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No President From
 South in Long Time


Ignoring the vice presidents who merely filled out the terms of their chiefs, tWenty-one presidents have been elected. It is q strange, if not a significant circumstance that in those twenty-one distributions of the highest honor of the nation, the three sections, into which the country is broadly divided. have shared on an absolute equality, says the Boston Globe The South has had seven pres idents, the east seven. and the west seven
 On that showing fortune has been scrupulously fair. and there is nc room for fault-findng in the South or in any other section. But that does not honestly meet the real point oi the Southern complaint While taken as whole, the South has had it's full allowance of presidential honors. nc Southern man has been chosen now for sixty years, d period representing iellI ll0 iIlt OL l1lG SONGIullellt. Al the Southerners were elected in the first sixty years of our national his tory.
 No Southerner has come in sigh of the White House since Zachar, Taylor. who was chosen in 1S4S, ant , that choice was made on General Fay lor's Mexican War popularity, and il spite of the fact that he was from tht
 South. He was not identified witl 1 Southern policies or Southern politics and his candidacy had far more pres tige up here than it had down there ] Indeed, he was distinctly suspected 0 a lack of loyalty to his section.
 It was this suspicion, which, accord
 ing to tradition. led a planter to writ /, to him. saying: ssI have worked har, and been frugal alf my life, and tn results Of my industry have mainl,
 taken the. form of slaves, of whom
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own about a hundred. Before I vote for president I want to be sure that the candidate for whom vote will not so act as to diyest me of may property"
 To this "Old Rough and Ready" is said to have made reply: Sir, I have the honor to inform you that I have all my life been industrious and fru- gal and that the fruits thereof are mainly invested in slaves, of whom I own 300. Yours, etc." With Taylor the line of Southern and slaveholding presidents came to an end. From that day to this no man from the South has had serious chance at the pres idency.
 With tue rise of the Republican par ! ty and the election Of Abraham Lin ' coin the West became the seat of em pire. Excepting Cleveland, who was elected by the Democrats, and Roose
 welt, who was nominated by the Wes and as a friend of the West, the Eas has been under the ban as much as tht South
 Aside from Douglas and Bryan, tht
 Democrats have always put fortl i Eastern candidates, Mcclellan. Sey
 mour, Tilden, Cleveland and Parker were none of them far removed iron Manhattan Island. On the other han, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, liar rison and Mckinley, all the Repub
 lican presidents except the presen chief executive, came out of the mid /, west
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LATE LIVE NEWS .~FR0m HEARST WIRES

Delegates to Pan-American Congress.
 Washington, June 20. President Roosevelt has invited nine prominent scientists to represent the United States government as delegates to the Pan-American scientific congress to be held in Santiago, Chile, next December The list is as follows:
 w. H. Holmes chief of the bureau of American Ethology, Smithsonian Iu- stitute; Colonel William c. Gorgus, United States army commission; Prof lessor William Benjamin Smith, Tu- lane university of Louisiana; Profes. sor Bernard Moses, University of Cali. fornia; Professor Paul s. Reinsch, University of Wisconsin,; Professor l.. s. Rowe, University of Pennsylvania; :; Professor William R. Sheperd, Colum- bia university; Professor Archibald Coolidge, Harvard university, and Pro- lessor Hiram Bingham. Yale univer- rs{x
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Ouebec's Ter..Centenary.

Quebec, Can, June 2O.-1n a circu- lar just issued the Dominion Gen. tral committee presents the plan of the government-genera of Canada for commemorating the Champlain Ter Centenary in Quebec. This plan ln- cludes scheme for the preservation for posterity of the plains of Abraham ~1&d Ste Foye, and to convert those famous battlefields into a national park.
 The Canadian government has all ready passed an act appropriating $3O0,OOO for the purchase and mainte- nance of these fields, and has appoint cd commissioners for the control and expenditure of this money. The com missioners are empowered to expend for the r-Centenary celebration such portion of these funds as may seem to them expedient.
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Cattle Is Very Scarce.

