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Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
What the Other Fellows Say

Judge having observed that the doc tors ought to let well enough alone, it may be proper to ask when body may properly be regarded as "well enough. " -Pittsfield Eagle.
 When the history of Connecticut leg islatures is written, if the historian Is unbiased and is concerned only with truth, the name of Jeremiah Donovan will loom up large. It will hardly be oyershadowed by any other we can now bring to mind.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 A Pittsburg boy was arrested and given fine of .$10 and twenty days in jail because he yelled fire" in theater in that city recently. Coming right on the heels of the Canonsburg disaster, the punishment was indeed .light.-Bridge- port Post.
 Dress suits will not be worn at the Taft dinner in Minneapolis October 24. The dinner will cost but $1 a plate, and will be for the peepul, especially those who don't own dinner coats.-Pittsfield Journal.
 Connecticut papers give away thou. sands of dollars worth of advertising for philanthropic enterprises, and the usual thanks consist in criticism.-New Haven Union.
 Labor Day is the milestone in the years progress which marks the time when the hosts of tourists and excursion ists and "yacationists" begin to make tracks for home and the resumption of the daily grind, and when pupils reluc- tantly turn from seashore and hill, coun- try and valley and plain, to do new pen ances at the shrine of knowledge. New Haven JOrrnal and Courier
 Aviators continue to go to death in spectacular fashion, and, the killing of two French army officers on Saturday and another French aviator on Sunday, adds to the already long list of the yalu- able lives sacrificed uo ventures in avia- tion, some of which seem to have been needless. The burning of a man in his machine in mid air should not be possi- ble.-Bridgeport Standard.
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THE NEW DISTRICTS.

The senate, Tuesday, had busy day. Besides passing an amendment to the highway appropriation bill which de- prives the governor of the power to re- move Highway Commissioner MacDon- .ald from office, it voted the reporters gratuities $500 each to eleven reporters in the senate and three in the house, ,and redistricted the states congressional dis tricts. .......5 -
 The new congressional districts are as follows:
 District 1-Hartford county. F~
 District 2-New London, Windham, Holland and Middlesex counties.
 District 3-Towns of Cheshire, Meri- dens Wallingford, Bethany, Hamden, North Haven, North Branford. Guilford, Madison, Woodbridge, Orange, Milford, New Haven, East Haven, and Branford 1n New Haven county.
 District 4-Fairfeld county.
 District 5-htchfeld county with Southbury. Middlebury, Waterbury, Wolcott, Oxford, Naugatuck, Prospect, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby of New Haven county.
 The action of the senate concurs with that of the house, making five districts and abolishing the office of congressman at-large, according to what is known as the Stevens plan, which was reported by the minority of the committee. This plan retains the counties as districts, ex. eept that several towns in New Haven are placed in the Litchfield district, which is the new Fifth district The striking feature of the bill passed is that New Haven county will hereafter be the Third district, and not the Second, the eastern counties which are placed in one district being known as the Second Fairfield county reI ains the Fourtk district.
 One of the most persistent arguments advanced against the plan of revising the congressional districts has been that i would practically gerrymander Congress man Hill out of the National House by depriving him of the republican support of Litchfeld county. The NorwalE Hour, published in Congressman home town, takes no stock in that argument and proceeds to tell why. The Hou1 says:
 Some ot the wise men about the state are worrying about Congressman Hil aud his chances for re- election unde the plan which proposed to made Fair field county a congressional district. l has been pointed out that Governo Baldwin Carried the county and tha there are more democratic members O the General Assembly than republicans In fact, Baldwin's majority was onl! ten, while his colleagues on the tlcke
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
Girl MerrY-Go-Rounders
.e Editor of The News

