Putnam patriot., 1909-11-26
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 en, k emild form of bafbarism, 7 makes Cape Cod solid for Germany in the next wHr.
 In 1891 Congress lauthorized the Pre- sident to establish National Forests, and now there are nearly lg5, 10000 acres of sueh forests, including about 27,000000 acres in Alaska and Porto Rico.
 Governor Weeks has appointed Dean Henry Wade Rogers, of the Yale Law School, and Prof. Irving Fisher, dele gates to the National Civic Federation to consider ,the subject of uniform le- gislatiun by the States, to be held at Washington early next January.
 A Burlington County Farmers, Ex- change was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with capital of sl2bUU. The object of this enterprise k to have the farmers handle their own crops and place them on the market. IL k ex, pccted that the farmers of many other of the agricultural counties in New Jersey will organize similar exchanges. The employers liability law of l9o6 VAS declared Inst week to be eonstitu- tional in territories of the United States and the District of Columbia, by the Supreme Court of the United States. 1t had been declared unconstitutional when applied to the States.
 Gen. Bingham, who was displaced as Police Commissioner by Tammany, notwithstanding the election es Judge Gaynos as Mayor o! New York, ss to be made Superintendent of Public Works. There Is likely to be a better order of things in that great city with In year or two.
 Exports of merchandise from the United States in October ttl9s, 72i ,S62) were the largest for the season eveI known. Imports the same. Editor Clarke, of the Political Economist who predicted dire things as the result of adopting the new tariff, now ad mits that 1t fs working well for the country. President Taft told the West crn "insurgents" that the Payne tariff, though not perfect, was the best the country ever had IL Is being demon strated.
 The arrangements for the Methodist Ecumenical Conference, at Toronto next year are taking shape. The small CT Methodist bodies on this side of ths Atlantic will have from one to ten del exstes apiece, the Canadian Methodist 24 delegates; the negro Methodists 0 the United States, bs; the Mcthodis Episcopal church, l2i; and its South cru offshoet, ea.
 With Congress beginning to gathe in Washington for the opening sessiol two weeks hence, the Washington Sta reports from the hotel corridors All, and restaurants and the White Hons anle-rooms, that everybody expect trouble and lots of it," Taft excepted
 "srhe scientists who hsye studies Eusapia raladino In this country, s far, says the Springfield Republican s'eons.s. .n.l..ls g.. .Nolg Fr.ses.aF, en tefprising magazine publishers an theatrical managers with an eye to th main chance Science will no dout be enriched ey the combination whe |, gets 10 going under full head c steam a
 The unanimous decision, says tn Courant, of the United states Gifeal Court oi Appeals in favor oi the ge' ernnfent, in its suit 10 dissolve th Standard Oil Company, is general regarded as notable victory, mol ont over Standard oil, but in the effect will have upon all other corporation which, through combinations, restrai freedom oi trade and prevent effectiN com pe,ition. The Standard Oil hs taken an appeal to the Supreme Soui of the United States, with little eNpes tstion, however, of reversing the Vel dict,
 Zelaya, President of Nicaragua, wit tuat nittd.tiiAsHtt f"Nes~f t~N N>
 among spanish rulers, is in trouol with the United States because ( ha.4as ar4ta Y executed i@a Anefl cans who were captured among the rs yolutionists who arr seeking to ovsl throw bis authority. Immediate an adequate reparAlion is to he demanded
 Heavy rains for twelve miles alon the Panama canal route, for seyers days caused | suspension of canal work Up to Saturday the rain this mont had lolalled 20 inches.
 Governor ssiaSsoock of West Virgins while travelling through Arizona, ns ticea the dry dusty appearance ei lh country.
 ssIsnes it esef rain around here n asked rue of the natives.
 slsAin?'' the native spat- "kain WlAy, say. parcines. there's buiifross if TIT no15 cpWn Qves llve yeass old lhal