Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-28
HEARD IN PASSING

James Hazen Hyde, providing. of
 course, that his plans are not disar-
 ranged by jail sentence, is reported to have decided to quit this blasted
 country for good and take up his abode
 in France. Take French leave of us.
 in short-Fall River Globe
 |. If MT Roosevelt asks his extra ses sion for Panama canal legislation
 discussion of the tariff question will be inevitable. Whether. necessary sup plies are to be bought at higher prices in the United States than they can be procured for elsewhere is a question
 upon the solution of which the expen- diture of millions in the cost of the
 canal, must depend. Once that Ques- tion is raised weeks of debate must follow-Winsted Citizen.
 What is called in Canada the Twelve Children act of the late Mercief govern | ment, whereby a farm of government land was given to every father of a
 family of that number, has developed
 the interesting fact that the French Canadians are far more prolific than
 any of the other races of the Dominion, though even with them the number
 who are qualified to take claim under the law is small. Only about six per
 cent of those benefiting by the act are of English, Scotch or Irish descent.-
 Meriden Journal.
 Henry H. Rogers of the Standard
 Oil company is a Yankee. born in Fair
 Haven, Mass. but he has little or none
 of the Yankee proverbial stinginess.
 Indeed. he holds that it is liberality-a
 willingness to spend lots of money in
 order to get more back-which is the
 secret of success in business. provided
 the expenditures be made with indus try and intelligence. He once said that
 penuriousness was fatal to the speedy
 acquisition of wealth and he pointed
 to the case of a miser. "a friend of his
 boyhood, who, with all his scrimpings
 and scrapings, had hardly saved S1O.- 900 in the course of his long life-Nor- wich Record.
 Col. W. D. Mann, principal owner of Town Topics and Mrs Mann, were among the passengers on the liner Zea- land. which arrived at New, York last night from Europe. Col Mann was asked concerning the district attorneys Investigation being conducted in con nection with the publication known as Pads and Fancies." He said with some heat: If any of Town Topics men have been guilty of blackmail. hope they will all go to jail and I'll help to put them there Other lovers I of decency should also lend a helping hand to the authorities in their efforts to blot out this obnoxious trade.-New Britain Herald.
 The Russian transport Anadyr, which escaped the general destruction of the Russian fleet in the battle of the Sea of Japan. has arrived at Algiers on it's way back to I4ibau. It is the mournful relic of the several fleets which made their way at different times from the Baltic to far eastern waters and there united to receive the annihilating defeat at the hands of the 1 Japanese. It is said that on board the | Anadyr are some of the, survivors of 1 the Russian battleship Orei, which was captured by the Japanese after a .des- l perate fight, during which. according | to one story. three hundred men were l killed and wounded and those mortal | ly wounded were thrown overboard.' Bridgeport Standard.
 Secretary Bonaparte can be trusted to keep his promise that there shall be no scapegoats and no whitewash in the investigat ton of the Bennington disaster. He has proved himself to be a fearless investigator in other depart ment of the government service, and he believes in going to the bottom of things. It is safe to predict that sey- eral of our naval vessels will soon be supplied with new boilers as a result of the Bennington explosion. The navy must in some way be4fsovided with more engineers. Whether they have and rank or 1otis minor question. It ought to be no more diff cult to find competent engineers for the navy than it is to find them for the big passenger steamships which traverse all the seas.-Hartford Times.