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WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. THURSDAY, APRIL 16 1903.
Grieve,
Bisset
38 and 40 Bank St.
To-Day is Our First Anniversary
. Haven 'f ;time to say much at this writing, only to men
tion a few EXTRA SPECIALS in Women's Muslin Under
wear which were overlooked in our yesterday c advertise
ment. ' : :'Z
Bv the wav. if vou missed reading our full page adv. in
last. evening's paper, turn to page 8 of this issue, and we'll
wager you'll find many things in the ; list that will ' interest
you.
Anniversary Sale Prices on Women's Mus
Hn Underwear
CORSET COVERS Trimmed with
lace, insertion and ribbon, regu
lar price 48c, anniversary price -
:'. 83c each
CAMBRIC CORSET COVERS
Trimmed with embroidery or lace
Insertions and ribbon, regular
price 49c, anniversary price 89c each
WOMEN'S MUSLIN UMBRELLA
DRAWERS Extra sizes, lawn
ruffle, hemstitched and tucked,
' regular price 89c, anniversary, ,
price t- i :yc eacn
WOMEN'S FINE CAMBRIC
DRAWERS Lawn ruffle, hem
' stitched , and tucked, regular
price 49c, anniversary price 89c pair
GRieve; bisset
In. MuM Tim.
EJL patch of moist and trodden ground,
A aoooped out hole, a piystic ring.
group of urohtna clustered round, ,
A noisy sound of quarreling,
ollck of pretty painted apherev,
The well known ory of "Knuckle down"
Uy all these tokens it appears
It's marble time around the town.
The long- year back It carries me
To when, a grubby little boy, .' ,
I bant a badly tattered knee :
And oleaned my comrades out with Joy!
. And when my bulging pockets showed
Their sad misfortune and my skill,
How I with satisfaction glowed
I wish I played at marbles still 1 -
:: ,v .
They make a dickens ef a noise
With protest and triumphant whoop,
Put I confess I like those boys;
My heart quite warms to the whole
: troop.. '
I say X do not like the row
They make. I'd chase, them off, but I'm
Unusually softened now
With memories of marble time.
Chicago Daily TTewa. ,
PEESS AND; FASHION.
SMART AND ORIGINAL FEATURES IN
THE 8PRING STYLES.
Fbe Taking; Short Cape Wraps, With
Great Variety In Trlmmlagr and
Sleeves A Gray Costume of Good
LiLaos and Uaiqve Finish.
The dressy little outdoor coat Is now
ia the fore, and a great relief are these
crt sacks. After the long draggle tail
ed affairs of the winter which few wo
snen could manage gracefully In ; con
nection with the long skirt. The short
tack coat, whether in cloth or silk, will
t'9 softened with lace ' and enriched
NEW SPBIXa JACKET.
with embroidery and fancy stitches or
garnished with passementeries, brande
burgs, cords, tassels and all sorts of
pendent ornaments. Glace silk for
spring and later on cunning little
coatees of lace for the summer days
are among the styles already assured.
'Any amount of variety there is in these
taking, if diminutive, wraps. Some are
little sack mantles. All bang loose, but
there are different sorts and styles of
looseness, and this is managed so as to
give a certain stamp of good style. The
example sketched is of fawn cloth
trimmed In novel' and effective fashion
with guipure lace and appliques of em
broidered linen, the latter introducing
n suspicion of blue with black stitch
ery. A feature to be specially noted is
the characteristic style of .the sleeves,
which are made very wide and full and
drawn into a deep gauntlet worked
with the linen applique, turned back at
the wrist and laced across with small
black silk cords and tassels, beneath
.which is revealed a close fitting cuff of
eej?toned cream lace,
& Holland
Telephone 222. k
WOMEN'S CAMBRIC GOWNS '
Low neck, short sleeves, trimmed
, with emboridery and insertion or
lace and insertion, regular, price
98c, anniversary price 79c each
WOMEN'S GOWNS Made from
good quality muslin, V neck,
trimmed with embroidery, inser
r tion and tucks, regular price
$1.49, anniversary price $1.19 each
WOMEN'S MUSLIN i SKIRTS
Trimmed with lace and insertion,
regular price 79c, ' anniversary j
price , : . 65c each
WOMEN'S MUSLIN SKIRTS
Lawn flounce, hemstitched and
tucked, regular price 98c, anni
versary price , . 79c each
$ hollakd.
