Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-08


| balm the year round, but the masses
who live along the Murphy Branch and
| the Ducktown road give me a keen,
| darting pain in the neck. l practiced
there among the copperas clouted yeo-
many till they had swallowed three
| chemical thermometers on me, and then
| I thought it was time to move. My
practice here is small, but my lady pa
tients do not die here with their sun
| bonnets on
l give that just to show the strong
| prejudice which exists between the
dyed in the wool Yankee and the hoi
| polloi of Ducktown and the Murphy
| Branch, near where 1 live. Of course
we have our peculiarities, but why
| should we be misjudged on that &C
! count?
My neighbor, Mr.. Lolless, who runs
the Arden Park hotel, says that he
bought chickens all summer at Is cents
| apiece for broilers, and that they We're
almost uniformly stolen for him at
| night and sold to him at 0 cents in the
morning. Those people don't mean
anything by that They do not do it
to make you feel badly, but just be-
cause they do not see any other way of
obtaining an honest livelihood.
Last week discovered that my rail
road ticket on the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford road read Good ell
| Their way This surprised me because
| 1 had not been used to that, and, in
| fact, 1 had to, years ago, walk over so
miles in order to ride back on a ticket
which bought of a scalper, and which
ran in the wrong direction, l found
| after it was too late.
Inquiring about this matter, learned
that years ago quiet gentleman of
medium height riding from Bridgeport
| to Providence produced his ticket and
was told by the conductor that it would
not work in that direction. The quiet
| gentleman of medium height said that,
| if not, the question should be settled at
| the earliest moment. He was not noisy
| or belligerent, but they removed him
! from the car by main force, breaking
an arm and injuring him considerably.
! Holding his valise in one hand and his
| stomach in the other, he went to an at
| torney and councillor at law praCticing
| in all the courts. cOnveyanclnS done
and dispositions taken while you wait.
Relating the circumstance to him. the
| quiet gentleman gave the case into his
| hands, and then hailing shutter that
was going by he started for the hos
pital. He slowly gained strength, but
never fully recovered. The case was
| lost over and over again in the lower
courts and hung on for years. The poor
crippled gentleman of medium height
chung to his case, however, and de-
manded his 800, 600, even though he
had to borrow money to pay his law
| yers.
Time passed on, and he grew feeble.
| for the chasm in his midst refused to
unite and retain even his broadest prin
ciples, but at last the supreme court of
| the United States, which was not at
| that time waiting for two selfish New
| Workers to fill a vacancy, took up the
case, and one day when the great au-
| tumnal alchemy of God had turned
| the forests and the sky to pillows of
| gold and bronze the weary, worn and
plucky gentleman got his verdict and
his money. and so today you and 1, fell
| low citizens, owing to the grit and hero
| ism of that shattered man, may ride
either way on the same ticket without
being disemboweled among total stran
| gers and while there are ladies present.
| We were talking together the other
| day, Mr.. William Hawley Smith and
| I, regarding the habits of men who rise
| to sudden wealth, and who are not pre-
pared for it either by birth or breeding.
| The country is full of them, and though
they get along very we'll for few hours
without corking themselves they cam
not hold out very long without am
nouncing themselves.
| He was telling about a st. Louis
man who had risen to wealth on the
traffic in hides, pelts, tallow and dressed
pork. This man was asked what was
the meaning of the phrase E pluribus
unum, and company being present and
the inquiring child very determined he
was obliged to say that the Greek ex-
preston E pluribus unum meant that
1.-THE tail goes with the hide.
I visited self made millionaire once
who made his money by stealing saw
logs from the United States while the
United States was looking at dog fight
or something. ought not perhaps to
refer to the matter now, for the poor
man died few years ago worth $1S,-
| 900, 900 and had to march up to the
great bar of Judgment in nothing but a
| goatee and strawberry mark, but it
might be of use to boys and young peo-
pie who may read this to know that
when 1 dined with that wealthy man
he forgot himself after the carving was
done and ate with the carving knife and
fork, especially with the knife. OF
course he is now ON the other shore,
where hope that the carving is already
done, but who would have thought it
possible that man with the wealth of
| an emperor would have fed himaelf and
injured his tonsils for years with tho
carving knife?
Boys, remember this and send for my
| great work ON Etiquette; or, How to
Avoid Dangerous Stab Wounds While
Eating Pie"
While 1 am speaking word to the
boys, 1 might tell them of little in
cident that occurred at Harvard last
| Halloween. The Harvard boys are not
such bad boys as some, but are full of
q "'spirits and enc thing or another,