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Show Speaking of Imports into the United States, thero is one article which represents rep-resents high value. Three trains recently re-cently started from Seattle on the Pacific coast, for Paterson, N. J., which is pretty near the shores of the Atlantic. At-lantic. Each train was loaded with silk for the mills at Paterson, and each cargo worth $1,000,000 or more. That was a bigger prize than train robbers would gut if they were to hold up an express or palace car outfit, and it is not strange that the goods were carefully care-fully guarded across the continent. C And the trip was not without adveu- tures. The trains were stalled by the 1 heavy snow in the mountains and for a time there was much apprehension. ! The railroad officials rushed men to the blocked trains to protect them against possible looters, and it may ! be well imagined that relief was felt when the silk was delivered to the consignees. con-signees. The argosi.es of t lie old seafaring seafar-ing days whicli offered such temptations tempta-tions to the pira'es of the period were no more richly laden than those silk carrying freight trains. |