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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-23
REs. MATTINGs, OIL
 CLOTHS and DRAPERIEs.

 Art Squares, 2x3 yards, $2.9S Silkolines, from 121zc. T12c Dotted Swiss Drapery. from 15c, 1Oc a yard FURNITURE DEPARTMENT.
 s2.50 large Willow yeranda Chairs, best quality, $1.35 $1.35 Lawn Seats, red or natural wood. 75c 500 White Iron Beds. brass trimmed. $500 s7.oo Brass Rod Beds, with ex tension foot, $500 5000 Chamber Suits, solid oak. large French plate mirror and finely finished. S16.5O S25.OO Chamber Suits, shaped plate mirror and Serpentine front, s6.5O White Enamel Chiffon ieres, five large drawers, carved top and brass trimmed, S4.9S s6.00 Solid Oak Tables, six feet long. S4.5O s15.oo Dining Tables. with o7lnrtered oak polished top and Iarge legs $11-75 S21.50 Couches. full spring edge and deeply tufted, $500 5000 Double End Couches. with back, in best quality of ve- Iolir. S15.OO ss.5o cobbler Seat Rockers. in oak only S1.9Ss $500 Upholstered Rockers. with spring seat high back and arms.
 s3-5O s1575 Dining Chairs. high back and brass arms. S135 s4oO Double Woven Wire Sprinos. cable supports. $2.5O s1.25 Woven Wire Cot Beds, 9sc sG-00 Spiral Book Springs fla pannedf. s3.5O $500 Cotton top and bottom Naffrpsses s3. 50 se.oo Wool Mattresses, hest ticking, S3.99 EASEMENT DEPARTMENT.
 S to 10-70 cakes Soap, 25c s to 12-1 quart Ammonia, 7c ALL DAY-4 dog Clothespins, 5c SPECIALS IN ENAMELED WARE. 45c Cooking Kettle. Friday 35c 40c Cooking Kettle, Friday soc 35c Cooking Kettle. Friday 25c 39c Cooking Kettle, Friday 2Oc 25c Cooking Kettle. Friday 15c 45c Double Boiler, Friday s5c 55c Double Boiler. Friday 4Oc 60c Double Boiler. Friday 45c 65c Double Boiler, Friday soc 75c Double Boiler, Friday COG SPECIAL IN SHELF PAPER.
 Extra wide. extra heavy, any color. all day Friday, 1c yard SPECIALS IN OIL STOVES.
 Made of steel (not tin), 315 in.
 
 wick size, Friday 63e wick size, Friday, S1.25 SPECIAL IN LAWN MOWERS.
 Our Mowers will do as good work as any Mower made and last as long.
 72 in cut. special Friday, S2.5O 14 in. cut, special Friday S2.f5 16 in- cut special Friday, $500 SPECIALS IN TOOLS FOR THE LAWN.
 Grass Shears. regular price 25c. Friday 15c Grass Hooks regular price 25c, Friday 15c Steel Hoes, regular price 25c, Friday 20c Lawn Rakes. regular price 25c, Friday 15c Garden Trowelss regular price 10c. Friday 5c ChiIdren's Sets. regular price 1Oc, Friday 7c HOT WEATHER GOODS.
 We are headquarters for Re frigerators, Screen Doors, Screen Windows, Croquet Sets and Sprinklers.
 
 AFTER DINNER SPECIALS. We will sell between the hours of and a Backing Mitten, Dau- Der and a box of Enameline Black ing for 10c. One set only to a customer.
 HOUSE CLEANING NEEDS.
 Ammonia, Friday, Tc Borax; Friday, Sc Sap0lio. Friday, 7c Bon Ami, Friday. Tc Tack Claws, Friday, Dc Oilers, Friday, 5c Garden Weeders, Friday, 5c Ice Chisels, Friday, 10c Flue Stops, Friday. DC Shoe Dressing, Friday, 7c Carpet Tacks, Friday, 2 for 5c Fly Paper. Friday. 4 for Dc
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-23

Alarge Line of Hot Weather Goods, such as Refrigerators, Veranda Screens, Hammocks, Oil Stoves, Window Screens and doors are at Special prices for FRIDAY.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-23

When you want team or hack, go to Austin's Phone.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
CURRENT VERSE.
The boy.