' Btamine in a peculiar, quiet tint of
faience gray furnishes the material for
an; original and chic afternoon toilet.
Stripes of herrlngbdning in black che
nille distinguish the.side lines of the
skirt," which is 'encircled with six rows
Of wavy tucks.' The bust draperies are
gathered to form frilled headings down
the front and are trimmed with gradu
ated rows of black velvet, each Jlpped
with a tiny- rhinestone buckle. 'The
belt is of black velvet. Yellow roses
set off the alluring hat of plaited black
lace" over white chiffon. , , . ,
The cape form of trimming is now all
the vogue on blouses and sacks. On
' AN OBIGINAIi AJTJERNOON COSTTJIOC
one pretty silk waist It is held in place
In front with fancy silk buttons with
long pendants. , , 1 "
Some of the smartest new boleros
now finish off in straight stole ends
overlaid with lace or passementerie, t.
- : AMY VARNUM.
Almond .shell and locust green tones
of extremely ' light satin faced cloths
are exploited in full day dress crea
tions. v Dead Ones.
' Blocks I'll warrant thee Charon did
make a great deal of money out of his
ferry across the river Styx.
Stocks Nay, friend. Were they not
all deadheads? Indianapolis journal.
A Hard Life.
Boyle The Korners live very frugally-
indeed. They have cast iron rules
for the spending of their money.
Hoyle That is what I should call
rigid economy. Kansas City Journal. .
, , Proof Positive.
v He Do you really and truly love
me? . ; : :: '. ;.v; t . .
i She Can you doubt it after calling
and finding only one chair in the par
lor? Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Force of Habit.
"You look bad," remarked the friend.
"Jlaye you the grip?" ,
"No," said the druggist absently, "but
I have something just as good." Chi
cago News.
Expensive.
Husband A penny for your thoughts.
Wife It'll cost you more than that.
I was thinking of a new gown. New
York Journal-Homeopathy-
BIddle So you are a believer 1 in
homeopathy?
Noble Sure. When I have the night
mare,! put a piece of colt's foot candy
in my mouth. Boston Evening Tran
script. - ' '
A n't M'i fiH Af '
"Calbep t"
By LOUIS V. JEFFERSON.
(Copyright) 103, by Jilj Story Pub. Co.)
HAVE you seen the last issue oi
the (flipper?" The question wai
asked by a rather plump, smooth
faced, pleasant sort of fellow, as we
were lounging in the rotunda of the
Watson house a resort of the 'pro
fesh' between seasons. 1
Upon my answering in the negative,
he - pushed back his Panama, settled
himself down in his great armchair,
put up his feet" at a convenient angle,
on another, displaying a pair of pas
sionate hose, and while his features
took on an expression of retrospective
amusement, he continued:
"Well, I see ' Calbert is dead. Did
you ever know him? Did a stunt in
the continuous. Smoke pictures and
magic and such stuff. Oh, he , was
good,, and I'm sorry to hear he's dead.
I was his jside-partner once, arid I al
ways did like him. He was all right,
every way you take him, and there'll
be lots worse off , for his funeral. I
never will forget the time I was work
ing with him on the Empire circuit.
That was eight years ago. Oh, he was
a top-liner when he; died,. I tell you!
He got .his $300 a week and - never
played on Sundays.
