Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-04
HEARD IN PASSING

~ NIT Hoard voted for the canal treaty. The old gentleman evidently consid ers It foollsh to lie down just for the p,1r-
 pose or being walked /on.--Chicago kecord-Herald. Of course 1t is wicked for the Japs
 to light at night, and use Russian sig
 nals, and kill people; but what did the czar think war was like. anyhow ?-- Milwaukee Sentinel. r-'
 Both Russia and Japan allow that they are perfectly satisfied with the
 way those ships were sunk in the Port
 Arthur channel. That being so, how
 can the war ever come to an end?
 Each side will be satisfied whatever
 happens.-Lowell Citizen. ..5
 Four years more of Roosevelt would be filled with danger to the national
 we'll being. The people feel that it is time to call halt. Incessant indica- tions are given of Rooseveit's itch for an opportunity to pose in connection with some great war, regardless of the cost.--Buffalo Courier.
 The authorities of Waterbury took q long step backward in municipal government when they abolished the rule providing for the vaccination of children who attend the public schools, Sooner or later the city will pay for its sanitary mistake with smallpox vis- itation.-New Britain Herald.
 At the hearing before the sub-com- mittee of the democratic town conl- mittee last evening no one appeared in opposition to the direct primary. The gentlemen who desire to return to the old system should come out in the open and give reason for the faith that is within them.' If they have no reason they should "get into their holes and pull the holes in after thern."s The local democratic organ iaztion Is badly demoralized at pres er1t. If the desire is to place 1t in a worse position if that is possible, re- peal the direct primary and then ap- ply for a receiver. New Haven Union.
 William Randolph Hearst has re- cefved the gratifying intelligence that Carrie Nation, of ,hatcflet throwing fame, is one of his most enthusiastic supporters in this campaign for the democratic nomination for, president Now if John Alexander Dowie would send collect cablegram to the en- ergetic candidate, saying that he. too, would pledge his support, along with LAC ICSIdSIAtS Ol Z4IOu s@4iy. NIT E1OAESL might possibly be sufficiently enthus- ed to score another news beat by an- nouncing at this early date the names of his cabinet members. Tn the mean time, Theodore Roosevelt will keep on doing business at the same old stand.--New London Day.
 Hurrah for Miss Kate NJ. Hickey, schoolmarm, now Mrs Murphy and still scholmarm, the Brooklyn schoo, board notwithstanding. Some time ago the board ruled that when teach CT married she forfeited her place. Miss Hickey declared the rule urleon- stitutional, married. kept on teaching and refusing to resign or to have her place filled by another. The board held up her pay, and she carried her case to the courts with the result that the court of appeals has just decided in her favor and granted her two years of back pay. She had the coura ge of her convictions, and consfderfng that the latter involved matrimonial joys # is to be presumed that here after the Brooklyn board will have difficulty Tn keeping spfnster school teachers from obeying the dictates of their desires and drawing salaries at the same time It is seldom that any one but cupid gets the best of an American schoolmarnl. .------4Ansonia sonia sen- tinel. s-,-le -s.ss e.,1r +.s~..,