Chicago. June 20.-Packers are be- coming alarmed over the shortage in the beef supply The price has risen in .he last week from one to two cents and is now one-third greater than a year ago. Practically no exporting Is being done, now, the packers prefer ring to pay their freight rate con tracts with the steampship companies and keep their meat in this coun- trv Cattle on the hoof are the high est since 1906 and receipts at the Chi cago stock yards the smallest in tWen- tv years.
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Panama Mess Kitchens Healthy.

Washington, June 2o.-Hereafter West Indian bachelors engaged on the Panama canal will take their food at messes provided by the government. It has been discovered that these fru- gal laborers, in order to economize have been starving themselves to such an extent that they hvae not been able to do themselves justice in the trench es. As a result of a years eXperi- mentation it has been found that ca nal iaborers who are fed at the mes2 Kitchens are healthier and do much better work than those who provide ;ood for themselves. The difference Is so pronounced that an order has been Issued forbidding bachelor laborers from providing their own food.
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Reduction In Lumber Output.

Washington. June 20.-Statistics concerning the annual output of forest products, from more than 2,10o saw mill operators in Michigan. Wisconsin and Mnnesota the big three show that the cut last year was only five and one-half billion feet of lumber. which is 12 per cent less than the cut of the preceding year. The heavy inroads made in the timber resources have been too much for the great forests. Six million acres in Michigan. known as "pine barrens." have been thrown on the delinquent tax list, although under proper regulations they might still be yielding lumber annually.
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FLASHES OF WISDOM.

So many people worry about things that never happen.
 Jealousy is the tribute woman pays to mans vanity.
 If We could only be content with what others say is good for us.
 Wise are those who know what to remember and what to forget.
 Bear in mind that the higher you climb the further you will fall.
 Love is like the wnd-no one knows whence it comes or whether it goes.
 Some folks are so busy trying to -et q living that they haven't time to live.
 It's nobility, not aristocracy, that helps nation.
 A wise man always pretends to take his wife's advice.
 It is sometimes wiser not to see an insult than to avenge it.
 It's often the things We don't say which cause the least regret.
 The man who doesn't want to work is generally the one ho has to. We are all apt to be prejudiced against what we don't understand. Ambition eggs an actor On ,bul sometimes the audience eggs him off Ambition is more successful when unhampered by a tender conscience
 Love makes the world 90 round"- and sometimes part of it go broke
 Fortunately for their comfort, stu Did people seldom realize their oWr stupidity.
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Railroads and Steel Railmakers
 Are at War.

Pittsburg, Pa, June 20.-Indications
 promise an early settlement of differ ences between the railroads and the steel railmakers Among the buying orders which have been held up are 55,O00 tons for Pennsylvania, most of which will go to the Carnegie Steel Co.,. and 52OO0 tons for the Illionis Central, of which the Illinois Steel Co.,, of Chicago, will roll 42,0oo: the Ten nessee Coal and Iron Go. to furnish the other 10000 in open-hearth rails.
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Best Target Record.

Washington, June 20.-Company C. Fourteenth Infantry in the Philippines made the best target record of any organization in the army during the season of 1907 Company C. had a general figure of merit of 111.11. In 1906 Troop K, Fifth Cavalry, led the army with a general figure of merit of 129.OO. Vancouver Barracks was the post having the best record in 19O7-merit figure 94.633-as against Fort Wingo in 1906 with a merit fig ure of 1072S
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Summer Lectures.

Madison, Wis, June 20.-A program of lectures on moral education and ethics, the first to be given in the West, has just been completed for the American Ethical Unions summer school of three weeks, usually held at Plymouth, Mass, but this year to be held in this city. The school will be opened July 5th, in the historical li- brary, and will be coincident with the summer season of the University of Wisconsin,
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Gmboat Yorktown Ordered to Alaska.

Washington, June 20-The gunboat Yorktown has been ordered to berins Sea at the request of Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and 1abor to protect the seal fisheries dur ing the closed season this summer The Yorktown left Puget Sound about June IS, and will remain in the North until about Oct. 1.
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Anti.Foreiyn Sentiment In Mexico.

