Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-19
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From Rsporser's
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 Cracks in cook stove can be satis- factorily filled by a paste made of six parts common wood ashes to one part table salt, mixed with cold wat e-. Properly mixed it will prove lasting and will take sblacking.
 It is said that in Norway bucket of water is always placed within reach of horse when he is taking his all lowance of hay. Tt is intereSting.' says the writer of the incident. ito see with what relish they take Il sip out of one and mouthful out of the other alternatiyely, sometimes only moistening their mouths as any ra tional being would do while eating a dinner of such dry food. A broN, winded horse is scarcely ever seen in Norway, and the question is whether this mode of feeding has not benefi- cial effect in preserving the animals respiratory organ.
 A first-class battleship costs as much as all the ninety-four buildings of Harvard university, says an oppon- ent of wars, and then he goes on to say that a million dollar-bills packed solidly like leaves in a book make Il pile 275 feet high. One thousand mill lion dollars, the price which Europe annually pays for ornaments ill time of peace, equal a pile of dollar-bills B miles high. This expenditure for the supposed prevention of war repre- sents one thousand million days labor at one dollar a day, and this, be it remembered; every year to enable lxy to hald itc, A second pile of dolIar-bills over 3 miles high represents the annual pay ment for interest and other costs of past wars. To these inconceivably large amounts must be added the earnings of millions of able-bodied men in army and navy who are with drawn from productive industries and are supported by taxed peoples.
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 The late Senator Hoar used to re- late with much glee the conversation that recently took place between two southerners, the first of whom had but lately returned from trip through New England. Said the first man from Dixie to his friend: You know those little, white, round beans" Yes replied the friend. 'tthe kind we feed to our horses" ''The very same. We'll, do you know, sir. that i'll Boston the enlightened citizens take those little, white, round beans, boil them for three or four hours. mix them with molas- ses and know not what other ingredi- ents, bake them, and then-what do you suppose they then do with the beans?" '"TheyA" ''They eat 'em, sir,o interrupted the first southerner iphpressively. Bless me. sir, they eat 'em.''
 Hundreds of dogs are killed annu- ally in Texas cities because the dog tax" is not paid by owners. Fort Wertfl's dog-wagon has taken up hun fireds of untagged dogs, put them in the pound to De shot within the twen- ty-four-hour limit, but before that time the $1 tax per dog came to the tax gatherer from an unidentified per son. To-day it developed that Captain M. B. Lloyd, a lover of dogs particu- larly and animal pets generally, was the phiianthrOpic savior of the cons, deinned canines. When Chief of Po- lice Req privately called on Captain Lloyd to learn how many dogs he pro- posed to pay taxes for. the captain said;, "All of them. None shall be killed" Chief Req said : ''There are no conditions attached to Captain Lloyd's offer 1t is simple. direct and pointed. Not dog caught shall be put to death."
 Senator Peck was among the num- ber of mourners at the requiem mass for the late M. J. Brzezinski this morning at the Immaculate Concep- ton church. Aside from the members of his own family probably there was not a soul in the church whom MT Brzezinski would rather see beside his bier than the genial senator from the fifteenth district Years ago when Mir BrzeZinski was young man with out a dollar ahead and nobody to give him a hand he formed an acquaint- ance with MT Peck and in talking matters over one day the future sen- ator suggested that he buy a lot of stock at once instead of purchasing in small lots At that time MT Brzezin- ski was doing some fancy carpentry work and was handicapped for funds. He laughed at MT Peck's wise words, but admitted the logic of his, counsel, and then went on to show the folly of advising man with. no means to buy in large quantities. But this is a long story and to cut it short MT Peck planked down to the young Polish new conner several hundred dollars and took his word for the account, and he was not deceived in his man. Of all his stories that was the one he used to- tell with the greatest pleasure. "Peci put meNon my feet he would say, "and from that day to this I never knew the want of dollar" Wonder how many people in the con- gregation knew of that little transac- ton Mir Peck never spoke of it. but 1t was ever uppermost in the mind of the man whom he had befriended. It cannot harm the dead to mention ft now, and as the election is over it will not hurt the republican nominee