Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-21
AS YOU LIKE IT.
'sms Stray Leaves From Rsporssr's
 Note Book.

In the course of an article on the Foubles caused by the use of tobacco, Health remarks that the pipe smoker Faves most of the product of the con- lmed tobacco in his pipe. For this eason the pipe Is the least injurious f all forms of msoking. The cigar noker holds the orlled leaf constantly h his mouth and is every moment, as
 matter of fact, making an infusion
 tobacco, of which considerable art Is swallowed. He, too. also Is pt to inhale the smoke. The cigar. tte smoker suffers most from the use
 tobacco. In the first place, the cig Fette is the first thing that is smoked, rule, and the immature growing ody is especially susceptible to the bison. The paper serves as retain for the oily nicotine, and, so soaked,
 in constant contact with the lips hd tongue
 Here is something so good. place
 found near the top of the page ill
 Springfield, H., paper. and touches be button of truth: ''It may not be pod theology, it may not be good eth Is, but it is certainly very good com lon sense and very good moral ele- lent that the fear, the dread of ex- bsure in the public press, keeps many
 man sticking close to the path of bctitude who otherwise would stray If into the byways These words are bose of Cardinal Gibbons. And they re both sensible and true. Every tile while some reformer with super cial views cries out against the pub ration of crime in the newspapers. [e knows what he does. And every ttle while we are told that the model ewspaper of the future will publish ll good things and no bad things. And he gentleman tried making that sort
 newspaper and was successful br a week. Some day, we are told, le newspaper will cease to print the ews of murders and suicides and di- prces, etc. Never! That is to say, E ot so long as crime exists
 English people cling to their tradl- ons and antiquities long after they ave ceased to possess any definite in- erest. One of the curios of Wiltshire
 a statue in the middle of a river at vyle. Upon pedestal near a bridge
 a statue of the conductor of coach lowing upon his horn. The statue ears every mark of antiquity-in- eed, it is so old that no one knows lst exactly what it is intended to bmmemorate, although there is an un- erified legend that it Is intended to |eep in mind the memory of some ac- dent occurring at that point. Ac- brding to some, the bridge was recked and many were saved through be brave efforts of the conductor, yhile according to other accounts the ridge went down in a flood and all Yere lost in the angry waters. No halter what the original intention kas, it possesses a modern interest as Icing the only statue erected in the middle of river and as such is re- arded with more than local interest. evearl times it has been found neces- Harry, to make repairs to the pedestal md the money has been cheerfully rovided. the town realizing the value f. this relic of the past.
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 The negroes of southern Maryland lave largely followed the Catholic hith which was planted there In the me of the Calverts. By them Cardi- Nal Gibbons is venerated to Q high de,, Sree and many small black ABos Is *amed after him. Cardinal Gibbons Name. plain English. is James Gibbons, W.sA lx fts hea slAu l-tfc His official nomenclature, James Car &inal Gibbons. Therefore 1t not infre- Xuently happens that the proud man. Inv has her male offspring baptized James, Cardinal Gibbons Jones'" or Bowie 1r what 1t may be- Not far |rom Washington lives Annie Jones, rho bestowed James. Cardinal Gib- |ons upon her eldest son. Some years Sassed and again Mrs Jones bore to he baptismal fount mite of black Humanity. What nameT" inquired he priest. George. Admiral Dewey" !" responded the proud and happy moth sr with the accent on the mi" |Whatl" the astonishel inquiry. George, Admiral Dewey" she repeat d. why there is no such name. What do you meanT" Well, father. ou see his dls-a-away. done named 3he first one Jones, Cardinal Gibbons $o his father he done say this one must 5be named George. Admiral Dewey 5with the accent on the mil, know lgho Cardinal Gibbons is." she contin- ,ed. but I don't know nothing about #his here Dewey But his father said 2 he must be named after that there nan who fit so. way out yonder." So George, Admiral Dewey was duly bap- ized.