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Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
This, Collection Consists of

Dolls of all sizes. with Dresses and
 without.
 Dolls GO+CartS and Carriages. Boys and Girls Sleds Wagons and Nheelbarrows Rocking Horses and Shoo Flys. Blackboards and Desks Child's Rockers and Chairs. Dolls Trunks and Furniture Horses and Wagons Steam Engines and Trains. Tool Chests and Drums. Picture and Building Blocks. Ten Pins and Games. Dolls Planes and Chairs. Hook and Ladders and Hose Carts Dolls Kitchens and Stoves. Steamships and Boats.
 
 Magic Lanterns and Printing Presses Accordions and Zithcrs OrgGnetts and TubcphCnes. BIeating Sheep. Cows and Goats Woolcy Dogs, Rabbits and Cats Laundry Sets. Pastry Sets and Arks. Dolls Dishes and Sideboards. Dolls Cradles md Beds. Trick Banks and Savings Banks. Dolls Clothing and Furs. Trumpets and Horns. Rubber Balls and Tops. Drawing States and Boxes of ColoYs. Guns. Pistols ard Soldier Sets. Milk and Express Wagons And a hundred and one Mechanical
 Toys too numerous to describe. A large line of Juvenile Picture Books BOTH LINEN AND CARD BOARD Every ore is invited to come and bring the children to see the display Spe cial prices to Sunday Schools and Sc cieties, goods selected now will bt packed away and delivered at any ap pointed time.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
MARY.

It cost John just So to become the dearest husband that ever was" That little polished Golden Oak Desk did the business all right. We knew it would in fact told him sO
 If you wish to see n complete line of Ladies' Desks in hirdS-eye maple. colden oak or maho%any, We can show you just 4S styles by actual count.
 We are already laying. them aside fo" Xmas delivery. .
 Prices. &450-graded in advances of 90 cents or so up to S33.OO.
 Scrra Fine Comhiaation Book Cases and Desks. from &12 to $50.
 ChjlGren's Desks. S150. Just the thing for vour little boy or girl. Only 2 l'r!ited few left
 Headura,ters fer Christians Gifts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
Rir MAT suan NOJeh

LONDON. Dec. 12.-The house of commons yesterday voted t16,O0O000 to carry on war Lord Roberts has daily announced us ''fnishca' at full scale cost for another three months in the lstless manner characteristic of it's proceedings when dealing With finance and with a careful avoidance of what might turn out to be unjustitiable hopefulness.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
French Rcfuse. Russians Excluded.

LONDON. Dec. 12.-The Morning Post publishes tine following from its Picking correspondent. dated Dec. 10: The French have refused to participate in the scheme of q police committee for Peking, formed under the direction of Colonel Baron Gayl. in which the Amcr- can member is Captain Dodds. The Rus sians have been excluded because tLey no longer exercise control here.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
HOW John Did H
My Dearest John:

NY B6nrCSt JONn:
 1 have just been happily surprised by the arrival of the dainty little writ ing desk which you were thoughtful enough to send me before you went away. It is just what 1 wanted and 1 have dedicated it by writing you this letter to tell you that you are the dear est husband that ever was. etc, etc, etc.
 Lovingly.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
Accident at Lfsc una's Funeral.

: ' WASHlNGTUN, Det. IZ.-W hlIe or his way with his command to attend Colonel Liscum's funeral yesterday after noon. Alfred Bader, an artilleryman. fell from his horse at the corner of Third and
 itennsylvania avenues and was run over ty an ammunition wagon. His back was 50 badly crushed that he died soon after
 ais removal to the hospital.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
HandkerChiefs for
 Christmas.

This store is famous for it's pretty Handkerclliefs The Finest Linen and Lace Handkerchiefs gre among OUT col lection Of Christmas things, and the prices range from cents to SIP each.
 Sili; and Linen Initial Handkerchiefs put up .ln Ee..t boxes. in quantities to ssii
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
Guarantee Credit Clothing Co. B East Tiain Street.
 15 PHOENIN VENUE
A F. COWAES

Ao H. SsbVF LES HOLIDAY CHEER RENERNWHERE. All Over Our New Center Street Store In Multitudes of Reasonable Gifts.
 Pictures-Elegant subjects. latest style frames. Decorated Glass. Beautiful Chinawlre. Smoking Sets. Picture Frames. China Toilet Sets, Toilet Bottles Pin Cushions. Buck ram Frames for Dolls Hats. Chil- dren's Caps. Toques, Silk and Velvet Hats and Bonnets. Misses Tam O'ShanterS Ladies Misses and Children's Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets. Golf Hats. etc.
 Lowest prices always, but at no sacrifice of quality.
 53-.0 CENTER STREET
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
UNDECIDED.

