Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-17
HEARD IN PASSING

The president unight save much time and worry by settling the canal ques- ton before John T. Morgan gets to Washington Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Let us call these "class rushes" and '1cane rushes'' and those who take part in them by their proper names. Let us try to discover, if we can, any essen tial difference between the hoodlums and hooligams of the streets and the hoodlums and hooigans of the class rooms and campus. Chicago Post.
 Annericans in Porto Rico are de- manding the punishment of the danger ous anarchists who insult the flag and make incendiary speeches. It Is a good time to teach the population of h our new dependencies, especially the lawless element, that Mberty is not IL cense.-Baltimore American.
 The wage of the average servant girl in this state ds said to have increased keeping her has certainly advanced another 15 per cent. Meantime, the high school principal, whose wife must have a madd to live in the comfort and refinement expected of her by the com nunity, finds that where he has had a salary of S1.5O0 in 1898 he still has $1,500. That's where the rub comes often literally New Haven Union.
 One of the absurd stories recently given circulation is that the slump in Wall street ds the deliberate and arbi- trary work of large capitalists for the purpoes of bringing the Roosevelt ad- undndstration into general disfavor. There is as much reason to suppose that that the panic of 1898 was delib- erahely brought on to discredit the Cleyeland administration as that the present liquidation is forced to dis credit Roosevelt. Exchange.
 Advices from London indicate that there Is a faa1aine in the diamond fields and that the price of crystalized car-g bon has advanced 25 per cent Inter- esting, but not Important news for the average cfizen. If you desire to make han squirnl advance the price of coal or kerosene. That hits him where it hurts, but an advance in diamonds merely affects him aesthetically.- New Britain Herald.
 Properly the New Britain Herald is conducting crusade for an improved
 
 such a system" it says, lis so nlanl. fest and the expense So trivial that the appropriation should meet. with no op- position either in the estimates com mittee, the council or tine city meet Ing. Under present conditions old time residents find great difficulty in discovering where they are at, when they stray outside their own precinct. '
 There is not a city in the United States more behind the times in dis playing street signs than Chicago All of the signs are inconspicuous, most of them have fallen down or been carried off by the thieving pests of the civ, who would carry off the streets them- selves if they were so firmly anchored down. Some of the streets have no designations. A stranger trying to ind his way becomes hopelessly be- wildered. He hunts dn vain for the street sign, for either there is none or else it is placed where he cannot see l It, or if he can see 1t he cannot read it. Chicago Tribune.
 One person Is killed by an automo- bile in the streets of New York ey- cry day, on the average Yesterdays victim was S. Fl. Collins of No 34S West Forty seventh street, and he was killed at Seventh avennue and Forty seventh street. Collins, who was 10 years old, was on his way to his home, and was crossing Seventh avenue when the automobile. coming at a rapid pace, struck him squarely, throwing him for ward several feet and then running over him. The owner of the machine, the wife of a Denver millionaire, staying at the Holland house, appeared and gave $1 300 security for the release of the driver. Hartford Times.