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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-20

Ore lot Ladies Coats, Melton cloth and cheviots, several styles, clear ing sale price Sa.oC Ladies' Tailor Made Suits. reefcr
 and Norfolk jacket. nine gore
 skirt. made of fancy mixtures.
 value $12.50, clearing sale price S1.0 Girls Dresses, Russian effects,
 made of cheviots fancy mixtures and cashmere. value S3.5O. clear
 ing sale price Sl0a One lot Girls Mackintoshes, single
 and double cape, navy blue and
 red price S3.5o. clearing sale
 price Sl.2j
 HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. Ladies' all wool Pants, ribbed, in
 white and gray. regular price Sl.
 January sale '' '-'''" ''' 3Jc Ladies' extra size fleece lined Vests, long sleeves. pants to match reg
 uiar price 39c, aJnuary sale
 25c q garment Ladies' fine quality black cotton
 Hose. regular price 25c, Janu-
 ary sale 19c Ladies' black wool Hose, regular
 price 11c. January sale lie Chiidren's black cotton Hose. fine
 rib. sizes j to 9l2, aJnnary sale T pairs for pc HANDKERCHIEFS. Ladies' hemstitched Handkerchiefs. regular 5c. Saturday and Monday 39c each. 3Jc dozen Fancy embroidered Handkerchiefs.
 regular 15c, Saturday and Monday loc, 2 for 25c All our 25c Ladies Handkerchiefs. edges, for 1ac NECKWEAR
 Fancy 25c Collars in all colors. for this sale Toe each | Lot of Collars. regular 10c. 2 for l0c Fancy Collars. all new styles, regu-
 lar J0c. for this sale ::9e
 NOTIONS.
 Ely sium Face Powder in white. Jr l box for = Shoe Laces, q pairs for Ic C8siile Soap. from Jc. = cake Black linen Thread. all numbers, ! ;;c spool Common Pins. 3Go count. 2c paper MeDnen's Talcum Powder. i2i.c boN HAMBTRG SALE.
 C8mbric and Nainsook Edges, as
 sorted patterns. 1, q. < inches in
 width. from l5c. ioc Insertions in assorted patterns.
 from 1Jc. h'e Cambrlc and NainsnOk Edges. with insertion to match. edges \. 10. r. inches in width. from 21c. 1ei2t Cambric and Nainsook Edges, very
 fine patterns. from 21c. lJt Allover Hamburg. assorted pat
 terms. from S1.2J yard. pt Bcadings. one and two inches in
 width. assorted patterns. from
 i2ikc. $, Narrow Cambric Edges. assorted
 patterns. from ,i,. ." yd
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

ture cleaning IN his Joyous eyes, drew his
sword and plunged swiftly into the forest.
Far and fast he ran, from glade to
glade, breaking through the bushes,
springing over the brambles, light as
Young deer, peering this way and that,
straining his ears for a sound, and catch
ing only the cry of the wood-pigeons.
Still on he went, with the constant
thought of the weeping woman behind
and of the captured man in front. 1t was
not until he was footsore and out of
breath that he stopped with his hand
to his side, and considered that his own
business had still to be done, and that
it was time once more that he should
seek the road to Gvildford.
Meantime Awkward had found his own
rough means of consoing the woman IN
the road who stood sobbing with her
face against the side of Pommers' saddle.
Nay, weep not, my pretty one, said
he. 1T brings the tears to my own eyes
to see them stream from thine
Alas! good archer, he was the best OF
fathers, so gentle and 50 kind! Had YOU
but known him, you must have loved
him.
Tut, tut! he will suffer no scathe.
Squire Nigel will bring him back to you
anon.
No, no, l shall never see him more,
Hold me, archer, or l fall! ="
Awkward pressed his ready arm round
the supple waist. The fainting woman
leaned with her hand upon his shoulder,
Her pale face looked past him, and it
was some new light in her eyes, a flash
of expectancy, OF triumph, OF wicked
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

