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NIIUUERT & VAN OHMER, Editors.
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Slit Centre democrat.
Tormi 11.50 nor Annumtii Advnnee,
S. T. BHUOERT A J. R. VAN ORMER, Editors.
Thursday Mornine, June 28, 1883.
Domocratic Stato Convention.
Tli* Dro<Ttlr BUI* COIIHIOII will m- t In tl".
m i botMi Hirriabirßi on WbMili)ri Att| •
n tn ,to nomlt *l* n tiflidftt* f.r An litor ial
ami for HUt Tr-tMurtr, ami " trai.a t
xii. It other lutein**# a* th* r..m*itton rimy .lM.*riiiim
wilt RiN" h* pr-N.-nt .l t tie • nt- ntt n n
r***>la|oti which h*e bwn il pt*l l y tie Mat* Itm
tti U*, changing the rub'* "f tie i*rtv *-• a* t '' v •
I*i tine of tin" annual nut*ting I tin* J*Ut* mint!
♦. •• at 4 1- in . on tli* Wvlio-Uv att**r tie thin! >Un
i'y of Jtiititry, of th thin! M<n lay aa ll<
tiror'thd.
Under the new rule* of the j-%rt> the repreeetiU
t' n in the State ConTentl'ii will 1 t>y re|r* -nuti*.-
delegate* fr m exittlng r-; r - nUtiv titrf> • :••
Iff each 1 .HOC Democratic rote* raat at the Ut gut • r
i ttorUl election,or for a fraction >•( I" , ' rh v,,t '
nmo.intlng to '•■ or un-; Provided that .• li r*|-re
tentative itiatrict ehall hate at !• f ote del **f"-
There will he a tpeetlng "f the D*u rati "tat*
GawtttM in Bnmtbon no Tvmd*j Jwj i*t -
'' m " V I HKNSF.L,
J. B. LICMTT, Cl"rk. CtuUrmsn But* Com.
SKNATOR HAKKISON, of Indiana
who has about 50 of his relations now
in otiice, is in favor of a civil service
reform that will make their places
permanent, in which a ll his kindred
sympathize.
TIIK officers of the Virgiuia Mili
tary Institute has written to the
authorities of New York city, asking
the privilege of returning to the city
the llag presented to the 104 th Keg.
N. Y. Volunteers, which was captured
during the war of the rebellion.
THE: Washington Postmaster, Mr.
Tullock, died the other day, and at
once a scramble for the vacancy <><•• |
curred among the horde of office seek
ers, ever in waiting around the national
capitol, to pick up the crumbs which
death or misfortune may scatter to |
their rapacity. Amongst these is the -
* Y>-USMNA M. V'lnpp. the latcfJovern
ment Printer. The office is a desira- :
bleone, and Clapp, who never loses
sight of a good job, is willing.
\
•T. PBO*TE:U KNOTT, the Democrat-!
ic candidate for Governor of Kentucky,
and Z. T. Morrow, his competitor, are >
meeting in joint discussion at variou*
points of tho state, no doubt making
the fur fly in each encounter to amuse
their adherents. Knott is able and
popular in his state, hacked by an ;
overwhelming party majority, and it
is certainly creditable to Morrow's
courage and manhood to meet him on
the -tuinp under the circumstances.
Such a man could not he other than a j
good officer, if elected.
THE: belief has been expressed, rc- ;
marks the Philft. llreord, that at least
five Independent Senators would he
found willing to arbitrate between
parties so as to compel a fair appor
tionment. But only three have turned
* up, in Henat-rs Stewart, Emery and j
Lee, and a strong pressure has been
made on these Senators to sacrifice
their independence and sense of duty
to the Constitution to the demands of
party managers. What is party to
obtain by a deliberate refusal to do
what the Constitution enjoins except
™ . to convince the people of Pennsylvania
of the utter worthlessness of party ?
TIIE; Pittsburgh Dispatch, a Kepub-
I lican paper, only voices a large pro
portion of the honest fair minded
i members of its party, when it says :
Hix Republican votes in the Senate
given to a fair apportionment bill will
absolutely guarantee its passage. The
Democrats of both branches would
support such a bill, because any fair
bill could not but better their condi
tion as compared-with the existing
/apportionment of the State. They
would do so without wasting time in
delay, for the extra session is their
venture and they want to make it as
little expensive to the State as possi
ble. The failure of the apportion
a ment bills at the regular session lies at
the door of the Republican Senate.
