Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-13
HEARD IN PASSING.


 the Sunshine clubs are working over time, the reports are very encourag- ing on paper, but in the southern states the cotton mill outlook is re- ported worse than at any time since depression began" Why not organ ize a branch Sunshine club in the sunny south, or is it too surely demo- cratic?
 The Aldrich monetary commission consisting of nine senators and nine representatives in congress- has been having a good time at Narragansett Pier and have now arranged to visit Europe, all at government expense. No limit is set to the amount they can expend, neither can any auditor of the government dispute the bills they send in. If that is not a cinch, which could be turned into fine field for grating, what is it?
 Winsted's anti-Lilley club seems to be an illustration of how the inde- pendent republicans are inclined to. speak for themselves when occasion demands. Considering the fact that MT Lilley owns considerable proper. ty in Winsted and has done not lit- tie for that town, the outcropping of political feeling against him in that place is significant; at least, it may be so regarded until it is better ex- plained than it has been.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Le Matin of Paris has been found guilty of libel. The assize court has sentenced it heavily. It will be com pelled to pay a fine of s100, damages amounting to s10, ,000, and to publish in two hundred issues the decision of the court. Perhaps Le Matin will find the latter penalty the most humili- ating. Certainly such a penalty is one worth serious consideration. For a paper to be compelled to publicly it's mistake in such manner should tend to make 1t think twice before it prints anything libel ous.
 William F. Walker is in the Con- necticut state prison, serving the sem tence which the law has imposed for his crime of falsity to trust. He has, so far as the public knows,spreserved a dignified silence ever since his re- turn to Connecticut. Such being the | case, is 1t any more than just and decent that the public cease to spread | and to believe fiimsily founded ru- mors that he has sought to buy im- l munity that the effect of his crimes by promising to tell where some of | the securities which he took away may be found?-New Haven Regis | ter.
 The gains of the candidacy of Gov ernor Woodruff for renomination, the strength of the Lake candidacy and | the growing opposition to the Lilley | candidacy, have moved the state ma chine, as We are credibly informed to | it's slating of Liiley for 1 governor two years ago in star cham l Der conferences, and to decide that. if | later the situation so demands. it will | Lilley for congressman- at-large, and placate Judge Walsh of l Greenwich by naming him for govern or. l. is a skillfully devised scheme l Of the machine to, as the Chinese say, save it's faCe''-that is. though prae- | ticaily repudiated by the party. to | dictate the nominations l and thus continue in power Neither | Lilley nor Walsh can object. for both are mere creations by and tools of the 1 machine--Bridgeport Farmer.
 That death was due to heart fail ure' does not go legally in the state l Of Connecticut. It may do so in some I other states. but not here. In event I of a physicians certificate giving
 heart failure" as the cause of death, | the certificate cannot be deemed suf- | hcient upon which to issue a permit | for intermeut or removal. and the l law provides that such certificate shall 5e returned to the physician it for proper correction and ! definition Inasmuch as death ss in variably attended by failure of the heart, this. as the cause. fs considered | too shallow Nor is this all. If a person dies of actual disease of the heart. the certificate has to make def 1ite the kind and character Of the disorder. Hear failure or heart disease" will not do. and the esrtif- ate has to be careful to point out I 7ericsrditi1 endOczrIftis. vsIvular I disease. hfpsrtr0phy. h angina pectorfs. I 1r whatsfer particular kind of sf- I lection yas at fault.