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Putnam patriot., 1912-08-02

Miss Marion Warren spent Mon- day in Providence.
 Miss Augustus Morse Is at Pleas ant View, R. l.
 -F. J. Danielson family are visiti ng in New Hampshire.
 Mrs. Samuel Walsh and children are visiting friends in N altman.
 Cyril Remillard has returned from his vacation spent at Sound View.
 Judge E. Nj. Warner and family returned from Oak Bluffs Tuesday.
 Mrs. Manchester, Grand View, left Monday for visit in Fall River.
 The cottage of A. I. Morse at Pleas ant View will be finished this week.
 70. C. Bosworth and wife have re- turned from a months stay at Ply mouth.
 Three private eating stalls are be- ing built in the dining room of Hotel Chickering.
 Miss Nellie Burleson entertained Miss Josephine kneeland of Columbia on Tuesday.
 MT. and Mrs. John Gibney are en- tertaining Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gibney of Worcester.
 Mrs F. A. Merrill and daughter, Miss Isabelle, are at Maplewood, N. H., for a six weeks stay.
 Walter Shippee has resigned as station agent at Clark's Corners and returned to this city.
 Mrs. Morrell and daughter left Wednesday for months stay at the Maplewood, in Bethlehem.
 Mrs. J. A. Mcintyre and Mrs Au- gustus Bartlett took in the excursion to Newport last Thursday. -Dr. Rhodes Burrows of East Greenwich, R. l., has been the guest of Herman c. Carver and family.
 Alderman J. Harry Mann, who Is summering with his family at Gales Ferry, has been spending a few days in the city.
 Louis Champeau and family of Hartford, formerly of Putnam, are spending the week with relatives in the city.
 = The C. A. C. will hold clam bake and outing at Philips grove, Alexander's ls&e, August llth. Charles Kennedy will be in charge.
 William Abbe, wife and four chill dren, who have been occupying a cot tage on the Senexet road, left Wednes- day for their home in Plainfield, N. J. Miss Aline LaRue has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Henry Allard, in Waltham. Mrs. Allard and child returned with her for visit here. The 26th regiment, C. ", will hold their reunion at Ocean Beach' New London, Aug. 14th. The 18th regiment will hold theirs at Bucking- ham Memorial, Norwich, Aug. 20th. E. C. Rogers of the Putnam Inn was at Siaconsett, R. l., Friday at tending an outing of the New En- gland hotel mems association. The party was entertained lavishly by landlord Mansfield of the Crown hotel, Providence.
 Mrs. Ernest E. Kent with Mrs. Ethel K. White and Master Holmes Bugbee are at the Franklin House at Crescent Beach, they made the entire trip by trolley, the line from New Lon don being opened last year.
 Joseph Smith, veteran of the Civil war, came to this city from Wes terly last Friday. He was friend of the late Captain Granger and spoke in the highest terms of him. Unfortuna- tely he made mistake in the date of Captain Granger's funeral and came a day too late.
 George Johnson, who went out few weeks ago to take place in one of the teams of the Canadian baseball league, is back in North Grosvenordale. Johnson's return was primarily due to his having injured his ankle. He has recovered, however, and is now play ing great game for the fast Webster team.
Putnam patriot., 1912-08-02
VOL. XL

asSr Beginning May 4th, the PATRI- 'oT office will close Saturdays at D. m during the summer months.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30

thou say to it, a..
''Siraudin received this proposition
joyfufly,. but what line Of trade should
he choose? Morny and Siraudin set
out OF the principle that the best bust
ness was evidently the one in which
there were fewest failures. They con-
scieM1ously scanned the bulletin Of
declarations Of bankruptcy. All the
trades were represented there-all ex-
cept one; that was the confectioner.
and Morny gave to- Siraudin the neces-
sary capital to establish himself as a
merchant of bonbons. Siraudin ingen-
1ously conciliated the lyric muse. He
wrapped his pralfnes, his sugar plums
and his chocolates in kiss papers, each
fnclosing his printed verses. Morny did
better than establish him. He fire.
quented his shop. AS the duke was the
king of the world Of fashion, he drew
all Paris by his example, and the for
tune OF the poet-confectioner Siraudin
was made
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30

