Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-22
ROD AND GUN CLUB
Had a Merry Time at The Elton
 Last Night.

l
 l last night. The dining room was l decorated with profusion of ever greens and the walls were hung with all kinds of game, so that one would | think the feast was being held in the fastness of the woods after a very i successful days hunting. Dr E. K. Patzold, chairman of the associa-
 tion, called the meeting to order, and the Rev John N. Lewis offered
 prayer. The menu was all that i could have been desired. c. A. Col ley acted as toastmaster, and, as
 usual, he made hit. Said he:
 ''At the beginning of the verbal festivities of the evening, impressed
 by the importance of the occasion, l confess that I feel much as did
 local orator in Vermont few years
 ago, who was called upon to make
 speech at the opening of an agricul-
 tural fair. His peroration was as I follows: Fellow citizens: There
 have been three great days in the
 history of the world. The first was
 when the morning stars sang to- gether, and all the sons of earth
 shouted aloud the praises of God.
 The second was when Columbus
 sailed on his great voyage for the
 discovery of a new world. But the
 third and greatest of these, my fel-
 low citizens, is to-day! to-day, the
 day of the opening of the Windsor
 county agricultural fair
 Well, we are all of us here again,
 among others of note, Game Warden
 Walker, Prosecutor Joe O'Neill, and
 the criminal, Judge Cole. l will be
 the jury who hasn't read the news
 papers, and has formed no opinion whatever in regard to the merits of
 the case. The verdict of the jury IS not always conclusive, however, and once I heard of judge who said to the clerk of the court: It is the order of this court that the verdict be set aside. And then he said to the jury, I want you to understand, gentlemen, that in this court it re- auires the decision of thirteen men to steal a mans farm.
 "The annual dinner of this associ- ation is always an event in Water bury, because it is the best of semi public character, given at The Elton during the winter. You gentlemen get the birds, and about the only way to get them favorably known tc the law is to shoot them. Early lr the season it was a question with me whether to buy a bird, or buy a li cense to shoot one. 1 knew, oi course, that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and this veal owing to the scarcity of game, the average is probably much higher. s enjoyed the bird tonight, however q although you raised the price to 5; per. They tell the story of mar who went down to the city to meet { | friend who had just landed iron Ireland. Knowing the convivia habits of the new conner, he said tt him: Now, Pat, remember yol s can't drink all the whiskey in Nev York The next day. Pat began tn d conquest down to the east sid 3 where he paid 5 cents a glass. / \ little further up town he paid Il cents; at Union square 15 cents, ant in upper Broadway 20 cents. Hi friend said to him: I told you, Pat \ that you couldn't drink all the whis & key in New York and Pat replied Perhaps I can't; but, begorra, l com q pelled thim to raise the price, Nov a that the day of Thanksgiving is ap \ preaching, 1t is we'll to remembe
 that as an organization we hay
 much to be grateful for. Our popu
 lar member, Brother Nimrod Ten H pleton, who never missed a bird, c a lost a fish, has been elected a men
 Der of the board of aldermen, wher
 he may continue to hunt and fisl r even after the law is on again fo \ the rest of us. In the recent ele, \ tion many of his associates fell b
 the way, but mot he.
 Johnny said Sunday schot A teacher to her pupil, what does tt & story of Jonah and the whale teac 8 us?' And Johnny replied, It teach' 'A us, mann, that you can't keep goo
 man down
 But l must not allow myself
 E forget that l am not the one to maj \ the speeches this evening, that it a my duty to carve and wait upon tab '# in a way, sort of go between, a # sisting you to the enjoyment of u 8 good things that are to follow. Yt
 have discovered that the gentlem, X who will address you are many
 K them lawyers. When Peter the Gre \ visited England, he discovered ' Westminster hall many lawyer RI which led him to remark that in |; s4 his dominions there were but tN # lawyers, and that he proposed to sN home and hang one of them. The \ is present tonight a reverend gent
 man,-I will not embarass him
 calling his name,-whose opinion lawyers is not as fattering as a might be. l warn him, however, tn sM animadyersions cast upon the pTofC # sion will not be tolerated. That W
 long word, and reminds me of |
 story of the schoolmaster fin Irela \ who was not as learned as he mig ' have been. One morning a Ian youth wandered up to the desk a ~ inquired of his teacher the meani
 of a certain long word. 'O'Rile 3 said the teacher. you may skip th W word whenever you come to it. 8 was the name of 8 very wild, al
 dangerous animal to be found only
 foreign parts,and you and will ney
 meet it.
 M Every clergyman should be a ifs x1 erman, fl for no other reason tn SS that by so being he would put hims Fl into harmonious relations SO far
 thought and feeling are concerns
 with the disciples of old who VI ' r,nstIr- Hshnrenan IL Mas Peter u