Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-24
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From A Reporters
 Note Book.

city daily besiege the attendants at tue Bronson library and leave the building wreathed in smiles with some of the great masters under their arms. The teachers are sup posed to assist the little ones ill the se- lection of suitable works, but many times the latter go it alone and select books far in advance Of their years. A boy in one of the lower grades marched into school recently with q volume half as large as himself under his arm. The interested teacher asked him what book he selected and he proudly responded. The Constitution of the United States" The boy cer- tainly aimed high and may be an em- bryo Daniel Webster.
 James Preston and James Foley of Baldwin street were out gunning dur ing the present week and discharged nearly q dollars worth of powder and shot at q squirrel in Mohawk park and didn't knock q hair out of it. At one time the little animal would be looking playfully down upon the huntsmen from. the highest limb of huge elm tree and the next moment it would have reached the ground and secretCd itself in an old stone wall for q time. and then it was up the tree again and kept passing from the wall to the tree with lightning rapidity for almost an hour. The men banged away at it un til their supply Of ammunition gave out and then it took up q position on an old stump so near them that they could almost reach it with their hands. The tantalizing conduct of the little imp made Foley so mad that ha lost control of his temper and threw his rifle at it. which it dodged all right, but when he picked up the missile he found it minus the hammer. which had collided with q rock and in this way got separated from the rest of th2 piece. After this the squirrel had things it's own way, and they would not have made another effort to kill it no matter how near it might have ventured to come towards them. Pres ton says 1t was aware of this and followed them as far as Baldwin street. running from one spot to anoth- CT. apparently bent upon annoying them as much aa possible.
 After city court the other morning, which disposed of the singular cas2 or James Rowland, who was ''up' for burglariZing the machine shop at Ben edict & Burnhams. the conversation of the court officials and the usual hangers on turned upon the queer things men do when under the intlu- ence of liquor The following story was told by one who is now an honest and prominent citizen of this town: Il remember," he said. ''one fall evening years ago. l ran across a friend of mine in New Haven who was cOnsid- erably under the weather. 1 deter mined to take him home, but no sooner had I arrived there than l was sorry for the task 1 had undertaken. How ever. I fixed things by wrapping my friend up in carriage robes and blank cts in a room in my barn. because 1 feared if l took him to the house he would get up in the night and raise the Dickens. I knew my friend very well. Having seen him go to sleep 1 locked the door so that he could not by any means get into the house dur ing the night. The only other exit be-. sides the door, which I have just said l locked. was a window of about four teen inches square. When 1 opened this room the next morning net q sign of my friend was there; he had got out during the night through the small window, and how he escaped alive is still q matter of conjecture to me. for the drop was about fifteen feet and very dangerous one 1t vas too "Oh. that's nothing.' said another of the au- dience. T remember when I was q student in a town in Massachusetts I went out one night with I few friends on a racket. and we were set upon by a gang of toughs, determined to rob us In the morning all 1 knew of that affair was that We all had lively time. but what particular part I took I did not know until some days after. Then I learned that I came within an ace of killing the fellow who had at lacked me. I knocked him down and almost kicked his face off. He was a sight when I saw him in the hospital but I had not the slightest remem- brance of what had occurred after the - first onslaught was. made by the toughs. Had I been sober I would have taken to my heels. if I could have done so with decency. rather than en- gage in a street fight
 The newspaper reports of the past week show that the people of this country have we'll nigh reached the millenium, in the matter of religious toleration, and that Waterbury and neighboriI1g towns have front seats in the band wagon. At a conference of the general mission committee. held in the auditorium of St Paul's NJ E. church in New York. last Monda V night, a couple of speakers gave the pope and the church of Rome Hail Columbia" and some of the morning pdpSTS. InlilhlHS II a cdlcuF Dlece or news, printed the attack under far ing headlines. surmounted by the word "Romei2 The big New York dailies didn't notice it a all, and so far as we know none of the evening papers in this part of the country considered it worth even a bare mention, all of which goes to show that there is no demand for these harangues in the homes of to-day. In support of this contention the "As You Like It Man. points with pride to the conduct of the Protestants of Waterville and Oakville, where the ministers of the different denominations are advising their peo- pie to lend hand to their Catholic SAneighbors, who are conducting enter rainments to raise funds for the main tenance of churches in these places one Of the reverend gentlemen being quoted as stating that the Catholics of Oakville and Waterville had always