Putnam patriot., 1909-11-12
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 In carly days, the foundation article of the Democratic belief ~as "fte' Trade and Sailors Rights" Texas the strongest Democratic state III Inc Union, now favofs protective duties. Both ifs United States seuaiors are avowed ProteefioBists. several other Southern 5tates also favor protective duties. IL isa good sign to see the ESQ lid south broken ap on any question
 President Taft in his toaf through the South, declared he had xaflous im- poftant matters to urge upon the atten- ton of Inc coming Congress. In his final speech, al Richmond, Va, Wed. nesday, lie named many oi ll1e sub Jects, closing the list, he said:
 sfIhere k another subject very near my heart. We must improve our legal procedure so as to make if both i'll efi- minaI and civil eases more simple and less expensive, and 1 mean ia feeom- mend to Congress the appointment oi u commission to take that subject up 
 and then If by Federal procedure We achieve n result that commends itself, It will form model for the States.
 At the Farmers National Congress, held at Raleigh, N C., ending last ~a- turday, adopted the following resolu- tions
 I. Parcels post system.
 ,. Postal savings banks.
 2. Opposition to n large standing nrmy.
 1. Opposition 10 ship subsidy.
 {. Reafllrmation of temperance views --favoring anti-saloon movement.
 6. ReatIlrmation of encouragement of agricultural education.
 !. Cooperation of farmers in holding product of farms against artificial de- pressed markets.
 s. Committee of five to investigate equity of taxation.
 Christian Scientists have had TUG tion which exposes their system to just criticism. Their claim k members are possessed of Christian influence that enables them to maintain "A sweetness of spirit under severe provocation. In the First Church in New York, the leader k s lady of ability, expecting to be Mrs. Eddy's successor. She Is charged by the Mother Church with malpractice, in using the power to do good tn doing evil to those she dislikes, and to save herself, says it was not her real self that did the naughty things charged to her. She has been deposed as leader by the Mother Church, If It were only one person concerned, there New York church, by vote, has sus- tained their leader against the will of the Mother Church. The fight K on.
 Pennsylvania Is suffering feaffully from drouth, the railroads are hauling water 10 supply the suffering sections. Coal mines and other industries have had to suspend, and artesian wells are being bored.
 For the first time in the 2a years of it's existence, the American Federation of Labor will hold its annual conven- kipn oii hthuuy ih t"h"o". S"'s 'N' tences are hanging over the heads of Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, who deiled the courts. and are sustained in so doing by the Federation.
 With President racing at ba miles an hour io an aaiemohile, and an eS- President daring the lion and the uni corn to do their wofst--the traditions of the strenuous life arc being fully up. held.
 The Carnegie Commission distfihu' ted 10 5o heroes saS,oo0, 28 silver med als, for acts of bravery, last week,
 The hookworm disease has been tn trodueed into san Francisco from In Orient. One doctor says he has trcate' more than hundred cases In that city
 nr. chas. N. Eliot, late President 0 Harvard, now President of the Nation al Conservation Association. tells th American people that if the coal-land and water. powers, not yet grabbed, ar to be kept out of the clutch of the grat bers, there must be additional and ads quaie protective legislation al the com ing session of Congress. Let Congres act