Putnam patriot., 1912-09-06
Editorial Scraps


 lion ceremonies pfactieed ny other pc litical parties, ithe socialist presldea- tial nominee, Eugene Y Deus, accept cd his nomination by simply inform ing the newspapers that they were at liberty to print his address of aeeept- ance which he had sent them in print cd form.
 Deserted and an outcast from her tribe, Melissa Houston, full blood Kiowa, once the popular Indian wife of General sam Houston, first Presi- dent of the Republic Of Tekasi has been left alone to die of hunger and neglect in her weather beaten tepee, three miles from Andarko. According to the best authority Mrs. Houston is 155 years old She is toothless, blind and A piliful sight as she sits in her lonesome tepee. IL has long been custom of the Kigwa and Comanche Indians to abandon their old men and women to fate and allow them to die by degrees. Melissa Houston has not escaped the common fate.
 One Of the most important benefits Of che Panama canal will be the open ing of shorter route for the South American beef trade IL is to be noted that all five of the II 0O0 ton steamers ordered by the Royal Mail steam packet company for the canal route are beef refrigerato, boats.
 The United states bureau Of Educa- ton tells us that 5,2Z7 students from abroad are now enrolled in our univer- sites, colleges and summer schools, Also that s0s of them are from Canada, 69s from the West Indies, 549 from China, 4l5 from Japan, 294 from Mexi- %, 274 from South America, 25l from the United Kingdom, l4s from India and Geylon, l43 from tGermany, l23 from the Philippines, i20 from Russia and Finland, l05 from Hawaii, i05 from Ausiralin, 76 from Turkey in Asia, 26 from New Zealand, 2l from Chosen lKoreaI and Y from Persia. From European countries not named above come 8l3 students from Asiatic countries not named above 2l, from Egypt 26, and from south Africa 55.
 Los Angeles Is suffering from an epi. demic Of poiomyelitis or infantile pa ralysis which has caused grave concern and led to stringent precfutions against it's further spread. Although science has much Q earn in regard tc this scourge which has numbered more victims locally this year than last, the Los Angeles theory seems tC be that flies are largely responsible.
 The casual reader of Washington dispatches Is likely to get vague anC imperfect vision of that parcels pos scheme on the zone system devised by the ingenious Senator Bourne ol Oregon and embodied in the post ollie, appropriation bill in the Senate. II, may understand that the postal rate on fourth class matter Is to begin witl five cents for the first pound or ffac' ton Of pound and three cents fol  10 | pounds in the first zone, and ad vance one cent more for the first pounc and for each additional pound from zone to zone up to the eighth, delivery Tn which will cost l2 cents pound, oI Sl,32 for full.sized parcel of II pounds He may comprehend the increase oi distances from the "radial distance 0 approximately 50 miles in the first zone to l50 miles in the second, 300 ir the third, 6o0 in the fourth, 1000 in tn, fifth, HOO in the sixth, ls00 in thu seventh, and all beyond that in thu eighth.
 Wednesday the Colonel told the re porlers that he thought Mir. Taf might carry "iive or six states, ant that Vermont might be one of them He's up there new, but he didn't < very hopefully \ little while ago tn Colonel was sure that Taft wouldn get one state.
 Announcement has been made b Postmaster General Hitchcock the the post office department would | ready on January |, l9l8, to put int general operation the recently autho ized parcels post system. The post express business, which must be 0 ganized within the next four month will extend over more than millio miles of rural delivery and star rouu and will cover, in it's various ramific lions, sll systems of transportation parcels now utilized by private eSpre, companies.
 Surgeon Allan Stuart of the navy 8 tributes the lhealthy teeth of q south's young men to The fact tn they have been brought up on Col bread.
 This month the Nova Scotia fishe men have surprised themselves by Ri ling in ten days 1000 swordiish- "on vessel brought in five tons, wit' Consul Ragsdale from Halifax "tt market was glutted and some sales ( is reportedI were made as low as w cents per pound"