Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-14
HEARD IN PASSING

A good many people now understand all about the evils of going into the stock market on margins.-North Ad- ans Transcript.
 President Roosevelt has slept out on the bare ground, but if he wants some thing real strenuous let him try the old fashioned country feather tick.-Albany Times Union.
 Captain Haff's prediction that Sham rock III will win should be taken with grain of salt. The wish may be father to the thought, as he wanted to sail Reliance,-Bridgeport Post. A man who makes 3. jackass Of him. self by trying to match wits with the card sharps on an Atlantic liner has no moral license publicly to whine after parting company with his cash register.-Hartford Post. r - k There is one supreme debt that Mir Bryan owes to the democratic party, and which he should be generous and humble enough to pay in full He should either talk sense when he talks poditics-or quiet down and go homeE- Atlanta Constitution.
 There doesn't seem to be much doing around the state. The editor of the Woodbury Reporter takes a weeks va cation and suspends publication in the interval. Life as a country editor is not over strenuous even if he has to be the whole mechanical, business and reportorial force.-Bridgepert Post. Every farmer boy wants to be a school teacher, every school teacher hopes to be an editor, every editor would like to be trust magnate, and every trust magnate hopes some day to own a farm and have chickens and cows and pigs and horses to look after. We end where we begin,--Saline Coun- ty, Kan, Index.
 Is ex-Governor Rulkelay jealous of Governor Chamberlain L.I4. D. that he has been pitching into Yale and col leges in general? And what have the newspapers done to him that he should denounee the press as no longer worthy of respect? There are papers that do not respect him, but that is his fault and to their credit.-Bridgepor Farm CT.
 New Haven is having hearings on the municipal ownership of the gas plant The only suggestion with any appear ance of novelty yet made in connection with the movement is that of the New Haven Register, that the advocates of city ownership would strengthen their position if they included the electric light plant with the gas plant.-Hart- ford Times.
 Representative Crumpacker of Indi- ana makes a good point when, he says that the prevailing reactionary attitude toward the negro is hurting him less than the whites, ipasmuch as it is breeding among the whites a spirit of violence that undermines peaceable government. Gall it a spirit of an l archy. But is it not also true that this conduct of the whites is developing the same spirit among the negroes ?-Buf- | falo Express.
 The single eyeglass is injurious. It throws all the work on one eye. It de stroys the harmony of the optic mus ,, cles and nerves. A certain Englishman has worn, for a myopic affection, a monoele in his left eye for twelve years. The left eye is all right, but with the other the man can see practi- cally nothing. Joseph Chamberlain wears his monocle in either eye alter nately, and his son does the same thing, The habit of the monocle continues to live among the English sweHs. -Phlla- deEphia Record