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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29

RATION saw Anne de Rohan
 daily after that She kept
 her promise, and, touched
 by her dependence, he did he same. Yet not without struggle, Eor the effort told on each of them. shs had ventured into his room timor- 1asly the next day, but as he allowed his love to express itself only through hs medium of his eyes, which drank p her beauty as the field the rain, shc bad become somewhat treasured, and had not hesitated to come to his cham Der more frequently.
 t was lucky for him that her rela- Live had died before he fell at her door, and it was also fortunate that, uncon- scsously, the frank freedom of Anne's American blood permitted her to do things to which, as a French girl, she could never have consented. She was Thoroughly French in her emotions and quite American in her instincts-a delightful combination indeed.
 Meanwhile, under the skilled nurs- ing he received, aided by sound and rigorous constitution. he made rapid progress toward recovery from his wounds. The first time he sat up in his chamber Anne happened to be with him. Jean-Renaud had dressed him and assisted him to a capacious chair which was placed near the window and from which he had clear view 0f the street. The little family, by Anne's orders. had kept close at home, and the tremendous events which had eliminated in the surrender of the town were as yet unknown to them.
 The rain, which had been drearily pouring down for day or two. had cleared away, and the September surI Has shining brilliantly outside. The day was mild, the air balmy, and Philip sat at the open window drink Ing in the freshness of the morning. e looked handsomer than ever to he girl who stood by his side. The unusual pallor of his illness had been modified and faint flush of color son his pale cheek told of returning
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
HE SAT UP.

{ believe" answered the young English
 general, looking curiousIy at him. By the way, have a paper for you. You are gazetted to the command of the frigate Maidstone, and you are to carry dispatches to Sir Edward Hawke. Vice Admiral Saunders also recom- nends you to be given commend of the first shin of the line vacant. for your
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Tinaid Suggestion,

What can we do to improve the present method of dancing?" thun- dered the parson Dancing is merely hugging set to music.''
 ''We might cut out the music" soft ly suggested a bad young man in the rear of the auditorium. Evansville Curier.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Bad Case.

A London curate the other day re- ceived. an, astonishing answer, to an, in quiry after parishioner's health.
 Well, sir,'' said the parishioneer. sometimes feels anyhow; sometimes I feels nohow; and there be times when I feels a stiff as e!"-Smith's g Weekly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
sweet Cream pancakes

| Beat the yolks of three eggs; add to them one tablespoonful sugar and half a tablespoonful of salt, also one cup of thin sweet cream; add a grating of nut meg and one rounding teaspoonful of cream tartar mixed with flour to make 8 thin batter. Bake carefully and grate loaf sugar over them. Milwaukee Sem ffnAl
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Effacinp weatber Stains

It is quite easy to remove the ugly green marks caused by damp on stone, tile and brick floors and steps, all that is necessary being a good scrubbing with water in which small quantity of chlo- ride of lime has been dissolved.-House- hold
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Legacy to Bears.

An eccentric old bachelor named Bron, who died recently at Porrentruy, left a legacy of R140 to the bears of the well-known bear pit at Berne. The municipality has accepted the legacy in the name of the haars.'s
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
No Use for White Haads.

Fair hair is so greatly disliked1n Ser via that even the white hair of old age is disguised. No Servian matron who respects herself would appear in public with white hair. Nor does she hide the fact that she dyes it periodically. This custom has come down to her from her mother and grandmother and she re- gards 1t not as matter of vanity but of decency.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Daily Thought

Life is the best thing we can pos sibly make of it. It is dull and dis nal and heavy if a man loses his temper; 1t is glowing with promise and satisfaction if he is not ashamed of his emotions. = George William Curtis.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Belgiurn's Diamond Jubilee.

Belgium is making preparations to celebrate next year it's diamond jubilee, the seventy fifth anniversary of it's in dependence from the Netherlands Local committees are being organized everywhere and the government is ex- pected to make an appropriation of $600,O00.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Caught on the Rebound.

He-Are you aware that I am some thing of a mind reader.
 she-No. Do you mean to say that you can read my thoughts?
 Sure"
 'Oh, George, this is so sudden" !"-Chi- cago Daily News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Surely.

A Pittsburg rabbi says Adam was a myth But there must have been first man sometime and somewhere Buffalo Express.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
WEBs1
Wiser Now.

