Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-24
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Some Stray Leaves from Rsportss's

Some Stray Leaves from . Rsporssr'' | Nots Book. ~f A man to be in politics must have
 no past, and this fact is showing .it'
 self very clearly In this campaign
 They have even gone after Scoop
 0'Brien, the prohibition advocate
 They tell Scoop" he Is criminal
 and Scoop" answers. Tt is . iie, but
 what if 1t were true" He continuei
 to draw such crowds. to his rallies
 that many are of the opinion 1t is an
 advertising scheme with him and hii
 accusers. Surely 1t is pathetic when
 they will not at least refrain from
 throwing mud at a man working fol
 the cause of temperance.
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 The As You Like It Man was sur
 prised at some information given him
 during the past week in regard to pi-
 anos. He said that ofttimes a custom
 CT after recently purchasing q pi-
 ano will come Into the store ard in-
 form him. that one of the keys in the
 instrument is .rattling. "Of course
 we know in most cases 1t IS untrue,
 but we realize 1t is useless to try to tell that to the woman, so we so to the house. We'll in nine cases out of ten the rattle Is In the room but not in the piano. Some loose key. in a door or some picture on the wall
 seems to be in sympathy with ,cer- tain key of the piano and just as soon
 as. this Is struck the key rattles or
 there is a vibration to the picture.
 This may seem strange to you but 1t is nevertheless fact. Ask any piano man and he will tell you the. same thing. When we go to remedy such a defect we generally look for the loese key or the loose picture. The same is true of two instruments in
 the same room which are keyed to the same pitch. Strike note on one and 1t will sound on the other. Especially is this true If the floor is bare. Try 1t some time and, note the effect"
 A writer in Outing is sorry that much of the late autumn work is purely mischievous. Why on earth should man or woman run a'-lawn mower in October or why should they rake all the beautiful brown leaves of the grass and then burn them? Nature sprinkles these leaves all over the lawns as a protection against the cold of winter and only those which gather in heaps or lie so thickly as to smother the grass should be re- moved. Nature works, the entire summer weaving millions of looms to shade us and the earth, and when the work is done she shakes off the. leaves to keep the earth warm during the zero weather It Is wonderful gift and the man who rejects 1t Is fool. Leaves not needed on the lawn should be gathered for the compost pile; others to be: used for bedding in, the stables and other innumerable pur- poses for which the leaves are suit able. In all sorts of ways autumn leaves are money savers and money makers;. and yet half Df these brown beauties are. burned. The writer con- cludes by saying If he had no other use for. them he would pull off his shoes, just as he did when a boy and kick through the piles along the hedges and in the swale. Then throw himself down on them aud smell. the delicious odor of beech, maple and 
 Although the Krag has been rele- gated to the. rear by the new Spring field, the old gun is still a favorite with many marksmen who claim that 1t is superior to the new arm. It was used in a number of matches during the summer and more than one prize was won by the Krag against the new Springfield. An interesting sug- gestion has been advanced that a match be arranged between Major c. B. lWtnder of Ohio, a-~noted shot and a staunch advocate of the Krag, and Captain K. K. V. Casey, an equal- ly celebrated shot, and an advocate of the new gun. < Such, a. match would excite the greatest interest in the rife world. In the annual report to the war department Brigadier Gen. sral Frederick D. Grant, commanding the department of the east, makes some interesting recommendations rifle practice He recom- mends the use of moving targets, sim gle figures and groups, , in all army small arms work, in place of station iryetargets, as in war almost, all tar gets would be moving. He notes that | he nearest government ranges to he troops stationed at Washington, New York and Boston are 474, 33O md 10S miles distant, respectively, 70 urges the acquiring of suitable 'anges near all three cities. He sug- yests that If school of musketry be established in the east. similar to the ,ne- at Monterey, Cal, it should be ocated at Fort Ethan Allen.
 Christian Endeayorers