"He was a brave as a lion-and as
quiok on the trigger as they make
them, and he nf ver stood for any thing
crooked nor underhand anywheref He
was great shakes for helping the weak,
and I've seen him give his last dollar
away to set up some woman whose hus
band or partner'had deserted her. I
remember, once we were doing a
brother song and dance stunt down at
Memphis at the Grand. On ; the bill
there was the usual melange ; from
grand opera to prize fighting, and
among them was a team doing fancy
shooting and ., knife . throwing. They
were a man and his woman circus
people, I think who were trying their
luck in vaudeville and they stopped
at the same hotel as we did; in fact,
had the very next room, . He was one
of those little, ;wiry, t black-haired
chaps with a temper like a tiger, 'dis
sipated and cruel as they make them;
and she was one of those slender, deli
cate types of women with a high voice
and yellow hair , that you see every
once in awhile; She was a swcll'dress
er, and quiet and peaceful; but to look
in her face when she wasn't on eXhibi
tion, a blind man could have: seen the
trouble there. Firt tiirie Caibet saw
her, we were at band, rehearsal Sun
day morning, and she came in, with
her. hands full Of, her grips, and,,this
fellow, following her, scolding; land
swearing at her as if she was' a slave.
She surprised us from- the fact she
didn't answer back. Calbert was right
in the middle of a solo, with the orches
tra strumming away, half asleep, When
they crossed behind him, and the fel
low Athene, -I think he called himself
let out an, unusually ugly oath. Cal
bert stoppe'd short, wheeled about and
stared him coldly in the face.! The
man half paused and his lips parted
over his ugly white teeth, as if he
dared any interf erence. Calbert eyed
him for ; a moment, and' then said:
'What sort of a pup are you? s Don't
you know a woman from a cat?,
'"How did you get in this? 'Tend
to .your own business. She's my wife,
.he answered." V :'":'':j"L': -vx';
" WelV II dont care if she's your
mother. My business is to attend to
any man that swears at a woman in
my presence, '"and if Lyou speak once
more like that while Tin around,) one
or the other of us will have to cancel
for this bill. See?' and he eyed him
squarely in the face.
"Their stunt was to do some .fancy
shooting at swinging targets, hitting
each one alternately while the orches
tra kept time to the shots by playing
the Marsellaise, breaking glass balls
on a time limit and all, that sort of
stuff, and ending with a ' display of
knife throwing that was really thrill
ing when one considered what might
have happened if ever there should be
a mistake. You've seen the act,' haven't
you? No? , Oh, every circus has it.
They stand a woman up. against a
board and throw knives at her, try
ing to see how near they can come to
her without hitting.
"Well, I remember,, one evening,
after the show was over, and we had
gotten.back to our room, C,albert was
sitting1 on the end of his trunk unlacing
his shoes, and I was trying to make
up my mind whether I wanted a drink
or not, when we heard his squeaky
little voice suddenly raised in the next
room, in a most sickening oath. Oh,
I swear myself, lots more than I ought
to, but I never could stand hearing a
man curse a woman. He let 'em fly
at her in a blue streak, .and then there
was a rush of feet, a struggling sound
and a woman's voice in pleading tones
that ended in a gurgle. It all hap
pened so quick that I was still shiver
ing in the shock when I looked up and
saw Calbert's face, set and white. In
about two shakes he had passed me,
dashed out into the hall and threw
himself . against the other door. By
chance it was not locked, and, I reached
there just in time to see him grab the
dfirty villain by the throat as he bent
over the woman's form, lying across
the bureau, and whirl him backwards
across the room. It took just two licks
to settle him, and when I pulled Cal
bert off, the other was meek as a Iamb.
The woman, had pulled herself to
gether and tottered over to the man
tle, where I noticed she spit blood into
the fender, and I can hear her yet, as
she said in a broken, sobbing voice:
Don't hurt him! He didn't mean no
harm!' , ..' ' 4
"The next day, Thursday, I noticed
that he had been drinking hard, ana
wondered whether the manager would
let him go on or not. He went on all
right, but he was so shaky and nervous
that he balled , his part all up. and
queered his act from start to finish
In the first 16 shots to music, he
missed 15 straight, and ended by throw
ing his rifle across the stage. Then
,he essayed to shoot backwards at a
target by looking through a mirror,
jtpd missed agan-TJis seemed to en
rage him beyond .bounds, and he kept
up shooting at the thing until the man
ager had to whistle to him from the
wings, while the audience gave him
the laugh. Then the woman did het
turn, and hit everything before her,
and the audience, seeing how matters,
stood, gave her three straight encores.