If they fail again, thoeo who have
given the people a right to expect
something better of them than hack
politics will have to answer for it.
mt
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Responsibility will Follow.
The people will bear in uiind that
j the Republican Senate made an extra
| session of tho legislature a necessity.
That it did it in contempt of the oaths
of the members to sup|>ort ami defend
the constitution of the state —that act
ing under the instructions of tho Boss
to defeat the passage of a fair appor
tionment bill, and thus perpetuate a
shameless gerrymander fraud upon the
state, by which heaguin hopes to he
re-elected to the Senate of the I'uited
States —that after instructing his satel
lites and lieutenants, lie hied awav to
Europe to < eape personal responsibili
ty. This b the true inwardness of the
stalwart action in the senate, and they
need not hope that the people of I'enn- 1
sylvania will be so blind as not to com- j
prebend it, or fail to hold them to a
just accountability. While reflecting
upon this delectable programme, the
people should also compare the appor
tionment bills presented in each house
with the number of votes polled by
each party at the last I're-idential
election, which was 144,7<>1 for liar
field, and 107,528 for Hancock to de
termine the approximate ratio of repre
sentation due to each. Turn and tor
ture these figures as we may, it will he
impossible to arrive at an hotic t con
elusion tliat the Republicans -hull
elect with any degree of fairness a
member of <'ongr*ss by 23,000 votes,;
while at the same time it requires j
000 Democratic votes to elect one, as
provided by the Senate bill. It is on
j this basis that the Republicans claim
jlB representatives in Congress and
yield 7 to the Democrats, leaving two
districts in doubt, with Republican
chances in the lead. This i- the kind
of !nirnes the Republican Senate
I offered to the Democratic house at tle
late se--ion. It is their ultimatum
; now, and why They know that it
cannot be accepted nd hence they de
feat the p&ssageofan apportionment
hill to fall hack upon tho infamous
gerrymander act by which they have
. dominated the -tate heretofore.
The Senate's bill apportioning the
i Senators and Ib pp-scutativos, -tands
about in the -nine proportion to the
Congressional bill, and both may lie
characterized ns hills of fraud, and
the unmitigated scoundrclism of ma
chine politics. Can, or will honest
...
people justify <>r applaud such legis- I
lation when the Constitution of the
-into makes the duty imperative
i and mandatory upon the leg- ;
islaturc to pass fair, just and r'/ual ap
portionment hills? his a matter of
plain arithmetic and there should he
no difficulty in arriving at a just con
clusion in a days time, if members will (
lie honest and act up to their constitu
tional obligations instead of seeking
an unlawful advantage which the fig
ures will not justify.
The following brief statement of the
controlling figures which we clip from
the Patriot, will enable any one to de
termine for himself what a fair, hon
est apportionment ought to be, both as
to Congressional and Senatorial dis
tricts :
If 852,132 voters arc entitled to
twenty-eight congressional districts
then 107,228 voters arc entitled to
thirteen congressional districts.
If 852,132 voters are entitled to on
ly twenty-eight congressional districts,
then 444,704 voters are entitled to on
ly fifteen districts..
In the same proportion 444,704 vie
tors are entitled to hut twenty-six
senatorial districts and 407,704 voters
to but twenty-four senatorial districts
Shall this problem in the easy aud
fundamental single rule of three he
solved by the legislature or shall it be
submitted to the people at tho Dcxt
election ?
ONF. evening last week a catamount
killed fifty-five chickens, two turkeys
and a young pig for a Huntingdon
county man. The varmint wis killed
the same evening by dogs.
A NKPHITW of Dnkcs threatens to
kill young jtfutt if he ia acquitted.
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"KUUAI. AND XX ACT JtlKTIi'K TO ALL MKN, OK WIIATKVKH HTATK OH J'KKKI'AKIOK, KKl.miOt'N OK I'ol riDA I..Ji T< r.,n.
IiKIXKFONTH, I'A., TIIUHSDAY, .11 NK ->*, issli.