Mexico City, Mex, June 20.-The new mining law containing a provision which forbids foreigners the right to locate mining claims. and prohibits foreign companies from acquiring min ing properties in that country. This action has aroused considerable stir in mining circles and the National chamber of mines is receiving many protests from American against the proposed law. Those who have al ready acquired properties will not be affected by the new law.
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shovels, the section men are instructed
 to allow them to grow, keeping them
 trimmed close to the rails that they
 may not come in contact with wheels
 of the cars and cause trouble. Wher- ever weeds have been allowed to grow
 dust has never troubled and this fact has caused MT. Buckley to try the ex- pertinent of allowing weeds and grass
 to cover the ties, especially the soil at the ends of the ties outside the rails.
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Fort Clark to Be Abandoned.

Washington, June 20.-The policy of abandoning all but one of two of the military posts on the Rio Grande bor- der, which was adopted about two years ago by the War department, is 10 be extended to Fort Clark.
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Good Crops In Canada,

Winnipeg, Can, June 20.-Crop re- ports being received here from all over day more brilliant and now hopes for
 a full crop in Western Canada are req sonablv entertained. Various esti-
 mates place the increase in acreage
 over 1907 at from 90 to 50 per cent. and keeping in mind the compara- lively poor yield of that period, it, is
 confidently expected that the wheat crop of 1908 will be double that of last year.
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European Monarchs Great Smokers

London, June 20 Most of the Euro bean monarchs are smokers. King Edward smokes fine cigars and occa- sionally a pipe. Franz Josef of Aus tria, smokes a pipe, Leopold Il of Belgium, smokes dozen cigars daily. Alfonso XIII likes a cigarette best and the Czar smokes about thirty Cir garettes a day. Emperor William has been advised by his doctors to smoke little or not at all. He lights an occa- sional cigarette, but never uses up more than half of it.
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Pullman Car Co. to Increase Rates.

Detroit, Mich, June 20.-The Pull man Car Co.,, has infrmed the Michi- gan railroad commission that within parlor car privileges and will charge one-half a cent per mile instead of a trip rate as heretofore The change will be enforced all over the country. the company claiming that the present rate is negotiable and unprofitable.
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The New Currency Law.

Washington, June 2o.-Preparations are ping made in the treasury depart ment for the prompt carrying into ef- feet of the various provisions of the new currency law. and a list of all naional banks, arranged by states, is being prepared in connection with any applications for the formation of na- tiOnal currency associations
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No Increase In Freight Rates.

Washington, June 20.-It is believed here that no general increase in freight rates will be made by the rail- ways in the near future. The con- census of opinion at a recent meeting of the railroad heads was that an in crease in time of depression like the present would tend to increase freight Stagna1on rather than to stimulate ,raffiC.
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Weeds to Prevent Dust.

Walla Walla, Wash, June 2O.-To save $40,000 in wages and at the same
 time control to some extent the dust which troubles travellers is the plan of M. J. Buckley, general superintend- ent of the Oregon Navigation, who this year proposes to allow weeds to grow along the tracks wherever it is pos sible. Instead of keeping the track clear of weeds by cutting them with
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X Million Dollars for Drainage.

St. Paul, Minn., June 20.-Minnesota will spend approximately a million dollars on drainage work this year, not less than 13.o00,000 cubic yards of dirt will be moved during the sea- sA9 to complete drainage ditches. Fully half a million acres of land will be reclaimed or benefited for agri- culture by the 1908 drainage opera tions
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New Plates for National Bank Notes

Washington, June 2O.-The staff of the bureau of printing and engraving is hard at work altering and replacing the plates of national banks so as to conform to the new currency law. The work is being expedited in order tC be prepared for any need for emer- gency currency by Western banks dur ing the crop moving period. For this reason the plates for bills of smaller denominations are receiving first at tentiOn
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State Road Through California.

