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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 three times, then wash soap-suds. 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= gress-Southern Education Board. SMITH’S NERVE RESTORER. This medicine is guaranteed to cure all cases of Nervous Prostration caused by overwork. It is a true Nerve Tonic and restores Nervous Vitality or Loss of Manhood. It will not only relieve these nervous troubles and weaknesses, but will restore them to full vigor and man hood. Guaranteed. Sold by Dr. R, L. Cater. Fortune Favors a Texau. “Having distressing pains in head, back and stomach, and be ing without appetite, I began to use Dr. King’s New Life Pills,” writes W, P. Whitehead ef Kenne- dale, Tex.,and soon felt like a new man.” Infallible in stomach and liver troubles. Only 25 cents at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. W. A. Brady, the theatrical manager, says there are not 8,000 pretty young women in the whole of New York. He wanted that many for a special show he is to give earlyjnextj month. He had tens of thousands of applications, but failed |to find 8,000 pretty women in the whole lot. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay' Price, 25 cents Had Pound The Serpent. 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. “Sixty-two,” replied Dr. Emmons qnietly, although his eyes showed his surprise. “May I ask your age in turn? ’ “I have been alive since the crea tion in one form or another,” said the physician, curtly. “Ah, then I suppose you were with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?” “Certainly,” came the reply. “Urn!” said Dr. Emmons, placid ly, meditating on the other’s face. “I always thought there was a third person there, but some have differed with me.” Facts and Figures. goods The demand for American is increasing in Canada. 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 cured by means of specially prepar ed bottles. About 70 per oent of the popula tion of the Klondike is from the United States. Since the olose of the civil war L^rsiana has spent more than $30.- </w.),'K)0 on Mississippi levees. 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 termination of all the birds in Switzerland. <g Shift signature Is on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo=Quifline Tablet* the remedy thas cures a cold in one tSiTV eumatism and all Liver, Kidney and Blad der troubles caused by uric acid in the system. It cures by cleansing and vitalizing the blood, thus removing the cause of disease. 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