Putnam patriot., 1912-05-17
MaaLline uuithIn 0ne Year.
Editorial Scraps

Editorial Scraps
 pr. Harvey W. Wiley k a Taft man in this mix up, and says he would be an ingrate were he anything else. 4.President Taft k the one man who stood between me and destruction at Washington, he told the "Boston Herald'su correspondent. "When ef- forts were being made to assassinate me, Taft proved my only protector lie stood by me and am grateful to him. hope he will be reelected
 If passengers are to be believed, the sea all around the Titanic was dotted with ships unable to get to her be. cause of the ice floes.
 The Medical Record takes editorial note Of some recentinyestigationsa as 10 what tobacco smoke does to the smok- CT. "0n the whole,n remarks that learned contemporary, 4it appears that the cigar represents the least in= furious form in which tobacco may be smoked, factlwhich coineides eXact= ly with popular experience. The choice Of a cigar is, however, not only matter Of taste and extent Of purse, but also of scientific discrimination. While British cigar containing l.24 per cent of nicotine yields 83 per cent of this to the smoke the Havana cigar containing 0.64 per cent of nicotine, liberates only 3l per cent Of this. Thus science acknowledges the supremacy of the Havana cigar in the domain Of tobacco
 Pretty soon the bureau of ordinance is going to fire a shell into tank of gasoline and see what happens. "Some time ago explained the Army and Navy Journal last week, "the bureau made similar experiment with stand ard fuel petroleum. The oil did not ignite, but when q shell exploded in n tank of 1t 1t flew in every direction. These experiments are very important on account of the policy of the navy department to use fluid fuel in battle saips as well as auxiliary ships. IL has been definitely determined that Il is mol any more dangerous to fire into tank Of oil than into bin of coal.
 "I used to buy potatoes for ten cents a bushel,h Representative Prouty Of Iowa told the House last week, "and am paying a doi4f now. n
 All the Boy Scouts in America will wear crepe for thirty days in memory of their vice president Col. John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Ti- tanic.
 In it's account of the Woman's Pa. rade in New York city last Saturday the New | ork Tribune says.
 The wonderful procession clearly showed that women will win the vote in New York, and very soon, too.
 "Of course, the majority of the women of New York were mol marching, but that fifteen thousand women of all kinds were sufficiently interested in Votes for Women to march for this principle of justice Is poof that the movement is of such force that it is bound tl Win.7
 1t has been sad that there k no such thing as bad weather, merely different kinds of good weather how ever, t requires considerable profanity to describe adequately the meteoroIog- ieal conditions of a 80 day month that gives us rain on twenty oi those thirty days This is what April, 1912, actually served up.
 Conferees Of both houses of Congress on the general ser>i lee pension bill reached an agreement on the basis of the Senate bill with some increases for advanced age and length of ser, ice. This action is said To assure the enact ment of the general service bin into law. The increases grant SIS a month to soldiers 66 years old who served two and half years, and sl9 Co those who served three years. Those 70 wears old who served one and oue-haf wears get s2l.5o; two years SD; two and one half s24; three years so. Those of 75 years who served one and one half wears get s27 two, and two and one half years, y30.
 Bonnot, the leader of the organized gang of automobile bausAAls A hlch has been terrorizing F
 rounding district I,
 Dubois, a notorio'
 shot to death last
 most thrilling enc
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 le-Roi, leis thanmnsqa IoI si1,, To Paris, in whicf 5taken refuge, was b' nz,T ~amite, af' ter these tws5 " 'sss/sept at bay foI hours lar.gs oe5 sne police force oi Paris, a CO sd TT, (of gendarmes, two companies .! publican guards and a company of engineers. Ten thousand spectators viewed the battle from