Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-13
HEARD IN PASSING

People who are beginning to despair | of Green and Gaynor's ever being | brought back to this country should take courage. The defaulters may some day run out of funds.
 MT Justice Brewer told the girls at | Nassar that he believed that we would some day have woman for president The justice did not repeat. however, | former utterance that he did not eX- pect to live to see many more presi- dents, and was not sorry.
 After loudly protesting that he
 wouldn't, Mr Justice Morris of the has resigned. The trouble with Mir Morris was that he practically resign ed first and then attempted to draw back when he learned that an enemy was to succeed him.
 Elihu Roots law practice is said to be worth to him S250.0O0 year. The salary of the cabinet office he has ac- cepted is SS,000. Yet the value of the secretary of stateship is not to be measured in paltry dollars. It's re- responsibilities places it outside the pale of monetary considerations Norwich Record.
 Officers of the army and navy who have just been forbidden by executive order to seek influence" as an aid to desired promotion or service assign ment. would be less inclined to regard the order as unjust if they could for get all about the jumping of Leonard Wood. special friend of the president, over the heads of many older and better soldiers.-Providence Telegram. President Fornes of the New York board of aldermen. who has just re- turned from visit to Glasgow, adds his advice to Mir Dalrymples that this country would better go slow in adopt ing municipal ownership. Mir Fornes finds it makes great difference whether a city is conducted as a business enterprise or whether politics is the chief consideration in its ad- nistration.-Springfiel Union.
 Clark Howell's Georgia paper says that Hoke Smiths paper quit denoun- cing the railroads when railroad president indorsed S50.U00 note for Hoke. and that Hoke himself subse- quently appeared in court as a rail road attorney and that he was be- lieved at the time to have pocketcd a S5.OOO fee for his services. Howell and Hoke Smith are political rivals just now: each of them wants to sue ceed Joe Terrell in the Georgia gov ernorship.-Bridgepo Standard.
 It will. we suppose. hurt the feel ings of Chauncey M. Depew to be ticketed and proclaimed a thief. and yet that is exactly what has happened to him. His real estate transactions with the Equitable company. of which he has long been director. is de nounced by all newspapers which say anything about it as plain stealing. His cynical statement when under ex- animation that his verbal guarantee of the investment was not legally binding shows that he stole with his eyes very wide open. He may have to make that promise good or go to iail.-Hartford Times.
 According to recent decision of the Massachusetts supreme court. if does not make any difference whether a per son was aware that his health was bad or not when he took out his policy the fact that he was in bad health re leases the company from the necessity Of paying the policy. Life insurance promises to get a black eye between the Equitable exposures and decisions of that sort. There is no particular in centive 10 pay money for insurance fl the policy can be made void by some thing of which the insured had nc knowledge. and after he has been pro nounced healthy by the physician wh' is paid a liberal fee to ascertain tn, ! facts.-New London Telegram.
 There are different interpretations
 to the word friendship. but the most
 unique demonstration of this delec
 table quality was afforded in Pitts burg recently. when a young marie, | couple were leaving the parsonage ! The bride and groom were literally | kidnapped and despite their protest. which assumed tangible expression il ! the form Of hand t0 hand combat | the couple were pushed into a menag | erie cage and trundled about tn,
 streets before they were allowed [, ! proceed to the station. That is kind | of friendship that would breed red ho' | enemies with some people. Ii was q | proceeding so idiOtic in character tha | one hates to think there are many Ul i that brand of people loose in th'