Putnam patriot., 1909-07-16
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the school cbildfeu Of Greater New York fa assist The street Cleaning be partment to keep the streets clean. Q President Tan having been invited 10 attend Che opening of the kl Paso ffexaa fair, November isti President Diaz, of Mexico, who was also invited, has promised to attend | President Taft will be thefeIin order to meet him and have the pleasure Of shaking hands with him.
 4 cattle disease. which baiiies the farmers and has caused the death of some most vaiunbie cows, has made its appearance iH Gafdnefyiiie, \. Y.
 The report of the Pension Gommis- sioncr shows that halfcentHry after The close of the civil war that there are over 5,0OJ old soldiers pensioned abroad In dozen different countries. All told there are still 95l ,es7 pension CTS classified in the Pension eommis- sioner's report.
 The Board of Control of the Epworth League Of the Cnited States and Can ada, have decided To hold the ne ext In- fefnational Convention In Boston on May K, 1910.
 The North China Daily News says: .sThe Anti.opium Commissioners have decided on the opium prohibition laws on graduated scale. From the eur. rent for four years, the maximum pe- nalty for officials who smoke opium, will be stranguiaiion; fn tie next year this punishment will be extended to the gentry. and in another year To the common oqie.e
 The London Lancet, the great Eng. lish medical paper in advising people of middle age and older to practice self. restraint In eating, says; "As the fire of life burns less iiercely and the out. put of energy K smaller, SO the fuel supplied should be reduced that the system may not be elegged with ashes and haif-burnt cindefs, whereby the activity Of the whole machine k from time to time impaired and may even be prematufely arrested
 Suicides are increasing in New York State. In l301 there were 1 ,2oa, In iyos there were ,j09-an average of IT Il month. The five months ol i901 show an average of I24 per month.
 One of th. show places st Lakewood N. j., K a poultry farm where there are more than 2,u0 hens and 1b,oo, recently matched incubator chickens The same firm has two other similar farms--one al Nineland, with lo,Ws hens, and one In Eatonlown with a,oW hens and 20,0n chicks. The eornpan, K preparing to buy other farms for ths same purpose and for raising ducks. A member Of the German Parliament in \ widely y-cireuIated, statement ssss America is the real danger for hott Germany and England, and tof all tu rope, which must have Monroe doe Urine, with the cry "Enrope for the itu ropeaas.n should there be war between England and Germany, America woul, be the happy beneficiary. The ruthless operations of Payne and Aldrich, ans the strong policy of Secretary North II the far East, show that 1t k high tim, for Europe to unite against pan Amer icanism before il Is too late.
 Mrs, Lillian O. Hoag, of Los Ange les, Cal, Is believed to hold the reeot' for fasting. She was i'll, and though that fasting would do her good, Sh is said to have gone without food io foty-nine days. She says the cure wa complete success.
 A smoking room for women k inclu ded in the plan for 1.-two million am half dining place on Broadway which will open in September, an' contain ever, element of luxury in ad ditlon. The women's smoking foou will cost over ss5,eeo.
 There are between forty and lift million dollars, worth of automobile in massachusetts,. What must be th value oi these machines in the whol country
 A pageant representing the growth { science and literature in the 10th an 10th centuries, closed Geneva, Switke lands len.day celebration, July Il, the s0olh anniversary of the birth { John Calvin. Practically all the m tions of the world, through their fepr sentalises, united in according homal 10 the memory Of the great thinke writer and feiermer.
 Manufacturers materials impotte In inc fiscal year just ended seem lis iy 10 exceed in quantity those oi an earlier fiscal year.
 sWhen 1 was is or Ia years cid di ali could to helpa little parish pa of debt of about s2,ooo on churc to which belonged. it was one the keenest pleasures of my life. was there that 1 acquired inc taste f' giving and for influencing others give Thus spoke John n. Reckefe Ter, the man who has just celebrate his solh anniversary oi his birth ! making hts total contributions To ed cation amount ta nearly slue.tsp.uu
 For the past two weeks this coun,l has had larger nnmherof celebration than for any time in many years. Pr slsient Taft has teen invited lo thel al, but il was impossible to meet a s.., t..s s4..... far