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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-23
The Proofof
 the Pudding

is generally found by eating it; it is certainly the best proof. Of course there are times when we wish to get proof of certain articles, and it would not be wise to partake of them to get proof. For instance, if you want to know whether a politician is repub- lican or democrat you would have very tough job on hand; if you wanted to know what quality soap we give, 4 bars with a pound of our warranted good 5Oc tea, you wouldn't eat it; you can simply buy pound of tea and give it a fair trial-that's the time you'd get the proof. Then again, if you want to know what the Household Washing Fluid is. we will on next Sat urday night give each purchaser a sam- pie bottle. just enough to do one big washing. then you will see for your self. It's the woman's friend. The regular price is 15c per large bottle, want to know what quality tea, coffee and butter we sell you can ask your neighbor, or better still call and make a purchase and see for yourself. That's the time you'll say the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Remem- Der our goods must give perfect satis- faction, or it's no sale. That's the way we do business at
 PHELAN'S T STORE A2 East Main Street. Telephone
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-23
CITY NEWS

A daughter was born on Tuesday to MT and Mrs James Phelan of 62 Farm street
 The colored people of Waterbury
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-23
SPECIAL WINE
 SALE.

this
 sold for week \ California Wine. S100 gal 75c XX California Wine. 1.JO gal. I.25 xxx Callforna Wine. 900 gal 1.J0 The above grade of wines include Port. Sherry. Muscatel. Angelica and Sweet Catawba
 California CIaret Wine. 6O. 75c. sl gal Rhine Wine HOchheimer. . JOc Rudesheimer ......-...-....... 1Jc SPECIAI-We will also sell ! bot- ties of California Wine either Port. Sherry or Muscatel for S1.cn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-23
MEETINGS TONIGHT:

Winona lodge, D. of R. Mattatuck council. R. A.
 Eureka chapter, R. A. NJ.
 Toantick tribe, l. o. R. M. Court Fruitful Vine, A. o. F. Mattatuck lodge, N. E. O. P. Excelsior council, O.aU. A. M.. -~ F. l.. DeForest council, 17S3, R. A. F Waterbury company, No 20, U. K. <. F. i-r- Liberty lodge. o. U. A. NJ. Degree of Honor. Lathers' union. Wadhams post. G. A. R.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-23
THE RIGHT TIME

There is always a dull season in the stores of those merchants who fail to keep in touch with the people. There is never dull season in those stores that keep in touch with the people all the time. The right kind of advertis- ing. persisted in all the time. keeps the merchant and his goods fin touch with the people all the time and cuts out dull seasons.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

A. +. CHURCH, SOUTH EF,. G..
{. LocH, Pastor. Services Is: and
Sd Sundays. !3lnday School 10 u.
"a. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday eve
ning.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

BAPTIST CHURCH REV. ]. II.
Blythe, Pastor. Services after
June, 2nd and ith SUNDAYS Sun
day School 10 n. IN. Prayer Meet
ing Tuesday evening.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
STATE SCHOOL NOTES
STATE SUPERINTENDENT TALKS
SCHOOLS.
Gives More Light On The compuI.
sorry Educn.ianal
Law.

The State Superintendent Of puhlic
Schools has sent out the io.lywirg
school itoms:
More Interest Is mani;,s.ed Ia tho
county teachers associatiuas than over,
The new State Course Of S.ud, Is meet
ing with genera i,ycr. Teachers every
where say that it Liscs new Inspiration
for the work, Systematic ,dofs are
pot forth every whsrc TO the end that
Missouri have IA artcua.cd system Of
sch, OILS
One district clerk appeals to G vernon
Folk IN a case wherein parents E, fuse 10
PIT children into school after being
II t'h"d by truant officer aad after The
prosecuting attorney refuses TO prose.
coto. The remedy is ia removing prose.
cntor from office il he either re.usos or
neplncts to perform plain duty.
The recent demands for the booklet
called Elements VI A4ri.uliurs Tor
Public Schools" published by the State
Superintendent have be great More
and more teachers and patrcns favor the
idea Of connecting the school work itb
practical ends, 1t is well to put into
the schools whatever will max boys aud
girls better, happier and more useful
men and women.
The school-book question was
thorougly discussed among school
boards, superintendent aud teschers
during tho summer months. As sarcsult
about 10 per cent of the looks have been
changed. In most Instances, the
changes made were in the inter est of the
children. The people will not expect
any further agitation Of the question
until after the meeting Of the next
legislature. 1t is not best to have un-
s"ttled conditions.
Prrs James OF the Uniyerity Of Illinois
in a recent magazine articln said that it
wa. tho function Of the State Depart.
meats Of Education TO gather AID pub
lish school statistics and to be the legal
adviser OF teachers and school boards.
That Is a barrow view-too barrow for a
p esident of great state university to
take. The State School Department
N ast have either direct or Influential
c0Ltroi Of the means Of preparing aud
lioyn sing the teachers, of the inspection
aud supervision Of the ontire school
system aud OF means Of organizing and
classi Tying schools into one harmonious
system,
The question is raised as TO whether
the compulsory attendance law applies
to chi!den living in unorgauized terri
tory. II cannot, for the law docs no
confer any school privileges on such
children. There is 10 school to which
they have right and 20 public funds
to pay their tuition. The law does
apply to negro children whether there
is a school in their home district or not,
They have right TO attend any negro
chool in the county and their home
district must pay the tuition.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH REv.
b. F. LOGAN, Pastor. Services lst
and Bird Sundays. Sunday Sch col
lOa. m. Prayer Meeting Wedn,s DAY
evening.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
LEARN TELEGRAPHY
A!SD X. Z. ACCOUNTING

