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DECEMBER 25, 1903.
Uncle Sam a
Despite the fact that the cost of
running the United States government
is increasing at a rapid rate, Uncle
Sam is able, after paying all expenses,
to put aside more cash each day than
he did on the corresponding day last
year. One of the clever statisticians
of the treasury department the other
day took the statement of Treasurer
Roberts and made to a reporter of the
Times some interesting deductions.
The statement, which sets forth the
transactions of an ordinary day, shows
that the total receipts of the govern
ment from all sources for the average
day to bo $2,020,836.55, and the total
expenses of the day $1,830,000, thus
leaving a balance of receipts over ex
penditures in the treasury of $190,
836.55. In other words, the government
collects nearly $200,000 more than it
has any Immediate use for. The col
lections for one day are at the rate of
$84,201.52 an hour for twenty-four
hours, which means that every min
ute there pours into its strong boxes
from the pockets of the people $1,
403.36, or $23,39 a second.
On the same day the United States
paid out on an average every hour
$76,250 in order to keep the wheels of
the government going. Expressed in
another way, the expenses for the
government by the hour are $1,275, or
$21.18 a second. As the collections for
the same second are $23.39, it is shown
that the government's profits by the
day are at the rate of $2.21 per second.
The source of greatest income Is
from customs collections levied under
the tariff act. They aggregate for the
day $1,131,878.59. This is at the rate
of $47,167.60 an hour, or $786.01 a min
ute, or $13.10 a second. While collect
ing tariff duties at the rate of $13.10 a
second, the government at the same
time collects internal revenue taxes
at the rate of $8.76 a second, the total
receipts for the day from that source
The Commoner.
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ney-Earn
MEMOR.Y MENDING
Wha.i Food Alono Can Do for tho Mom-
ory.
The influence of food upon the brain
and memory is so little understood
that people are inclined to marvel at
it.
Take a person who has been living
on improperly selected food and put
him upon a scientific diet in which
the food Grape-Nuts is largely used
and the increase of the mental power
that follows is truly remarkable.
A Canadian who was sent to Colo
rado for his -health illustrates this
point in a most convincing manner:
"One year ago I came from Canada a
nervous wreck, so my physican said,
and reduced in weight to almost a
skeleton and my memory was so poor
that conversations had to be repeated
that had taken place only a few hours
before. I was unable to rest day or
night for my nervous system was
shattered.
"The change of climate helped me
a little, but it was soon seen that this
was not all that I needed. I required
the proper selection of food, although
I did not realize it until a friend rec
ommended Grape-Nuts to mo and I
gave this food a thorough trial. Then
I realized what tho right food could
do and I began to change in my feel
ings and bodily condition. This kept
"P until now after 6 months' use of
Grape-Nuts all my nervous trouble has
entirely disappeared, I have gained in
ttesh all that I had lost and what is
niore wonderful to me than anything
else my memorv is nn Pnnr? na if ovar
was. Truly Grape-Nuts has remade
nao all over, mind and body, when I
never expected to be well and happy
again." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Hi 0lc in eacn Pkage for a copy of
Wellvm0"8 11Ule b0k' "The Rad t0
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urc(J75K372- Fr0m cellaneous
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On the corresponding day last vear
3i04r4eoSnPt8 S!m U1 80Urcc e &
ddlMd .40, with expenses of $1,160,000
last M for th0 correspond ng 'day
last year were at tho rate of $15 41 a
mat uay $13.42 a second, tho profits
actnnagKV(irnment on tno ? tras-
16, 1903 a EeCnd n Pber
hJ1??, itCm .of sreate8t cost, as shown
by the statement, was credited to
war merely a convenient term used
,? V1 treasury's bookkeepers to in
dicate the total expense of the war de
partment by the day. The exhibit
shows there was disbursed on account
of war" on September 16, $720,000,
and on the same day the navy cost the
nation $570,000. Pension payments
for the day were $300,000, thus mak
ing tho total expense of the govern
ment on account of war and the nec
essary equipment to carry it on $1,-
While, of course, an enormous
amount of money is paid out every
day in expenses, tho government, as
has been shown, is making a profit
of $2.21 a second on its daily transac
tions. If this is kept up long enough
it will have in its exchequer all tho
money in the nation. Washington
Times.
qucntjal fact. Tho great fact Is that
viE1! Is Jncreaslng and that indi
vidual hoardings of land aro becom
ing larger and larger.
