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St. Louis Republic.
There seems to have been a
proper exercise of the necessary
Caution in compiling the list of
trusts now issued by the demo
cratic congressional committees
the object being to make the list
authoritative by reducing to a
mimimum its errors of classifica
tion.
This list shows that there are
287 trust combines in thiB coun
try. The total capitalization of
these concerns reachos the stag
gering aggregate of $6,972,448,851.
Remember, tod, that the beef trust
and the tinthracite coal trust do
not figure in this list, undeniable
trusts though they are. They
manage their combino by virtue
of a “gentlemen’s agreement.”
wliioh enables them to fix prices
and restrict production while not
placing them categorically on the
list of “aggregations of capital.”
The power of these trust co ra
pines is gigautic. It is based upon
their vast capital and the treinen-
; dous influence possible to them as
employers of labor. In the world
of commerce and industry they
are practically irresistible. In the.
world of politics they are a factor
of potency as great as it is ma
lign. Their political power is ex
orcised in behalf of the republi
can party, which created them by
meaus of the Dingley tariff and
which now obeys their orders.
They supply the campaign slush
funds so freely distributed by the
republican managers in every cam
paign. They control thousands of
votes for the republican candi
dates. They are determined 1 to
keep the republican party in pow
er in the government, because the
republican party is the-party of
the trusts.
The American people are now
demanding a revision of the tariff.
These trusts say that the tariff
shall not be revised. Tariff re
vision would save millions of dol
lars annually to American con
sumers and would greatly increase
the opportunities for success in
business now so restricted because
the trusts monopolize all fields.
The maintenance of the Dingley
tariff will mean the continued en
richment of the trusts at the ex
pense of the people The Repub
lican party is standing stubbornly
for the Dingley tariff in behalf of
the trusts. The Democratic party
is fighting aggressively for tariff
revision in behalf of the people.
An overwhelming majority vote
for the party of tariff revisision
hnd trust restriction should be
«ast by the Amerioan people in
the elections of 1902 and 1904.
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A man may build a palace or a
castle, but be he wise as Solomou
and rich as Croesus, he cannot
build a home. No man can do
|his alone; he must have a woman
to help him; it is the husband
and wife together who build the
home*. If the husband is intem
perate, ill-natured, indelioate,
■cross and exacting, the wife oan-
not make the home what it ought
$o be, no matter how wise, loving
and prudent. Enlightened moth
erhood needs enlightened father
hood to make the home what it
■should be, the great civilizing and
uplifting of the world,—-Ex.
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A Parson's Noble Act.
“I want all the world to know”
writes Rev. 0. J. Budlong, of Ash
away, R. Jp “what a thoroughly
good and reliable medicine I found
in Electric/Bitters. They cured
me of jaundice and livor .troub
les that had caused me great suf
fering for many years. For a gen-
r.ine all round cure they excell
a nything I ever saw.” Electric
Bitters are the surprise of all for
their wonderful work in Liver,
Kidney and Stomach troubles.
Don’t fail to try them. Only 50
cents. Satisfaction is guaranteed
Holtzolaw’s drugstore.
“Papa,” said the sweet girl
graduate, “wasn’t ray commence
ment gown a whopperino? I had
the other girls skinned alive 1”
“‘And this is tne girl,” said papa,
sudly, “whose graduating essay
was “An appeal for higher stan
dard of thought and expression.’’
—Chicago Tribune.
Sound Kidneys—Perfect Health.
The use of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure
■will produce both. Try a bottle aup
i; d convinced, 50 cents at Oater’s
Drugstore.
Uncle Sam’s Apple Bin.
The center of Uncle Sam’s ap
ple bin has shifted west of the A1-
leghanies, and the state that leads
in the growing of the national
fruit is Missouri. This is the
burden of a paper read by Pro
fessor "Vy. A. Taylor, pomologist
in charge of field investigation in
the United States department of
agriculture, before the national
apple shippers’ convention in Ro
chester,N. Y., says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Professor Tay
lor completed his paper several
days ago; but just before the time
for reading it he received from
the census department advance
sheets of statistics bearing on the
apple industry of the United
States compiled from statistics
gathered by the twelfth census,the
mutter being brought down to
June 1, 1900.
According to figures of the
twelfth census, the total number
of bearing trees in the commer
cial orchard areas of the United
States is 210,000,000, an increase
of 75,000,000, or more than 40
per cent, over the apple area of
1890. This commercial area of
1900 yielded in 1899 somewhat
more than 176,000,000 bushels of
apples. By districts the north
Atlantic apple section has 89,-
600,000 trees, the south Atlantic
25,500,000, the north central 92,-
000,000, the south central 81,000,.
000 and the western district, in
cluding? the Roiky mountain
states and the Pacific slope, 13,-
000,000.
Out of the total number of
trees in this country the north
and south central districts pos
sess 128,205,000, or nearly three-
fifths. These are divided among
the leading states as follows: Mis
souri, 20,000,000; New York, 15,-
000,000; Illinois, 18,600,000;
Kansas and Pennsylvania, a little
less than 12,000,000 each. Seven
states have more than 10,000,000
trees each. * In order they are
Missouri, New York,Illinois,Ohi l
Kansas, Pennsylvania and BJio n-
gan.
