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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

the highest number of votes. A summary of the poll is as follows:
 2328 registered as Republicans
 639 registered as Democrats
 249 registered as Prohibitionists,
 Socialists, etc.
 3216 total registered for days.
 SIS voted for Wilson
 46S voted for Hughes
 329 voted for Roosevelt r 82 voted for others,
 1924 did not vote.
 The President received 16 more votes than Hughes and Roosevelt com bined. The Portland Oregonian says in commenting on this poll:
 "One outstanding fact. emphasized by the straw vote was MT. Wilson's s women who voted expressed prefer ence for MT. Wilson. This was true notwithstanding the fact that a large majority of these women had regis tered as Republicans
 The Oregonian is one of the leading Republican papers in the Northwest. In commenting on this poll in a letter, the Honorable, Joseph N. Teal says:
 t&The registration in this country is about 7z to 1 Republican. This straW ballot shows several important facts. Out of SIS voters expressing prefer ence for a Democrat, SIS were for MT. Wilson. This indicates substantial unanimity amongst the Democrats. The total voters expressing a prefer ence were 1892. Of these S64 ex- pressed a preference for some Repub- 1ican, SIS for some Democrat, a Re publican majority of but 46. The ma- jority of women expressed their pref erence for Mr. Wilson. The signifi- canoe of this test vote lies in the fact that this county and state are both Overwhelmingly Republican, and the result of the testis really startling''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
BRIDGEPORT CRICKET CLUB.

At a. meeting of the Bridgeport Cricket club last evening the following officers were elected: President s. Bradbury; vice-president, J. Moore; captain, s. Fox; vice-cap ptainI IR. Peate: treasurer, T. B. Power; secretary, B. Jowett; committee, e. Dinsdale, G. G1edhil1, T. Wilson, A. Hardwick, A. Tottle /E. Earnshaw, F. Cooper and s. Jenkinson; auditor, T. Wilson. The first game of the season will be at Sea- side park Decoration day, when they will try wickets with the New York Cricket club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
Belgian Relief Ship
 Has Big Wheat Cargo

Galveston, Tex, April 15--with "a
 cargo of 214,OoOO bushels of wheat for the Belgian relief commission, the British steamer Fladrier, decorated with black and white bunting an nouncing her peaceful mission, is on her way today to Rotterdam where =her cargo will be trans-shipped sby barge to Belgium. She will go via
 Newport News for coal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
British Have Lost
 Over 23, ,OOO Officers

London. April 15-Offcials' casualty list for the month of February shows that the British army lost 263 killed 597 wounded and 1 5 missing-a total of S75- This brings the aggregate loss since the outbreak of the war to 23,- 962 of whom $7,42O have been killed or have died of wo1nds, 14,755 wound ed and 1,788 are missing or prisoners of war. In February losses were heaviest in Indian contigent opera tions in xMesopotamia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
BFENIANs CAPTURE
 BRITISH FLAG.
Eastport. Apri1 18th. 1866.

EaStpOrt, ApT1I IbLh, I8 8b6. Nine armed F'enians captured the English revenue flag on Indian Island, last night They belonged to the crew of the Fenian prfvateers from which they lowered boat and proceeded with muff1ed oars tol the spot, actually under the guns of the English war ship 5"Pyzades,'' and within reach at any moment of the picket boats. The flag was surrendered without a shot being fired. It is believed there were no soldiers on the Island
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
PBRsoNAL NTELLIGENCE.

Henry D. Beach, Signal Engineer of the Consolidated road, who has been laid up at his home iH this city, is now on the mend and will soon be out again.
 Sergeant John McNamara, of the Ninth precinct Chicago, is visiting friends in this city. He is a Democrat and he says after the last municipal election there, 560 Democratic police men were turned down. for asserting g their Democracy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
AT THE BRIDES HOME.

Louis Golf was married last evening to Miss Louise Sillirnan, at the resi- dence of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. Eugene R. Si11iman, 32 Harriet street. It was a quiet home wedding. Rev. E. G. Fullerton of the Park Street Congregational church officiating. MT. and Mrs. Golf are residing at 327 Will liam street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
STREET CARS CARRIED 80, 900.

ming as yet only two cars, and the track but about half laid, carried dur ing the first two months after being put in operation, S0,o00 passengers.
 This fact argues that it is not alone a great accommodation, but demon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
ET,ECmON RETURNS.

We request the Post-Maseers or oeh- er gentlemen. of the different towns fin this County, to transmit to us, as early as possible after the election. a Hist of Votes given in their respective gtownships, for Governor and Lieut. Governor; also a list of the Repre- sentatives-Ed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
One Hundred Years Ago.
EQUAL RIGHTs MEETING.

