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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-27
Ask for O.Kourke's un,on tobacco.
THE PRErTIEST FACE

H and the most beautiful hands are of- ten disfigured by an unsightly wart It can easily be removed in few days without pain by using Cyrus wars Remover, for sale only at The Cyrus Pharmacy, 253 Fairfield avenue and lS6 Cannon St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-27
CLEANEASY. THE BEST HAND
 SOAP

Guaranteed not to injure the skin, Instantly removes Stove Polish, Rust, Grease, Ink, Paint and Dirt. For the hands or clothing. Large can 10 cents Manufactured by Wm. R. Vim, PA Stratford Ave.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-27
HARVARD LOST AS USUAL.

New Haven, Feb. 27.-Harvard was defeated by Yale last night in stir ring basket ball game, 25 to 4. At no time had Harvard the least chance to get a winning streak, for Yale's team started with rush, and sustained the pace.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-27
AN ENTIRE FAMILY OF MUSICIANS
 COMES TO POLpS NEXT WEEK

Foremost Family BHBiant Repertoire Classic and Popular Selections Xyophone and Brass Instruments USedB (IeyerAr
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
HELD HERE BY COURT ORDER.
Alleged Bankrupts Kept in Jurisdiction
on Creditors Appeal

Judge Holt, OF the United States District
Court, got out OF bed at midnight the
night before last TO sign writ of ne exsat
to prevent David Cohen and Louis 2 Lew
inson from leaving the jurisdiction OF the
court. Cohen and Levinson made up the
firm OF ID. Cohen & Co. makers of waists.
at No. So Fifth avenue
On Tuesday an involuntary petition In
bankruptcy was filed against them. three
OF the creditors asserting that the partners
had removed or concealed most OF their
assets while the firm was insOlvent Henry
A. Robinson was appointed receiver, and il
is said that when he took possession OF
the firms place of business he found
stock worth not more than s5.0G0 although
the creditors say thar there should have
been $4,000 worth, at least.
John W. Bergen. who holds a note of the
firm for s5,0a1, got Judge Holt out of bed
to aid in keeping the men here Marshal
Henkers men got busy and arrested the
pair at their homes, and Cohen and Levin
son were held in $4,000 bail. The Eabili-
ties are placed at more than $4,000
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
FEWER CHURCHES.
4maIgamation Would Preuent
Waste, Says Professor Coe.

Professor George A Coe of the Union
Theological Seminary, spoke energedcally
in favor Of reducing the number of small
country churches in addressing the Amerl-
can Sociological Society at its meeting In
the Waldorf last night. He based his argu-
ment on the figures in recent census bull
letin. comparing the church membership
of 1906 with that of 1890.
THE average membership of all Protest
ant churches" he said, lis l04. In 1880 It
was only &C. Surely this means that there
must be an enormous number of very small
churches Very many of these must repre-
sent an economic waste. Each supplies to
its minister only a fraction of the work
which he is capable of performing with ef-
fciency. Certainly an amalsamation or
great numbers of the parishes Is most de-
sirable.
1T is not true that the church is Losing
It's hold on our population. While the pop
ulation increased "a per cent in these six
teen years, the church membership in
creased 60 per cent. In the Catholic Church
the increase was S5 per cent, and IN the
Protestant denominations 45 per cent The
first is partly explained by immigration,
but that factor does not so far apply in
the case of Protestants as to offset the de-
creasing birth rate
Other speakers were J. T. Shotwell, OF
Columbia. and H. Webster. of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska
The American Political Science Associa-
ton ELECTED the following officers at its
meeting last right at the Waldorf:
President. Woodrow Wilson, Princeton;
first vice president. Edmund ]. James, Uni
versity Of Illinois; second vice-president.
Albert Bushnell Hart Harvard: third vice
president ". F. Willoughby. Washington;
members of the executive committee:
+. J. Goodnow. Columbia; j. II. Lapane.
Washington and Lee; John A. Fairlic. Hi
rois; Charles L. Merriam, University of
Chicago; Theodore Woolsey, Yale; secre-,
tary-treasurer w. w. Willoughby, Johns
Hopkins, and chairman of Programme
committee, j. A. Fairlie.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
TALK or NEGROES.
Southern Race Problem Dis
cussed bu Historians.

