Putnam patriot., 1911-12-22
oaiiies, within three months, WaakIiac uithin One Year
Editorial Scraps

mine right under the twin cities "Enough to pay the national debt Is the sanguine statement of H. II. Mill Ter and George H. Hurd, who have taken options on all the rights they could get hold of.
 Fresh.afr schools and outdoor bed rooms are the vogue-is il not time for open-air stables? At St. Louis hos pifal, recently, 70 COWS, or 50 per cent Of the herd, were killed by order Of the state board of control, because infected with tuberculosis, and the rest trans feffed to a new barn. With kine as with men this disease is largely due to unhealthful conditions.
 Direct trade has begun between Sa- vannah and Japan, and the British steamer Wray Castle has just finished taking on 10000 bales of upland cot ton, which with some pig-iron for bal lasting constitutes the whole cargo.
 Advocates of Connecticut river naVi- gation will be interested in the effect of the intercostal canal on the price of coal in the gulf states. At Morgan City, La., it dropped from SS to s3. D ton, whether it came from the Indian territories or from Pennsylvania.
 One has to keep up with the times in agriculturelnowadays even to know lhe names of crops that are being rais- ed A few years ago Wyoming farm CTS brought over Russian grain called emmer, which is hardy and bears heavy crop, and this has been crossed with American grains so successfully that the state Is now growing nearly 100 varieties of new cereals. One of these, very like wheat, yields 66 bush els to the acre, and Is said to make very good bread, slightly swedish. Alfalfa too, is being used for food and brewed into drink. A Wyoming farmer visit ing the land show in Chicago declared: Within the next 10 years the average American, instead ol sitting down to a dinner of roast beef, potatoes, parsnips, cauliilower, ten biscuit, mlnee pie, cheese and coffee, will eat crisp kelp flakes, okra soup, emmer mullins, al- falfa omelet and alfalfa pound cake, spreading his mullins and cake with alfalfa honey and drinking emmer coffee.
 Governor Baldwin in speaking to the farmers of Connecticut said: "A few miles from New Haven there Is a clump of persimmon trees that marks how the line of Southern production meets there the line of Northern pro. duction."
 Montana farmers, who have been handicapped by the scarcity of labor CTS, are delighted with an invasion of Hindus, who till lately found employ ment only at day labor on the streets or railroads. They do very well on the farm, and are content with Sl.2o day.
 In the South boys corn clubs are popular, and they made 500 exhibits al the recent southern corn show at Atlanta, Ga. IL is quite as useful as a boy scouts movement, and not bad fun ii the spirit of em ulation k once arous- ed Hoeing corn for grown-ups, of course, is stupid back-achy business, as every boy knows.
 What specially struck the English novelist, Arnold Bennett in his wal ks about New York, he tells the London reporters, was that there is wider gulf between the poor and the rich than in London.
 "Love people and make them love you; "don't worry, and forget about your "nerves7, Is the advice which Mrs. Priscilla Ayres lnsleee, of New Brunswick, gives those who wish to live to be 100 years old,
 Canada's trade returns, as reported by Parliament for the year, showa very marked increase in dealings with the United States, with fully as marked a diSincination to increase commerce with other countries, even with Great Britain. The total growth ot all foreign trade was S56, ,000 GOO last year, and of this no less than sol, ,000, ,0e0 was credited to this nation against s2,235 oo0 with the United Kingdom and g., ,290,00 with Germany.
 The forward movement in business was so unmistakble last week as to command universal recognition and to effect general sentiment profoundly for the better.
 How life in the West has changed in a short time is illustrated by the re- cent death of a farmer in Texas who received fatal shock while switching 2 on the electric light in his barn. It comes hard to many old'fashtoned people to think of barn as illuminat- ed by anything but the dim light of A latern.
 Hungary is trying to rise to the American standard of civilization. The court at Agrsm recently acquitted six ring.leaders of party of peasants who had iynehed a man as an ine-t- diary, beating him to death with fails.