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WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 190L
ricvc, Bisset & Holland
3S sad 40 Bank St Telephone 222.
We GiveJRed Star Trading Stamps.
inpantts' wear
- INFANTS WEAR-.As much
--.care and thought is given to our
KTrwf nt intanrs wrar as mere
is to any department in the store,
but 'tis seldom we mention this de
' partment, that we've no doubt you
"SirR unaware of the manv little
' things here that are necessary, for
the baby's outfit.
r Here's a brief outline.
: INFANTS' CAMBRIC
jStlPS Well made of good qual
ity of Cambric, 25c each. v
: INFANTS' NATN SO O K
- SLIPS Yoke3 trimmed with em-
broidery and tucks, 50c and 75c
leach.
v ' INFANTS' ROBES Made of
Cambric or Nainsook, trimmed
with embroidery and ribbon, bead-
; ing or Val lace and insertions.
JPrices $1.79, $2.98 and $3.98 each.
V INFANTS' LONG CAMBRIC
1'. rv rv wiiii iirr i 11cm. .
Grieve Bisset
0
TWO MENACES
TO SOCIETY
By Rev. ROBERT
WORKED nine years
We made hammers,
When my employer,
cut down wages a
counsel, explained the
asked us if we were
ill '
duced. We INVARIABLY AGREED together upon what could
4 be done, and THERE WAS NO STRIKE. When the times were
better and Mr. Hammond could afford to pay us t more, he;icalledjus
v together again. Of course we always agreed to -tfie increase 4 a little
tnore readily than to the decrease. But the point is this THERE
WAS NO TROUBLE in that shop during the nine years I was
there.
When the labor unions and employers of labor come together,
as they surely must and will, and settle their differences of opinion
,'by arbitration instead of attempting to force each other into line by
ctrikes, which cost the workmgman so much money, a great step in
Advance will have been .taken. This is the most wonderful work of
ACCOMPLISHMENT we have to look forward to in 1904, and the
time will surely come.
. Divorce, the other great threat against society, perpetually UN
'DERMTNES THE SANCTITY OF THE HOME, and we shall
jhave to find our way to some solution of the problem. A man came
(to me not long ago and wanted me to marry him. I began to ask
questions and found he had obtained a divorce from hi3 wife-the day
'before. I said, "I will not marry you, and I did not.
t t
In many cases divorce is simply a countenanced evil of the mo3t
(DEBASING kind, and we shall have to meet the situation and handle
&t without gloves. How we are to do this I do not know. One tiling
L do know THE MINISTERS MUST BE MORE CAREFUL.
That is what, I am trying to be. I do not refuse to marry all people
(who hav been divorced. I do, however, look very carefully over
their papers and find out all I can. If the explanations given to me
teem good I marry the couple. If not I refuse. I hold the option.
I think I have that right.
fhe White Man's Responsibility to the Negro
By Governor AYCOCK of North Carolina
IE owe an obligation "to
him here. He served us well. He is patient and teach
able. We owe him GRATITUDE. Above all, we
owe him JUSTICE. We cannot forget his fidelity, and
! '.we ought not to magnify his faults. We cannot change
his color; neither can we ignore his service. No individual ever "rose
on stepping stones of dead" "to higher things," and no people can.
We must rise by ourselves; we must execute judgment by right
i .eousness ; we must educate not only ourselves, but see to it that the
inegro has an OPPORTUNITY for education.
at t ?
As a white man I am afraid of but one thing "for my race, and
that is that we shall become afraid to give the negro a fair chance.
The first duty of every man is to develop himself to-the uttermost,
and the only limitation upon thisf $tity is that he shall take pains to
see that in his own development he does no injustice to those BE
NEATH him. This is true of races as well a3 of individuals. ' Con
sidered properly, it is not a limitation, but a condition of development.
THE WHITS MAN IN THE SOUTH CAN NEVER ATTAIN TO HIS
FULLEST GROWTH UNTIL HE DOES ABSOLUTE JUSTICE TO THE
NEGRO RACE. IP HE IS DOING THAT NOW IT 18 WELL tOR HIM,
IF HE 13 NOT DOING IT HE MUST SEEK TO KNOW THE WAYS OF,
tTBUTH AND PURSUE THEM. - " .
