Putnam patriot., 1909-10-08
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Says the London Daily Mail 1.-The Americans have secured three nfths 0f the import trade Of Canada, and they have done |, through systematic, sas. tained and well-planned work. The English invest mainly in debentures and preference shares yielding fair fixed interest, with little risk and no control. The Americans build factories and acquire the retail business. The result Is, that large part Of Canadian manufacturng today Is in the handso Americans, and the policy ef many of the stores is dictated by many of them. In Winnipeg alone there are 100 firms working wholly or in part on Ameri. can money"
 1.4p About 5000 enumetatofs VIII ee needed for the census next yeaf--an iil- crease of il,000 over the number re- quifed al the last census. The number of Connecticut enumerators will be in- creased from 554 to 750.
 Pole dwellings 1000 years old, simi. lar 10 those discovered in the north of Switzerland, have been unearthed in swamp on the plateau east Of Lake yetter, i20 miles from Stockholm. The excavations disclosed petfified apples, wheat kernels, nuts, pottery, Hint and horn implements, amber ornaments, and wild boar teeth-ali in a state of good preservation in the calcareons mud.
 Mrs. Lucille St. Q. Barre, Of Voluu- town, native of toilette, Canada, died at her home last Saturday, at the age of lOB, from heart failure. She had never been sick day in her life. No children survive her
 The whales are not all dead yet. \ school has been seen during few days last week, of Cape Cod. which old salts declared were the most numerous they ever saw on the Atlantic coast.
 Secretary Eiiphalet Whittiesey, se- cfetafy of the Board of Indian Com. missioners, died at his home in Wash. ington, last Friday, aged ss. He was born in New Britain, and was gradu nted from Yale in ls42.
 The Canadian government has seni out an ( xpedition to the arctic seas l. plant the British flag on every islane 1t can find, IN rightfully belonging l. Canada, even on the North Pole itself They are welcome to do 50.
 On the basis of i50 ,00o deaths yeafi from tuberculosis, in the United State' the National Association for the Stud and Prevention of Tuberculosis con putes that there are 6si ,934 person constantly sick with this disease. A lowing only sboO as the average carr ings of the wofkingman who dies, tn annual loss to the country from th ranks of labor alone, Is over sli4, ,0oo GOO each year.
 The new tariff took effect August and in that month the imports totaie in value SIT ,Uo, ,oo0 as against s9i .ooo OO0 last year under the DinRlcy tariff Instead of fighting and cursing th new tariff its opponents should va and sec if il Is not an improvement o the one it displaces. Ii IL is not Il ca b. easily changed to modify it's defect without making a new tarlff II seem to be working to the satisfaction ot Il friends.
 Among the nundesirable citizens | Turkey, just now, are some Armenian coming back from the United State imbued with false ideas of treedol gathered from residence in this coat try. They confound liberty with | censc, and maintain that Ghristianit makes people too inotiensive to prs tecI itself. They say this is the caus of their own political weakness. IL hard for the Young Turk party to hay this troublesome element added to th difficulties they are grappling Miti and American missionaries. who hav constantly taught gospel of obediene to law, regret lha, their own countr. should furnish this type of undcsirahl '- citizen.
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