The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-22
THE FARMER: SEPTEMBER g, 1913

by anabushing Brown and shooting him
 in the back. The first legal execution
 of a white man in Utah had taken
 place some years before, and the vic-
 tim had complained bitterly because
 the judge had sentenced him to die by
 the moose, without the benefit of the
 Utah statute which gives every doom
 ed man the privilege Of being hanged,
 tion of Crockroft until 1896 every con- victed murderer in Utah chose shoot ing as a mode of death. In the latter year one Charles Thtede, a wife-nur- derer, expressed a preference for the moose. The state of Nevada has late ly adopted a law similar to the Utah statute, giving convicted men the op- tion of shooting or hanging.
 The first man to make politeness a profession was the fourth Earl of Ches- terdeld, who was born in London 219 years ago today. His courtesy and tact were unfailfng, and "Chesterfeld- ian politeness' has become proverbial, while the word "Chesterdeldian' has gained a, place in the dictionary as a synonym for "extreme politeness; pol ish.' In his famous Letters to his son, Philip Stanhope, Lord Chester field was the first to establish 8 code of etiquette and social demeanor, and observance of his rules was obligato tory upon all who hoped to qualify as gen tlemen." Although critics have com plained that the courtly Earl's code is wanting in moral tone, and places an excessive value upon externals, 1t has exerted a, profound influence upon all the generations of Engltshmen since it's publication. Even pr. John son, with whom Chesterfield was long at swords points. said of the Letters that they ought to be studied by ev- cry gentleman During his last years Lord Chesterfield was both deaf and blind, but his fine manners only left him with life, and his last words, Give Dayrolles a. chair,'' proved that the dying man had not forgotten the consideration due a friend.
 This Is the last day of ''the good old Summer time" Tomorrow our ge- nial friend, Old Sol, who has been
 making things hot for us for some bra, passing the equator in his south ward journey. This phenomenon con- stifutes the Autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, while in the southern it marks the beginning of Spring.
 For all practical purposes, however, Summer has already received it's knockout blow. The vacation season ended on the first of the month for all but a few belated Summer girls, and the gentle oyster has become a fixture on the restaurant menus. The theatres have already begun their work of uplift and education. Reluc- tant youngsters with shining faces, scrubbed clean of the accumulation of real estate acquired during the glad vacation days, have trudged wearily back to the slavery of desk and black board and books. The Ballroom boys, who but a short time ago were self confessed millionaires, are again fac ing the problem of making $14 per cover a multitude of expenses. The Autumn costumes from Paris have long since arrived, and have brought fear to the hearts of burlesque ladies, who have so long reigned alone as the queens of undress. The straw hat, which blossomed forth a few months ago as peroxide blonde, has been transformed to a decided brunette, and has gone into the discard Ma ture's equinoctia1 reminder that Sum mer Is going, going, gone. is not need ed.
 The Autumnal equinox marked the beginning of a new year for the an- cient peoples of Egypt, Chaldea, Per- sia, Syria, Phoenicia, and Carthage. The Jews also began their civil year at that time, but in their ecclesiastical reckoning the year dated from the vernaI or Spring equinox. When the French revolutionists contrived new calendar, they decreed that the new era should begin on Sept 22, 1792, the day of the true. Autumna1 equinox, and that each succeeding year should be- gin at midnight of the day on which the Autumnal equinox falls. The months were divided into three decades Of ten days each, but to make up the 365 five days were added to September. To Leap@ Year, called Olympic, a sixth day, September 22 or 23, was added, and was called ''the Day of Revolu l 'tion." The first month of the year, l beginning on the Autumnal equinox, was called vendemiaire, or Vintage and the succeeding months were known as "Brumaire, or "Foggy;" Fri maire or "Sleety;' Nivose, or Snowy" Pluviose, or "Rainy;'' Ven | tose, or Windy GerminaI, or Bud 1 ding;'' FIorea1, or ''FTowery;" Prairial, l or sPasture;" Messidor, or Harvest" Thermidor. or Hot and Fructidor, | or Fruit"
 Stormy weather often attends the Autumnal equinox, and this has given | rise to a general belief that the sun's | passing of the equator is responsible, | a theory not borne out by scientific investigation. Yet the past century has witnessed many terrible "equinoc- l tina1 storms,' so-called. In 1915, on September 22, the North Atlantic coast was ravaged by what was long known 1 as the "Great Storm.'' In 1866 a large 1 part of France was inundated as a re- l suit of heavy rains. In 1875 the Gulf |