Putnam patriot., 1911-08-25
Editorial Scraps

EDS to Dc Il stiithuit N tebi pHiEhs Benzoate of soda appears to be dan gerous to theIhealth of public officials at least.
 It is a mere coincidence that the Mo- 1 roccan negotiations between France i and Germany become less hopeful the i moment that England gets. involved | in railroad strike.
 Buffalo has produced a man who supports family of eight on S9 a week [ and is perfectly content. So far as the | record shows, he never heard Of Epic tetus, either.
 A man in New Jersey was fined sl5 for calling another man a skunk. In | some places the $. P. C. A. would in. iervene and demand damages for the skunk.
 Dafget, the French scientific investi- | gator, has announced to the academy | Of science in Paris that he has succeed l ed in photographing human thoughts. | The European wheat crop like our own will fall below that of last year, which was by no means a season of great plenty for this breadstuh. Can ada, on the other hand, is promised the greatest harvest of wheat it has ever gathered. This will not be help ful to the anti-reciprocity campaign.
 Governor Woodrow Wilson in an address before more than 10000 per. sons at the South Jersey Farmers pie nic at Washington Park, declared that he was enlisted for the rest of his life to make 1t just as hot as he knew how for those men who do not represent The people.
 The country has al least one edible crop of unusual abundance. This Is the apple crop, which the Boston chamber of commerce finds to be near ly double in quantity over last year through New York state and the Cen tral West. Notwithstanding smaller yields for New England and the Pacific Northwest, the yield for the whole country is given as 30 per cent larger than that of last year.
 And now it is proposed to establish bureau of markets in the department of agriculture ito investigate the mar keting of farm products, recommend the fairest and most direct methods by which such products might reach the consumer from the producer, and keep the public informed through reports of the best methods and the best mar. kets.n
 Lindsley Loring of Boston sh owed his ideas of citizenship by, burning his British-built racing cutter on her ways early in the week It is said she was worth about Sl2 ,000, but the owner was asked to pay $500 additional tax on her by the federal government because she was foreign-built craft. This he would not do.
 The Lynn water commission advises that during the present water famine Lynn people only take two baths a week. At first they stood out for the old Saturday night custom, so long in vogue in the eastern part of the state, but it is believed that the increase in Lynn's foreign population made the 1.-two week" policy necessity be- cause of the popular demand.
 Scores of thousands of railway men in the United Kingdom are on strike. The movement threatens to cripple ?, 900 miles of steam railways. Nei- ther the managers nor employees seem disposed to deviate from their ultima. tums. Passenger traffic in London and other centres Is sdemoralized, freight traffic throughout the kingdom is hampered. Liverpool's steamship ser vice is at a standstill, Sporadic riot ing has occurred in various English cities and in Wales. London's "tube'' men threaten to go out, Troops every where are ready to quell disturbances. Parliament remains in session because of the strike. Scarcity of food is caus- ing prices to rise. The railways em- ploy 5o0, 900 men whose average week iy wage is less than S6. The value of the railways is S6, 6,5oo, ,ooo,ooo.
 By & new law, any railroad com. pany which through any act of its em. ployes or agents, by sparks from it's To- cotnotves, or otherwise, sets fire to trees, brush, or grass, or lands outside the right of way Of such company shall be liable to the town or city in which such fire occurs for the lawful expense incurred by such town or city in ex- tinguishing such fire.
 Cardinal Gibbons now occupies a place in the sacred college more than ever conspicuous by reason of the re- cent death of Cardinal Moran of Aus. tralia. In point of seniority, he is pre- ceded only by Cardinals Capecelatro, Netto, and osrgiia di Santo. If the American prelate survives the present pope, he will be one of the foremost in the deliberations attending the cleo tion cf . new pontifi.