Putnam patriot., 1912-10-11
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 Forty sehoolboys went on strike in Baltimore the other day because the school board had turned them ont Of their sehoolhonse. The oldest WAS b, the youngest just six, and they went to see Mayor Preston carrying banners reading Don; get cold feet and be A scab, and "Why go a mile when you can make il in few blocks2" Their grievance was that they were 10 be di- yided, that they had made for the school an athletic record which they did not want te have taken over by colofed pupils, and that some of them would have q long walk. The mayor gave them fine reception, but eN- plained that he never meddled with the schools. He soothed the young in- surgents, though, by telling them that when ne was a boy it would have been a mere nothing to walk mile to school over smooth city pavement
 The price of meat Is no,joke. Up It goes every little while. Prime beef was quoted few weeks ago in Chiea. go al Sll per hundred, the highest quo tation since the civil war
 By means of an electric current ap- piled to the base of the brain, pr. Nei- gel Schmidt says people can turn sleep on and of like an electric light. The device works well on dogs and rabbits.
 It has been demonstrated to the sat isfaction oi physicians at the hygicnic congress at Washington that last win. terls outbreak of typhoid fever in Tam. pa, Fla, was due to lettuce which had been overdowed from a stream shown to contain the typhoid bacillus. The exhibit of cause and effect was accept ed as conclusive.
 Commemorating her rescue on the Alps eight years ago, Countess kilius made her guests walk eight flights oi stairs at the Astor hotel for dinner.
 Half dozen ol the big New York hotels are now making a charge of ten cents per plate for bread.
 Reliable information tells of the dis covery Of an immense oil field within less than days journey of the Canal Zone The oi Is said To be so plentiful that rivuiets run down into the sea,
 The Iron Age of last week reported that the large export business now un der way in the steel trade--in rails es pecially--is at higher prices than fo home delivery. This is not unusual, o course; ,the general rule for all com mercial countries being to shade hom' prices in foreign markets.
 The passing of the month of Septem her with scarcely an eehoiin the busi ness world of the political warfare O the season indicates that the only re maining factor of uncertainty witi which the year began has been com pletely discounted and eliminated il the calculations of business men an' finanoiers The country, in othe words, has made up it's mind to be a prosperous as economic conditions wil hermit, regardless of the fate of candi dates and parties. And that is heal thy frame of mind.
 Cycle ears,or miniature automobiles with four wheels and room for two pee ple, are gaining in popularity in Eng land. and the United States consul a Birmingham reports prospects thS they will be on the market in year Q two al about s4s5.
 The president of the Canadian Paeti railroad, Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy has just made his yearly inspection Q inc company's lines, "fhe farmers c the Canadian West are the richest az ricultural people in the world, h says "Not only are they the riches people of their kind the world ha seen. but they ihave transportation ia eiiues which are uneqaalled in tn worlds history. Why then should they not be satisiied?"
 The board of conference claimants re ports that the Methodist Episeopa church is now distributing sl,oO0,O0O year among its superannnaied preach CTS and the widows and orphans Of iu dead preachers.
 Dean J. NJ. Gray of the Moody lnsti ,ute. Chicago, uses plain language a times. "Evangelism has degeneratee into eommercialism and profession al ism. .u he said in recent talk. "fhs nresent day evsngelists become so tan pled up with boosters'and nymn DOOR n,onosi,,ons that they simply iare in money making business.