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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
DIED.

HURLBURT.-In Noroton, Dec IS John S. Hurlbutt formerly of Dan bury, aged so years. DIAHONEY.-In Stamford, Dec 20 John Mahoney.
 KARL-In Cambridge, Mass Dec 22, Edward Karl, aged 52 years KANE.-In Stamford, Dec. 22, Pat rick Karl.
 MEWEN.-In East Village Mrs Marietta McEwen, aged s8 years WEST.-In Danbury, Dec 19 Thon- as West, aged so years. OSBORNE.-In Danbury, Dec 20 Lucy Clark, wife of Arthur E. Os- borne, aged 63 years. VESEY.-In Danbury, Dec. 21, Mar garet Vesey, aged so years. RINNIGAN.-In Westport Dec 20 John Dunnigan, aged S4 years CURTISS.-In Winsted. Dec. 21, Mrs Lewis W. Curtiss NfIILS-In Winsted, Dec. 21, Eme- line, widow of Daniel H. Mills, aged 95 years.
 EAINES.-In Hartford, Dec. 21, Wal ter P. Gaines Of New Hartford, sCHAEFER.-In Norwa1k, Dec. 21, Louise, wife of Ludwig Schaefer, aged 49 years.
 GIILUM.-In NorwaIk, Dec. 22, Martha Mercy, widow of Henry Newell Gi11um, aged S2 years. FTTZPATRICK--In Torrington, Dec. 22 William Fitzpatrick. aKed 73
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
MOTHER PLEADS FOR HER SON AND
 KEEPS HER WORD

North Adams, Mass, Dec 2rIf Judge Ben Lindsey, of Denver has anything on Judge Phelps, the local police judge, it is only the merest shade.
 On Tuesday, Judge Phelps sentenced an old offender to the institution for 1nebriates at Bridgewater The pris- oners mother, an old woman in feeble health, pleaded that the man be al lowed to go home with her to spend Christmas as it might be the last Chris mas they would be together She guaranteed that the son would be at the railroad station to take the first, train for Bridgewater on Thursday morning. The appeal touched the judge and he ordered that the prisoner De paroled in the custody of his moth CT
 Today the paroIed prisoner came down the street and delivered himself to the police and was taken to Bridge water
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
"soME JOB"

BACHAdAN,S ENENfENAGOGUE
 MIXTURE A splendid Female Regulator fin eases of suppressed menstruation, delays due to colds, i'll health, or other un- natural causes: $1.76 for the whole outfit Made only at the
 WOAAN'S DRUG STORE e1o Ma1n street, Bridgeport. Conn. Lady Attendants Always Here
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
PERMANENTO ORGANIZATION
 OF BULL MOOSENEXT MONTH

Toledo, Dec. 27-Permanent organi- zation of the National Progressive party will be maintained through four committees of political workers, men and women, according to Walter F. Brown, national organizer of the par ty. These committees will be named in New York in January, by the exe- cutive committee, Brown announced today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27

it is not to be wondered at if the branch lines occasionally turn one of
 The audience of last night was a good natured gathering. Not a sin gle actor was killed. After such a Christmastide, one cannot but feel en- outraged at the prospect for Bridge ports becoming a better city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
M I l. K M E N TAKE NOTICE.

All milk dealers distributing milk in the City of Bridgeport are required by law to register annually with the clerk Of the Board of Health on the first day of January in each year, or within thirty (30) days thereafter
 Persons violating the above law are subject to fine of twenty-five (S25-Oo) dollars.
 BOARD OF HEALTH
 Office, Police & Charities Building T z6 ss By D. w Lynch Clerk
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
WIFE CONFESSES
 KILLING HUSBAND

Burnham confessed, today, to Assist ant States Attorney John Fleming that she had shot and killed her hus- band, Herbert Burnhan, several months ago. She had previously de- nied it.
 At Mrs. Burnham's trial for the murder she will plead self defense.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27
KING GEORGE CUNNING

London, Dec Fixing George was so far recovered from his indispoSition
 that he was out shooting today, ac-
 cordfng to a statement made by Sir Frederick Posonby, private seere- ta.ry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27

Skunk leads as a trimming fur. Somehow it combines most delightful ly with delicate tissues and either dark or delicate colors.
 The new waistcoats are actually be- ing made in such bright coIors as red, green and orange, with shawl reVerS and lf-buttons
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Coming Events

