Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-14
HEARD IN PASSING

It is semi-officially stated that rak- che-son, Korean foreign minister, will shortly change his name to Pak-dam- f son by authority of the imperial Jap- anese government.-St Louis Republic.
 In his search for rare works of ait and bric-a-brac, J. Pierpont Morgan seems to have secured. a fine specimen of railroad gold brick from Colonel Zimmerman of Cincinnati.-Washing- ton Post.
 Whether the item that is going the rounds about the Washington clerk who started with 75 cents and ended with S150,000 comes under the purview of the lottery laws or the postal regu- lations, we do not know. But we chance the risk of being called Co ac- count for repeating it for the sake of saying that, as usually printed, the paragraph Omits to note. that every cent of the $150,OO0 which this gam bling clerk has made was lost by other gamblers-an important fact which is generally overlooked by those who are envious of his good fortune. Gam bling has two sides-the side of the winner and the side of the loser. The ! tempted ought to remember that.-New Bedford Standard. ..--.s~ -..... i To-day, for the first time since it's great slump from 130 to 30, which NIT Lawson is so fond of telling us about, 1 Amalgamated Copper shares sold al par. The people who bought the ! stock on the original representations | that were made for it, and have held on. have not, therefore, lost money on ! their investment. It is only those who carried the stock on margins, expect. i ing it to 90 much above 130, who were ''cleaned out when the big drop oc. | cured. On the whole it seems about ! time to stop denouncing the formation of the Amalgamated company as a swindle. The men in control of the property have come pretty near to ] making good. Times.
 | Secretary Taft does not exaggerate the great difficulty of the problem pre- sented by the supply of 30,OO0 labOrers on the Panama canal. It is not possi ] ble to overlook the necessary relation which this labor should bear both tC
 American traditions and the regions
 around the Panama canal. Chinese
 cOolie labor under contract is neces
 sariIy slave labor. It breeds trouble
 wherever it goes. It is leading tC scandals in the Transvaal and ha: ! been followed by a reduction in tht
 amount of white labor employed. a:
 well as in the general level of wages If it is employed on the canal it vii bring stupendous scandals. No vigil ance no legislation and no intentions | however praisewOrthy, can proven them.-Philadelphia Press.
 This season ends my football ca reer. The Yale game was my last con test. I have been in the game tel
 years. playing tackle most of the time | believe the human body was neve
 meant to withstand the enormOu
 strain of football demands. Moreover | don't believe the game Is right.
 dislike it on moral grounds. It is
 mere gladiatOrial combat It is bruts
 throughout When you are opposed [
 strong man. you have got to get th
 better of him by violence. Many as
 me what the sensations are of grea
 multitude wildly sppIauding for hal l an hour. I can honestly say 1 hay none. I stand and take my medicin'
 impatient to get back to the locke 3 building and get off the dirt. .-Csptai [ Bril-. Harvard's Tackle.