Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-10
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters Note Book.

NOlS bOOh. sSs sSay.'' said a trolley man to a re~ porter last night "the next tune. you ' meet John E. Sewall ask why 1t IS that !. employees of the trolley company lose ! their heads and get fired after four years. experience in the business. A conductor. or motorman who pays strlct attention to his work and Is looked upon as the real thing while ne IS get ting from IS to 20 cents an hour al- most invariably slips up when ne reaches the 21 cent limit. Ask MT SewelI about that and see how he'll try to explain it." Just what the man meant does not appear quite plain, but in all probability the idea he wanted to convey was that when help get to the high wage mark the company manages to find reason for showing them the door. +
 Three men who had just emerged from a popular resort near the center last night got into a row over the use of glasses the kind you might sus- pect, though-and before they. parted the air was blue from contact with pro. fanity One big fellow declared, as he staggered into the street and then 1oun- dered back and leaned against a post, that if his eyesight ever fails so that he will have to wear specs to read With he won't try to read at all Another appeared to feel very angry at this and remarked that if all who have to use specs to help their eyesight should give up reading the crowd would include some of the brightest people in the world, Then the men started to talk together, but about the only words that could be heard above the din were filthy oaths. While the performance was on couple of ladies passed by, and when they turned into South Main Street one of them asked the other if She didn't think that the men who are worrying so much about prize fighters would be better employed if they gave more attention to the suppression of < profane language in the public streets and less to other things which folks are not obliged to see or hear if they don't want to. It was evident that the men had been debating about specs on the inside and became so boisterous that the proprietor concluded to show 4 them the door. There is law against Y swearing and no doubt the woman who Y heard the snarl and protested was of the opinion that it ought to be enforced.
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 The As You Like It man has heard of asrather peculiar game of that fas- clnat1ng of vices, poker, which was played recently. About a week ago several young men, who are novices at the game, thought that they would pass away an hour or two in enjoying a quiet little game of poker-not for the money that was in it, but for the pleas ure which it afforded especially to those who are winning. The five young men in question accordingly went to the house of a certain member of the party to indulge in the innocent (?l pastime The. cards were brought forward and the game commenced. Of course the stakes weren't high. The first player, who had a. say, opened the jackpot. He ! had a pair of kings and a pair of jacks. The. next player raised it. having three tens. The third player went him one better. for he had what is known as a fuAah0dse4 Hhree kings and a pair of queens. The other two players stayed in1the game, one having. three hines and the other having a pair of aces. Cards were discarded and others were drawn. Then some lively betting com nlencef There were three or four F good hands out, one player -aving four items, another a full house, while two of the others had three of a kind. When the betting was finished there was just q little sum. of money in the pot When Z each one had told what he had it was seen that there were more than four kings and four ten and four aces were in the pack. If each player had notfull confidence in the honesty of the other players there might have been a little excitement; but as it was every thina passed off peacefully and an in- vestigation was begun. The result of the investigation was the discovery .tha&afhe young men had been playing with a pack of cards used for game of pinochle.