To the Editor of The News:
 Two Vassar girls manipulative of a penny ride" perambulaTing merry -go- round mounted on @ wagon drawn by a fiery steed," have just struck town. and are doing @ "land office business. The girls are about twenty years ot age, petite, pretty and refined. and when ln- Jerviewed today fora brief resume of the circumstances lmpeIing them to engage i'll so unusual as well as unsuitable a business for ladies, one of the girls vouchsafed the following explanation {:
 You see Elm, (her partner,) and my self are students at Vassar College, and having studied hard all winter and our financial resources not being adequate to pay for our board and tuition and at the same time dress us as we'll as We like, and ill keeping with most of the other girls with wealthy parents, we. decided that we would indulge in little out-of- door recreation during the summer vaca- tion and at the same time combine busl- ness with pleasure. So one day while scanning the columns of Boston news paper, our eyes chanced to alighG upon an advertisement of small portable merry-go- round, together with a horse and wagon to transport the same. for sale or lease, ,and being lured by the rhe- | torIcal flourish of the 'ad' indicating upon i5s proverDial merits as a money getter we sought the advertiser and found that the merry -go-round could be U1tue1 bought, rented or secured on a contingent basis :; that Is, the equal di- vision of the net proceeds with the owner. We chose the latter, as 1t did not involve any financial risk on our part, and entering into d compact with the owner we forthwith started out, and so far have met with the most grat- flying results. Our net receipts nave averaged more than BIO per day, clear ing for ourselves in the sixty days that we have been on the road neally $400, and promptly remitting to the owner, each week, his share of the profits"
 When asked whether they had found the business congenial in view of their cultured and refined tastes, she unhesi- tatingly answered with the most charm Ing naivete
 "Yes but more particularly because 1t affords us grand opportunity to study human nature, and will also help us i'm mensely in our sociological studies at college next winter"
 Asked whether they are ever the ob- | ject of ridicule or other unseemly treat ment on the part of the public on ac- count of the somewhat unique character of their business, the reply was: Good ness, no; the dear public has ever ex- tended to us nothing but the most con slderate and courteous treatment" l The interviewer tried to get the girls to give their names and residence when ut nome but they declined for obvious reasons to give either. N. w. Bridgeport, Sept. II.
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What Do They Want2

And now comes along a Methodist preacher who offers the revolutionary doctrine of exporting childless women. But he specifics by saying that the country could safely dispense with "5,000 giddy, goddess, childless women and ship them out of this country aud bring in an equal number of good, old- fashioned mothers" This might be true, but how about the "giddy, goddess men" who create a demand for the "giddy, goddess, ohildless women" 1" Wouldn't an absolutely honest census show that there are about two such men for every woman. Taking the repubh- can doctrine of supply and demand it is ohly fair to assume that if there were no demand for "giddy, goddess" and even "chlldless" women, there would be none such. There IS good deal of truth in the argument that this is a man made world and if the good Methodist dominic would only open his eyes to the fact he would discover that the foolish and the "glddy" woman is a creature brought forth because of minimizing men. But what, after all, do the men want? Some who profess to be leaders in the various walks Of life balk ut the woman of in- tellect, or the woman who wants to get out of an ages-old chrysalis and become a real buman being, aud at the same want to extirpate or annihilate the women who follow the fashion men of their temperament long ago cut out for them. What do they really want2-- Hartford Post.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
COGGSWELLS IN CANAAN.
Return Visit ot Well Remembered
 Family of Canaanites.