April 1S-No. Franklin Pomona, Range
ley
May 1-E. Somerset Pomona, Hartland,
May 1-KnoX Pomona, Appleton.
May 1-Androscoggin Pomona, East
Hebron.
May york Pomona, Hollis Center.
May 2-Hancock Pomona, So Bluehill.
May 2-Cumberland and Oxford Union
Pomona, So. Bridgton.
May 7-Waldo Pomona, SO. Montville.
May rockford Pomona, Bethel.
May S-No. Waldo Pomona, Troy.
May S-Kennebec Pomona, w. Gardiner.
May 11-Cumberland Pomona, Wind
ham.
May l6-East Piscataquis Pomona. Sc
bee.
May 25-Knox Pomona, Il. Warren.
June 6-6-Division Encampment, SONS OF
Veterans, at Gardiner.
June 5-6--Maine Division, Sons OF Vet.
Grams, Bangor.
June 12-Patriarchs Militant. 1. o. o.
F., Brunswick.
June 17-Primary elections in Maine.
June 1S-National Republican Conven-
ton. Chicago.
June 26-2S-Maine Pharmaceutical Assn
Convention, st. Andrews, N. b.
July 26-Aug 2-The Young Peoples
Missionary Conference, Ocean Park.
Sept. 3-5-Maine State Christian En-
deavor Convention, Houlton.
Aug. 5-16-Maine Christian Endeavor
Summer School. Charleston.
October 23-4-5-Maine Teachers Asso-
citation, Portland, 49,
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exception the best place for a man to
so whether his desire be to buy gold
brick or sell enc.
Local news is all that is really vital
to New Workers. but it is news which
has an appeal wherever the telegraph
wire pcnetrates, and there is no date
line that so fascinates the mind as
New York. Its government is a mar
vel OF completely; it's mayor an Official
beside whom king seems impetent;
its mighty skyserapeIs ana vast sub
Ways testify To the daring genius of
man. Its horSe-car lines loo, are as
typical of the great city as the Brook-
lyn bridge, and this despite the fact
that they are no longer considered
good form in El Paso. Tex. or Pink
Mink. Mich. No real city would toler-
ate them, and some day. when New
York energies from its village stage, it
will cast them into the discard. too.
But for the present they are an insti-
tuition and very considerable one
the public service commission report
ing that 10 horse drawn street cars
are still in service. Long life To them.
SO long as they remain we can snap
our fingers at the Gotham boast OF SUI
periority, and claim a few virtues for
ourselves.
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The Best Game of All.

April II goes down in history as one
of the greatest days in 1912--the open
ing of the baseball season. Life is
worth living againi
The great American game. the clean
wholesome and best-of-all- games, is te
the front once more. 1t is worthy OF
the high place which it holds III the af-
fections of all lovers of true sport. II
helps to upbuild American character
and American intelligence. 1t is al
escape valve for American enthusiasm
and refuge from American politics
In the six coming months the princi.
pal IN every nook and corner of this
broad country. in every day of the
week, will be not SO much rs il
Roosevelt or Taft?" as it will be
whats the scorer,
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Primary Nomination Petitions.

NIbIiuElOll ANtNS.p
II is one of the peculiar features of
primary nomination petitions that the
aspirant must have one per cent. OF
the vote of the district covered but
must not have more than two per
cent. Like the banquet table, with
a fixed number of plates, there's
limit In the case of popular
candidate for u. 5. Senator-like unto
ex-Gov. Edwin G.. Burleigh, for eX-
ample whose legions of warm per-
sonal friends all over Maine are eager
to go upon the petitions-the papers
might as well and as easily carry five
thousand as fifteen hundred names,
about the limit under the law. The
petition in his interest sent in from
Bridgton this week designedly only
carried the quota: hence there was
and could be no canvass, as in the case
of most of the petitions in circula-
ton. The paper is headed by one
who. with nearly all upon the list, are
qualified, as endorsers, to avouch for
the fitness and worthiness of the
candidate This is the true idea as to
this preliminary in the new dispense
ton In June all the people have a
voice in the selection of the candi-
dates from all the names under con-
sideration.
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WALDO.
BURNHAM.

