Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-20
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.

The janitor employed in a certain school, not in Waterb ury, however, re- signed his position the other day after having held the job for only little over a week. II guess I'm too sensi- tiye," he explained to a friend who asked him why he had quit. You see, whenever l found anything that had been lost always hung it up on the blackboard, where the. owner cou1d see it and claim it. The other morn ing went into one of the rooms early to clean up, and there on the black board was written: Find the multi plicand.' looked all over, but I couldn't find anything. The next morning I went into the same room and on the blackboard was written: Find the least common devisor' Then says to myself, If them things is lost and didn't turn up, the first thing I know they'll accuse me of swipln' them. So I threw up the job. l guess I'm too sensitive.'
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 Linn Luce, the founder of the Press Clipping Bureau and probably the most expert reader of newspapers in the world, died in New York recently at the age of 35 years. When Mir Luce began the business of furnishing press clippings the industry was in it's earliest stages, and its scope was Him. ited to the ornamental side-lfke that of furnishing social and literary people with press comments upon themselves The Luce idea was com mercial, the ornamental never being cared for. That the idea was sub- stantial and meritorious is shown by. the fact that the Luce Bureau now employs a hundred people, who read more than four thousand different publications. To build up such bus mess indicates that MT Luce posses sed untiring energy. And to this fact, and that all of it was bent tow ard the perfection of the business he had inaugurated, is undoubtedly due the brevity of his life.
 
 The average man possesses a certain amount of courage. He may not De one of those bold, courageous fellows who are ever performing the most dar- ing acts. but nevertheless he has In his makeup the proper material which he uses when opportunity presents it. self. He holds it in reserve and dis plays it when the proper time comes. But there a few men who lack even a part of this courage. The AS You Like It man heard of a case which occurred yesterday in which two men proved themselves anything but brave.a Two little boys had fallen in the Naugatuck river Their bodies were floating down the river. At distance the father of one of the children was run ming with all speed to save them. He ! shouted for aid. Two men stood on the river bank not far away from the floating bodies. heard the agonizing mamf- xN. ln. LH~ ! 1@4 did not try to save the children. Even one Of them is said to have refused to take one of the boys from the arm of the exhausted father as he brought the boys safely to the shore.
 The musical critic of a we'll known paper being away on certain Oc- casion, the editor was called on to fill his shoes at a big musical, the event of the season. This Is the way the boss quill-driver handled the affair: "As the editor of this paper,'' he wrote, doesn't know a9Tfderni-semi- quaver from a dfapason, or a bass clef from bone tumour, he will not be expected to give an extended mo- tice of this production. We can say however, that the type used in print ing the song was clear and plain, and LuG paper S0CHlS LO D0 tue pest QudllTy of rag. The design on the front page is artistic, and the words are as ten- der as veal steak and as poetic as song of a meadow lark on May morning. The melody is sound and all right, with no wind gals or col lar marks. The harmony appears to be in a healthy condition, with no patent defects or noticeable blemishes The tonality, according to our office boy. who knows all about 1t, is clear and resonant, and rests, so he says, on harmonic relations and melodic clements. We will sing the song to any subscriber who will pay his sub- scriptions three years in advance, throwing into 1t all the tender pa thes and unctuous emotion of our cabbage favoured soul"