Putnam patriot., 1908-12-18
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it's war vessels. and K also bIockading its ports. Several foreign governments have been very lenient with that Re public under exaspefating treatment, and now the people are being made to realize that Castro, their President, is not tue powerful being he claimed to be, and they must suffer for his mis- conduct without finding sympathy in any quarter. Castro k in Paris. and to his disappointment is treated as nonentity.
 The farmer. as class, evidently, was mol affected by the last years pa nie-his crops were the largest ever known and the prices high, amounting fo s7,77s, ,OOO,0O0 for all his products x290, ,O00, ,0OO than the previous year. This is gain of 60 per cent in the last nine years.
 Joseph Devlin, Nationalist Member of Parliament, who has made tour Of this country In behalf of the Irish National cause, has arrived home and says that while here he had been guar anteep $i00, ,OO0 to the Nationalist fund. According to figures compiled by the New York Times the vote for Taft in the recent election was 7,g55 ,6sS as compared with 7,623, ,4se for Roosevelt in lg4-being over 5000 greater for Taft-quite different from that genef ally. supposed The Democratic vote for Bryan is given as 6 ,45O, 500 as against b,G77 ,g7I four years ago--an increase of l,372, ,62g over ls0j.
 '. <. Commissioner af Immigration Terence '. Powderley says, after care fnl personal investigation he has found that the men on the @bread linee in New York city are mainly of the bum order, deRenefates. Such persons are weak, but should be eompcledt to work that will be the sure way ef ridding lhe eonntry of the tens Of thousands Of tfamps
 ne Feet Of warships are nearing home, where they afe to hass A mag. niiiccnt welcome. on Monday they arrived Al Ceylon, and remain there six days. While there each officer will receive present of five pounds of the highly-pfIhed Geylon tea, and each sailor one pound
 h. NJ. Rogers, special field agent of the Federal government, SAYS that the gypsy and browntnil moths are more than ever menace to trees and shrub befy In Maine and New Hampshire, and that people do not realize the se- rIousness of the situation.
 sdany hunters have never heard of a fox being trced, but an instance of that kind occurred nj North Wndham. A week ago farmer had his attention called to the back yard by the barking of his shepherd dog. On going out he saw that the dog had tfeed il gray fox He got hts gun and killed 1t.
 Prophetic of far reaching resultsftom the joint eonserv alton conference, K q report drafted by more than thirty Go Nernors approving the principle of co operation among the States and the Federal government, in the conserva- toin of the country's natural resources, and emphasizing the importance oi such cooperation to the end that the prosperity and pcrpetuity of the na- tion may be assured.
 President Roosevelt k going to win ont on the Brownsville affair. It WAS never doubted that time would bring to light the true facts of the case-and Il has, by the confession of one oi the participants. Senator Foraker, who undertook to make use of the event to inInre the President and prevent Judge Taft's election, and only destroyed his own political future, brought the mat ter up again tn the Senate only to have his doom scaled; and the President did il in his characteristic way.
 \ Moscow millionaire, when dying had his whole fortune drawn from the banks and the bills piled up before his sick bed, when he set fire to them and burned them up. He then summoned his relatives and showed them the ash. es, congratulating them on having es- capped from the evil of wealth.
 Prof. Muensterberg, of Harvard, pre- diets that 1918 will find laboratory oi applied psychology in every universi- ty. All of us-physieians, preachers, lawyers, bankers, manufacturers. mer- chants-need psychology, he says, in our business. It's not a question al all of any anknowable power-any magic fluid. The Emmanuel church clergy afe,on the right track in their healing experiments, but they don't vel clear. iy understand what they are doing Mind Is continually affecting mind by suggestion.
 It's an unusually bloody battle that leaves 5000 dead soldiers on the field Al Gettysburg less than S,0Oo were kill. ed. The Bureau of Labor tells us that from 30,oo0 to s5,ooo American wage earners art killed of in accidents every year.
 Governor Hughes of New York is preparing 10 push through the various rsforms which he has heen endea.of- tug for two Nears to have adopted to better the administration of affairs oi that great State. Those Republican Senators who tried 10 ihwaFl him on the bill to prevent gambling al race