COM MI.MIXTION from tlio Kcpubli*
j can press in favor of the conscientious
acta of an honest Democratic official
is HO rare, and yet BO just in this case,
that we take pleasure in crediting the
following to the Philadelphia J'rr**:
"Wo have taken occasion to commend
i the action of the (iovernor in vetoing
In hill which, in one of its provisions,
; revived imprisonment for debt; also
I his veto ot another, keeping alive se
curities after they have been paid,
j which could have no other object than
! to defraud creditors ; of another, al- j
lowing lawyers to try cases before j
referees, and appeal from them to the j
Supreme Court, indejicndent of the
Common Picas Courts. The other
vetoes are perhaps not so important,
hut the reasoning in each ease is con*
elusive, showing that what tin* Icgislu"
tioii proposes is essentially vicious, or ,
founded in misapprehension. The j
pamphlet laws f,,r l SH .'i will be much '
curtailed in quantity and number by
these vetoes, but they will be of a
much higher average rhnracter. (iov- |
ernor Pattison's surgical treatment ha
ben highly beneficial and wilHdoubt
less make the n< \t legislature much
more careful than the pre.-ent about
the quality of legislation."
A lloKUnu has been uncovered in
Philadelphia, which in detail equals j
the depravity of Tewksbury.only that j
the latter acted in the name of cliaritv
under pay of a ri-j> < table common
wealth, while the ea-e in the (Quaker
city i- the private entcrpri-< of a brute
called a Doctor. The police, it ap- \
[s ars, have found in the cellar of a
dwelling on North fifth str *t, former
ly occupied by Dr. I-ane Hathaway,'
an abortionist, a large number >t hu
man bodies, from which they selected
*oiue twenty *fWo scull* of infants as
evidence of the infamous character
and practice of the profs rial brute.
It apjsnrs he had other -iioilar gravi
yards and further investigation run- j
the number of skeletons up into the
hundreds. He i- in jail under other
charge , while this evidence i- aectnuu- ,
latiug against him.
N'Mi of the Washington ntwspa- !
pers <lo not *cm to enjoy a fiu t thru-t
upon their attention by atn XJH ri< need
lawyer. The opinion i xpres-ed by
Mr. K err that it i- impos-ible to con- j
vict a great government thief in that j
city, however lunious the crime or the
strength of the evidenei, is not pnlnta
hie. I pon whom the rcqionsihilitv
rets for the lapse of justice in the
Star-route ra**, is a question in dis
pute. Hut the startling truth is too
apparent not only in this case, but in
others, where great criminals are al
lowed to escape the penalties of crime
at trial, or i- hid away before trial hv
official connivance. Howgatc is a
conspicuous example of this. Hut
this official thief left behind sufficient
to satisfy personal creditors and of \
course the government can stand the
robbery. Who cares ?
Tin: Secretary of Interior, it is said, ;
has determined to leave the Apache j
Indians captured by (Jen. Crook in
the hands of the army to undergo a
training process, lief'orc lie will permit
them to return to tho reservations.
He believes that army drill may have
a good effect upon the future conduct
of the Indians, and counsels that the
children he taken from them anil sent
to the schools. Secretary Teller has
studied the Indian situation very
thoroughly and has no doubt hit upon
the proper mode eventually to over
come its difficulties. Educate and
civilize the young and put the wild
devils under control as well as protec
tion, to work for their own living or
starve.
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A COMMITTKK of prominent Demo
crat* of Chicago, has been appointed
to confer with Gov. Tilden, Mr. Hewitt
and othor prominent men of New
York and elsewhere, with a view of
locating the meeting of the next
Democratic National Convention in
that city. i
.
• 11J:I.I.I• .I.ITKNT I.IIITOUM, Two Vir
ginia editors have been hiding them
selves from the public during tin* last
week to mature tho terms by which
they run enjoy the pleasure of tiring
ut each other with navy revolvers,
while two Florida editors with h--
ceremony and equal courage and de
cency, settled a grudge by puinmeling
i iyh other in a barber shop.