I wouldn't be a single thing earth
Except a boy:
And it's Just accident Of birth
That I'm a boy:
And, goodness graciousi When ! stop and think
That once trembled on the very brink
OF making my appearance here girl
1t fairly makes my ears and eyebrows curl
But I'm 4 boy.
Just think of all the jolly fun there is
When you're a boyl
tell you, you're Just full of business
When you're boy.
There's fires to build in all the vacant lots
Go swimmin' tie the fellers' clothes in knots,
Tie tin cans on the tails of dogs-why. geel
The days amt half as long they should be
When you're boy.
There's lots of foolish things that make you tired
When you're a boy;
There's heaps of grouchy men that can't be hired
To like boy;
There's wood to chop at home, and coal to bring
And Here. do this-do that-the other thingi''
And. worse than all, there's girls-oh, holy
smokeI
Are they crime, or are they Just joke
Upon boy9
And then. there's always somebody to jaw,
When you're a boy
Somebody always laying down the law
To every boy;
"Pick up your coat; sec where you've put your
hat;
Don't stone the dog; don't tease the poor old cat;
Don't race around the house"-whyy suff rim
Moses!
The only time you have to practice things like
those is
When you're a boy,
And yet, don't believe I'd change thing
For any boy:
You've got TO laugh, to cry, to work, to sing,
To be boy;
With all his thouGhtless noise and careless play,
With all his heartfelt trials day by day.
With all his boyish hopes and all his fears,
I'd like to live on earth thousand years,
And be boy.
w. II. Pierce, in the Chicago Times Herald.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Once In the summer night heard the sea
Making sad music on the shore of sand
And the lightship's beacon, far off land,
Clean like star in white tranquility;
Then came a sudden gale which, blowing free,
Hurled the blue breakers high upon the strand
Black grew the sky. and from the storms quick
hand
Flashed the keen sword Of lightnihgs over me.
The dawn broke clear; but when looked, afar,
Beyond the lightship looming large and dark
And solitary the ocean wide,
CHANGED to see single, naked spar,
And knew the grave of that unhappy bark
Whence came the drowned sailor at my side.
Frank Denpster Sherman, in Munsey's-
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

the western world has done. The contemplation
Of future generations receiving from the rar taS'
bettcrmrnt in conditions and higher civiiiza-
ton is one that does not appear TO contain
many terrors.
To those who want a small volume
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" accurate In all Its main points, this
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

One night (when Meg was in her bed
A-dreaming dreams with Mold
The dolls of all the neighbors called
To visit Peg and Poll.
On every chair they perched and sat,
On every stool doll.
Their curls were brushed, their sashes tied,
Their faces fair and clean;
They carried fans and handkerchiefs,
The cutest ever seen;
And some had come in China silk
And some in yelveteen.
And all Of them, yes, every one
Had brought tale to tell
About the ''horrid little girl''
Who hadn't used her well;
Who'd treated her with cruelties
Beyond a parallel!
Who'd washed her twenty times a day,
And dressed her twenty more,
Who'd lost her socks and msIssed her frocks
And dropped her on the floor,
And tagged her every minute since
She lett the dolly-store!
From all around the room at once
Arose a deaf'ning din,
And Peg, abetting, told how Meg
Had stuck her with a pin;
And Poll. how Moll had cOnbed her hair
Until twas fairly thin.
Now, as It came about, the while
That little Meg and Moll
We're being thus outrageously
Abused by Peg and Poll,
There sat in that fair company
An awful1ooking doll.
Her eyes and nose were battered in,
Her cheeks were wan and worn,
Her head was bare OF hair as though
II had been shaved and shorn;
The clothes she wore were rent to rags,
And cen the rags were torn.
Her legs were broken at the knees
As in some mortal fray;
One arm was hanging by a thread,
And one was off to stay.
While through a hole within her side
Her sawdust ebbed away.
She listened to the discomfort,
And then. in voice that broke
For want Of language to express
Her state of feeling spoke:
''Your Ignorance, my friends" she said,
Would very tears provoke!
81 did not come to tell my past
To any living toy,
But / beseech you-look at me,
And bless your lot OF joyi
Oh. dwell upon your mercies-I
Was given to a Boy!"
Catherine Young Glen in Harper's.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
Mrs. Nation Mt the Bar.


