Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-30


 No. ?, with a few grains of powder wadded with half column of The Cleaner. on which could afterward be read plainly: Oh. what a lifr We havo led (USln- the word in editorial capacity While s,v.llnc to uphold our circulation, Y,'t tollinG Ia take wad of rncndacity. And little further on, speaking of the new girl of Buncombe, with Trilby hair and new garden hose, he adds: The editor's $ character about as near as can he seen in American life It seems many things occur to his mind which people have no idea about :" This we find ill tho March Cleaner and it goes to show how cheaply feud can now bo carried on as times are now. | The Cleaner costs but 25 cents per year. and half q column is good for two men. The wadding was picked mp on the | ground It is horrible death to die, | but it iS suro when it gets into the cir | CulatiOn.
 Somo years ago there swooped across the wide sky an opaque tluccid invorte- | brate bearing cows breakfast of sum- flower and Calla lilly, while murmuring soft nothingS into the ears of those Pe ter Funk Americanassa who were grubs not s0 long ago that to be noticed even | hv the armle>S man or the wild man of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was glory enough for ! a lifetime. They paid to sec him. This | creature was named Oscar Wilde. l saw him, met him while he was on his | California mission for means, etc, while teaching tho upper classes of Red l h.Nxx INiDa h,Nof hash n lnnk | like Turner's slaveship, which an able Boston reporter described as looking like n tortoise shell cat having an apo plectic fit ill bowl of tomato soup
 Oscar passed on to Yuba Dam, show ing the plum butter people how to stand up to bar like q willow wand, how to avoid grim visaged war by squirting fine cut tobacco into violet colored jardinicrc.
 | Casually he wrote us up in that jaunty Rollo Book style such as is used by the EnCli<hman who while here strives to mako tho whole Waldorf hotel think that he Is taking his tub all the time, whereas he iS summing whero beer is low and cmiSrant girls play Trilby for board and clothes.
  ho said aS hc kissed a yellow cigarette finger ill farewell to the still good na' turtd populacr, that the thoughtful and we'll bred havo cause for regret have repeatedly said this. especially in places where have been entertained, but the reply has been always, We are still d young country. and you must not be ton severe upon us. Mir. Wilde.
 Yes, hut l must say ill reply, 'Youl manners wore better 100 years ago than now They have been never equal tC the days since the time of Washington and PocahOntas. Look at Pocahonta: as you see her today on the currency which just borrowed of a coarse Cali fornian, man who used tho telegraph pole for kerchief and the boundles : universe for a CuSpidor.
 "'I would rather have seen Pocahon
 tas climbing out of the slippery Chicka D hominv or Minnehaha after taking he
 tub than to have dined with your yeo
 man president, who leaves you, afte
 four years, in a tram car, by love. to tn
 station, with six bob alarm clock oI '' his knees, for his bleak little bungalow
 down south.
 II believe that a most serious prob
 lem for the American people to solve .; cultivation among its people It is th
 most noticeable, the most painful effec l. in American civilization. B. Yes, " said to him in an interview .; for was poor but proud reporter an
 he on the Union Pacific with a merr io little wallet of coast gold as big as
 pug dog at hand, "our manners are lii D. .. tie decayed, said l, and so will b A the eggs with which we greet you O O your return. No doubt the nude India
 princess was to you more aesthetic tha
 the cultivation of which you know not.
 Oscar Wilde passed me by boldly h. after years He became more and mo n' erotic and gross under the guise of @
 theticism, and now the grizzly nobilit
 swear that should he escape life of 1T ', prisonment they will shoot out of hi i0 the immoral growth that like migh l :: stalagmites and stalactites have fill,
 the darkened intellect of this moral to ! :: idle of wickedness. this self indulgiI h. erotic tumor and child of sin.
 About ten years ago greeted s, with these lines, and though my neig y, bors enjoyed it I was by co turn
 down:
 D. APOSTROPHE ADDRESSED TO O. wILn
 Soft eyed. seraphic kusS, a.: With timber legs and lily on the aide. I5 We greet you from the raw
 And uncouth west
 '", The cowboy yearns to yank thes
 To his brawny breast and sQueez0 ,2 Thy palpitating giZzard
 Through thy vest
 D Come to the mountain fastness.
 Oscar. with thy low neck ahirt 70 And high neck pants.
 '' Fly to the coyotes homo,
 Thou son of Albion.
 James Crow bard and champion Sstheeo -, From OCT the summer sec. ''' We greet thee
 With our free, untutored ways and wtads p. Peculiar style of deadly osvsrAges <.
 Come Co the bread, free weat end 1iANa If with eur hiKa toned Msh