Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-19
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some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

Note Book.
 The history of the genius of the century is briefly told. After several days of thought he discovered a sure way of making money, and, like other men, he was in q hurry to try it. He made haste to insert the following in several country weeklies: Sure way to kill the potato beetle. Send twelve stamps without delay to x ' z, --t for recipe that cannot fail" Then he hired a dray to bring his letters from the postoffice and had 50.0O0 Of his recipes printed. Within two weeks something like 46,000 or 47.000 farm CTS had contributed their stamps for the printed recipes. By and. by sew eral hundred of them bought stout cudgels and railway tickets and started out to interview the advertiser. At his office they were informed that nc had left to attend to important busi- ness abroad and he was not expected back. All he had left was a package os 5000 or4, ,000 slips of paper on which was printed the following: Put tho beetle on a flat stone, then hit him with another"
 Both the police and the fire depart ments were called out to rescue kit ten out in Germantown the other day. The kitten had climbed to the top of q tall walnut tree close to the house Of a wealthy railroad man, and on reach ing it's great eminence it became so frightened that it refused to come down. So it stayed where it was, and all that night kept up a continuous moving. Next day the residents Of the house tried every means of coax fno if down hr1f oil in uain Anofhnr. night the kitten. now half starved, re- mained in the tree, and sleep was al- most impossible to the people in the house Next morning policeman happened to wander up the road aild paterfamilias was seized with hap py idea. He summoned the protector of the weak to the aid of the kitten. The policeman was very fat and the tree was very tall. He saw that his only hope was in a ladder. This he procured at the nearest fire house. the fremen marching to the scene en masse to witness the rescue. They held the ladder while the policeman laboriously climbed up into the tree. The kitten continued to retreat be- fore him until it swayed on the outer most edge of a limb, where the fat po-s 1iceman could not follow. He called for a saw. and, holding the branch with one hand, he sawed it off with the other. thus effecting a thrilling rescue. The firemen cheered him lus- tily as he descended the ladder with his burden.
 Here is some expert opinion on fhe coming reform convention from a man who has had considerable experience in conventions where one party was in a position to do as it pleased: .'I don't believe that convention will amount to a hill of beans. For some time past the republicans of this state have been a little uneasy about their positions and after looking at the ques- tion from every standpoint they finally came to the conclusion that if the fat offices which they have filed all their lives were to be handed dC..yn to their children the best thing they could do to help the good work along was vote to call a constitutional convention and fix things so that they will be able to ride on the backs of their neighborS for another century. Look at how they are playing their cards. nominat- ing dyed in the wool republican dele gates themselves and cajoling the democrats into choosing mugwumpS and political contOrtionists, men Who are republicans to-day and something else tomorrow. just as capital and the machine politicians of the state di- rect. The democrats are welcome to all they can get out of the So-called re- form convention. Republican heelers will be in the majority and it is folly for democrats to expect that they will consent to any change that would ieopordize their own interests. The biggest jokers I meet are the Fellows who try to look wise while telling you that there are no politics in this whole materi Say. don't. you think we ought to have few democrats in that convention anyway, so that we may hear from our own side of the house on the evils we have been so long complaining of? If democratic towns like Waterbury fail to send democrats where do you think demo crats will be chosen from republican c4ranO nOhoIdS 9s