Dame Nation Of red Kansas
BY al her ribbons sworc
That her hewhiskercd neighbors
Should qucnch their thirst no morei
She smashed glass and chewed it,
And spat the pieces out,
And tore out punches of her hair
And flung them forth upon the air,
And fefcely danced about.
The bourbon and the lager
Arc pouring out amain
From Franks Buffet and Georges
Place"
To irritate the plain;
And many n costly mirror
Is cracked in forty ways,
And all her actions are designed
To brighten and amaze.
The sheriff hurries forward
And bids her cease Il space;
She pulls his ears and tweaks his nose
And roughly slaps his facet
She rips the bar to pieces
And knocks out all the bungs,
And, round about. five hundred men
Stand with protruding tongues.
She grasps the tall cops whiskers
Within her goOdly clutch,
And pulls them from his system
And whoops to beat the Dutchl
Her hands are full OF splinters,
She feels them not nor cares.
But keeps right on proceeding
To regulate affairs.
And when her work is ended
The men who stand around
And signing, her eat the hoops
BY which the casks were bound,
Speed of in all directions
And thank their lucky stars
That they may still get thirsty
And drink at other bars.
All, may her muscle ever
Bulge Til her fight is won,
For oh. / wot she'll need lot
Before the job is donel
Hurrah for Mrs Nation
Ten thousand times hurrah
For her who in her good right hand
Can swing the fearsome briekbat and
Herself become the lawl
IS. Z. Kiser. in the Chicago Times Herald.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
Two Friends.

honor him who needs must chop the stone,
Must pluck the root up, murder beast and bird,
Then label with a very butchers word
The bleeding pieces Though he build his throne
On brittle stalks and hollow carcass bone,
Still by prineey purpose is he stirred
And such his thirst for knowledge long deferred,
Kind Nature counts him in among her own.
But him | love the MUSES. make their care
Leading his feet wherever he may 90,
To spell the gentle magic OF the air,
OF olden boughs and earliest brooks that flow.
He has my heart; for perfect things and lair
He finds, and leaves them iairer than they grow.
John Vance Cheney, in Harper's Magazine.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

One said. ooh life was forlorn and drear,
And dark as the night the day,
Until her face made earth a place
More sweet than a rose-bloomed way
And one, ooh, death IS a thing to dread
But l yearn the gall he brings.
For there one waits behind his gates
With a lovers welcomings."
And 1 said ooh. love oh, wondrous love.
Oh exquisite mystery,
For thy sake life with joy is rife,
And death is disarmed for thee"
-Theodosia Garrison, in Harper's Bazaar.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
miscellaneous Books.

Renaissance and Modern Art" by w.
II. Goodyear, is a book which will be in
teresting and useful to students of art.
The authors careful and scholarly method
of presenting such subjects is well known
to the reading world, and the student is
likely to find. after the perusal Of this
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

