff of designers scat
tered in the best fashion centers of the
world. 1t might be interesting to
know that this branch alone costs the
Wooltex Company over 100000 each
year.
Io-Each Wooltex Coat, bearing the
label in the collar, is guaranteed to
give two years satisfactory wear. That
means much to the wearer.
Why not buy the best when it costs
no more than the ordinary coats7
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
FUR LINED COATS

line to be proud Of We showing these comfortable
garments in number of different grades prices starting
1926 90 and going to $500
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
Coats for the Little Tots

Over SO comprises the selection, in every style i'm
Imaginable The prices made to fit every and
range from 90 to $50 Before buying would suggest
look at these attractive little coats.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
FURS and FUR LINED COATS

Annteestng subject at this time of year and the stock
far more interesting We include this showing nearly every
kind of fur made the designs and priced make
unusual throughout the line We would advise early
inspection as best always go first Furs make very accept
able Christmas present and those wishing buy them suh
would suggest selection We will deliver the goods
later This ENSURES you the best.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
COTTON FLEECED AND
WOODEN HOSIERY

For men, and children. Prices 0c to 100 per pair
fortunate be able quote old prices throughout the
entire line of hosiery This the in hardly
this year. Early buying made it possible for
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
Three Described

1882 Chid's coat in fancy red and blue materials,
Astrakan collar and cuffs Sizes A. 6, S, at $3.50
$50 Childs heavy Melton, coors red, brown blue mill
ary emblems and collar trimmed with military but
TONS sizes 6, 8, 10 II at $39S
$50 Chlds Melton coat attractvey trimmed with velvet,
fancy and braid which gives the broad shoudered effect
at $500
Bear coats from leading manufacturer. Buying direct
good saving both of say anything about
the far superior number of styles have to select from Our
prices begin at 500 and reach 600.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29

After good trial have found the Berkshire Mills I'm
derwear and the hosiery perfectly satisfactory That's the
have the exclusion of all other lines garment for
everybody at everybodys prices.
Ladies' wool garments $780, $125 Ladies' fleece garments
29, 39c, Soc Ladies' Union Suits 5Oc 10O 1885, 15O IT'S
Chdrns wool Aeeced garments 25c and up Mems Aeeced
and wool underwear Soc, LOO, l25.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
NO ARMoR AGAINST FATE.

There is no armor against fate, says the poet, and the poet says truly. For instance, Lewis Wells of Providence met death, or was met by death, while driving on scituate avenue in Cranston. A piece of granite weighing over ten pounds was hurled one thousand feet from ledge which is being blasted on the Henry A. Knight farm and struck the man as he sat in his buggy, caus- ing injuries which resulted in his death a little over half an hour later. James Ryan, an employe of Wells, who sat in the wagon with him, was uninjured, but Wells time had come. The work men at the ledge ran down the road and stopped the wagon in which Wells was, and he waited, supposing himself to be beyond any possibility of injury, as the blasting was so far away. The blast was set off and in a few seconds the heavy piece of granite came crash ing through tree into the wagon, striking Wells in the right side, break ing his right arm and one rib.
 Wells was killed by 8 stone. Mrs. Charles B. Keeler, wife of New Canaan CConnecticut physician, was killed by cherry blossoms. She was out driving, gust of wind caused a shower of cherry blossoms to fall upon her horse, and he bolted Mrs. Keeler was thrown out of the carriage and died five minutes after she was picked up.
 Such is life, and death And so we go on. not knowing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
4 POSSTBILITY.

It really begins to look as if there might be 8 revision" of the tariff, though not such revision as will give much comfort to those who think in- fant industries can now take care of themselves. The view taken by MT. James w. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, is perhaps both inspired and inspiring Anyhow, 1t is more moderate and req sonable than the view of the stand-pat- ters. He thinks the Republican party, in it's convention of 1908, should pledge itself, in case it carries the country in that year, to revise the tariff in an ex- tra session to be called immediately af- ter the inauguration of the President in 1909. A committee of intelligent, public spirited men, representing both parties and all sections, should be authorized by Congress and appointed by the President in 1908 to go over the entire tariff, schedule by schedule, and draw up a bill which would meet all the de- mands of business at that time. The President inaugurated in 19O9 assum- ing that he is a Republican, should, as MT. Mckinley did in 1897, call Congress immediately into session, and that body, using the tariff commission's bill as basis, should frame an act which would intelllgently meet all legitimate demands.
 Thus, MT. Van Cleave thinks, politics could be eliminated, and we could get a business and not political tariff. He is probably mistaken about that. We should probably get tariff in which there would be too much business and too much politics, but it might be an improvement on the present one. which needs improvement
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24