Mrs b. f. Harding of Billerica
Mass. arrived, Tuesday night, for Il
visit with her daughter, Mrs. George
Bryant.
Lorenzo Baxter, Burnhams grand
old man, celebrated his oath birth
day. Tuesday. In the evening small
company of neighbors and friends met
at his home to offer good wishes. The
occasion was a very enjoyable one to
him and he entered into the spirit of
it with his usual activity.
Miss Ida Burrill, teacher in the
schools in Wenham, Mass. has been
passing her Easter vacation with her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. Frank Burrill.
A public examination for teachers
was held at the village schoolhouse,
"Wednesday Most of the schools in
town are expected to begin, April 90
George T.. Bryant and C. Il. Libby
went, Wednesday, to Bangor, to at
tend the State Republican conven-
ton.
c. e. Embree of the Long Island
Potato Exchange will speak at Sc
basticooll Grange hall, Wednesday af-
ternoon, April II, in the interest OF
cooperation.
North Waldo Pomona Grange met
Wednesday, with Burnham Grange
and in spite of the bad travelling the
attendance was good, about 100 being
present. At the forenoon session the
Fifth degree was conferred on a class
| of So candidates and at the close OF
| the work bounteous dinner was
| served, The meeting was again called
| to order, at about $780, and the fol
| lowing program was given: Address
| of welcome, %. b. Mckechnie; re-
| Spouse, Mrs. Clara York: paper, sub
| ject, Pomona by Miss Nellie
Morse; address, >. II. Blanchard Of
| Auburn, who gave an interesting tall
! upon matters pertaining in genera
| to the Grange. Remarks for the goot
| of the order were made by severa
visiting Patrons. among them being
| Mr.. and Mrs. l.. T. Merrill, Mr.. ant
| Mrs. c. f. Marcia, Fred Hatch, Mr.
| and Mrs. S. f. Plummer and Mrs
| Kennedy of Clinton Grange. The pro
gram for the afternoon was CLOSED
by instrumental music by Mr. ant
Mrs. Wallace Pomroy and the Grang,
closed IN due form, at about 8 o'clock
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Hats and Politics.

washington T1meS.)
Somehow or other it seems to be
impossible to keep hats from mixing
UP in politics. Now, take shoe, for
instance A shoe just trots along and
tends to the business of being shoe
and gets itself all run down at the
heel and submits to being half soled,
and never says a word about politics
II doesn't seem to worry about any
thing-not even the tariff and free
hides. 1t is shoe, and that ends it.
But hat is different. A man may
buy a perfectly good hat and dedicate
it to the business of covering his
Uranium and expect it to tend to its
job. Everything will go along all
right for d while and then, without q
word of warning. that hat will decide
to go into politics. and its owner Will
have to dive right after it into the
middle of the ring.
Now, some political hats, like some
political men, have been more sue
cessful than others, and more famous
There was the hat that Tippecanoe
wore-that old, bell-shaped beaver
1t was thrown into the ring in the
spring of 1910, and pretty soon it had
a Log Cabin and Barrel of Hard
Cider and a Coon Skin and a whole lot
of other things working for it. And
William Henry Harrison got elected
f'orty-eight years rolled by and the
old hat was forgotten in the mad rush
of time. But it didn't forget. 1t got
Iitself a new label. "Grandpa's Hat"
and jumped into the ring again. BEN
janin Harrison got himself elected.
Il. 81 l. sif
they never could win unless they got
themselves a political hat, too. So
they brought out that old white plug
that you used to call a Cleveland, hat
when you were a boy, and went out to
see the torch light procession. They
failed the first time, but on the Sec
ond trial even Grandpa's beaver
couldn't win against the combination
OF a white plug and a red bandana.
But that was all in the good old days.
A bigger thing is about to happen
Fifteen thousand hats are going to be
thrown into the ring. And they are
womens fxin's at that. And they
will cost just SO cents apiece, with IL
cents extra for ribbons 1T is not a
revolt, sire. it is a revolution"
The New York suffragists are going
to have big May parade. Now
everybody knows that you can't run
politics without parades. and the men
have known all along that you couldn't
run a parade without plug hats. SO
they just sat still and smiled in their
sleeves at the women trying to get
into politics, for how would parade
look with fifteen thousand different
kinds of Mats? And how could you
have politics without parades?
But the women woke up sooner than
was expected. And when that parade
goes up Fifth avenue with Rachel
Blum and Olga Svensen and Ma FOO
Iii and Mamie Murphy and Miss Mary
Johnston and Mrs. Oliver Hazard
Perry Belmont, and 1894 other wo-
| men all wearing the same kind of 3S-
cent hats, why
There just amt enough plug hats
on earth to head off the procession.
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Soaking the Public.
M-YnrlLGInlle.

