Putnam patriot., 1912-03-01
Editorial Scraps

Thanks to Dr. Yamei htn, tninh pioneer woman physician and head of the Tientsin Hospital for Women, for ty Chinese girls are now studying medicine in the United States.
 The nmessagep of ,the fourth Ecu menical Conference to the Methodists of all lands contains this paragraph: "In the sphere Of international feia- tions we must exert all our influence to abolish war, to remove all causes oi suspicion and arrangement between nations, and to allay all outbursts Of war-like passion whenever they arise" The more we study plant life the more we notice the parallel between animal and plant characteristics. No two plants of the same breed, or born Of the same parents, are just alike Each has an individuality. Feeders study these traits So with plants, each tree, shrub, each crop plant gar den or flower plant has it's own indi- viduaIity that must be studied.
 The Colombia government last Wed nesday recalled Pedro Mel Ospina, Co., lombia minister to the United States. This action was result of Ospina's note to the American state department stating that visit by Secretary Knox 10 his country would be "inopportune" at the present time.
 All records for wind velocity at the local station of the weather bureau were broken during the severe storm which swept over Hartford during Wednesday afternoon and night and early Thursday.
 spread anarchy throughout the Repub lie of Mexico the cabinet has again ap' pealed to congress to suspend constitu tional guarantees In all states. There are now l5,O0o insufrestos of various factions in the field against Presiden Madero. The first serious outbreak in the state of Jalisco was reported from Flores. Francisco Daltoro, leading fNNf possession of all the public buildings setting up their own government General Zepata is at the head of an army of revolutionaties which Is be sieging Jojutla and Tlaltizapan ir Morelos. The garrison of lo soldiers defending the Tetela in the state o Puebla, were shot to death at sunset by rebels. More than 100 have fallen in fighting in the past twelve hours al various points.
 The Vatican library has acquired 2 new and precious addition to it's treas ures, for MT. George Pauling has pre- scented to the Holy Father the only complete copy In the whole western world of the Scriptures of Tibet. It is bulky present., weighing half ton and comprising over hundred vol umes.
 Th1 "Manufacturers' Reeordn of Baltimore reports that Dixie Is doing ss well as could be expected-and whole lot better. The population oi the southern States has increased from ls,6i4 925 in 1880 to S3,049,9 900; the property (''true value" !, from @,lI5,' 00o,OoO to s27, ,5o0 ,0o0, 900; the national bank deposits, from s78, PA ,52s to S967, ' S,5l0; the capital invested in manu' factures, from S329, 75S, 900 to Ss,Sa7, 0oO, 900; the railroad mileage, from 24, 4,- so3 10 ss,903; and the expenditure on the public schools, from sl2,47l ,4o4 to 7s,0oo, 900.
 "Out Of 55, ,354 stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad" says the Railway Age Gazette, "a return just made shows that 44,7l2-almost one half-are women.
 From Naples-on.the Gulf, his winter home, Colonel Henry Watterson has written an open letter to the demo- crats of Kentucky. He tells them that he was lured into the Dr, Woodrow Wilson movement. II looked good to him st first. lie was ready to push il along.
 The late Charles Emory Smith used to say, in regard to his excursion into diplomatic life al St. Petersburg, that what he got out of it was an .interest ing experience W. Morgan Shuste in respect to his effort to place the Per sian financial system on sound basil found his work was nothing more thar an episode of efficiency and honesty il that rotten system of faveritism an' graft; but he found out, by not neinl permitted 10 carry his task through how the international game Is playe' in that quarter of the world.
 The Colombian government ha ssepasatedn General Pedro Mel os pima, the Colombian minister al Wash ington, from his post, from winch VI infer that il does not approve of his re cent expression of personal oplnior that Secretary Knox's visit to tha country under existing conditions would be s'inopportune."