to be laboring under the misdirected misapprehension that the people of the cities of Connecticut are less capable of governing themselves than the rural members of the general assembly, who dwell under a uniform town govern ment, are of governing them from distance Nor Is 1t of the slightest consequence that the commission found a great variety In method among the cities of the state. The very idea of uniform municipal charter was to introduce harmony of purpose among all so far as the funda- mentals of local government are con- .cerned.
 The report of the commission fur ther says: Experience in other juris- dictions has demonstrated the fact that after charter provisions relating to cities have been made uniform by a general law, they do not long remain so," which may be accounted for, on the one hand, by the bad habit of leg
 islating specially as is the practice in Connecticut, and, on the other hand, by the fact that in no single instance has such uniform charter policy been tried as it was easily within the pow CT of the state of Connecticut to in- augurate and demonstrate the power of We find it difficult to believe that -the commission gave the subject other than unenthusiastic consideration. And yet in our judgment nothing is surer among the achievements of the future than the enactment of such 6 law as we advocate. Disorderly principles are not always to be relied upon in organizing municipalities. They will either be abandoned or municipalities
 will be abandoned, and if it is the lat
 ter which are abandoned we shall then all be living under the uniform pro- visions of town government.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
4 COMING ETENT.

Coming events cast their shadows before, and the adjournment of the legislature is coming event, as 1t has been for a long time. The shadow of 1t has become apparent in a resolu- tion which passed both houses yester- day. This makes the date of ad- journment June 19, and as legislative resolutions sometimes mean what they say perhaps We shall be justified in having faith in this one. But if it shouldn't happen to pan out the leg islature will surely adjourn sometime. When 1t rains they say that if it doesn't stop 1t will be the first time 1t hasn't stopped, and if this leg islature doesn't adjourn it will be the first one that hasn't adjourned.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
PUBIIC UTILITIES 1f G1s1ArroN.

PUBLIC UTILITIES IT. GISLATION
 The public utilities bill, which has had the uncompromising support of Governor Hughes of New York, yesterday passed the upper branch of the general assembly of that state and Is now in the hands of Mayor MeClel- Ian of New York for his approval. He Is expected to veto it, but with the knowledge that the legislature will pass it over his disapproval, The gov ernor will immediately sign it and then 1t will be law.
 The Albany correspondents declare that it is the most revolutionary measure tlfe New York legislature has passed in many years, but obviously the accuracy of this assertion depends upon the meaning one attaches to the word revolutionary. In the language of layman, the public utilities bill is an effort, conceived by man whose purpose and sincerity are not ques- toned by the public service corpora tions, but whose judgment In this con- nection is, on the part of the Empire state to fulfill it's part of the contract understanding which exists always between the creator of corporations and the creatured corporations them- selves. It is tardy legislation we will admit. Perhaps if it had been thought of before the misconduct of the public service creatures had made it clear that something revolutionary must be undertaken, there would have been no Governor Hughes and hence no de- mand for the writing of his experience with them into terms of law.
 The proposed law is a "bossy" one,
 and it had to be if the game is now
 to be played by immense combinations
 of capital as it should have been play ed from the first. If one will read the
 bill carefully in the light of written 1 history, one may regret the necessity 1 for the State government swinging "a big stick" of its own, and even see new dangers in this joint management
 of the business of public service cor
 porations, but he will be unable to
 point out a single provision in the bill | which has not it's roots in sound busi-
 ness principles. Had they been ob-
 served, and had there accompanied the
 observation of them a sense of moral
 responsibility on the part of the man. | agements during all these years, the
 legislative outlook under pressure oi 1 public opinion, would have been entire ly different. In other words, whatever
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
The Crltlc.

