Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-12
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book


 New York. Tammany Hall w. auver- tfse it's platform and it's candidates with unusual lavishneSS this year. It is said that newspaper space will be used without stint. The poster will appeal to the voter by day and the stereopticOn by night. To-day TanH many is practically without news paper support in New York One or two minor daiIies are feeble. nalf- hearted champions of Cr0ker ct al. Every paper of circulation and in1iu- ence is steadfastly against the rule of the tiger. To present it's case to that part of the public outside of It's o...i we'll organized ranks. Tammany must start q paper of it's own or have its arguments printed as paid advertise ments. At the time of this writing It is likely that the second course will be chosen
 A friend of the As Iou Like 1t man enjoyed a trip to New York during the past week While there he noticed that various buildings were still draped with embIems of mourning in respect to the death of eX-PreSident MCKEE ley. and that many flags were still floating He thought that this was q strange contrast to what person nIEnI- View III NdleIDuEy. ANO buii1 ingS are draped in mourning and few, if any. flags are floating to the breeze as tokens of respect 10 him who While living held the most exalted position in the gift Of the American people. In other cities the emblems of mourning are being allowed to remain ill position on the different buildings for thirty days. but in Waterbury with few eX- captions the drapery was removed from the buildings and flags were taken down before q week after ex- President McEinley's demise.
 The actions of school children are often very ludicrous and their teachers find some difficulty ill maintaining calm cOmposure. \ few weeks since fin certain school the children were learning q new song. in which a grasshOpper had the honor of figur- ing. One day the teacher was some what surprised to see one of her pu- pills with q grasshopper, whic.i he was constantly putting in and taking from his pocket. When the class commenced to sing the new song. the boy held the grasshopper proudly ill his hand. His spirits were high. ne sang with an unaccustomed freedom. His teacher noticed this and asked the little boy what he had and why he had it. She was somew----t sur priSed when he meekiy answered that it was grasshopper and that he had it for an inspiration when he was singing the new song.
 = Passengers on our incoming branch line trains tell of singular case of mothersy devotion on the part of a mare which almost equals the inIel- ligence. tl,c perseverance, and reason ing power of human being. writes a humanitarian person ill Our Dumb Animals The train was running along at t.sJ-aI speed when the engI- neer observed q horse standing on the track L.e whistled ShrilIy. but instead of r;:nning off badly fright ened tIle animal held it's position be- tween tie rails. The train was slow ed down until it moved up to the horse at slow pace. Eutling smoKe. hissing steam and shrieking whistle failed to move the horse and the fire man was compelled to get out of the cab and run ahead to drive the oOsuI- nate brute out of danger. What was his surprise to find. just beyond. the mares colt with it's legs through a little bridge and stuck fast. The faithful mother knew her offspring
 
 the train. and she had faced the dan ger herself, stolidly holding her ground until relief arrived. The en- gineer and fireman lifted the colt out of the bridge. and stood it on it's feet No serious damage had resulted to the long, awkward looking legs from the fall. and the colt scampered off, followed by the happy mother.
 A writer in the Editor and Publisher gives the following as his idea of how yellow journals are made: 'The vel low journalist gets his first lesson from the old hands in q newspaper office when they tell him as q begin ner: Bring back something. Never come back from an assignment and tell your city editor you couldn't get anything about it or that somebody had refused to talk The beginner is taught to be a reportorial fakir from the moment his pay begins in half of the newspaper offices in the big cities. Like the policeman, he starts off with honest intentions, but he sees the fu- tility of it after a very short service. City editors are bred from the ranks of the fakirs. They had to do it that way and they expect their underlings to do the same thing. Honest city cd- itOrS could put q different moral od0r on Park Row, for instance. which would suit every decent reporter on it. if they only would. There is no faking attempted which might prove danger OuS from libel standpoint, of course. The reporter will not attempt that. Oh other stories. however. he will draw on his imagination to get something or to add interest," and he knows when he does it that unless some other paper exposes the fake 1t will go all right. If he is exposed he knows that the city editor will not beam on him as he did when he turned in the story but will haul him over the coals and the resignation requested letter fol lows"
 A very prominent ciLzen of Celtic extraction lost his opportunity 70 vote last election, and as a result the man now hardly recognizes one of his neighbors. at whose door he lays the whole blame. The man wno lost his vote is a good democrat. but up to 4 o'clock on the day of election he had not made up his mind wheln- CT he should vote for Judge Cowell or Edward G. Kilduff. He had noth- ing against the democratic nominee. and with any other candidate on the republican ticket but Judge Cowell,