Monday was "Coggswell day" in Ca naan. From the time the Coggswells alighted from the morning express south, until they boarded the evening express north, the native Canaanites of the last 1 generation, whose memories could reach back forty years or more, visited with them and kept them busy shaking hands and recalling incidents and persons we'll nigh forgotten.
 The visitors were the surviving child ren of the late MT. and Mrs. H. H. Coggs- well, and this was the first time they all have been together here since they as- sembled at the funeral of their mother, thirty-six years ago.
 There was P. K. Coggswell, ("Kib, ") of Gary, Ind. who ran the first locomo- tive on the Connecticut Western railroad, the little bob-taiIed "State Line" and who for years before that was an engin- ger on the old Housatonic road; John B. Coggswell, of Denver, Colorado, who was train baggage e-master on the first regular trains on the C. w. R. R., and one of the first freight train conductors "a "broth of a boy" in his youth, who explained a crack baseball team com posed of players of short stature and christened the Sawed Offs" George B. Coggswell, of Pittsfield, well-remembered as timer in Canaan and Falls Village, who was famous for his theatrical talent Mrs. Sarah Coggswell Coombs and Mrs. Libbie Coggswell Gray, now of Pittsield, who were active in all the social doings of the village while they resided here.
 "Kib" and John left Canaan nearly forty years ago, to engage in railroading in the Southwest. "Kib" was a running engineer until few years ago, when he was placed in charge of all the locomo- tives of the United States Steel Corpora tion at the big round-houses in the model town of Gary, position of much respon- sibility and importance It will be re- membered that he married Miss Minnie Lent, daughter of Rev. M. R. Lent, once pastor of the Canaan Methodist churc h.
 JoHn, "hose "lIe was MISS DcIle MIG Cormick, of Norfolk, railroaded it on the Louisville & Nashville road for thirty-six years, but abandoned railroad ing a couple of years ago and bought a ranch not far from Denver, where he has settled down.
 Time has dealt gently with these Coggswell boys and girls, and they look as "natural as life" And although they noted many changes in the town, that had taken place since the time when the Coggswell family were among the. fore most of the prominent and popular Ca naanites, still they found many of the old residenters who were delighted to give them cordial greeting, and regretted that their stay was so short.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
Birds G oing South

Perhaps you have not noticed that the bird-songs are growing less and are wholly unaware that in week or two now the early migrating birds will be focking in the fields and preparing to leave for their winter homes. 1 miss the sweet songs of the wrens which used to fill the air with music at intervals from sun-up till sun down; and the robins are not giving their lively early morning and evening concerts. The real song season of 1911 has closed for these parts and will not again open until 1912. Flora procession is moving along, and the phalanxes Of goldenrod show that the center of the line has been reached-the magnificent peouies and roses have gone by, but the asters and mallows and dahlias and chrysanthe- mums are still to come. How like a song the floral season opens and closes with blue violets in the spring and the blue gentian after the frosts have destroyed the rendered flowers, giving a sort of heavenly tiue farewell to flower lovers. What moving panorama Nature is to those who have eyes to see and why should not all see and admire the beau ties set before them daily by their Crea- tor ?--Norwich Bulletin.
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Letters From the People
Rev. Cornford on Vacation
ne Editor Of The News ;