INFANTS' LONG CAMBRIC
SKIRTS, trimmed with embroid
ery and tucks, 75c each.
INFANTS' LONG COTTON
FLANNEL SKIRTS, 25c each.
INFANTS' WOOL BLANK
ETS at 50c, 69c, 89c and $1 each.
INFANTS' CAMBRIC SHORT
SKIRTS, - with deep hem and
tucks, 25c each.
INFANTS' NAINSOOK
SHORT SKIRTS, trimmed with
hemstitched tucks, 50c each.
INFANTS' CAMBRIC
SHORT SKIRTS, trimmed with
embroidery and tucks, 69c each.
INFANTS' SILK BONNETS
at 25c, 49c, 75c, 98c and $2.25
each.
Any other -wearing apparel you
may need for the baby you can
purchase here at the most reason
able of prices.
& Holand.
A. COLLYER of New Yorl
at the anvil in Pennsylvania.
hatchets and axes by the dozen.
Mr. Hammond, found he must
little he always called us into
necessities 4 the situation and
willing to have the schedule re-
st ?
the man in black." We brought
The Battle On
In Florida.
CopTricbt 1S04, bjr a. I Kilmer.
PLUCKY war duel between well
matched forces was fought in
the pine woods at Olustee,
Fla., the 20th of February,
The famous axiom which is so
1864.
attractive in the vernacular of a west
ern soldier that the art of war con
sists in "gettin' thar fust with the
mostest men" was not fully adhered to
in this instance. The Confederates
"got there" first, but the numbers in
the fight were about equal, so it was a
fair stand up encounter, fought to a
finish.
Florida escaped the ravages of war
for three years, but the etate was heart
ily with the Confederates and sent her
quota of troops and provisions to the
southern camps. Almost r.t the elev
enth hour the United States govern
ment conceived the plan of cutting the
rich peninsula off from Georgia by an
armed expedition inland and at the
same time organising a party there
hostile to the Confederacy. Lincoln ap
pointed one of his private secretaries,
John Hay, the present secretary of
state, to the office of, major in the army
and sent him down to, arrange the po
litical details while the Federal army
besieging Charleston was ordered to
back up the enterprise with bayonets.
The armed expedition was headed by
General Truman Seymour, one of the
gallant defenders of Fort Sumter in
April, 1861. He believed that the move
was a useless one, but on reaching
Jacksonville early in February pushed
westward inland until he struck Bald
win, twenty miles from the coast.
Some Federal cavalry under Colonel
Guy V. Henry, a regular from : the
plains, stirred up a few Confederates
while scouting along St Mary's river
and chased them toward Lak City.
Seymour moved out and halted his col
umn at Barber's plantation, on the St.
Mary's, where he pitched camp.
The Federal plan was to strike a
quick blow, to get a force on the ground
first at some point of vantage well in
to the interior of the state. They re
lied upon an old single track railroad
to carry forward supplies for the
troops, but there was only one engine
on the road and that sadly in need of
repair. From the chief of the army
Seymour first got orders to advance di
rectly to Lake City, but on his pro
testing against the venture as risking
too much was told to wait on the St.
Mary's.
Meanwhile the other side had not
been idle. There Were but few Con
federate troops in east Florida when
Seymour landed at Jacksonville, but
that event aroused to action the Con
federate - commander. General Joseph
Finnegan, who at once telegraphed to
Savannah and Charleston for re-enforcements
and marched with 600 men
to Lake City. He was there when
Henry rode up to the outposts with his
troopers in blue and in a few days had
an army of 5,500 men, with twelve
pieces of field artilery, at command.
Marching eastward on the 13th of Feb
ruary, Finnegan arrived at Ocean Pond,
on the' Olustee, the same day and be
gan to intrench for "battle. He chose
for his position a stretch of land be
tween two ponds, with another pond
and a bay or Jungle in front of either
flank.