~" YIN titVoNt
White, in behalf of the miners. SAYS
that living costs have increased since
1902 and contends that wage scales
should follow them up. No one will
challenge the fact or the conclusion
Baer. in behalf of the companies.
says that the Reading is actually los
ing money in operating its eoliieries.
What Baer says with respect To the
eolieries can be proven from their
hooks just as he asserts
1t is thus sufficiently obvious that
the plan of the purveyors of our coal
when they have quieted their work
men with raise in wages, is To fall OH
the consumer with an increase In coal
prizes that shall offset and more than
offset, the increased cost Of operating
the coliieries The public IS to get IL,
and get it hard, ii something Is not
done.
What can be done? The argument OF
the men for higher wages is not easily
resisted The cnllieries. as Baer says
cannot pay the extra wages out oil
their profits. So up. it would SEEM
must go the price of coal, and con-
sumers may us we'll grin as they bear
it,
But there is a factor in coal prices
as they are known in New York other
than wages and eolliery cost; 1t IS the
sum paid on the railway haul to tlde-
water. The persons that own the col
lieries own the railways. Perhaps IL Is
the railroad that is used as an extra
profit getter and ooncealer.
There is evidence that this IS the eN-
act situation. The rate on coal to tide-
water is in the neighborhood of cetit
n ton per mile. The average ireigh'
rate for all commodities is about one
fifth less. If the rate on anshraei'e
coal were at the rate charged ~ w
soft coalers on bituminous wages "ou ~
be raised without raising prices. kese"-
ing railway stock is al a new hlgh leV-
81 so is Lackawanna, 50 IS Jersey Zen
trail. The speculative public has maue
it's guess. that there are profits III w
coal business and as to where they are
going. 80. int
Tbe consuming public can get ihlo
the game by making application 10 .iie
Interstate Commerce COMMISSION ioi
an inquiry into the fairness oi w
rates on coal from the eoiliefles "a
tidpwater.
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When Women Play Cards.

Kathleen Norris, in the April Won.
ans Home Companion, fires volley
Of wisdom on the subject of ''Womer
at a Card Party" She says, and in the
truth which most of us will recognize
that it takes them an hour to settle
down to see how every one else looks
and whether there happens to be d
streak of dust under the piano. Then
when the game has just started, q
maid is nudging you in the elbow to
take a plate of hot chicken, and an
other. on the other side, is holding Out
sandwiches, and all the women are
running to look at the prizes.
Now when men play cards-but who
ever heard of anybody who would lis
ten to the story of how men play
cards?
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Recall Special Sessions.

OF the many wise utterances of that
calmly judicial American. Pres. Taft,
none clings more firmly to the mind Of
the intelligent American citizen than
that of his speech at Howard Uniyer~
sity, the other day. that there is no
crime that justifies a departure frcm
law in the punishment of person
charged with guilt
This is so manifestly true to every
person of intelligence. and so equally
applicable to lynchings in the far
South and to Democratic methods in
the far North. that we find exact use
for it at the present time. Were some
of eur Maine officials not so prejudiced
against laws and so determined in OPP
position TO restraint of those who have
passions and appetites to crafty al
the expense of the general public, We
might hope that this judicial truism
would sink home and become of actual
benefit to Maine in the next few
months Neither President Taft MOI
any other person will contend that the
courts are perfect, but they are SC
| much more to be recommended thar
an obviously partisan substitute which
lis controlled by an uncouth desire L
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Editorial Comment

