Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-06
running away from the enemy.-A-
bany Times Union.

running away from the enemy.-Al-
bany Times Union.
Wall street will never fail IL it can
get Uncle Sam to put up with a system
of rubber currency that will be
elastic enough to stretch from one
pool to another &C Columbus, O., Press.
With one exception all the convicts
who escaped from the California pent-
tentiary were sent up for highway
robbery, which warrants the belief
that they were Los Angeles hotel keep
ers.-Chicago Chronicle.
There are several ways to make a
living. Charged with vagahondd ge,
youth who was arrested by the Paris
police declared that he gained living
as a professional appIauder at public
meetings at Is. Cd per night.-Ex-
change. ..#
Colonel Watterson says he lives in
hopes of seeing Grover, jr, nominated
and elected president by the harmonf-
Gus democratic national convention
that will be around about that time.
But how can harmony be secured II
the colonel be alive? That is the prob
lem of to-day. IF lorida Times Union.
Judge Parker does not encourage
those who are booming him for the
democratic nomination. He has trav-
eled little and realizes that the s'solid
south" cannot as yet control the cleo
ton. From other quarters the recep-
ton of his name has not been strenu-
Gus, to say the least.-Buffalo CONNER
cial.
We have been through a big strike
here, involving $4,000 people-nearly a
fifth of our population--and in all the
dozen weeks of that strike there was
not one instance of mob violence non
any report of offensive epithet-throw
ing, even when the mills started up
and virtually broke the strike.-Lowell,
Mass. Courier.
There is. something very touching in
the first recorded remark of the pope
as he stood this morning looking out
at the gardens of the vatican and spoke
Of the pleasure he should take in ex-
ploring ''the gardens which now con-
fine my little world And again he
wondered to himself how he should get
on without his long country tramps.--
$500 lAQA0 1LACSs
The very latest thing in the way of
amusements for the children is a
'twhooping cough" party, the scheme
being developed on Staten Island,
where the disease is prevalent Only
those afflicted with the malady were
eligible to attendance. and the favors
Were tiny hoops, to which were tied
bags of cough drops. How the little
ones must have whooped 'er up
Springfield Union.
In Texas 100 counties have voted for
prohibition and SO have voted to have
saloons only in the larger villages and
cities This reminds us of young
man who entered a saloon in Flores
vile, in the Lone Star state, and asked
for lemonade. 'sStranger,'' the man
behind the bar said. ''I'ye kept this
ERE saloon for Is years, and this is the
first time a lemonade was ever called
for. / don't know how to make ole"
Lawrence American.
mayor of New York, suggests Herman
Rtdder as his running mate and men,
tions particularly that he would be a
good man to run for comptroller. The
only comment of Importance yet made
on the suggestion Is that that ticket
would he the limit. The latest news
about Mr. Ridder himself is that under
some conceivable circumstances he
might tolerate the nomination and
election of Mr. Ltow.-Hartford Times.
Now that the fog horn at the light
house has been changed after many
protests made by residents of the
neighborhood, that it disturbed them,
it is not unlikely that the department
win have some more trouble This is
expected from the farmers of Goshen
and Great Neck. The farmers say
that every foggy day their cows stop
eating grass and spend all the time an
swering the blowing OF the siren, when
resembles the vocal efforts of a moolie
very much. All the cows of the dis
trict have been threatened with sort
OF st Vitus dance and pranca about the
bar and gateways while the new siren
ds blowing.-New London Telegraph.
The new department is not correctly
named. Why did not President Roose-
welt, a Harvard man, alive to the value
of good English, see that it was? II
should have been called the department
of commerce and industry. That is
what it is, and, therefore. what it
should be named. Commerce and la
bor'' does not look right, does not bal.
aRce we'll, and does not declare the real
intent of the department It couples
two unequal functions. Industry in
cludes labor. and is much more than
4 a hSN1s ~
science and art. 1t would not be proper
to call it the department of science and
painting, for painting is but a portion
| of the fine arts.-Boston Herald.