Putnam patriot., 1911-12-01
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wave curls crisply along the Mississip- pi valley as it rolls to the East, the lime has come to shake out the fur mace and get out the storm windows. It has been a wonderful fall, but win ter may come with a whoop when it comes. Watch the middle West for the next few days.
 And still not foreigner has been | killed in China during this most | bloody and savage revolution The | Chinese massacre each other in the [ most barbarous style and rail the for eigner has to do is 10 take a reserved | seat and be comfortable. Something | unprecedented, unheard Of, is taking | place in the Orient Is it the Chinese way of waking up?>
 --UB Blahoma has found a new crop | which Il is believed will be a formid- | able rival to maize and kafr corn. This | is foetoria, new sorghum indigenous in India, but greatly improved by l scientific culture under the direction of the Oklahoma state board of agricul- | ture, which has been experimenting for two years, >eThe opinion of former Senator George F. Edmunds on the constitu- tional issue raised by senators opposed to the arbitration treaties coincides with that of Governor Baldwin of c 1n- neeticut
 The coming republican Legislature in New Jersey will elect a United States senator.
 Potatoes are booming in Minnesota. A. w. Nelson of Deerwood showed Northern Pacific officials the other day how on three quarters of an acre he planted 10 bushels Of seed and dug 250 bushels of potatoes, while his son grew 5o0 bushels on less than two acres.
 Winnegance Me- Is still wondering at an eel which William Merry and a friend of his caught last week in Mud dy river, 1t was ' feet 2 l.2 inches long, had girth of "A inches, and weighed 60 pounds.
  cided that the cost of the military oe cupation of the Philippines since De cember S, lS9S the date of the signing ot the treaty of Paris has been Sl67, AS6, ,i03.
 The venerable poet of the Sierras Joaquin Miller, Is indignant al Kip ling's "female of the species poeu and says, "l am not a sufiragist but say, God bless the women." Thaek cray put more emotion into it with hi middle Victorian "fhe ladies-Got bless 'em."
 Jacob Riis, as becomes a philosoph CT, has bought farm to work and tt live upon in his old age. It is nea Worcester, and includes an old hous' in urgent need of repairs, barn twice as bad and a shed that recently caveC l. The price was $500.
 The first autumn frost has appearet in the Martian Antarctic regions. 1 was first observed at the Lowell Ob servatory on November s, the Martiar date then being what correspond to August Is on this planet.
 America has the reputation of beinl the most impoite of nations, ant France perhaps stands at the other enc of the scale. Public funetiona ries ther, are almost invariably courteous, ye the minister of finance has found room for further improvement by his re cent order that tax collectors shal smile and look pleased when money i handed to them.
 The most striking feature of the DO liucal situation in Los Angeles up {, date has been the thorough work il the registration of women. The mai registration also has increased enor mously, but that Is to be expected il any campaign that presents serou issues.
 The bureau Of manufactures calls nc tiee 10 the fact that since the Cuba reciprocity treaty of 1902 went into e feet Cuha's imports from the Unite States have increased by 65 per cent while her imports from all other cour tries have increased only oo per cen' Oscar $. Strauss, first minister an then ambassador of the United State at the Sublime Porte under three aC ministralions and member of tn Cabinet under President Roosevelt, ,an nounced the other day that his view on peace had changed and he no long CT believed that in the present state c international morals we could who'll rely on arbitration treaties for the sci clement of all international differences Dr. Wu Ting-fang's head is still o his shoulders. May IL never be rudel dissocisted from them. But the pat of reforming statesmen in China is be set with perils; the doctor should wal warily and---as far as lieth in him. reticently.