Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-23
HEARD IN PASSING.

As illustrative of the joys of farm ing in Arostook county, Maine, it is related that farmer who moved there last year and took a $6,O0O farm, paying $2,000 down and giv- ing a mortgage for S4,000, from the profits of this years potato crop has been able to pay off his mortgage in full.-Meriden Journal.
 If such a thing were possible, one might wish that such copy of the presidents annual message to con- gress as was distributed in pamphlet form to congressman, could find its way into the hands of every citizen in the United States. The illustra- tions with which the edition is en- bellished are even more forceful con- corning the need of reforestry than the president language itself They tell more at glance than is possi- ble to tell in words.-Ansonia Senti- nel
 There is no particular reason why there should be monument to John Brown in evidence; but perhaps there is no particular reason why there should not be. He was one of the most picturesque figures of the ante-bellum period of American his tory, and whatever may be thought of his political judgment. there can be no doubt that he was a sincere believer in his cause and in the value of the unlawful and desperate meth cd he employed to further it.-Prov- | idence Journal.
 The house and senate at Washing | ton having shown proper resent I ment at the impotations on theii honor made in the message of Presi- dent Roosevelt, will have the mes sage the president, the insinuations and themselves all investigated, and there the thing will end The whole matter goes over until after the | holidays, and it is too near Christ mas now for anything but peace on earth and good will to even the bad man" in the white house. Bridge port Standard.
 There was little happening in Washington Saturday that was not without it's importance to Connecti- cut. incidentally to Bridgeport. The navy department on that day signed contracts for six new submarine boats and by the terms of those con-
 tracts the government is saved $850,- 000 There is every reason to be- lieve, in view of the disclosures dur
 ing the submarine investigation, that
 this saving is due to the efforts of Congressman George l.. Lilley, now | goyernor-el elect t-BridgepOrt Post
 As long as the present snow sur
 face continues, the problem of auto
 mobile overspeeding will be practi-
 cally nil. It is notable, however,
 that even heavy and mushy snow
 offers little resistance to the high
 powered machines of the present day.
 Equipped with some form of anti
 skidding apparatus. a motor car can
 negotiate this sort of travelling better
 than can any other sort of vehicle
 It is a mercy to the horses, to whom
 this snow travelling presents their
 worst hardships, that the motor car
 is practically immune to them.-
 New Haven Register
 Prevention is the watchword with
 the health authorities. The effort nowadays is to prevent the disease instead of merely wrestling with it when it arrives. Acting on this the ory, the California state board oi
 health has in preparation a car tC . illustrate methods of preventing dis ease. The Southern Pacific railroad has agreed to furnish this car ant , both the Southern Pacific and tho
 Santa Fe have agreed to transport II = free over their lines in California The idea is to install an exhibi 8 showing how fever, tuberculosis ant Y other common diseases can be pre- vented. This sort of missionar,
 work is the kind that will savt q bodies and ill that way souls may b. f saved. Meriden Record.
 y The investigation that New Yorl Q health officials are making into thu :, city's oyster supply is not only f0 u the benefit of that community but fO - all of us The formal announcement 2 that certain localities are giving Il n perfectly safe food will strengthen
 that supply in the market immensely :" Many consumers of raw oysters now il adays insist on asking where the If come from and the answers the aver f age waiter gives are curiOsities |
 one case recently a waiter in a weI known club declared that the oys Il ters there were perfectly safe as the 6 were all brought clear down fror h Maine. Inasmuch as there are n
 oysters in Maine waters the recon y mendatiOn was more interesting tha 2 reassuring. .-HartfOrd COurant.
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