''The American Negro" by William
I annibal Thomas. is a book of consider
able volume, all of whose arguments
could be put into about ter pages, and
those ten pages would not be worth writ
ing. The author is, as ne states in the
preface. a colored man; he is also, as he
carefully explains, the son of parents and
grandparents who never we're slaves,
though II is difficult to see what particu-
lar interest that can have for the reader.
The fact certainly has nothing to do with
the quality of the book or the man, since,
Of two men who have done much the same
work In this field of literature, Booker T.
Washington was born of slave parents,
while Burghardt Dubois was not.
Mr.. Thomas has evidently been strug-
Cling to take what he believes to be an
unpreiudiced view of his subject; and he
has apparently tried so hard not to lean
TO A favorable opinion of it that ne has
tumbled over on the other sle. He de-
votes many chapters to long and elabo-
rate jeremIads on the bad qualities and
decentralization of his race, ard falls into
the common error of supposng all of
those to be innate racial pecUliarities In
stead of qualities largely common to any
race which has had few opportunities and
little encouragement In the case OF the
American negro there has been the dou-
Bile disadvantage of the existence of one
marty which believed him capable of moth
ing and another party which affected to
believe him capable Of everything. Neither
seemed willing TO allow him the credit of
being merely a common. ordinary man,
with in all probability, a few defects and
merits peculiar TO his race. AS for the
nresent author, he founders about In a
slough of despond and vituperation which
contrasts strongly and unfavorably with
the sane, sensible, terse, and generally
honefuI writings of Booker Washington.
II is rather unfortunate for tie cause of
the negro that this book shoun have ap-
neared at this particular time though the
danger is mlnimized by the probability
that nobody will read more than a few
pages of 1t. 1t is not only Illogical and
abusive. but it is dun to the hist degree.
(New York: The Macmillan Company.
5000
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
In his article on Questions Of Usage in
Words, in ',Harper's Magazine" for Feb
ruary, Brander Matthews SAYS:

In his article on Questions of Usage in
Words" in "Harper's Magazine for Feb
ruary, Brander Matthews says:
What is called the split infnitive is also a
cause OF pain 10 the purist. who Is greatly griev-
ed when he finds George Lewes in the Life of
Gcethe,' saying TO completely understand. This
inserting of an advcrb between the Ito" and the
rest of the verb strikes the verbal critic as per-
novelty to be stamped out before it permanently
contaminates our speech. Even Prof o. F. Emer-
son. who does not object to it, in his History
of the English Language" calls it "a synthetieal
combination now establishing ITSELF and Prof
A. s. Hill, in his Foundations of Rhetoric
while admitting its antiquity, since it has been
in use constantly from the days of Wieklife to
the days OF Herbert Spencer still declares it to
be "a common fault" not sanctioned or even
condoned by good authority.
The fact is, | think, that the split ininitive
has a most respectable pedigree and that it is
rather the protest against it which is the novelty
be found in the pages OF Shakespeare, Massinger.
Sir Thomas Browne Defoe, Burke, Coleridge,
Byron, De Quincy, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold,
Browning, Motley, Lowell. and Holmes. But the
fact Is also, ! think, that since the protest has
been raised there has been a tendency among
careful writers to eschew the split infnitfve
or at last employ IT only when there is a gain
in lucidity from its use there is for example
in Prof. Lounsbury's ito more than counterbal-
anCe."
If Harry Thurston Peck attacks Prof
Matthews for this the latter can take
refuge behind the royal skirts of King
Edward VII, VINO used divided infinitive
in his first state proclamation.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
NOTES AND QUERIES.

In what depth of water was til. Maine sunk,
In about thirty feet.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Where was Charles ]. Guiteau executed \.
In the Washington jail
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

What is the population of CanadaY OF
BY the last census. 1891. it was 4.s2s,-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

What relation was Samuel Adams OF Revo,p.
tionary fame. to John Adams, our second Presi-
dentf I.
Second Cousin
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Among new novels announced for pub
lication by the Harpers is ''Babs the I'm
possible by Sarah Grand.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Henry Kitchell Webster and Samuel
Merwin, who write together under the non
de plume OF Merwin Webster, have an
other story ready for publication this
spring by the Macmillan Company; Their
last stories were THE Short-Line War
and The Banker and the Bear Their
new novel will be the romance of a
grain elevator. and Will be called "Calu-
met X" How q two-million bushel
grain elevator was built against time" by
one Charlie Bannon is the pith of the
story.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

