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WOMEN'S DRESSES and SUITS

WOMENS DRESSES and SUITS
Womens Dresses and Suits, in recent models, made Of six
or cloth. appropriate for visiting, street or informal dress
wear. Practical Suits for go6ng and outing,
Separate Costume and Walking Skirts.
The following at considerably below the regular prices will be
offered on TUESDAY, December 4th:
Eton and Goat Suits Of black and colored b~roadcioth.
$500 and $4,000
Afternoon Dresses Of black and colored clair de lune.
silk lmed $500 and $500
Elton SUITS Of black and co'ored chlfoa velvet
silk lined $500
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iiOllSr. NOWNS

For Monday, December Sd. a sac has been prepared of
House Dresses and Gowns, as follows:
House Dresses Of India silk, lace trimmed $3.50
Cashmere Gowns, trimmed with lowered six 875
Neghgees Of French flannel 500
Eiderdown Robes $50
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DAGHESTAN RUGS

A selection Of Two Hundred and Fifty Daghestan Rugs
will be placed on special sale. at the following
unusual reductions in price.
on WEDNESDAY. December 5th:
Rugs formerly $l4.50 and $3.50, at $ll.50
Rugs formerly 1850 and ESQ, at $500
IN ADDITION TO TIE ABOVE, A COL
LECTION OF FINE PERSIAN AMI TURKISH
RUGS. IN LARGE AND MEDIUM SIZES.
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FIFTH AVENUE, Bath and 18th Streets, New York
STORE WILL BE CLOSED DAILY AT SIN P NJ
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

work IN Japau-the conducting OF Bible classes.
Every missionary from the recruit to the
oldest veteran, has measure OF this 10 do. Some
of the Bible classes large many congrega-
tions. The secret of all this is as apparent to
every body concerned the desire of the Japanese
to learn English The eagerness Of the natives In
this particular Is nothing short OF a craze. Free
quently have had young accost ME and enter
into conversation purely for the purpose OF prac-
tising their little stock of English. Sometimes
this sort of thing is rather trying mission
aries have had their patience we'll trained They
take the Japanese on any terms and find. they say
that out "f Rible classes attending from a purely
selfish motive have come many of the most earnss,
converts and Christian workers
Often hear the question raised as To whether
Christianity is having any practical effect upon
the character of the converts That IS not so sim
pie question TO answer as would at first sppear.
the missionary is really working for his converts
grahdchlldren Yet must admit that have nun
across cases that not without meaning After
speaking at the oldest university in Japan an IN
stltuton dstincttvely not Christian. 7 was enter
tanned at luncheon by the president and six of tho
Ieading professors were invited TO be present Ona
"t 'hese was a man who in appearance strikincly
resemhled the young college Young Mems Christian
Association men in America. and he himself was
an active Christian worker and responsible for ,he
religious organization existing In the college
iearhed that his standing was high among the nro
fessors and his Efuence among the undergraduates
pronounced
Perhaps the most curious of many upexn.c,o,,
evidences OF Christianity in this city is the cracl~
htsebah team IN the Waseda University an In
sffutior With more than seven thousand students
ihe J1pdr"s" hevc taken erdcatly TO American
sports. and this particular team made n s1ccassf,,I
'|ur OF the FaeIfc Coast lass year IL owes its et
cheney I" tha Key r. Merrideld. . Baptist mission
AIRY, Who was star on the University of ,,bi.,
championship baseball team y lew years ago Ner
rleid goes three days week to Waseda 10 coach
e 'e'n i"r The sake af the opportunity this gives
"i,i 80 q" Nhf!sti"n work among the students
shalt iater have surprising statements 80 49,
concerning the condition of Christian missions q,
Japan ana the prospects thereof bur II ia fair tba,
! S"cu'd mere first record, have q "a, some of
,. =, ''s"eeS OF 'he many ways !n vhcu Christian
ity Is influencing the nation
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
A KEEN OBSERVER.