Possibly the Confederates had been
warned by spies in the enemy's camp
the direction to be taken. If not, they
were good guessers and decided to lie
in wait on their own ground for the
invading column to advance. Mean
while confusion reigned in the Federal
councils. Seymour received definite or
ders not to risk defeat, but to fall back
nearer to Jacksonville. Learning, how
ever, that the force in his front was not
superior in numbers to his own, he re
solyed to go ahead and carry out the
original plan of cutting off east Flor
ida from the Confederacy. After the
column had marched forward( into the
presence of the enemy Seymour receiv
ed a dispatch from his chief at Jack
sonville sharply condemning the ad
vance. But it was too late. Finnegan
had sent forward a brigade of infan
try and a few squadrons of cavalry to
skirmish with the Federals and draw
them on to an attack In his chosen posi
tion. The combatants met in a thin wood
land about two miles east of Ocean
Pond. One of the Confederate regi
ments was new to battle and immedi
ately formed a-square, according to the
Bianual, on sighting the Federal troop
firs. One of Seymour's batteries in
stantly began to play upon the square
with shells. Seeing, with a soldier's
trained eye, that the square would be
demolished, the Confederate brigadier.
General A. H. Colquitt, quickly rushed
two regiments to the front on bothj
sides of the square, witn two cannon
in the center, and advanced boldly on
the Federals. Seymour's line yielded
stubbornly, and Colquitt, supposing
that he had to contend with the main
body of Federals, prepared to fight and
sent back to Finnegan asking for re
enforcements. In short order a second
Confederate brigade lined up on the
left of Colquitt's, and in this accidental
way the battlefield was fixed on the
level ground of an opan forest, offering
equal advantages to both sides.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the bat
tle broke out fiercely with an artillery
duel. Seymour massed hia guns in the
center, with a demi-brigade of infantry
on either flank, and held two full bri
gades ready .for a grand charge the mo
ment the enemy's line was shaken. A
section of Gamble's Confederate bat
tery was speedily knocked out and re
placed by the Chatham artillery of
Savannah. However, the Confederates
didn't wait to be smashed according to
Seymodr'a programme, but rushed for
ward in steady column, routing the
Seventh New Hampshire on one side
of the Federal guns and the Eighth
United States (colored) on the other
flank. These two regiments had, been
s& Jh.v.
CsyeSj aCel3 iaOnoPey? CffiTfn 2 Bay?
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A FORTIETH
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WAR STORY
February 20. 1864
pushed to the front by order of Sey
mour, who said the enemy had only a
section of artillery at hand and it could
easily be captured.
Seeing his center in peril, Seymour
put in the New York brigade led by
Colonel W. B. Barton, the Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth and One Hundred
and Fifteenth, to steady the line. For
more than two hours this brigade faced
the cross and direct fire of the enemy's
cannon and rifles. In this , terrible
struggle the Confederates exhausted
their ammunition and, unable to longer
return the galling fire of the New York
ers, began to steal away to search for
cartridges.
Finnegan had planned to fight at
Ocean Pond, tAvo miles away, and there
was his ammunition reserve. He or
ganized staff officers, couriers and or
derlies into a mounted brigade to ply
between the amdmnition train and the
battlefield, bringing up supplies, and,
in order to hold the Georgians in their
tracks where they were, young A. H.
Colquitt, son and aid to the general
commanding the center, rode along the
front of his father's line of battle, with
in range of the Federals, swinging a
battleflag and appealing to the troops
to stand fast. His gallantry challenged
the admiration of his enemies.
Barton's men, who, as the war cor
respondents on the spot declared,
"fought like tigers," also emptied their
boxes, b'Jt retired to refill them and
went in again. The battle was finally
given to Finnegan by the skillful
maneuver of Colquitt, who threw two
fresh Georgia regiments against Sey
mour's right, with a cross fire on the
Federal guns. This blow, which was
followed up by Finnegan's whole line,
would have been disastrous to Seymour
but for the heroism of Barton's men.
The New Yorkers stood fast and gave
their comrades time to withdraw from
the bullet swept front. The colonel of
the three regiments in the brigade fell,
and over 800 of the rank and file were
killed and wounded.