To those who like literary puzzles and
to those who amused themselves some
years ago in trying to guess. without final
satisfaction, the individual authorship of
the poems in the Songs From Vagabon-
dia,' and More Songs From Vagabon-
da," the recently issued Last Songs
From Vagabondia" will be a pleasure.
For in this volume. If they refrain from
looking at the table of contents, where
each poem is signed, they can have the
fun of guessing and the satisfaction of
finding out afterward whether they are
able to distinguish the poems of the joint
authors-Bliss Carman and Richard Ho-
vey-one from the other.
AS matter Of fact, there were many
amusing mistakes made by some of the
cock-sure critics on the occasion of the re-
viewing of the earlier volumes. One re-
viewer. after criticislng Mr.. Carman Sc
verely for producing joint work with so
inferior poet as Mr.. Hovey, proceeded
to illustrate the great superiority of Mr.
Carman's verse by quoting as unmistaka-
bly, his, two or three poems, all of which,
as matter of fact were written by Mr.
HoVey.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

In what county in California Is Death Valley
situated2 2. Does the Southern Pacific cross ii,
j. Is lndio at the fringe of the Colorado Desert
or at a considerable distance? LOS
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

1.-THE Conscience of Coralie," by Frank
fort Moore, is a story of English life, not
much better and not much worse than a
thousand other novels which yearly make
their appearance and are absorbed into
Nudes" Chicago: Herbert S. Stone &
Co. $500
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

THE Brass Bottle by F. Anstey. de-
scribes the tribulatIons attending the in
convenient present of Djinn of the
Orient in London of the nineteenth CEN
fury. The hero, a well meaning young
man without enough judgment TO injure
his chances of adventure, is nearly driven
insane by the equally well meaning Djinn,
who in his turn is greatly grieved and dis
appointed by the failure of his benevolent
schemes to make his protege happy. 1t is
a useful lesson on the folly of wanting
Arabian Nights conditions in modern life.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. $1Oo)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

"winifred," by s. Barring Gould is a
story of English life, the scene being laid
on the Chalk Cliffs of Devonshire. The
heroine is the daughter o: a secret mar
rage between a man Of aristocratic birth
and a peasant woman. and the plot turns
upon the relations which exist between
the girl, her father and mother when she
reaches maturity. The character drawing
is clever, as the work of this author in
variably is, and the interest is well sus-
tanned throughout. (Boston: L. c. Page
&, Co. $lzj
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Who first applied the words cred tape" TO Of
fetal formalities? 2. Who was the prophecies Of
ancient times who was condemned to foreten
truths that none would believe? AFP.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

From what did the term 'Cleopatra's Needle.
originate? NM
From false tradition to the effect that
the two monuments were brought to
Alexandria, Egypt. in Cleopatra's time.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings,' by
Josiah Edward Spur, is one of the nu-
merous books which have sprung up like
mushrooms or mosquitoes since the discov-
cry of gold in Alaska. This particular one
is interesting as a record of actual expert
ence, which 1t evidently is, and from
certain breezy informality of style. (Bos-
ton: Eastern Publishing Co. sL25.)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

Coinage of one-dollar and three-dollar
gold pieces was abolished in 1890. Quarter
eagles are still coined.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

In Inyo. 2. No. 3. 1t is within the arid
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

1.-THE Footsteps of a Throne" by Max
Pemberton, is a story Of Russian life, the
heroine being a young Russian lady of
noble family, surrounded by the usual CO.
terie of enemies and the hero an English
man. The plot is an exciting one, and
well worked out, and both the hero and
heroine are attractive people. New York:
D. Appleton & Co. s1.25)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

"Hiwa; A Tale of Ancient Hawaii" is
the work Of Edmund p. Dole, who IS, of
course, familiar with the life of which he
writes, and has the advantage of having
chosen a field which is comparatively I'M
explored. Hiwa was a goddess-queen of
Hawaii in it's legendary history, and the
story is idyllic in type, and cleverly told.
CNew York: Harper e. Bros. si0o)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10

'1n the Days of Jefferson is an histori-
cal romance for boys, by Hezekiah Butter
worth. The author is so well known as a
writer of instructive Juvenile fiction that
one need only say that this book is fully
equal to those previously written by him.
New York: d. Appleton & Co. $500