Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-14
HEARD IN PASSING

Now that the delegates to the Con- necticut constitutional convention have
 begun to consult clairvoyants to ind out how they really ought to vote on the representative question, it is about time for them to shut up shop and go home to attend to their tobacco plant ing.-Boston Herald.
 For Gods sake don't run out of town at this time for any goods you can buy at home. Stand by property owners and merchants who pay taxes and help support the town. Be decent, generous and humane You whose own property has been spared, feel for others un- fortunate and do all that you can for them.-New Milford Gazette. A man who evades the payment of poll or military tax lacks some of the qualities of good citizenship. No tax is more just. It ought to be paid with promptness and cheerfulness. Evasion of it is crick in the back of civic patriotism. To dodge it is to sneak out of lending a hand to the support of government. Two dollars is altogether too small a consideration for being branded a tax-dodger.- Hartford Post.
 The reporters of Chicago are reck- less fakirS. M. Hugues Le Roux (after being roundly abused and satir- ized flor having said (as was alleged) ill one of his Chicago lectures that to his personal knowledge Captain Drey- fus had confessed his guilt, has pub lished this denial: M. Le Roux says that he did not make any refer ence to Dreyfus in the lecture referred to, and that the interview, widely re- published throughout the country, was a pure ention."-Hartford Times.
 According to the reports of the United States treasury department beef trust sent to foreign countries during the month of April $2,231, ,162 worth of fresh beef, over a million dollars worth of canned and salted beef and $5, ,651 ,245 worth of fresh and salted pork. Meat products of some $9,000,000 were sent out of the coun- try to be sold to foreigners at lower prices than they would bring here in month when cattle were scarce! There may be some fine revelations when MT Knox gets to work. Bridge port Post.
 Some liquid consolation for the natives, in the shape of 400 puncheons of New England rum, will be included in the cargo of the Nova Scotia schooner D. A. Sabean, when she sails ill few days from Boston to the Gold Coast of Africa. She will take them, too, some tobacco, a deck1oad of 1um- Der and tons of hundred and one different articles which are manufac- tured in assachusetts-but nothing will they appreciate so much, in the opinion of several members of the Sa- beau's crew who have been on the gold coast before, as the rum--New Britain Herald.
 Now listen and hear some of Con- necticut's lawyers ring ill the changes on the insanity plea in the case of the Bridgeport Italian whose calf-love jealousy is said to have led him to split open a fellow workfnan's head with a meat cleayer and then to hold a war dance on top of his dead body. They should teach him to chant the Yale song of ''The murderer better pleases me-pleases me. He kills you so artistically-'tistica He knocks your blood flow all around" It might be well to recommend, too, that Mir Italian be instructed to burst out into this maudlin sentiment when the jury sits to consider his crime. It is so nice to know that the commonwealth may support a man of his calibre at Wethersfield for the rest of his long lease of life.-Ansonia Sentinel.