Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-09
HEARD IN PASSING.

Two post office robbers who travel i in an automobile, are cracking safes in towns across the line in Dutchess
 county, New York. Whether Winsted
 and other Litchfield towns are in their
 itinerary they have not announced to
 the public or police.-Winsted Citi- zen.
 A man who wants to be agreeable
 must not undertake to be reformer. People want to be flattered, not re- minded of their shortcomings. The
 wise reformer should praise his
 countrymen for the virtues they dc
 not possess, and finally they will re-
 solve that the praise should be merit
 ed.-Punxutawney, Pa, Spirit.
 Waterbury is going to have an old fashioned observance of Memorial day. Several speakers among the
 local clergy have been secured, many of the societies in the city have been
 invited and hundreds of school chil- dren from the public and parochial schools, armed with small flags, will participate in the parade. The speak ing will occur at the park instead of at the monument.-Meriden Record.
 Issuance of pamphlet relative to the inheritance. tax by State Tax Commissioner Corbin recalls atten- tion to this particular extortion. It is doubtful if more unjust, unequal tax was ever devised. It is double taxation. for unless assessors and col lectors have neglected their duties. the property has already paid the same tax rates levied upon other property. The only fair excuse for the levying of this tax would be the poverty of the state and the ease of extortion.-Brldgeport Farmer.
 The heavy debt of New York city during late years has been a subject of comment all over the country and the news has apparently reached the ears of Comptroller Metz. He says at a fair appraisal the real estate of the metropolis is worth a billion dollars. sum sufficiently large to pay off the national debt as we'll as its own. This appraisal, says MT Metz, Is between three and four times larger than the debt of the city. The figures given are supposed to have a beneficial ef- feet on the sale of securities in fu- ture.-New Britain Herald.
 A Mrs Christopher. for several years a missionary in the part of Africa under Belgian rule, has been featuring in London on her experi- ences in that country and bears wit ness to the reality of barbarities com mitted by the officials of the country. She has told of one Belgian officer who went out on a punitive expedi- tion. certain natives having failed to hand in sufficient rubber. He return cd with the heads of 2l of them, which he had ordered his men to cut of. These he used as a border for a flower bed in his garden. ''-Bridge- port Standard.
 Some of the states young lawyers who find difficulty in getting a foot hold in the larger cities. may be in terested to know that the death of Judge Huntington leaves WOOdbury without a lawyer. Now don't push don't crowd." Still, 1t would seem ast though there were a good opening there for a good lawyer-and nOneI other need apply if he has any idea Of ever taking Judge Huntington s place. Upon him the whole town re- lied for almost every aid that requiT- ed a judicial mind. He drew theI wills, signed pension papers and made out legal papers of various de- scriPtions. continuing active in his profession until the last two months of his Iife.-AnsOuia Sentinel.