Ini: St. Eoui* School Hoard has
issued an order that corporal punish
ment shall hi* abolished in the publk
■ schools of that city after the 1-t of:
July. A good example fur all schools,
' Educators who cannot control pupils
i by kindm -s and int< re-t them in tin
work in hand, are unlit fur tin ir nosi- '
tions and ought to he driven out tu
employments suited to tlu ir ta u- and
! capacity.
Tin ladies of tin* S ,uth in i ntinua-j
' tion of the healthy and vigorating
enterprise inaugurated by a party of
, girls last year, have arranged a party
,of five ladie< ;m>l -ix gentlemen of
high social standing in Washington,
j lor a six ww ks walking party in the
mountains of Virginia. < lie . f the
lltdies is married and will he tie
chaperon of her Virginia si-t< r-. The
camp equipage will be Carrie I in a
wagon, and the arti-t of the tramp
will act as steward.
JOHN H. AT I \ a . I ■. R i
applicant r ndmU-iot>to tin* We *
I'uint Academy, it is nni. urn • 1.; : 1 •. 1
an excellent examination ami wn- ad
niittcd. It is to In hop< .| he will hav*
the good -en-e to avoid the deals
upon which other i lured cadet*
wrecked tie ir future. He will d iht
le.ss remember that good c uduet and
gentlemanly behavior ami c andor will
in* more effective in attracting -empa
thy, then slitting car- or anv other
foolish device.
i IMI President ha- issued r< 1• r t r
a riduct: n <>t the internal re venue
districts. The order sweep* off forty
; lour districts in all. Those dispense 1
[with in Pennsylvania are tie Eighth,
office at Ih nding. < die, t..r Valentine
the* I 'Urteenth, at Sunh .ry. < !lector
i Primer tie Sv< nt'< nth. a! Sunn r-* t.
< Hector -*u 11 the Tn**ntie th, a:
Grei-nville, • lleet,r Hrown, all u!
which are tee he <*• u*olidat<-d with tie
-ix remaining district.* under < illeet r-
Pollock, eif Phihi'l* Iphia. Kauffrnnn.
of Eane a-ti r. ("base, of Wilks>hnrre,
Case, ( ,f Pittsburgh. Sullivan, t Al!
ghenv city, ami Walthcr at Erie, the
only n< w app' intnicnt made who sup* r
cede-(Vdleetor Eyin oln. Tl.i- i- the
beginning eif the end of the int< rnal
revenue system, which i- not like lv t
he deeply mourned outside of the dis
placed officials.
t root Ordered to Washington
General ("'rook ha* been ordered, fy
direction of the Secretary of Wr, to
proceed to Washington t once for con
saltation a* to the final disposition to hp
made of the captured Apache*. Tho
War etepartment has received no offi
•ial information of the reported arrival
of the captives at San '"arlos, and it is
stated that no instructions to send them
there have been sent to General Crook.
A telegram received yesterday from
Indian Agent Wilcox, stating that the
renegade Indiana hael been forced on
the reservation, ia belicveel at the In
dian office to be an error.
Ox* result of tho recent shake up in
lard at Chicago has been the revelation
of numerous interesting trade secrets <
conneeted with its manufacture. A ,
home correspondent of the Chicago i
Trilnmc has been explaining to that ,
paper how it is that "prime family lard" ,
can be aold by certain dealers, packed i
a* desired, away below the market quo .
tation*. "This 'family lard.V' he says, j,
"conaiata of something like this: Forty (
per cent, of fisher's alock, 40 per cent. <
of prime steam lard, 10 per cent, of t
atearine, and 10 per cent, of cottonseed I
oil. Now, for the information of tho 1
public, I will define the term 'fisher's i
stock.' It is the product of hogs that i
die in transit of disease or otherwise t
aioog the various lines ol railway lead j
ing to ''liiciigo. 'I (icy ar<- taken out of
the ears at stopping points along the
line ami sold at a nominal price to ren
dcring establishment.. The hog goes
into tin; tank whole -bristles, hide and
all. S i much for the 'fi-her's stock.'
