Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14
as YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From Reporters


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 How much better. asks friend Of dumb animals, to substitute ill our high and other schools for the profes- sor who cuts up cats the professor who will take his classes into the woods and fields, to study with kodaks and opera glasses the habits of our so- called poor relations, and by kindness make them tame as Thoreau did, when they came to him and fed from his hand.
 In the incident related below, boy twelve years old conquered a smart and shrewd lawyer fighting for bad cause. Walter was the important wit ness, and one of the lawyers, after cross-questioning him severely, said: .sYour father has been talking to you and telling you how to testify, hasn't he?' 'Yes," said the boy. ssNow," said the lawyer, "just tell us how your father told you to testify" "Well," said the boy, modestly, father told me that the lawyers would try and tangle me, but if would just be careful and tell the truth could tell the same thing every time" The lawyer didn't try to tangle up that boy any more.
 Authors are noted for the peculiar times at which they choose to do their literary 1abors.5 As rule they select some portion of the highland a great many confess that the hours after midnight, when the rest of the world is asleep and stiffness reigns, nRn f1rn |, tions. Stewart Edward White, how ever, champions the early hours of the morning. His latest and most success full book, .The Blazed Trail" was all written between 4 and 9 o'clock a. m. He was living in the heart of the for est at the time. and after having done his stint from to g. spent the rest of the day among the trees on snow-shoes. If the reader of the book seeks an ex- planation for its vivid descriptions and Its wonderful fresh atmosphere of the woods he can find it in the simple fact that MT White was writing from the midst of the world he describes
 
 Those New York papers are very en- terprising, or rather their representa- tives are. The writers are very inn aginative, also, judging from the ac- counts of the Paul Mendelssohn mur- der, which have appeared in the metro politan dailies. They do not stop at little things. It matters not to them If there are few obstacles in their way. Fiction is sort of a God to their Imagination. All the writers of sensa- tional stuff or fakes in New York are not on the Journal. Many readers of the New York Herald in this city were rather surprised to see the picture of son of Commissioner Reeves of the board of public safety published in the paper this week as a portrait of Paul Mendelssohn, who was murder. ed on last Sunday night. At one time n person could make the statement If you read 1t in the Sun. It's so. ;, with some degree of safety but if all the news in that paper is as true as their accounts of the murder of Paul Mendelssohn and the incidents con. nected with it, then the above saving can no longer be applied to the paper which was the prideNof the elder Dana
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 Two men who were born in Water bury over sixty years ago got talking about the strike situation and it was Interesting to hear how men born and reared under similar influences could differ so widely on the same subject One was very bitter against organized labor, declaring that he saw in it the worst evil that confronts the American people, while the other was just a. pronounced in his denunciation of com b1nat1ons of capital and knew. he sai( so anyway, that it would be out of tht question for labor to hold it's own a the present time without being organ fzed. After going over good deal O territory without agreeing upon any thing, one of the gentlemen finally re marked that he did not think it wis for any one to worry too much abou what is now going on in Waterbur, and expressed the opinion that tn trouble never would have amounte, to much if outsiders had kept out of ii He believed that too many f1ocked t the standards of the contending par ties and took sides for one or the othe and in this way the city and it's inter ests were relegated to the rear H considered 1t the duty of the authori ties to maintpin law and order at al hazards and hoped nothing would haI pen which would lead the public to tn conclusion that the ends of iustic were being frustrated so that one part to the conflict might. be enabled t strangle the other. At this junctur the disputants stepped onto commo ground and soon unionist and nor unionist began to look at things in more sensible light.
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