Putnam patriot., 1911-12-15
Editorial Scraps

1nfisllAI 5GlNiltE A1 lihEA9 hp g4hAi V Mrs. Eddy good many years. That it will undergo changes Of faith and creed is to be expected. AL all events, it is interesting that the East Orange IN. j. church has broken away from the control of the "mother ehurch' in Boston and has declared that hence forth "the Bible shall be our only guiden-instead of the "textbookH and Bible, as the mother church requires
 The battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor by an explosion from the outside. This Is the gist of a short statement issued by the navy de pertinent, based on the findings made by the joint army and navy board which spent several months in Hav- ana harbor Investigating the wreck.
 An imperial edict has been issued al Pekin sanctioning the cutting oil of queues.
 With the exception of Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Idaho, Utah and Nevada, Red Cross Seals are on sale in one or more cities of every state in the Union, and also in Porto Rico and the Canal Zone. In most of the states, the sale has been organized in every city, village and hamlet. Every conceivable method of conveyance is being employed in shipping the seals from the various state headquarters to local agents, from the x-team in Ala bama and Mississippi, and the pack burro in Colorado, 10 the express train and the automobile in New York These holiday seals are even being sold in mountain hamlets, where the snow will prevent the receipt of re- turns for months after the first of the year.
 Tin plate exports in October were twelve times as much as the imports of that article. The quantity exported in the month of October, 1911, was l5,- 94l S98 pounds valued at S533 ,997, and the imports for the same month aggre- gated ,2S6,S77 pounds valued at $4s,- 2S4
 The mayor of Occur q 'Alene, Idaho, proposes municipal saloon, and his plan is indorsed by Mayor Hindley of Spokane, Wash, who believes that 1t would hit at the two greatest objec tions to the present saloon, the treat ing habit and the desire for profits. He considers that a city in licensing saloons becomes partner in ,their business and that il might as well be come the sole proprietor, with full power of control.
 The "New York Journal of Com meree" gets this word from its cores pendent in London: "Sir Edward Grey's surrender to Rassia over Persia by indorsing Russia's demand that Treasurer-General Shuster be removed is keenly resented in influential circles here, who do not consider that the young man has had fair play"
 The trial of the beef packers in Chi eaeo on the criminal charge of conspir- aey to control fresh meat prices in the United States Is by far the most im- portant one in the history of the anti trust law of 1890. | is a supreme test of the efficacy of the criminal clauses of the act
 Chicago falls into line, in the move ment Tor a square deal to the ultimate consumer, with an ordinance requir- ing fruit and vegetables to be sold by weight. It is the only rational way
 Advocates of increased pensions for veterans of the civil war fought in the House at Washington Friday in the final stages of the effort to pass the Sherwood dollar a-days pension bill.
 In the opinion of the "Congrega- tionalistA the daily papers have been giving the American public rather more than enough lately of red hats, bireitas, cloaks, lace, and man-mil- linery generally.
 England in this Persian matter has officially informed Russia that she will not recognize the depoSed shah of Per sia if by any chance he should be rein stated at feheran. This settles him, and the Russian work in his favor, too.
 However iukewarm the North and East may be, the southern Mississippi valley is enthusiastic over the project for the equalization of the Ohio, and there was a fine flow of eloquence at the dinner recently given by the Pitts burg chamber of commerce 10 the dele gates to the national waterways con vention from the inland waterway league of Louisiana and Texas.
 Shake of the grip of your old enemy Nasal Catarrh, by using Ely's Cream Balm. Then will all the swelling and soreness be driven out of the tender, in- famed membranes. The fits of sneez- ing will cease and the discharge, as of fensive to others as 10 yourself, will be stopped when the causes that produce 1t are removed. Cleanliness, comfort and renewed health by the use of Cream Balm. Sold by all druggists for 50 cents, or mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warren St., N. Y.