The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-19

ton implies that the hawk is n cap
 tured hawk and can be killed when
 ever his captors choose to kill him. Bu
 there are things to be considered. IT
 the first place the heading of this let
 ter shows that 1t is written in Litch
 field. The hawk is therefore. presuma
 biy. a Ltchfeid hawk. There may b' no documentary evidence in existencs to prove that he was born and brought up In the village; but having been cap tured in. or about. Litohfield the bur den of proof Is on the other side. It is for his enemies to show that he Is not entitled to ail the rights and immuni' ties of Litchneld hawk. Again. the question is a Litchheld question and must be met and answered from the Litchfeld point Of view. The Litch- fielder Is full of humanity. He has n heart even for hawks. He would not kill a mosquito unless the killing were an act of imperative justice. A tenn perate and self-contained mosquito. one not exceeding the legitimate wants Of his organism. Is az safe In Litchfeld as in his native swamp with his mother. The question Is therefore not SO easy as 1t at first appears. The reader must to begin with accept In a general way the Litchfeld view of things. Then he may proceed to the particular circum- stances of the present case.
 In the good old times there were no hotels in Litchfield. Litchneld purses were better filled then, than. alas. they are to-day. and Litchfeld houses were as large as Litchfeld hearts. In every house there were from two to dozen spare bedrooms. To occupy one. even for brief period, was the highest pos sible happiness to which a colonial dame, or colonial warrior. could as- pire. All proper persons, coming to Litchfleld, whether for pleasure or prof 1t. were entertained regally. All i'm PAopSA pCAooiS WCiC al oASS boiiSA bS- fore a burgess, lodged In jail, kept there till they learned manners and probity. and then fired out of town. In those balmy days there was no such nonsense as warrants, trials by jury, appeals, balls, &c., Sc. The burgess was the incarnation of justice and equity; supreme judge and lord high executioner. How much better for the country had the old institutions been preserved! What immediate mince- meat Litchfeld burgess sitting at Chicago would have made of such a creature as Debs! In process of time, with the spread of the fame of Litch- fields hygenic and social charms, the number of strangers attracted became so large that the hospitality of the ria- ,tives could not expand to meet 1t. It became absolutely, necessary to erect and establish hotels. The hotel era was a new era for titchfield. At first the hotels were small, and were regarded as negotiable annexes to the houses. The idea of making money out of stran- ger has never defiled the Litchfleld mind. Finally t, became necessary to build larger hotel, one especially adapted to the Accommodation of out siders; that is 'people not known to Litchfield, or Litchfielders, who come on probation, offering acquaintance and prepared for acceptance or rejection i; city people with strange desires and necessities, peculiar garbs and singu- lar manners of speech. For them, not so many years ago, was erected the Lake View Hotel on West street. Here they were allowed to do substantially as they pleased; and were regarded with the mild, yet benevolent, indiffer- ence characteristic of Litchfield. Pro- vided they went to church twice on Sunday and drank cider brandy and Medford rum, sentence was suspend ed They could display their foreign duds up and down West street, but not up and down North or South streets.
 Lately the hotel has passed into new hands. An outside party, seized with enterprising and money-making mo- tions, has come in, has taken possess sion and has been putting advertise- ments in the newspapers. This adver- Using departure from established cus- toms on the part of the new hotel man excites comment. Litchfielders are very slow to express disapprobation, but they are expressing it. They state that the village is not for people who are attracted by advertisements. They are apprehending inroads of the crea- lures who so to Lenox, Ridgeaeld and other advertised resorts Moreover, the new hotel man has changed the name of the hotel from Lake View" to Hawk Hurst" The old name was good enough. Why change it? It sig. nified that you saw the lake from the hotel and you did. The new name is regarded with suspicion. It has smack of "Hearly or Eavy Henglistl. II and seems intended to attract Anglo maniacs away from Newport and Bar Harbor. Let all such be warned to stay away. There are ducking ponds in the neighborhood and old stocks and pillories hidden away in the jail, but still serviceable. The Litchfield bur- gess. too. though shorn of pristine pow, CT, is still a terror to evil-doers. Moth ing so excites his majestic ire as dude. Beware, dudes; be scarce, lest v fall into his righteous hands! @.r,r Another objection to the name is that 1t obliges every Litchtielder to be ablt at every hour of the day to tell exactly what a hurst" Is. No easy matter dictionary or no dtctionary-as ever, one can find out for himself by trying | Another, and the last, act of the new
 hotel man has outraged the who'll
 town and is the immediate cauae O 1 this letter Enr fhe nl1rnQse of eIripha