That aroused his jealousy and put a
point on his hate, and, nerving him
self, he walked out, grabbed up a gun,
and emptied it at a flying target "in
a truly wonderful manner. I was in
hopes that that would end the busi
ness, and that the woman would not
let him finish with the knife-act, for
he was really in no condition, but she
seemed to either not fear him, or to
fear him worse oft the stage than on
it, and she promptly placed herself
before i the board while he gathered
an anuf ul of knives and walked down
front and snarled at, the house. "
1 noticed behind her, in the right
wing, Calbert was standing, .his head
partly bowed and his eyes bent on
her as if he would look right .through
her. I saw, him look at the man in
front, and then his fingers clutched
into a fist and the veins on theii
backs stood ; out, as when a fellow
gets ready to punch somebody a lick.
As Athene gripped his first knife by
the point, whirled it around his head
and threw it into the air, I saw him
watch it hurtle past, like a cat
watches a mouse, afraid to breathe.
Athene had turned and .bowed to
the audienpe, his thin lips t curling
back over - his white teeth like a
wolf's who had just shown his skill in
playing with his . victim. Once more
he turned and cast a knife, and this
time I; caught my breath, for I saw
that it was aimed at ,'tbe head i and
would hit very close. It pinned a
curl to the board and I saw a shud
der go through - her form as if she,
too, had expected it to be her last,
but still she stood up and looked
without seeing far into the flies ovei
my head.
As Athene turned to bow the sec
ond time I heard a rustle and looked
across. Calbert had . stepped out,
grabbed a pistol and stepped back.
No one saw him, or seemed to notice
it, and I do not believe that Athene
knew he was posted where he was,
for when he turned for his third
cast I am sure that from the gleam
in His eyes he was not, thinking of
anyone or anything but just, the plot
in his dirty brain. V His lips were
grinning, and I heard him softly
curse as he aimed a knife at v the
woman before him. ' All at once it
flashed over me what he ' intended
doing. I don't know how i was, but
I felt I knew as well as if he had told
me. He was drunk. His hand was
shaky. He had proven it by his in
ability to K shoot. He had ' gotten
drunk for a' purpose.
' Across the way I could see Calbert
half crouching with the pistol raised
in his hand. 'Evidently he had no
ticed it, and I caught myself, wonder
ing if he would shoot the man be
fore it was too late. He seemed
about to d'o ; it, when, with a final
maudlin giggle, the thing whizzed
away, and I saw a streak of reflected
light for one 'instant in midair,
grabbed the scene against which I
was leaning--and then : there was a
terrific report,; followed by a rattle,
and the knife fell broken at my feet!
Calbert with his gun had done it
just as it seemed about to enter her
neck he had fired, and some Fate had
guided his bullet! The woman-must
have known it, for she had fainted
and lay limply against the. board and
I saw Calbert's face through a cloud
rf revolver smoke. . Out ins front, his
arm still raised, - Athene stood en
tranced, while from every run be
tween the , scenes the shifters and
company were peering and the audi
ence had jumped upon its feet. Th
horror of it was in everybody's face,
and every heart had stood still. One
moment more and their would ' have
been a bedlam and the performance
would have been ruined, had not Cat
bert had the presence of mind to save
the situation. . , '
, With his gun still in his hand, he
walked down front, smiled in his
most .Vwinning fashion, bowed,
stepped to the side of . the aston
ished Athene, gripped him firmly by
the wrist, bowed again to the audi
ence, whispered to the other to do
the same, and gradually backed into
the wings as if it had all been a pre
meditated affair, and he '. had ; been
waiting for the shot! " Wonderful!
Oh, but the effect was immense. I
never saw a 1 finale so thrilling. For
a second or two the house could not
get over its scare, and they did not
catch on, but when they did they
sank back to their places with a sigh
of relief that we could hear behind
the scenes. f Someone laughed and
then the applause broke out in a per
fect storm. Athene wanted to go out
and take it, but the manager calmly
gripped him without a word and held
him back while Calbert went on.
