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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12

ITO RENT-Tenement of four rooms in l basement, in first-class condition. In quire of Lewis C. Archambault, lo8 Bank street, Room 7. l2-l2r5
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Gossip About Public Men and
 Affairs at Washington.
SENATOR KNo1's CREDENTIALS.

How Governor PennypacikeF of
 PennsyIyanin Amused the Senate. Representative Landis Declares His
 Solitary Cheers Reelected BabcOck
 to Congress = Tributes to Senator
 Hoar's Memory.
 Governor Pennypacker recently .yen- livened the proceedings of the senate in a manner both quaint tnand original. says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. i, The occasion was the. swearing in of the. two new senators, ex-Attorney General Knox, who fills the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Quay, and ex-Govern- or Murray Crane, who succeeds the late Senator Hoar.
 Senator Lodge presented the creden- tials of his new colleague, and Senator Penrose performed like ceremony for MT. Knox. As the reading clerk raced through the stately phrases of the ere dentials furnished for MT. Knox there was a ripple of laughter through the hall. The credentials ended with the following sentence:
 He is therefore to have and to hold the said office, together with all the rights. powers and privileges thereunto belong ing or by law in any wise appertaiaing until the next meeting of the legislature of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania if he shall so long behave himself well.
 Across the senate chamber among the lawyers of the body there was. a distinct smile of amusement, no doubt at the thought that the governor could have no power to revoke his act If it's beneficiary should not ''so long behave himself well' Then the two new sen ators were escorted to the desk by their colleagues, and President Frye admin istered the oath to them, I
 '.I claim the credit of electing Repre- sentative Babcock to the next con gress,, said Representative Charles B. I4andis the other day to the New York Worlds Washington representative, T went up in Wisconsin when Speaker Cannon made his trip through Bab- cocks district We had good crowds, but we couldn't find any Bahcock en- thusiasnl. One night, after a particu- larly undemonstrative meeting, thought I would warm things up and stepped out to file edge of the plat. form s
 Now. boSs.' I said. propose three
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Miscellaneous.

Y .oST-A pair of amethyst rosary beads, A between Field street and Church of Immaculate Conception. Suitable reward for return to this office. 12-lo-3
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W WANTED--To move your furniture a- reasonable rrices. Also severalfir CESS trrrcuts to Jet. double or single; rub Ter tires of all descriptions. 4. M. Larson'a livery and trucking stable. corner Water snd North E In streets. Main office 6i South Main street. Telephone 253-4
 g.fc-Ng
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w ANTED-zs Straw and felt hatst c.ean.
 ty lie same Eaiiers flat were fcg
 i've years vith lie rantury Hat Co. but now located at "A Grand street, corner of Bank 7-6-tf
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12
MINISTRIES.

Quinlan and Wallis Minstrels Fri day afternoon and evening at Polls.
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M WANTED-S Soldiers to know that dur
 ing August live pension claims for widows and fourteen original and noreass for soldiers were secured through George Robbins, Pension Attorney. 63 Center St insurance,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12
FOR SHLE.

ENOR SALE Baby Carriage at No. HIS IL North Willow street !2-l0-7
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ITO RENT-Store adjoining Pon's ths- # ater. Inquite of John Moriarty. i4z Broadway. Il-i9.if
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r oST-Pair of Gold Spectacles in case. u Sunday on way to Immaculate Con- ception Church, from North Elm street.. Reward. Mrs. Ellen SandoH, PTS Cherry street. l2slL.o
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POPULAR PENNY A WORD ADVS
MEpSED.

VVANTED-Kitchen girl at once. Call
 or address Mrs. Healy. Commercial House. Naugatcck, Coun. i2-9.3
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N oST- Small purse containing small u sum of money. Lost getting off car near Apothecary hall. Finder will be re- warded on returning same to Democrat office, lz-lz-o
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Frank O'Neill Says

have several new rents, 5000 to $23,OO. I also have an excellent office in Elk change place, formerly occu- pied by Six Little Tailors.
 Office open Wednesday and Saturday nights.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12

TO RENT Tenement rooms, North
 Main street near Waterbury Mfg. Co.. all improve nents. Tenement 3 large rooms. frs floor, Cook street opposite rss- ervoir, $8 50 per month. John J. Ceravatw Real Estate, Insurance, II East Main Ss.. room 6. l2-o-a
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LATE WANTS.

