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Census Record of Marriages.
Valdosta Times.
When the census enumerators
’made their rounds they found
The Meat Trust.
Columbus Enquirer Sun.
The great meat combine, it is
announced from Chicago, will^ go
in the United States 667 boys un- into effect September 27. This
•der 15 years of age who were mar- merger has been expected for a
ried. | long time and the announcement
This is one of the * interesting
facts disclosed by the census re
port on the conjugal condition of
the inhabitants of the United
States. There were 8,785 married
girls under 15 years of age. The
infant widowers under 15 number
ed 88, and iufant widows 126.
There were 7 divorced boys and 80
divorced girls under 15. New York
and Pennsylvania led in the num
ber oLboy husbands, each having
44, Texas led in the number of
girl wives, with 847.
The proportion of young wo
men who are married is greatly in
excess of the number of young
men, as the figures show that of
the total number of males be
tween the ages of 15 and 19 years,
only one per cent are married,
while of the females of the same
ages 10.9 per cent, were married.
More men are married between
the ages of 25 and 29 than at any
other age, while more* women are
married between the ages of 20
and 25. The figures show that if
a woman reaches the age of 85
without being married, her chan
ces becomes very slim.
The figures show that there were
ill the United States 27,849,761
married persons, or 86.6 per cent,
of the total population. The mar
ried maleH numbered 14,008,798,
or 85.9 per cent, of the total male
population. The married femail s
numbered 18,845,968, or 87.2 per
cent, of the entire female popula
tion The excess of married men
over married women is due large
ly to the fact that many foreign
ers who come to the United States
leave their families behind them.
Of the males 15 years of age, over
54.5 per cent, were married, and
of the femalees of 15 years and
over 68.9 per oent. were married.
There are 5,816 divorced wo
men in Texas, more than in any
other state in the Union, seeming
to show that while more women
marry young in Texas than in any
other state, many of them soon
tire of married life. The greatest
nroporlion of divorced women,
however, waa found in Mexico and
Arizona, 1 per cent, of the women
in each of these territories being
that it has been perfected causes’
no surprise. With the exception
of the United (States Steel Cor
poration the meat combine will
be the largest industrial combina
tion in the world as regards capi
talization. It is understood that
the combine will be capitalized on
the basis of stock to the amount
of twenty-five times last year’s
earnings of the constituent com-
pamies, which will run the total
figure up near the billion dollar
mark. This combine will control
all the stock yards and packing
houses of the country and will
have a praotioal monopoly of the
meat supply of the entire coun
try. Its nearly absolute control
of this great necessity of life gives
this trust more power to oppress
and even cause suffering among
the masses of the people than has
yet been possessed by any of its
big contemporaries. Will it use
its power in this direction, will it
follow the example of about all
the others and squeeze the people
to the highest point of endurance?
The answer is not hard to guess,
but if these cornerers of the coun
try’s meat supply shall try to
turn the screws too hard there is
trouble ahead for them just as
surely as it is a fixed fact that
there is a point beyond which the
American people will not submit
to imposition.
HelpftdHints.
Camphor put in drawers or
trunks will keep away mice.
Rub hinges with a feather dip
ped in oil, and they will not
croak.
A small bag of sulphur kept in
a drawer or cupboard will drive
away red ants.
Boil three or four onions in n
pint of water, apply with a h.$1'
brush to gilt frames, and 1!
will keep off them.
A spoonful of vinegar put i.i
the water in which meats or
fowls are boiled makes them.ten
der.
Equal parts of ammonia and
spirits of turpentine will take
<livoreed.~ It 7s~ iiitereating~to~not e 1 P ainfc out clothing, no matter
as throwing some light on the'l ^.W 01 ’ ^ a ^d the paint may
character of female emigration to
Alaska, that 1.8 per cent, of the
women in that territory told the
census enumerators that they have
been divorced.
Illinois leads all the other states
in the number of divorced men,
with a total of 7,181, though the
largest percentage of divorced men
was reported from Nevada, where
.9 per cent, of the men were re
corded as divorced.
two
out
President Roosevelt indulged in
some Biblical allusions during his
speech-making Now England tour,
but the Boston Herald laments
that the larger part of his hearers
missed the point through ignor
ance. “Yet not many years ago.”
says the Herald, “the New Eng
land boy or girl who would not at
once have appreciated the aptuess
of these allusions would have been
thought unfortuneate in the qual
ity of the education that had been
received by him or her. It is a
noticeable fact that the knowl
edge of the Bible, obtained by the
generation now on the stage, and
in a still greater degree that of the
younger generation, is meagre and
of no avail in reading some of the
best of our literature which
abounds in Biblical allusions.
the
be. Saturate the spot
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A little charcoal mixed with
clear water thrown into a sink
will disinfect and deodorise it.
The odor of sweet-peas is so
offensive to flies that it will drive
them out of a sick-room.
A fever patient can be made
cool and comfortable by being
frequently sponged with water in
which a little soda has been dis
solved.
Brass-work can be kept beauti
fully bright by occasionally rub
bing with salt and vinegar.—Sep
tember Womans Home Compan
ion.
Has not the clock of progress,
impelled by an imperative social
need, again struck the hour for
the next great step upward and
forward to a still higher evolution
of democracy that shall give to
every child of our land a full and
complete education of head, hand
and heart?—National Printer’s
Journal.
A number df congressmen have
b )«n visiting Alabama recently
it-) study the conditions of the
negro. They visited Tuscogee,
.and there was wisdom as well as
wit in Booker Washington’s re
mark to them that the students
<§f Tuscogee were learning indus
try and thrift, and that none of
them had broken into jail or con=
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The late Dr. Emmons, a famous
clergyman of the former day, was
noted for his piety and wit. He
avoided controversies, however, and
often defeated attempts to draw him
into them in an adroit manner.
In a town where he was pastor
there lived a physician who was a
pantheist, and he took pains to let
every one know it. He had made
frequent boasts that he could easily
conquer Dr. Emmons in argument,
and one day came his chance. He
and the doctor met at the house of
a sick man.
“How old are you sir?” asked the
physician, brusquely.
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qnietly, although his eyes showed
his surprise. “May I ask your age
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“I have been alive since the crea
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“I always thought there was a third
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The demand for American
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About 1,000 diamond workers in
Amsterdam are out of work.
Every one of the large automobile
factories is far behind its orders.
Strawberries are excellent in the
treatment of rheumatism and gouc.
Methodism has gained in New
York city nearly 47 per cent since
1879.
Deep-sea water for study is pro
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About 70 per oent of the popula
tion of the Klondike is from the
United States.
Since the olose of the civil war
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s uttle’s exports to Japan are now
'to,ut $5,000,000 per annum, which
is 11 times what they were six years
ago. \
Somewhere in the world there are
119,000,000 big copper pennies, but
nobody appears to know where they
are.
Hard times in Germany are said
to have caused a large diminution in
the consumption of wine and spirit
uous liquors.
It is said that cats have become
so numerous as to threaten the ex
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