Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-30
AS YOufLIKE IT.
Stray Leaves From Reporters Note
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Stray Leaves From Reporters Note
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 CHE greatest injustice l see in the police court" saii local lawyer the other evening, 'ls the imposing of a fine on habitual drunkards. It does not take one penny out of the pockets of the men who are fined, but it is a great hardship on their friends. The selectmen of every town should provids some place where those fellows would be compelled to work out their fines at hard labor instead of taking It cut of the pocket of the girl who works in the factory or the woman who de- prives herself of much of the comforts of life trying to live by keeping few board CTS. Whenever I sec a case of this kind l always say to myself, "There goes the hard earned money of someone paid out to give a worthless cur a chance to do more devilment.' The average mother IS over indulgent with her sons and the result Is large number of them are a constant source of annoyance to their friends, and ulti- mately become a charge on the towns When was a boy I heard judge say ill the police court that the father or mother who paid fine for a drunken boy should be arrested and brought to trial on a charge of aiding and abetting criminals, and the older grow and the more of the world l see the more fully l become persuaded that the judge uttered a truisw, experience has taught me that the more leniency is shown the drunkard the farther he enters into the mIre. Those fellows will tell you that there have been times in their lives when they know they should have died if some one had not given them drink. That's a game of theirs to excite sympathy. 1 notice when these men are put behind the bars and sent down to jail for thirty days where they don't see drop of liquor | during theirimprisonment not one of them dies for the want of it. The Jails, too, have tendency to encourage drunkenness. for in most cases 1t is a Godsend for some people to be sent to jail. Instead of being punished they are well housed and fed like lords. The proof of this can be found Tn the fact that once one of those fellows spends a few weeks in such a place he thinks nothing of being sent there again.
 WHEN champion James J. Corbett sr- rived in Waterbury Monday night he was | driven to the Scovill house, where he par took of a light repast before going to the opera house. When the hack halted in font of the hotel there could not have been less than three hundred boys in the surging throng that watched the champion alight and bound nimbly up the steps and into the office. The little fellows jostled and struck at each other in their eagerness to get look at the famous athlete. One of the group a ragged little urchin with a bundle of Americans and DEMOCRATS un. der his arm, was showed of the walk into the gutter. The little lad was full oi fun and took the jostling good naturedly and when the champion had his hand or the knob of the door the boy was heard tC exclaim from the rear of the crowd: "Say fellers. will sum O yez hold me coat? kin dom wood me one hand"
 No one can help noticing the remarka ble ip crease in fox terriers in Waterbury few years ago the species was very Tar, in this city, the black and tan and the pug seeming to have A monopoly on the affec tion of the women and children. Unti recently it was almost impossible to woman with n baby carriage. or a family ont for a drive unless accompanied by either pug dog or a black aud tan, Blu things have changed. The former seemI to have disappeared altogether and the lat ter is quickly following in his wake. Th, fox terrier is the coming pet and it canno be denied that he is handsomer ant more useful animal thaI the sickly blscl and tan or the repulsive looking pug. Bu the black and tan and the pug must no complain They have had their day, anC that Is all any dog can expect. The hand somely spotted fox terrier with his silkel coat and stubby tail must not find faul when he too shall be ordered to step dowr and out to make room for some other favor lte