Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-08
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.

AS YOU LIKE IT.
 Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.
 Of all the candidates who fell by the wayside at the recent election, the gallant Colonel Lee of New Haven IS perhaps most in need of sympathy. | False friends cajoled him into putting | money into a campaign where the chances were ten to one against hum. | The military vote failed to materialize, and, in Waterbury at least, the strikers whom Lee had paid so well, controlled | only their own votes. It was Colonel Lees first appearance in politics, and It has been expenslve.
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 As I was walking up South Main | street a few evenings ago, noticed two | twelve-ysar. old urchins acting in sus- | picious manner in front of a butter and egg market. One of the lads had his eye on tEe clerk who was engaged with | a customer, while the other looked up and down the street to make sure that no cooper" was in sight. Just before reached them the second boy plcke d two eggs from a box, so adroitly that It could not have been his first attempt, and both chaps fled into neighboring alley and were lost to sight The boys were likely looking little fellows, too. Some day when they fall into the clutches of Officer Dodds their parents will be shocked and will wonder how they con- tracted such vicious habits. The answer will be Out nights when they should be at home.
 The court of common council will meet Monday evening next and in all probability the water question will be acted upon. Once more let me ask the members of the council, irrespective of party, to refuse to have anything to do with the Hop brook scheme. l have visited every brook within eight miles of Waterbury during the last three weeks. and can arrive at no other conclusion than that Hop brook is one of the most | impure and unreliable to be found, be- coming dry as it does nearly every sum- mer. The basin, for the reservoir pro posed by the commissioners, is swamp. I have talked with farmers living along the line of the stream and all laugh at the claim that the brook can supply water enough for a city the size of ours. One jolly granger declared that in sum- mer there was hardly enough water in the stream to supply the milkmen. On the other hand the Mad river, supplied as it is by dozen streams, more than one of which is larger than Hop brook, can supply all the water the city and manufacturers will need for one hun dred years.
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 A good story is told of M. J. Brzezin- ski, one of the 'labor" candidates for representative. It is said that a day or two before the election he counted upon receiving seven votes in the fourth ward, that number of stalwarts having pledged their support. When the announce ment was made that only two Brezezin- ski tickets were found in the box the five who had failed to do as agreed were in state of mind that can be better inn agined than described. I am told that each and every one of the seven called upon the defeated candidate and assured l him that it was the other fellows who deceived him.
 accidentally overheard the conversa' tion indulged in by two men who oc cupied a table next to mine in restaur ant a day or two ago. One of the men had before him a circular from "greer goods man, and read it to his friend The letter painted in glowing terms tht beauty of the goods" the smallness o ture. A small slip enclosed directed tht receiver to send telegram to Charles Wilson, Hoboken, N. J.,. and to sigI "Woman AT" Then there was anothe enclosure purporting to be newspape clipping containing an extended accoun
 of the trial and failure to convict Charle
 Wilson of uttering counterfeit money
 Of course the report never appeared ir s any paper but was faked for the purpose 0 of deception. The man to whom the bait e was sent had heard of such things before @ and did not answer MT Wilson's conf g deutial letter. Had he arranged a meet e ing he would have been met at tn e station by a prosperous looking maj
 who, after many mysterous windings
 would have brought him to a room an,
 exhibited big pile of good money.
 he was satisfied with the looks of thing . . and concluded to deal, his money woul' 5 have been taken and packages of tn ;, "goods'' would have been dealt out t. him, apparently from the satchel Ii Z which he had seen the good money II Then he would have been hurried out O the room, and when he sought some re
 tired place and examined his purchas he would find that he was swindled.
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 ,s Wedding invitations are now sent ou II with the words "no presents" printed O. v, them. This is an encouraging sigr .s Years ago such thing as sending pres ., ents to bride was unheard of, exceI 'e on the part of special and particula
 friends, who did it whether invited
 the wedding or not. Since then it Ina
 become the fashion for young peopl le who are about to enter into the matr le monial state to send out cards to people le who are not only not friends, but hardl le acquaintances, and this is done largel le with the hope that such invitations wi
 secure acceptances, which means, ever
 time, presents.
 T, My attention was called the other da 'n to the fact that brandy-loaded confeC a tions are again finding ready sale i n Waterbury, and that one or two UT n ne scrupulous dealers number among the '' best customers boys of tender ag'
 This is wrong and should be made
 criminal offence. Many a lad ma
 acquire liking for liquor by eatin k. those apparently harmless candie lR If our prohibition friends would tur sd their attention to crushing out sue
 evils as this they might accomplish som
 good.