Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-01
HEARD IN PASSING

War is horTid thing, but it's heroes continue to be assigned to the chief niches in our halls of fame.--Boston Herald.
 If they boost the price Of porter house steaks little higher, the ladies will be wanting to wear them on their hats.-Washington Post.
 The Cleveland boomers seem to have an idea that to defeat the nomination of Judge Parker the Willy Hearst and Bryan delegates will unite on the ex- president.-New York Press.
 The Pennsylvania railroad Is dis charging 17,000 men. Wall street has cut out 1,7OO employees. This is not a very strong Endorsement of the re- publican "stand-pat" platform.-Balu- more Sun
 | The Tden Tsu Husi, or Society for Natural Feet, is making many con verts in China. Tn some regions young men sign pledge not to marry girls with artifcially crippled feet New Haven Union.
 MT Roosevelt says he did not call MT Fairbanks a woolly horse. New ertheless the Indiana statesman aD- pears to feel his oats in manner which would warrant the title.- Morning Telegram and Union. Senator Dick of Ohio thinks the campaign this fall is going to be etoo easy" and just like taking candy from a child" For one thing, this shows that he never tried to take can dy from child.-Boston Herald
 TTvh0 o%i0v1 of voko ferr1ng degree on ex-Governor Nc Lean may induce President Schurman of Cornell to admit that occasionally there's bachelor who doesn't belong In the froth class.-Hartford Post. If the democratic convention offers a platform and ticket which will of fer good refuge for discontented re publicans, without driving away any considerable number of democrats. MT Roosevelt will have ground for nervousness. Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Teach the children bo swim. It is che ''art preservative'' of life. Unless Che boys and girls learn 1t while they are boys and girls, the chance is that they will go through life crippled as surely, though of course not so disas- rously, as if they had never learned to walk.-Boston Post.
 This final census of the victims of the excursion boat horror should be preserved: Dead recovered. 939: miss ing, 93; total dead, 1,O31: unfniured. 2S6; injured, 179; total of those on sIo. cum, 1,446. It is probably destined to stand as the most shocking holocaust of modern times. es.-Boston Herald.
 The candidate is Roosevelt. The plat form is Roosevelt. The issue is Roose- welt. He willed 1t so and so it is. If he loses he alone will be responsible for the failure. If he wins it will be a personal triumph greater than achieved by any republican president since the organization of the party Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 With such soil, with such a eli mate, with the possibilities of her plantations, with the amazing range of the products which she can raise with profit, with the valuable ores in cer- tain parts of her territory, and with the manufactures which she may build up, Cuba has 8 future of radiant promise.- New York Tribune.
 Since Raisuli captured an American citizen and was able to collect a ran- som, he evidently regards himself as about the biggest man in Morocco. He has not yet demanded the abdication ot the sultan but that unfortunate poten- tate may regard himself as lucky if he escapes being carried off to the noun tains, A very enterprising citizen is this same Raisu1i. Brooklyn Times.
 By keeping perfectly still Judge Par ker Onas not only maintained the curl ositv which keeps interest in him alive, but has even stimulated it. He has made himself a unique figure in American politics. A week before his party's national convention he is the leading candidate for the nomina- tion without having taken his party into his confidence in regard to the na- ture of the platform upon which he will be willing to run.-Albany Jour- nal.
 Tn Shenandoah, Pa, a number of election officers were convicted of conspiring to commit a crime against the elective franchise. Thereupon about two hundred of their townsmen petitioned Judge. Bechtel to let them off with fine. He tossed the peti- ton into the waste basket. He said he considered such betrayal of trust and rascally plot against the purity of the ballot box next to murder" Then he sent every one of the guilty men to mediate on the matter in the Schuyl- kill county jail. Good for Judge Bechtel!-Hartford Courant.