The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-25

nights to get the returns.-Exchange
If the Bull Moose movement only
succeeds in. taking the con out of the
present convention system it will have
worked one miracle anyway-RPenny
| Press.
1t takes brains to be a good cook,
says a Boston man. He might have
added that it takes brains to find one
| these days.-Brockton Tones.
Mr.. Wilson says he has smoked but
once and never will again. We pre-
dict that Mr.. Bryan will give him
that same feeling.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
| Professor Fishers uproarious1y
| good time Sunday will not include
ice cream, sodaS water and cigar
while the present laws are in force
| Penny Press.
Senator Mclean is to be congratu-
lated upon the prompt passage of his
bill for the protection of migratory
| birds.-Courier-Jo urnal. :
| Over one thousand tons of coal have
gone to the bottom of Long Island
careless handling of what has come
to be costly household necessity
Norwich Bulletin.
From New York to San Francisco
! is an awful1y long distance to talk
over the telephone, but perhaps there
won't be many people listening as
on some of the rural exchanges
change.
All applicants. for office under the
new administration call themselves
| E0Y-Oa all n
show for it is that their 7grandfathe
once voted for Good Roads-Hartford
Post.
/ In an effort to defeat race suicide,
| the Orange bank from now on will
Fgtve a, handbook showing a deposit of
81 to every baby born in the town Of
Exchange.
Professor Fishers suggestion that
the churches be closed for an indef1n-
tie period, and that we all get to work
on an uproarious Sunday, suggests that
that arniable gentleman has not had
enough to do 1ately.-Exchange.
care you aware asks George Ber-
nard Shaw, chat if you listened to
the play in silence and did not APP
get out of the theater half an hour
earlier ?'' Yes, George; we have all
been to that kind. But they seem
1onger.-Niagara Falls Gazette.
In Utah they are discussing the adj.
visibility of permitting Condemned
criminals to commit suicide, after all,
hope of escaping the death penalty has
been diSsipated. That would relieve
the state of some responsibility and
give the prisoner a much wider choice
of means than is now furnished in
!, u TO- H. ia
in the criminals rights to insist that
the commonwealth bear the burden Of
taking 1ife.-New London Day.
An immense responsibility is thrown,
on the democratic party It can
hear the passing bell of the old party
that is now in the hands of the doc
tor and nurses, and the y'drums and
ramp1ings'' of its new opponent VIII
it change its front to meet the vision
airy, irresponsible progressives whose
attack is novel and enthusiastic? Can
Rev. DR. Maurer of the famous Cen
ter church. in New Haven is a gentle
man of tact, good will and tolerant in
telligence- A few days ago some of
his parishioners complained bitterly
because members of the bartenders
association grouped themselves on the
steps of the church for a photograph.
They did so simply because it was a.
convenient place. When DIR. Maurer5
heard of the incident he said that had
he known of it he would have opened
the church too, as he would have
been glad to have them come in. No
chance for any i1l-feeling to live in
the atm osphere of such sentiment
Bristol Press.
The gentleman who provided the
literary matter printed under an ex-
ceI1ent picture of Bulgarian machine
guns. in position, which appears in
Golfers, assures us that the guns
were manipulated to sweep the enc
my's lines with streams, of lead that
poured as steadily from the barrels as
water from the nozzle of a garden
hose" Probably the gentleman who
provided this information was not the
war correspondent, but a more peace
full desk editor. If there are any
machine guns which perform as stead
lily and as effectively as this the
United States war department ought
to be enlightened about them, so that
it might secure few for it's own usu
and revise its Institutional books con-
corning the utilization of such pieces.
Hartford Times.
A fair judgment of Governor Sui
zer's pardon of Brandt depends who'll
ly upon the point of view. If you
begin with Brandt himself, he is a
fellow of doubtful worth and accord
ing to ordinary standards, untrustwor-
thy. Sulzer made him acknowledge
that he had told a string of lies be-
fore he would pardon him. But if
you begin with the sentence Of 10
years in prison, that was out of all
proportion to anything that Brandt
had done, or was supposed to have
done The best justification Of the
pardon is the fact that society can
take Brandt in hand again if he does
not go straight. Su1zer has merely
given him a chance, after Brandt had
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