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■ 6% waaa&s**i*s X Fj fV . j^n Owners of tl ■ 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. ^i 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. «- 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. -*-•-«— 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 ►-0-4 An estimate is made that the railroads of the country this year will expend $400,000,000 In bet terments, cutoffs,rolling stock, &. —►-#<> Laxative Chocolates..cure qhronic constipation and liver trouble. Pleas ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar anteed, at Cater’s Drugstore. 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. —<*>»-*>— 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. 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