The discussion OF Southern history be
fore the American Historical Association
in the Astor Gallery at the Waldorf last
night turned largely TO the negro prob
lem and the part that the reconstruction
period played in the development of that
section Of the country.
After Professor w. e Dubois, OF Atlanta
University, one of the best known negroes
in the South, had endeavored to point
out the benefits OF reconstruction and had
denied many of the attacks made upon
those engaged in that work, Robert Chis-
holm, of Birmingham. Ala. drew Il sad
picture OF reconstruction days.
For nearly ten years Satan took the
saddle" he said. 1t was a plague greater
than all the plaques that infested Egypt
The Anglo-Saxon was brought to bay. and
he bscame dangerous, as lie always does
under such circumstances. He shook the
incubus off.
when We do a thing in this country 1t
is right because we do il. The negro lost
his vote His getting 1t back will never
be left 10 hazard. He will get it only
when he proves worthy OF it,
Mr. Chisholm, speaking 10 the North said
with much feeling: without loving the
negro any less. cannot you love the South
a little more?"
Professor Dubois said that the work of
reconstruction after great civil war would
have been trying even without the conpli-
eating presence of the negro. There was
incompetence and there was plunder In the
reconstruction" said Professor Dubois. but
the slime OF theft was on every Northern
state. both due to the low standard of NOR
ais brought about by the war. There were
negroes who were plunderers. But at the
same time Tweed WAS fiourisbIng in New
York and there were honest men in this
city, although they were contemporaries Of
Tweed"
Professor William A Dunniug OF Colum-
bia traced the course of legislation by
which the ciyil and political rights of the
negroes were supposed to have been as
sured 10 him. But In the last twenty
years" he said. the Southern legislatures
have shown themselves rigorous in taxi
ing away these rights as Congress was in
giving them"
William CARROT Brown, Professor u %.
Phillips. President Wsrield of LAFAYETTE
College. Judge William II. Thomas. OF
Montgomery. Ala. and Professor FRANKLIN
l.. Riley. of the University of Mississippi,
also spohes- Professor Albert II. Hart pre-
sided
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
ICE HELPS JACKIES.
Sinks T1oO Fleet Launches,
Extending Shore Leaue.

Not all of the jackies here with the Min
nesota. the Connecticut, the Wisconsin and
the Kansas have been in the Arctic, but
even the newest ones think they would be
well qualified for dash to the pole Cross
ing to and from the warships is no fun in
these wintry days. and the little launches
had hard time plugging the ice yester-
day.
The shore leave men stood on the 96th
street pier yesterday afternoon waiting for
launches, the wind blowing UP under their
Tapping trousers legs. Three of the little
boats put off from the Minnesota, the Wis
consin and the Kansas, but the Minnesota's
launch was not half way across before she
was rammed in the port bow by a minia-
ture iceberg. Just as she began to sink
the city boat Mcclellan picked up her crew.
Another launch from the Minnesota suffered
the same fate, and the wet and shivering
men were hurriedly taken to the Naval Re
serve ship Granite State where they re-
ceived stimulants and other aid. The other
boats then put back to their ships.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
DEPENDS DIR. BRIGGS.
DR.. Clarke Says Miracles are
possible.

Church circles In Brooklyn were interest
ed yesterday by remarks made by the Rev.
DIR. L. Mason Clarke. OF the First Presby-
terian Church. in an address TO his con-
gregation on Wednesday evening. on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination
to the ministry He said he had come to
believe that miracles were logically inn
possible. nationally improbable and relis-
iously valueless'' He defended Professor
Charles A. Briggs, and declared il was not
always necessary for a minister to believe
as his hearers did. adding: "The supernst-
ural. know, is the spiritual. not the spec
tacular I cannot find that my faith rests
upon one miracle. 1t rests upon an expert
eDce. My belief In Providence has had
rebrth in my experience with Providence.
e.. l do not need any pillar of fire or OF
cloud. l believe In Christ not because OF
his virgin birth or his physical resurrec
ton"
DR.. Clarke said that he had imbibed some
thing of the spirit and faith of Professor
Briggs. Little by little," said DR.. Clarke.
II came out into liberty and joy 1 never
before had known. / do not mean
to say that this was accomplished without
more less disasreeable experiences. but
/ do say l never have known anything like
trouble in the Church.
Il am utterly unable to comprehend this
common criticism OF the ministry as a
place where one has no liberty DIR. Clarke
went to say. II beg to testify that 1
have never once been conscious OF any
restraint upon my freedom of utterance or
of life, although a man who has to talk
much as minister does is bound to say
a multitude of foolish and false things in
the course of quarter of a century. But
IL the people believe In the man they do
not need to believe in everything he says
or does
Besides this, minister has TO say what
he believes. for woe TO him IL he begins to
preach what he himself has no faith in.
Yet. minister will not always believe as
his hearers do. He ought not to. If he
believes in the living God he will be get
ting a constant supply of new materials
which will inevitably modify his own
faith
Referring to the trial of Professor Briggs,
DIR. Clarke said: II member of that
General Assembly which met In Washing
ton, and 1 hope and pray that it may never
be my misfortune to witness another
ecclesiastical trial. II there is anything
calculated to rob a man of faith, hope and
love it is an affair like that Professor
Briggs stood for the liberty of scholarship.
The protest against the action of the
assembly was signed by eighty-five men
of whom / was one, for which / record my
gratitude now. There is calm sat
isfaction now in looking back and in re-
membering that Professor Briggs. who
only sixteen years ago was considered
heretic is now a real conservative"
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
SLOWER QUITS POLICE WORK.
Former Assistant Corporation Counsel
Returns to His Old Office.

