Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-14
HEARD IN PASSING.

The most valuable crop in the Philippines is hemp and the material the archipelago furnishes for senate oratory.-Alanta Georgian.
 Of course, number of ill-inform- ed Japanese jingoes will insist that California ought to be as easy to handle as Corea.-Washington Star.
 That fine of $2s,240, ,0O0 was a body blow to Standard Oil because it was the first big victory in the cam paign of Men vs Money.--Louisville Herald.
 Falling prices for cereals show that the fear of ruinouslv bad har- vests is passing away, and thus the most important solid reason for fear ing serious business reaction is re- moved.-Cleveland Leader.
 As a consequence of the agree ment to the doctrine of adjudication in place of war, it is probable that we shall see at The Hague ere long tribunal known as the ''the Su- preme Court of the World. Toronto Mail and Express.
 The chief objection to making Champ Clark leader of the minority in the lower house of congress is the smallness and dinkiness of the min- ority. Champ is built for bigger things. and if Pike county had the say-so. he would have them as big as they make 'em.-Kansas City Journ- al.
 Beef packers are paying $7.30 hundred in the stock yards at South Omaha, the highest price in the mar ket since 1902. The packers say the price of fresh meats will be increased in proportion to the prices of live stock. It is such news as this that leads to a more serious consideration of the arguments of the scientists who say we should eat meat sparing- ly or not at all.-Albany Argus.
 The Filipinos are reading and tell ing each other to-day. in the multi tudinous languages and dialects which are the despair of the Imper- ialist, all about what the Hon Nich- olas Longworth had to say at Hono- lulu yesterday. His expression, from so near the throne. of wish that the Philippines may mot long be with us" must have startled even the most sullen of our new-caught peoples New York Evening Post.
 The order of the Union Pacific railway for 100 gasoline motor cars for use on its branch lines is proof that the tests of the experimental motor recently announced have been highly successful. If motor cars of this kind are successful on long runs they ought to be equally successful for shorter service, and it would not be surprising if some street railway companies were to experiment with motors.-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
 If the report from Saratoga Is true that local business men and hotel proprietors have decided to champion the cause of the gambling house owners in the belief that summer tourists will not visit the town un- less ''the lid is off," every honest but misguided man whose baggage bears the labels of Saratoga hotels will have to get busy scraping of the discriminating "pasters" in order to save his reputation.-New York l Tribune.
 To crown the absurdity of the sit uation M. Kossuth has declared that he cannot understand the irritation of the Greats. Which is the most | modern instance of the wise saw that 1t makes all the difference whose OK is gored. For evidence the grievance of the Croats against Hungary is pre- cisely the same as the grievance of the Hungarians against Austria. of which latter grievance M. Kossuth i has made himself one of the most persistent spokesmen.-New York Times. . s. -' 5