Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-04
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 little girl, who Is about years old ana Is rather 8 precocious child, was playing in the yard about the house one day during the past month, when ane suddenly ran into the house and eold her mother that she had a severe pain in her side. "Does it pain muchT' her mother asked. "Oh, yes, very much" the child replied. The mother hastily made a mustard plaster and told the child she was going to place that on the side to drive away the pain. "Oh, no, mamma, I don't want it." the child cried ''Why don't you?" her mother asked. "Well, guess would rather have the pain on the inside than on the outside" There was no further use for the mustard plaster.
 The war department will compile and publish complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies in the civil war. It is the idea of Secretary Root that it is only fair to the south to make a list of it's soldiers for the benefit of posterity. Southern records that were not destroyed are incomplete, and it will cost less to make the record than to answer all the appeals that come to the department for information of Confederate soldiers. The proposed publication will i'll thirty or more huge volumes and the names of those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray will be published and brack- eted together. In order to carry out this purpose, Secretary Root has sent a letter to the governors of all the states which furnished troops for the Confederate armies, asking for their cooperation.
 This Is what farmers call nice April weather, and while city folks may not be quite pleased with it, many welcome the beautiful rain and regard 1t as great help to vegetation. Aside from this it has laid the dust and given peo- pie a chance to see where they are going, even though they may get a lit tie wetting. One of Waterbury's old time farmer, who has been coming into the city with produce for over half century, told the As You Like It man not long since that most people are too fearful of rain and snow. He knew from long experience that healthy man who kept his feet dry and didn't let his inside clothing set soaked, was the better for being out in all kinds Of weather. He said it was contact with rain. sleet, snow and>sunshine, just as the seasons brought the changes, that made the New England farmer the, rugged character every body knows him to have been when tilling the soil was the most profitable occupation & Con- necticut man could engage in. And the old gentleman was not sure but that the business can be conducted to better advantage now than ever before If people didn't have such hankering tor city life.
 It is amusing to stand by and watch the fight between the trolley company and organized labor in Waterbury, There are very few disinterested on- lockers, every man and woman in town having long since steppeR into the arena in support of either side The funny part of 1t all is that in the ex-. citement nobody appears to be think ing of the City of Waterbury, who in the end will be the greatest sufferer from this difference. But people don't seem to take any stock in that. They are occupied in pushing their own choice over the other fellows head, right or wrong and in consequence all are blind to the interests of the tax payers and they will continue in this state of mind until the row is over. You meet one man and he is actually wild at the idea of the city clerk jot- ting down few remarks for the strikers committee, something that does not occupy ten minutes of his time and costs the public nothing, while the same person never gives a thought to the fact that the judge of the police court, who receives a sal ary of $2,000 year from the city is so much interested i'll the affairs of the trolley company that he is disqualified from occupying the bench and dep uty judge is being paid $5 day for attending to the judges job.I could mention two other men in the employ of the city who are falling over each other to boost the trolley company and nobody finds fault about the time they are devoting to this cause at the expense of the rate payers What a blessing it would be for Waterbury if 1t had more real friends and the troll ley company and organized labor less. While one city official can remain away from his post without censure and give his entire attention to trolley matters and manage not only to get paid by the city for work he is not performing, but also saddle the cost of the man who takes his place upon the people surely there must be some thing wrong when another is hauled over the coals for conferring favor at his own expense upon the other party to this snarl.
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