We furnish - per cent. ofthc OrorA-
to7s and Station aganra in America.
Our six schools ara the largest eNclu-
siye Telegraph Schools in the world.
Established 20 years aud eudorsed by
al leading Railway Officials.
We eNcntc $3.50 bond 70 every stu.
Cent 10 flrnish him or bnr position
paying from SO "a SO month in
States east OF tho Rnc;N Nountains,
o' rom SO TO 500 a mNuth yNst uf the
Rocky Mountains, Immediately upon
graduation.
S!uaruts can enter a. any iime, No
va'ations, For foil particulars regard
inE any of our s"hopls Vriun direct tn
o1r gS''utiro Office Mt Cincinnati, o.
Catalogue free.
The riorse SchCGI OF Teiar1pi y
Cincinnati, Ohio. HaFso, y Y.
Atlan'a. Ga. LnCrosse. Wis,
1eyarbana. Tex. San F,nnriseo, Crl.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
SUNDAY sc100r CONVENTION
10 BE Held At DGvsi October

10 De heid At DGvsi October
~.
The Nashville Township Sunday
ton at n,,.l ST. .1o1'D, 80 '",' on ','u'
which hs t,,io..,,..i ,s- ''' 90 '"'
80 '"' P''s'""'
loco. Song Service trl no,o,;o,u,
Exercises. led Inv pr, v,in',,.-
1913. Tho Sund,y S.to.i r.....
for the Dav. by J,s Gsi.,,
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
THE SHERIDAN SCHOOL.
First non:h Ui School
Past.
First


The Carthage Democrat has the fol
lowing about theSheridan school:
Th5 first nj nth Of the Sh r.dsn
school term hrs bcl completed and the
pupils have settled down to real v work
with Miss Ethel Brock as eicher. Tn,
following 2S pupils are enrolled:
Myrtle Baync, Nora Grow, Agnes and
Elsie Gresham, Ethel aud Ollie Harvey,
Creola aud Fern Patrick, Bessie, Iua,
Julia aud Pearl Strecker, Ethyle Rad.
ford, Fern Wilson, Earl and Orin Har
yey, Harry, Hershal an V-ruie Rad
ford, Clarence Robinson, Ross Schenck,
Pugh and Ralph Sterling, Arthur and
Clyde Strcck'r, Homer Wampier, Del
bert Wilson. Some six little ones,
Myrtle Bsyne, Nina Grow, Agles
Gresham, Fern Patrick, Ross Schenck
aud Clyde StrecKer are just beginning t.
learn the mys cries Of the primer, Will
Homer Wampler, Arthur and Ina
Strecker, Ouir, Earl and Orin Harvey
aud Ethyle Radford will he candidate,
FOR graduation next year The schoo
is planning box supper for the le1e-
fit Of the library, although the date has
not been set.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

Every man owes it to himself and his
family 10 master a trade or profession.
Read the display advertisement Of the
six Morse Schools OF Telegraphy, in
this issue aud learn how easily young
man or lady may learo to!egraphy and
be assured a POSITION. Istf
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
A PIennure To All.