She-You told me before we were mar ried that you were very we'll off, indeed, He-So was; but didn't know It. Cassells Journal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Prof. Provost

willstart his third new beginners class Tuesday evening, November 15 All those contemplating attending 2 first class school of dancing will ldo well to join this class and be convinced that can in twelve lessons teach you to dance; waltz, two-step and schot- tiscile. gqn sG
 SCHOOL. SOUTH MAIN ST. Entrance 66 Brook St.
 Open daily.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-29
Learn TO Dance

at Miss Nellye T. Reeds Dancing Academy, 1Os Bank street. second floor Jones & Morgan's building. Tuesday evenings advanced class. Beginners. classes always forming. Thursday and Friday evenings. Terms, 12 class les- sons, $4;4 private and s class, $5s 6 private, $5; single private lesson. $t.3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11

many of which now have a thoroughly equipped school for the instruction of the men who represent them on the road.
 William K McNeil, otherwise known as Billy" says that while Tn the telegraph office of a small town near here last week he heard the following very inter esting conversation:
 A lady came in the office with a rush, slammed the door and walked up to the operators desk. There were little red streaks in her face and blaze in her eyes.
 T have to telegraph to my husband" she said.
 'sYes, madam" responded the operator handing her some blanks.
 How much will it be?" she inquired
 q don't know, madam replied the operator, with keen ponteness and a faint smile.
 You don't know" she exclaimed, What are you here for?'
 ''ro tell people what 1 know, madam, and to send and receive messages"
 Well, why don't you know how much a telegram will cost?"
 Because, madam, I don't know where it is to be sent
 " ou don need to De So sHidil' siiS snapped, Ut is to go to Montgomery"
 Thank you, madam, 1t will be twenty five cents"
 She made no furthed remarks, but took the blanks and in the course of time re- turned with about ten closely written pages.
 ''There," she said, laying a quarter down with the message; send that"
 But, madam" exclaimed the operator, tits twenty five cents for ten words.
 "Whatl" she calculated.
 ''You can only send ten words for twen- ty-fve cents.'
 She looked at him square in the face as she tried to suppress her feelings. Are you married man?' she asked.
 ''Yes, madam" Well, you must be an idiot If you don't know that a woman cant give her husband a piece of her mind in ten words" and. without waiting to hear anything more, she fiounted out of the office, taking the message with her.
 About a year ago MT O. F. Cunning ham, a member of Post B., was hurt in wreck and some gentleman was kind enough to attend him from Attalla to Birmingham and see him safely home. MT. Cunningham was so badly hurt at that time that he either did not get the gentleman's name or has forgotten it. He is quite anxious to find out who this gentleman was. and should it SC happen that the person who did this kindness reads this column, the writer would suggest that he communicate with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11
HOW TIE WOMEN ARE HELPING JAPAN

Tokio, November 6.-There is not a wo- man in Japan, young or old, rich or poor, noble or plebeian. respectable or geisha, who Is not working as one hand for the soldiers at the front.
 It is remarkable.
 The work takes many various forms. Some women have converted their own houses Into barracks and hospitals; some have presented half their fortunes; some have made up hundreds of boxes contain ing bottles of sake and It's associated dishes of fishes, one box for each soldier in the regiment from their own provinces; others have undertaken to make thou sands of rollers and bandages for the wounded; others have entered the Red Cross, giving services without compensa- ton: little girls In the schools make pie ture scrap books for the convalescent soldiers in the hospitals while the older school girls make bandages; the society of women hair dressers gives a large sum from it's daily earnings, and what is more striking still, two weeks ago the geisha girls of Tokio, and, in fact, of the whole of Japan, began to make bandages also, spending many hours each day, and what Is more they contribute now until the war shall end 10 per cent of their earn ings.
 Could any demonstration of true heart patriotism be ever found more deep and more sincere? Besides that they give their fathers husbands. sons and broth CTS, as the Spartan
 The honorable ladies of the royal family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11


 gre working daily from o'clock in the morning until o'clock, even as a work ing girl, with only muslbi Ca rice balD or a piece or two of sandwiches for their luncheons.
 The Tokushi Kango Fijinkai (Vountary Society of Women Nurses), under the presidency of II. 1. II. Nashmota and Fushima, and with the patronesses the Marchioness of Nabeshma and Shimatsu again undertook to contribute 10000 roller bandages to the army, navy, and the Red Cross sotiety. They meet on the second floor of the Red Cross Society building, in Shibuya, Tolio.
 Yesterday I visited them. There were gathered there 150 ladies of the highest rank in Japan, all silently and deftly working. And among them, moving the rolling machine and cutting for hours with scissors, l saw H. I. H. Nashimota and Fushima, Marchioness Tokugawa, Marchioness Matsudaira. Marchioness Nabeshlma and Marchioness Hachisuka, daughter of the late Marquis Arinori Mori once Japanese minister to America and one of the foremost scholars and statesmen of his time. The members are divided into three parties and the date is fixed for each party to appear to work, but they could not wait, so MT. Takagi a member of the Red Cross society as- sured me- for their turn of day. but at tended every day without taking any rest.
 The room where they work is tremend- ously large and is heated by only one stove Now when the weather is grow ing so much colder the room is chill, but when the motion was brought before H. l. II. Nashimota for more stoves to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11
The Publisher cross-ExamIned.

