Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.


 Some Stray Leaves From a Reporter v
 Note Book.
 He boiled the water that he drank
 By rule he slept and ate;
 He wore hygienic undeFclothes
 To get the bulge on fate.
 Thus science served him faithfully
 And made him mierobe proof,
 But yesterday he met defeat
 By falling from roof.
 
 There is hardly a language that we have not put under contribution TOT sea terms. The names of the various officers of ship illustrate this most vividly. Captain comes straight from the Latin "caput," head; but mate" owes nothing to any oeadA ian, guage. The word Is almost loenklcaA with the Icelandic "mah," which means companion or equal lns derivation of scoxswain' would never be suspected. Coxswain was origin ally the man who pulled the after oar Of the captains boat, then known as nock boat. and so coxswain comes tO us from the Welsh,
 A member of one of the municipal boards has been receiving many con gratulations of late and also many inquiries as to who is the fair young lady who has been fortunate in win ming his heart and hand. Morning, noon and night he has been greeted with pleasant wishes for his success in his proposed matrimonial venture. The commissioner in question has been much annoyed and somewhat embar- rassed by those congratulato ana greetings and for time was at a loss to understand how such an absurd story should have gained foundation. But he finally solved the mystery. Several times he was In a local store purchasing furniture in the nature or heda desks. chairs, blankets and many other household articles for one of the citv departments. Some clerks saw him ana jokingly commented upon IT, saving that the purchaser was about to he married. The joke spread and soon many persons heard an& some took it serioesly, but there is nothing serious about it. The commissioners is stirl bachelor of the most pronounced type.
 Among the pleasant memories od Waterbury carried away by ArcnDlsn- top Falcondo, who was in WateTpnry }thhs week as the guest of F'ather sio- cum. wiil be the kindly treatment ex- tended to him by some of the local manufacturers, of whom he expressed most graceful sentiments. O. F. Goss, president and treasurer of the scovan Manufacturing Go, personally conduct ei him through the entire works, pre- emttng to htm at the end of his visit he beautiful bronze memorial medal ion goHtem up as souvenir of the cen- anaKy observance of the formation of he company which occurred during the present. year. MT Goss afterwards placed hds private carriage at bhe dis oosad of the delegate for the rest of the lay to enable him to visit the churches q bf the city. At the Randolph & Gloves Do. Franklin A. Taylor, secretary and treasurer of the concern, escorted him through the plant and before his de- z sarture presented to him a beautiful pecfmem of the company's work in he shape of beauttfJrH brass ket- le with the dBelegate's crest and coat h f arms eIaboraheay engraved on 1t. T -Honsigomor Faiconfo remarked to the As You Like It Man that he hopes at later day to again visit Waterbury and examine more thoroughly her mag ntficent industries.
 The election fs over now and nothing Ehat might be said can change the re 4 suit so Eiat no matter what one may \ gay he cannot be charged with conn S passing the defeat of the republicans < and aiming at contanuanne of demo # cratic supremacy. With this assurance ;Ahe As You Like It Man thinks 1t no harm to calI attention to what gull < bble set of folks we aae, anyway. S Why, the republicans came near set- ting some people crazy. They led Them to believe that the rest of the world, even to the >remobest corners of khe globe, wasn't doing thing but sit Eing down and waiting to see what would be the result of the election i'm This city while ss matter of fact mo- body outside the machine was giving &he matter a thought The republi- ydans knew this as well as anybody else lput they started out to make it ap- pear otherwise and they did 1t. Every gw'orking nan in town became suspic- 2ous of his neighbor and others and l towards the close Of the campaign al- ! most every ordinary laiboring man was !; fnisrustful of hinsek and many dfdn't know what to do. Hundreds were mis- led through fear of something hap Speming which would upset tine indust- rial property of the town in case the < republicans dfdn't get the office, and 3 order not to take amy chances they AcreaaN7xSd fAho55. frrrVp om1tu,do1,s, onR AoI bowed the coumse of the republican fealaHndty howIers. No wonder that the 9 t0hers who planned the whole pro gram are not yet through laughing at how we'll 1t worked.