The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-04
SOUTHINGTON.

again the children will have pleasant
 memories of the holidays to be glad
 over, for although there was no snow
 on Christmas it came the day follow
 ing and this made sliding down hill
 just the thing. There is one hill in
 town with two streets meeting at right
 angles One runs directly west end the
 other north and both are short streets
 and running down hill all the way.
 The children find sport in starting from
 the top of this hill and another number
 taking the other street. In about a minute the trip Is made and the chill dren are a quarter of mile apart.
 The Amphion ladies pleased people by good singing at their recent concert. The wind was blowing quite hard Thursday afternoon and outdoors was a poor place to be.
 The men with the borough snow blows were making paths Thursday.
 The shops have not all closed, but are running and making articles of use.
 The merchants should be credited for the interest taken in preparing for Christmas. The older folks must feel thankful for what they have done and the young folks will always remember the Merry Christmas gone by
 As you go up the new Waterbury road there is an old house on the ground where three roads meet and the man who lives there is ready to answer any question that person travelling along would want to ask him. He is getting to be old and walk of a half a mile up the mountain is something 1 that he does not want to do, and al though he would like to go over the new road he has postponed it and it will be next spring before he will take the pleasure of going up to the top of | the mountain. He is well satisfied as anyone can be to stay down in his own | home and do what he can to make him. self comfortable. Last summer when it was hot he built a fire outside in a, big stone fireplace and cooked his meals and it was the smoke from this fire that travellers further down the noun tain could see from a good distance away as they drove towards Water bury. Up above his place and but a little ways there is turn in the road which is almost as sharp as the turn | III LllG GlpOW OL eL SLON1PAPC anu Nl4N smoke is seen only as you almost come in full view of the house and there | is no chance left to wonder what it is which causes it. The fire in the stove | is kept burning after the fire is once started and the old gentleman watches | it with care and with interest and you can be sure that cup of coffee and piece of toast bread would be welcome as the old man strengthened up and | handed it to you fresh from the stone stove. He has a comfortable place to sit inside and talk and you may be sure that he can in a moment make good place outside to sit down on and look off over the surrounding coun- l try when he wants to. He has as many words to say as you have, but wants to find a stopping place after he has said about so much and always finds something to do. You are welcome to call again, but you must tell him some thing which he likes that is going on. The storm during Wednesday night and Thursday morning has left the ground wen covered with snow
 There may be no doubt in any mans mind that the makers of newspapers nave u puSlHG6D WllASAA NAACJ ApNSs AAAN that they adopt good ideas readily. If the people want the entire charac- ter of the reading which is in daily newspapers changed all newspaper men who love the business are willing to make the change. The doings of men who are wronged themselves and are wronging others will not be found in the new and better newspaper which by this course will have no more to do in the line of reporting the crookedness which may be found here and there That will be attended to in a better way, and courts will then be asked to pay more attention to what should be their business. That which is true in the plan of life and the result of life work in the arts will be mentioned and an endless field will be opened up for newspaper workers. This thing is not far off, but is near this change The people who are careless in thought must not be led by carelessness in newspaper men. Because a man owns a newspaper is a reason why he had better lead in making a good change which will do his heart good, and open up to the mids of all readers a field of thought which will be forever blessing to him and them. The day must be near when we are to have better work with careful thought in what is done by workers who bring out daily news papers,
 There is danger in walking along railroad track, and in even crossing the track. There are sometimes when person will walk two or three miles along railroad track, but usually at such times there are no trains due, and there is no immediate danger. It takes but a minute to cross the track at railroad crossing, and in that brief space there is danger. There is one remedy that can be put in operation by any one, or one preventative, and that is to take notice of persons coming along few minutes before a train is due and tell them of the fact, and in this way make them guarded.
 The different places of business here promise to start in on a good footing the year 1895, and there is no sign or