TlO RENT-renement of six rooms. all l Improvements. Inquire of Frank Far inc, 51 Vine St., top floor. l2-lz73
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FOR RElg.

ITO RENT--Six rooms, latest improvs
 I ments. fnrnaoe heat opposits offica Waterbury Mfg Go. This is first C e:asz. Telephone l9l-6. l2-io-3
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NTANTED-A farily competent cook and laundress. Apply to Mrs. A, A. Crane. 300 West Main street. lz-l2-3
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E oUND-Cn North Main. Thursday, a I pocketbook with so ne money. The owner can have same by proving property and paying for advertisement. Ca at 31 Summer St.. Mrs. M. Wolro 6en. l2-1o-3
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r .osT- Bird Dog. brown and white, be- A tween five and six monthsI old. Please return to Michael Moore. 80 Pleas ant street. l2-i0.3
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12

NoR SALE-Or rent, one combination U Pool and Billiard Table. Address Pool Table. Democrat. lG-i2-3
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-03

every one of her children with great
care At Christmas time Gussy's lit
tie friends must each receive some lift:
'ohn friends are equally important.
and so on down to the youngest of the
family. Their there must needs be the
JudiciOusly CHOSEN gift for the parents
whose position insures their being fash
lonable entertainers when the children
are of an age to make their debut in
society. The gifts for these individuals
must be costly and must also be aptly
chosen.
Those to wealthy relatives from each
child must be judiciously chosen gifts
to Indicate the deep affection felt by
each child for each relative. There are
gifts to various fashionable charitable
societies with which each child is at
Inflated. and so on through list num-
bering hundreds of individuals and rep
resenting many hundreds of dollars. The
time and thought required for such a
task would tax the cleverest mathe-
maticians, and is IL to be wondered at
that the beginning of the new year in
variably finds such a lot of nervous
invalids among society leaders?
The question of Christmas entertain
ments has not been touched upon, the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-03

like. heartily and earnestly, 70 do some
thing toward Frightening the season for
the poor the miserable and the sick.
But why, in the name of ell that is
reasonable. l should give presents to
persons for whom / don't care an iota,
persons who are as prosperous for their
station as | am for mine, and often ac-
tually as well to do, persons with whom
1 have no social ties. why / should do
this, / don't see. And I should like to
join with any other five valiant souls in
beginning a crusade against the Gus
tim. I believe that we could sweep the
country by next Christmas.
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REMARKABLE EXPEDITION

IA AJOR F. R. BURNHAAI, the
MI American scout a record OF
whose adventures would make
one Of the most exciting books ever
penned, has just returned to London
from another difficult expedition to East
Africa-this time through the East At
RIGA Protectorate-and Uganda to the
borders of the Congo Free State. pene-
troting about thousand miles and ex-
ploring much territory that never be-
fore had been seen by white man. The
major was accompanied by several hum
dred blacks and twenty whites. threa
OF whom died of fever
The most interesting result of the ex-
petition was the discovery of a lake Of
about forty-nine square miles. composed
almost entirely OF pure carbonate OF
soda, forming a snow-like crust so thick
that the party walked across on IL. In
some places the chemical is solid clear
through to the ground. II is the largest
deposit of the kind that ever has been
found. The lake is fed by mineral
springs carrying soda in solution. and
the deposit is formed by the evaporafion
OF the water under the burning eouarO-
rial sun, In years 10 come, when the
inevitable railroads run through Irgan-
da. this chemical lake viii doubtless be
of enormous value. but at present il is
ono OF natures inviolable resolve funds
An active volvano was found at lake
Rudolph, and several others which were
busily spouting mud and steam were
seen.
Major Burnhan was ACCOMPANIED as
far as the uplands Of Nawasha By Mrs
EuCuha-n - no Is n so Z Californian and
distinguished himself on one occasion by
spending seven hours In me saddle.
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A SUBURBANlTE.