Josiah A. Slower. third deputy police
commissioner, resigned his office yesterday.
and his resignation took effect at o'clock.
Immediately he went TO the office of the
Corporation Counsel, where he resumed his
old place as assistant corporation coun-
sci. ii was -ith this understanding that
he would return to his old place. that he
became a deputy commissioner.
AT the time that Mr.. Bugher and his
deputy. Bert Hanson. resigned Mayor Me-
Clellan asked Mr.. Stover to take the place
in order that "A lawyer might act as trial
Judge. He left the Corporation Couasel's
Office with this understanding, and yester-
day he handed his resignation to Commits.
sioner Baker who accepted it.
MIR. Stover yesterday morning tried de-
linquent policemen, but at ! o'clock the un-
finished cases were adjourned until to-day.
when they will be heard by First Deputy
Bugher.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31

te"eo, owing 10 the serious illness of Ham.
Ii'oh NICK. Twombly, Mr.. Vanderbil,.s
brother-in-law. 'i'
Az the afternoon sessions at co,u,,h;o
a. l. 'olenbrander. the official representa-
"Ne Oh hoiiand a the conference smoke
On ne Dutch Element in America lie
eN""eu the claim which has been nut
~ "ao pN some scholars, particularly by
pousias Campbell In recent book. that
faolsho. rather than England, furnished
this country with her institutions of frae
schools, religious liberty. local self-sov-
ernment and the American system of land
holoing, in which there is rracticallv no
class OF tenant farmers Most OF t1es, in
sututions did not come from either Hol-
land or England, he said. but were of
native growth. representing the sound
common sense of the mixed population.
carlton Il. Hayes described his course
In contenporaneous history at Columbia
winch employs a method hitherto uniried
IN American universities 1t consists In a
genuine historical laboratory, where news
papers, instead OF biological specimens"
are dissected
Il would call attention. he said. "to
the possibility of teaching history back
ward. That. of course is the way the
much OF the history of the nineteenth
century may be approached through the
developments CT the present day Each
student reads one New York newspaper
Clipping the foreign dispatches and arrang-
ing them as historical material. This train
ing in handling the sources at first hand
is invaluable"
MISS Mary Pierce, in a discussion of the
work. of school clubs. took up the cudgels
FOR boys of the early high school age
whom A. l.. Pugh. OF the High School OF
, Commerce, had denominated young saw
ages without any moral principles at all" 80
''One of my boys" she said. was show
ing off strip of subway tickets. He said
he had made seven ten 1t turned out
that he had bought seven tickets in strip
and then torn them that they seemed to
be ten. | had long talk with him, and
found that he had read and heard so
much about the wickedness OF public
wants that he believed that ii was not
wrong TO cheat them. / tried to show
him the right, and was rather surprised
TO find that he had afterward convinced
several other boys who had been doing
the same thing. They were all students in
the early years at City College
At the business meeting the award Of the
Adams prize for an essay in European
history 10 Wallace Notestein, of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, was announced. The
following officers were elected: President,
Frederick ]. Turner. of the University OF
Wisconsin; first Ylce-president, w. NJ.
Sloane. of Columbia; second vice-president
Theodore Roosevelt; secretary, w. {.
Leland; treasurer. c. w. Bowen: secretary
of the council. Charles II. Hoskins; cura-
tor, ]. Howard Clark, and council. +. Il.
Greene, L. b. Hull. Max Farrand. f. H.
Holder, L. Z. Sparks and +. l.. Rowley.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
D. A. R. DEFALCATION FATAL
Worry Kills One Woman-Another a
Nervous Wreck.

