Putnam patriot., 1911-06-30
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 makers of guns and powder The SO. eiety's aim is the protection of all sorts l Of birds from slaughter. The gun makers gift was intended to promote i the protection Of game birds against i indiscriminate killing Tor the adyaa- tage Of sportsmen.
 People who have kept statistics say | that Americas celebration of the i Fourth of July in 1908 was aignaliled /, with 1,112 blank cartridge accidents | followed by 150 eases of tetanus Last i year there were but 450 accidents Of 1 the blank cartridge nature, with 67 tetanus deaths. The sane Fourth idea has made progress "l am an ineorrigible optimist, l writes the Rev. Dr. Edwin r. Parker of Hartford to q Detroit newspaper, which had sought his views. And among my vital beliefs," wrote the doctor, lis my nnpartisan, patriotic, ardent and enthusiastic confidence in the great, wise, good and every way royal man who, by the grace of God, lis now thePresident of heUnitedStates.
 By the way, il is an American who has been elected president of the Inter national Woman's Suffrage Alliance in session at Stockholm, our own dear Carrie Chapman Catt. Nothing could have pleased America more.
 
 Uncle sam s credit has been demon strated to stand higher than that Of any other nation by the recent sale Of s50,000, ,0oO worth of three per cent Panama Canal bonds These bonds were subseried for to the amount Of Sl50, 0,000, ,o00-that is to say, three times the amount offered for sale.
 The Aldrich national reserve assoeia. ton plan of bank and currency reform now has the indorsement of President Taft. It seems to be growing in favor right along.
 The United States was the first, or among the first, of foreign govern ments to recognize the new Republic of Portugal. In spite of all predictions that little country, debased in igno- rance through combined monarchial and clerical system of government, and terribly corrupted among it's leading men by political method that made politicians on both sides pensioners of the state, whether i'll office or out of office, has thrown the entire triple bur den of and kept it's head during the critical days of setting up new gov ernment regular in form and of unim- peachable authority.
 A new record in the foreign com merce of the United States, surpassing was made in the eleven months ot the fiscal year ended with May. The i'm. ports and exports of the United States, as compiled by the Bureau of Statis- ties, amounted to S3,3l2, ,8S3, ,d06, which exceeds the record year of 1908 by al most S3,000, GOO The balance of trade in favor of American business men from their foreign customers amounts 10 S5Gl ,525, 502 for the eleven months It is doubtful if the balance at the end of the fiscal year will equal that of the previous record made in 1908, which was S666, I5l ,554 The imports for May were Sl50, 724, 2ll and the exports Sl5S, ,l69 ,695. The imports for the eleven months were Sl 400, 429 ,002, and the exports Sl ,aO6 ,054, ,50i
 Says the Hartford Ccurant: "Hart. ford was the home of Mrs Stowe's old age; in this town, on summer day Of 1896, she died. IL Is not here m Hart ford that the centennial of her birth could by possibility come and go uu. noted. The memory of her has been now for many years a part of Hart. ford's heritage.
 August ClondeauX, an expert glass worker of Ford City, Pa, left recently for Belgium, his native land, accom-. panied by his wife and twenty.four children. ClondeauX and his wife came 10 this country twenty-one years ago, a short time after their marriage. The family was happy on leaving. Ciondeaux was especially joyous. He is great admirer of baseball and des- cribed his family and departure as fol. lows:-"The score is 24 to 0.n He meant none of hts children had died). "rhirteen singles, four two bsggers and triple. Now We make a home run.n