A mud turtle sat on a stone in the sun, And blinked in a slow, stupid way; A vain little fly
 Came lettering by, He stopped on the same rock to say: You're the ugliest creature that ever
 I saw: You are clumsy and stupid and slow, And just how you manage a living at
 all, Is thing I should much like to know But the little mud turtle spoke never a
 word As he sat in the sun on the stone;
 He wearily blinked.
 He thought as he winked, That a wise fly would let him alone, But the fly had grown proud of his power to torment, And he buzzed at the mud turtles Till the turtle at last gave one short
 little snap, And the critical insect was dead. It is really too bad that the fly never
 knew That the turtle was wiser than he; For a creature that thinks
 As it winlxs and it blinks. May a dangerous enemy De- And because one can chatter, and buzz,
 and annoy 'Tis no proof he is clever or wise. He may do no more good than to serve as the food For the one whom he feigns to de-
 The Bohemian,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
4N AMAzING DEBATE.

If the press reports are accurate i'll their description of the running debate in the State Senate Wednesday over the recommendation of the committee on contested elections that in the Ho- man-States contest the contestants be paid in excess of the amount provided for by law, it will pass into current history as the most amazing debate of the session. It provokes one to ask, if the State Senate can with impunity take the law into it's own hands, after the manner. of what the eclipsed crim- inal lawyer from the Pacific coast would call "dementia Americana" why should not the rest of us?
 The recommendation of the commit tee was that Mr. States, who originally represented the Tenth senatorial dis trlct in the State Senate, should be paid the sum of $S75, and that Senator Homan be paid the sum of $76206 for protecting his rights in the hearing be- fore the committee on contested elec- tions and later in his defense against the onslaught of George L. Fox of this city. In the case of MT, States, Senator Waller explained that all but $75 had gone to the attorney in the case. No explanation appears to have been given of the Homan items, but presumably they, too, concern legal charges. Sem ator Donovan called attention to the statute which forbids an appropriation in excess of S100 for contested election cases and was supported in his logical theory that the Senate possessed no power to override the statutes by Sen ator McGovern of Hartford Senator Potter was curious enough to ask what statutes were for unless to be obeyed, but Senator Walsh, the majority lead CT, and Senator McNeil, whom Senator Donovan hailed as the next democratic nominee for governor, calmly asserted that the Senate had the power to set statutes aside and in this instance should do So. It was then done.
 The question involved here Is not at all question of the worth of the ser vices given by the counsel engaged in these hearings, but is that of the right of the senate to act in disregard of the law of the commonwealth. It is fair to assume that the lawyers, who ap- peared in these cases, knew the limita- tion set upon their fee by the State and must have at the time been satisfied with that remuneration, though if this ruling of the Senate is correct 1t will be a very foolish lawyer in the future who works for other than contingent fee with the legal limitation as a mini mum. Since the Senate can do what it likes, would 1t not be simple justice for it to reimburse MT. Fox, who took the course he did from the loftiest motives of citizenship. He, too, should be ben ehciary of the Senate
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
4 CHEERING 0t4E0oE.

European peace may not be as im- possible as some of the cynics think and say it is. Sir Charles Dilke knows as much about International politics as anybody, and it is well worth noticing that he thinks that peace is going to, prevail in Europe for many years, In talk the other day he ridlculed the notion of German editor that Great Britain designed an attack upon Ger many. The unpopularity of the Ger mans in England, he said, was a mat ter of feeling, of historic grudges, and of financial and commercial competi- tion but history showed that nations never made war for such tri1es. Nor did he believe that Germany would make war upon England. The Eng fish were in possession of naval su- premacy and would maintain it, what ever attempts might be made to de- prive them of it. If the German em- pire increased the number of its ships, England would do the same, indefinite | ly. In view of the cost of her army, 1 Germany could not hope to rival the English fleet. Sir Charles remarked that there had been no serious danger of a European confiagration since 1875, and he doubted whether even then there was actual ground for alarm So with the Moroccan question. The French were greatly excited, but he thought they were mistaken in fearing I hostilties In reply to suggestion that danger existed during the Boulange1 period, Sir Charles exclaimed with a smile: 'Boulanger, why he would have concluded Franco-German alliance"
 If Europe can be peaceful for many years she may conclude that she can be peaceful for the rest of the years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
PASSED.