. General Seymour went into the bat
tle of Olustee believing that his sol-
LIEUTENANT COliQTTITT'S GALLANT BIDE
T7NDEB F1BB. .
diers were the better fighters. He
came out of. it thinking that he had
fought against odds in numbers, The
fight was a plucky one on both sides
and the bloodiest for the Federals, who
lost one-third of the men engaged, while
their foe lost one-sixth. Seyrnour lost
two field officers mortally wounded and
tWo severely wounded. In the Confed
erate line .one field , officer and seven
line and staff officers were killed or
mortally wounded. The battle lasted
three hoiirs, and nearly 3,000 men fell.
Darkness came on soon after the final
Confederate advance, or the defeated
would have suffered further loss, if the
Confederate claims are to be credited.
General Finnegan sent forward a body
of 600 cavalry to make a vigorous pur
suit of the defeated enemy.
General J. R. Hawley commanded the
troops close around Seymour's guns in
the Federal center. He says that a new
line was formed by, Seymour about
sundown and that the Confederate cav
alry did not pur in an appearance that
night. General Hawley's brigade In
cluded the Seventh New Hampshire
and the Seventh Connecticut, which
had fought in the desperate attack on
Battery Wagner, before Charleston, in
1863, and the Eighth United States (col
ored). The Connecticut men.; did good
execution throughout the battle wlth
repeating carbines, an arm new to the
service at that time. The negroes were
raw troops, but they fonglit until over
half their number had been shot down.
GEORGE L. KILMER.
Novel Feature ot a Dedication.
The Colorado college recently com
pleted arrangements for the dedica
tion in a few days of Palmer hall, the
new science building erected and
equipped at a cost of $320,000, says a
Colorado Springs dispatch to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. The building
will rank with those of Yale, Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology and
others, and its importance is doubled
on account of its location in the west.
A feature of the exercises will be a
banquet at which over 200 alumni of
leading universities of the country will
be present, each having Its own uni
versity table.
on every
fees. 25c
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PLATT 'WANTS MARKSMEN.
Senator Orders His Express Company
Employees to Practice tip; '
Several shots fired at short intervals
at noon the other day startled pedes
trians on one of Cincinnati's streets.
The shots were fired, it appeared, un
der the sidewalk in the basement of
the oflice of the United States Express
company, rne policemen soon wenx
away, laughing, and the crowd dis
persed, for the most part apparently
disappointed. '
Later It was discovered that under
an order, recently issued by Senator
Thomas C. Piatt of New York, presi
dent of the United States Express
company, all employees, including
clerks, must accustom themselves to
the use of firearms and in particular
must learn to shoot straight with pis
tols.
There is no explanation as to why
the order was given, but the instruc
tions are being diligently carried out
in Cincinnati. In the basement of the
Cincinnati ofiice the clerks have put
in position a dummy the size of a man.
A small object is placed over the heart,
and the employees are instructed to
practice hitting this mark at a range
of from twenty-five to forty yards.
Each employee has to practice twice
a week and must furnish his own pis
tol, the company furnishing the am
munition. '
SUMMER HOME ON A ROCK.
JTovel Villm Be Built For a Hew
port Man.
Deeds were recently filed in James
town, R. I., transferring from William
T. Richards to Joseph S. Lovering
Wharton the Dumpling rock, upon
which a novel summer residence has
bean started which will occupy the en
tire rock, in fact, be built in the rock,
the collar being blasted out. says a
Newport special to the New York
Times.
The plans show a novel house, the
only approach being by water, there
being little, if any, land outside of the
building. Work was commenced last
autumn, and it is proposed to carry
on the construction as1 soon as the
weather permits in the spring.
The cottage will have its front door
at the head of a flight of steps leading
from a cavelike formation in the rocks,
where boats will have a plaee of safe
ty for landing. The house is planned
so as to provide the most thorough en
joyment of the water and sea air, and
from its broad piazzaa there1 will be a
continuous succession of marine views.
Novel Leap Year Club.
