Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-16
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IF'Shere is any one man against whom
the business community has right to en-
ter an emphatic protest, it is the man who
can pay his bills but wont. A majority of
the men who obtain goods or work on
credit, do so from necessity, and pay for
| the same as soon as they are able. But
| IL ere is class, small but conspicuous,
| who buy goods or have work done with
seemingly no intention of ever paying.
| They may be prominent in the community,
generous in certain ways. but they wont
pay their bills. To ordinary bills they
pay no attention, and if the same are ac-
companied with requests for payment or
the creditor take any other means for Sc
curing his dues they become highly indig-
nant and either refuse to pay or else
| threaten to do something to ''get even. "
Now for such men as these the business
community has little use. They injure
the credit of others and cause incon-
| venience and loss to those with whom they
| deal. An honest man and an honorable
man will contract as few debts as possible
and will pay those he does contract as soon
as he is able.
To defraud newsboy out of the few
pennies that he earns might be called the
| acme of meanness. And yet there are
some people who would Indignantly deny
the imputation of dishonesty, who mako a
practice of "beating" the little news
agents. Happily there are but few of such
| people. Perhaps they think it is bright
piece of fnanciering to take a paper from
| boy for week or two and then when he
| applies for his pay refuse to give it to him
and work the same scheme on another lad.
| In such cases the boy is always the suffer-
er. Take for example DEMOCRAT seller.
He must pay for his papers in advance and
| if customers refuse to settle with him the
| lad is the loser financially; the publishers
| lose nothing. If there are any readers of
the DEMocRAr who owe the boys, and
| there are few, it is their duty to square
| up. In summers heat and winters cold
the little lads are always on hand. Don't
plant the seeds of dishonesty in their
minds.
ONE of the most difficult items of news
for a reporter to obtain is a marriage no.
tice. This may seem strange. when we
consider that such happy events are gen.
orally heralded all over town and goodly
number of people always manage to be
on hand to witness the ceremony. But
unless the news gatherer can reach one of
the contracting parties or the minister
who officiated he stands good chance of
getting left. Sometimes the witnesses do
not know each others names. All seem to
know the brides name and can describe to
the most minute detail the costume which
she wore and tell all about how she
looked. Some of the guests have a faint
idea of who the bridesmaid is, but you are
fortunate man if you can find one who
can tell you the full names of the whole
party. The most you can learn about the
groom is where he works and how much
wages he earns. Beyond this, the bulk of
sight ssers at marriage ceremonies have no
idea whatever who the rest of the people
are. And woe betide the news gatherer i f
the names of the whole party do not
appear in the paper. He is denounced as
| "mope' by all who were present as we'll
as those who knew that the event took
place but could not attend. All this con-
| fusion would be avoided if PARTIES would
send the desired information to the news
paper the evening preceding the ceremony.
| Every reporter is anxious to catch these
| items and if they do not appear at the
proper time. and correctly too, it is all due
to the fact that he has not been able to get
the necessary information.
OLp "Shep" the well known house dog
of Peter Lawlor the Meadow street livery
man, died at noon yesterday of congestion
of the lungs, superinduced by the intirm-
tiles of old age. For the last twenty
years the dog has been familiar figure on
the streets of Waterbury and occupied n
prominent place in the Lawlor family.
He knew the family callers and was always
the first To greet them nj fhn HDnTStnn He
also kept close watch of those who were
unfriendly to the family and has been
known to attack such people on the street.
1t was n &C mmon custom with him
before old age set in to visit the
residence of different families around
town and he has been known to call on
friends in Thomaston. Bristol, New Ha-
ven. Naugatuck, Winsted and other
places. Every care was bestowed upon
him during his illness and when death
came the friends for miles around were
notified. A neat casket was built and
"Old Shep" was laid out in royal fashion.
Among those who called and left floral
tributes were: Mrs Lawrence Ruth, an
Choir; Mrs Bunnell, wreath; Mrs Madden,
bouquet of violets; Edward Tobin of New
Haven, gates ajar. With all these APP
pendages 'Old Shep" was taken to John
Farrell, the photographer, where his pic
ture was taken. Friends sat around his
bier in the livery Office last night and
talked over the story of his life, At l
o'clock this morning the coffin was placed
in hack and conveyed to Mill Plain for
interment. When the grave was covered
the following inscription was placed on
slab and set up over the grave:
with reverent tread
With uncovered head
Pass by this little mound.
Where buried lies,
Earth's dearest prize,
''Old Shep." tbs sacred ground