Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-07
HEARD IN PASSING

The canteen will not be abolished at the Soldiers home. The regular army men will now await with such patience as they can command the day when they, too, will be yeterans.-New Ha- ven Union
 These are the nights, according to one Of our contemporaries, when the telegraph editor goes home and dreams tiiat he was letting out the jib boom topmast just as he entered the Auburn penstentiary, thus showing that if Schley hadn't stopped to coal Company c of the Ninth infantry wouldn't have been butchered.-Hartford Post.
 IT the Schley court of inquiry does not go carefully it will get tangled up SD that it will not know where it Is. This would occasion much regret as somebody ought to understand the ex- act conditions. AS for the general pub lie, they are not troubling about the details. They dismiss the whole sub- ject with the conclusion that there are some very cratic liars in the navy. New Britain Herald. ~
 The idea evolved by some western college men that it would be fitting to give Czolgosz an ocean burial, seems to Lea sensible one With his revolver lashed fast to him and millstone tied to his neck his body should be allowed to sink in the deepest spot that can be found, a thousand miles or so off the coast. showing the anarchists that inc dust of one of their foul martyrs will not be allowed to contaminate Arierlcan soil. Torrington Register.
 Captain Hank Half, who was skip per of the Volunteer and the Defender when they successfully defended the oyn two o1ai of f1r ..o cent match, one of which is pretty generally accepted among yachting men, while the other is much in doubt The first is that the Shamrock lost on Friday by errors in handling when she had the race we'll in hand. The other is that the races demonstrate that for e:gn designers have something to learn.
 American Methodists do not approve of smoking or the use of liquors even telnperately. Consequently and nat urally the delegates from this country to the recent Ecumenical conference in Icndon were greatly disturbed to see tl.e English ex-presidents of the Wes- leyan conference enjoying their cigars and glass of champaign or whiskey and soda. The English Methodist min isters generally, it appears, follow the custom of their country and do not re- gard it wrong to take little wine or mug of beer for the stOmach's sake. Nor are American criticisms likely to change their habits.-Hartford Times
 No wonder people are bewildered I,y the pf esent developments in New York politics, says the New Haven Union. Here are republicans praising Sarl Low, whom they denounced in 1897; Independents supporting for president Of tho borough Jacob A. Cantor, whom they used to denounce as Croker's tool; John c. Sheehan, formerly member or tue police board, Lexow- w-inyestigatcI ard ex-boss of Tammany, now turned reformer and supporting Low; Co1er, 4 who held up Croler to seorn as a type of commericalism in politics, an eager asDirant for the Tammany mayoralrv nor ination. and Edward NJ. Shepard. wno in 1897 supported Low, and said that s'the career of Tammany Hall IS the most disgraceful blot upon the municipal history of this country" now the Tammany candidate This IS enough to make the ordinary observer of current events dizzy.