Do purchasers of books of fiction re- iquire to know something of what the lstory is about before they will buy a lbook?" q man was asked the other day by visitor to Harper & Bros. in New York And is that why you publishers bgive brief synopses of stories in your advertisements? For my part I don't hike it. l like my fiction to be a secret (which l discover for myself when l read lat. Why don't you confne your descrip ftions to telling the size of the volume, Ehow it is bound etc. ?n
 The man at the publishers replied with la counter question:
 If you were buying some potted chick len or ham, or q barrel flour at your Lgrocer's would you be attracted to the purchase if the manufacturers and gro Acer's notices read like this. A charming lcan of something to eat. concealed in the l1inest tin can, with beautiful paper la Fbels. A delightful barrel of food. The Hbarrel is made of the best wood procura- Fble for this purpose, light and easily Ihandled' Wouldn't you" he added, pre- ner to know if the barrel contained buck hheat or salted herring?9
 "Ah, there you are, said the other Iman. You publishers only tell us it s lbuckwheat or sated herring. You don t tmention it if the goods not as diges- tible for us as they should be, so what's the good of your notiees?"
 Well" laughed the man at the pub fishers, i've can't guarantee your diges- tons That, as the boys say, is up to you."
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see the geisha at work for the soldiers and sailors,using their pretty slender fingers. which only touched the samisen till now in making the roller bandages, and working with that same rare and ex- quisite grace that has made the name of geisha celebrated throughout the world. '
 In Tokio there are fifteen districts and each district has it's own movement for helping the families of the soldiers. In the Fukagawa district the chief of the district formed the Hekokai, a society to help needy families, with a capital of ten thousand yen. Three yen is given to each one over 10 years old every month, mem bers of soldiers families, and besides this 1t is seen that work for making enough money is furnished them Baron Shibu- zawa Is doing this also in another dis trict, and ne has lately undertaken the responsibility of seeing to the education of the children whose fathers are off at the front. So the families of the-men are being well cared for.
 There are still some superstitious prac- tices among the people, starting from over-heated patriotism, but still showing most admirable spirit among the women.
 In the province of Shiga some time ago a traveling priest stopped in the temple at the Oshltate village and preached be- fore the old women and young girls He told them that now was the greatest time in Japan's history when she must show her mighty va,lor and determination, and his words enthused them. They decided to meet every day in the temple for prayer, and that In order that the Lord Buddha might accept their prayer they would cut off their hair that their souls might be pure. In Japan 1t has been re- garded from time immemorial that to cut the hair or shave the head is a purihca- ton of the soul as well as of the body. So all the village women cut their hair with the prayer of their hearts for Japan's victory.
 Every village in Japan has some story l of the effort it's women are making to ] help their country. And the majority are practical. although many have super stitious and sentimental ways.
 One of the magnificent palaces of H. l. H. Fushima has been given up by her for the use of the soldiers. She has re- stricted her own family expenses severely 1 and has commanded each of her servants to treat the soldiers handsomely since they are going to die for their country's i sake.
 Stories of self-denial, of self-sacriice or 1 the part of the women are endless
 Seldom has a nation been at such ac- cord in working with one spirit as Japan l (B. M. Armes, American agent for Yonc NoguchD Birmingham, Ala.
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brought in she rebuked the ladies for wishing for such a luxury when the sol- diers and sailors are suffering so bitterly at the front.
 So they gladly resumed work in the bare cold room It is forbidden to talk and the ladies have but one hour for rest at noon. Before they enter the work room they are obliged to undergo the pro- cess of dislnfection. They wash their hair and trim their finger nails Every body does t, even the ladies of the royal family. And H. l. II. Nashimota is said to be the cleverest worker of them all, producing daily more than fifty rollers. Even the slowest lady can make twenty or so. There is no waitress when they have luncheon. I was told that II. l. II. helped herself to her tea and even washed her own cup and saucer.
 The Kazoku Jogkako Ghe Peeress schooD is py TO means behind in patriot ism. If you drop in during the late after noon, after the lesson hours, you will see all the girl students. some four hum dred and twenty-six in al with fifty teachers, wearing white caps and aprons, and all of them working hard at bandage making This school alone turns out 10O0 bandages a day. Among the students there are several princesses who never fail to work just as hard as the other girls. They have stopped all their games outdoors and in, and are devoting their recreation hours to helping their coun- try. So it is with other prominent schools
 But the most surprising movement was recently when the geisha quarter of Tol1io, the gallant Shinbashi and Yana- gibashi woke mp to the wave of patriot ism and the well known geisha girls in both places engaged to make rollers just as the titled ladies and the students of the Peeress school do. Already Shin bashi has produced nearly three thousand. Then apart from this is their determina- ton to consecrate so much of=their earn ings to the war fund.
 Although the public bitterly eriticises any who spend money upon the geisha girls and sake since the war was de- elared, nevertheless the existence of the geisha Is recognized and they are un- doubtedly necessary for the social pleas ure of the Japanese dinner party and a necessary part. of course, of the tea house So they make money more or less continually even since the war. and now they have decided to give of their earn ings 10 per cent. More than five hum dred yen nave already been gathered in only Shinbashi It Is very interesting to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11

