Putnam patriot., 1911-04-28
Editorial Scraps.

 life data, will begin operations abou May l, when tbe new expermenta coal mining plant at BTucetown, Pa. near Pittsburg, Is opened. It Is hoped to get information that will be usefu in the prevention Of such terrible iosi of fife as has occurred in recent disas tets.
 The recall at work in municipal gov enment may now be studied n the two Washington cities Of Seattle and Tacoma, where both mayors haze been succeeded by other men long before the expiration Of their regular terms oi office. The result in Tacoma and 1e. attle illustrates the power for social publication which women voters are pretty sure toexeHeise in municipal af- fairs, and it alsa gives waning to the saloon interests the country over as to the probable use women would make Of the ballot whether CT not the recall were adopted h part Of scheme of local government.
 \ man just back from an extensive tour In the West and through Califor- mia to the Northwest WAS impfe =sed with the change in sentiment toward the president of the United states. Having been led to expect that the West was not especially cordial toward MT Taft the traveller as he talked with people on tbe trains, in the hotels and business offices, became convinced that if there had been coldness in the past, 1t was little in evidence now.
 The first book ever printed from movable type brought the highest price recently ever paid for any book. The prize was the Guttenburg Bible, the purchaser was Henry l.. Hun ting ton of Los Angeles, and the price paid was S5o,000,
 Insurance companies favor the bill for n national department because they believe health will be improved and life prolonged, making smaller claims to pay.
 An immigrant landed at New York when asked if he had money enc ugh to provide for them he could not an swer as he did not speak English. From his pockets he produced roll after roll of bills amounting to S26, 300 and this was sufficient as money talks h. In all languages.
 Tn his welcoming address with which the state conference of ehafi- ties and corrections were opened Mon. day night, Governor simeon E. Bald. win advocated return to whipping with n birch rod or leather strap as a corrective measure.
 Postmaster general Hitchcock an. nounees the deficit in the department of Sl7 600000, inherited by the present administration, has been wiped out, not by curtailing the service but ex. tending it along profitable lines.
 A reminder that Diaz was once an ''insurrecto" himself was given by the recent death of Capt. Samuel J Phili- ps of Rockville Center, Long Island, who gave shelter on his ship to the future dictator, who was escaping from Mexico. Capt. Phillips, who died at the age of so, was II when he began to follow the sea
 The resignation of that unique off cial, the business manager of the city of Staunton, Va, is ascribod to nervous prostration brought on by oyerwofk. The system of placing all the munici- pal business in the hands of single person has worked with brilliant sue cess, but the city manager found him. self constantly dogged by people who wanted municipal positions or by those who had a bone to pick or an aN to grind.
 The news is published of tie sub sidence of the foundutinn of the Bank of England. The work of p6pair Is now in hand, and inNohe4.entting away the , essk 3ss qles0n which the bank has staoa Tor nearly two hundred years In sp1eaf tbe ,uEih al tune they haNe laIa a4led iue F.lgs brought lothesuf laee ate u a wonderfully eoud siate ol preservation. nHaas tHc vNcWaJonS man4 fotyfeelmE Hfa.# #5ujI. aa8 of Roman pottery V8H usL~ a. bouts ami ag le--.l r-uaus Hi-ol. l..gaauIa.s have neea uucHrfead IHU V0J6 now In pfesee-- d-e- ael HgeHe.r Hllh tae date eeaaueef tHeeuk'> t1su,==-
 An adult maag ean decenuy suprafl ataaHiy of hve0n ssaa8AsAr, n sts 8 week, and II hv Cunu0l de i, either iRz notant or wasle5Ht, deemred Naguas Alexander, member ut the MaS,achu. sells Commission on Nofkmen's Com pensation, In an address before the Twentieth Century Club,
 The impression "the scholar from the cloistern has made as governor o New Jersey may be noted in sucf manifestations as the following enlhu siastie outburst from the Baltimor, Sun:
 The story of the career Of Dr. Wood TOW Wilson, from the day he accepted the democratic nomination for goVef nor of New Jersey down 10 the present time, Is one of the most Temarkable the most interesting and inspiring chapters in the history of American politics. It hardly has parallel.