Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-18
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 NssThe paper has a striking appear ance today" said one of Waterbury's pretty lady clerks the other evening as she looked over the front page of the Democrat and salw the different articles regarding the scraps between capital and labor.
 Manager Pierce of the Connecticut Boot and Shoe company has been re- ceiving many compliments of late for his new and unique style of adyertis- ing his goods. The Boston Shoe Re corier of May 18th reproduced one of hIs ads which appeared In the Demo crat advertising the All Right Shoe. That journal said the ad was well and fastefully set up and attractive. Out line cuts would be better, other than this the advertisement is admirable"
 
 Look at Danbury, said one of Wa ferbury's foremost and progressive citi- gems last evening while discussing the labor situation with the As You Like It man. Said he, heard of man who before the big hat strike was mak- ing as high as ten dollars day, and now he is making SIPS. Look at the way property has depreciated in value Ten years ago piece of prop erty In Danbury sold for $5.5OO. Less than a year ago it changed hands for $500. The manufacturers of Water bury should hesitate and halt before they precipitate labor war that will bring Waterbury to such q condition. Talk it over and arbitrate.
 Is the time coming when bare floors will again be the fashion? I think so, if the following may be taken as warning note: The question of the healthiness of carpets is of chief importance, and apaft from the fact that it must be obvious even to the layman that. unless all our modern ideas as to germs" and their nature are utterly erroneous. any heavy astuff'' material. of an unwashable and imperfectIy dirt and dust removable structure, is insanitary as a floor COW erfng for rooms in which we live, eat and sleep. Anyone may easily find by turning up the files of the chief medi- cal papers that the unhealthiness of carpets Is not only talked of by alarm fsts,~ but written upon and discussed iri masterly manner by the heads of the profession, who have no sort of object in discovering a mares nest, !" and are not type of men likely to do SO
 can't agree with the nsanufactur- CTS who object to discussing the ques- ton of wages and hours with anyone representing their employees except the men themselves. The logic of this is not right. Labor is a commodity just the same as anything else in the mar ket, and those who own it have right to come together, to form a trust. if you want to put 1t that way, with a view to keeping up the price of the ar ficle, and employ agents to dispose of tt. just the same as the shops do in order to get the best returns from the goods they manufacture. To my mind q gentleman who goes into a factory as agent for O labor organization is en- titled to the same consideration as the travelling salesman of one of our big corporations. Of course, no one is obliged to buy from either, provided he can do better elsewhere, but the contention that they will not deal with the labor agent while their own sales men, who are nothing more than agents, are securing the country for orders and being received courteously everywhere. is q rather peculiar one.
 For some time back an agitation has been In progress to have the golden eagle imprisoned in the Maxwell park set at liberty. The noble bird does not look it's best in captivity. It has. in- deed, the look of barnyard fowl on a wet day. and the humane persons who have been writing on the subject consider that the eagle should be al- lowed to fly away from Glasgow, to seek some wilderness where it may breast the winds, surmount the clouds, and look the sun in the face. After a heightened experience of Glasgow fogs and narrow quarters, with children and buns as daily tormentors, the eagle would doubtless appreciate a change of air and scene. and liberty to go where it would. There are not many eagles left in Scotland now, but the Glasgow specimen would no doubt find out an eyrie somewhere, and having introduce ed itself to the owners proceed to upset existing domestic arrangements. Se- ri0usly. the bird would be better away. The lines of the liberty -worshipping poet do not somehow seem to appro- priate as a motto for the Maxwell park eagle prison.
 External spirit of the chaInless mind Brightest in dungeons liberty thou
 art"
 That horses have considerable de gree of intelligence, there is no doubt This fact has been manifested on many occasions. As almost everyone knows after horse has gone about a certain route for number of times, no mat ter whether it Is a milk, grocery. or some other route. he acquires the habit Of stopping at the various houses with put any signal from the driver. In re gard to this trait among horses. the As You Like It man heard an amusing story a few days or so ago. One day recently a clerk or a driver of team in the employ of merchant, centrally located. was unable to work owing to Illness. This man. unknown to his employer, had been in the habit of stopping at a saloon on one of the by