Putnam patriot., 1911-08-18
Editorial Scraps


 ton Of crops, general throughout the country and traceable to dfouth and intense heat, occurred in the last month, as indicated by official figures and estimates made in the monthly crop report of the Department of Agh- culture The fsport is the worst as To general crop conditions that the de partment has Issued for any month since 190l
 In speaking of the action of repre- sentatives of the Connecticut Grange relative to holding grange day at the state fair, the Barre,sNt, Times, says: Thus far, the Vermont grange has shown itself more broad minded, real izing that it k the president of tee nl- ted States who is to be received, mol merely the advocate of single prluci- ple. Asa febuke to the Connecticut grange, the Vermont farmers ought to turn out ell masse when President Taft comes to the stnte fair.
 "It is not question of liberalism or conservatism, n said lion. Frank Oliver of the Laurief cabinet, but whether the Canadian people are to be bound up and restricted all their days to trading with the east, or whether they shall have the freedom to trade with their friends to the south"
 Everybody would like to know what Admiral Count Togo is thinking In the back of his mind about the sights he's taken to seei but no American ever will.
 The Mexican clericalsts launched their "National CatholicN party at the capital city Wednesday. There was solemn mass in the cathedral, and Archbishop Jose Moray Delrio gave them his blessing. They start with a working force of say four thousand priests and some hundreds of clubs They were not happy in the years Of Poflifio Diaz. They will hardly be at- tracted by Madero if it be true (as re- ported) that he is blend of free thinker and spiIitualist.
 The late Senator William r. Frye of Maine just missed becoming president of the United States, After the nomi- nation of Garfield for the head of the republican ticket in 1880 the conNen- ton leaders decided upon Frye for the second place and sent telegram to him asking if he would accept. lie was away from home on fishing trip, so the story goes, and his wife opened the telegram and sent back an em- phatic negative. Then Arthur of New York was taken instead, and became president on the death of Garfield. II is said that Mir. Frye always approved of his wife's action,
 Milkman J Stoutier has astonished and making his daily rounds in an automobile.
 In single year the municipal au- thorities of Leeds Eng land have con demned and torn down 2o0 "unsani- uryH houses. That raises the total of such houses demolished by the city in the interest of the public health-to l,6s4.
 The passage of the veto bill by the House of Lords has saved English so- clety from the severest crisis Il has en- countered since the dour old round heads dictated fashions in millinery and brooches in the neighborhood of Piccadilly.
 Whatever may have happened to corr and spring wheat, the huckle, berry crop was never better.
 The chief health officer of Richmond, Va, Dr. Ernest C, Levy, is being widely quoted to the effect that the American negro is dying out so rapid. ly that the race will virtually become extinct during the next century. He says, or is so quoted: "The colored race with 3s per cent of the population of Richmond, has 96 per cent of the deaths and the birth rate is equally against the colored race.N
 Lacking only eleven days of the cen. tury mark, Thomas Gallagher died in St. Paul, Aug. sth. From early man hood Gallagher always took three whiskies a day and smoked a pipe in. cessantly. He retained all his fscul, ties to the end.
 The storm of protest which has been raised over the approaching marriage of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeline Force has brought about an agitation among members of the sen. ate and house of representatives look ing 10 federal law regulating mar riage and divorce.
 More than 500 lives were lost and great devastation ashore and afiost re suited from typhoon and tidal wave which swept over Japan July a6.
 The. death of Thomas Shaw, proha- bly, the oldest man in New Brunswick, was announced Monday. He was los v>ara cid