Washington. Dec. 3O-One woman has
died from worry and another is a nervous
wreck in sanatorium rs result OF the
disclosure of defalcation in the treasury
of the Daughters of the American Revolu
tion several weeks ago. Both women. who
were clerks, were innocent. but feared they
might be suspected.
On this account the name of the clerk
who confessed to being guilty of the def
alcation has been made known to all the
regents of the order. but has been with
held from publication. A new system of
accounts has been adopted.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31

Negotiating the river was given up for
the time and the wigwag flags signalled
the sailors on the pier that there had
been granted a few hours more shore
leave for the Minnesota men and a whole
extra day for the Connecticut tars.
Commander Kane of the Connecticut
went aboard his ship In a steam tug, and
even that had trouble In the river. which
was running like the proverbial millrace,
eff Grants Tomb. The Fort Lee ferry
boat found yesterday strenuous the wind
and ice being cruel antagonists.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
MORE TYPHOID IN MONTREAL.

Montreal. Dec. ao-Thirty new cases OF
typhoid and three additional deaths from
the disease We're reported 10 the health
officers here this morning. An emergency
meeting of he Civic Health Committee
has been called to formulate plans for
combating the epidemic.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
EARTH SHOCK IN OREGON.

Portland. Ore Dec. 30.-A slight earth
shock was felt here al 42S o'clock this
aftegnoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18
hIAWksl3<I@ise, IaNAzsvI7IlwJa1

was sentenced fifteen years in the Western Peni- tentiary. sgsssS
 Before the collapse of his banks. John R. Walsh was consdered of the most reliable and strongest of financial men in Chicago, When the Chicago National Bank and its allied institutions the Home Saving Bank and the Equitable Trust Company. declared ins solvent the crash shook the city That in Decem- ber 1905 About tive years later after sensational trial Walsh was found guilty of msappicaton of funds sentenced at the of 7 to five years in the penitentiary An appeal is now pending.
 .M Of the been convicted, Walshs career was of the picturesque He to this coun- try from Ireland at age 12. and sold papers streets. saving enough to buy newsstand This developed into the Western News Company ; Walsh made money. and In 1882 organized the Chicago National Bank. He became interested in railroads and other enterprises He attempted to build a road from Terre Haute Ind. to Chicago In competition, with the Pennsylyana and the Chicago . and Eastern, Illinois
 Into this and the Southern Indiana he sunk his fortune and. it is charged. the assets of the bank This, of course was not known until Mir. Moxey looked over the banks books and discovered the facts And walsh entered the ranks of the disgraced.
 In the sheyday.o his career marveled at the Ice Trust and 2 dominant figure Tn the world of its the nanciaf foundations of the coun try shook with. the fall.'
 The Ice Trusts head had gained control of chain of nine banks. which, Mir Moxey charged. he wrongly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18
SUICIDE FOLLOWS EXPOSURE

It was Mir Moxey who found that two bookkeepers had lifted 900 from the Union National Bank or New Orleans. When MT. Moxey appeared to investi- gate she bank bookkeeper committed suicide Mr. Moxey also supplied evidence upon which the presi- dent and cashier of Missouri National Bank of Kansas City were indicted { 4
 Like many men who have risen. Mir. Moxey mads himself. began his career office boy In the house of Glendinning Davis & Go, in Phiadelpha. his native city. He remained with the firm until he became cashier Thence he graduated into the brok- business when he decided to devote himself to expert accounting.
 Not many years passed before the man's fame spread over the country and he called to various examine and straighten out the books of banks and institutions the Keystone National and the Spring Garden National banks of Philadelphia faied Albert w. Barrett, who was placed in charge of the ChieK Drummond. of the Secret Sery- Ice. His work such that the government offered to employ him. He became associated with the De- partment Justice in 1891.
 From his experience Mir. Moxey. has developed strong ideas as to .hs ofdishonesty. Ask him the reason why many bankers and employees go wrons and he'll reply promptly. High living"
 Most of bank thevng are d@ to high living, extravagance desire get rich quick by spscuia ton'' he says sIf you want to the cause. to the gorgeous hote- restaurants.t the bars, the gambling houses. the stheaters.
 "Fast life breeds desire for vast incomes. To say that even bare majority of thett tens of thcu- sands of men who nightly swell the crowd of amuse- spenders in large city. who live in 5000 apartments and whose touring ,congest the streets doing this with money which is honestly theirs Is absurd.
 "They are not earning this money; they either juggling other peoples cash they are gambling with thsr When can gp insC sS Sse st womens gowns at the tables and sso0o worth of fGSS E n so Ss a mon Cf wsitisg so take this one supper erDwd there is queer bookkeeping somewhere."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18

