Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-15
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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Some stray Leaves from hepOrter
Note Book.
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for a good obituary.
John English of Riverside street.
called at the Democrat office to-day
to state that he is not the man of that
name who was in court the other day
on a charge of drunkenness and
breach of the peace. The reporter
wanted him not to bother about it but
the young fellow said he was getting
knocked about it everywhere and saw
no other redress. A similar incident
happened within the past week when
a fellow was up for something worse
than getting tipsy and starting row.
He gave fne same name as one of our
well known citizens bears and while
the man was jollied about it he never
dreamed of making a statement. The
Brooklyn gentleman was told this and
replied that the other man was older
than he and had established a reputa-
ton that could not easily be smirched.
He said he was but boy and was
aiming to build up reputation in the
same manner the other man had done
and that when he reaches the years
of the gentleman who felt he could af-
ford to laugh at such thing he hoped
to be able to do likewise.
A few days ago while walking
through Arch street, Boston, just at
the hour when empty trucks are stand
Ing there, and while the horses are
struggling to get their oats out of their
detestable nose-bags-while the driv-
ers are off eating their dinner-I no.
Iced, says a friend of the horse, a
truck horse uneasily turning and twist
Ing his head from side to side as if in
search of somebody or something. !
watched him for moment or two,
and concluding that the nose-bag had
become disarranged was about to cross
the street to see if I could re-adjust it.
AS stepped forward the horse seemed
to have been struck with new idea.
He lifted his head, and for a moment
loolnd steadily up the street in front
of him. Suddenly his whole aspect
changed. He shook himself, gave a
snort of satisfaction. as if he had dis
covered what he had been looking for,
and with his head high up in the air
and his ears pricked up, he moved
brisk1y forward. Much interested, l
followed him. Arrived at the corner
of Franklin street he deliberately halt
ed at the tail Of an empty truck stand
1,sr hofr
on it contentedly finished his oats.
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The Boston Globe tells an amusing
account of two stray cows at Newport
News, Va. one belonging to a white
and one to a colored man. The cows
were almost exactly alike. A farmer
had bought one of them, which both
white and colored man claimed. The
cause was carried into cout, and the
evidence was so conflicting that neither
judge nor jury could determine to
which it belonged, so finally the Judge
Judge Hicks ordered the cow turned
into the court house yard, trusting it
would go to its right owner. But the
grass in the court house yard was so
thick and good that the cow was in the
same condition as the man who told
the evangelist he did not want to go
to either the good place or bad, but
wanted to stay right here. She would
not show the slightest preference for
anything but grass in the court house
yard. We were reminded of a some
what similar case which came up years
ago in the Boston Justices court, where
two men claimed to own a dog. The
Judge, in despair of ever getting at the
facts, ordered the dog to be placed on
the clerks desk and held by the clerk.
and then the plaintiff to come to one
side and the defendant to the other.
and each, at the judges order, to call
the dog, then the clerk was to let the
dog go to his master. The result was
that the moment the clerk let go the
dog he made leap of about six feet
and went out of the court house as fast
as he could travel.
No matter how much people may
differ as to the means employed by GER
tain citizens to express disapprovaI of
the makeup of one of the vaudeville
performers at the Jacques Wednesday,
1t is doubtful if anybody except those
financially interested would care to
question the end in view. Some of
the characters produced on the stage
should be discouraged by all good
people, no matter what the particular
race traduced happens to be. The
fact that parties who make a profess
sion of lbelling the Irish on the stage
are themselves of that nationality is
fimsy excuse for their conduct.
Since Irish character and Irish nation-
atty became common property in the
concert halls in London, probably no
class of men have raked in more shek-
els at the job than fellows who made
a boast of their Celtic origin. The
same thing might be said with refer
ence to every other occupation that
has brought sorrow and disgrace to
Ireland and trailed its name and its
cause in the mire for centuries past.
Is it not true that with few excep-
tons. all the notorious informers,
spies and cut-throats that history re-
cords in connection with the sad story
of Ireland were Irish by birth or blood
and that many of them offered as a
reason for their disgraceful work the
fart that fbQU had Toooivod hoDdcoY,,o