| Bangor dispatches of Portland Ex-
/ press)
| The sentiment in the First District
| is estimated as very strongly in favor
| of Ex-Governor Burleigh. He is said
to be receiving 100 letters a day in
which voters as well as political lead
4 ers are pledging themselves to him
and his candidacy. He has some adj
vantage in the matter OF location 50
far as the western part of the State
| is concerned. Inclination on the part
of the voters is to have a senator as
| near home" as possible.
This same holds true in the Second
District, according to gossip around
| the State House last week. The ex-
| Governor has been indulseut toward
| those who sought his advice or as
sistance all over the State. This was
| true when he was in Congress and he
| has been running factory for MAX
| ing friends the past 40 odd years.
1t is conceded that the Third Dis
trict, which he represented in Con-
sress IA years, will be substantially
solid for him. A vindication for the
crime of 1910. when he was defeated
unintentionally, is the sentiment in
every one of the four counties. With
ex- Governor Burleigh as the candi-
date for senator, after the primaries,
it means the redemption of all four
of. these counties, very likely. The
campaign to elect Republican. senators
and representatives will be carried on
Systematically and the district is just
as good as back in the fold once he is
nominated. The advantage the candi-
date for Congress on the Republican
ticket will have in the campaign when
ex- Governor Burleigh is in the race
for the Senate is appreciated as worth
"A great deal
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Probably the name OF no woman has
been more ON the lips of civilization
than that Of Miss Clara Barton, who
died. Friday. at her home in Glenecho,
Md. aged 80 years.
The Mother Of the Red Cross
passed to the Great Beyond regretting
only that her life could not have been
Of still greater use TO humanity. Civil
ization regrets that it could not long
er show its love and prove its devo-
ton to the noble woman who taught
humanity to mitigate the horrors of
the battlefield; to reach out the hand
Of brotheriy love and relief to the dis
sressed in famine districts and to the
destitute in time of disaster.
Down through time the Red Cross
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KENNEBEC.
CHINA.

r..,.l, Iyipgdpn the Young ED.ilSiuidii
i'.' - ~ tho NJ 4 church in this
who = .,,r;,,.d and was calling on
- ,,ao,,o Tuesday and wednesday of
'ie peop'o'
TINS WEI .,.t,,,,oa from Union,
W. ~ -, -, sbinninp anples, the
where ne "a9
nrst Oh 'ie 1,,.a,ar,, CIRCLE met.
me Ia, M, n = Rowe.
1ilu' 49, ,nade maple syrup
- lore cav there has not been the
o. ..,,,, 80 and not as much syrup
80. 80, ,s,,al
''' -. ,obn9 A. IN oodsum attended the
,,ar,,,,,,,ean STAFF convention at Bangor.
t III,
ME- susan I,al,forth left. Thursday,
,,n ,ho Maine General hospital in Port
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Are You. Man or Manauer?

| What a pity ii is that he or she wht
| hungers after information cannot have
| the time and opportunity to feast upon
1.-The almost numberless good things
which appear from day to day in the
public press and from month to month
in the scores of good magazines-arti-
eles prepared after long study and re-
search by the ablest writer's in the
country, upon topics of wide interest?
Every great topic has its many angles
from which scrutiny may be made,
and almost daily develops something
of profound interest in the great sub
jects before the public. a writer in
the American Magazine gives an ex-
tract from an editorial discussion in
which he says:
Last week I called on the president
of a big concern uptown. My card
was taken by little girl who sat
shivering at a desk in a draughty out
side corridor by the elevators. You
knew what bitter weather We have
been having. we'll, tire suction of those
elevators set up breeze that you
side of the North Pole The Office
manager had placed her there because
it was the conventional place for her
to be; thing again. he would not
dream of doing as Il man. but being
manager, he did it and thought nothing
of it. When l went inside, the presi
dent was just sending off big check
to a tuberculosis-f fund. He is a splen-
cid fellow: he too as a man would
never in the world expose the girl to
an Al chance of pneumonia in that
boreal draught; but being president,
no doubt he took her as thoughtlessly
for granted there as he would her
desk.
1t is a passing observation on topic
of vital interest to civilization, yet how
many cases are there in every business
section of which this incident is typi
cal, We take many things for granted
which possess no attribute of common
sense. There are tubereular death
traps in all sorts of forms, from
draughty places like the one described
above to the ill-ventilated. foul odored
place where a draft might prove the
salvation of a family. The average
man who is the manager of modern
business establishment is quite apt to
grow into the habit of being more
manager than man; yet IN most in
stances it is only necessary to jog his
attention to bring to the surface that
quality of manhood which makes great
managers. and then to recognize the
inhumanity of sentencing an inexpe-
rieneed and Innocent girl into a position
where might be laid the foundation of
disease that would undermine her
health.
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Our Provincial Metropolis.
eva shington Post.)

New York is the most stupendous
example of metropolitan provinciahty
ever thrown together by genius gone
mad. 1t is at once a London and a
Hillsvale, and has all the characters
tics. which mark both a world capital
and a mountain hamlet in the feud
country. It's Inhabitants are at the
same time as wise as serpents and as
simple as penguins. and it is without
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create political capital and to sustain
unsound positions, that most of us
would prefer that the recall be invoked
upon special legislatures full sooner
than upon the courts.