Putnam patriot., 1911-12-01
Latest News Condensed.


 In support of the measure the use of metal caps upon the points of hat pins was urged.
 The owner of the electric light plant at Owensville, Ind, is going to try to teach a gray monkey to become an as- sistant ineman. If he succeeds there may be new meaningsto monkeying with the electric wires.
 Rev. pr. Alfred W Arundel, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, has left the richest parish in Pittsburg, aecord- ing to the New York Times, to preach the doctrines of Christian socialism. He is said to be considering an offer to become a asocialist evangelist" That would be a new variety of agitator.
 A tea expert believes that If the present revolutionary conditions Fin China continue, the price of tea in Eu- rope and America may advance lO0 per cent in due season. The coffee drinkers will have sympathetic com pany very soon.
 The news from Washington sup. ports the impression that President Taft will make an earnest effort during the approaching session to secure ac- ton by Congress on the federal incor- poration plan, which he proposed in considerable detail more than n year ago.
 Beating her way in mems clothing across the continent for love of the man she married four months ago, and barred from any friendship with her own sex, Mrs. Christine McWiliams, twenty years old, rode into Buffalo on the blind baggage of Lake Shore ex- press from Cleveland with her hus- band.
 The attention of the public has again been called to the depopulation ques- ton in France by the publication of official statistics. These cover the first six months in 1911 and show an excess of deaths over births of lS,279.
 It is early to begin thinking about coal for the winter of 1912 -l3-for many of us the present state of the bin Is matter of sufficient concern. Yet John Markle, the independent coal op. orator, of Jedd, Pa, Is no doubt sincere in warning householders to lay in hiu cuppIu baforp \ pril
 Certainly a college course should in- clude instruction in how to swim, since, strange as it may seem, many boys get by their grammar school and high school days without having re- sponded to the mystic summons of 1.-two fingers" The American ife-say- ing society does well to start boom for the addition Of swimming to the college eurriculums of the country. Alumni of Cornell, Brown, Amherst, and Williams, have promised to help.
 Senator Root has suggested that n complete cessation of activity for five minutes by the people of all English speaking countries would be n fitting celebration of the century of peace be- tween Great Britain and America.
 Seven Chicago women-one n miss and one countess-have been ineor- porated as the Women ssMercantile company. They hope to create n new shopping center in the big town, to give employment to 900 women and girls, to sell at low prices and to re- duce the cost of living.
 Only line upon line and preeept up- on precept accomplishes some good re- suits, for we are all forgetful, and the passing good k not always promptly acted upon. IL is again in order to re- mind the reader that Christmas shop ping should be attended to in advance of the last rushing hours before that festival day, in order 10 make the bur den upon clerks and those who deliver parcels as light as may be. Then there is the economy of effort, patience and fatigue involved for both buyer and seller.
 The Michigan manager of Senatorial Follette's presidential boom says that Theodore Roosevelt has assured the as- piring Wisconsin senator that he Is in sympathy with the movement in his behalf, and that the eX-president will not himself be a candidate.
 Ii Is now made known that the building to succeed Madison Square garden as New Works principal eXhi- bition place for big shows is backed by New York Central interests, and that plans for its construction will be final ly approved this week,
 The "Sane Christmas" folks have started a publicity bureau, and begun to flood the newspaper offices with their matter AS the childish slang used to go, "oh ChrStmasw
 These reports that agents of Senator La Toilette are thick in Wall street trying to persuade big business thai the senator Is it's friend and deserve, it's support are calculated to cause hav oc in the spring primaries in the West But they may be an invention of ths enemy.
 The cooperative neighborhood laun' dry is the newest idea in Kansas, and Is being urged by the State Agreultn. ral school. IL means, of course, the abolition of an old and cherished insti.