Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-06
HEARD IN PASSING.

Bridgeport is to-day having it's first experience with the voting ma chimes, and from the start in some of the districts they were working like clockwork. The result will show if the city has made a good investment Bridgeport Post.
 Local option has chance, it is said, in the Pennsylvania legislature this year, as there will be about 130 members favorable to that system at the next session. They want the town and not the county option, it is understood.-Bridgeport Standard.
 The law regulating automobile driving must make special provision for the punishment of the men who go motoring in a hilarious or doped condition and are responsible for q great many of the road accidents in all parts of the country. A drunk running a trolley car is not worss than one or half dozen drunks run ming an automobile for fun.-Nor- wich Bulletin.
 Hartford again regrets to report another fatal auto accident. The ''joy rides" are fast becoming men, ace to the public which it is a diff cult estimate. The autoists who have killed the Hartford man have been apprehendeds It appears they were intoxicated and were really as ire sponsible as raving maniacs. In fact the latter would have been much safer proposition.-Meriden Record.
 There are signs that as soon as things settle down to their normal basis, the movement for better roads which has been interrupted by politi cal excitement will begin to claim public attention. It is probable that the American people are now spepd- ing more upon country roads and city pavements than any other nation in the world. In spite of this, the bad ness of American highways remains unrivaled among civilized road build ers.-Bridgeport Telegram.
 Sidney Kidman, the Australian cattle king, is now in London on his first visit He probably owns more of the British empire than any one other man. At 14 he was earning $2.50 week, and now he has 49,- 216 square miles of land standing in his name. Kidman began life as a teamster, and gradually worked his way up until he was the largest horse dealer and cattle owner in Australia, He owns 100000 cattle and 10000 horses. es.-Middletown Press.
 What women can do when they set about aiding in public work is illus trated by the raising of S5,000 at Pine Bluff, Ark, for the completion of the Davis hospital. The women swarmed the streets and public build ings and stopped every passing man long enough to obtain some contr- button to the hospital fund. Those who contributed were provided with small tags so that they would not be again solicited Similar plans have been tried in other cities with uni formly good results. and at least one city, St Louis, has an annual tag day -Women's National Daily.
 The law recognizes the right of a person to be as stingy as he plesses in the terms of his will. provided that there exist no other disabilities to complicate the definition. ''The most unnatural will of the meanest man in the world may be estab- lished," declared a New York surro- gate, as he dismissed the protest against a testament wherein widow and children were cut out of a rich estate with s5 legacy all around The surrogate further expressed the opinion that the testator was ''proba- bly as mean and ignoble man as ever figured in probate annals; but the protesting relatives could have found little compensation for their grievance in the sympathetic com. ment-Providence Journal.