Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
HEARD IN PASSING


 President Roosevelt's refusal to re- ceive Mother" Jones may result seri- ously if the Jones vote should become offended.--Washington Post.
 There wasn't any trouble in Wall street until its denizens, having skin ned the world, were forced to skin each other.-Detroit Tribune.
 From the way Congressman Lit tauer is squealing about the findings in that contract matter, it is to be in ferred that the glove fits him.-Fall River Globe.
 J. Pierpont Morgan has gone to sea on his yacht the Corsair. A change to salt water at least will have the merit of novelty~-Chicag Chronicle.
 If the heat this region has missed this summer is only being saved up for use next winter when the coal supply gets shy, all well and good.-Balti- more American.
 s'Noah," said his wife the day after they had landed, 'I must have $500 immediately. All my dresses look as if they had come out of the ark."- New York Sun.
  sion Uncle James Hill has cast away dull melancholy and is once more per forming in his old, favorite character of Little Sunshine. .-C Chicago Record Herald.
 Radium taken internally is said to be a powerful stimulant. Still, on ac- count of it's cost, it is hardly to be ex- pected that radiun cocktails will be- come immediately popular.-To Torring- ton Register. Had Gladstone, Louis XIV, Bismark and Wilhelm been retired" like l Miles at GA the map of Europe might present decidedly different aspect. Men who are not too old to make his- tory are not old enough to sheIve.-- New York World.
 1 The hand that rocks the cradle at tends to all the shopping. Women are regular readers of newspapers and con- stantly on the watch for bargains. The business man who does not advertise l will receive none of their attention, and get none of their patronage Harrisburg Telegraph.
 ''Just as Gladys was preparing to sing Douglas, Douglas into phono- graph for young Rusbmore last night a mouse ran across her ankIe,' ''What happened?" "Rushmore swiped the phonograph record and now his class is said to have the most blood-curdline yell that was ever heard" ."-Houstor Post.
 The fact comes to light that Willard $. Allen, the Boston crook who has fec with a hundred thousand dollars ex tracted from the New England reach ers' Aid society and from persona friends, has a brother in Buenos Ayret named Charles F. Allen, who left Bos ton in 1885 to escape arrest on a charge of forgery. 1t is believed that the ob ject of the second fugitive will be tt join his brother in the South American country, with which we have no extra dition treaty.-Hartford Times.
 If MT Schwab had possessed minc trained outside as we'll as inside of tn, steel business it is not unlikely that th work he undertook would have sa more easily on his shoulders A fev rare men acquire these qualities whil engaged in manual toll, but they ar the men able to work by day and t, study at night and as boys they wer intent upon something more than mere ly getting on at the business upo1 which they were employ rookly1 Eagle.
 Conditions have changed a great dea in the last few years. Canada is be coming a formidable rival in the agri 7 cultural markets of the world. Sh sees her fertile plains rapidly filling u with the best of settlers-many iron the United States~and she realizes tha her domestic market for manufac cture is growing as we'll as her ability to sur ply foreign markets with breadstuff and meats. She doesn't need the Unite4 States as customer as much as sh !, did and high protection sentiment ha 6 developed.-Minneapolis Times. .- Tropical Hurricane Threatens.