Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-07
HEARD IN pAssn!G.

Some millionaire packers in Chica- go are organizing another newspa- per corporation. Incidentally, 1t IS to be remarked that though the Laird of Skibo insists that heNwants to die poor he never takes the road the Chi cago millionaires are taking. cinnati Commercial Tribune.
 Mayor Kempel of Akron. O., who is instituting vigorous crusade against .'mashers" who fiirt with girls on the streets of that city, says that the girls themselves are largely to blame. and has issued statement asking the mothers of daughters who go down at night in search of ad- venture to assist him by spanking their needless offspring. It is said that many promised to comply with his request.
 All accounts agree that the presi- ident is very uneasy about the New York election and is straining at the leash of his pledge of non-interfer- ence like a tethered war-horse who snuffs the battle. Should Hearst pc elected. Mir Roosevelt may be brought to think his proclamation for Thanks giving to have been premature and to wish that he had issued instead call for fasting, humiliation and prayer. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
 A Georgia man wrote the follow ing on an oak slab which marks supposed grave in a meadow: "This spot is sacred to the memory ot faithful animal. a white mule. born ten years before the civil war and went through that war on rush from Bull Run to Lees surrender. We ain't certain that the mule died here. but when last seen the faithful critter was grazing on this identical spot and trying to kick lightning flash back to the clouds. .'-Aalanta Constitution.
 The report now comes from the far west that Mir Bryan, in speech, de- clared> that Secretary Taft has been selected as the successor of President Roosevelt. and will be the candidate on the republican ticket in 1908. How Mir Bryan knows is not stated. Possibly he has some inside informa- tion, but it is certain that President Roosevelt has not made him con fdant, and it is not likely that any of the presidents advisers have gone close to the ear of the silver-tongued orator and whispered this little mat ter.-New Haven Register.
 1 In answer to the statement that ' ex-Senator Burton is enjoying un- usual liberties as prisoner in the | jail at lronton. Mo, under sentence of the federal courts. it is explained from Washington that the lronton | jail is used largely by the federal | courts in that section of incarcera- ton of prisoners of refinement and receiving short term sentences. al- though just why the degree of re- flnement of lawbreaker should have any bearing in the question of treat ment accorded him is not apparent.
 A special retreat for the gentle men criminals doesn't accord we'll
 with the spirit of justice that is nov abroad in the land-Hayerhill Ga zette.
 Harsford's hospitality was mani tested at its best during the recent visit of the white ribbon army rep resenting the W. C. T. L.. and the visitors, among whom were many from foreign lands will spread pleas ant tales of our beautiful city in their home fields. They were, in-
 deed. brilliant lot of women. opti- mistic. cheerful, sincere and above lall determined. They seek only to
 uplift the human family by remov-
 ing temptation from the path of the
 weak: they stand for ideal woman
 hood. pure manhood and a childhood
 free from the impurities that stunt
 its growth physically and morally
 That's g noble mission. one that
 should have the endorsement alike ol
 saint and sinner.-Hartford Globe.