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VOL. XXXI.
PERRY, HOUSTON". COUNTY, GkA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1902.
NO. (5.
A MAP OF MILLIONAIRES.
IS MAN “TOO LAZY?*
The Mortgage on the World.
The New York World Almanac
for 1902 contains a . map which
pretends to give the number and
geographical distribution of mil
lionaires in the United States; •
The editor of the almanac does
not guarantee that the list is ab
solutely complete and accurate,
but says it must be approximate
ly so, as it is the result of a very
careful, systematic effort.
The total number of men and
women who are worth $1,000,000
or more is given at 8,546, and
they are distributed by states as
followers:
Maine, Iff; Vermont, 14; New
Hampshire, 17; Massachusetts,
818; Connecticut, 72; Rhode Is
land, 70; New York, 994, New
Jersey, 114; Pennsylvania, 869;
Delaware, 18; Maryland. 106;
District of Columbia, 49 ; Ohio,
162; Indiana, 80; Michigan, 111;
Ilinoiso, 275; Wisconsin, 77;
Minnesota, 78; Iowa, 86; Missori,
161; Kentucky, 19; West Virginia,
17; Arkansas, 2 ; Tennessee, 19 ;
North Carolina, 9; South Caroji-
Ml’S. Sophia Demilth of Alton, ! Pittsburg Dispatch.
111., makes the charge against There is instruction for the
man that he is altogether too lazy. 1 whole world in a little statement
She holds, indeed, that his lazi- i 3§tf issued by the Treasury Bn-
ness causes more destitution fflacj.! reuu of Statistics showing the to-
suffering than his drink habits. jtal of the national debts of the
For eighteenyears' Mrs. Demuth: world at various times for a little
has been a police matron in Alton.
For a nuinbsr of years she has
been an officer of the humane so
ciety, and for two years the pro-
bation officer of the County Court! m S oul y raade a start at tho work
which she lives. It will be of debt-building But the Napo-
na, 5; Georgia, 5; Alabama, 5;
Mississippi, 8; Florida, 7; Louisi
ana, 27; .Texas, 81; Kansas 10;
Nebraska, 16; South Dakota, 2;
North Dakota, 1; Montana, 26;
Wyoming, 2; Colorado, 57; Utah,
19; Idaho, 7; Arizona, 2 ; Nevada,
4; California, 110; Oregon, 14;
Washington, 18.
It will be seen that the south
las very few millionaires in com
parison with the.east, the middle
states, the central west and Paci f
ic coast. .
Mbre than half of the jyhole
number in the United States live
in the states that border. the
great lakes.' ,
It is somewhat surprising that
Louisina is credited with having
more millionaires than any other
southern state this side of Texas,
which has 81 against Louisiana’s
27. Georgia, South Carolina and
Alabama-have 5 a piece, while
Florida has 7.
Comparatively few great for
tunes have ydt been accumulated
in the south, but the number will
prabably increase rapidly in the
next ten yearp.
The estimated total of 8,546
millionaires in the United States
is probably none too high.. There
are more millionaires in this
country than in all Europe and
yet there were only three or four
until considerably after' the first
decade of the nineteenth century
The world has never seen any
thing like the accumulation of
wealth in the United States in the
last thirty yearB.—Ex.
*Mr. "Wheeler Got Bid Of His Rheu
matism.
“During the winter of 1898
was so lame in .my joints, in fact
all over my body, that I could
hardly hobble around, when
bought a bottle of Chamberlain’
Pain Balm. From the first ap
plication I began to get well, and
was cured and have worked stead
ily all the year.—R. Wheeler
Northwood, N. Y. For sale by all
dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe
Byron.
Many agriculturists in Europe
have long been convinced that
molasses is ap admirable food for
horses and cattle, and their con
viction is now stronger than ever
owing to certain experiments
which have been recently tried
and which have proven eminently
successful.
more than a century back. It|
shows that the national debts of
the world in 1798 were $2,432,250-,
000, the” eighteenth century hav-
Wedding Presents,
Holiday Presents,
Fancy Goods,
m
seen
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry in splendid variety, Spectacle#, Eye-
Glasses. My line of‘goods is choice in style and quality, and
prices are right.
‘ » ■»
therefore, that Mrs. Demuth
has had opportunities for investi
gation; and haying waited so long
give publicity to her theory,
she is certainly deserving of the
credit of honest conviction.