crystalline FATTY matter.
1t is found in all sizes, from a pound
up to twenty or thirty, but occasionally
pieces weighing 100 or 200 pounds are
found in whales.
Ambergris has been known from an
early period. some pharmacopoeias pre-.
scribing it for fevers and nervous com.
plants. 1t is sometimes mingled with
the incense burned in churches and is
also put in certain kinds of wine to i'm
prove the bouquet .z-.
But the great use Of ambergris is in
the manufacture of perfumery-not
that it's fragrance is either very pow
erful or pleasing, but it possesses the
peculiar property Of causing other in
gradients to throw out their odors,
making them more specific and dura-
BILE. -
In this respect it bears a resemblance
to the use Of mordants in dyein g, with
out which the colors would fail to be-
come permanent; hence all the best
perfumes contain ambergris, which is
one reason of their costliness, and
hence also the fact that sehomemade"
cologne, for instance. smells only of
alcohol
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
SPEED OF A TRAIN,
you Can Figure It Out From the Clicks
Of the Rail Joints.

you Can Figure It Out From tho Clicks
OF the Rail Joints.
' IT any reader wishes, when on long
railway journey, to test the speed at
Which the train is travelling he might
perhaps do worse than follow the
method suggested by Nothing to Do"
I'VE were coming down from Lon
don to Holyhead," he says, "and the
wheels flying over the rails beat out to
my brain the rhythmic tune Nothing
to do, nothing to do as they went over
the joints in the rails. l took out nv
watch and with the aid Of the second
hand counted the number of nothing
to dos which were beaten out during
one-quarter Of a minute. 1 found that
twenty-five was the number. Twenty
two by four gave me Lightweight for
one minute. The rails of the l.. and
N. W. railway are sixty feet long;
therefore GO by 8S gave me $3.50,
which was, Of course, the number of
feet we were travelling to the minute.
Thus 1 was able to tell my travelling
companion, with some degree of accu-
racy, that at that time we were travel
ing at a mile minute
ANY reader can do this. All that is
necessary is to find out beforehand the
length Of the rails and after that to
watch your watch."-London Answers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30

= A crow was seen fighting an in
truder into it's nest situated at the
very top Of a tree. The crow was
circling at close quarters and pecking
hard at the nest, cawing loudly all the
time. The nest was some forty feet
above ground.
Presently snake came out Of the
nest and started to descend, with the
crow in hot pursuit. pecking at the CO.
bra continually. The snake took refuge
about ten feet down in a clump of
dead ferns, from which it was chased
out by the crow. 1t came from branch
to branch until it reached a large hori-
zontal limb, which stretched out about
twenty feet
~ Here the snake was at great dis
advantage, inasmuch as it could not
turn upon the crow. The latter SEEM
ed fully to appreciate the situation.
and its tactics were excellent. It would
peck hard at the spine close to the tail
and then peck near the snakes neck.
At each peck pieces Of the snakes
skin were torn out, whereupon the
cobra would lie quite motionless.. But
just as soon as it evinced signs of
again attempting to escape the crow
would recommence its attacks with
extraordinary surety of aim. y After
fifteen minutes the cobra was dead
Harper's
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
OUTDOOR SLEEPERS' SOCIETY

Fresh Air Fiends to Hear Weary Viii
lies and Others at Convention.
Chicago fresh air fends have called
q convention Of outdoor sleepers for
an exchange Of experiences and ideas.
weary Willie of the park bench will
be welcome and as veteran in the
fad will be expected to add to the
knowledge Of the more recent Sleep
ers. It is the purpose to form So
ciety to encourage outdoor sleeping.
D. ]. Heuptman, leader Of the Chi
cago porch sleepers, said:
II you are nervous all that is nee
essary is to raise the roof off your bed
room, if you are aenemic you need
only to cut out the outer wall, and if
you are Respondent without due cause
simply pick up your bed and take it
out on the porch or some other con-
.venient out Of door location. You get
much more refreshment from your
sleep outdoors and you seldom dream"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
AMBElRGRIs.

Tho Part 1t Plays In the Production of
Costly Perfumes.
Ambergris is supposed to be morbid
secretion of the liver of the spermaceti
whale, found floating or washed ashore,
1t Is a little lighter than water and
might easily be taken for a piece of the
bark OF a tree. On examination, how.
ever, it is found to be of waxy ma.
ture, streaked with gray, yellow and
black and emitting peculiar aromatic
odor. It fuses at 40 to $50 degrees r.
and at a higher temperature gives out
white smoke, which condenses into a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
KILLING.