To Mr.. Bryce. on the other hand. the inatten-
tion Of most people 10 what is going around
Shsm is much a wonder as his continual
watchfulness appears peculiar TO others.
1T is extraordinary" he said, fn an address
before the Geographical Association Of Eng
land, ''hOw little most Of US will observe the
world around US If left 10 ourselves Ask your
self how many people among your acquaintance
there are who have any intelligent knowledge of
the weatheT-that IS 10 say, who are in the
habit OF observing the direction from which
Winds come, and the phenomena Of the sky
which Indicate fair weather or dull weather or
rain respectively. You will find, / think they
are extremely few. In the same way, il is odd
how very few people there are who notice the
vegetation Of the district in which they dwell.
II you were 10 ssk for instance, one
ot your ordinary intelligent friends who lives
IN the country II he could tell what plants are
characteristic OF chalk soils, or what kind Of
soil fir or a beech prefers, you would be sur
prised 20 find how few there who could
give you an intelligent and correct answer.
Yet observation of this kind does not require
any special botanical knowledge.
when one takes a long ocean voyage one is
surprised 10 md how small a number Of per
sons there are on board who know anything
or trade winds or fnonsoons or ocean currents )
other than the now familiar yet often not very
well understood Gulf Stream. Yet how such
q knowledge adds to the pleasure of travel
BY many Englishrnen James Bryce has come
20 be regarded as a prophet well as a his
iorians as able 10 look into the future as well
a. the past in his impressions of South Afri-
ca he made predictions which IL England had
needed might have spared her long and dis
astrous war. 1t is because of his prestige there
fore. as a forecaster Of events that these lines
from The Holy Roman Empire" have been
quoted again and again by kings and ernperors
10 ministers who propose ambitious schemes 70,
foreign conquest:
No universal monarchy IS likely to arise
More frequent intercourse and the progress nj
thought have done much 10 change the charac-
ter OF national distinctions substituting for ig-
loTant prejudice and hatred a genial sympath,
and the sense of a common interest. They hav.
not lessened their force. No one who reads tat
history OF the last three hundred years-no one
above all. VINO studies attentiVely the career M
Napoleon-can believe IL possible for any state
however great her energy and material re.
sources 10 repeat an modern Europe the part o.
ancient Rome; 10 gather into one vast politica
body races whose national individuality hai
grown more and more marked in each success
sfga age"
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

meals An employe returning from dinner on the
streetcar would obtain transfer to another line,
hand ii TO his fellow employe. who was about to
take his incoming. and who would thus ride free to
his destination.
Women shoppers also fell into the transfer habit
and traded transfers for postage stamps and other
articles less than five cents in value
Under its agreement the Binghamton Street
Railway Company obliged to continue issuing
transfers whenever they were asked for, thus max
ing II possible for half dozen persons to ride
many different lines for a nickel.
Various plans were devised to check the transfer
exchange but ali proved fruitless until the pres-
j. P. Z. Clark. hit upon n method of identifying
their patrons 1t de- cided to print portraits on
each transfer. For the men passengers they show
who is beardess. one with mustache, another
with side whiskers, the fourth with chin whskeSs
and the fifth with a. full beard. The conductor
punches out the face which looks most like the
passenger whom he gives the transfer This
made the identification of the passengers
much easier the transfer brokers declined to-
sacrifice their personal appearance for the price
of fare. This rule, however. could not be made
time the management was in a quandaTy. Then
the portraits of young woman in hat and OF an
older one in bonnet added and the list
complete
While this had the desired effect with the
women passengers, the conductors on several oc-
casions have been severely called down in the
presence of a crowded full of commuters for
punching the portrait of middle aged woman in
the space occupied by the bonnetted figure rather
than that of the hat, TO the amusement of the
crowd Moreover. if the transfer is handed over
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
PICTURES ON TRANSFERS
BnghamtOn SHeetcar Com Danu
.SdTPs Fares.

Binghamton. y. Y. Dec. % CSpeciaD-The Bing-
hainton Street Railway Company has adopted a
novel transfer system that practically Identifies
ca passenger 10 whom transfer IS Issued Like
o,ner street railway systems of the country the
corporation has been beaten out OF hundreds of
dollars worth Of fares annually by patrons who
exchanged transfers and saved their nickels
Under an agreement between the city of Bing-
hanlton and the Bnghamton street Railway Com
pany made several years ago. in return for certain
concessions the railway company agreed to give
free transfers all its lines. At first the common
rapsfer was used. but the company soon noticed
f6ling or In receipts although the number OF
passengers carried increased. Then il was found
that hundreds OF persons who believe that all cor
porations are the legitimate prey of the individual
ana mat beating the street railroad OF nickel
is an achievement TO be recorded as an act of
perspicacy had to ride free On the transfer
system.
Especially did this apply to drygoods stores and
ofces where employees had different hours for
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
INDEPENDENT MISSIONARIES.

