Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-10
BReoKIYn BRlrrs

Odd lots of carpets at half price during our clearance sale. ;Moriartv,s Waterbury Furniture Co.
 Alderman Dan Mahaney and h,s party of fishermen arrived home last ulsn,' aiter very successful two days fishing trip to Bantam. The party had great luck. as some of inc genial alderman's friends will opine na day or two, for Alderman Ma nancy Is sending out the greater part of his fine catch to his friends on the 4 aidermanic board, and the board of public works and other people. It was beautiful string of pickerel each one weighing from 2h to 3M pounds. One of the fish captured yes terday would weigh as much as all mat the alderman and his party cap- tured on their trip to Cooke street Is told. It is said a prominent police man and a prominent manufacturer in thls city heard about Alderman Ma nancy intentions of going fishing at the cooke street reservoir, and SO they wished to have n little fun at the al- uefmans expense Accordingly they. themselves, went fishing to the Cooke street reservoir and captured about all or the few fish that was there Con- sequently the alderman had bad luck. IT Is said Officer Goggins knows some thing about the story. But yesterday the alderman from the fifth had his revenge and today his friends will be reminded of his good luck.
 We offer values in our great clear ance sale never eQuaIed. Aioriarty's Waterbury Furniture Co.
 Mankind in general, both men and women. ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, are fond of the habit of sampllns goods which are openly dis played in stores which they hapnen fo enter.- This practice is not very prohtable one to the proprietors of the store. Of course one apple is nothing. so a person fond of sampling goods says to himself, but when fifty or a hundred say the very same thing, at the same time partaking of an apple, a cracker. cake, candies, or so on. one can see that the loss to the pro- prletor is just little any way. But am straying away from what I start cd out to tell. In one of the confec- | tlonery and news stores in this sec tlon. young man who is clerk in a local tea store wandered this morn ing. On different cases ill this store 1 are displayed boxes of candies, etc l This clerk is very fond of candy, so he thought he would sample some, for he was very intimate with the clerk. He took q piece of what he thought was candy. It was nicely wrapped up in paper and it was exquisite, so the clerk said. It didn't take the young man a moment to put the SUD- posed candy in his mouth. The candy was delightful. so he thought by the | first taste, and he commenced to jolly his friend, the Democrat reporter who was present, because he hadn't any candy. But the crisis came. A cry | of agaony was heard. The tea clerk was seen washing out his mouth. His face told q story of pain. He had been chewing on a soda water tablet
 which ought to be dissolved in water before being used. Such q taste il left in his mouth! After several min
 utes of drinking aI Kinds of water he was somewhat free from the horrible taste and lie immediately vowed tC free himself from the habit of sam
 bling goods. All this while the clerk and the Democrat reporter were enjoy
 ing q hearty laugh, for hadn't the tea
 clerk jollied them just q few minutes
 before. But the lesson from the incl
 dent is clear. If all proprietors hat
 similar samples those persons who de
 light in acquiring things for nothing
 would soon become very few.