Putnam patriot., 1911-11-03
Editorial Scraps

In Saxony, when worklngman has worked faithfully thirty years In the same place the government gives him a silver medal. It distributed 1862 such medals last year. The time spent by the young men in the military ser vice is not deducted.
 Annie B. Peck, in her book, "A Search for the Apex of America, says, "Were l young man with 5000 to start, l can conceive Of no more favor able place to go than Chimbote or somewhere up this wonderful valley
 The Boston Journal announces that Herbert B. Underwood, who used to be William E. Bafrett's right hand man in the editorial work of the Boston Ad- vertser and the Record, andlwho has been the important figure on these papers since the death of their owner is to take control of the editorial de partment of the Journal, now owned by Frank A. Munsey.
 An interesting development in the domain of manners in this country is the appearance of the sentiment that no gentleman will oppose his wife's suit for divorce. It's latest manifesto. ton comes from the Indiana novelist, Booth Tafkington, whose wife's com plaint in the divorce court accuses him of great" and "habitual cruelty" MT. Tarkington is the very pink of po- liteness in this episode. "Mrs. Tark- ington,h he is quoted as saying, "has made up her mind to get this divorce, and 1t would not be the part of chival- " to throw any difficulties in her way.n
 Dr. Wiley gets his most enthusiastic inducements from various eonven- tions of women and the doctors ap- preciation of the value of their support was partly shown in his recent ad- dress to the American woman suffrage association in Louisville.
 The Germans are eating up their horses. In the first six months of this year, 35,277 ,495 pounds of horsefiesh were sold, and only about 10000, 900 pounds more than that of mutton. Meat prices continue to rise, and mu- nicipal markets for the sale of cheap fish are being opened in many of the cities.
 Letters to Santa Claus that reach the post office hereafler are to be destroyed. The order of four years ago that they might be delivered 10 local charity or. ganizations proved to be another op- portunity for the ingenious gratter, from whom not even the gentle myth of the nursery Is immune
 The earth Is by no means yet pre-. empted, and there is still chance for the "man who would be king" but the claiming for commercial exploita- ton of great tracts still unoccupled and in part barren Is one of the features of the day. Of such a sort is the vast property in Lower California, the own eiship of which is now being contested in the courts at Newark, N. l. 1t in- ciudes l-2 million acres, or over 7000 square miles, which would make traet about Si miles square.
 Ia that lively inaugural address of his at the University of Vermont, Proxy Benton said that the most val uable and valued, men "in the coun- eils of thought today are men over 60, and that the "age- limit of highest etli. cleneyH is now 60.
 An astonished South Carolina school master wrote the other day to the edi- tor of the Columbia State inquiring whether there was any basis for an as- sertion which he had seen in news paper crediting more than half of the farms in South Carolina te negro pro. prietOrs. The writer seemed indisposed 10 believe that such a state of facts could exist. But he was assured that the federal census reports showed that of the l76, lS0 farms in South Carolina in 1910, 96, ,696 were owned by negroes.
 The pure food campaign, which might more accurately be called the wholesome food campaign, since it deals with many other evils than adul- ieration, is said now to be directed against unripe or artificially ripened fruit.
 "Alcoholism,p says Dr. McMechan of Cincinnati, lis the most annoying complicating factor of anesthesia.n Ha advises surgeons not to operate on alcoholized patients except in cases where the need for the knife is evident and urgent.
 Seorched linen can be improved if the burn is not too bad, by applying a solution made by boiling one-half l pint vinegar, one-half ounce of soap, | two ounces of fuller's earth, and the 1 juice of several onions together. Spread the mixture on the seorched portion and leave II 10 dry.
 Stops itching instantly. Cures piles, eczema, salt rheum, teiter, itch, hives, heepes, scabies-Dosn's Ointment. Al .X