9n WHAT TO PURCHASE FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT. JUST STEP INTO OUR VAST ESTABLISHMENT ALLOW OUR SALESMEN TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU SHOW YOU OUR WONDERFUL HOLIDAY STOCK-YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY, JUST LOOK. GOODS STORED FREE UNTIL CHRISTMAS. TAKE A PEEP IN OUR SHOW WINDOW. SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW US TO NAME ONLY A FEW OF THE HUNDREDS OF SELECT PIECES WE BOUGHT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
 300 Fancy Rockers $1,5O Up.
 60 Morris Chairs.
 100 COuCheS.
 50 Decorated Dinner Sets.
 50 Decorated Toilet Sets. EXTRA ASSORTMENT OF MUSIC CABINETS, JARDINIERE STANDS' PALMS. CHILDREN'S Hl3H CHAIRS. MORRIS CHAIRS. WILL LOW ROCKERS AND HUNDREDS 1 OF OTHER ARTICLES.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12

Santa Claus has taken up his residence once more as is his custom with us in our basement and has brought with him thousands of cute little gifts for the good boys and girls ot Waterbury.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12

Friday evening next's the date,
 Costs quarter at the gate, Dancing to begin at eight, So everybody, go!
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
, CLOCK SHOP SoCIABLE.

Pretty girls and lots of fun; Gents with smiles for everyone; Nothing loud or oyerdone,
 Out of date or slow!
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
Class B-Bantams.

Game Bantams. division 1O-Black red, brown red golden duckwing. sil yer duckwing, red pyle, black, white birchen.
 Bantams other than game, division 11-Golden and silver seabrig&ts, rose comb black and white. booted white Cochin, buff. black white; Japanese black tail. white, black, white crested white Polish.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12

Entry fee, D cents per specimen. For best specimen. each variety. 90 cents; for second best specimen, each variety, 9 cents; cats, angora, black, white. tiger, tabby and maltese; Bel- gian hares.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
Afraid of General Miles,

AS Adjutant General Corbin is in truth and in fact the Commanding General of the army, and General Miles is but cipher, a salary drawer, in Washington, it is pro- posed that the conqueror of Porto Rico be sent to China, where a campaign of un- usual gravity and complications is opening up General Chaffee is but Brigadir Gen eral, and there would be ample room for his soldierly capacity even if General Miles were sent to China.
 Governor Roosevelt might not like such h programme, because he proposes to be the war candidate for President in 1904, and successful campaign in China might make General Miles a formidable rival. But outside of the Rough Rider there ought not to be any political objections to an appointment that is plainly appropriate and desirable on purely military grounds; for the country has no soldier, unless it be General Joe Wheeler, who has q record as free from blunders and as full of achieve ments as that of General Miles
 But of course General Miles might con- clude to run on one ticket or the other, and thus trouble would arise in both part ies. and the Commanding General of the army may as well settle down to the fact that he can draw his salary, but that he Mill not be permitted to draw from any war any more glory or prestige. And es- pocally will this be the case in the pend ing Chinese war. His assignment to duty Twill continue to read Washington" :" where his salary and a comfortable exis thee are always at hand
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
Ii Hunq Chang to the Front.

