Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-10
HEARD IN PASSING.

Rockefeller did not miss a stroke and laughed without taking troches when told about the $29,240,000 smash made by Judge Landis. There are things to admire even in game old plutocrat.-Detroit Free Press.
 That thirty million fine imposed on the Standard oil Go will almost certainly cause the unanimous nom- ination of Theodore Roosevelt for president. The president will not accept the nomination.-Brooklyn Standard Union.
 It doesn't take much of a crop of fruits or vegetables this year to net the grower large returns. This Is certainly the season when the grow CT fattens his bank account at the expense of the consumer, but then the latter appears to be able to pay the price.--New York Packer. A Japanese newspaper declares that Japan borrowed money during the war not because she needed funds, but merely to be kind to the other nations. That sounds reason able, for 8 good many borrowers in this country regard the banks as ob- jects of charity.-El Paso Herald.
 Now we hear that the prices of meats are going up again. It is idle to inquire why. Just as few people are interested as can be. The gen eral public are not only willing but desirous of allowing the beef barons to keep their beef, at these prices, as long as possible.-New Haven Palladium
 Cortelyou is good deal of a per sonality, and, although he did not begin life as rail splitter or a canal boatman, and was never sol dier, yet a good deal may be made of the fact that he began life as a stenographer, and worked his way to cabinet rank all the way up the civil service ladder.-Chicago Rec ord-Herald-
 A few years ago Taunton manu- facturer prophesied that no more mills could be financed here or else where in New England, as the busi- ness was so overdone as to be dead. It is interesting to note that last week the Union Mill of Fall River paid out $96,000 in dividend, the Sagamore s90,000 and the Cornell | $20. 0.000.-Taunton Gazette.
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford road is doing something in the way of tunnel through the east side hills of Providence. The tunnel proper will be nearly a mile long, and the approaches and river work about as much more. Thirty per cent of it is accomplished and the completion of it is promised some time next year.-Boston Tran script.
 It can confidently be said that no practicable scheme which the lower house advances for the welfare of the islands will be rejected by the American administration, so far as fulfilment lies within its power. If congress would recognize the needs of the Philippines by establishing free trade between the islands and the United States more would be ac- complished than by any one other step.-San Francisco Call. ..
 For forty years the south has fur nished the democratic party its votes; for forty years no sort of na- tional recognition or promise of it has been the reward. Is it not just as we'll to not vote at all? Can we have any less? We can have more. We can have all in little while, probably in 1908, If we will assert our claims to it and back up the as- sertion with solid delegation for the Union, the constitution and the laws and a southern democrat for the presidency.-Nashville Ameri- can,