The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-23

said. stIt,s nonsense" But colonel
Goethals is credited with being slated
for something good for his work en-
the canal
GULLED FROM THE COLUMNS
There being no available kings in
this country Gaby-Des1ys has to re-
sort to the tine-honored press agent
scheme Of having her Jewels stolen.--
Exchange.
Perhaps the reason the congressman
ruled books out of the parcel post
was that they were. afraid some one
would send them copy of the Bible.
Hartford Post.
81 do not think people should get
married until they. are thoroughly ac-
Quainted with each other
what would you do-abolish mat
rinony. ?,'--Judge-
woodrow Wilson lis studying a guide
book of Washington. There will be
plenty of legislators there who would
welcome a chance. to show him around
New Britain Herald.
Why make such an everlasting fuss
about the cost of living, when the au-
IO1i1OOA0 SAAOUS Q1SPASy 4I1S the
necessaries of life at tsuc1l moderate
figures 2-Meriden Journal
The parcel post deliveries are said
to beat the express companies, but it
takes the grocery wagon driven by
the youngest clerk to make the real
speed through the outlying Streets
New Haven Union.
The departing Mr. Brandt gives
Clinton prison a high recommended
ton. He found it a very satisfactory
abiding place for any one who had
to abide in such place, although of
course it lacks the luxuries and so
cial diversions now provided so gem
erousIy in one or two of our penal in
titutdons.-Hartford Times.
Woman has always been mans
companion, ready to share his exile,
espouse his cause and buckle his ar
mor-1iss Ellen Glasgow. etAnd
answer, ehas always been, and still
is, woman's companion, ready to
share anything she has, to espouse
her personality. and hook her up the
back ""-EIarpeTs Weekly.
The New Britain school teachers
have Joined with the teachers in 9TH
er cities of the State in a movement
to have Connecticut pass a law
establishing a pension system, the
payments to be made from the State
treasury. This is in line with the
spirit of the times, such a. system be-
ing in existence in some States, and is
constantly being extended to others
New Britain Herald.
Herbert Knox Smith, former com
missioner of corporations, rises to re-
mark that the Sherman antitrust law
is ridiculous and the dissolution of
trusts t'vaudevil1e'' 1t certainly
looked that way when Mr.. Knox, as
commissioner of corporations, and the
president of the United States and his
attorney general were exchanging let
ters in regard to whether Eve can af-
ford to throw away the influence of
the great Morgan interests which
have been so friendly to us'-New
York Sunday World
Not long since Waterbury had a
firebug who caused considerable con-
sternation- Now it has a robust wa
ter thief, who sometimes steals three
million gallons of water in a single
day This is very remarkable for a
town so well supplied with whiskey
saloons Water is good for naviga-
ton and manufacturing purposes, not
many people of sane minds drink
much of it if they can find anything
better. "A water thief is something
quite new in a wet town.-Middletown
Sun.
Gov-e1ect Dunno of Illinois struck
an effective blow at extortionateIy
all events-wFen he positively deciin-
ed to eat-with a friend who had in
Tftad him-a cafe dinner upon whose