{ Nearly all triumphs of the aged states mans career have been of diplomatic nature For forty years at least he has been depended upon to get the empire out of trouble At every crisis he has come forward with necessary concessions, and the dismemberment of the country has been avoided, and the problem has been handed down to a later period It has never ceased to be- It is well described as the Yellow Terror In all the history of China as the opponent of the rest of the world, the prob lem has never been presented so squarely as it now is. China is face to face with the rest of the world. China, through her people. if not her Government, demand se clusion and the rest of the world demands either dismemberment or the open door. Can Li Hung Chang settle such an issue? rhe Western powers faced China on such an issue in 1872, when the French Consul and about fifty French missionaries and sisters were killed by a mob in Tien Tsin. The British Minister, speaking for all the Western powers of Europe, demanded rep Rration for what had been done and guar antees against similar acts in the future. War was imminent The combined powers were aroused. The expulsion of the bar barians" was threatened then as 1t Is now Instead of the Boxers it was then the Firemen or the Hnsing Tzu Ii Hung otr Ia or- dered large number of the mob beheaded, besides several of the connving officials He opposed the powers, and the storm blew over to reappear in the closing year of the century.
 Ii Hung Chang has been sent for again, and he has been made Viceroy of the dis turbed province that includes Tien Tsin He is expected to appease the foreigners again. His feats in diplomacy are depended upon to avert the anger of the powers wherever and whenever the arms of the fanatics are unsuccessful. The old pro- gramme is to be repeated. The vengeance of the armed mobs will go on until defeat stares the leaders in the face, and then Ii Hung Chang is expected to avert wrath that Chinese guns cannot conquer. How long this sort of thing is to go depends upon the foresight, the unsefishness, the altruism of the powers, and the chances arc that the allied powers will fall vic tims again to the wiles of Ii Hung Chang because they are intensely jealous of each other, and each and all prefer Chinese continuance to the aggrandizement of one of their own number, and perhaps they are in this respect correct.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20

cist of acknowledged ability; and whatever subject he deals with he treats logically. Congressman John H. Bankhead came to town yesterday from Cullman, where he filled an appointment for a public political speech made for Colonel Sanford, who was kept at his home in Opelika.
 Dr. ". H. Sanders, State Health Officer, was in town yesterday on private business. Dr. Sanders said there had been notable decline in the smallpox epidemic prevailing in various counties in the State. This was in part attributable to more general vac cination. He had observed, however that every two or three years there had been a rise and fall in the number of smallpox cases. Once he thought the disease had entirely disappeared, but it had not Dr. Barclay, County Health Officer of Jefferson, declares that smallpox is we'll under con- trol and is rapidly disappearing. The trouble in Jefferson is the steady influx of people from all parts of the world, many of whom prove to be infected with small pox.
 Hon. John M Caldwell of Calhoun is at the Morris.
 
 J. T. Shambliss of Mobile is in Birming- ham.
 There was an extraordinary electrical dis play last night; beginning at 7:30 o'clock. At that time very heavy black clouds were banked high half way around the horizon, from the northwest through the west to the southwest. The afterglow of the sun was still visible above the cloud banks, and the spectacle of the incessant flashes of forked lightning against the lower black ness was sublime. As darkness deepened the lightning was almost terrifyingly vivid; but thunder could not be heard.
 The intense heat prevailing since Sunday morning, and which was of almost un- exampled oppressiveness here, was broken yesterday morning and the mercury fell several points. Last night the temperature was fairly comfortable, stiff breeze blow ing from the northwest.
 Solicitor Harrington P Hefin, Clerks of the Criminal Court William Burgin and John Bradley, and Paul Greene, have re- turned from the Gulf Coast where they spent ten days fishing and resting.
 
 Hon. Chappell Cory came from Mont gomery to Birmingham last night, and is at the Morris.
 John E. DuBois of New York is at the Morris.
 great fall in the price of wall paper is reported. It was stated yesterday, as an example, that the cost of papering a room which would have been ten dollars very recently is only about half that sum now. The Associated Press states that the Ma tional Wall Paper Company of New York; which has been known for more than six years as the National Wall Paper Trust having failed to control the independent manufacturers, has practically been driven out of business by outside competition, and in the near future will be dissolved.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
Iowa Republicans Disturbed.

! The sudden death of Senator Gear of Iowa in the 10th year of his age has open- ed up very lively political contest in Iowa. The dead Senator had recently been elected to term that does not begin un- ii March A. Senator Allison, the surviv- ing Senator, is also past three score and ten, and altogether there is great deal pf Senatorial politics in Iowa at present.
 It is believed iA the state that Governor Shaw will fill the vacancy with man who will agree to get out of the way when the Legislature meets in January, 1902. If Min ister Conger be alive, it Is said, he will appoint him, but Minister Conger is proba- bly, beyond all political honors and inter- ests, Governor Shaw will undoubtedly be ans aspirant before the Legislature Speak CT Henderson and Representatives Hep burn, Deliver. Hall and Cousins are of like mind The state has an unusually
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
Convention Rejects Committee Report
 New Address to be Drawn Up