woman who sat, Wr1ng1ng her hands ana
weeping bitterly upon the bank by the
side of the track At such sight of
beauty in distress Nigel pricked Pommers
with the spur and in three bounds was
at the side of the unhappy lady.
What ails you, fair dame? he asked.
rs there any small matter in which |
may stand your friend, or is it possible
that anyone hath so hard a heart as to
do You an injury
She rose and turned upon him a face
full of hope and entreaty. Oh, save
my poor, poor fatherl" she cried. Have
YOU perchance seen the way-wardens?
They passed us, and | fear they are be
yond reach.
Yes, they have ridden onward, but
we may serve as well.
Then hasten, hasten, | pray you
Even now they may be doing him to
death. They have dragged him into
wonder grove and | have heard his voice
growing ever weaker in the distance
Hasten, l implore you!
Nigel sprang from his horse and tossed
the rein to Aylward.
Nav, let US 90 together. How many
robbers were there, lady!
Two stout fellows"
Then l come also.
NAY, it is not possible said Nigel;
"The wood is too thick for horses, and
we cannot leave them in the road. :.
4 will guard them, cried the lady.
.Pommers is not so easily held. Do
YOU bide here, Aylward, until you hear
from me. Stir not, | command you. .
So saying, Nigel, with the light OF adven-
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24
Are You One of the Crowd of
Poorly Paid Men

who have coupon Schools
held for them butt who through neglect OF
o ndeCEion have passed 1t BY
If So come ahead of the Others Reach
which wish succeed and give the L. D.
opportunity help they haze helped tens hf0nsanas carr
enterprises OF ttear OW Don't
decide that have asked about hen
your only regret will be that did not ask before
with invested capital of So O0O devoted
entirely to the people help themselves their
value themselves and Others
The rise of helped by the c. told by them
selves of reads like romance ms oook
of absolutely Nil
in and mail the coupon
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24
. S I r n 1 G E L
Confined 6uusp2
Continued from page 8


bs rh his hand, for in it, securely
str l he had placed the precious
ire IS of the Lady Ermyntrude AS
he the grand tawny neck tossing
he hi1n and felt the easy heave of the
O.. orse and heard the mutfled drum
his hoofs. he could have sung
an 5uted with the Joy of living.
nd him. upon the little brown pony
p had been Nigel's former mount,
mkin Awkward the bowman, who
ken upon himself the duties of
IS 4 attendant and body-guard. His
shoulders and breadth of frame
dangerously top-heavy upon the
eed, but he ambled along, whistling
nv lit and as hght-hearted as his
r There was no Country1nan who
ot a nod and no woman who had
smile for the jovial bowman, who
1r the most part with his face over
5ulder. staring at the last petticOat
had passed him. Once only he
nth a harsher greeting. 1t was from
white headed, red-faced man whom
met upon the moor.
sood morrow, dear father!" cried
ard How IS it with you at
and the ewes from Alton and Mary
Gairy1naid and all your gear
i i'll becomes you to ask, you ne'er-
G eel " said the old man. You have
red the monks of Waver1ey, whose
ant | am. and they would drive me
Il nv farm. Yet there are three
-g wears to run. and do what they may
III bide till then But little did l
Tx that | should lose my homestead
rough YOU. Samkin. and big as you are
0uld knock the dust out of that green
kin with a good hazel switch if | had
70u at Crooksbury."
Then YOU shall do II tomorrow morn
~. good father. for l Will come and see
Sou then. But indeed l did not do more
Waverley than you would have done
Yourself. Look me in the eve, old hot
Faad. and tell me if YOU would have stood
bv while the last Loring- look at him
Is he rides, with his head in the air and
his soul in the clouds-was shot down
5re Your very ewes at the bidding OF
,-at lat monk, If YOU would, then |
d.sown YOU as my father
Nav. Sa1nkin. if II was like that, then
perhaps what YOU did was not 50 far
aTIllSS. But II IS ldIu ~ lOSC tI4C Oid
farm when my very heart IS buried deep
IN the good brown soil.
Tut. mani there are three years to
run. and what may not happen IN three
years: Before that time shall have
gone 10 the wars, and when have opened
French strong box or two you can buy
the good brown soil and snap Your
fingers at Abbot John and his bailitts-
Am l not as proper a man as Tom With
staff of Churt2 And yet he came back
after six months with his pockets 1ull
Of rose MOBILES and a French wench on
either arm
God preserve Us from the wenches,
Sa1nkin, But indeed | think that II there
IS money 10 be gathered YOU are as likely
+ get your fist full as any man who goes
T. the war But hasten, lad, hasten!
Already your young master IS over the
brow.
Thus adrnonished, the archer waved
lis gauntleted hand to his father, and
DIGGING his heels into the sides OF his
little pony soon drew up with the Squire.
Il, Ia- nd
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