"A Piueky Crow For Which the Bio
Snake Had No Terrors. .~
If the testimony offered by an Eng
fish naturalist in Ceylon be given full
credence, then the cobra is not so
dangerous a snake as popular reputa-
ton makes it. In at least two in
stances, reports this naturalist, cobras
We're chased by large birds. In neither
case did the snake seem to have any
hypnotic power, such as is generally
credited to snakes in general.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
PARIS HAS A SWEET TOOTH,
a Poet to Whom Candy Brought Better
a. Results Than His Rimes.

The best business in Paris is said to
be that Of the we'll established and pop
ular confectioner. and this fact has
been recognized. it is said, since the
days of Napoleon III. and his natural
brother. the. Duke de Morny. THE
duke" says lie Cri de Paris, had 4
weakness for writing vaudevilles and
often asked the counsel Of Siraudin,
who was skillful collaboration Of
Clairville.
But the theater brought no riches to
siraudin. One day Morny said to him:
MY friend want to see thee in a
better situation. The idea comes to me
to put thee in commerce. What dost
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30
Many 'Manjas.

i At recent congress of neurology q
paper was read In which the move
ment by which the growing lad caress-
es the first shoots on his upper lip
was labeled neutrality-suspicious.;
the habit Of twirling the cane seen in
Old drum majors, strepsorhab domania:
that Of putting the little finger into the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-30

ear, orodactyloman1a. TEEn we have
odactylomaniacs," who put the
finger into the mouth; "onychophago-
man1acs," who bite their nails; .'har-
monioman1acs, who drum with their
myers on Windowpanes or tables, and
"trepodomaniacs, !" who nervously move
their legs.-British Medical Journal.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
COMPLAINS OF INGRATITUDE
TO FRONTIER SOLDIERS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
enlisted in the regular army in 1874
and was Still n soldier until 1882, our
command going On the 1876 campaign
against hostile Indians for six months,
day and night, in all kinds of weather,
sleeping On the ground as and % de-
SreeS below zero, going through the
most hardships and exposures that the
frontiers have ever witnessed. We were
living on half rations half the time,
with nothing to eat for days but horse
meat, marching from thirty to forty
miles cay. mounted; sleeping in dog
tents, with only two blankets for cover
ing. We had to build fires on the picket
line to keep our horses from freezing
We are now broken down from those
hardships and exposures. Whom are
the soldiers today that are more de-
mat have been faithful to Uncle Sam
for ten. fifteen, or twenty years on the
frontiers, out in the wilds of Montana,
Dakota, Nebraska, and opening more
territories for the white man. We have
never been recognized by Congress,
President Taft, i'm his open-aE speech at
the unwilling of General CusSar's statue
In Michigan one year ego, said that he
would dc all he could for the old
frontier soldiers. Has no Gone it? I
hope so. Our ages our fifty, sixty. and
seventy years. Give Justice where il
is due. ! have only given one-fitth part
of our hardships. There are only four
or five army officers surviving today
who can tell of our hardsips: Lieut.
Gen. S. NJ. B. Young, Brig. Gen. Arson
Mills. Major West, Lieutenant General
President Taft will take note Of this.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
SOME CONTRIBUTORS
TO FORWARD MOVEMENT

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
T. J. Watts In an issue of this paper
a few days ago wrote a very interest
ing article on forward movements"
but think he overlooked few unin-
tentionally.
In 1921 Nicolas Stork also started a
movement" which bore considera BILE
fruit. Then 1t would also be well 70
consider Luther, Mohammed, George
Fox, Ingersoll, the Wesley boys, Bud
dha, Browne and others who have con-
tributed great movements which have
made history.
The prosecutions made by Henry
VIII, Calvin, the Spaniard inquisition,
Cromwell, Bloody Mary or her sister
Elizabeth cannot rightly be called for
ward" movements as intimated by Mr..
Watts, for they were performed by a
few oVerzealoua devotees of their re-
spectve beliefs, nor can superstition,
ignorance or Credulity be designated as
destroyed" for they are very much
alive in the land, as can be proven by
believers in either the Koran or the
Bible, who all translate the same words
differently. Who can say which are
really the greatest Christians = those
who deny Christ utterly or those who
warp His doctrines to suit their own
purposes. DORE.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
THE FOOL HATH SAID
THERE is NO GOD"