N'ico stutl to make pie crust of." ' ana
da clay, this fame corn- j undent-ays, is
a pigment imported from lunrnark,
which is u-ed with alkalies to hleach
such (piestionabltt HIJ!!' HI " fisher's
toek. Honest men cannot compete
with the people who areengage i in t},.
kind of bu-im —s, and the | üblie will be
compelled to : in theehanc' , of gelling
pure lard or a compound of villainous,
grease, elay and stearine, with strong
probuhilit lb at they are buying the
'liter. f here K'ems to be no jOf -. b;y
of topj ng this tampering with the
mere-an stomach until a stringent
national law aga.nst adulteration- is
a ioptcd and rigidly enforced.
Mr. Hewitt iiml the l'rclilency.
"I .am not, an I will not be under any
circumstances, a candidate for the
office."
"Hut sup posing t ir | arty should
li• o: natc you, h>w < .. i I b-.oine
"VD 11, that i- a difficult ijuestion to
answer. I know of no such m-tance.
s i!- Wright w i inform" i bv frien'ls at
the ! I'tini'.re nv. nt.oti tliat he eouM
f'• nominate ) tie. would ar'cet.t, but
he refuse'!. 11•• w,s so committed to
\an I ir" ri that he , ,! jn ,t honors
bly have a!lowe'l h.- name to go before
the convention. If ! were elected pre
sident I w'"ul 1 go t'i Y fl'hington with
the firm I elief that I would never be
allowe 1 to s< rve out the t- rtn."
"Why?"
"lin f- are t". i many lunatic- too
many <luiteau at large. ! would not
go there to adm.li -ter the o'kre for a j
jartx to dispense patronage, I would
be I're-.'tent for the whole people, and '
act alone for.their g .O'l . and that would
be falsi for me. lam not a seeker after
office, slid never a as, ari l do nt be
lieve in 'deals' and nevi r took part in
any. .Y J Tr.'y r, " I
1 -i tli - time until the election for
1. .• -ot "representative" Republicans
fr tn the - nth may I " expected to np
pear .t fr< pi' nt utervals in the Nation
alt ipital to is assurance that th.* or
that Eauthern tain may be nr< -led froui
the Democrats by the use of j roj .-r
means. What constitute "proper
means are wi 11 under-to ito be liber
a! su| plies f m ney and a udieiou* dis .
trifij- >n of <i ivernment patronage. ,
I be Hon. .tame- >f. 1. ..ch, an ex hem
orrat of North ''arolirm, is the lati-t;
• repre-i ntative" Republican from the
>outh who li . - appeared in Washington,
and Mr. beach, of course has no doubt
that North '"orolina rn be induced lo
desert the Democrats by proper means,
line of th> c | : per means is to tab'
care of Mr. beach. Kellogg, too,i cor
vinced that if the ,-t*r route | rosecu
tion against h;ni I e abandoned 1.0u.-i (
ana can be brought into the Republican
line, even without the machinery of a
returning board. Hut prudent politi
cians will not attach much importance
to these assurances. I here > not a
Southern Mate which is likely to give
,t* electoral votes to a Republican can
didate for President except Virginia:
and even in Virginia there are sigoifi
cant signs that the Mahone alliance of
negroes and mean whites ia crumbling
to pieces, t in* of these signs is in the
apathy and disgust of the negroes of
Virginia, whounquestionablvconstitnte
the more respectable portion of the
motley Mahone combination. Phil, j,
fb-rortl.
bloods In Iho Went.
aar.AT DISASTER wßot onr TO BVII.MYGA
AND I ROI'S —THE RIVERS R A I'l til t RISING.
.ST. I/)its, .tune 21.
The river has risen about three inches
since last night. Advice from the North
and West note heavy rains along both
tho I'pper Missouri and Mississippi riv
ers, and it is now feared that another i
rise of a foot or two will come. Should
this be the case there will bo great de i
struclion of crops and farmer's properly I
along the at-eama in this State. A1 <
ready a great amount of bottom land
nn the Miaaouri river ia overflowed and I
the cropa are ruined. Farmer* have <
beeb forced to abandon their homos for 1
higher ground. Karros opposite Her i
mann are reported to have suffered d*m. 1
age to the extent of over #60,000, and t
other loaaea. Ia Callaway county, op 6
poeite Jefferson City, the bottoms are t
TKH.MX: S*I.•"( per Annum, in Advance.
i submerged. A >.'r-;tt quantity of low
land along the* < )*ugo riv<-r is inundated
ari'l settler* are moving to safer places.
j ' " r, y mile* of hot torn below Ashland,
on the M.--' uri river :•. overflowed and
i great iO " of wheat and c orn in rc|>ort
ed. Ihe Madi on dyke, above this city,
still hold*. 1 v.o hundred ' tnen are
working on it.
