Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-20

tlller or the soil. MT Kelly wal
 asked why he didn't run for repre-
 sentative and remarked with laugh
 that he heard that If he had anythinf
 to do with 1t an undertaken would
 be after him, and he was not at al
 anxious to run counter with men ol
 that profession.
 l never took newspaper that did
 not pay me more than l paid for 1t,
 says Bill Arp in the Columbus Sun. One time an old friend of mine
 started g paper way down south and
 sent a copy to me, and subscribed
 just to encourage him, and after a
 while 1t published an order to sell a
 lot at public auction. So inquired about the lot, and told a friend to
 run 1t up to $50. He bid the lot oil at S3S, and 1t sold in less than a month for $100, so I made i$62 clear
 by taking the paper. My father told me that when he was a young man he saw a notice in a paper that a school teacher was wanted away off in a distant country. and he went and got the situation, and little girl was sent to him, and after a while she grew up sweet and beauti- full, and he married her. Now, if he had not taken that papef, what do you suppose would have become me :? would have been some other fel- low, or maybe wouldn't have been at all.
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 very little has been said about the report of superintendent of the water works. regarding water rates all though 1t is the most important doc ument submitted to the department n years. If adopted it would give the majority of consumers water at about one-third what they pay now and would do away with calling for bond issue for another reservoir for several years. This is based upon the installation of meters in all places where city water is used and fiat rate to, everybody The only persons likely to raise an objection to this plan are those who are getting water at less tan It costs to furnish 1t to them. md while those are in the ml- nority, 1t is we'll understood that they have the power to prevent equality in rates. If they care to. The public will not know what the result of this investigation will amount to until the aldermen take hold of the question. In the meantime it might be well to bear in mind that at noon to-day the water at the branch reservoir was eight feet and four inches below the spillway. the lowest mark reached since 1903.
 The reckless conduct of cliauffeurs Is an interesting topic anywhere 1t Is introduced and if some of the fel- lows who steer machines could hear what is said of them they would won. der why they escape without being the victim of personal assaults. A man who was explaining what he thought about autos yesterday to T few friends in Exchange place, saiA he hupes to see legislation enaettsl, which will prohibit the manufacture of automobiles. capable of making ov- CT twelve miles an hour. He thought a patent which would cause an ex- plosion in case the driver exceeded the speed limit. would do more to regulate this auto question than any, thing he knew of My man" chimcd in the owner of car loses his head when he gets onto the country roads and goes~at high rate of speed with out Knowing 1t. asked him the otll. CT day if he knew what time he was making and he replied that lie SUD- posed about fifteen miles an hour. presumes he believed he was telling the truth. hut as a matter of fact the speed0meter showed that he was travelling 30 miles an hour at the time."
 The conviction of the Standard oil has opened the eyes of many who considered such thing out of the question. and now similar are likely to be instituted against other firms. notably the smart fellows. who have corner on meat and coal The coal combine Is bad enough. but even so it is hoped that in case these matters should be taken into the courts that the reform CTS will take q fall out of the beef trust people first. and give them to do instead of devoting most of their time to politics. The idea of men who are even remotely with the scbene to put the price of meat 90 high that working people are fortunate if they can se- cure a cut near the horn. stepping for ward to ask the support of factory hands in an election contest. and re- it. Is probably the best argu- ment one could put forward in sup port of the statement made ny a man who had fooled the public for almost n life time. that if you want to at- tract the attention Of working people and bring them your way. you don't want to feed and house them too well. Let the good work go on.
 Although generally this is the slow season with the architects. the ma Iority of them are busy this year zetting out plans and sketches for york that will be started in the
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