To the Editor Of The News; ) Left Pittsfield at 4;05 D. m., train filled with returning tourists, a jovial com pany reaching Albany on time, began to rain and continued till we reached Toledo, at s @. m, Wednesday, Eastern time.
 Reaching Chicago on time, 11:5O. ! where we found friends awaiting our arrival, with car to take us to Edge water. Thursday, 7th 1 went with MT. Reynolds to the office of the Miller Ma tional Insurance Company in the Home Insurance building, Tn LaSalle Street, Chicago an 8 miles spin on Lake Shore drive, passing through the fire district of 1871, realizing ill a faint way the changes and improvements of the 40 years, having visited the same locality ln the year of the fire. During the day we visited the Board of Trade" under standing nothing of the business tran. sacted, but enjoyed thoroughly the pandemonium as the brokers tried to mortgage the wheat, oat, corn and hog crops of 1912, but we prefer buying our breadstutfs and chicken food from our home mark cts with less rush and roar and more safety.
 We visited the theater dist, but stayed outside of the doors, lest we prove a bad example to the flock at home. We could not help the tinge of sadness and sor- row as we passed the Colonial" for merly the "lroquois, " calling to memory the hundreds who met their death there, this theater having changed its name three times, to create spirit of forget fitness of the sad past.
 We also visited the Marshal Field Company department store to get an idea of what the fall and winter would pro- duce ill ladies head gear viz.-hats. We found that the Aerop4une and Bi-. plane (and yet not plal-J hats would figure largely and highly in the makeup of a lady's costume. H. c.
 Chicago, Sept. g..
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Referring to Representative George B. Chandler, of Rocky Hill, who has many admirers in Canaan, the Middletown Penny Press says: Representative Chandler bobbed up in the lime light at meeting of the Central Labor union in Hartford last night, being attacked and defended for his action in introducing labor measures in the legislature. The representative named seems to have the happy faculty of having friends in al most every contest he has figured in and generally comes out on top"
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Lew Stone of Winsted let some Chi cago newspaper man discover that play ing the accordion in COW barn makes the COWS give more milk. While Lew was asleep a New Jersey reporter put one over by announcing that a chicken farmer was picking his fowls for market with vacuum cleaner. Winsted is not what she used to be, The Yankee is playing out.-Waterbury Republican.
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motion of Ned Roberts the meeting voted unanimously in favor mustard.
 The fat member got up again. "Mister President" said he, -"I've ben instructed by my wife to say little suthin' here to- night about tn cause of woman sufferage Now you all know"
 "The fat gentleman moves we do now adjourn" shouted the chair, interrupting. "Those in favor" etc. All off
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Papa Force is anxious to have 1t dis tinctly understood that ill disposing of his daughter to Colonel Astor, he was influenced solely by regard for the girls happiness. Yet there are those who insinuate that the S5,000,00 mar riage settlement helped him arrive at the conclusion that heaven designed his daughter for Colonel Astor.
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. NORTH CANAAN HAS

A population of 2,171, (census of 1910) Two railroads.
 National and Savings Banks. .< Trolley railroad, in process of construction. Up-to-date High School and first-class school system. ~.
 Five churches.
 First-class hotel. ..
 Fire department. including chemical en- zine.
 Six miles of State Roads. Electric light and power plant, Complete Sewer System. .. Never-failing water supply and the best water in the state. . Wide-awake Business Mems Association. Extensive lime and iron industries. Fraterna al and benefit societies. s. + Brass band -.. ...,s. Up-to-date department stores. Pure air and wholesome climate.
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The South Norwalk Sentinel rises to remark: "The refusal of the Connecti-
 cut senate to pass the state tax bill that had passed the house, where the little towns might have killed it, is remark able, and is, therefore and naturally the subject of remark. Is it possible that the house suspected that it could safely make play to the gallery and leave the senate to take the sting out of it.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
FORGIVENESS.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WATT

When think how the dear Master Blots out cen the vilest sin, Bidding us be pure and holy,
 Free from every guile within, Then l think how we poor mortals Criticise each other here, Causing oft an anxious heartache, And full many a bitten tear. And 1 wonder that His pardon
 Falls so freely here below, When we cry to Him for mercy,
 Yet so little we beStow. Oh, that we were but more tender, And dispensed a greater love, When we need such great forgiveness From our Father up above.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Aviation comes high, but no cattle, show IS complete without an airship fea- ture. The aviators make their fortunes quickly, but mauy of them don't live to enjoy them, for what goes up must come down. and it's in the coming down that the whole trick lies.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
THE EWS' AG ENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at the of1ceof publication and at Dempsey's Drug Store, Canaan, s.- Egglestor's Drug Store, Sharon,
 Post Office East Canaan. D. H. Oakes Store. Lakeville,
 Post Office Falls Village. ,
 George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk, F. H. Smith & Co.'S Store Ashley Falls
 w D. French, Sheffield. Mass. A. L. Dickinson Salisbury.
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Uncle Horace Johnson, the Haddam weather manufacturer, promises "very hard winter" That would be discour- aging were it not for the fact that the goosebone prophet is yet to be heard from.
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AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The News should appeal with special force to the sagacious business man.
 It Kas an extensive circulation in Western Connecticut, and especially throughout Lltch- field County and Southern Berkshire.
 It has competent staff of wide-awake cor local donqs each week, and goes into the homes and is perused by the entire families of the thrifty, intelligent reading class of people whom the long headed advertiser most deslres to reach'
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

