Connecticut western news., 1910-09-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The fire losses of the United States and Canada still reach enormous totals For the month of July the loss was $26, ,847, 300, which is an increase of Fl per cent, over 1908 and AS per, over 1907.
 If Edison keeps on inventing there'l soon be no need for actors or actresses. The wizard has succeeded in making the moving pictures talk, but needs a year more in which to put on the finishing touches.
 Horace Johnson predicts frost for Sept 2. He disagreed with Prof. Willis L. Moore regarding the cool wave the latter part of last week, but the wave got here on time. Perhaps Horace's frost will keep up to the schedule.
 A New York wo man cut off her hus- bands ears becau ss he talked too much and has been arrested and held under $4 800 bonds. If some of the good ladies of this part of the state were to follow that wemans s example, what crowd of crop-eared men there would be circulat- ing around.
 During 1909 there were 10000 murders in this country and 17,000 suicides. There are 150, ,000 insane in the asylums. What an appalling record. It is claimed that most of the murders were the result of some sort of insanity, which goes to show the widespread this dreadful aff1iction has attained.
 The old linen duster so much in vogue during the centennial but which later disappeared from popularity has been revived and appears in a rejuvenated form, with natty style and less like meal sack. The automobile has resur- rected it as part of the autoist's needed apparel. ...
 Fifty-one forest rangers are known to have lost their life in the great Idaho forest fires, and many more are missing. Over 100 square miles in Washington are burned over and wide ranges else- where. Millions of dollars worth of property has been destroyed.
 Now we are threatened with another Haley comet, due this fall, the one that has so recently disappeared being pro- nounced an impostor. Too bad, too bad, with all the political torture humanity has to pass through this fall, it does seem as though we might be spared this second Halley gas bag affiiction.
 Albert B. Cummings, senator from Iowa declares his intention of introduc- ing in the Senate bill providing for the enactment of national primary law to guard against the present possibility of president and vice-president being nominated by the vote of delegates from states which cast no electoral vote for the party tickets.
 "Unifgroeendrlainalerfronajunguirig- ujak!"
 < No, the above is not "pi" line. It is merely the sequipedalian word used by the Greenland lover in remarking to his girl, "I love you" Do you wonder that Greenland is cold country when even it's warmest expression of passion resembles frozen ioycle?
 The Minneapolis Tribune in discuss ing New York state politics thus re- marks: "No compromise is possible when you are working with men who cannot be trusted for five minutes around the corner with lead nickel screwed to an oak plank. We doubt if anything can be done to reform the election laws of New York until this whole crowd has been cleaned out, either by Republican reformers or by the Democrats"
 The New Haven Journal Courier declares that the conundrum of to-day "What is Republican ?" is naturally receiving considerable attention in view of the clamorous and belligerent insurg- ency wing of the party, the deposition of Cannon from his pedestal, the awak- ening of the machine leaders to the fact that something unusual is up, especially in the West, and of the fast coming proximity of various important state elections.
 A land-grabbing scheme to defraud the government out of it's million dollar Indian school and 5000 acres of land that goes with it at Chilocoo, Okl., under pretenoe that the buildings are dilapidated and the land run down, has been unearthed. The land grabbers have had agents at work at Washington and elsewhere trying to buy the land and buildings for 8 mere song. Investi gation has proved the buildings to be ir good shape and the land the most pro ductivs in all that region.
 West Point cadets through the U. S government are supplied with the best