Putnam patriot., 1908-10-30
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 has frankly admitted the oVerwheIm- ing superiority of Wilbur Wnght's at. xanees oxef those ef an European avia- tor, and in burst of enthusiasm k beginning 10 recognize and perhaps to eyaggefaie the wonderful effects which will follow his splendid discovery.
 Japan has just completed Z72 miles of railroad extending from one end of the island Of Fo mosa to the other and al cost of s2, 2,01g0 less than the es- timate. The island was taken from the Chinese in the late war, and the natives .were al as degraded AS the worst of the natives of the Philippines Now they are being trained into civil- ized habits. Tine Japanese are won- derful people, themselves s0 lately re- garded as heathens.
 The Kuklux Of few years were scourge at the South, but the night riders that are terrorizing their white neighbofs are moro atrocious in their murderous acts, and they exist in four Southern States. Their Governors and best citizens are cu ragged at the hofrid murders committed, bringing n stig ma of disgrace not only on their States but the.entire South. In Tennessee 44 prisoners, including two women, have been captured for the murder of Capt. Quinten Rankin, who with another continent piiixau haI gane fa taLa charge of some property they had puf- chased. which the natives did not like to have them take. His companion es- eaped by fl ruse, falling down beside log as II dead when he was fred upon. The Ottoman empire produces about B 600 Ions of dry liquofice year, and exports nearly all of Il to this country In addition we take almost the entire output of Russian liquorice.
 II k given out thnl President Roose. welt has signed contract with the "Outlookn to aet as an associate editor nftef his retirement from the fresiden- cy. His work in connection with the magazine k to cover political and eco homie topic. Ills African hunting tra- yels are to appear in Scdbnefs Maga. zine.
 The future tourists will never see the old Chinese capital as 1t had been for thousands of years, as 1t k being trans formed by Western improvements. Well-paVed streets, ilanked hy brieked drains now connect all the principal gates; the paper lanterns have been re. placed bs electric lights bfoughams replace the sedan chairs and spfingless carts. Fine modefa-style buildings afe provided for the government. Most surprising is a new geological and be tanicai garden where crowds of boti sexes gather daily. The kodak Is there When the London .sl'imes. declares that We have now in office the greates President since Lincoln, the Roosevelt popularity in England k amply de monstrated Our British cousins vii tell you our President is gentleman first, class sportsman, and one wh, has devoted himself to public life afte ti1t Ni ttiihiiuhttN i'iattt ffli glishmen.i
 A blizzard of snow occurred in Mon tona last Thursday, which was th' worst ever seen in the West, and demo raiized all railroad service. Snow | ten feel deep tn places on the tracks.
 Whitelaw Reid, the American Am bassador to England, unveiled a table in Bath, iasi Thursday, to the memof, of Edmund Burke, the great irisi statesmen and orator. The tablet Ina, been set up on the house where Burk, lived in Bath.
 There Is mystery about the lettei purported to have been written by ex President Cleveland, scoriating Bryan as no Republican. The man who sold Il for publication says he had the pro per authority from .drs Cleveland ana Mir. Hastings co-eNecutots of the CleNe and estate before selling. He only gol SEQ for IL.
 Charles Eliot Norton said a thing s, true al all times, that every one may A~s " as U h"tiN kdatS- ih 's s"'s s'''N tempting to get up short. lived repu' tation for humanity and msenanimity by the fervor of attacks upon wrong II Is hard and offers no allarment ol noloriety to devote oneself quietly. so befly, and patiently to the study ol means of removing Il, and the attempt to apply them"
 The American hattleshin fleet lef' Japan last sunday, escorted by Ja panese warships. Great satisfaction peryades all administration circles thai the fieet had so unparsiled reception and that the men behaved splendidi, throughout the visit and the thorough good feeling exhibited on every hand Nol an incident occurred to mar th' great reception. President Roosevelt sent a message to the Emperor of Ja pan, extending to him the thanks . the American people for the signal ge nerosity, courtesy and hospitality witi which the tlevt had been received ol its visit 10 Japan.
 The elections for the Federal Hous' ol Commons throughout Canada tool place on Monday. The present govern inent Is sustained hut by q reduced ma jority. Sir Ntlfred l.aufier, the sbles statesman and one of the pnresl of snei