Putnam patriot., 1908-12-04
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in four years, an era Of prosperity III this country exceeding anything ever known.
 The loss Of life by sea disasters last week was unusually large, the dense fog On the waters. being accountable Tor great poftien. A British steamer oil Malta, within sight of the city, with GOO Arab pilgrims, crew and six cabin passengers, took fire and in il few min Utes was roaring furnace. Over lm of the panie-stfieken pilgrims were burned or drowned.
 Last Thursday a stout steel freight steamer, going out of New York h ar bor, struck and sunk a Panama line steamer with eighty.five passengers, in dense fog. 0nly four passen- gers were drowned. One was a pathe- tic ease--a colored girl of about f6 years became mentally paralyzed, and clung Co the railing of ihe sinking ship, and neither persuasion nor force eouldimake her let go, and the escaped ones saw her still elinging to the rail as the stea mefs sunk out of sight.
 At Perth Amboy, N. J., last week, a pitched battle took place between ID strikers and Il body of deputy shefifis. Six of the foreigners were shot-two fatally. The strikers, ignorant foreign CTS, made an attack on fire-prooling works because their old scale of wages had not been granted. They claimed that somebody told them that If Taft was elected their wages would be rais- ed to the scale If prosperous times. They inferred that ns soon as fatt was elected their wages would be raised in- slead of bringing back the old prosper ity, as .as meant.
 Trade of the United States with It's non-cuniipuous territories will approx Innate sl7o,000,oo0 in the year ending This month. Ten years ago the trade with the same territories amounted to approximately t6o ooo, ,Un the increase during the decade having thus been nearly 2oo per cent.
 The improvement of conditions Tn Panama since the advent of American influence, k interestingly set forth in Il report by the British Minister to that Republic. He shows that imports in. to Panama in iee7, aggregated 10 ,2si, F 4oo, against sl7 ,abl ,428 In l9oe, and the exports sl ,9os ,8lo i'll 1907, against si F 0i5, ,5ss. Of the imports Of t9H, sh per cent were from the nited States, and of the exports about so per cent.
 President Eliot, in an address before the massachusetts, State Child i.nbot Committee, said; athe child of II on leaving the grammar school k absolute ly uniitted to become a skilled laborer and, as consequence, takes position of which there k little hope of advance meni. The child of l6 Is littlc bettel fitted. We need very much that CD operation which proves NO beneficial 1T Germany, and We seriously need to de something for the child between tn, ages of l4 and l6 years" Better talk, lesson from Booker Washington industrial school for colofed boys an,
 
 girls, who enter utterly ignorant m, graduate finished products s-sehoiasii eally trained and skilled In some man uai trade.
 Mrs. Russell Sage has given S25, ,tsN to the ,"re-adj justment fund.- for th iierea College, the trustees of which ar raising fund oi Sso0, ,0oO to provide separate college for the negro students who, by recent Kentucky enactment are not allowed to be educated al Bere College. With Mr. Carnegie's munii cent contribution. and now Mrs. Sage sio1su has been cont tributed-leavin i'm only S,oW niorc to he raised to giN' the negro students college of thei own.
 Last Saturday steamer carrying large number ei labofers from one par of the Philippines To another, s.rnel rock and sunk, drowning hundre, of those on board.
 Often we read of many of the South ern States being "soldly Democratic. if that k n crime. what must VIC thinl of Zapata county, Texas, which wen 'solid' for Taft, nol one of its sas vote being cast for Bryan or any other of tn five Presidential eandidatess
 Mexico's first transcontinental rail road k practically completed. IL | l ,0sl miles long--the terminals an  zanillo Iat the Pacific end The con struelion between Tuxpan and Colim, wasn't a bil easy, being mountainou section. The difficulties eneountere, and overcome by the Anne rican engi neers and builders in one short section of 4S miles may he mor fully appre ciated when il Is stated that Il cost s. ooo,oa gold to complete Il.
 The Census Bulletinisays that in th last .N years there were nearly i2,o0o, ou marriages and ,1o,Ua diyorccs Wives obtain twice as many divorcet as husbands, and only three women oat Of sixteen ask for slimons, two ou of sixteen obtain il.
 The Presbyterian Ministers ASsoeia lion of New York city, by resolution last week, expressed their disagEee meat with President RooseNell's state msnl that refusal To vote Tor eandi date for high office because hy is N Ra