 Dreadnought is 49o feet. The Connecticut of ths United States navy Is 46o feet long,
 The muzzle of the gun can be elevated sixty de- grees, and the weapon Is mounted that 1t be made to train easily and rapidly moving objects in the air. The wheels short axles, which hinged to the body of the carriage in such that the gun, with it's spade fixed in the ground. be made to describ@ circle. l+e
 As alrsnips travel with eonsiderenle speed. h may rate. For this purpose type of the new gun has been constructed for mounting upon automobile.
 Both the neid and motor guns equipped with sighting arrangefnents, that the follow readily airship in its twistngs and ings the time Keeping the proper range. &
 The field gun throws A shell of SIS pounds with an initial velocity of something 2OO0 feet second, while the heavier automobile gun throws sss-pound shell with initial velocity of 2300 feet
 Having thus solved the problem of q mobile and was to provide n suitable proJectile. The ordinary projectile would the purpose. It might aeropiane should it strike fairly but would simply pass through the bag of airship of the Zeppelin type.
 After careful study of the subject a projectie burning shell devised This is intended not only to pierce the bag but to set fire to the escaping gas
 The burning shell permits the officer in charge of the gun follow it's flight with the range finder and correct -fniscacula tions immediately.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18
Problem of High School Prizes

THEN the freshman class of the Isaac Newton - W High School summoned to conference w with the other classes, It's members were pleased and proud But when they learned that, at this 0 year. 1t the custom to levy contributions which should provide medals for ora tory and mathematics Billy smiley, the class hu- morist. declared they were being admitted on terms dishonorabie equality This Is the the oratory medal assessment amounting to SIS. was levied:
 Members of the class whose candidate won first prize to pay while the class whose didate won second prize should pay the remainder
 When the high school maj thematiclans got to work the chances Of the oratory expenses, they eacu- lated that if senior should win first prixe and Q junior the second every junior would have to pay 59 If a junior first and a sophomore second. every sophomore must pay 3s Ia cents. If sopho- mo a freshman second every fresh- m 25 cents. If freshman won first and a senior second-uhlikely but alurng prospect-every senior 20 cents.
 How many students were there in each class?
 Answer to Problem of the Three Auoists; The olq sold $1440. "Andy's" share S600s "Bilfs" share was s4sO. ."Chariie's" share was s3s0
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18
Edward P. Moxey. the Dread Nemesis of, Dishonest Officials

AFTER service of more fhan eighteen 4 years, during sOhieh lime he has ex- 4 A posed and had convicted more bank defauIfers than any other tiving man. Edsvard P. Moxey, the "Old Sleuh" of bank exam iners, has retired from the Department of Jastiee of fhe United Statss goVefnmenf.- During his ofeial career Hs specially has been the jaiiing of dishoaest bankers. 4 chief defector of banking erookedNess Mr. Moxey, also knosen as "Old Hundred, " ,has gathered 10 his girdle just thirty sealpsa record unparalleled 1T the history Of the service.
 He has retired from flle. serviee of the govenment for the simple reason that Hie detecfion of banking crimes, as q business, did rot pay. When he had reached 60 years of life He decided that t scas lime 10 make pro- visioa for old age, SC. he has gone frozp fhe service of the goOsrnment into That of the Gnggenheims ct. . salary, 1t is stated of Ss5,ooo q year, taking charge Of tbe account ing and finance departments of tbe eorpora- . fions in svhieh, they are interested.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18

Pennsylvania. Lear lawyer, influential in pcia- tics and was considered for judgeship. Brock nis brother -in-law was "society man. of the town.
 The arrest of the two men precipitated tremen- dous sensation. Mir Moxey furnished evidence wnich showed that Lear had got money from his ia " Whenever he wanted any Lear found guilty of the governments charge that he had msappropri- ated ,eooo0. also convicted and sentenosd to i've years Imprisonment for defrauding the banks
 People probably remember the notorious Gaynor- Green which two civilians and an army officer conspred to defraud the government while enr gagged in big work in Savannah river. The missing links which convicted the involved were supplies by Moxey. who traced the money.