After it was all .over we revived the
woman'and made up a purse for her
and sent her away back to her par
ents, I think it was, she went; but
the little ' devil himself we had to
turn adrift from the simple fact that
we had' no evidence to hold him. It
killed . his show business, however,
and I heard later that he got stuck
like a pig with one of his owja knives
by a Spanish woman down in New
Orleans, and I have always been glad
of it. He certainly deserved some
thing hernic"J ,
American 'Wells in China.
M The city , of . Nankin,, though - the
southern capital of China, does not
possess a waterworks system. The
American consul, Mr. Martin, put down
a "drove" well. The "American w ell,"
as it is called, soon attracted the at
tention of .higsa officials living i the
city, who one after another came to
sew and test it. The result of their
investigations was, the setting apart
of an amount of money to be used in
securing like wells about the city, to
the number of 100. N. Y- Sun.1
Explains It.
"Why is it," asked the curiou
guest, "that the poor men usually
give larger tips than rich men?"
"Well, suh," said the waiter, "de po
man don't want nobody to fin out
he's po', an' de ricn man don want
nobody to fin out he's rich, suh."
Chicago Tribijevv
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THE TURN BULL
JDpartmei-it Store.
139 EAST MAIN STREET. ' TELEPHONE 527-2 FREE DELIVERY
Goods delivered FREE in Naugatucfc, Oakville,
"Waterville . and Watertown Every FRIDAY.
We Emphasize as Our BARGAIN DAY
with Prices all over the Store
which cannot be Matched.
1 bbl Washburii Crosby Gold Medal Flour $475, empty bbl
back, and $10 worth of stamps FREE.
Best Amoskeag and Lancaster Aprbn Ginghams, regular price
8c. 5c a yard.
2,000 yds Silk Gipghams, all new, most beautiful goods made
for Shirtwaists or Suits, regular price 50c a yard. For Friday 33c
a yard. ,
Our Great White Goods, Ribbon and Lace sale still crowding
our counters at prices never before approached by any house in
the country. t V :
' Beautiful perfect goods of first class quality at 1-3 and 1-2 what
you pay elsewhere. ;
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; This appears an extreme statement, but examination of goods
will prove it warranted.
On Saturday we will give away a bag i of Molasses Popcorn,
strictly fresh, to every child accompanied by its parents or
guardian, between the hours of & and 12 o'clock. .
ALTERATION SALE
Of Fine Spring Shoes
It is something yery; unusual at this, season of the year to offer such
a remarkably low priced sale of fine shoes. This : advertisement will '
appeal to those looking- for superior grades of footwear at very small
orlces, either for themselves or forvmembers of their family. :,.. -
Women's $3 and $2,50 Shoes,' ta rici - kid. and patent leather, sale price
. .,$2.00. ... . . .
" Womens' $1.50 vici kid Shoes' in ' high and low cut lasts, the newest
wear guaranteed, sale, price $1.00. , , ,
Men's ,$3.50 and . $3 Shoes in patent leather and vici kid, Goodyear, ,
- welt, (hand sewed process), every pair warranted to give satisfaction,
sale price $2.49. ''.' ' - . V
Mens' $2 Shoes in fine satin calf and vici kid leathers, newest lasts,
sale price $1.45.'
Little Mens' $1 satin caif Shoes, , sizes 8 to J.3,-sale price 69c.
Boys' $1.25 Shoes.solid leather In every part, sizes 12 In youths' up to
5, sale price 89c - . v
Girls' $1 fine dongola kid Shoes, sizes 12 to 2, sale price 69c.
GREEN TRADING STAMPS, given with every purchase.
Original Boston Family Shoe Store Zm
Equal to
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Harris's Malt -Welch's
Grape Juice
The Perfect Flour $479 and
The White-Simmoiis
THE
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Any and better than Many.
LT EXTRACT
GRAPE
JUICE.
AND WHOLESALE
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ENGLAND'S BUSIEST OTY
Our stock of Tools and
General Hardware the very
best grades at prices ; much
less than any other store in
the state,
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Large sales and small prof
its build up our trade.
TRY US.
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Store.
148-150 East. Main street, opposite
Poll's theater.
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25c and 4sc bottle
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