Putnam patriot., 1912-03-29
Editorial Scraps


 wonderful development Of the great west is the motor car. The automo bile has come into its own on the great ranches, 1t Is assisting materially in the building of new towns and rail- roads, and everywhere enterprise and energy k to be found the automobile is in evidence.
 Col. Roosevelt has used "recaIlu upon what he has heretofore highly commended, the Canadian reciprocity agreement. This al the time the meas ure was under discussion he highly ap- proved. but he would now repeal il, ,ac. eording to a letter he has written to the Northwestern Agricultufist.
 wearers 10 take two steps where for merly they took only one, Washington shoe dealers say shoe sales have doub led in a year.
 French physician in Tunis, Dr. Name, thinks he has discovered that adrenalin injected into the veins will cure lAsiatic cholera. The dispatch says that he has used 1t successfully in twenty cases, and that the Pasteur In- situate has "reported favorablyp on his announcement.
 The Queen Mary, Great Britain's twenty-fifth Dreadnought, was recent. iy launched at Jarrow in the presence of thousands Of spectators. The new battleship is of the same type as the Lion, which was launched in August, 1910, but she has greater displaee- ment and horsepower, which arc given as I27 ,000 tons and 75,0O0 indicated horse power, respectively. The Queen Mary is the largest warship yet built in Great Britain, and her total cost amounted to sI0, ,30l ,320.
 Hahnemann Hospital the hommo. pathic institution Of Philadelphia, is on the verge of being turned into an immense beauty parlor, owing to an advertisement recently inserted in the local newspapers which requested that one hundred men and women afflicted with warts call at the institution to undergo treatment. Instead of one hundred applicants there were two thousand and these patients have been calling regularly twice a week witl the hope that their tunattractive ano superfiuous facial adornments will b, removed.
 There won't be any licensed saloons  in Nez Perce county, Idaho for year anyhow; the women and the Indian, turned in force at the polls and voted "No.u
 A speech delivered by Colonel Roose welt at the Coliseum, in Hartford, or August 22, 1909, strongly endorsed MT Taft. In that speech Colonel Roose, welt said in part:
 "Never has this country had more upright or an abler body of public rep. resentatives than Governor Taft, Vice Governor w right, and their associates and subordinates in the Philippine ls- lands. It is very difficult matter, practically, 10 apply the principles of an orderly free, government to an ori- ental people struggling upward 'out of barbarism and sublection. IL is a task requiring infinite firmness, patience, tnet, broadmindness. All these quail ties and the countless others necessary have been found in the civil and mili- tary officials who have been sent over to administer the islands"
 In Philadelphia, Wednesday, little old brick house which once had a young printer named Beniamintrank- l.,.t d at Ia. lie auction for 5000.
 The bureau of education reports that there are now just one hundred stale supported or state aided universities, industrial schools, agricultural schools, etc, in the United States: sixteen Of these are for negroes.
 'lt is very important for us, says an English writer in thei" Daily News" of London, ito bear in mind that we possess an absurdiy disproportionate share of the worlds carrying trade and that 1t is largely American folly which has given us that disproportionate share.
 William J. Bryan's closest friends confidently believe that the Nationa Democratic convention, which wil meet in Baltimore in June, will confel upon him the distinction of fourth nomination for the president of th, United States.
 Members of the Connecticut dele gaiion are being deluged with letten from grangefs and other farmers urg ing favorable action on the parcel' post bill. The attituted of the delega ton is favorable to parcels post O some character.
 Another tragedy was enacted in ths old Carroll County, Va, courthouse Thursday. Another troopof mountain outlaws rode in, shot the judge down .d this bench, and duplicated the grue' some assassination of week ago-bul this time 1t was only for the moving pictures.