Putnam patriot., 1908-06-05
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Hz1 week We gaze aH accvutAA 1A AAt destructive tornado aad fl9ods that Yis- tied Texas and Oklahoma Both q those -taies were again visited Thur day iast. and many liSes were lost and much property destroyed.
 China, the most tfeele-s country in the world. also snfiefs the most from floods than any other country. Recent ly flood destroyed one thousand lives af Uankew. Sometimes the nnmlef thus destroyed runs up into lens and hundreds Of thousaads The people do not know, or, like the people Of ihls country, they perhaps don't care to know. the connection between tree less country and its destructive floods. That k, The sections that do not thus suffer are indifferent about the causes Of destructive floods.
 Notwithstanding President castrols decree, saying tbat La Guayra would be erened to traffic with the interior, last week: great fear of the spread Of the bubonic p.ague k felt in other cities Of Venezuela. Gases are daily reported in La Guayfa.
 When the New Engiander reads the accounts of floods, tofnadoes and dead ly plsenes that are atiiieting the peo- pie of tie world, he ir tempted to eS- claim, as did the Esquimaux about his native country: II pity people who do not lise in GreenIands3
 The opening of the Central American Court of Justice, which K seated al aatiago, Costa Rlca. has been duly ef- feeted ia the presence ef American and Mexican representatives amldst much enthusiasm on the pat of the people of those -tates and amid ths sympathetic and hopeful interest Of well-wishefs every a here. Tho occasion was aRfeeaz hiy marked with The characteristic gill by Mf. Andrew Carnegie of sio0. 0Ve fef the erection of Il afemple of Peace fof the permanent housing of the tribunal
 X foreign woman seeing three men irving t0 steal si3, ,Ua1 from messengers of hnnk in New York, "butted Ill and prevented the robbery. For her heroic net the bank rewarded her with a gift If s5m. When asked what she expected to do with the money she ex= pIained that she would remain here Il short tune and then ge to her home Iii Gallarin. near the Polish border. The stDo, she explained, would place her and her husband III comparative indes pendenee in her old home.
 Allentown, Pa, 2ns thrown Into tn tense excitement last sunday hy what aas believed 10 be an earthquake shock which was severe enough To rock build ingk, rattle windows and efockefy, and tumble down two et three shaky ehim. neys, X similar seismic disturbance WAS felt on sunday - wears ago.
 The Bible class of the First Conrfe. gationai church oi Hoiyoke has enlist. cd the owners of automobiles te carry the aged, the inlifm aad otherwise in4 capable lpcople, to church. Already many of these "shat.ins9 have enjoyed the opportunity of being swiftly lfans. fcrfed from their homes to the church services and back. The good example k spreading II is uue of the undfeanz el possibilities of the automobile.
 General stephen F. Lee, late Com. mander of the Confederate Veterans, and the last General of the Conledefa. ry. died al his home in Nickshufg, Miss, last Thursday,
 The fierce yaqe. Indians, after n war with Mexico, carried an toF n wears, have al last agreed io submit to that Republic.
 David II, uill, onee powerful leaa- CT of ihe i;sinotfai, af New York state, kat living ln forced political retirement fat the past ten years, in his address on ,,afge Clinton, last week, made these remarks
 aIn those earlN da4s The municipal pniiiieal boss unetMeaied, corrupt, im- peetaas-- who seeks the control of poitt ieal organizations lef purposes of plum der and personal aggfandisement had not vet appeared He K the product of modern times. and his presence is the oanc of any political party to which he attaches himself
 John p. Rockefeller has just given saoo ,aa for hospital building fer the Rockefeller Institute.
 Pears has got nearly the sum he re- qairvs to start on hts search, next July, for the North Pole. He thinks his next dash will te a success. He k an officer in the American army, on leave ot ah- senee to make his voyage. He is still yaung, brave and intrepid, The world wishes him succcss. That will te 10 discover ireaFs reach of land or wa. Ter, that can settle no useful problem.
 sBessen's stump. is the local name of the parish church of St. isotolph, In Boston, fnKs it aait~ itoii tns isati century, and iis tower s.2 feet high, is the iailest but one among the parish churches of England. IL has aea steps, one fer each day ot the year, and the church has doors, l. windows and la plilafs-for The days of the week, and the weeks and nsonshs in The year. For the as hours in the day thee sfe n steps in the porch. Two flights ot ea steps lead Ia the reof--ene for the mi- n,,t.s and ,he other for the seconds and