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Atlanta Journal;
The state of Wyoming has many
undesirable conditions, but probably
none that is more deplorable than
the great disparity between the
number of its men and the number
of its women.
Wyoming is condemned by the
census report to the unenviable dis
tinction of having the smallest per
centage of women in any part of
this country.
At the general count of the popu
lation in June, 1900, it was found
that Wyoming had 20,927 bachelors
and only 2,437 spinsters. Such a
surplus of men must be considered
a serious misfortune and drawback
to a state.
There is a very general, though
mistaken, notion that in some of the
states, especially those of New Eng
land, women are in the majority.
Even in Massachusetts, which has
the largest proportion of women, the
bachelors outnumber the spinsters
by more than 8,000.
There are in Georgia 35,571 more
men than women of marriageable
age.
Alabama has 104,951 marriagea
ble men to 75,623 marriageable wo
men. The majority of bachelors in
South Carolina is only 2,804. In
very few states are the numbers of
men and women of marriageable
age so nearly balanced.
’The figures for the United States
show that there are 5,726,779 bach
elors of 20 years and upwards,
against 4,105,446 spinsters of 20
years and upwards. That is an ex
cess of 60 per cent, of bachelors
over unmarried women. It means
that if every marriageable woman in
the country, not counting widows
and those under 20 years of age,
were to be at once mated with men,
there would still remain 2,931,333
unattached males who could not
possibly secure wives unless they
should go outside of their own
country or seoure them among the
widows or the girls under 20.
The oensus bulletin which gives
this information concerning bachel
ors and spinsters reveals the unwel
come faot that the birth rate is de
creasing in this country.
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright,
of the bureau of statistics; says up
on this subjeot;
“The idea of limiting families has
more effeot upon population than
war, pestilenoe and all other causes
combined.” In 3850 the average
family comprised five and one-half
persons; now it is only four and
one-half. Families in the southern
states have the most children, and
in New England the familos are the
smallest. Louisiana, in proportion
to population, has twice as many
children under five years of age as
Maine. Nevertheless, a baby is born
in this country every 12 seconds,
and every minute in the twenty-four
hours five cradles are supplied with
occupants. Every 28 seconds a
death odours, in the United States,
and every 24 Reconds a marriage.
—
His Theory Was a Good One.
Ex-Governer O’Ferrell, of Virgin
ia, thinks there is no boy in the
world smarter than his liotle grand
son. He took the lad down on his
farm one Sunday afternoon, after
the boy had returned from Sunday
school, to show him an astrakan ap
ple tree that was nearly ready for
the harvest. On the way to the or
chard the little fellow asked:
“Whom do these fields and woods
belong to, grandpa?”
“Why,” said the rather matter-of-
fact grandfather, “to me.”
“No, sir,” emphatically responded
the boyj “they belong to God.” (
The grandfather said nothing till
they reached the apple tree, when
he said:
“Well, my boy, whom does this
tree belong to?”
“This waB a poser, and for a mo
ment the boy hesitated; but, casting
a longing look upon the apples, he
replied:
“Well, grandpa, the tree belongs
to God, but the apples are ours.”
Henry L. Shattuck, of Shells-
burg, Iowa, was cured of a stom
ach trouble with which he had
been afflicted for years, by four
boxes of Chamberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets. He had pre
viously tried many other reme
dies, and a number of physicians
without, relief. For sale by all
dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe,
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Safe Place in Thunder Storm.
For the benefit of those who suf
fer with a dread of lightning, the
following by Prof. Langley, an ex
pert electrical engineer of Cleveland,
O., will be of interest. He sp,ys;
“There is a constant tendency on
the part of the electricity in the sky
to reach the ground. To do this it
must have a conductor. Atmos
pheric electricity always follows the
outside of the conductor or agency
that leads it to the ground. That’s
why the middle of the room is the
safest during an electrical storm.
“I know of a number of instances
where a bolt of lightning followed
the walls of a room, burning it on
all four sides, while the people in it,
being away from the walls, were on
ly slightly shocked. That is the
only safe procaution known to sci
ence.
“It is a well known fact that
more people are struck by lightning
in the country than in the cities.
The reason for this is because the
builders have unwittingly safe
guarded the cities. Buildings to
day have tin and copper eaves
troughs, and many of the roofs are
of metal. Wires are everywhere. All
these things are conductors.
“If all the buildings in New York
wore connected by copper straps it
would be absolutely impossible for
lightning to strike the city. That
is what I mean when I say people
in large cities are safeguarded.
