Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-07
HEARD IN PASSING

There is another revolution in Ven ezuela. Only the war editor can tell
 where one begins and the other leaves off.
 It is sad to think that Senator Quay, no matter how old he might have grown, could not have lived to hear the beautiful things that have been
 said about him since his death.
 A boy has been arrested in Wash
 ington for stealing books from q de-
 Rartment store. Copies, of .,. Shakes peare. Byron and Burns have been found on him and he says it was fife
 only way he could get books to read. Compulsory education in the Dis
 trict of Columbia became Il law by the
 action of congress this week. This is
 designed not so much for the education
 of children, though that is of course.
 q consideration, but as the first step
 toward aboishing child labor.
 Kansas has voted down the wOman's
 suffrage law. Politics in Colorado
 didn't seem to have undergone the
 purticaton that the injection of the
 feminine vote promised. and Kansas being q near neighbor. decided to defer the enfranchisement of women for
 awhile. = Before passing Senator Mctiovern's
 bill providing life pension on full pay
 for any person who has been employed
 at manual labor in or about the Capi- tol, if should be amended so as to in | cludc every person who has worked at
 manual labor for the same length of time in any part of Connecticut. If
 we arc going into the pension business let us start fair and not establish if for | the exclusive benefit of people for tLnatc enough to live in Hartford Bridgeport Farmer.
 The New York Tribune calls Theu-
 1ore Roosevelt the twenty-iifth presi- dent of the United States. and tht
 New York Sun halls him as tlIe twen- i ty-sixth. Tlra confusion comes from
 counting 'iroyer Clcveland's name once or twice. Theodore Roosevelt is
 the twenty-iifth president. counting
 the different individuals who have oc-
 cupicd the office. Up to date. since
 1Ts9. when President Washington was i inaugurated for tine first time. there | have been twenty y-nine presidential 1 terms of four years each. and the thir-
 tieth term has just begun.-Meriderl 1 Journal.
 l Robust justice sometimes does a ! world of good. The alderman at 1 Wilkesbarre. Pa. who made himself 1 famous by descending from the bench ] and cleaning up the court room with 1 prisoners brought before him charged | with wife-bcatiny. added another jewel i to his crown when he climbed down | and walioped the man who answered ! q summons and. finding the witnesses 1 not on hand. said he would call again. 1 IL took considerable persuasion. but when it was all over and the defend { ant was prostrate oil the floor with the
 judge on top. there was no question as ! to who had the power to dispense jus
 tIce.-Bridgeport Post.
 ] TakingS-off are So managed in Rus ' sia that the very chief of the third sec ' ton has again and again proved unable | to protect himself. Colonel Sudeikin. | who held office in the late cZar's time. | transacted q good deal of his business { or an upper floor. in an out of the way
 street. under a name as common as the
 English smith" and always with the door locked. \ visitor had to knock < in d certain manner. and give pass | word that was changed every day.
 Yet one day some one knocked. gave ! the password. got inside. and opened | fire The colonel was badly hurt. but ' he killed his man and reachesl the land ! ing-Only to be finished of with an iron lar there by somebody else No where does the unexpected happen
 often than in St Petersburg.-PaIl Mall Gazette.