In Toxic there are several Independent mission
aries. who not connected with any denomina-
ton or missionary board. The usefulness OF these
Is mooted question amorg American churches
My own observation leads me to conclude that they
make more stir n the homeland. where their
money Is sbeins raised, than they do here. They
are usually temporary. since they depend upon
man. and cannot continue beyond the term of his
personal residence here. He. In turn. is busy
Keeping alive the interest OF his supporters that
he has little time left for actual work among the
Japanese. As an illustration. / may cite the case
OF one man. personally an upright. honorable and
pleasant gentleman. whose publication fintended
only for home consunlptionl gives the impression
that he is arousne Toxic 10 a 'yeritaolc revival
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

ing behind in the minister's SALARY. and finally had
refused altogether pay IL. Well. I talked II All
over with the good brother. and called a meeting
OF the congregation for that night Then / got
down TO work. and told them how Brother lack
son had spent the best years OF his life toilinc
with them. IN season and out. I pictured the goOI
he had done and the sacrifices he had made fe-
them.
MY audience began 10 get warmed UP. and
saw that had them ali with except one
old fellow near the back OF the little log church
who managed To keep his hatbTim always In front
OF his face. and whenever I'd get especially earnest
he'd grUnt OUT:
to pay that minister mo-
so, at length aid to him. Brother. CONS up
here where YOU and then tell us why
Brother Jackson shouldn't be paid for his labors
here
THE old fellow Strengthened UP IN his seat
took down his hat from before his face. and an
swered:
well, sub. Brother Jacksons all right. but " q
done pay TO- them same sermons las yeah" Z"
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
SETTING THE JAPANESE TO SINGING

AS you pass native houses YOU occasionally hear
childish voices swelling in the familiar strains of
Moody and Sankey hymns. and you know that one
of the numerous Sunday schools in Toxic is In ses-
sion. Going 10 and from these boys and
girls carrying thick, pudgy red hymn books and
you recall that within two years 100000 copies OF
this book have been sold. although there are only
about fifty thousand Protestant Christians in the
empire. Mission workers say that the japanese
did not know how to sing ALL except Il few
the samisen and the kotO, and some OF tho
mission school graduates perform the dif1cuit
Of instrumental and vocal music. and is sure to
hear brass bands executing the airs that were pop
who is heard whistlng or singing Christian tune
necessarily Christian, but il appears that this
newly awakened ability of the Japanese is due pri-
marily to the missionaries. 1t is especially inter
ing a temperance song TO the tune OF John
Browns Body Lies A-Moudering in the Grave
On a streetcar you may inquire the way 10
OF the larger Christian churches. and if the con-
ductor himself does not know some OF the
passengers will volunteer the information This
at least has my experience. and in all the
statements in this article am combining myself
carefully 10 my own personal experiences and OBJ
servations. Arrived at the church, you find an
ordinary congregation OF 700 persons, four-ffths OF
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
TAKING RELIGION TO GET ENGLISH

whom students, listening intently to sermon
nearly hour long
In all TOXIC there is more conspicuous build
ing than the Russian Orthodox Christian Church
building, with its great dome. There thirty
thousand members Of this body, all of them a
monument to the work of man-Bishop Ncolai
who has labored here alone. with only one
other European helper, for thirty years.
During the war ne had 10 go into retirement,
being Russian. and the cathedral was guarded
constantly by tho japanese authorities. lest mis-
guided patriots burn sack IT.
The romance OF the Roman Catholic Church in
Japan--ons of the fine stories of all religious his
tory-must be told in another connection. but here
in Toxic the Church is represented by a cathedral
which, next to the Greek Church building is the
imposing ecclesiastical edihce in the city.
The total Roman Catholic membership in Japan
is ffty-nine thousand, and tho missionaries are
nearly all French. There schools conducted by
nuns and by the teaching ORDERS and a notable
amount OF philanthropic work is done including
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