"The upstate Senator claims to be opposed to the bill"
 Then I'll vote for it.
 Hold on. Maybe that's what he's after.a-Louisville Courier-J Journal He once was making money;
 Much more than he could use. Detectives caught him at 1t,
 And now he's making shoes.
 Philadelphia Press. Important Patron (after describing the great advantages now enjoyed by children)-I wish I were you children at school. (Pause; then ingratiating- ly): Why do wish this?
 Boy-Please, sir, eos you've forgot all you ever knowed!-Punch.
 See here!" cried the boys father, If you don't behave I'll whip you. T wisht you would" replied the bad boy.
 You do, eh?'
 "Yes, cause when it's all over ma will gimme some candy. "-Philadel- phia Press.
 Wright-I've tried . everything, and my novels don't seem to sell.
 Penman-Excuse me, but you have not tried everything You know 1t is said that Dickens novels sell four times better than during his life.- Yonkers Statesman.
 "Pa," said little Willie, "the goose has a bigger bill than any other bird, hasn't it?''
 Well, my son." replied pa, who had just received a statement for his lat est suit of clothes, "I guess the tailor's goose has. Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Can't See q Good Thing.
twaterbury Republican.l )

New Haven is nothing if not ambi-
 tious. Here we find the esteemed Jour- nal and Courier actually bidding in be- half of the city for one of the big na- tional conventions, It is hardly to be imagined that the respective national committees of the big parties will bite very hard at the New Haven bait. but assuredly all Connecticut will wish that they might It would be breaking pre- cedents and making history at great rate if a national convention were aetu- ually to be held on Connecticut soil
 But 1t isn't likely that even the fas- cinations of the sound shore in sum mer time and the entrancing beauties of gaieties, will tempt the men who pull the wires for the national politi- cal organizations The midwest is far more likely to attract them this time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
UNIFORM CITY CHARTER.


 The General Assembly of 1905 created a commission and charged it with the consideration of proposal to have the State of Connecticut enact a uniform municipal charter, which all towns were at liberty to adopt but for which there should be no special substitute. . The commission was appointed and made representative of all of the cities of the State It is not matter of record, we believe. that the full com mission ever met together nor that even a majority of them ever did. It is a matter of record, however, that the full commission has now reported unanimously to the legislature of 1907 adversely upon the proposition.
 The reasoning which has led to this conclusion is far from convincing. It rather impresses one as conclusion born of an indifference to the idea in- stead of one resistlessly borne in on the commission from facts which would not efface themselves The commis- sion says in the Introductory section of their report, for example: Any char ter which should embrace all the powers, duties and obligations now per- taining to municipal governments in this State would have to be expressed in the broadest general terms, leaving each city to exercise the powers there in conferred by ordinance in accord ance with it's own specific needs" This, the report says, would add to the vari- ety of the charters rather than lessen 1t. The purpose of the advocates of the uniform charter for Connecticut municipalities was not to deprive cities of such regulations for their lives as their necessities demanded, but having provided a skeleton for municipal or ganization, resembling in scope State constitution, to relieve them of the need of running to the legislature every time special need of exclusive local importance presented itself. Certain definite requirements were to be de- manded of every town seeking a munich pal form of government, requirements already determined by experience, and after that each city was to be left to govern itself. Provided the main fea- lures of municipal organization are provided for, it is of no importance whatever what the variety of subordin- ate rules and regulations is. The rights of home rule are greater than those of political theorizing.
 We are at loss to know what the commission means in leaning, for an excuse to extend it's adverse report, up- on the purely imaginary argument, that because leach city in Connecticut has a character and genius Of its own' and "has developed along lines which are but the expression of the needs, the environment and the industrial and so- cial life of it's citizens" such a uniform charter as we have described above would change all this" and force new system upon such communities and 'be revolution ary." There is nothing whatever in uniform charter that would disturb in the slightest degree the character and the genius of its people. While on the contrary it would be more likely to stimulate those excellent qualities by directing the citizens, who have been made to conform to the essentials of municipal organization, to govern themselves. The commission appears
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Representation and Syntax In q Fatal
 Scrimmhge.
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tEdTllOru IlmeS.)
 The codified constitution which the house of representatives unanimously approved on Tuesday declares that all men, when they form social com7 pact, arc equal in rlghts"-and at the same time it perpetuates system of legislative representation under which a citizen of Union has 252 times as great a voting power in the house as citizen of New Haven has. It breaches equality of rights and prac- tices inequality of rights.
 It uses the expression, Neither the whole or the rart of one county" al- though the grammarians tell us that the correlative of the word neither is nor and not or.
 Tn spite of the grammatical lapses the syntax of the codifed constitution is superior to it's system of legislative apportionment,