San Francisco, June 20.-Governor Gillet has perfected plan for state road to run through the valley re- zion along the coast from one end of the commonwealth to the other which he is to present to the legislature at it's next session. He would have the state issue bonds to the extent of $1S,- 000000 from these improvements. This would give about $6,000 for the aver age mile of road.
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TOW ARDS
 SAVING

money by taking out a Bank Book at our Savings Department today A hundred resolutions to saye IF NOT carried out will never earn a cent of interest, while money depos- tied here regularly will increase with interest at 3 per cent on every dollar
 It will pay you to make a start to- day!
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try of the state of Washington for the present year, according to the state fish commissioner is encouraging. The pack, he believes, will be fully as good as that of last year, which means that it will reach an aggregate value of not less than $7,000,0 900.
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NOTES FROM THE
 DEVILS NOTEBOOK

Sarah Bernhardt is now ill the posi- ton of having two versions of Faust on her hands Resort to the law courts probably will be necessary to
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Salmon Outlook Promising.

Seattle, Wash, June 20.-The out look for the salmon canning indus
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The wise man knows when not to be patient
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Rosabel Morrison, daughter of Lewis Morrison, will also star in Faust the present season. She will alternate in both the leading roles Marguerite" and "Mephsto.'' Her manager claims that when ill an angelic mood she will play Marguerite, but when the mood comes along and she feels like break ing things, and the devil generally is to pay, she will tackle "Mephisto." Miss Morrison is in luck, it isn't every actress who can have a part to fit their moods. Mrs. Pat Campbell please take notice.
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The BANK OF PINE BLUFF

get the matter strengthened out. Mme. Bernhardt is to play "Mepnisto." Doesn't this beat the devil?
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
tAa,.mee.,. n,n.ells,..as s..e.,s

NJ. R. Joy had two feps-Hartford autos entered tn the hill-climbing con. test, al New London, last Saturday. The Pope made second in class Gears costing ~s,7 or le>s--and in the fne- for.all.
 An exchange says of the free-feFsll;
 "The free.for.sll furnished the real excitement for the afternoon. M. R. Joy, of Putnam, who had Pope Hart- ford in class (, sent skeleton Pope Hartford to the line In this class, 1t was entirely stripped and carried only one seat. The other entries were Cor bin, Stearns. Church, Packard, Whit ney and Kenyon.
 It simmefed down to a contest be tween the Pope. Hartford and the Cor bin. In the first trial the Pope Hart. ford fairly flew up the hiii, while the spectators along the course held their breath. Grady, the driver, handled the car perfectly, and got every bit out of the car that any driver could.
 When it was announced thai he had pushed the car up the hiil in l.ia, asa, most every one conceded the class To the Pope, especially when the torbin failed to equal the time on the first trial,
 nn the second trial came the sur prise. The Corbin car getting Il splen- did start, streaked up the hill at whirl. wind speed and m wonderful hurst ef speed crossed the hntah Hue in the remarkable fast time of l ta 4sa.
 Mt, Grady, in his second trial, made great attempt te beat Inc terhin's time, but i.io Ea seconds slower than the Pepe's first trial, was the best the machine could do, and the torhin : time stood a> the record time of the af- ternoen.1
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
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Ceagrcgai,oaal Church Notes

II, II. Speoner, Secretary of the Con nectieut Temperance Union will speak next Sunday morning at the Baptist church. In the evening, Union Tem- perancc meeting will he held in the au- ,sitorium of the Congreg ational church. Mr. Spooner's ability as a temperance speaker Is we'll known, and his force, enthusiasm, and clear grasp of his sub ject, need no comment. At this time of year our minds are naturally turned toward this subject: and Is 1t too much to hope that public opinion may, on ass- count of this lecture, bc SD changed, that our city may once more go mo H. eenses" All are urged to attend this service. The Young Peoples meeting will he omitted se that the Temperance Lecture may be as largely attended as possible next Sunday.
 Bev. John Reid of Franklin, Mass, will occupy the pulpit next Sunday morning. The singing will he by . male quintette, who will sing for an anthem, "rhe Earth k the Lord's.n by Hamilton. For the otiertory, liar old \. Corhin will sing "one sweetly solemn Thought Clayton N. Thur Der, orgauist of the Congreg ational church in Webster, will be at the or gam
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
A Magnificent Concert.

