Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-01
As YOU LIKE IT.
some Stray Leaves From . Rsportsf's
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Nots Book.
 Some one asks, "What has become of the boy with the patched trousersy' 4 contemporary replies: Why, bless 1our soul, he is out on the farm hop ping clods sixteen hours day. He will come to town after awhile to run our banks and the stores and be- the successful lawyers and preachers and physicians. Don't worry about the boy in the patches. It's the slick looking, store-clothed, nicely groomed lad you want to inquire about. He's the fel- low that's going to drop through a crack in the sidewalk and out of sight one of these days"
 Because Cleveland genius has in- vented contrivance to prevent wo- men from jumping off cars backward, the Chicago Record Herald wants someone to invent device that will prevent fools from rocking boats. Thus goes merrily on the invasion of private rights. Once began, there is no limit to it. Legislatures began the curtailment of personal liberty by making laws for the punishment of persons who killed other people by discharging unloaded firearms at them. Then the courts became too in- Quisitive about unfortunate husbands who killed their wives in mistake for burglars. To kill off people that way m 3 {eY ie1y IJ J0r rric tNurps Telegraph calls attention to the fact that the Fourth of July is coming along and says it is not unlikely thut :. some busybody will want to put a cannon under his neighbours chair and blowing of some of that gentle mans legs, as in the good old days. Not even the homicidal practical jo- ker has any liberty of action any more.
 "We always take him to the shore with us," remarked lady to an ac- quaintance yesterday on Bank street, in reply to question as to where. she was going with the cat. Pussy was encased in handsome bag with a string tied around it's neck, leaving it's head out so that the feline could take in all the sights on the way. "Yes," continued the woman with the cat in the bag, i've wouldn't think of leaving him behind because he would fret so and besides we should miss him ourselves. He enjoys the vaca- tion too, and while you might not be- lieve it, he knows the vacation time and watching the packing of trunks and making ready to go with as much interest as if he knew all about it. And I think he does." she added pat ting the pet on the head as she hur- ried to catch car en route for the railroad station. The car was rather slow about starting up and kittie looked around and finally riveted it's eyes on the motorman and uttered a sharp meow, which spectators inter- preted as sort of rebuke to the man at the lever for his apparent indiffer- ence as to whether they caught their train or not.
 A trade journal points out the fol lowing postal inconsistency: When you buy ten-cent special delivery stamp of the United States postoffice and affiX it to a letter bearing a two-cent stamp. you virtually pay for two de- lveries-regular and special. Such a letter is given to a special messenger at any postoffice in the country and hurried to the addressee. o If the, lat, ter is in his office or home. and can give a receipt, all Is well. But If he happens to be out. no inducement will lead the special messenger to deliver such letter through the slot in his office door Instead. notification slip is dropped, the letter returned to the postoffice and delivered by the next regular mail. If special dellv- cry letter is forwarded on Saturday afternoon and the addressee happens to he out momentarily, he must wait until M,tlday morning for his letter. unless he wishes to make a personal trip to the postoffice for it. In other words. under certain circumstances, when you pay Uncle Sam twice for de- livering a letter at a rate that would insure the delivery of seven regular letters. he doessl't deliver it at all. but takes it back to the postofiice and thinks it over.
 The federal government has expend- cd thousands of dollars in fighting bugs of various species. sizes. colors and disposition that do havoc to the crops. but it's latest crusade is of far more interesting character. Agri- culturists have to take back seat in this latest conflict and permit the doc tors at the front. This latest enemy against which the government is showing it's aggressivcness is known as the lazy worm" from which nine ty-five per cent. of the Porto Ricans living within specified area of the island are suffering. It is not difficult to describe the 'lazy worm." It Is the thing that makes It's victim lazy. When the aborigines had that tired feel ing" they went into the woods. dug a few herbs. stilled them and drank the brew and thought no more about it. But science, ever on the stride, has discovered more than germ. more than a bacillus; it is the discoverer of a fulI-fedged worm whose mission In life Is to make the inhabitants of our new island in the West Indies. miserably lazy. So the warfare has begun and Captain R. K. Ashford. as- sistant surgeon in the army. Is in command of the invading force. Ac- cording to report from Captain Ash ford which has been received at the War department. there are 100000 people living in the immediate vicinity of Aibonoti. in the center island of Porto Rico. He says that fully ninety five per cent, of this number are