“The lesson,” said Prof***
Taylor in his address, “is obv:
We in the east must be prepaid
to meet the keenest competition
from the west and south. It is
assuredly true that; the great ap
ple bin of the United States has
been shifted to the west of the
Alleghanies.”
Growth of United States.
Saving the Little Man.
Atlanta Constitution.
The incident at the labor day
celebration in Lincoln, Nebraska,
where Mr. William Jennings Bry
an went to the. relief of a small
man who was being brutally befit
en by a drunken tough, and in the
melee Mr. Bryan narrowly escap
ed with his life, is characteristic
of the great Nebraskan.
Whatever may be said of the
timeliness or persistency of some
of his political principles, there
are few honest and enlightened
men who do not realize that Mr.
Bryan’s whole life’s labor has
been set to the note of “saving
the little man.” Endowed by.na
ture and a correct regard ior the
laws of health and good nature,
he has felt the strenuous certi
tudes of a strong man. It may
be said, indeed, that while rejoic
ing in the vigor of a young giant
he has been too gentle and too
noble to ever use his strength of
whatever sort to harry and op
press the weak. He has always
been a clean and kind-hearted
manly man.
It was that strong, lustful,
righteous strain of sympathy with
the woak and passion to “save the
little man” that made his mar
velous speech in the Chicago con
vention of 1896 run like an elec
tric energizer through the hearts
and thrill the hamstrings of the
confused, half-stamped and shep
herdless masses of that great as
sembly. His picture of their
wrongs, his plea for their rights,
his bold demands for justice for
their causes fired the crowd, the
city and the country. They made
him the matchless orator of a na
tion’s distress. ,He was defeated
for the presidency twice, and may
never run for an office again, but
he will hold a first place forever
in Amerioan history as a great
soul ever bent on “saving the lit
tle man!”
A moving picture of conditions
in the United States at decennial
intervals from .1800 to 1850 and
annually from 1850 to 1902 is pre
sented in a monogrph just issued
by the treasury bureau of statis
tics at Washington.
The area has grown from 827,-
844 square miles in 1800 to 8,025,
600 square miles in 1902, exclu
sive of Alaska and the islands be
longing to the Uuited States. The
population per square mile which
was 8.6 in 1810, was 26.1 in 1902.
The total wealth has grown from
$7,000,000,000 in 1850 to an esti
mated $94,000,000,000 in 1900 and
the per capiti wealth from $807 in
1850 to $1,285 in 1900.
In 1800 the public debt was $15
per capita, in 1840 it had fallen
to 21 cents per capita, in 1852 it
was $2.67 per capita, in 1862, be
fore the beginning of the war, $2.-
74, and then mounted rapidly un
til it became $76.98 per capita in
1866, gradually falling again after
the war. It was $12.97 in 1902.
The number of farms increased
from 1,449,078 in 1850 to 5,739,-
657 in 1900, the value of farms
and farm property from $4,000,-
000,000 to $20,000,000,000, and
the value of their products, which
was not measured until 1870, grew
from $1,958,000,000 in that year
to $,764,000,000.in 1900. The val
ue of farm animals increased
from $554,000,000 in 1850 to $2,-
981,000,000 in 1900.
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Stops the Cough and Works o££
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
No pay. Price, 25 cents
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An estimate is made that the
railroads of the country this year
will expend $400,000,000 In bet
terments, cutoffs,rolling stock, &.
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Laxative Chocolates..cure qhronic
constipation and liver trouble. Pleas
ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar
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Saved by a Turtle.
Miss Ada B. Minchron, a socie
ty belle of Chicago, was rescued
! i m in the surf in a remarkable and
unique manner recently at Atlan
tic City.
Miss Minchron swam out too
far and was caught in the strong
current flowing from the Inlet.
As she was about to sink there
floated past her a huge black ob-
I ject. It was the back of one of
the large sea turtles that have
been driven north.
As the turtle went by Miss
Minchron caught hold of the
shell. To her astonishment the
turtle kept swimming near the
surface and ma'de no. attempt to
dive.
This extraordinary scene pro
gressed for nearly fifteen minutes,
when the naptha launch, Clorin-
da, passed through the channel.
Miss Minchron’s cries for help
attracted attention and resulted
in her rescue. Both she and the
turtle were pulled into the launch-
The turtle was taken to the Roy
al Palace Hotel, where it was dec
orated with pretty ribbons.
Later Miss Minchron, holding
the reins of ribbons, drove the
turtle to the beach and gave it its
liberty in the ocean.—Ex.
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Women Who Wear Well.
It is astonishing how great a
change a few years of married life
will make in the appearance and
disposition of many women. The
freshness,the charm,the brilliance
vanish like the bloom from a
peach which is rudely handled.
The matron is. only a dim shad
ow, a faint echo of the charming
maiden. There are two reasons
for this change, ignorance and
neglect. Few young worrien ap-
areciate the shock to the system
through the change which comes
with marriago. Many neglect to
deal with the unpleasant drains
which are often consequent on
marriage and motherhood, not un
derstanding that this secret drain
is robbing the cheek of ifcs fresh
ness and the form of its fairness.
As surely as the general health
suffers when there is derangement
of the health of the delicate wo
manly organs,so surely when these
organs are established in health
the face and form at once witness
to the fact in renewed comeliness.
Half a million women and more
have found health and happiness
in the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription. It makes weak wo
men strong and sick women well.
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