Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-26
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book.


 liquor dealers, is to be dismissed from Yale for the role he has figured in in the Brass city. Probably it is nothing more than an idle rumor, and yet we should not be surprised if it were true. President Hadley and the other distinguished gentlemen who make up the faculty of this famous institution of learning may be total abstainers for all We know, but, even so, we suspect that there is not.money enough in the United States treasury to in duce one of them to ask a. liquor dealer to break the law for the pur- pose of having him pulled, and no doubt they don't feel that the conduct of MT Adams is calculated to reflect credit upon the institution. for people would naturally look for better man. hood from a Yale student.
 The question of the origin of the : words Cheese it," has set a Boston paper to looking it up, and it finds that Cheese it. is in an English slang dictionary of 1s11, and the defi- nition shows that the plsase was then used in the same sweet sense as that of to-day. And the phrase came banging and pumping down the last century The ingenious George Au- gustus Sala, in his 'Gasligbt and Day light'' QS59), wrote in the chapter ''Strollers at Dumbledowndeary' about young Harry, who held earnest barley with members of the upper gal lery who were pelting him and his friends with nut shells and broken pipes. 1.-TWO or three 'hallos. and now, thens" accompanied by strong recommendation to cheese it' G. e.. act of cessation). cause these trifiing an- noyanceS to cease.s You see that Mir Sala thought it necessary to explain the phrase to his genteel audience The dictionaries all say that 'cheese It. is thought to be q corruption of ''cease it.' Maybe they think so. We are inclined to believe in a more re- mote derivation. Cease it. is too easy.
 Thirst is used as a medium to ad vertise the Pan-American show in Buff falo In we'll known cafe Saturday night a citizen poured out a drink and raised his glass with his right hand to his lips. says the Watertown Times. Another man. who had just entered. shouted: 'Ruffalo.' and the man at the bar said: Al right. Come on; they're on me- The inquiries of an observer were met with an invitation 10 join ''the Buffalo club" and re- quest for Il cents. initiation fee. As it was pay day the newspaper man had II cents. which was placed on the bar together with a similar fee from three other candidates. one of them the proprietor of the cafe. The organ izer of the club. whose official title is chief tank. explained that one of the bylaws of the order requires that all initiation fees be expended for lquld refreshment, and any member who raises his glass to his lips with his right hand and is challenged by an other member with the cry Of 'Bu1a- To-" must "set 'em up for the challen- ger and any other members that may be with him. It's a cinch for q left handed man, and a rather tough prop osition for any one whose norman habit it is to hoist his poison with his right arm; for one never can tell where he may encounter members of the Buffalo club.
 Ii is very doubtful if there are many good people in Waterbury who be- lieve in the work performed here re- gently by detectives in worm1ng thelr way into the confidence Of liquor deal CTS for the purpose of getting evidence against them. In almost every place where they tldltll lo utiNt Sot LII iAAA'' hey were admitted not because the dealers wanted to sell, but on account Sf disposition 10 be agreeable with men whom they were led to believe were in need of d little stimulants. They found no visible signs or the abuse of the liquor license at the stores they visited. and this in itself speaks well for the moral status of this town. And what makes the thing appear worse. in the eyes of conserva- i've people is that the detective busl- ness was introduced into Waterbury at time when everything was run ming along smoothly and the public pleased with how the law was being observed. And, again, the amount of whiskey those agents swallowed on the Sabbath and the contemplate means they employed to secure it. has not much of an uplifting tendency, so that 1t is hard to see what good can come of it. Every decent citizen wants to see the law, the spirit of 1t at least. observed by the liquor deal- CTS, and to give them their due we think they come as near doing that here as the same class of business men do in any other town in the state. There is such a thing as being crank on the liquor question as well as in other things and in consequence people who allow their zeal to ride rough shod over their better judgment in yariably defeat their own ends and in- stead of effecting q reform do whole lot of harm by turning people against them who might like to speak in ap- probation of q movement of this kind if 1t were conducted along the lines of reason and common decency. We can't say that We have heard one up right man approve of the course re- sorted to in order to nab" the deal CTS that have been tried or the ones whose cases are still pending. The work these men have done is not looked upon in the same light as it would be if some one openly remon- strated against granting them li- cense, nor has it the backing that it would have were it the result of raids by the police made upon men whom everybody knew had been forewarned and stil persisted in violating the law In brief, the method lacks man. hood, and to top it off the evidence shows that the dealers who were gath or>os1 in onened their doors to accom-