BY Sa1nJ Haul! were my erTanQ not
pressing one l would be tempted to turn
aside and seek him. Where lives he,
them"
There is great morass beyond
Puttenham, and across it there are caves
in which he and his people lurk.'
His people? He hath band?"
There are several with him. -
1T sounds a most honorable enter
prise said Nigel When the King
hath come and gone we will spare day
for the outlaws of Puttenham. fear
there is little chance for us to see them
on this journey
They prey upon the pilgrims who pass
along the Winchester Road, and they
are well loved by the folk in these parts,
for they rob none of them and have an
open hand for all who will help them"
1T is right easy to have an open hand
with the money that you have stolen"
said Nigel; but fear that they will not
try to rob two men with swords at their
girdles like you and me, SO we shall have
no profit from them
They had passed over the wild mOors
and had come down now into the main
road by which the pilgrims from the west
of England made their way to the nation
al shrine at Canterbury. 1t passed from
Winchester, and up the beautiful valley
of the Itchen until it reached Farnham,
where it forked into two branches, one
of which ran along the Hogs Back, while
the second wound to the south and came
out. at Saint Catharine's Hill where
stands the Pilgrim shrine, gray old ruin
now, but once 50 august, 50 crowded and
so affiuent 1t was this second branch
upon which Nigel and Aylward found
themselves as they rode to Guildford.
No one, as it CHANGED, was going the
same way as themselves, but they met
one large drove of pilgrims returning
from their journey with pictures of Saint
Thomas and snails shells or little leaden
ampul1P in their hats and bundles OF
purchases over their shoulders. They
were grimy, ragged, travel-stained
crew, the men walking, the women borne
on asses. Man and beast, they Emped
along as if it would be a glad day when
thev saw their homes once more. These
and few beggars or minstrels, who
crouched among the heather on either
side of the track in the hope OF receiving
an occasional farthing from the passer-by,
were the only folk they met until they
had reached the village of Puttenham.
Already there was hot sun and just
breeze enough to send the dust flying
down the road, so they were glad to clear
their throats with glass OF beer at the
ale-stake IN the village, where the fair
alewife gave Nigel a cold farewell be-
cause he had no attentions for her, and
Avlward a box on the ear because he had
too many.
On the farther side of Puttenham the
road runs through thick woods Of oak
and beech, with a tangled underground
of fern and bramble. Here they met a
patrol of sergeants-a alarms, tall fellows,
well mounted, clad in studded-leather
caps and tunes, with lances and swords.
They walked their horses slowly on the
shady side of the road, and stopped as
the travellers came up, to ask if they had
been mo1ested on the way.
Have a care, they added, for the
Wild Man and his wife are out. Only
Yesterday they slew merchant from the
west and took hundred crowns.
IL ,,-;fa ,-O,, caIy2'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Fou&ht Like True Americans

trench to conceal his crippled condi-
ton from the foe. From early morn
ing until night this handful of five
men was under almost constant fire,
often at such short range that they
could bring their pistols into play.
Thus they fought for their own lives
and defended their dying comrade,
without food and for drink only little
muddy water mixed with their own
blood. They killed more than
dozen Indians and wounded above q
score.
Relief came that night, but it was
thirty-six hours after the first attack
before medical aid and food could be
given them at the nearest post. Pri-
vate Smith died before camp was
reached. Every man was wounded,
Scout Chapman severely and Scout
Dixon several times, but not danger
ously. This band of four soldiers and
two scouts were of those who had
been fighting and marching for weeks
amid the most dreadful privations.
They were worn to skin and bone,
but their souls were as ''big as all
outdoors" and they flinched at no odds
under heaven And by such men as
these was this nation made-Outing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Methods of Preparing Tea

knowledge of no country in Europe,
but one, where tea is used as in China
Portugal, which got it's knowledge
OF teamaking from province OF
China, with which, at that time, no
other nation OF Europe was in contact.
1T was while travelling on horse
back with a guide in the wilder parts
of Portugal away from shops and inns,
where had perforce to make eH-
periments in the most economical use
Of the few ounces of tea and coffee
that we could afford to carry with us,
that we hit upon discovery. Hav-
ing no milk, we drank our tea. as most
Portuguese drink theirs, as a simple
infusion, sweetened with sugar.
Il remembered to have read, | be-
lieve in the travels Of the Able Hue,
that, when the Chinese desire to be
thrifty in the use of the finer and
moro expensive teas, they grind the
leaf to a powder and use less for the
infusion. We found that tea could
be ground in coffee mill as easily
as coffee, that tea made with the pow
der is as good as or better than when
made with the whole leaf and that the
powder, as it naturally would, goes
farther than the tea Ieaf''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

