Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-29
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ssFate," said Bourke Cochran, "iS no. to be dreaded. It Is an easy thing to get the best of. We all conquer fate when we submit to 1t gracefully. Vain repinings only serve to aggravate It. We.say fate is down on us when hard ships come, but even hardships we are apt to misunderstood, as they are usu. ally self imposed pleasures turned into intolerable grievances when required by duty, as, for instance: What sportsman ever complained Of fatigue: What card player of sedentarinaSs.! What angler of solitude? What book worm of confinement? Or what lover of slavery? Then why not perform with an equal good will the tasks en- Joined by our station in life and let fate go hang?"
 q have been railroading for twenty years" said James F. McCauley, with tears streaming down his face, as he spoke to a Brooklyn police justice, be- fore whom he was brought for killing a child. McCauley followed this with the following statement: This is my first fatal accident. Once picked up a child on the fender as she ran il, front of the car, but she was not in jured. This occurrence scared me, and have always been very careful about children. especially in crowded streets such as Park avenue. If people who want to lynch a mOtorman when a child is killed would only ride on the front platform of a car for few hours some day and see the chances children take in this town they would feel more charity for us. I tell you, sir, 1t is enough to kill man unless he has got plenty of nerve and an iron constitu- tion. Hundreds of times have seen little tots wait until my car was al- most on them and then, dared by one of their number, they would run across the track directly i'll front of me. have strained at the brakes hundreds of times, just missing children by a few inches. There is lot of careless ness among mothers in this respect. Mothers should tell their children to keep off the car tracks and punish them if they do not obey. Little bits of children should not be allowed to play in the streets where there are tracks unless there is an older child to look after them"
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 The police don't consider the men folks as good housekeepers as the wo- men, and in support of this statement they point to the presence of an un- usually large number of children on the streets this week, and charge this up to the bungling efforts of the men while the women are making the mis- sion. Probably this is true, but after the proposed curfew law passes and all youngsters will have to be in their homes at a seasonable hour. the trou- ble of handling them on the streets will be over. You don't hear of any body going to Hartford to say word in favor of this measure, although it means more to the community than all the rest of the bills there, some Of which have stirred up such hornets big fellows about town came near pull ing each others hair about them. Why wouldn't it be a good thing for every body if the law were so that children under IA or 15 years of age would have to keep off the streets after 9 o'clock at night? Wouldn't 1t be blessing to parents who claim they cannot restrain their offspring from running Wld. .rWiH any sensible man say that such thing would not have tendency to make them better citizens when they grow up? A large share of the bad habits children acquire comes from contract with company struck in with during the night time and much of the evils that come to them in after life would be avoided if they could be kept on the straight path until they reach an age when they are capable of selecting suitable companions. There is no place like home for children once the night falls, and those who are aiming to keep them there deserve to be encouraged, but a movement of this kind does not enlist half the support that comes to some sharp politician who is engaged in trying to create life bert1ls for his friends or build up an impregnable fortification around his own political hqrth