No pill is as pleasan; and positive as
DeWitt's Little Early Riser5. These
Famous Little Pills ara so mild and ef-
fectiyo that chillreu delicate ladies and
weak people euioy their cleansing effect
while strong people sap they are the
best liver pills sold, Sold by j. X.
Schooler.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

II make 20 dfycront how long you
haAe bson 81 itk, if you IRE troubled with
iddigeetiou, constipation, liver and kid
ney troubles, HOLSTERS Rocky Mount-
ain Tea will maze you we'll - oents.
J X Schooler.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

Girls, il you want red lips, laughing
eyes, sweet breath and good looks use
Holistsr's Rocky Mountain Tea. The
greatest beautiferikuown. 81 cents,
Tea or Sablets. J K. Schooler.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19


this owe II 10 German syrup"
qThe hme-worn injunction, Never put
oil Til tomorrow what you can do to-
day." is Bow generally presented 10 this
form: "Do il to-day p That is the tersc
advice We want TO give YOU about that
hacking cough or dcmora!izinE cold with
which you have been struggling for sew
eral days, perhaps weeks. qTake SOME
reliable remedy for it ro-uAY--and let
that remedy be DR.. Boschee's German
Syrup, which has been in use for over
thirty-fve years. A few doses of it will
undoubtedly relieve your cough CT cold,
and lis continued use for few days will
cure you completely. CNo matter how
deep-scated your cough, even if dread
consumption has attacked your lungs,
German Syrup will surely effect a cure
as il has done before in thousands of ap-
parently hopeless cases Of lung trouble.
CNew trial bottles, 7Sc; regular size,
sSc. At all druggists.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
SAlA TGiEdRlPiERS
WV y NEEDED

Annually, to till the new positions Gre
ated 10y Railroad anl Telegraph Tom
paniss We want Young MEN aud
LADIES Of good habits. t.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

NE CHURCH Roy w. r. FEa1r.
son Pastor. Seryicca. 2nd ana 9TH
SUNDAYS. Sunday Schopl 0:i5 a. m.
PRAYER Meeting Thursday evening.
The Jasper news., 1905-10-19
CHURCH CALENDAR
Jns9er, Mo.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH REy. o. W.
JoxEs, Pastor. Services, Lst, and
9ri Sundays. Slnday ScAuui
i0a. NJ. Prayer Meeting Thursday
evening.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08

sual. cruel. iconoclast-an impolite I'M
gentlemanly fellow-a stranger TO the
true. the good. and the beautiful
And yet Alaric, though a savage was
better man than his vanquished foes
He protected their women in an age
when the women of the conquered were
part OF the -Victcrs loot: he stood in
awe before the marbles of Rome and
maryeled at its learning. and when his
Staying was done he tired 10 give the
ancient city a decent government and
abandoned the task only after he had
round IL impossible TO unearth a Roman
honest enough to be governor.
Oyama Is just such a man. Twenty
years ago, finding his wife careless OF
his honor, he killed her with his own
hands.
Fifty years ago. a barbarian, he gaZed
upon a rified cannon for the first time.
Born in old Japan, he had reached
mans estate before he realized that
there were nations that knew more OF
science and art and war than his own
With the Romans decency had become
purely academic. With the GOthS OF
Alaric il was a principle ever present
AID real
Honorius. the Roman general. fancied
himself the chosen instrument of CIV
iliZation. but assumed no responsibility
except 10 bear his hOnors grandiy.
Alaric saw thai progress and dominion
meant unceaSing fidelity, real as well
as theoretical. TO the highest ideals OF
duty and honor
That IS precisely the difference be-
tween the Russians and the Japanese
The first pray TO their ikons and loot
their Red Cross stores. The latter know
the eternal superiority of ideas over
things
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suspicion, held up six homes one
night in January, and reaped a har-
vest of $50.
Foresco MatZogali, John Cambo
and two more, following this action
with mechanical precision on the fol-
lowing night, had 5000 to forward to
headquarters at New York on their
return.
They rejoiced in the thought that
they would not now have to pay with
wounds and stabs for their non-suc-
cess. When, in the saloons that
night they flourished rolls of bills
and in blatant boasting talked of
their triumph. they rocked not Of the
laborer with a black patch over his
eye. who lay, seemingly drunk, in
corner of the room. And only did
they realize the truth when four
hours later Ceupa appeared at their
bedsides, revolver in hand, behind
him a group of the Carbonate po-
lice, and dragged them from their
beds to Jail.
Once more Pennsylvania justice
was swift; Criscari five years and
nine months; Matzogali and Cambo,
each four years and six months, was
the grim story presently forwarded
to the Malta officers in New York.
THE priest and that accursed ecu
ma will heat ust" said the council OF
the Malta.
"Once shake the belief of the TIA
, lians in the invincibility and invul-
nerability Of the Malta our power
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a Modem Caesar