The Friends of Equal Rights in the town of Danbury, are requested to meet at the House of Aaron Seelye' Inn-holder in said Danbury. on Friday evening. at o'clock, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Repre- sentatives to the next General Assem-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
A NEW WHARE.

The Furniture Manufacturing conn lpany propose building a new wharf in front of their extensive factory at the south end of Main street. work on which will probably be commenced the present week. Go ahead, pile driver,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
THE BIGGEST THING OUT,

Go to P1att's, 65 State street, to- morrow afternoon and evening, and see a Rotary Gridiron-said to be ''the biggest thing out" Housekeepers and lovers of good steaks are specially ip- vited to be present and see the thing operate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

A wage increase of 10 per cent, ef- fective April 15, was announced by the Wanskuck Go. and the Coronet Worst ed Go, the largest independent woolen mills in Providence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Sir Roger Easement, who early in the war went to Germany to try to persuade Irish prisoners of war there to fight for Germany, has been arrest ed in Berlin,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
THE PAsTOR sTIIL nb.

Rev. Q. D. Ferris of the sunmerfeld' M. E.. church, still remains in poor health. Just as services were about to commence in the church Sunday evening, he had a sudden attack of illness and was obliged to go home.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

In North Dakota, according to a let ter from F. c. He1lstronn, the 'EPresi- dent boiled a larger percentage of the total vote cast in this election than has ever been cast at any of the state wide primaries held in this state.''
 In a straw vote taken by the PortA land Oregonian the President received
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

It is highly desirable to have har- rnonious colors on the table, but hard ly necessary for the landlady to take so much pains to have blue milk to go with the china.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Who says public officials negleo their duties. when so many of then stick to their desks the day the bal team opens the season?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

After. complaining because the bal team gets rattled so easily, some men will go tod the grounds and holIe1 Rotten Take him out" at the home players.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Miss Frances I. Martin. bookkeeper of the PeIaghar Hardware Speciality Go, at New Haven, was held up by an unidentified man in front of the company's offices. The man escap- ed with $3,O9O, the payroll.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Four hundred employees of the Charters Creek Coal Co.,, at Canons- burg, Pa, went on strike, after 8, dis agreement between the men and the company over the naming of a physi- clan
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

After protesting his indifference to politics. it is quite possible that Justice Hughes reads the paper before dip ping into those Undiscovered law bookG.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

The fact that no party ever gloEf fled it's big river and harbor bills in the platform or on the stump, does not prove that they won't help the Congress1nen to get elected again.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

That shril1 noise you hear about now, is not the blast of some distant steam whistle but merely the so- prano soloist trying for the B flat in the Easter anthem.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

loyal service-to his country, that he can't get either an office or the chance to go as delegate to a presidential con vention.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

The men who wear the white stock ings do not seem to realize that French heels and satin rosettes are needed to make the thing com plete.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Cleanup week is being observed in many newspaper offices by sweeping the dirt under the type cases.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

The British prize court at London issued an order releasing a consign- ment of gloves sent by parcel post from Germany to a New York import ing house.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
WESTERN PRIMARIES SHOW STEADY TREND.
 TO WILSON VICTORY

Results in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois Show More Votes Cast For President Wilson, Unopposed, Than For Combined Republican Candidates, Where Espec- ial Effort Was Made to Bring Out Electorate Because of Contests For Preference.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

The fact that a man buys the usual quantity of gasoline at the high price does not prove that he can keep UT his regular contribution to charities.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Four children of Gust Ruhonen, a Finnish farmer living in the woods near Chisholm, Minn., died of scarlet showed in.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

Secretary Baker of the War Depart ment is getting quite well now, but hs need never expect to rival in fame hi. distinguished kinsmans HSEan P79r Baker.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15

It seems pretty tough, when pa triot is anxious to offer himself in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-15
BRIDGEPORT As M T WAS
100 -2O-YEARs AGO
Twenty Years Ago.

pecuniarily.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
The Crimes of the Cat. (NeW York Tribune.)