50 you think because l live in the
country that the holiday season is one
of comparative peace and enjoyment.
said the suburbanite THAT shows how
much you are mistaken. and proves that
you don't know anything about the way
we celebrate the day Just because we
don't have flats. with bellboys and ele-
vator boys and maids and chefs to be
remembered with substantial gifts. YOU
needn't imagine that ,lte matter OF buy
ing is in any way simplified. There :
the grocer's nice young boy instead of
the ianitor. and the butcher and the
man who cuts Your lawn in summer
and tends the furnace in winter all ex-
pecting presents from you, and not only
do you have TO give each of them some
thing, but you probably know their
families. and. of course. each member
expects some little token from YOU
There's the stationmaster. too. who can
make life joy or burden to you during
the rest of the year, and you feel thaS
he is entitled 10 your first consideration
after your immediate family Al this
means days of travel TO town and late
trains back at night. until you silently
wish you could hide In some unknown
corner Of the world until the holidays
are over and then come forth TO the
pleasures of life again.
But then, of course. you have many
joys at this season, and it's a good
thing that they come after all the hard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-03

annual robbery was, so to speak. a tax
upon my state. I grimly submitted 10
pay out money TO elevator boys. pOr-
tiers. telephone clerks, bell boys. head
walters. under walters, housekeepers
engineers. newspaper purveyors. and
the whole army Of attendants who put
in eleven months in ignoring my needs
and requests, and one in getting under
my feet in the performance of conspicd-
Gus and unnecessary services But when
l married and took a housekeeping
apartment L expected to be delivered
from the annual extortiOn.
.'Our apartment IS a modest one
There is one elevator. 1t requires a day
boys services and a night boys. There
is an Office in which manager sits.
In December Issfound that two tele-
phone boys also sat therein at different
hours. An engineer appeared out Of the
bowels OF the earth and spent the morn
ing doing unnecessary things to the
steam pipes in my fiat
If we don't give them more than
a dollar apiece. walled my wife, they'll
never do a single thing right for US
aSainH
'.The cook-we give her so a month.
one of the best rooms in the apart
ment and two afternoons week on
simpered amiably upon US during De-
cember. TN have 10 give her the stuff
for a frock.' sighed her mistress. and
a little money present And the laun-
dress 1--WE have a laundress by the day..
wonder II she'd rather have turkey
or the money? Money, l guess. Some
one else may give turkey And the
maid nom Anna (Anna is the aforesaid
cook gets to wait when we have
guests-she'd probably rather haze
money. too
so that the sum total Of the Christ
mas holduo by persons TO whom we
were totally unattached by the ties Of
liking or Of pity was even greater than
it had been in my defenseless bachel-
orhood.
Il like to make gifts to my friends:
like even to repay little social cour-
tesies with little Christmas tokens I
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-03

a foot or more in length. Most OF it is
no darker i'm the mass than horehound
candy, and when spun into fine threads
looks white. hence the color OF this ex-
DlOsive silken fabric
An Imported Article.
The cloth is made in Germany, and
the United States War Department has
imported IL for the purpose OF making
experiments with It. If Il proves sat
isfactory there is no reason why IT
should not be manufactured in America
A noticeable popularity Of this gun
powder is its toughness. The fine
threads spun from the sil1like fiber have
a tensile strength equal to that OF real
silk. 1t is hard To break with one s
fingers. AS for the cloth woven with it,
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What's that? Well, that's rather
personal question. I'm never as happy
as I'd Ike to be at Christmas.
Have I any heart trouble? Hello,
hello! Is that you? The wires were
crossed, i guess. On a minute Cen
traL)
IF a man feels that Christmas is
burden he'd better drop out Of the game
No use playing a thing you don't like
unless you're a pianist on a salary.
No. ] can't think of anything more.
Oh. that's all right. No trouble at all
hope you had a merry Christmas. eyes.
you too, CENTRALLY Thanks. Good-by."
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JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