Twelve Dubuque (la.) society girls
have formed a leap year club. Those
of the members who fail to win the
hearts and hands of the men of their
choice before the first of the year will
be virtually ostraciied from the so
ciety of their more fortunate sisters
and will not even be recognized on the
street. Knowledge of the club became
known when one of the girls proposed
marriage to a young man who had
been paying her attentions. She to
formed him that If she failed to marry
before the first of the year she would
have to entertain the other members
at a dinner and after that lose theii
society. The young man promised to
come to her rescue. She is the first tc
announce her engagement, and the otb
er girls are envious.
Li no nine
cured me of congestion
of the lungs. 1 most
heartily agree that it is
the marvelous medicine
of our time. I feel ten
times better than I have
done in years, and I
credit it all to Linonine
R. W. Stocking, Trav
eling Salesman for Ar
mour & Co., Derby, Ct.
AT ALL DRUG STORES 25, 50, SI.
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Great Inducement to the Consumer.
A t nearly ONE-HALF PRICE.
Regular Price 30c.
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A grocery store where reliable goods are given with Red
Star Trading Stamps. Try us and we will prove it
Medicine Specials for Wednesday and Thursday.
Castoria with 20 red stamps at ........ ...
Beef, Iron and Wine with 30 red stamps at
Epsom Salts with 10 red stamps at
SPECIALS
Mixed Tea with $1 worth, 10 red sta mps, at
Golden Santos Coffee with $1 worth, 10 red stamps, at
3 packages Presto with $1 worth, 10 red stamps, at ...
Eggs, strictly, fresh, with $1 worth) 10 red stamps, at ..'
Butter, good, with $1 worth, 10 red stamps,. at
Butter, creamery, with $1 worth, 10 ted stamps, at ...
3AR5AINS FOR
Kesa Blend Coffee, from 35c, now
Fancy Mixed Tea, from 40c, now .
Peruna, from $, now . ...........
Swamp Root, from 50c. now .....
Celery Compound, from $1, now .
Herb Bitters, from $1, now ...
. Corcoran, 38
The Best Place in Town to Buy
Your Rubber Goods.
Women's Rubbers, bst quality, sold everywhere for 75c,
" Sale Price, 49c
Women's Rubbers, plain and storm, worth 60c, Here for 39c
Children's Rubber Boots, 84C
Women's Rubber Boots, irst quality, worth $1.70,
Here for 1.29
Men's Rubber Boots that are sold everywhere for $2.50,
:.; ; ..I ''r Here for 1.89
Children's Rubbers, worth 25c, , Here for 15c
The largest stock of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers In
city at prices which fear no competition. Every pair
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THE OBIGIHAL BOSTON FAMILY SHOE STORE
155-157 South Main Street
"AH Done Out"
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Frederick Miner, teamste living-' at tffl Dublin street, says:
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Lake' Drag Company's, I had severe and persistent aching patos
through my lotos and back for over a year. It was almost impossi
ble for me to stoop or lift anything from the around and when I '
did the pain was unbearable. I tried remedy after remedy that
' druggists recommended, but they only helped me for the time being
or while I was taking them. X had little faith In Doan's Kidney
Pills, but they were cracked np to me so highly by my friend that
I decided to give them a trial. It was not long before X noticed an
improvement and two boxes was aH that I used for a cure.'
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rooms on 50 Linden St. with
bath. Inquire 280-282, North
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Never know what tt Is to be
restful with a constant acijlng
back.. Ton are "all don up"
all the time morning, noon and
night the back bothers you
sometimes with sharp shooting
pains, sometimes with slow ex
haustive aehes. (
Why dt yon rid yourself
of that "bad back?" The e.re
way Is to reach the cause the
kidneys. 1 Doan's Kidney Pills
cure every form of kidney. Ill
from backache to diabetes,
dropsy, '"all urinary and bladder
disorders down to that dread
destroyer Brlgbf 1 disease. The i
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attached to an up-to-date carriage, and
joar wife, who needs an outing, beside
you, will ; ake you feel good and may
save doctor's bills. If not married take
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