Atlanta, Ga, July 19 - At the second days session of the Southern Industrial Convention here the commercial conditions of the South, prepared by a special com mittee, was rejected after a heated dis cussion. The delegates held that the ad- dress was an endorsement of the Republi- can platform in many particulars, and did not think politics should enter into their organization.
 D. A. Tompkins spoke in opposition to the clauses endorsing the present currency system and relating to the protection of American labor.
 B. M Blackburn of Atlanta said the ad- dress was direct endorsement of the Re publican platform.
 If this address is stamped with approy- al by this convention, he said you place bludgeon in the hands of Hanna and his campaign committee to wield over the heads of this section."
 c. b. Sanders and R. l.. Bennett, both of Mississippi, opposed the address. MT. Tompkins said if there was anything good in the address it should be adopted with out regard to politics.
 L. L. Gilbert, of Alabama, moved that committee of seven be appointed to draw up a new address on industrial lines, in- stead of political lines.
 The motion was adopted.
 The organization committee will consider the following resolution from MT. Fretwell of South Carolina:
 Resolved, That the Southern Industrial League should be formed all over the South, in every county and town, with the purpose of developing our resources, and that committee of three from each State be appointed by this league to take this matter up and get these leagues in work ing order by our next conventicn"
 The convention, after hearing several ad- dresses on industrial subjects, adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
BRowNLOW REPUBLICANS
Met in Executive Committee and With
 drew Hills Name

Nashville, Tenn, July 19.-The Brown!ow Republican Executive Committee of the Sixth congressional district met here this morning and dissolved, after withdrawing the name of J. T. Hill as a candidate for Congress.
 The resolutions adopted declared:
 That inasmuch as the national conven- ton has settled the contest in this con- gressional district against the Brownlow wing of the party, therefore, recognizing their right to do so, regardless of the equi- ties in the case, we hereby withdraw with his full consent the Hon. John T. Hill as a candidate for Congress and declare this committee dissolved so that peace and har- mony prevail"
 Hon. Lee Brock is the nominee of the Evans faction.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
Congress Should be Convened.

Congress shall have power, says the Con- stitution, to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal. and make rules con- corning captures on land and water. Up to the present period of front porches and long distance telephones the war-making power of presidents had been confined to the dispatch of a ship or two or the land Constitution is violated when the country is committed by the President to an expensive and probably prolonged war with a we'll armed fanatical empire containing 100000 900 fanatics. The mainland and Cuba and the belligerent Philippines are ransacked daily dispatched to San Francisco in antici- patton of an arduous and extremely ex- pensive campaign in China-and this is done without congressional sanction, be- cause Mark Hanna and Perry Heath do not like a session of Congress in the course of their trust-fed campaign. Their judg- ment is quite correct. They do not want official censors in such campaign as they are conducting.
 The most distressing feature of the case relates to the insufficiency and ineficiency of the campaign against the savages of China The picking up of a battalion here and a regiment there, and of<a few guns wherever they can be found is not the kind of war that is needed in the Chinese crisis. It means death to other regiments besides the Ninth. It means the needless slaughter of American troops. It means delay and a vast expenditure that could be avoided by vigorous action under the sanction of Congress and the Constitution.
 We are fighting great China with hand full of men picked up in odd places. We are making a grave crisis conform to Me- Kinleys campaign for reelection. This is not just to the few men sent to China; it
 
 ton; it exposes men, women and children in China to nameless atrocities And this must go on in order that the Mckinley campaign may proceed on the lines laid down by Mark Hanna.
 When the horrors of a general Chinese uprising against foreigners is seen and measured, then the people may see how American lives have been sacrificed In order to make an American campaign They may begin to see what political selfshness and maneuvering are capable of
 Congress should be convened at once and the full measure of the Chinese crisis taken, and proper preparations made against it. As things stand the country is committed by the administration to war, and yet action and vigor to meet it are not and cannot be forthcoming. The admnistra- tions Chinese programme is made up of short-sighted blunders and self-seeking vac illation
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
LoNDoN's GREAT DOCKS