Encouraged by the great success of the instrumental and vocal Concert, given last year by the Swedish t'ongrc- gational Church of Woodstock, il pro poses te give another that II believes will excel the previous one. This time the Concert will first be given in Put nam and afterwards in the Swedish church on Woodstock Hill.
 Rev. l.. T. Lindholm, who has been pastor of the church for about three years, has been unsparing in his efforts te bring together the Swedish people Of Woodstock and vicinity, in church relationship, for theif benefit, the goe q of the community, and also to attract te the vicinity a good class ef hts eoun- tfymen. Mr. Iindholm has, hs his l,Vf ,vNefiig efforts, iiad church h;i;i'.. ing erected, aided bs his people, but there are other needs to make his la hors complete before he leaves his flock to go ,e New York city, Nhete he has accepted call. For the purpose, there fore, of raising money 10 finish the basement of his church, he has arran. eed to have this Concert II will give the music. loving people Of Putnam m opportunity to enjoy music of the high est order.
 The Concert will be given In the Se- cond Congregations church, in this city Wednesday evening, August Eth, nt $ o'clock. II will be given by Pro lessor Huffman and his son Paul Hult. man, under the auspices of the Wood. stock Swedish congregational church Prof. Iultman, baritone soloist, has, for years, been Il prominent Gospel singer, and will, on this occasion, sing popular sacred songs in both English and swedish.
 Mir. Paul Huffman, for many years i pupil of Emil Liebling, of Chicago, and of Arthur Foote, of Boston. He is now q pianist of recognized ability.
 Mr. Roy Campbell, head of the War fen, Pa, Conservatory, says "fhe in- depreciation Of some piano compost tions played by Paul Huffman, were superior to the best have ever heard in Europe or America
 He thought, some time ago, of enter ] ing the Law School of Yaie Tniversi- ty and take up the practicing of law as his life work, but learning about his musical ability, the Dean advised him not to give up music for the practicing 1 of law.
 This, surely, Is an opportunity thai every lover of good music should avail himself of, as it is one that may rarely be offered.
 As the proceeds Of the concert are to be applied toward the finishing of the new Swedish church In Woodstock, whoever, therefore, attends the concert will not only spend most profitable and enjoyable evening but will also aid a most worthy object.
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
Obituary
THOMAS KENNEDY

Early on Monday morning Thom-
 as Kennedy, of Arch street, was found
 dead in bed, due to heart trouble The
 evening previous he was in the best Of spirits, and had worked up to o'clock
 Thursday. He came 10 this country
 from Ireland when q youth, and had lived in Putnam, Ponifet and Wood
 stock, for about fifty years, the greater
 part of the time in this city. He had been employed on railroad work most
 of the time and for long period was
 watchman al the Modoc ledge, near
 the city. He helped dig the cellar of the first Catholic church, Providence street, on the site of the present beaati- ful church, as Il volunteer. He IS sur yiVed by his widow and four children Rev William Kennedy, assistant pas tor at PiainviIle, Conn, Mrs. Alice iIa- rue. Of PlainvilIe, James Kennedy, of Elmville, and Mrs. Fannie Toltersali of Paterson, N. J.
 Funeral services were held in St. 
 Marys church Sunday afternoon, Rev. Fr. Van den Soort officiating. The Reverend Father spoke very feeiingly of the sudden death of MT. Kennedy and of his straightforward Christian character. The bearers were John Qnin,
 John Gordon, and D. r. x. McEyoy,
 of Putnam, and William Lawler, of North Windham.
 Burial in Si. Mary's cemetery. A solemn requiem High Mass was celebrated on Monday morning at nine o'clock, and was sung by Rev. Will
 liam Kennedy, ceIebfant, son of the
 deceased, Rev. Fr. John Fleming, dea-
 con, of Waterbury, Rev. Fs. Dykeman
 sub Deacon, of this city.
 The church was filled on both oeca-
 sions, denoting the great respect In
 which MT. Kennedy was held in the
 community. There were also people
 from all the surrounding towns and
 some from other States. In fact 1t was
 one of the largest funerals ever held in
 the city.