Connecticut western news., 1909-02-11

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 One year, $2.00; six months. $1.OO. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1909 Feed the birds.
 0. Q. D. fire hose, 0. Q. D. fire hose. Base ball season two months distant. The "penny horrible" Is about to have its day once more.
 It is evident that the Connecticut leg islature will make no short session re- cord this year.
 Outlook is encouraging for prosper ous base ball season in the Housatonlc Valley League.
 The Teddy bear has been relegated to the rear and the Billy possum" IS now having it's day.
 There is nothing the matter with that proposition to make Lincoln's birthday a legal birthday.
 Basket ball is still popular game ln Ltchfield county although not quite as popular as it was last year.
 l:A4lo liIolihnOd that the postal savings bank bill will become law at this session of Congress.
 President Roosevelt declined 10000 bequest the other day. Peculiar man ln some respects, that aforesaid P. k.
 -~-- -An Oklahoma woman is credited with Knowing three hundred and one ways to cook corn. How she must have racked her brain for the odd one.
 Brandegee is not increasing bis popu- larity with the people of Connecticut by his disposition to wreak vengeance upon those who opposed his election.
 1t would please average persons more if science would deal with the imita- tions of the domestic coal pile rather than the endurance of the worlds coal supply
 The per capita circulation of this country is now thirty-five dollars and some cents. If you have more than that in your possession you ought to feel guilty.
 In this furnace, plumbing, sewer as sessment, sewer smashing mellee, don't allow yourselves to overlook the fact that the protection from fire in Canaan is decidedly inadequate.
 '.Why do assertions from the army increase so heavily?' asks contempo- rary. Our guess is that it's because army life does not measure-up to ex- pectations based on those .picnicky pictures posted by the recruiting stations. The state legislature is awakening to the necessity of better schools in Con- necticut, The report of the commission appointed to investigate the school sys- tenn of the state shows that number ot things should be done and done immed- lately.
 While some people who are opposed to the sewer, endeavor to smash the sewer assessments, someone else, who IS also evidently opposed to the sewer, takes his bladgeon in hand and goes out and literally smashes the sewer. All this in Canaan.
 We don't know how much influence Frank Curtiss. of Sheffield, yields ill the Massachusetts legislature but he has cer- tainly ''got 'em so they'll listen' when he wants to talk trolley extentions or in troduce a bill touching on and appertain- ing thereto.
 The Original stories by Abraham Lincoln, never before told'' are becoming so numerous nowadays in the ''leading publications" that the reader is led to suspect that there is a dark com plexioned individual concealed in the fuel heap.
 If the Nevada Legislature wants to do something really commendable, let it enact law that will prevent the issue and sale of so-called mining shares hay ing behind them nothing more than a hole in the barren rock, or section of barren rock without even a hole ill it.
 4 bill has been introduced in the leg islature providing for a pension for school teachers who have been in the harness for thirty years. Now will someone kindly present a bill pension. ing shoemakers, and teamsters and barbers and clerks and farmers and priuters-and editors.