Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-17
HEARD IN PASSING

Now it is in the air down south to lynch the lynchers. This is piling Ossa on Pelion with a vengeance.-BoSton Traveller.
 Moral: He who would pitch good ball must adjure high balls, and he who goes on bats cannot expect to do good batting.-Boston Globe.
 In the gentle art of deeply regretting and glfbly promising the non-con- valescent Abdul Hamid of Constanti- nople easily stands without a peer in the modern world.-New London Day.
 In assuming the state police law is unconstitutional we have reason to fear that the editor of the valued New Ha- ven Register has already hopelessly alienated the Thrasher vote.-Hartford Post
 Now that Charlie Schwab is down and out of it for good, few modest and comparatively unimportant per- sons like President Roosevelt, King Ed ward and the German emperor may have the satisfaction of seeing their names once more in print.-Rochester Post-Expfess.
 Tn Chicago nobody knew that tun- nel fourteen miles long was being built under the city; in New York nobody is to be found who has not known that a subway is building. New York would do we'll to fall into Chicago's wa%s in- stead of into her own excavations Boston Transcript. .
 Governor Terrell of Georgia comedies the whole lynching case to the mob when he. says that mo law, however strictly enforced, will absolutely stop lynchings for rape" That inch of con cession will become an ell by ursurpa> tion. All experience shows that the federation of any form of lawlessness l leads to general lawlessness.-Ne York Tribune.
 This statesman hates reporters and the press. He would like to have no chief taking notes when he fills the 1 Georgia capitol with his bursts of thunder sound. Yet by simply shut ting up he could build the iniquitous newspapers, and in time he might win a name for wisdom And there is the poor public, which must be at least as l tired of his appearing in character as 1 he pretends to be of being painted in character.-New York Sun.
 1 A woman who lost S2,O0O in Wall ] street now wears placard denouncing l all Wall street operators as thieves and robbers. If a week or two after in vesting she had received her $2000 with a check for an additional $2000 | presumably she would not have worn the placard. Yet somebody would have lost that sum. People who get into Wall street know beforehand or ought to know the nature of the game, and are not entitled to sympathy as rule New York World. Secretary Hitchcock is reported to say that ''ff it is found that any per sons, whether in the government ser vice or not, were instrumental in in- citing the Indians to the, sun dance torture, they shall be reached and pun ished if there is law on the statute books under which it can be done" We shall be glad if the investigation shows the whole story to be flake, y although that does not seem likely. The policy of the government is that Of civiliZing the Indians, and nothing more atrocious can be conceived than action pushing them back into barbar- ism.-Boston Post.
 The other night some Chicago report CTS surrounded the sage of Blooming l ton, the Hon Adlai Ewing Stevenson. | They badgered him with questions. They tried to squeeze some political 1 views out of him. He sent them about their business with this long farewell: ''I don't care whom the democrats nom mate for president in 1904" Words of wisdom, not of petulance. MT Steven son has had his day of honors, actual and potential. He is content to let the democratic party select it's candidates without any advice and directions from him; and that axe of his, once so keen l against republican postmasters, is not raised to whack at democratic necks.- | New York Sun
 Mrs Irving Shultis of South Canaan has broken the record regarding the fear women are supposed to possess when in sight and hearing of rats Hearing a commotion in her chicken coop 4he other day Mrs Shultis rushed for the place whence the noise came She saw a huge rat walking off with a chick when she stepped on his rat. ships tail The rat dropped the fowl and began to make a quick luncheon on Mrs Shultis's foot The woman pounded the rats head with her clinched fist, stunned him and then fin. ished him with a stone. Mrs Shultis might make a good thing of it by lee turing on the subject of killing rats and mice with practical demonstra tions. Of course she would have tc perform her stunt in a rodent-proot cage.-Bridgeport Post.