by a committee of the American Rail- way Mechanics associatinon consists of an automatic stoker for locomotive boil CTS, by means of which the coal is fed mechanically from the tender to the fire box. The device tested, which was con siderably smaller than would be used on a modern high-speed passenger locomo- tive, was found to work satisfactorily and showed an economy of not less than seven per cent in the amount of fuel con- sumed over stolng with good hand la Dor. A large-size passenger locomotive requires some 92OO pounds of coal per hour, and | is thought that a stoker of such capacity working at sufficient speed can be constructed on this pattern. The application of this idea of automatic stoking. now found in many boiler rooms, to locomotive is quite important, inas- much as it will enable the fireman to rem der additional assistance to the engineer or to take his place in case of accident. whereas his chief concern at present Is to feed the fuel into the hre-box with sufficient regularity to maintain the re- quired steam pressure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11
T. P, A. JOTTINGS.
BY SIDNEY F. LAZARUS.

BY SIDNEY F. LAZARUS.
 The business world as a whole still holds the belief that salesmen are born, not made and the business world does not believe in instruction for salesmen. Mir. Worthington Holman discusses the matter at some length in the November issue of System" and shows quite plain ly that the business world is mistaken in this belief. He said in part:
 We hear 1t commonly remarked that good statesmen are born and not made: that the natural born salesman doesn't need training and that the other kind of salesmen could not profit by schooling anyway If this is true Socrates was fool, Napoleon wasted his time studying military tactics at Brienne. and every medical and technical school in the coun- try should be abolished, and the little red school houses be tumbled off the thousand hills where the American people have perched them. Cracker barrel phil osophers in country stores are accustom- cd to observe that the best way to make a swimmer of a boy is to seize him neck and heels and throw him overheard. As a matter of fact if this practice were univ ersally adopted. nine out of every ten aspirants for swimming honors would drown at the outset of their careers and the tenth boy would be so e-.ected by
 his experience that he would forever more harbor dislike for going into the
 water.
 'Yet this same sort of theory Is almost universally held by business men in re- gard to making a salesman. The only way for a man to learn to sell goods is to catch hold of sample case and go out and begin to sell, is the common phrasing of the idea
 'If this is true the best way to make a surgeon is to hand a boy case of ] instruments and lock him up in room l with a patient who needs to be operated
 upon. But this is not true The best
 way to make a salesman is to choose a
 man who has natural possibilities and
 develop his capacities by systematic 1 training. salesman is like a diamond. 1 He must be genuine to start with, but i his value can be increased several hun 1 dred per cent by cutting and polishing.
 He must bring lis work to a certain nat ural fitness, Beyond that his increase in
 selling ability consists largely in increase 1 oc knowledge-knowledge of his product,
 knowledge of men. knowledge of princi- pies of salesmanship, knowledge of his own powers, and how to use them. Some l of these things he can get without per sonal experience in selling. But there are
 vast number of facts in salesmanship that he can be taught in mere fraction , of the time 1t would take to find out 1T left to his own devices
 MT Holman concludes his article with an explanation of the methods used by the largest concerns in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11

Automatic Stokers for Locomotives. From Harrer's Weekly.
 A labor-saving device recently tested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson, E of LiIlydaIe, N.Y., Grand Worthy Wise TempIar, and Member of W.C.T.U., tells how she recOv- cred by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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 My family and relatives were naturally as gratified as I was. My niece had heart trouble and nervous prostration, and was considered incur able. She took your Vegetable Com pound and it cured her in a short time, and she became well and strong, and her home to her great joy and her hus- bands delight was blessed with baby. I know of 8 number of others who have been cured of different kinds of female trouble, and am satisfied that your Compound is the best medicine for sick women" - MRS. ELIZABETH H. THOMPSON, Box 105, Lillydale, NY S50oo forfeit # ori7fuai of dboUo letter probing ge1uiHenesS cannot be pyodRoeG
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-11

Secretary Higdon or MT. Cunningham