Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-22
HEARD IN PASSING

There is no Thanksgiving day in Co., Washington Post.
 The New Haven shooting affair was simply another result of letting a fool have a revolver and ammunition Ansonia Sentinel.
 1t looks as if not all were to be plain sailing for the gentleman from Mary land, ill spite of his recent victory in his own state.-Providence Journal.
 If the Colombians attempt any vio- lent measures. Admiral Glass will af ford them all the necessary material for reflection. Baltimore American.
 With the annexation of Panama the $25 hat ought to reach the consumer in the states at something like $250 for the best quality.-St Louis Re public.
 Tom Johnson Is sometimes tempted to think that the millionaire who let's politics alone and devotes himself to founding libraries has the right idea after all.--Washington Post.
 If the negro has no voting rights in the south those who disfranchise him have no rights of representation based on the inclusion of the black man in 
 It will always be remembered as an evidence of the disinterested philan- thropy and altruism of the American doctors that they took the lead in en- deaVoring to suppress the toy pistols, in spite of the consequences to the pro fession.-Bangor News.
 Standard Oil Agent Bowies, who has just reached Berlin after taking i the Siberian railway from Port Arthur sums up the Russian-1apan situation in nutshell when he says, "even if the Russian fleet were to be annihi- lated what could you attack" Vladivostock is impregnable. and Ja- 1 pan would simply have her labor for 1 her pains.-BOstOn Record.
 ! Tn trusts of the shipbuilding sort 1 there is at any rate, nothing 'naturar' and inevitable" These can be cur cd and restrained, without much in jury to honest industry, we fancy | But they must be checked not merely by legislation, but by public prudence and vigilance. Bankruptcy, humilia- tion, disgrace are the wages of sin In industrial wildcat f1nanciering.- Portland Oregonian.
 It is mildly interesting to learn that che record for the 100 yards dash by women has been broken at Vel lesley college, where q student has made the distance in 13 1-5 seconds,
 about seconds, slower than the best
 record by men. There are no statis-
 ties at hand to show just how many
 rooms can be dusted by a young wo-
 man in an hour or how many beds
 made in that time-Providence Jour
 nal.
 Softly. Softly! We shall get the canal The Paris stock gamblers vii get the S4O,OOO. GOO. The gray wolves of the senate will get the advance or l the French bonds. The skunks of th( lobby will get the of'al promised them Teddy will get the nomination. And
 the rest of us, will just have cen tt grin and bear it, for the little Nigger 0 Panama, like his big brother in th' south, is here to stay!-Tlouisville Cou ! rier-JOuTna1.
 An inquirer would like to know
 ''where independence, audacity and ef frOntery can be found to equal the at [ titude of the new republic of Pana ; 1 ma" Well, we don't know for sure @ but has inquirer ever had occasion t 4 l do business with some of the under
 strappers in the New Haven post office, who condescend to respond i Il their own good time, to the call bel z at the general delivery window?- New Haven Palladium.
 , Speaker Cannon started out with
 very pretty design of giving the houS more freedom of action as well as dt l. liberation But no sooner was it int
 mated that the wicked democra
 might propose amendments to the Cl
 ban reciprocity measure than Ill t speaker discovered that the cons'de"f " tion of amendments would be inadmi i sable. Thus ends his good intenHo l. of making the house once more d , Lucrative body Philadelphia R
 cord.
 It is not necessary to issue Goverl 9r ment bulletin on the subject of the il W creased cost of living. Every nous D. keeper knows if; every head of u xt family who carefully keeps account (
 his expenses knows it. The ta II is too potent to be gainsaid, as is al' n- the cause of the greater part of u st lincrease trusts. As for wage