It is a very damning indictment which MT Edward Howe Forbush, state ornithologist of Massa chusetts, draws against cats in the Journal of the American Museum of Natural His tory. There are twenty-five million cats in the United States, and those in New York state alone kill thre-and-a- half million birds year, he estimates. They have eXterminated certain spe- cies of birds. They destroy frogs, rab- bits shrews, moleS, toads and lizards; and if so many inesect destroyers had not been cut off in their prime who knows but that the gypsy moth, brown tailed moth and the elm tree beetle might have been kept in their prop CT place instead of erupting all over the face of nature and costing the state of Massa achusetts $9,000,O00 in one year? Expensive little fireside or naments, you see.
 If you must have a pet other than a dog or pony or a baby, have some thing useful, suggests MT Forbush. A nice little shrew, for example, or a cold handful of toad, or perhaps a lizard Or 8 salamander. We confess
 that ever since MT. Kenneth Graham
 wrote about MT. Toad in his 'Wind in | the Willows we have entertained a 1 rather amiable interest in the family. | In addition to such companionship as
 you would get from your little friend l you would have the satisfaction of l knowing that he was nobly raiding the
 insect world in your behalf when not
 on duty in your lap. Licenses for cats
 is MT. Forbush's demand. Such a sys- l tenn would cut their numbers in half, 1 he believes.
 There is something on the other side
 of the ledger. If we destroy the cats l who destroy the toads who destroy
 the gypsy moths, who will be left to
 destroy the rats and mice? Irish ter riers, you answer. An excellent idea if
 every cat destroyed should be re- 1 placed by good ratter. But good rat ters are not frequent even among ter
 riers; and there are endless honest,
 law-abiding human beings, strange as
 it may seem, who will have a Tabby
 and will not have a dog. So the rats
 and mice would play, we fear, if any large raid upon cats were effected.
 That is one reason why it will be
 hard for MT. Forbush to prevail. And l there are others Cats utterly refuse to
 die; they propagate with miraculous 1 efficiency and their defenders are le- | gion They have a way with them
 feline, feminine way, and there is no denying its lure. Many many things and beings ought to be put out of any | just and intelligent system, and yet l they persist in this world of ours year after year. Hogs in the shape of men and cats in the shape of women, for example. Any little thing we can do to help MT. Forbush we shall be glad to do. But his goal is the millennium, we fear.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
"SeX AntagOniSIn.
(South Norwalk SentineD

(SOuth NOrWalk Sentlnel). y
 In the midst of vast deal of loose talk about the "antagonism of Tho sexes" in economics and politics, Q sensible citizen named Eicheberger, in a letter to the New York Times. quietly and convincingly points out that there is so such thing. The very phrase is an absurdity.
 '"The fact is," he says that the average man, as well as the average woman, is united to some member or the opposite sex by stronger tlea than any that exist between man and man or woman and woman. Not only does this apply obviously to seven or eight adults in every ten Who are married. but 1t applies all along rhe line of family relationship. line ave- rage man has a more tender feeling for his mother than for his brother. Favoritism in family where it exisJz is nearly always between a parent ana a child of the opposite sex.
 ''What women will not desert her dearest chum-to whom she has sworn eternal devotion-for some mere man? What man will not give up the company of his own sex for that of the woman he loves?
 "Go to tho parks, theaters, any vhere-what do you see? Solidarity of sex? No. Nine-tenths of the groups you see will be associated members of the opposite sexes, and more interested in each other than in anything that concerns the fate of man or woman as a sex"
 So it has been from the beginniSg So it will be until the end of time And all the economic stress and mo- Ttical activity in the world isn't go- ing to change this rockbottom fact of human nature.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05

have the right 10 use .heir own con- sciences in determining where they shall have their mail addressed in the future. Out in Indianapolis where the latest conference of prominent mem- bers of the Progressive Party was held there was an inkling of this decision. While they decided not to name a can- didate for President they also refused, and with some show of indignation, to support the former justice of the Supreme Court.
 The Republicans may see a victory in getting Colonel Roosevelt and George Perkins and Raymond Rob- bins back in their party. And, in deed, it is somewhat of an accomplish ment after the terrific feuds of the past, some of which have not been for gotten even to this day; but the mere fact that certain leaders endorse the Hughes candidacy is no reason for be- lieving that every man and woman associated with the Progressive Party is willing to go bHndly back into the fold of Republicanis1n.. In New York 94 out of 150 Progressive State Com mtteemen are supposed to have signed the books, while 48 out of 62 county chairmen did likewise. Even this is not over encouraging. The figures of 1912 stand as living proof that un- less a larger proportion of Progress sives go over into the camp of Hughes there will be little chance for Charles
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office
Easement.
(NeW York Sun. ]