In the course of her experience,
she says, she has found that not
all lazy men driiik, nor are all
drinking men lazy, Men who
have schooled themselves in iudo-
lence, she says, and who have
gone to sucli a degree of laziness
that they lack in a large measure
the initiative for earning a stable
livelihood, are.chiefly responsible
for the poverty of the country,
and are indirectly the cause of the
large expenditures' for charities
and corrections. In short, it is
her belief that laziness causes
more destitution than liquor.
We cannot fully agree with
Mrs. Demuth. We do not believe
the average man is lazy. No
country peopled by lazy men
could possibly have made the
strides that this country has
made during the last hundred
years. The average man. as a
matter of fact, realizes the res
ponsibilities that rest itpon him
and is something of a hustler.
At the same time we are will
ing to concede that there are too
many drones in the hive. Every
city, town raid hamlet has its
loafers^ind idlers. Buttkey|are not
typical citizens. They are, how
ever, capable of exerting a perni
cious influence. They are pes
simists usually, and as they whit 1
tie the tops of boxes they growl
about the hard times, the corrup
tion of politics and the general
backward trend of the times.
They do nothing to improve the
times or the manners, but some
times succeed in planting the
seeds of discontent in the minds
of workers with whom they come
into contact. If this class of la
zy idlers could be eliminated, it
would be a good thing for the
country. We should have busier
communities, more productive
farms and greater prosperity .-Ex.
leonic wars tripled that total, so
that in 1820 the sum was $7,299,-
750.000. The next twenty-four
years was not an era of war, and
the-national debt swelled but one-
sixth, reaching $8,419,045,000 in
1848. By 1862 this had increased
over fifty per cent to $18,882-,
75,000. The increase by 1872
was another great one, to $22-,
410,282,001), of which over oin-
qiui/rter is chargeable to our Civil
War. In .1882 thq total swelled
to $26,249,901,000; Since then,
with no large wars anywhere, an
other $5,000,000,000 has been ad
ded, making the present total $81.-
493.749.000. This; an amount
somewhat under one-half the total
wealth of tho United States, rep
ose nts a mortgage on the wo/‘id
from past expend mire. So far
as these national doLts 'stand for
works of improvement, they rep-
esont additions to ■, the product
ive wealth of tho world, though
not always successful ones. But
so far as they .stand for military
expenditure, they .roy>resent either
wasted energy or actual desiruc-
tirpn. It "is hardly 1 necessary to
go beyond the general facts of
history to, know that the greater
part of this vast total stands for
the expenditure which is a dead
loss.
Senator Clark, of Montana, is
said to be the richest man in the
world. His Arizona mine, “The
Great Verde,” is probably the
greatest the world has ever seen
He is reported to have alreadly re
fused $500,000,000 for it and well
he may, for experts estimate
that there are 28,000,000 tons of
ore in sight, aiid that if properly
worked the mine will yield annu
ally $180,000,000.
“I have used Chamberlain’s
Cougb Remedy for a number of
years and have no hesitancy in
saying that it is the best remedy
for coughs, colds and croup
have ever used in my family,
have not words to express my con
Working Overtime.
Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless, little workers-—Dr.
King’s New Life Pills. Millions
are always at work, night and day,
curing Indigestion, Biliousness,
Constipation, Sick Headache, and
all stomach, Liver and Bowel
troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe,
■ure. Only 25c at Holtzclair’s
Drugstore/
fidence in this remedy.—Mrs.
A. Moore, North Star, Mich. For
sale by All dealers in Perry; War
ren & Lowe, Byron.
The Primitive Methodist church
of the United States decided that
hereafter all fairs,bazars, festivals
and other money-making social
diversions for raising funds for
church purposes he dispensed
with, and the tithing system
collections prevail.
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The break-up ol the “Solid
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fidently predicted a few years ago
is not materializing. Even the
entering wedge has bean knocked
out. In Kentucky and in Mary
land, the Republicans lost a sena
tor they had gained. In North
Carolina tho Democrats gained a
seat held by a Populist and the
Republican Senator from that
State will go out in March, 1908.
Similarly Maryland, Kentucky
and North Carolina chose Demo
cratic Governors to succeed Re
publicans. The break up is still
so far off we need hot worry about
dodging the fragments.—Ex.
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In Rhode Island 81.2 per cent, of
the population in 1900 lived m
cities and towns of 8,000 inhabi
tants or more, while this element
also constituted 76 p er cent of
the population of Massachusetts,
68.5 per cent, in New York, 61.2
per cent, in New Jersey and 53.2
in Connecticut.
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The New York World Almanac
for 1902 gives a list of nearly
four thousand Americans each .of
whom is worth over $1,000,000.
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