Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-20
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters Note Book.

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 One of the As You Like It mans friends is the, proud owner of a dog which has a strange habit. It is very fond of coffee. It must have It's cup of coffee every morning or there will be trouble. He sits next to the stove and barks and whines> until he gets it. The coffee must have sugar and milk in 1t Or he will not taste it. The dog never bad an opportunity for acquir- ing a taste for more tntoxica ting drinks as it's owner is a well known temperance advocate.
 A famous picture by MurilIo in the museum of Seville is called La V1r~ gen de la Servilleta" C"Dhe Virgin of the Napkin'). A pretty story is con nected with it The cook of q Capt. chin monastery for which the master painted many pictures grew very fond of him during his stay, and when the time came for them to be separated the cook begged Murillo for keep sake. The artist said he had no can- vas left. The good brother quickly gave him napkin and told him to use that With his usual good mature, MuTfllo assented. and soon painted a picture which is one of the famous art treasures of the world. It is not large. of course. and represents the Blessed Mother with the Child Jesus, who leans forward almost out of the pic ture. as if to welcome anyone who ap- proaches it. The coIoring of '"La Vir- gen de la Servilleta" is brilliant, and the whole picture so affects one that It Is not easy to turn away from 1t. s The committee of ministers that pretended to be warm friends of the striking trolleymen and by this means succeeded in gaining their confidence and hearing the ins and outs of every thing that was supposed to have play ed part in bringing about the row between the men and the company. was ass mum as oysters about what they had heard from the men until the other day when to the surprise of the public one of them rushed into print and gave away what he claims to be the inside facts of the conference and another has said since that the ex- pose was practically correct. The third member refused to discuss 1t. The highest court in the land. nor the lowest, for that matter, would not ask the members of the committee to re- veal what the strikers committee had confided to them, so perhaps those of them who have seen fit to give 1t gratis deserve all the more credit for their good offices.
 
 Every man you talk with about the acquittal of the trolleymen has an ex- planation of his own as to why he took such an interest in the case, but the one that seems most reasonable is that some folks tried to make too much out of the thing anyway, and in so doing led others to believe that there was some persecution in 1t and in this way turned public sympa- thy towards the defendants, so that the men who had but scant sympathy for the strikers or their cause, and none at all for such tactics as were re- sorted to at the Faber switch on the memorable night of February 26, no matter who made up the attacking party, wanted to see the accused come out of the scrape with flying colors. The assault was stigmatized as the worst crime ever committed in Con- necticut, the men charged with being implicated in it branded as assassins and murderers before they had an op- portunity to say 8 word in their own behalf, and many were so sure of their ground that they pretended to know what the verdict of the jury would be, and thought 1t would be rendered with out retiring to their private room. No one pretends to offer anything in de- fense of the assault upon Morrissette and Merna, but bad as it was 1t was hardly as serious as the many other things now on the superior court docket and which no one appears to take any particular notice of. The verdict was the best thing that could have happened for Waterbury and the whole state. 1t proved that a poor man can get a falr show in the courts and that a rich cor poration is no more in the eyes Of a fudge of the superior court and jury of Connecticut farmers than society that hasn't 5 cents in its treasury.
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 The court officials tried hard to please 6V6FyDOuy WuO WhhISu CO So' a chance to hear the trial of the trol' lleymen, and so far as we know they gave general satisfaction. To be sure some folks who could not be accommo' dated felt trif1e hurt for the time be- ing, but after they thought 1t over they realized that Deputy Sheriff Do herty and others who had charge of the door could not admit more thar the place was capable of accommodat- ing, and waited patiently until others retired and made room for them. One man, very popular citizen. says he never was i'm worse box in his life than after he got on the inside and was ushered to a seat quite near where Sheriff Durham wielded the gavel. He didn't expect to get in so soon and ha6 just lighted a new cigar in the lobby when his turn came. He had no time Do consider what to do with the cigar and thought1ess1y thrust 1t into his coat pocket and dropped into chair Judge Thayer was reading his charge to the jury and everything was as still as 1t possibly could have been. He had not been there long when someone leaned over and whispered that some fffnv vvaS hlJTv1inor i'm hic Y1o.cLo% rNY1ie