recently In THE Outlook" wealth means
power. offensive power in war as we'll as ffnan-
cial power In peace IL an old and Ia
vorite commonplace OF political moralists that
the rich nations. dwelling in fertile plains and
enervated by LUXURY, became the victims OF the
poor nations who. inhabiting barren mountains.
were harder and fiercer in fight 1t is not SO
NOW. Naval war is above all things. an affair
OF scientific apparatus OF ironciads, or tor
peooes. Of guns with long range and quick fire.
Land war depends on the best artillery. the best
rifles and ammunition. the best comTissariat
War is affair of science. and science is costly.
All the great nations produce good hShtinS
men, and all may happen to have a good gen.
SOURCES than others. None has resources COM
parable TO those OF the United States. The Re-
public is wealthy any two of the greatest
European nations. and is capable. IL she chooses,
OF quickly calling into being vast fleet and a
vast army. Her wealth and power have In them
something almost alarming"
In the United States to-day, says Mr.. Bryce,
the financier overshadows all others. Business
is king. and more and more other vocations. once
classed by themselves professional" are
erful sovereign. He speaks OF the lawyers for
example, As being TO greater extent than
formerly business men. part OF the great
organized system of industrial and financial
enterprise. They less than formerly
the students of particular Kind of learning. the
not seem TO be quite much of distinct pro-
fessional class Some seventy years ago
called them the aristocracy Of the United States
meaning that they led public opinion in the
opinion there. They still comprise a large part
of the finest intellect of the nation. But one IS
told that they do not take keen an interest
in purely legal and constitutional questions as
they did I'm the days of Story and Webster or
even in those of William NJ. Evarts and
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
DEEP AND VERSATILE.

Poth deep and versatile is the intellect Of
James Bryce For example after he had written
THE Holy Roman Empire" a book which has
been translated into all the languages Of West
ern Europe and which soon Won fame for its au-
thor because Of its ulasterful treatment OF Pc
culiary difficult subject he turned from medEeval
10 modern times. and with the same skill and
power ne wrote The American Commonwealth
a monumental work dealing with The political
development Of the United States. The two sub
3ects demanded methods of analysis and log
tcal ed !orion entirely different, Yet he able
20 adapt himself as easily 10 task as to
the other Wis versatility was also shown when
he entered politics as Liberal in 1879 He had
been appointed regius professor OF civil law
at oxford three years before and when II be-
came known that he intended 10 Iun Tor Par
lament his aspirations We're laughed at. Mr.
DisraelTs utterance that the English people did
not like professors was repeated a warning
10 him. And when it was learned that he was
candidate as a representative Tor that sec
tion Of London known as the Tower Hanllets,
his defeat was regarded as assured. The Tower
Hamets are inhabited by great numbers OF
Germans and German Jews engaged in ship
ping and sEopkeeping What fun these trades
people viii make OF the oxford historian ex-
claimed many London leader writer.
At the University OF Heidelberg Mr.. Bryce had
learned to speak German with huency. and he
went the stump and talked TO the imni-
grants who had settled in the Tower Eamlets
with 4 forceful simplicity. And he was elected.
Much Of the knowledge for which Mr.. Bryce
Is famed has not come alone from books He
has gathered a great deal by keeping his eyes
open" as one of his magazine biographers has
expressed II. His powers Of observation not
only keen, but constant. His alertness seems TO
make him uneasy for even when seated, while
engaged in conversation. he does not lean back
3n z chair Comforta bly,, hut leans forward
shifting his position every and then. When
walking along the street he does not move
straight ahead. rost men no live IN cities,
but he has a habit Of turning frequently 10
look here or there. stopping short and gazing
up into the sky. When asked il his un-
easiness the result Of nervousness, Mr..
Bryce answered: Yes. I suppose So I am
nervous 10 know what the world is doing"
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
Many Japanese, Beginning Thus.
Become Earnest Christians
in the End.
BY William T. Ellis.