Nv philosophy Of Christmas giving
does not alter with a change Of date.
II anything 1 am happier about the
situation in January than 7 am when
the festivities of the Yule are approach
ing their height / suppose II is some
thing like ones feeleing in regard to a
surgical operation.
You are uneasy about it at first, ane
as the supreme moment approaches the
ecstasy you feel over the approaching
relief from your difficulties Is some
what married by an apprehension that
the thing will not be pulled OF as favor
ably as you had hoped. and then when
it is all over and the danger has passed
and everything has gone of nicely and
secure and are so glad you have been
through it that you would not give up
the experience for a farm.
Personally, as Christmas approaches
find it's exactions troublesome. but
when they have been met and every
body seems satisfied and another sue
cessful celebration of a beautiful festi-
val has been added to the list. the com
pensation as compared TO the trials are
a thousandfold- AS for the reckoning
that the postman brings with the first
mail of the new year, even this has its
bright side. The Christmas bills are in
a sense the later milestones that re-
mind us OF our generosity.
Mr.. Carnegie doubtless experiences q
thrill Of pleasure as he passes by some
beautiful library that he has built 10
think that 1t is TO his generosity the
public owes the splendid pile Th--t
ediice is a reminder to him OF the bene-
faction. So 70 the less favored OF for
tune does a pile Of unpaid bills for
Christmas gifts delivered bring with il
a sense Of joy that somewhere are
happy persons who have benefited by
the sacrifices of which these bills are
the outward and visible sign. This is
a kind of pleasure. however. in the en-
joyment of which we should not linger,
for 1t is only the very selfish man whe
wishes to be constantly reminded OF
his deeds Of kindness. as he surely viii
be unless those bills are paid
I should say on general principles that
the wisest, and, in fact. most generous
gtver is he who so gives at Christmas
time that the certain recurrence of the
new year will bring with il Hc anxieties
whatsoever. He who gives at the ex-
pense OF his pace OF mind gives meanly.
To give lavishiy at the expense or ones
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EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.

When you ask my views on the phi
losophy OF Christmas giving" said Ed
ward w. Townsend. Il am reminded of
DR.. Johnsons famous feat OF memory
In repeating a whole chapter from The
Natural History Of Iceland'-'there are
no snakes in Iceland There is no phi
losophy in our modern scheme of Christ
mas present giving. Nor can one apply
philosophy as a cure of the evil I've
found philosophy great comfort when
I've stubbed my toe. receised a rejected
manuscript or sclaffed with my brassie
when II ] hadn't woul6 Rave won the
hole. We who have but modest bank
accounts and at Christmas time find
them stripped until they become irnmod-
est through very scantiness abandon
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few enc really wants to remember. and
not be bothered with this one because
she gave a charming tea and invited
YOU or to that one because she will be
giving one. and you want to be invited.
When you remember all your school
friends and those Of your childhood with
appropriate gifts, then go down the list
Of family and relatives. then reach the
servants and the servants of your most
intimate friends where you visit so often,
it means that you have to work like a
slave for days 10 find suitable gifts for
them all, and If il is a game Of give
and take. you can never feel repaid for
all the time and worry you are put to-
For my part. I wish this giving could
be limited to those of whom we are
really fond. Christmas would be so
much pleasanter to look forward to then,
and you could begin the new year with
some degree of freedom.
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II is too bad that a serious writer in
stead Of wit did not make the sugges-
ton. Yet is it not likely that we grum-
BILE only for the satisfaction of doing
so? ! once made a calculation that four
bookmarks, three leaf cutters, seven
fountain pens and two matchboxes-one
too large and one too small for use
whose total value was s27. had cost me
$3.50. But / grinned as I made the
calculation broad. wholesome grin
Is easily worth the difference between
the sums named Is it not? But there.
/ nave found comforting philosophy
TO apply to the evil after ALL"
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THE JOY AND THE BURDEN OF HOLIDAY PRESENTSp

