Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-09
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

Note Book.
 Matthew Neville. a native of Water bury, proved too much for the opposl- tion in the Thirty-second assembly dis frict. New York. He was elected to inc assembly by safe majority Wa ferbury democrats can be relied upon to hold their own at home and abroad.
 Some of the New York papers have discarded the old fashioned way of spelling comptroller" They have thrown the mp aside and use an ''n'' in place of them, putting the word be- fore their readers as it is pronounced, controller. This is a good idea. It Is an office which is frequently men, tioned in municipal affairs and in many instances is pronounced wrong ly. Webster says the proper pro nunciation of the word is "kontroller.
 A man who reads the local papers says he was very much amused at some of the reasons offered as to why General Kellogg should represent Wa terbury at the reform convention ln- stead of MT Guilfoile. the one that struck him as the funniest of all was that there being no politics in the con- Yention, it was bad taste on the part of the democrats to inject politics into it by nominating and electing dem- ocrat, just the same as if the presence of MT Guilfoile were more suggestive of politics than that of General kel- logg.
 I noticed a communication during the past week in the Democrat glFlhg q short sketch of Jimmie Saunders or Dublin street. and the business he ana several other American boys are en. gagged in helping the British to Kill on fhe Boers. Jimmie is with DriscolIs scouts. The scouts didn't get paid the past few months because the paymas- ter went up into the country and the Boers shot off his head :,nd took pos session of his valise. This is the best thing in Jimmie's letter. Too pad every mothers son connected With Drfscolfs scouts didn't happen to pc with the paymaster the day he lost ms head and wallet. so that they might receive a dose of the medicine they are so anxious to administer to others.
 An old citizen was reading what Tom Kelly had to say in yesterday Democrat about the need or a IoWi market in Waterbury, and after max ing a few comments upon It ne salu the mention of a poultry marker re- minded him of the time when he was q boy in the old country and accom- panied his father to the big fowl mar ket in the town of Athy. county Nil dare, with q flock of geese and some turkeys. They had two wagons, one fnr tho fI1l.- keys. W hen they took their places in inc market he was put in charge of the geese. while the old gentleman tried to dispose of the turkeys. He had not been there long when a buyer appeared and took out the end board and crawled into the cart to "heft the geese. He decided to buy them,s he said, .'but I didn't know what fa- fher wanted for them and beckoned him to come over The jobber and fatherthen got talking about prices and I went around to the horses head and stood there. The next thing l knew the geese had flown out of the cart and disappeared into the river Barrow, a large body of water that runs through the town, quite. close to the market square. The man had ne- glected to put back the end board and the geese seized the opportunity to make a break for liberty. Then there was a row that threatened to result ill a fistic encounter. Finally the matter was settled by father and the jobber paying the owner of q dog half crown to drive them out of the water and into an enclosure on the opposite side of the river. I learned later in the day that the dog belonged to the buy CT, and that 1t was one of the tricks of the trade to let ducks and geese loose so that he could get chance to reduce prices by getting a few shil- lingS for the use of the dog. We got our money for the fowls, anyway, less 15 pence, fathers share for the dogs service, and left the place in high spirits. On the way home we stopped at tavern on the roadside known as 1he Bleeding Horse And what sign that wasI Just the thing to live in boys mind forever. The picture of horse at the entrance with blood posing from it's side. l asked father why the proprietor had selected such q gruesOme cut as a business card. He said he didn't know Probably some reader of the Democrat can an SWer the question" It is said that the Bleeding Horse is a popular re- sort in that part of the country, but probably the management has changed in recent years.