New Britain herald., 1915-02-19
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Care of the outdoor poor, alluded
 to so commonly in every town re- port in the state of Connecticut, will
 be forgotten in midsummer. But
 that would be the time to start a
 campaign to prevent what every com-
 munity is experimenting nowadays.-
 Mddletown Penny Press.
 No democrat is willing to take the
 job of postmaster at Scotland, Wind
 ham county. The office pays $180 a
 year. sThe town has only 476 popula-
 tion and 113 voters. Of the latter
 seventy five are republicans. Not one
 of the republicans wants the job,
 either, so the post office is likely to be
 bolished.-Br1dgep Post
 It is said that young man out in
 Ohio broke an arm and three ribs
 trying to avoid being kissed. It is easy to say that his valiant resistance was
 worthy of a better cause, but as the story is not accompanied by a photo graph or description of the other par ty in the encounter perhaps it is we'll to reserve ement.-Providence Journal
 Connecticut is known as "the land of steady habits,' which might be amended to read the land of steady bad habits," because of the obstinacy and tenacity with which this state clings to outworn institutions and op- poses innovations and improveme Thus it has been with the question of woman suffrage. The tendency has been to avoid facing the issue, despite the fact that a very considerable pro- portion of the states population feels strongly on the subject and has the right to express that feeling at the polls.-Bridgeport Telegram.
 Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, of the, New York penitentiary' at Sing Sing confesses that he has been con- verted from belief in capital pun ishm ent to a belief in it's abolishment. He has had the experience in his ca pacity as warden to preside over an execution in that state and it has made him thoughtful and reflective. Like many other wardens, directors, doctors and reporters, who have at tended these diverting entertainments, their participation in the killing of a defenseless human being ha~ n'"'e him see the brutality of it.-New Ha- ven Journal-Courier.
 In New Britain the other day Judge Mesl1ill sent a man to jail for three months for carrying 8 loaded revolver. He also fined the man SIP and costs for drunkenness and breach of the peace. Any man who while a loaded revolver goes out Q I fo l>n jn jail, and he may thank his lucky stars that he did not commit a more seri- ous offense for a loaded revolver is weapon to carry when in ,oxicated. Some men while under he influence of liquor are likely to 1 lse a revolver upon the slightest | if they have one, and hey should be made to realize that 1 he carrying of a concealed weapon S a serious offense in the eyes of the 1 aw.-Naugatuck News.
 Most of the republican senators ! voted like sheep, on the civil service aW, as told to by the party leader. ! Senator IsbelPs speech was as weak l md silly as his following justified. It 1 1ldn't need to be anything else to in- l luce them to go through the gate. 1 There were two republican senators, l Bishop and Comley, with opinions of l heir own on the virtue of the merit 1 ystem and the violation of it by the | proposed new law. They voted against l he tricky and unwise bll, and both 1 tated the case against the bill forci- ! ply and without evasion. We hope 1 here will be republicans in the | 1ouse to express with even more l olainness their opinion that the over l hrow of the civil service principle is pad for the state and will prove bad or the party.-Waterbury American. l