philosophy and merely do our best to
remember how wicked it is to use pro-
fame language. A wit of the last CEN
fury solved the question, but his solu-
ton was not accepted. more's the pityi
He proposed that each person in every
group Of present givers should buy for
him or herself a needed aseful article
and pass it around the group as a pres
ent until it returned to the buyer. Thus
each would have given a present to, and
received one from, each of the others,
and in the end have the one needed ar
ticle.
mo one would have been put to any
but ordinary expense, yet each would
have given and received as many pres
ents as there were persons in the group.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-03

In manufacturing this cloth a vfscous
preparation Of cellulose Is forced
through tiny holes in a metal plate. so
as TO take the form of fine thread. re-
semphn In their glutinous consistency
real SILK as II Is first spun by the silk
worm The threads. when they have
time TO dry. become tough and not easy
to break, whereupon they are spun and
woven into cloth. II Is. in fact. an ar
uhcial silk which might sell in any dry
goods store at a good price per yard If
offered as real silk
The fabric is white OF a very light
cream color. Smokeless gunpowder is.
Of course, OF many kinds II is made
by many recipes, not a few Of which
are secret, and some of IL employed for
big guns has the shape of round sticks
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it would surely wear like IRON" as the
phrase is-so long as nobody took a
notion to touch a match TO IL.
From the same fiber thick cord is
made for tying up the bags of explosive.
1t is simply smCkeless gunpowder Irvine
"A fact of which one may easily con-
vince himself by igniting an end OF a
piece of it. Burning with a brilliant
flare. it is consumed to nothing in a
moment
Not infrequently in military operations
it may be desirable to create smoke
rather than to obviate it. A rocket has
been invented which, on bursting in
the air, emits a dark brown cloud and
incidentally drops a small parachute
the latter floating in the air for quite a
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while and serving as a signal The
smoke rocket" as it is called. is sent
up by the commanding officer of col
umn. or division. as a signal to indicate
his position. or for some other purpose
of military guidance. 1t is supple
mented by another newly invented con-
trivance, known as a smoke bomb. -
which is shot out of a mortar. Fired
from the mortar with loud explosion,
il rises high into the air and bursts
with great noise emitting a cloud OF
white smoke. Both of these devices, the
smoke bomb and smoke rocket are in
tended for use by day. serving the pur-
pose Of a sort of military fireworks
and enabling a commander in the field
to give signals which will be instantly
intelligtble TO the entire army acting
under his leadership.
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FLAT REFLECTIONS.

How many persons would like to join
me in an anti-Christmas Hold-up Cluo?''
asked a fiat dweller. Il am not one of
those who grumble about TIE barter Of
gifts between a seasons hosts and
guests. between unattached relatives and
Indifferent friends. There is a certain
amount of hypocrisy necessary to car
rying on civilized society, and I have at
last learned not to roar out against
that system which. however silly, con-
fers as mGny benefits upon me as #
extracts fees from me. But the out-and-
out hold-up on the part OF persons nav
ing not the slightest claim upon ones
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IQeavine 6unpowner nnto 1ftne Cloth.

7 T is possible TO weave a very attrac-
tive fabric. as regards appearances,
Il at least, out Of ordinary gunpowder
The cloth looks very much like silk,
and when ignited instantly disappears
without leaving a trace behind.
The fabric Is used for making bags to
hold gunpowder. which in this shape are
loaded into big guns. When the bags
arc OF canvas. as is customary. they are
not consumed by the explosion, and
what remains Of them after firing has
70 be removed from the powder chamber
of the weapon. But II the gunpowder
bags be substituted for canvas the sack
actually become part Of the explosive
charge, and no trace OF it is left after
the shot has sped.