Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-08
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What the negro is chiefly concerned about these days is not so much the right to vote as the right to die nat ural death.-Kansas City Journal.
 Great Britain will soon abolish the tariff on raw molasses. Somebody is getting ready to start maple sugar factory over there.--St Louis Globe Democrat. <,.' ...s.
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr, told his Sun day school class that when he wanted light he prayed for it: When the rest of us want light we pay for it.-Wash- ington Post.
 The soft coal operators of the west have agreed to pay their miners from seven to eleven cents more ton and have advanced the selling price fifty cents. They ought to be willing to in- crease wages every day at that rate.- Portsmouth Chronicle.
 Tn a Springfield newspaper there ap- pears poem called "A Prayer for the City" A city that will not permit a lS tue of President Mckinley to be erected in front of its public library is thought by some people, to be past praying for.-Bridgeport Post.
 There can be no adequate excuse for lynch law. But the undeniable and shameful delays in the administration of justice furnish a ground of justifl- cation for its atrocities which the de. lenders of mob rule are only too ready to urge.-Philadelphia Record.
 Take up morning or evening news paper any day and note the number of cases of shootings reported in its col umns! Some countries have adopted measures which are really effective against the carrying of concealed weapons. Why should the states of this peaceful and prosperous union lag behind them New York Tribune.
 Despite all the efforts to exterminate mosquitoes on the Atlantic coast, the pests are more numerous and aggres- sive this summer than ever. Perhaps it may be found later on that petrol cum spread over the breeding places to kill them has had the effect of feed ing them ,oiling their wings, lubricating their borers and making them lively. San Francisco Call
 Senator Tillman has been giving the Wisconsin people ''hot talk' on the ff- teenth amendment and white mans country He is regarded as a summer show. People laugh at him while they applaud his necve. He thinks, how ever, he is helping to better under standing of the south; but in our opin- ion, he is but 'r1uddying the waters" Mobile, Ala, Register.
 Miss Fanny, though enjoying all the innumerable advantages of the tele- phone, has often sighed for free ru- ral mail route, and as all things come to those who wait, handsome male, the son of the popular Leaf River post master, may often be seen driving his love chariot south, wrapped in deep meditation and ecstatic glory Mount Morris, III, Index.
 The principal interest that attaches to the populist party now relates to it's action in national convention next year. Will it meet in advance of the two old parties and make its presiden- tial nomination? Or will 1t wait and see how the democrats come out in their efforts to reunite their party, and then try to profit by any failure that may result Albany Times Union.
 It seems that our President Roose- welt is not the only person occupying high governmental position who is given to doing things. On his recent Journey to Paris the khedive of Egypt acted, for time, as fireman for the engine drawing his train. Still, if he wishes to keep up with our strenuous leader he will have to go forward and ride on the cowcatcher.- Her aid. -
 The boom of circuit Attorney Folk of St Louis for nomination to the gov ernorship of Missouri gathers force as it proceeds. It is being taken up by the business men and the people, and if the democratic state convention should fail to respond to the popular wish an independent nomination may follow. It is doubtful if the republicans will name candidate if Mir Folk is in the field, and will throw the full vote of the party for him, whether he runs on democratic or independent ticket Philadelphia Press.