Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-05
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 When Henry Clay was stumping Kentucky for reelection to congress he met at one of his addresses an old hunter of wide political influence, who stood up in the meeting and said, Harry, I've always gone for ye, but since you've voted so-and-so, I'm go- ing agin ye." Clay paused and said, That's 8 good rife you've got, my friend, isn't it?o Yes. "Well, did she ever miss fre?'' ''Yes." why don't you throw her away. then?" The old hunter thought moment and said, "Harry, I'll try ye agin."
 The first great literary function held In the Mulcahy school was held yes- terday when the second, third and fourth grades took part in g. spelling test, preparation for which had been under way for some time past, and the youngsters were as active in fitting themselves for it as if it were to be race for a scholarship at Yale. It seems that the girls made better showing than the boys and in conse-
 
 lot Of explaining. One of them states that he would have been all right only he stumbled on Christmas" and am other knows he would have come in ahead of all competitors had he not ripped up on ''chipmunk. ' This is a splendid way to interest pupils in their studies and parents who have children attending the Mulcahy are pleased to 1>Ya1 %bA s3,~ 19sAa a held once week.
 Did you ever watch horse feeding at pasture2 asks a lover of the noble brute. How he works his lips like fingers, picking up tuft here and there and leaving others. He does this by scent, which in the horse is most exquisite. My riding horse one day suddenly shied and jumped to tue the other side of the road. On look ing about saw a rattlesnake sleeping on the bank fifteen feet away. 1t was quickly killed, but the horse passed the place with suspicion for weeks af- terwardsa A horse will smell snake a long distance. This acute scent serves him in his feeding. He picks over his hay and rejects any not pleas ing to his sense of smell, and rejects water from a bucket in which milk has been carried, He finds his way in the darkness by the same sense, and so acute is this that he can recog- nize his companion by the odor of the tracks along road or a pasture.
 Waterbury has a large number of young men and girls anxious to find employment at clerical work, consid erabIy more, it seems, than there is room for at the present time. Many of these could find something to do in the factories, but they do not care to accept situations in the shops and as a result they are in measure a bur- lien upon themselves and their fam lilies. It is a laudable ambition on the part of boys and girls to aim at a cleri- cal position, but 1t is serious blundeT to think that because one enters a fae- tory he is putting a barrier between himself and promotion even in a liter ary sense. It should be remembered that splendid jobs are open to bright young people in the factories, but they cannot always step into them at the outset. Tn addition to the necessary literary requirements 1t takes a good deal of experience to i'll some of the clerkships in shops. and a person who gets in even as press hand and later on demonstrates his ability to do some thing else often works his way to a lucrative berth. And, besides. if one cannot find employment to suit him outside the fact1ies he makes a great mistake in hanging around until some thing turns up Why not tackle what there is going in the shops and keep your eye open for something more con genial to your taste? Many of our priests, ministers, attorneys and busi- ness men worked in factories, and they like to talk Of those days. Instead of being ashamed of 1t. they regard it as a sort of boast and never hesitate to tell young men who aspire to great things tf1at the exnerfence to be gained by spending a year or two at manual labor helps rather than flinders a fal- low to make his nlark in other wa lIrs of life. The same rule applies to girls. The young woman who prefers to loaf raf1aer than operate for a season in a packing room or at a foot press in shop has a false notion of the world and is ant to be outstrined bv her more ambitiors sister who does not feel above earning dollar at any honest avocatinn and sticks to it until she can do better.
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