Copyright. 1905. by Joseph 3. BoNles)
''If the missionaries tackling this proposition.
they have certainly got nerve" exclaimed a newly
arrived American tourist after his first ride through
Toxic The immensely of the city of a million and
a half Of people, its impassivity, its impenetrabe
Orientalism and the Indebtedness of it's parts one
10 another impress every visitor. He must be a
hardy propagandist. indeed. who. without sense
Of hopeessness, undertake the task of convert
ing Toxic TO anything.
Yet Toxic is the key to Japan. 1t is more like
Mecca to the Mahometan than like Washington
to American. Ottawa TO q Canadian. The fact
that this is the largest city of the empire means
less TO The native mind than that it is the home OF
his imperial majesty the Emperor whom all jap
anese regard with real reverence. we'll
! questionable loyalty and whom most of the people
worship a divinity. Here too, centre all national
interests and enterprises: this is the commercial
and educational apital. Toxic leads Japan. Hther
every ambitious youth hopes to come; and the fact
that n cook artisan student halls from
Toxic gives him prestige wherever ne may go
throughout japan.
SO. despite the hercJeen OF the task. the
missionaries have atd siege to this strategic CITY
And. considering that there missionaries still
living and resident here vino to Iarsn when
there was NOT single Ch-ista1. IN tae empire the
present situation is very cvc1:tatie. While it IS
easily possible for a tourist - PasS through the
city and mud the slehtes vestfeA of missionary
activity Christian life. il Impossible for him
to reside here fO~ q week a~d to become reason-
ably familiar with Toxic without being brought
into frequent contact with evidences of the pres
ence and work of the Christian propaganda. 1t Is
a false impre ssion sometimes given by overzealous
missionaries that this city is beiEg stirred and
moved by Christianity: equally false is the sweep
Ing declaration by visitors that there signs
OF missionary work to be seen in Toxic
AS matter OF fact there are almost as MANY
forms OF religious work be found in Toxic as I'm
hiiadelphia or in Chicago. Walk along the
streets on clear Sunday and YOU will find jap
al ese preachers talking to interested crowds lust
as on bostoA Common A man wearing the con-
Ventional Salvation Army cap (althoush inscribed
in japanese characters). but otherwise dressed IN
native garb. lifts his cap You approach, bows
politely and in howery language invites YOU to
buy the copy of the japanese War Cry which he
extends you.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
James Bryce Already Well
known Here Through
His Books.

James Bryce the scholar statesman and pub
licist. who IS TO succeed Sir Mortimer Durand.
wifi be the first Ambassador of Great Britain at
Washington whose name does not carry title.
A peerage was said 10 have been offered him a
few days ago. but il was declined. This act
indeed characteristic of him. He is plain
man. MIR. Bryce" says ''The London Daily
News" makes. if anything, too little OF HIM
self In the House of Commons, where he is
probably the best jnforlned and best educated
OF its members. he has never quite done Justice
TO his great knowledge and capacity. For his
mind may indeed be called encyclopaedia. Some
body at oxford. being perpleXed for fact or a
date said Look IL up in Bryce He did not
mean Mr.. Bryces books. but MIR. Bryce himself.
reputation Of that sort is not lightly acquired
at oxford where everybody processes to know
9 great deal more than he does
Yet this profundity of learning does not in
Mr.. Brv0e. ~ in some scholars. create a heaTi-
ness NJ eN5 ~asson. His conversation has a
charm lor al he meets. and his speeches in
Parliament we're won't 20 arouse the interest OF
every memler. According 10 Justin Mccarthy.
Mr.. Bryce when a member of Mr.. Gladstone's
government became e great fayorite with Queen
Victoria because OF his remarkable fluency Of
speech. Whenever Mr. Bryce rose 10 speak in
the House OF Commons there was general
hurry and scurTy Of members who had left the
charlber 10 get back 10 their seats Il nave
often noticed The effect which is produced in
the Libraries and committee rooms, in the rooms
assigned 10 those who dine and TO those who
smoke" says Mr.. Mccarthy. when it is an
nounced. Bryce is up a member who is read
ing some subject in the library writing his
letters in one Of the Hobbies. enjoying himself
in dining hail or a smoking room. is not likely
10 hurry away from his occupation his enjoy
ment unless for most urgent reasons. Yet he
does this when he learns that Mr.. Bryce has
risen Ia speak. II is because the member for
Aberdeen invariably has something TO say that
is important. something that must be reckoned
with. II is 10 learn rather than To hear. because
the member from Aberdeen is not Of the
shoWy and fascinating debaters whom every
body wants TO listen 10 for the mere eloquenoe
and fascination or their oratory."