A detachment of six men were car
rying dispatches. from command
near Red river to Camp Supply. OF
the six two were scouts, Amos Chap
man and William Dixon. The others
were cavalrymen. Far from any
refuge they were surrounded by near.
ly 200 Indians. They sought shelter
in a buffalo wallow and prepared to
hold their ground. The attack came
at o'clock in the morning and the
long, long day stretched before them.
In the first rush four these six were
wounded, Private Smith MORALLY.
The other hurts were severe
They were hemmed in on all sides
in an open plain, and were outnum-
bered almost twenty to one. One of
the scouts, while a severe fire was be-
ing poured in at them at close range,
succeeded in throwing up a scanty
intrenchment with his bowie knife and
his hands. His comrades held the
Kiowas and Comanches Off until this
little help was ready as a refuge and
they moved into the treuch, the
wounded walking with brave and pain
full effort.
Although Private Smith was wound
ed INTO death. he sat upright in the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

An English traveller says in a letter
to the London Times: History tells
us that, when coffee was first brought
to the cities of western Europe the
first makers of it were Turks. They
roasted and ground the berries and
served the liquor, as it is served to
this day in the east, grits and all.
We still drink coffee as we drank it
! en-, with this difference, that we
mostly omit the grits and drink an
infusion instead of a decoction. It
was not so with tea. No Chinaman
was imported with the first pound OF
tea to teach us how to make and drink
it. The consequence has been that we
have never drunk tea in the Chinese
way--that is, as simple infusion:
AT first there seems to have. been
great doubt, as to how to deal with
the new herb. 1t is even said that it
was sometimes boiled, with salt and
butter and served up as sort OF spin
ach The old phrase "a dish of tea
seems to bear out this legend. Fin
ally it came to be settled that the
most wholesome and pleasant way to
treat the tea leaf was to make it into
kind of sweet soup with sugar and
milk or cream. I have personal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Monetary System Of China

Emile Bard, a Frenchman, has an
interesting chapter on the money OF
China in his book, Chinese Life In
Town and Country" He explains that
the unit of Chinese money is the tael,
which is not coin, but a weight of
silver-the ounce, of which there are
sixteen to the catty,. and 1900 to the
picul. The commercial tael is THAI of
Canton, which should weigh 37.783
grains, but usually weighs 37.5s. Then
there is the, tael of Shanghai, which
weighs 1855, and the revenue tael, used
in valuing imports and exports, and
each large city has it's own, that of
Tietsin worth from 4 to 6 per cent
more than that of Shanghai. Business
estimated in taels is carried on by the
use OF Spanish dollars or silver in
COTS. The former are weighed
and stamped. by every south China
merchant and have to Be reminted
continually. The ingots of silver are
cut from bars into pieces that the
operator estimates will weigh so
taels. Naturally each one who handles
them weighs them.
Banks store their money in cell
lars, in boxes carried back and forth
~ coo1ies,'' says M. Bard. <'This ex-
plains the item of transportation
which is deducted from the face of a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Paid Debt with kni&hthood

to tell his good luc k to the girl of his
choice He explained to her the sit
uation, how old stamps had been
picked off documents and used again
and how he had invented an elaborate
plan to remedy this. But surely"
said the young lady, IF all the stamps
had a date put on them they could not
at future time be used without de-
lection. " This rather startled young
Bessemer. But he devised Simple
! method of marking the date. The
British government was delighted.
The device was accepted. And as no
change of machinery or staff was
needed, Bessemer was informed that
no superintendent of stamps would
be appointed. Thus he had deprived
himself of job. !"
Forty-fve years later, after he had
invented the ''BeSsemer process OF
preparing iron and had made great
fortune, Bessemer wrote to Lord Bea-
consfeld, then prime minister, point
ing out that he had saved the country
millions without the reward Of a pen
ny. He no longer wanted money, but
tho government acknowledged the
debt and paid it with a knighthoOd.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

