Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-06

mind we should have dismissed it at once, knowing that It would have been shot to pieces inside of five minutes.
 At half past Q o'clock, when the crowd was informed that there was nothing to unveil, few of them retired to the sa- looms to take drink, but the majority had come to shoot at something. and therefore began blazing away at the ediflce in which We conduct family newspaper. grocery boot and shoe store, butcher shop and va rious other industries not generally com- bined with literary pursuits in the east As 1t was. all was in n good natured way, and as an Arizona editor must stand in with the boys moro or less VIC got out and let them hang away to their hearts content Our agricultural editor, who Is n little slow on foot, was grazed by two bullets as ho went over the alley fence, but no one was seriously inlurCd, and the damage to doors and windows did not amount to moro than $l5. Little Valley is l9 miles away, and We arc sorry that a crowd of 90 men should have been put to so much trouble for nothing, but it was not our fault Thrrc will be times when we shall seek that tower and sccludc oursclf from the mad whirl of q busy life, but those who wait to shoot the hands off town clock ticking away up therc will have to | live another half century. We haven't put l in six years in this locality To make such l a mistake aS that.
 | DRAWING THE LISE--Thc editor of THE 1 KICKER. who Is cursclf, and the mayor of the town, who Is also oursclf, has never | wrapped tho mantle of dignity around | him and held the public at arms length because of his social or official position. l Almost every day for the last three or four | years from thrcc to a dozen of our fellow | ,fS could haxa lppn fpnn6 ssAt home | in our sanctum and there have been days at a time when all our exchange list has
 been carried away and nothing left for us | to clip from except a sarsaparilla almanac Il or n patent windmill circular. Our mail
 has been opened our dictionary worn out | and our time mostly occupied by suhScrib' | CTS. some of whom have had to be shot at
 before rcncwing, and no one has heard Us | make a complaint. We understood from l the first that it was their way, and tho | only hope wc had was that they would | gradually come to realize the situation and | drop off.
 Matters have been even worse at the | mayors officc. As everybody in town
 voted for us we have all along felt under
 obligations to the general public We
 started out hy locking the door of our room
 when absent from the town hall, but pub
 lie opinion forced us to leave it open. Fol
 months past every one has felt at perfect
 liberty to enter the mayors office, take
 possession of his chair and desk, and or
 several occasions we have found the off
 cial records of the common council pinneC
 up on the wall as target for bullets
 When first made mayor, we inclosed n spac'
 with a railing. but inside of a month th'
 public had whitfield every inch of fl
 up for toothpicks, and we received scv
 eral vigorous hints that "exclusiyeness'
 wouldn't 20 in this community. We hav'
 given up our official office and done bust
 ness on tho stai< landing and elsewhere il
 order to keep the public good will ana | prevent criticism, but the limit has a | length bern reached.
 As mayor of a thriving, hustling towl
 we are expected to put on a certain amour
 of dignity. We arc officially visited b
 city officials from other towns, and tn
 slipshod manner in which things hay l been run hero has excited amazemcnt am | provoked protest While we hope to re
 tain tho esteem and good will of the crowd | and while we shall not refuse to drin
 with tho boys and shall invariably b
 found at dog fights and horse races as private individual, we shall begin mex
 week on new line. The mayors ollie l will bc set aside for the exclusive use (