From the New York Tribune.
 London has larger commerce than any other city in the world. Liverpool comes next. and Hamburg probably ranks third. although Antwerp closely approaches her. The docks of London cover a greater area than those of Liverpool, and some of them individually are, or were until recently, larger than any on the Mersey. The Vic- toria dock, opened in 1855, measures 3,OOox 1O50 feet The Royal Albert, connecting with it and completed in 1880, is 65o0 feet long and 49O feet wide. The two, with their locks, constitute chain almost three miles long, across one of the great horseshoe bends in the lower Thames.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
GEORGE COULD. CONGRESSMAN

N. Y Letter to the Chicago Times-Herald.
 George J. Gould, the young millionaire son of Jay Gould, has political ambitions. It is reliably reported that this scion of wealth, favorite of the 400 and master of the famous Georgian court at Lakewood, N. J., will run for Congress in the Second New Jersey district on the Republican ticket. Political conditions now favor the realization of MT. Goulds ambition. The Second district is solidly Republican, regu- larly giving that party pluralities ranging anywhere from 1e,0OO to 1000. In the last twenty-five years there has been elected in it but one Democratic representative, and it took fusion to elect him.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
FINS
From the Pail Mall Budget.

Writ on ruined palace in Kashmir: ''The end is nothing, and the end is near" Where are the voices kings were glad to
 hear?
 Where now the feast, the song, the baya-
 dere?
 The end is nothing ,and the end is near And wonder lovely rose; alas! my dear! See tho November garden, rank and drear: The end is nothing, and the end is near Forms rfse and grow and wane and disap-
 pear, The life allotted thee is now and here; The end Is nothing, and the end is near. The death shroud waits thee, and the dark
 palled bier, Alas! sweet eyes and bosom tender dear; The tolling bell, the dropping earth hear; The end is nothing, and the end is near Then vex myself no more with thought
 austere; Take what thou canst while thou abidest
 here, The end is nothing, and the end is near. Bind not myself too much to earthly gear, But cast the bread of life and take good
 cheer,
 And drink the wine of life and have no
 fear;
 The end is vision, and the end is near. Joy is the Lord, and Love his charioteer; Be tranquil and repoicing; oh, my dear! Shun the wild seas, far from the breakers
 steer;
 The end is vision, and the end is near An! banish hope and doubt, regret and
 fear,
 Check the gay laugh, but dry the idle tear. Sparchi Is lioht within thee hurnQg
 clear?
 The end is vision, and the end is near. List to the wisdom learned of saint and
 seer!
 The living Lord Is joy, and peace His sphere:
 Rebel no more; throw down thy shield and spear, Surrender all myself; true life is here;s The end is vision, and the end Is near. Forget not this, forget not that, my dear! 'Tis all and nothing, and the end is near.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20

capable delegation in the lower house of Congress, and nearly every one of them de- sires a seat in the Senate. MT. Cummins of DesMoines also wants the seat vacated by the dead Senator, and so do Editor Per kins of the Sioux City Journal, and ex- Governors Drake and Larrabee. No state has more Senatorial aspirants to the acre than Iowa, and some of them are very ca pablo men,
The age-herald., 1900-07-20

From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 So long as woman hold a mans respect he can plot no wrong to her.
 If 1t weren't for divorces there would be more children, and if it weren't for children there would be more divorces.
 Great hearts can love more than once, and be disappointed and yet love again, but they cannot lose faith once and ever have it again.
 Half the married people in the world wouldn't be any more unhappy if they had married somebody else, and the other half wouldn't be any more unhappy If they hadn't married anybody.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
LIEUTENANT ROBSON ILL

San Francisco, Cal, July 1a.-The Optic, which arrived yesterday, had Lieutenant Hobson as a passenger from Hona Kong for San Francisco. but he was obliged to leave. the vessel at Yokohama for medical treatment.
 He is afflicted with Oriental ophthalmia and will go from Yokohama to Toklo to consult Japanese specialist. cess.
The age-herald., 1900-07-20
Hymen Helps to Happiness

Opelika, Ala, July 19.-(Special.) - Mr. Signor s. Strong, a prominent civil en- gineer of West Point, Ga., and Miss Annie Laurie Williamson, one of the belles of this city and daughter of a capitalist, were married at the Baptist church here last night, Rev. J. F. Percer officiating. They left immediately after the ceremonies for Eastern cities
The age-herald., 1900-07-20

General Macarthur, in objecting to the sending of troops from the Philippines to China, says the situation in the former is critical. The administration should behead the war is ''over'' there