The Meriden Journal has solved the problem. It remarks: There s 8 reason for this Sinclair case publicity. Sinclair would like to boom his literary efforts, Harry Kemp would like a market for his poetry and Mrs. Sinclair would dearly love to go on the stage. There you are.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

The assertion of writer in The Coun- Cry Gentleman, that 1.-The American boy seems to have lost his talent for play" " moves a contemporary to assert that on the contrary "the American boy seems to have lost his talent for work"
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Senator Jerry Donovan is said to con- template running for mayor of South Norwalk, with view to contesting Con- gressmanl Hills seat iu Washington later on.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Now let the friends of President Mellen persuade the senate to take away from him the power of self-removal and vest it in the superior court.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

"How has that match between Daisy Green and Tom Hathaway turn out ?" asked Blithers.
 Fine" said Dolby. ..,
 "Still madiy in love with each other?n asked Blithers.
 Better than that" said Dolby. They've got to point where they can tolerate each other. .''-Harper's Weekly.
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A Los Angeles editor refers to Colonel Roosevelt as "a Janhs-faced. chameleon hued prevaricator, That sounds like a naturezfaker.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14. 1911
PLEASURE

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty Hannah More.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Important news in the big papers these days may be so, and it may be otherwise. For comprehension Mellen resigns and he doesn't. Maine goes wet and it remains dry.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

In the meantime, Mona Lisa is still missing. >-s
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

There seems to be no longer any doubt as to "where the trolley is coming in. ''
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

General Apathy is plainly in charge of the local campaign, and nobody can deny that he has it we'll in band.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Get Together. Pull Together. It's 2 program that means success.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Why is the legislature still in session when the other state cattle show is over
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Subscribers are requested to notify the pub regularly, changes of residence etc.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

Less than three weeks to eIectlon- and nobody called liar yet.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14
.IiDDincOtt's. s.

"How came she to get such sudden craze on to visit the beauty doctors ?"
 "She wants to look like her photo graph. ."-Houston Post.
 The Artlst-Just little daub of mine, you see, dear madame.
 Miss Gush (gushingly)-O, no You are entirely too modest. I should call it quite big daub !--Puck.
 II started to tell my wife about a wo- man who made her own summer gowns. "
 "Well? ?'
 "She capped my story with one about a man who made $1 100000 and bought his wife $11,000 worth of gowns. ."- Washinton Herald.
 ''Three dollars a minute?" said the youth who had asked the long distanc, telephone rate between him and the lady fair.
 "Yes, sir" said the telephone clerk.
 II guess I'm not on speaking terms with her, sighed the youth, sadly count ing the $2.50 in h1s purse.-Detroit Sat ] Irday Night.
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WHITE LETTER. ABOUT

Communications on subjects of general inter est to The News readers are invited, but no attention will be paid to anonymous letters
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-14

The end of the Beattie trial brought a universal sense of relief.
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When in doubt call it 8 toadstool, and it alone.
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Shoot that straw hat the whistle is blowing.
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MISCELLANEOUS

AR PATTEN, optician of Torrington, Conn, will be at The Janfeld" hotel the first Mon day and Tuesday afternoons of each month.
 If unable to call send postal. Consultation free. S. k. STARK, Nurse Canaan. Telephone 15-2 PEABODY, optometrist and scientific optician, will be at Mrs, M. A. Halls Falls Village Ct,, Sept. 18-li
 HOUSE FOR RENT-Inquire Of Patrick Lee, Canaan, Conn.
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WANTED

wANTED--waitresses at the sharon Inn.
 sharon, Conn.
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Where the Laugh Comes In
I tried this Aviation, Of which so much we've heard; Oh, glorious sensation,
 hird-

like Irose up I'm done with Aviation, A thing at which to mock Oh horrid consternation,- l came down
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 a
 rock