“Lightning cannot expand itself
over an area. It must concentrate
itself. It must find the weaker spot,
But the city is so generally covered
with conductors that there is prac
tically no weaker spot.
“In the country it is different.
One tree is higher than the rest,
Perhaps there is a stream of water
beneath it. That, then, is the weak
est spot in the wood, and the light
ning destroys it. A farmhouse
stands in a vacant lot. There are
no other houses near. That house
is the weakest spot, and there the
linghtning strikes.
“So my advice to people is Hvjf,
they remain in the center of u ••
room during every thunder Bit r •».
They will be safer there than ii .\-
where else.
Roosevelt by Acclamation.
The New York World announces
that it has the best authority for
stating that President Roos&velt ex*
peots to be nominated in 1904 by
acclamation. According to the in
formation received by the World,
Mr. Roosevelt expects the support
of Senator Hanna, Governor Odell,
Senator Platt and Senator Quay. If
there were no reason for doubting
the administration’s sincerity in its
professed attack upon the trusts,the
very fact that at this moment Mr.
Roosevelt has good grounds for be
lieving that he may be renominated
without opposition would justify the
suspicion that the trust magnates
are satisfied with the Roosevelt ad
ministration. Does any one believe
that the powerful influences that
have manipulated the republican
party to the advantage of the trust
system would permit Mr. Roosevelt
to be nominated by acclamation if
the trust magnates had any griev
ances against the president?—The
Commoner.
A Cure /’or Cholera Infantum.
“Last May,” says Mrs. Curtis
Baker, of Bookwater, Ohio, “an
infant child of our neighbor’s was
suffering from cholera infantum.
The doctor had given up all hopes
of recovery. I took a bottle of
Chamberlain’s Colioy Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy to the house,
telling them I felt sure it would
do good if used according to di
rections. In two days’ time the
child had fully recovered, and is
now (nearly a year since) a vigor-
onr, healthy girl. I have recom
mended this remedy frequently
and have never known it to fail in
any single instance.” For sale by
all dealers in Perry, Warren &
Lowe ,Byron.
The Rev. Jacob Weller, a Mary
land Dunkard who died recently,
had preached in one pulpit for more
than 40 years. In all that time he
would never, take a cent of salary or
allow a “collection” to be “taken up”
in his church. It must have been
popular.'—Exchange.
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Tenant Farming on the Increase.
Macon Telegraph.
It is interesting to know that in
the country at large there is a com
parative decrease in the number of
farmers who own their farms and a
marked increase in tenantry, thus
revealing a tendency leading away
from early American and toward
European conditions.
It is shown in a volume of agri
cultural statistics recently issued by
the government that while in 1880
about 75 per cent of the farms of the
United States were operated by own
ers and about 25 per cent by ten
ants, in 1900 the number of farms
operated by their owners had fallen
to 64.7 per cent and the number of
farms operated by tenants had in
creased to 35.3.per cent. The sig
nificance of these comparisons is not
affected by the fact that the actual
number of farms owned by their op
erators is not much greater now
than twenty years ago, for the num
ber of tenant farmers increased near
ly 100 per cent during the same two
decades.
The falling off in independent
ownership is noted in all sections.
In the North Atlantic division it is
given as about 6 per cent, in the
South Atlantic division 8 per cent,
in the North central division 6£ per
cent, in the South central division
12£ per cent, and in the Western di
vision 2$ per cent. And this falling
off has been more rapid during the
first decade named than during the
second. That there has been a
greater increase in tenantry in the
South Atlautio and South central
divisions than elsewhere is no doubt
explained by the cutting up of large
farms and renting the parts to ne
groes on shares. Such a develop
ment, taken by itself, is desirable,
for the larger percentage of negroes
employed on rented farms, where
they cannot buy, the better.
It is stated that about 75 per
cent, of the rented farms in the
United States are owned by persons
living in the same county in which
the farms are located. Some 15 per
••.lit. of them are owned by persons
iiii!: in the same state, *but not in
inn same county, and only 5 per
vdut, or farms to the value of $316,-
000,000, are owned by persons living
outside of the state in which they
are located. This shows that the
conditions are still very far removed
from the lard tenant system and
“absentee landlord evil” of Europe,
although it is stated that a certain
typical Irish landlord also owns
many thousands of acres of farm
lands in the United States and leases
the same thrhough agents to Amer
ican tenants.
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sharp who says the insects have no
use for certain colors.
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