Putnam patriot., 1912-04-19
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gf#af aHd himself eauuaeaaf ef lhe department of the East. dfea ai the iiotai Buotiughami New Iafki fH' day morning
 It ls officially announced tbat the powers have made proposals Of media- lion t0 Consta0linople with view 70 bringing to nn end the wnr between Turkey and ltaly over Thpoll
 Mss Clara Barton, founder Of the American Red Gross and one of the most widely known American women of her day, died nt her home, Red Cross, in Glen Echo, Md, Friday morning at Q o'clock,
 Perhaps you may have forgotten Up- Ion slnclair's prophecy-now several years oId--that igl2 K to see revolution in this country, the overthrow of the existing government, and the afriyal of the soeiallstie republic.
 One of the writers In Londoa's "Na iionn made a remark the other week that hnd something in it besides words. "1'he French Itevoluiion,p he wrote, ''aeems to have left the nerves of hu- manily n-quiver with fecurrent sense Of impending ealamity.n
 The North German Lloyd Line has awarded q contract for the building of sh. la,U.a, staau,abl., i,, tbn xva,ld at n cost of sl0 0000,oo0 The new steam. ship will be bi ,000 tons gross and 9b0 feet long, tonnage and length that will exceed that of the Hamburg. Am erican liner Imperatof, of about 6o,' ob0 tons, and the Cunarder Aquitania, now In course of construction.
 The subcommittee of miners and op. orators, which Is endenvoring to agree upon new working arrangement be- tween the anthracite mine workers and conl companies, held two long ses- sions Friday, Nothing occurred nt the meeting to indicate that peaceful and early settlement will not be teached.
 instend of tag day for charity San Francisco has pencil sale and the first day yielded 5000. The streets swafmA with fashionably-dr pcneii vendors, and prices sometimes [. .ran as high as Sle.
 The man who does not advertise be- cause somebody said 1t didn't pay ought not to believe the world is round becouse the anoients sald it was flat. t.-- Seymour Record,
 The veterans of the civil war resld. ing in this state will not receive lthe pension of s,l0 year awarded them in bill passed at the last 6eneralAssem- bly,, the act having been declared un- constitutional by the State Supreme Court of Errors. When the bill was passed Gov. Baldwin asked for an opinion as to its eonstitutionality and Attorney General Light declared it unconstitutional. The case was then taken directly to the supreme court by veteran. The decision tells of the consequences that would arise if every veteran and his family In the country should move to this state, and in clos ing says "lt Is a dangerous innovation in legislation
 No less than ten milton women earn their daily bread tntGermany by labor outside oi the home, X Weman's EN. hthitien in Germany k appropriate enough in any event, but Is particular. ly interesting because Germany has often been called man dominated empire, At the present exhibition at Reflia everything displayed Is either made, arranged, ar managed hy wom. en Even the orchestra which gives daily concerts at the exhibition islcom, posed of professional women musicians under baton of woman conductor.
 X bulletin issued by the |, S, De, partment ot Agriculture regardin, the danger ot using foreign po,atoe for seed gives the following introdne ton;
 tsetkr NNahhtiS> oi Eufpisean lNta toes are al the present time eeing re ceived Into this country, Their i'm spaes:sasa sas. reasonable cust in com parlson with the high cost of home grown seed have led growers to con sider the advisahility of using then for seed in llace ei homegrown stock Thls should under no circumstances b done
 A wide experience in testing larg number of foreign grown varieties ha demonstrated that, with few eNcep tions, foreign stock Is nog adapted the climate and saii conditions obtain ing in this country, The epartmen of Agriculture during the past seNe' years has tested more than fno toreisl varieties, with tho uniform resal, tha The yields during the tfst year wer not equal to the yields of our hes American sorts. These results hsv' been repeatedly corrotsofssed by Amer iean growers and scedsfnen. The few fairly satisfactory varieties of th' maay tested have seiasJsi from t~'s to thrs~ seasons 10 become sechmaied