r T is a diyerting fancy 10 compare
the heroes of our own day with
II the world figures of antiquity and
to search for Homers. Euclids and
Caesars among our men of letters.
science and war
An easy mornings work, with some
slight risk of sudden death. made
George Dewey, an elderly and obscure
commodore, the Nelson of America, -
and the laying of a railroad across the
friendleSs British brigadier, into COM
garrison with Scipio Africanus Major.
And today amateur military critics
are comparing Field Marshal Marquis
Oyama, the japanese comEander-in-
chief. with Caesar. Alexander. Hanni-
bal. Frederick the Great, Napoleon and
Won Moltke.
He seems TO possess. in truth, the
characteristics OF several OF these men
bition OF Alexander and Won Moltke' $
marvellous calm.
But more than any other hero to
whom he has been Hkened in any ar
ticle that has reached us he resembles
that StupendoUS figure, .Alarlc the Goth
Alaric, the historians tell US, was a
savage. He was unacQuainted with the
plays of AeschyIus. He seldom bathed
He ate. no doubt. with his knife.
II n slave offended him he slew that
slave and thought no more OF II. His
uncouth. He was Innocent of boiled
shirts and stove-pipe hats.
Beside the highly civilized Romans OF
the day he seemed a helpless barbarian
The very name of Goth has come down
TO US as a synonym for brutal SEN
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ready In command of their names
and identities.
Frank MARITIME, holding up a pal
lid, trembling boy at the point Of
revolver In the darkness of Fairview
street, felt the pistol dashed from
his grasp, and wheeled round TO see
the little figure of the priest con-
fronting him. and in the next mo-
ment Father Cerutti had seized him.
Ceupa and four other shadowy fig
ures came seemingly out of space,
and MARITIME lay bound and gagged
on the ground. Speedy was his fate;
within a week he was on his way to
the State penitentiary, there to serve
four years and nine month of i'm
prisonment with hard labor.
Came one night Malta agent to
a house from which the father of the
family was absent. And even as he
hammered fiercely at the door a shot
rang out from clump of trees by
the roadside. He fell, desperately
wounded, to be carried away by mys-
terious hands.
The. battle had begun in earnest,
with the first two blows TO the credit
of the vigilance men.
wait and see," was the word sent
down to Carbonate by the head
centers Of the Malta in response to a
wild appeal for further instructions
from the local agent.
Santo Criscara, who in nine years
of activity as a professional agent OF
the Malta had never even been under
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viii be gone forever. Ceupa must be
killed. The face of the priest, must
be marked with the cross. He, too,
must die
This, according to Ceupa, CROP
ing around the haunts of the Malta
in every kind of disguise, was the
order now issued
Soon twenty-five more Malta
agents began work on the railroad.
This time John Costa was chosen
the local leader. Thrice was Ceupa
shot at in the darkness, and each
time escaped unhurt.
The end of April approached be-
fore the Malta struck its first blow at
the devoted priest. Father Cerutti
entering the shadows of the Fair
view road leading TO his home, at
midnight, after leaving the bedside
of a dying woman, was followed by
a shadowy presence that grew nearer
and nearer with each step. And
when it seemed that the pursuer was
close on his prey three other figures,
watching from the other side of the
street, jumped out and gave chase TO
him. The man was fleet of foot and
was lost in the woods.
1t might have been mere matter
of coincidence that John Costa the
following night fell into a fierce
quarrel with Salvatore Carriccio, fir
ed two shots at him and vanished.
For many weeks Carriccio lay in a
hospital with a bullet wound in his
leg. And then. Costa having fed to
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Men Robbed, Women InSuited

He had not long to wait. On
December night agents of the Malta
swooped down upon Carbonate and
little group of surrounding vii
lagos. And with the rising of the
morning sun came tale of horror
to appall the bravest heart; tale of
men and women held up at the point
of the revolver and forced TO give up
all that they had; of homes invaded;
the husbands, brothers, fathers turn
ed into the street by the burly,
black proved ruffians of the Malta;
of wives and sisters subjected to in
suit and indignity.
To the local police presently
floated rumors of the foray. With
bulldog directness they made the
usual effort at investigation, only to
find their way blocked by the stone
wall of a trembling, frightened de-
NAL on the part of the victims
Then it was that Father Cerutti,
in earnest of a resolution he had
taken, called dozen of the men Of
his congregation together and laid
the foundation of the organization
of defense, to be known as the Pro-
tective Society of st. Joseph.
MY sons" said the priest, "the
time has come when we must arise
for the defense of our homes against
the enemies OF the honest men of
our race. To appeal to the Anglo
Saxon police is, you see, useless
They are honest and willing, but
they can do nothing with our peo-
pie against the Malta. The detec-
ton and punishment of our crimi-
nails must be with us. We must
meet Italian cunning with Italian
cunning"
And there and then the Protective
Society was formed, each man pres,
ent registering a solemn oath Z
give up his life If need be in the de
lection of the criminals and the pro
lection of the homes of his fellow
countrymen.
BY tacit consent ii was JOSEPH
Ceupa, the soldier. who organized
the forces.
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HELPLESS Against Malta MieS

