The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-17
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When the last will and testa- ment of Mrs. Teresa Bell, widow of Thomas Bell, California pioneer and millionaire, was read five men and women whc had be- 1ieved her their mother learned that she denied them to be her own flesh and blood. She be- queathed them five dollars each and the remainder of her estate to charity, ito my cousins, if have any, and if not, to the state." If this climax to a human drama were shown at the end of a nov ing picture play, it would be re- story romantic or sordid was in this woman's mind? Not so long ago in Bridgeport one of the theatres displayed a picture in which the hero had acquired five children not his own. This woman might have stepped right out OI lIldL ,ptCLuiS.
 James F. O'Rourke, a keeper of animals in Central Park, took some water to his old friend Akbar, the twelve year ole lion of the Central Park Zoo. The lion clawed his hand. 'fThat lion is sorry he paved me-" said O'Rourke later. He called the lon by name. and the animal shook hands, putting first one paw and then the other between the iron bars. In this extremely hot weather it is easy to be out of temper. Keep cool, qeave the clawing out.
 
 "Shuff1in' Phi1'' Douglas, lead ing pitcher and hero of 1921 worlds series. is barred from baseball forever. He is charged with offering to desert his club for money. Baseball, once a. clean game. Is on the high road to ruin. Hanging around every grandstand in the country, in cludins the grandstand at Bridge port, is bunch gamblers. When gamblers appear in the neighborhood of a clean sport, that sport is on the road to an ;. early finish. The gamblers will ruin it.
 In Colombia. American scfen- tsits have discovered the remains of a vast city. once strong with life and representing a well de- veloped civilization. The 1nhab- itants of that city deemed their civilization as enduring as time atself. The little clouds on the horizon were scarcely observed. Civilizations perish even as men do. Few are they who perceive the signs of approaching dissolu- tion. Every civilization has it's Mont Pelee, which may explode any day.
 Torrid weather brings it's ad- ditional irritations. Fairfax liar rison. Of Southern Railroad. speaking from Washington where it Is even hotter, says. ''1f it means war to operate the South ern Railway, then let it be war now and not letter." Tn the cool North 1t seems prefera ble to make it later. Wars fought by their great, great-grandchfldre By then it may not be necessary to fight.
 Republican Voters League is 1ivelier in the good old summer time than such organizations usually are. The jibe of count less generations against Thigh brow politics. is that such poH- tics come in spasms. The league has industry and continuity which are factors of real civic progress.
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 Diogenes looking for an honest man searched in the wrong town William Beloin, sealer of weights and measures, hasn't found g short measure gasoline pump ir Bridgeport" The habitat o, honesty surely is in this Just and happy community.
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