Ireland Ib an imprcssivo example of
tho fruits of landlordism. There tho
nobility held practically all tho land
and they preferred not to rent it to
tenants, and when they did they ex
acted a rental that gavo tho tonant
practically nothing and tho landlord
all. National poverty, soro distress
and political discontent resulted. Tho
government was finally forced to buy
out tho landlords to restoro oppor
tunity. Tho day is far distant in America
when tho landlord class shall work
the same consequences worked in Ire
land. But it is certain to arrive. It
was not a very difficult ta3k for tho
trusts to get control of tho business of
the country; and it will not be difficult
for tho landlord class to acquire con
trol of tho soil of the country.
The danger is from the landlord evil
because it is attended with denial of
opportunity to work. Dubuque (la.)
Telegraph-Herald.
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GIVE YOUR STOMACH
A NICE VACATION:
The Drift Towards Landlordism.
The Omaha Bee has consistently op
posed the populistic tendencies of Ne
braska farmers. The Bee would blush
in very shame did any one charge it
with socialistic, communistic, or other
ideas generally associated with radical
ism. Yet we find the Bee detecting tho
drift of American life to landlordism.
"Coming events cast their shadows be
fore," it says. "A cloud no larger than
a man's hand has recently appeared In
the horizon that foreshadows the rapid
and irresistible drift of the American'
farmer toward landlordism." Tho Bee
proceeds to describe the nature of the
cloud:
"A quarter of a century ago farm
tenantry was confined in this country
to the group of states on the Atlantic
seaboard. Gradually and steadily tho
voluntary desertion by the farm own
er and the intrusion of the farm ten
ant renter has extended westward,
across Ohio, Michigan and the states
of the middle west, and farm tenantry
is "rapidly spreading over the great
American corn belt and even the
spring wheat region to the north.
More than one-third of the farms in
Illinois are being cultivated by ten
ant farmers and fully one-fourth of
the farms of Iowa are already In tho
same condition. Th'e robust, thrifty,
self-made, self-poised, Independent
farmer, who reclaimed the forest,
planted orchards and vineyards, sow
ed, plowed and harvested the grain
and raised the live stock on the Amer
ican farm, has moved into the towns
and cities, imbued with the Idea that
he must give his sons and daughters
a city education and relieve his wife
from the drudgery and monotony of
the farm house. And so we find thou
sands and thousands of the yeomanry
that has been recognized as the back
bone of the republic living in the
cities on their income from farm
rents, their boys and girls looking
with disdain and frequently with con
tempt upon the tenants who are com
pelled to eke out a meager existence
in toiling day and night, summer and
winter, to supply the land owner and
his family with the luxuries of city
life."
It is to be regretted that the Bee
m,i Tinf fnllnw out the consequences
of landlordism in their vitally serious
Public Libraries of Irish Origin.
Though it is the popular idea that
public libraries are of modern origin,
mere is proof that the Anglo-Saxon
kings of England wero disposed to
erect them, and works wero brought
from Ireland, where sciences had been
much earlier cultivated than In Great
Britain. But the Invasion of the
Normans stopped tho spread of li
braries, and tho first in England after
the conquest was established at Ox
ford, in Durham (now Trinity) col
lege, In the thirteenth century by
Richard do Bury, who purchased from
thirty to forty volumes of tho Abbot
of St. Albans for fifty pounds' weight
of silver. Before that timo books
were kept in chests, and not In a room
styled a library.
At the end of tho seventeenth cen
tum there wore only six public li
braries In Great Britain. The first
circulating library was founded by
Allan Ramsay, in 1725, whence ho dif
fused plays and works of fiction among
the people of Edinburgh. So success
ful were Ramsay's efforts that it Is
said that within seventy years nearly
eery town and large village pos
sessed a library. The first In London
was started by Botho, a bookseller, in
1740. Birmingham obtained its first
circulating library in 1751. The next
step was the free library, Manchester
possessing tho first, in 1850, being
quickly followed by Liverpool, Birm
ingham and other largo towns. Chi
cago News.
To Teach Sttxtehood.