To tho Editor of THE TIMES:
THE fool hath said there is no God,
but the wise man believes and trem-
bles." This is what i say to myself
when / read the letters of the infidels
who write to your paper. I am only q
poor, ignorant man with a great deal of
faith, but would rather when the great
day comes to stand before the Great
Judge with my poverty, ignorance, and
faith than to stand before him with
the wealth, education, and unbelief of
the writer's of these letters. believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" What do these infldels give to
those whose faith they are trying to
take away from them? 1t is like an old
man. lame and feeble, going across the
street, and for some one to come along
and snatch his crutches from him, say
ing: "Oh. you don't want these: they
are old-fashioned. clumsy, and trouble
some" and then leave the old man
helpless in the crowded street without
giving him anything in the place of the
clutches they took from him.
MORRIS A. MOORE,
Alexandria, Va.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
OFFERS A SEDATIVE :,
FOR TROUBLED MINDS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
In the present discussion of the Bible
vs.. science in the interesting letters Of
the Mail Bag, we trust that a little
light from a scientific angle will not be
amiss. Science should be understood
better I'm the attitude of the matured
mind reviewing the childish fancies of
younger days. The Bible represents the
struggles of wonderful writer's of those
days who sought to eInanclpate the hui
man race from the sins of excess and
selfshness, knowing the power of the
priesthood as associated with innate re-
ligious ideas of those days. The ultl-
mate purpose of the writings was for
the good of mankind and mas caused
the Bible to survive through the ages.
The Bible has been the vehicle that
many sinister influences have seized
upon to ride into power, and it's NOR
society will finally rest. Tho point at
tured to drop from our discussion the
incredulous as we have the retribu-
tive, substitute reward for good deeds
rather than continue in belief of di-
vine wrath, and let the good old souls
who yet minister to the comforts of
two generations in the goodness OF
their hearts and hallowedness Of gray
hairs live in peace and comfort with
the foibles that belong to their age,
much the same as we hesitate to de-
stroy the illusions that are the Joy and
delight of childhood.
EVOLUTIONIST
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
NOT TREATED AS WELL
IN CHURCH. AS THEATER
tn tha rdi,or ~ THE TIMEs

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The inducements for sinful or indiffer-
ent men to attend church are offset by
some of the disabilities. Tom, Dick, and
Harry say they are not treated as well
In church as in the theater or the geo.
graphic lecture. In one sort of audience
they can see what they go there to see,
and no one is allowed to erect an OBJ
struction before their faces and keep 1t
there. In the other sort. they often find,
just before them, women claiming Chris
tian character and polite manners, but
really ruled by the vanity of savage
races, and by rude disregard of other
peoples rights, which in a man would
be called boorish and brutal. They COM
plain that the church women insist on
keeping on their heads a broad, high,
heathenish mass of trash, representing
their highest conceptions of the beauty
of holiness" And after Tom, Dick, and
Harry have sat through the service and
silently sworn because they and the
preacher are mutually invisible, they do
not respond very eagerly to the call of
Men and Religion They prefer to be
represented by only their wives at the
shrine of hat-worship, which seems the
chief end of woman. Will that impedi-
ment to church-going never be removed
TOM.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
JAPAN AND THE PANAMA CANAL.