To the lawyers the matter of Roger David Easement was perfectly plain or utterly hopeless, according to the side from which it was viewed To the aIenlStS it was som ething in which to return a negative answer: the man was not insane. To the clergy 1t was something which we shall not discover, for priests are dumb. To the novelists. of whom there are so few in the world the case might not appear to be either plain or hopeless or marked with madness. If there was one novelist in whom were combined certain of the talents of his fellows he might law before us a picture so plain, so vivid so understanding, of the man who was hanged yesterday that all would know why Roger Easement did the things he did.
 We know what Easement saw in the Congo and in Putumayo and what he did for those wretched places, but 1t would take a great novelist, per- haps one of the Frenchmen, to say how it affected the man himself Was Ireland much present in his thoughts as he worked in the tropics? Did he think of the British government as a tyrant or as something to be purified by work of the kind that he was doing? The latter, it would seem, for he welcomed the accolade that was his reward. Why he dragged his knighthood and himself to Germany the present facts do not explain to the satisfaction of those who have studied the puzzle. One of the English novelists who signed the pc tition for Clemency might make the puzzle clear in a book, for Chester ton is a master at explaining 1nver- siOns of the mind. Perhaps he could show why dreamer who sought free dom for an island of indiVidual lisis should have gone for aid to Prussia. It is not a weirder case than that of the Napoleon of Noting Hill.
 That picture of Easements last night at sea and the landing on the Irish coast might be left to Conrad who could show us the dogged reso- lution of this strange adventureT at the end of his voyage, going ashore to certain failure. The arrest, the trial, these could be written by a1- most any one. They were not ! part of Easement. but of the windmill at which he had tilted. For the end of the story, Hardy. The barber hang man, the stroke of the prison bell, the men and women on their knees outside the walls, all belong to Hardy and to no one else.
 But there is no novelist who could do it all and make it clear. So it must rest that this was a black tTai- tor or hero rebel and that ne is punished. or martyred. The world will be of several minds about it. There will be some to believe that it was justice; others, that it was crime. Many consider it stupidity. A few will look on it as a futile thing, akin to executing a riddle.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
"'The Old Ticket"
Bridgeport POst.)

The Hartford COurant representing g strongly that element of the republi- can party which is called ultra con- servative, and which also is close to the position of J. Henry ROraback is out with a strong demand for the re- nomination of "the old ticket" mean ing the entire executive force of the state, elected by large pluralities ln 1914 some of them by actual majori- ties over all other parties.
 Scch an attitude at this time, com- ing as it does a few weeks before pri- maries and convention times, means that one element of the republican party is willing to stand pat upon candidates.
 All that the Courant has to say about efficient service for the state by these men in office is no doubt true. When the state reports are made at the close of the fiscal year, Septerrl- Der 30, this efficiency will be more full ly emphasized
 Still, there is reason to believe that the attitude of the Currant is due more to the fear that the party cOntemplates nominating some one for governor who will be inclined to take progress slVe action, especially upon the great issue of taxation, rather than to any keen desire to break republican pre- .cedent and retain in office men who have served the state we'll
 There is an interesting inside party battle in progress in this direction. We shall have more to say about it from time to time. There are signs, too, Ot possible playing the old game-that of trying to throw the citizens off the true scent by raising some false issue while the real purpose is to halt and hinder a progressive movement.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME.

It may be true, as Raymond Rob- bins says on the occasion of his going back to the fold, that the voters of the nation in 1912 and 1914 decreed the death of the Progressive Party, and all signs point to desire on the out their political future with the in stru1nents provided by the two dOmi- nant parties" But this much is also true: The Progressives' Party was far from dead in the first week of June in this year of our Lord 1916. It is probably gasping for breath now. At that time it was very much alive as any good Republican who att tended the convention in Chicago will aver Not only was it very much alive, it was very much feared. Nor is the danger past There is still a 'kick' left.
 In announcing his intention of SUD- porting Charles Evans Hughes, Chair man Robbins commits the same fault chara cteristic of all those who have at l tempted to sell out the rank and file 1 of Progressives He thinks he is going 1 to carry with him all the followers he
 may hold. Like Colonel Roosevelt
 and his able signcr of checks, George 1 ". Perkins, MT. Robbins issues
 another call to the wild Vet with all
 this, there are those who can see that
 the ProGreasives are not going to sub
 init to any further attempt at deliv-
 erfng them bag and baggage to any
 one party, be it Republican or Demo crat. If their own party is dead they
New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
suits than board that has other mat ters to take is attention.

suits than a board that has other mat ters to take is attention.
 If a recent article in the Hartford Courant correctly relates letter writ ten by Thomas c. Dolan, of Co. E, to the chief of police, it should not be permitted to pass unquestioned. The newspaper article credits MT. Dolan, in writing from Nogales, with rallying to the defense of certain New Britain soldiers who were recently court mar tialed and fined for insubordination. While not wishing to resurrect tho charges against these indiscreet sol- diers or to say anything that would make their lot a more humiliating ono, it is nevertheless fitting that the po- nceman-soldier's alleged article be TO- pudiated in justice to the newspaper man who wrote the news. The ac- count credits MT. Dolan with deny ing accounts of insubordination of number of local boys with the militia" This soldier-cook- -policeman's deniais cannot be taken seriously, for army records bear out the fact that these men were arrested and charged with lnsubordinatiOn at the behest of their captain, E. Raymond Low. They were court martialed. They were found guilty and they were fined With these facts in mind, where does Cook Dolan's valiant defense carry any weight? It is to be hoped, however, that hereafter this unfortunate incl dent be dropped and it is to be hoped and expected that these soldiers, who were more indiscreet than wilfully bad, will from now on be good sol diers, a credit to their company their city and themselves