Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-07


 THE GIFT OF CIGARS.
 Jr., thought enough of me to send cigars to me. probably on his fathers account, for had been one of his fathers stand ing room cnly" at one time
 III the flash of the eye the foreman had the little note out ill the composing room and the printers-the foreman and l small soilcd boy-took several of the cigars, and we were quite merry, yet felt that 1 was doing a wrong, for the man who owned the paper was away for much needed rest and change of scene eating wild meat up the canyon and cor responding with the sheriff regarding a criminal act on the part 0f the editor by means of which he had thOughtleSSly re duccl the Democratic majority and then few as bird to his mountains,
 But it was the beginning of my fall, had also turned when trodden upon some weeks before by being sent to board out Il bad account, which sowed the seeds of SaStritis and things So l began to be less technical about wedding cake and other little acts of kindness which any child may show
 But. oh. how meanly I felt when those cigars were all gone and Brignoh, Jr,, came and turned out to be a great big Coar>y horse with a hoarsc voice and no expression 10 it. Then We printed some full sheet colorcd work for him and got st for II. and through our literary influence the horse was sold for $20O more than he was worth.
 Since that time have fallen over and over again. My life has been a com plrtc SunvrSIult
 But lately see on the municipal press gross bclny with blue pencil, and he marks out brautiful word pictures re- gariing hotels and railroads that pass in the night Does the business manager see i'll my work q paragraph that dwellS with tender sentiment on the beauties of the Christian life, he pulls out a big blue ship carpenters pencil, and marking out my noble paragraph he calls up the tube to the editors room and says:
 ''IS Eczema there, the man that did our soap work last year?''
 Yes. hes here, reading paper. "
 Well, send him down here. want to see if ho cant go to the Throne of Grace for q two column ad Nye speaks highly of ii ''
 That shows that the business manager suspects me paid visit to the presi. dent few weeks ago and spoke kindly of him and his family, It was cut out and in week the position which haG thought soma of taking was given tc the business mamaSer's niece. cannot, therefore. write up your ar gumrnt for the press or otherwise, Per ", for # will not appear It is said tha | kind words can never die, but if in thu business manager 'S office on a warm day you will notice something that is not ; dead letter It will generally be som, kind wu:d tiat have said about ''Scrnlr r"u','. or the toothsume vland ay some hotel where have tarricd.
 There l; more dead matter ant proud flesh i'll thc Waste paper basket O the average great metropolitan pape than along the tail Cf q trolley car.
 That is not all. Ferry D. not rush t the funny man CT thn reputed funn man 10 get argument against tho lega rights of women was on that side c the question once while at Yale. I Sd mp all night with Blackstone and Cok and the constitution and a jug of mil and with red Cv2S-cycS full of unshe tears
 As soon aS l could get my laundry went homo Ca little piece at time pausing now and then to help some bus farmer
 learned ill later years that my fai ure with the great question was thi there was no negative to it,
 The question, Perry, Is not shall W or shall we not allow women to vot, : but about how much longer shall we d, } prive her of that right?
 yOur question.
 You say, II will pay you any reaso able price to write me Oat or give Il any inflammation where 1 can get son good argument on the negative" etc.
 The spelling nt your college is = quaint that have had to prune it a go' !. deal, and possibly where you speak ) getting infamatiOn you mean to secu some highly injurious or defamato
 points against women generally, and
 course including your mother and siSte ' with the rest, But, seriously, you neg
 tive chaps must spell better or you ca not get the full benefit of your me 7 1 powerful arguments, and it is hurti v tho rising generation on your side, tc !. if the young student buys his argumel
 What would your mother say if she ln, .; you wrote me to prepare an abusive 5 ticle about her, maybe while she's prs ing for you?
 ), For your stupid and ignorant lette
 pity you. For your insult and misjuC 5, ment of me despise you, and for
 sake of the mother who bore you he by conceal your name from the world |, But times have changed now and '' "negative' on this question The abl !, orator of our country said the other d
 "The meaner 0 man is tho better Q considers himself than c woman" " fn the early days you will find | 9. legend existed, according to Wa&hingi
 IrvingI "At first there were no womI | bat Hapderip9 on one qccasien ANae q