A Guthrie, Okla., tqiegram to tho
New York World, under date of Aug
ust 1, says: There has been a plan
adopted by the territorial board of
education In Oklahoma to teach state
hood matters In the public schools.
A book has been published setting
forth the reasons why Oklahoma
should be admitted, and a copy will
be placed In the hands of overy pupil
In the territory. This is done with the
object in view of making statehood a
feature in every home.
This book is not of a political nature,
but uses the arguments of area, wealth
and Intelligence. It shows that 95 per
cent of Oklahomans read and write,
that there are seven territorial col
leges, and that there are $1,350,000 in
vested in public school houses, em
ploying 3,000 teachers. Regarding area
the book shows that an eastern legisla
tor need not object to Oklahoma on
that score, as the territory could swal
low up several New England Btates
and have room for others.
Don't Do ft by Starving H Eithw Ut a
Substiute Do the Work
Tho old adage, "All work and no
play mnuca Jack a dull boy," applies
Juat as well to tho stomach, ono ot
tho moat Important organs of tho hu
man ay stem, as it does to tho man
himself.
If your stomach la worn out and
rebols against clng further taxed
beyond its limit, tho only sensible
thing you can do is to give it a rest.
Employ a Biibatltuto for a short timo
and seo If it will not raoro than re
pay you In results.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets aro a.
willing and moat efficient substitute
They themselves digest overy bit of
food in tho stomach in Just tho aarao
way that tho stomach Itself would,
wero It woll. They contain all tho es
sential elements that gastric julco and
other digestive fluids of the stomach
contain and actually act Just the Gamo
and do just tho samo work as tho
natural fluids would do, wero tho
stomach well and sound. They, there
fore, relieve the stomach, Just as ono
worunian relieves another, and per
mit it to rest and recuperate and re
gain its normal health and strength.
This "vacation" idea was suggested
by tho letter of a prominent lawyer
In Chicago. Read what he Bays: MI
was engaged in tho most momentous
undertaking of my life in bringing
about tho coalition of certain great
interests that meant much to mo as
well as my clients. It was not tho work
of days, but of months. I was work
ing night and day almost, when at a
very critical timo my stomach went
clear back on me. Tho unduo mental
strain brought It about and hurried
up what would havo happened later
on.
"What 1 ate I had to literally forco
down and that was a source ot misery
as I had a sour stomach much of tho
time. My head ached, I was sluggish
and began to loso my ambition to
carry out my undertaking. It looked
pretty gloomy for mo and I confided
my plight to one of my clients. Ho
had been cured by Stuart's Dyspepsia ,
Tablets and at once went down to a I
drug store and brought a box up to
tho office. t
"I had not taken a quarter of that
box beforo I found that they would do
all the work my stomach ever dld;
and as a rest or vacation was out of
the question for mo, I determined tor
give my stomach a vacation. I kept?
right on taking the tablets and braced?
up and went ahead with my work withy
renewed vigor, ate just as much as lr
over flfrl and carried out that under-
taking to a successful Issue. I feel'
that I havo Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets''
to thank for saving mo the handsom-j
est fee I ever received as well as my
reputation and last but not least my,
stomach." .
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets aro for
sale by all drupclsts at 50 cts. a box. y.
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A Norse Hoct Saga.
A felt hat blew off a tourist's head
lust vear as he was leaning out of a
Mnr.iv train window in Sweden. Of
Wt jots? ssrzsss. I rT&srs-Mr , i
known, but tno felt hat has become ;v
famous all over tho north of Europe, t
An employe of tho line picked up tho
hat where It lay, and, being an hon-
est man, he tried high and low to find p
ns owner, rinauy, an local euorcs?
falling, he ticketed it and sent it to
the next station, to bo claimed by tho
owner. No such person appeared, and ;
tne hat was sent on from station to
station, an additional ticket being i
stuck on each time it set out. Thus;
it has run through the whole ot-f
Sweden and Norway, has been at Up- r
sala and Thondhjem, at Christiana and t
Goteborg and Maimo, has been sent
on to Zealand and Finland, and laZ
now being sent through the north of V
Germany, covered with labels inside''
and out. And if it is no longer a fit
headgear, it is at all events a re-
markable monument of northern hon-J
esty and perseverance. Westminster.'
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