Putnam patriot., 1909-05-28
Editorial Scraps.

Congress ls struggling. II moi quarrel ing. oYef ihe new tariff bill making slow plogfess. Discussing outside what thc details of fbe tariff are going to be, l. wasted breath The Republican paf. fvis pledged ts the country 10 revise the present tann.-not up nor down In the interest ol lhe entire qe92le II ahan9ei te please Any speetai interest the party will 6e held aeeeuntabiet and President Taft Aill nol approve it. For these reasons we may expect to get satisfactory tafla 1ill.
 The recent outbreak of the foot and mouth disease among livestock in New York, Peuusylsania, Maryland and Michigan, that created so much aiafm, has been efadiented by the Bureau Of Industry of the Department Of Agnl culture, at an expenditure of s6e,po by the government. It has thus pre-. vented the loss Of millions and millions of dollars. The origin of the disease was traced as follows. Certain sHall- p1x vaccine virus, contaminated *itb The infection of foot and mouth disease, which had been imported, was pfoenf- ed in May, lo0s, by T firm Of mnnafne- torine chemists. Calves used by the latter firm in propaEating vaccine were sent to the stoekyafds and thence, on the same day, toia farm. Four days later three carloads Of cattle reached the stoekyafds where the calves had been confined, and contracted the dis ease and were shipped 10 New York and other states, where the disease de- veloped.
 \ statue of John Nithefsp0on, born in Scotland in ts22, and after notable career ii his native land came to this country by invitation, in lIes, to be. come President of Princeton College, was unveiled last Friday in Washing ton. He was the only clergyman who signed the Declaration ot Independence and K the only signer, except Benjamin Franklin, who has had statue erected in his honor In that city. In the de bate over the Declaration of lndepen. dence, John Withefspoon closed his notable speech with these burning words.
 aFof my own part, of properly have some, of reputation have more, that reputation is staked. that proper. ty Is pledged on the issue of this con. test. And although these gray haifs must soon descend into the sepulchfei 1 would infinitely rather that they de- ncend thilher hy the hand of the exc. cntioner than desert at this crisis the sacred cause of my country
 Coming from a distinguished clergy man and forceful orator, his speech had much influence In favor of the adop ton of the great Declaration.
 Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men have been said 10 resemble those or great apes, but now comes distln. gaished French anthfopologisl and de. clares that one, W hich has recently been discovered k alniost an eNaet flsliea of that of Bismarck The oldest mon uments and abors of every kind, as tal as history reaches, indicate great men tai powers equal to modern days.
 IL k estimated that between Nice ane Genoa and the south oi France along tn, Var, nearly iso tons of flowers are ga lhered for The sakeo of perfumefy The discovery that there is money in Nio lets is spreading In England and ' scheme Is planned for growing sioies' on some tight land tn Inc south of tn gland for Inc sake of distilling the scent, and also for cut flowers. Why cannot that industry be introduced in. to the United States Perhaps II has been, for our country k extensive. The centre of IL, east and west, is hundreds of miles beyond San Franseiseo, oat in the Pacific, and north aud south al most equally as far-and embraces eN' cry kind oi climate. en every part our people find something to do 10 seeI them uscfuliy industrious. fhereiort there Is some section where they can raise yiolets AS pFoiitaoly as they can in England, France ef Italy.
 Rev. f. F. Clark, uf Portland, Me- founder of the Christian EndeaSor ~o' cieiy, has just started on tour to stsi' Ii k. conventions in various Western Slales, winding up by attending the Ail-American convention al St. Paul. Returning East, DrJ Clark will leave New York oct. ib, with party Of A ef his followers on the steamer Arabic, which ,has been chartered for tEtp around the world. The real destina' ton. however. Is Ahra, indta. where the worlds Christian Endeayor con eratson is to be held in November, at which 5000 and io,ua delegates will he in attendance.
 Governor Hughes of New York has just vetoed biil passed by the l.egis- lature, providing for the pensioning of civil war veterans on service basis, intending to " pull him in a hole, as it was done knowingly 10 be in viola lion oi State law. If he refused to sign il they expected he would lose popular fly. If he did sign 1t II would amount Ia nothing. Rus the Governor by sis- ing his reasons for seloing il, pointed oat the movers motives and the danger