Senator Lodge intimated strongly in speech on
the arbitration treaties that Japan is again feeling
its way toward the concession of base on Magda-
lena bay, on the west coast of Mexico The Senator
points out that this country must oppose such con-
cession with all insistence, lest it become menace
to our dominating position in the Americas.
1t is not at all improbable that Japan would like
a westerncoast port. We have invited her, and
every other power, to seek bases for commercial
business in the neighborhood Of the canal. The
building of the canal the assurance that it will be
open on equal terms to the shipping of all the world
all this was inevitably invitation to the nations
to seek advantages along the trade routes which
fondly believe are going to establish with our
new canal.
Recently London was excited by report that a
German syndicate was getting important West
Indian port from Denmark, by process Of leasing
to German steamship company. The Magdalena
bay affair is an exact parallel seemingly.
Japan is the second shipping country in the
world, led only by Great Britain. She is tremend-
ously ambitious for extension of the great shipping
business. She knows it has been the basis of ma
tional wealth for the island empire of the west; why
not for the island empire of the east?
Germany likewise is aggressive in pushing her
maritime establishment in every sea, and in secur-
ing gateways along old and new routes of trade
Can we be surprised if, with the Panama canal about
to be opened we face diplomatic possibilities of this
kind? 1t is perfectly plain that the incidents Of the
Galapagos Islands, the West Indian port, and Mag
daIena bay are but symptoms. We shall confront
such situations all. over the Caribbean region all
over the Pacific wherever there is remote possibility
of finding reef that looks like possible key to
the canal" We must recognize what it all means
and put our diplomacy in posture of defending us
against dangerous aggressions.
To agree to arbitrate pretty much everything, al
time when we are just entering on such an era
of possible and manifold complications would Ger.
tainly be curiously near-sighted policy.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
WASHINGTON HAS HAD
HOME RULE IN PAST

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
A writer in The Times of February
81 attempts to prove that there are con-
stitutional obstacles in the way OF Dis
trict self-Sovernment. 1t is true that
the Constitution grants to Congress ex-
elusive jurisdiction in the District OF
Columbia, but there is nothing in the
Constitution which prevents Congress
from delegating a part or all OF its
jurisdiction to a local government TO
be established and controlled by the
citizens of the District. In fact, prior
to 1874, both Washington and George
town had municipal governments under
charters granted by Congress.
Congress, undoubtedly, has the power
to organize a territorial form of gov
eminent in the District of Columbia,
with a delegate in Congress.
We are told that the District of CO.
subjecting Congress to the menace of
its petty police regulations" But 1t is
not proposed that the District shall be-
come n State; and under the municipal
form of government which prevailed in
Washington prior to 1874, there is no
historical evidence that Congress Or
the Federal departments we're ever
"menaced" in the slightest degree. II
they had been so menaced, Congress
could have revoked the municipal char
ter at any time.
trict self-government except local
apathy and indifference, and these are
giving way to civic pride and civic
patriotism. There is no valid defense
| for our Russianized system of District
government. W. D. M
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
SUPPORTING THE LIBRARIES.

The District Commissioners have Endorsed the
view of the Board of Education that there is need
build additional branch libraries in the District
unless Congress is willing to give enough support
to the one existing branch at Takoma Park, to make
it effective
This was the view expressed when the bill author
izing the acceptance of Carnegie donation for
Congress Heights was under consideration, and arose
from the fact that the previous appropriation of
$4,000 per annum for the maintenance of the Ia
koma Park library was reduced by the House to
something like $4,000, which the library feels is
entirely inadequate.
The District Committee of the Senate accepting
the view of the Commissioners and of the Board of
Education, has restored the Takoma Park library
fund to $4,000, and it is hoped that it will be allowed
to remain there. Otherwise the development of our
library facilities will be baked indefinitely for the
future.
The educational value of these branch Libraries
is universally recognized They are contributing a
large share to the spread of culture and intelligence,
and Takoma Parks library, as the only branch in
the city, is entitled to appropriation which will
make its work effective. Unless this standard is
maintained other sections of the city Cannot hope to
secure branch libraries of their own. 1t therefore
becomes matter of District Importance that the
Takoma appropriation should 60 through.
The Washington times., 1912-03-04
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1912.
AN HISTORIC IMPORTATION.
~

The greatest step in the history of art in America
Is being taken in the transfer Of the j. Perpont
Morgan collection from London to New York. Mr..
Morgan has estimated these treasures to be worth
about $20,00O,00O, and that probably represents
what he paid for them but connoisseurs, accustomed
to watch the upward trend of valuations, declare that
S500o0000 would be fetched by the collection today
at public sale. Those coming from Paris by way
of London include the famous Conques collection,
which was on exhibition at the Paris Exposition in
1900 and which dates from the twelfth century,
when it originated under the artistic eye of the dec
orators of an ancient church in Conques France.
When the whole collection is reassembled and
placed on exhibition, it will make the Metropolitan
Museum of Fine Arts in New York worthy of conf
parison with the best museums in the old world.