For you see, the men of the Pro-
tective Society of st. Joseph, every
one of whom would shed the last
drop of blood in my Defense" says
Father Antonio, ARE helpless in
Vaccinations against the assassins
whom the Malta sent down here to
rob and tyrannize my people. They
are simple, honest fellows, who came
from the farms and the seashore,
and who, working in the coal mines
or on the railroads, have no thought
save to earn bread for their little
ones"
The story of this drama, watched
with a feverish intensity of interest
by the people of every town along
the valley, really begins in the No
vember of last year, when there
fioated through the little colony
fearsome whispers of the appearance
of five olive-skinned men with black
hair, fierce black eyes. and the ear
rings that mark the professional
Italian cut-throat, who, visiting the
houses of the laborers at night, had
demanded money, and in doing SO.
suggestively fingered stiletto.
When they vanished after one
nights work the colony was 5000 the
poorer.
The thirteen hundred people COM
prising Father Cerutti's flock in his
Church of Mt Carmel are divided
into two sections. OF these the
minority OF 800 come from the prov
ince of Reggie. which has given
many sons to the Malta. The major
fly of the remainder come from the
county of Catanzaro, in Calabria.
Father Cerutti heard of the raid
and discovered that the money had
been taken from the people Of the
Reggie district.
All these people questioned By him
swore with feverish enthusiasm that
they had paid money voluntarily fol
the benefit of their fellow-townsmer
lying i'll in the hospitals of New
York.
Father Cerutti looked among his
flock, found the man he wanted IL
Ceupa, took him into consultation
and waited for the next sign of the
Malta. He knew that the thriving
industrious little colony had beer
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then 1 knew that they were swear.
ing to take Father Cerutti's life,~
said Ceupa, in giving the story to
this newspaper.
There was sharp whistle, a rush,
a fusillade of revolver shots. and one
trembling prisoner was in the hands
of Ceupa. The rest had escaped No
weapon was found on the Malta man,
and there being no evidence on
which he could be even held, he was
released.
Thrice since that night has Father
Cerutti been followed to his home
trailed there by the vengeance Of the
Malta, his protectors trailing the
trailers, and firing d warning shot
as they approached too near.
Only two weeks ago the Malta
played another card Father Ce-
RUTH, in one of those moments OF
incaution which seem inevitably TO
affect the man in deadly peril, had
chosen a new route across lets TO
his home AS he approached the
shadows of the trees light step
behind him brought him to a stop,
and, as before, he wheeled around
TO see a man close upon him, his
hand grasping something in his
pocket.
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SaUed by His Faithful Guard

CUOSu w Iio ulHJ vi UUCD1
Then did Father Cerutti, realizing
that the Malta had gotten him at
last, shout for help. There were an
swering shouts from the road. The
man turned, ran for his life TO the
woods, yet he could not get out OF
the range of his pursuers, and he
ran on, staggering with exhaustion.
until he tumbled head foremost over
a fallen trSe. The razor found In
his pocket will help 10 convict him
at his trial, at Scranton. for assault
And thus this strange war OF
darkness, in all its features unlike
anything of the kind ever before
seen in the country, goes on until
justice, represented by Father An
tonic Cerutti and his devoted aide,
Joseph Ceupa, shall have triumphed.
or the Malta once again has given
convincing evidence that it is, in
deed, invulnerable TO law
And you see, as l told you in the
beginning said Father Cerutti
gently tapping the shoulder of the
writer. Il am still safe and still un-
hurt in spite of their Vaccinations.
Perhaps i is given US to prove that
this band of brigands and assassins
which We know by the name ofthe
Malta can be fought and beaten.
Perhaps they will succeed IN their
purpose to disfgure me and get my
life. Well, then, there is one old
priest less in the world. and the
good God will reward me in His
own way"