Putnam patriot., 1909-06-04
Editorial Scraps.

fiff sri DHGk ID bBbtftt~Hs fthE H3t r8fftiAAt experiences, wlll. in the end, prove beneficial to the world. lt viii lead fo readiusfneut Of individual and gen. erAi business affairs, and hundreds of thousands of men have sought and found new purposes 10 attract Them from ihe old paths, that will give them new aspirations and call out dormant facuIties. Too great prosperity ts as bad Tor large communities as for indi. yiduaIs. This county has suffered less and Is recovering fazter from the check 10 business than ans other country.
 The pfe4byietlan General Assembly, at it's reeent session, condemned the use of tobacco as equally wrong for Christian as the use of alcoholic liquor One ministers akieks, and says he will smoke in spite Of the General Az sembiy. sixty or seventy years ago some ministers thought Il interference win their personal liberty to be fofbids den to drink liquor. Tn scotland at that time, when the General Assembly asked the ministers ef tue established church 10 give their advice as to what should be done to stay the terrible ray. ages of drunkenness. only three out of .gD0 advised total abstinence.
 Rev. l.. N Haideman, pastor of the First Baptist church, Broadway, New York, says of Andrew earneeie's re- cent forecast of things, that he "knows more about steel than religion and more about Piltsbufg than prophecy" He then proceeds To give straight htip7 about the future. lie says tue uaVies of Europe in Inc Mediterranean point to the Roman Empire under ten kings and an eleventh central king. He then draws fhis lHTid picture.
 There must be conflict, when things will be smashed, governments torn down, fine existing order of things Hbo- lished and grent military government erected, embracing Europe and Asia, with ike kings In the Esst and five ia the West. The Word of God forecasts ihis revival and the entire political de. mennof of the nations involved is vins dieating the Word Of tod. The ulti- mate realization k nearing
 Ills forecast of the future, according to the eminent theologians for the past 4oo years, began under Atiia, when ten Kingdoms were established out Of The old Roman Empire, and the rest, eN- cept the eonsummation, has followed.
 Mrs Julia Ward Howe celebrated heI sbth birthday last week Thursday She stands first among the eminent wo men Of this eouniry-and we have many of them. Deeply appfeeiatinl the numerous congratulations and tes timonials she received, she made pub lie the following statemeni:
 aI am very grateful fof the genera interest in my soth birthday, and an glad to take this opportunity of ex pressing my appreciation to the pub l.e aDd is gfeat fepresentatiye--thi prcss.
 Teacher Bessie, name one bird Una k now extinct.
 
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 Lillle Bessie-ouI canary The cal eNtincted him.
 A chniieuf who ran down and killet little boy in front of hts home In New York, and put on speed and draeeee the boy rod on the machine, to es cape, before he became freed. Tn, chauffeur fled to Texas. He lost hi, hal from the speed he made, and h, means of that his name was learned and he was traced and arrested, ano brought back from Texas. Last week he was tried and convicted, and sen fenced to 20 years in States prison The reckless automobilists are the eN ception. and only severe punishment will diminish their number.
 The special Panama Canal commit tee of the New York Chamber of Com nlercc, believing that they could no render an adequate report without ! personal inspection of the great work have decided to Sisii Panama. of al the eminent engineers and others, In disiduals and bodies, who have visited the canal since the iinai decision wa reached, have all declared, after An in spcetion, that the lock canal Is preiera bic lo the sea.lesel, even those that Ina, had a atpfefetence for the latter. An, for three reasons IL will cost much less it will be finished several years sooner it will be larger and more convenient IL will be less liable to damage iron floods, earthquakes or other causes
 Little ebellions sprung up in Sar Domingo and in Peru, last week. bu we're soon put down, with the lass of | few hundred iives--of the lower classes The selfish. ambitious leaders take sd vantage of the dense ignorance of tn, masses to persuade them by promises and iittle money, to start q revolu ton, If the wind proves fair the, may win, but only to te exposed II turn to be driven from power in tn, same manner. Educate the people Il the only remedy for such disasters.
 Messina suffered one of the wers shocks May 2stn, since the greatlearta quake. Two days after, shocks wer felt In Indiana. Illinois, Wisconson Michigan, Iowa and contiguous terri