the pine cone on the5desk of M. Pes
chard, the police commissioner of the
Gallon quarters, whokimmediately in
formed NJ. Girard, director of the
municipal 1abOratoryIsE" ...
NJ. Girard~ unscreWed the bolt, and
by pulling the waxed thread drew
forth two small glass#tubes, four cen
timeters long, filed with concentrated
sulphuric acid. Il
These tubes werefplunged into a
mass of illuminate mercury, and were
maintained verticallyS by two small
fragments of metal. &
The director of the. laboratory had
everyone vacate the building. NJ. Cir
ard, having first taken off small
quantity of fulminatekof mercury for
all that was necessary was one grain
of this dangerous product to kill
person, and this machine contained
1,400 grains), had q pail Of water
brought to him. He then proceeded,
with the greatest OF precaution, to
plunge the bomb into the water. Shell
tering himself in the Enclosure of the
porte-cochere that would shield him
in case of an explosion, the noted
chemist let the dangerous bomb slide
into the water, rendering it harmless.
tt is believed that the bomb was
laid in the grass by an anarchist who
feared arrest and dr. not want be
caught with the bomb in his posses
sion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

The small ball of metal in the shape
Of a pine cone picked up in the Rue de
Rivoli, at Paris,- France, by M. Chav-
igny a few minutes after the attempt
against Alphonso XIII. and President
Loubet was made, was really one OF
the famous bombs sent to France by
the anarchists of Barcelona
NJ Chavigny, happening to see this
cone, little thought he was in the pres
ence of a deadly machine. Being a
great collector of relics, he evidently
thought it was piece of grille work
torn off by the explosion that had
just happened, and put it carefully in
his vest pocket.
M. Chavigny went to call on a friend
in a tavern situated on one of the
boulevards.
He told his friend about the explo-
sion and exhibited the piece Of metal
he had picked up and so carefully
thrust into his pocket.
The head of a bolt covering the
lower aperture of the pine cone drew
the friends attention, and they start
ed to unscrew this bolt. An end of
waxed thread, holding in place glass
tube, appeared
Then M. Chavigny realized that this
ball of metal was not the result Of
the explosion, but bomb itself.
With the greatest Of precautions the
head of the screw was replaced and
ten minutes later NJ. Chavigny placed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
In Defense Of Missionaries

compensated for serving his clients,
why should not an attorney retained
for the Almighty be permitted to live
and support his family in comfort?
THE laborer is worthy of his hire.
A true minister needs and should
have an equivalent for his work, and
be relieved from the strain of antici-
pated or realized poverty. He should
also be enabled to provide for those
near and dear to him. Usually his
charities are transformations, numer-
GUS and unheralded. He should also
have good food, because, among other
things, he is fitted to enjoy it.
The revival that started in wales
has spread like an accommodating wave
over christendom and is filling it's mis-
sion in this distant settlement of the
extreme West. Wherever it has
touched, it has refreshed and invigor.
ated mankind. There would be no
more cogent proof of human progress
toward that real fraternity, in which
even the dreams of prophet, seer and
priest arc some day to be translated
into act.-Honolulu Commercial Ad-
vertiser
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

Chinese check when it is cashed at
bank. One can judge of the complica.
tons consequent upon this system OF
conversion, of taels of different values
into ingots Of different weight and
purity, especially as assayers of diff
ferent localities refuse to honor the
stamps of other cities" In places
where the dollar is not used small
payments are made by cutting up an
ingot. The scale used in weighing
these fragments has two sets Of
markings; one for receipts and one
for payments"
China's national coin is the ''cash,"
round copper coin with square
hole through it.. The cash or sapak
date from at least $500 B. c. Eight
pounds weight Of cash makes a
dollar. Years ago an emperor decided
to double his funds by giving copper
cash double it's value; in certain parts
of the country this performance is still
in effect. In other parts II or IS
cash are counted as 100.
In Honan the Chinese go to market
with two kinds of money-one real
the other counterfeit. Some articles
are bought with one, some with the
other; certain articles have two
prices-one in good money, one in
bad.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Decrease of White Plague

prevent the spread Of infection. These
hospitals, together with the English
love of out-of-door sports and the use
of ventilating appliances and open
freplaces are probably the explana-
ton Of their growing freedom from
consumption. -
I'm Germany, during the past fif-
teen years, the death rate has de-
clined from thirty-one to nineteen and
one-half-a full third less. ~.
"In the United States the death
rate in 1900, in the area for which
registration has been well kept, was
nineteen, as against twenty-six in
1890, showing decline of twenty-five
per cent in ten years. In New York
city, owing largelysto the work of War
ing and Biggs, the death rate had
diminished in twenty years nearly
forty per cent. It is a conservative:
prediction that the next three de-.
cades Will each see more remarkable
improvement" I'LL. s5.,G