Putnam patriot., 1912-08-30
Editorial Scran1

 him up as 1 was brought up-under firm discipline. He must be a credit Do the house ot Hohenzollefn and to the thrones that, after his, will cease to be- Emperor William thus eX - pressed himself to the historian Karl won K room in a recent talk following his inspection of the Berlin School oi History and Literature. His majesty predicted that the end Of monafchism Is in sight. "All the world will be re- publican within fifty years, he said "Germany will be the last Of the em- pires. IL is inevitable p
 The deserters from the ranks Of La Toilette, who still calls himself Re publican, go neither to Roosevelt, the ex. Republican, nor to Taft the regular Republican, but to Wilson.
 As family relation of Colonel Roosevelt, MT. Alsop may be supposed 10 have some inside information. His statement that Colonel Roosevelt has ideas far in advance Of his present eX- tfeme soeialistic views, which he Is only waiting for a favorable time to introduce, is calculated to give every body serious thought who k capable of serious thinking.
 And now Great Bhtainis shipping interests are threatened with a more serious strike than any that has yet be- fallen them. The threat of this strike comes from the Union of Shipmasters and Mates. This union Is composed Of the captains and chief officers of ships in the merchant marine, including, for example, transatlantic liners. The masters Of these liners, as well as the masters of other ships, claim that their pay is inadequate; that they work seven days week; that their hours are long while in port ns we'll as at sea; and that they run the liability of los ing their certificates through one error of judgment.
 lxteprecii Indians burned to death a rural mail carrier in the mountains north of Oaxaca, Mexico, Monday The man was bringing the mail from lxte precji to Oaxaca when he fell into the hands of the Indians, who accused him of being a government spy. He was bound to tree, brush was piled around him and kindled,
 Ice which is so hot after 1t has been frozen that small piece placed in q quantity of alcohol would cause the spirit to boil has been produced by Prof. Percy w. Brdgeman of the lief ierson laboratory at Harvard. Water Is placed in specially constructed steel bottle able to withstand the great pressure of 5000 pounds to the square inch. The liquid is heated to a tenn perature of l73 degrees Fahrenheit be- fore the pressure is applied. In spite of the emperature the water become: solid and remains so AS long as the hy draulic pressure remains.
 In the general chorus of denun cia ton of the United States on the subject of the Panama Canal bill, "The Ma tion,u one of the principal English weeklies, in A leading article of its is sue dated August r, gives extended consideration to American rights un der the Hay.Pauncefote treaty and up holds the right of the United States tC grant freedom from tolls to eoastwis, shipping. It contends that this i' purely matter of domestic policy.
 Our Canadian neighhors used to eX port eggs in large quantities, but now adays they are eating eggs bough abroad. That's because the Dominion z farmers have not gone in for poultry raising and the profits aeeruing there from.
 "Mhen the census was taken il 1911, writes Consul-General Griliths London, "thefe were f7,445,60S male. md ls,624 ,sS4 females in England ane Wales
 Work on the new Quebec bridge wa active during 1911. The debris of tn, fallen structure, vast mass of tangle, steel partly above the water and part ly submerged, was removed and new eaissons sunk, so that the work on tn structure may be considered wei enough advanced to predict compile lion of the new structure by 1915. Tn bridge when finished will be one of tn greatest of it's kind in the world. Pend ing it's completion, trains Of the nev Transcontinental will be transferre' across the St. Lawrence by ferry.
 Inspired, il is generally believed, bs the Emperor, the semi-otfieial "PesteT Lloydn advocates general appeal | the European powers to cease lthe ma val supremacy. Austria Hungary, i Is stated, is willing to suspend all fur ther increase of her naval strength | Great Britain, France, Germany an' Italy will agree to do likewise.