Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-15
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some StRay Leaves From X Reporters NOTp Book.

IL opening of navigation to date were 1o.3S0, ,0O0 feet As showing the change in the methods of handling lumber, 1t may be stated that the lake shipments of lumber from the Saginaw river reached high water mark in 1882. az gregating that year S5S.34l l,OG0 feet In 1868 they were 430. 0.12S,0OO feet. and in every season from that year until 1891 inclusive they exceeded 400,OO0,- GOO feet Between 1877 and 1886 they exceeded 500OO0.0O0 feet, and from 1879 to 1885 inclusive they exceeded GOO 100000 feet. During the month or November inst closed, there came to the Saginaw river by water S.39S. l33 feet of lumber. and the total receipts from the opening of navigation to date were T ,060.1J4 feet.
 What q terrible place india must be to live in. where man and beast ap- pear to lie in wait for one another 2t every step. In that country during the past year more than 12S,0Oo ami mals were killed. and rewards claimed for their slaughter: and during the same period 251G6 men. Tomen anu children nlet their death through tooJh. claw and the poison of snakes. 10 this terrible tale of human suffering must be added nearly lQ0UUp domestic animals which were Killed by the sam agencies We thus see that the loss of life is about equal Gn both S4deS. II is interesting to see how the deaths ale apportioneu among the Wliu beasts. First comes the terrible man-elllnG tiger, which is responsible for 92i vic tilns: the wolves come next. With total of 46. while the leopard claims 394. Under the heading "Other Wild Beasts are computed 1,4S2 human deaths The rest of the grand total. no fewer than 21 600 items of this terri ble death list, are set down to snake bite.
 It is all very well 10 "snicker' and poke fun at the efforts of President Kruger of the South African republic to arouse practical Sy1npathy for his cause among the continental powers. but our Yankee boys who think il fine sport to hear that old Paul has been snubbed here and there should rc- member that il is but shcTt time ago. almost within the memory ol some folks who are still in the flesh. when George Washington and the other noble souls who were associated with him. were i'll practically the same fix Uncle Paul Kruger and his col leagues find themselves in now and they did not hesitate to ask helping hand from the liberty loving people of Tne Olu NoEil- -AIil to Ilti tISbit- IIH it said that France opened her arms 10 the representatives of the United States just aS she did to the Afrikand- CTS though, to be sure. unfortunately for the Boer cause. France may not be in a position to send Lafayette to South Africa and help drive the British from that country as she dlI for the colonistS in the time of Wash ington. but she has done enough to prove to the world that Der heart is still in the right place and that the caUSe of liberty is as dear to the F'renchmen of to-day as it was to their fathers a century or more ago.
 "Thincs don't look like the Christ mas tide at all this year" said an old timer to the As You Like It Man this morning as he stood in Exchange place looking like one that could find nothing in the show windows to inter- est him. why" he continued, ''when I was d shaver it was q great treat to come into the center and go from one window to another seeing the sights and many of them used to attract such crowds you couldn't get within several feet of the Windows.' The As You Like IT man tried to sym pathiZe with the man by telling him that things appeared that way o'him self. too. but that he was of the opin- ion that it was all due to the fact that once We get along in years We fail to see with the same eyes that We used to when we were boys: but he would not accept this explanation and went away apparently disgusted with the efforts of the merchants to entertain the public, although Santa Claus was wreathed with smiles in Currans' win dow nearby. but the man didn't seem to notice the beaming countenance of the jolly old rover, who must have overheard the conversation. judging by the pitying eye he cast at the retreat ing form of the gentleman who could not find anything to interest him in this bright. cheerful world The sights are there to-day, just as they used to be in the dear. dead past, but tie trouble with some of us is that We cannot appreciate them as We used to- What q rush thered be about the windows if the whole of Us could regain our childhood days for q week or tWot .,
 \ friend of the As You Like II man tells this story regarding his daughter. whom he. terms the sweetest child in the world'': Babe sits at the table with us, and being accustomed to hay ing her own way. about talking, she has acquired the habit of chattering with food in her rsmouth, something I never was permitted to do when 1 WAS q boy, and found the lesson of great benefit to me during my life, for al ways considered it q gruve breach of etiquette to see a person trying to talk with a piece of meat or anything else in his mouth, and 1t is surprising how many people do so without knowing that it is offensive. One day last week l warned my wife to break the baby off this habit. and since that time l have chastised her for h myself on one or two occasions. The last time I sscalled" her for this she cried and said she would not do il any more. The same evening 1 was enjoying q smoke and cenyersing with my wife about one thing and another when the baby asked her mother is she would not stop papa from talking while his mouth was filled with smoke. My wife and I looked at each other, but neither said xI.- .l T.