All Sort*.
Montgomery I'dair is a sufferer from
an alii c tion of the- -j ine, which ha* as
sume'! an ac ute* state.
1... rno-t .on picuou* and influential
free- wvle newsj. after- in the Coiled
• it*, re great Republican dailie*.
Mr.'* il'l - yacht is ornamented with
tin* great financier'* coat of arm , cor
".-ting of a letter', encircling a crested
ay I .rd.
Ih<- e-xj• :te,; ostrich feather* from
I the* ( if e. 1..-t jear w.t- un proeeden 11 y
large. J'hepti obtained aerc* enor
j niouf.
It i■ pr* j i-e 1 to erect a memorial
ehaf • an<i mat. . .at i.jiwortii. m king*
! land, the b.rn.j ... ■ <A jLn and Charlc-n
Wesley.
1 ne eif the Senatorial -eats belonging
t • Arkansas w.ii be v .'Mttt in 1 - -and
car.'i. late- :.*.• already springing up at
nearly ev *-ry en.,. re. .J.
-enate.r \nthony ha* had a slight re
*j -e. but b. tr.e r i- at l'rovielence de
notanlicif ite.an) serious interruption to
hi* gradual convai* - ence.
It w.t- a county w.th a good name.
' hrist.an county. Ky , that raised in
' i j ni. i- of tobaoce arid
.. - 1 * * l bushel* of wheat.
It i- said that v e*nator Lafayette, of
i ranee, the last of hi* illustrious line
is broken .n health, poor, and liv.ng in
an ordinary third floor tint.
A r<*[ >rt i curre nt that dame* ''arey.
the* in' **m• r. ha- gone to the North of
I re,land an 1 that the 'iovernment wall
eventually senel h;m to ' snada.
(ieorge Hoaelly, the democratic car.
■i. late- for '. vet nor of < diio. i a native
of New Have n. Conn., ami i- a nef.bew
of ex {'resident Woolsey, eaf Yale.
.1 w . ■ by the d< .s.vo, crushing vote
f .to T that the Mas* ichusett* senate
kiife i the h a*e bill to increase the
salaries of legislators fifty per cent.
' .ar> nee barker, the sixteen year-old
-on of a State ."senator of Nevada, weigh*
- i j.nund-, and ha- thu got Ins name
-nil fame admiringly into the rowip;,
per*.
I here is only one bu-ines* more pro
fitable tiian that o( robbing the United
"*tte Treasury, ami that is the making
of abortive attempt- t > convict the fd
low* who el i the robbery.
A lis ther lor.tig heart has been broken.
A Rrooklyn g.rl wbo married in London
he *l*l d \ ere 1 t bat her young hus •
band i* not an lingltshman at all
neetbing but a New York elude.
•ecncral 1 rant :* 11. Spinner, whose
queer signature u-e d to a.n.rn ail I'nited
State* currency, ha* left hi* Florida
plantation for a time nnel i visiting
frienel* in l'.oton and elsewhere in the
North.
The I'resident ha* appointed I*vld
It. barker a* I'ostrmuter at Wash
ington, I). to succeed Thomas
L. Tullock, deceased. Col. Parker i
now the thief of the Post ' ffico In
specters.
The Supreme Court of Vermont hold*
that a witness was competent, although
ho was dumb, uneducated in the u*e of
sign*, and only aide to assent or di**etit
in answer to a direct question be a nod
or shake of the hcael.
The New York Timet says of the He.
publican thieve*. "Turn the rascal*out,"
If they were to dg that they would not
have any lender* left, for th ere is hardly
one of them who ha* not hae] his fist in
the public purse contrary to law.
I he officer* of the Pennsylvania state
agricultural society have signed a ten
year*' lease for the property of .'WO
acre* located near the junction of the
Pennsylvania railroad, a Sixteenth
street, Philadelphia, where it croaaea
thetlermantown and Norriatownbranch
of the Heading road.
"If the varioua countries maintain
their present rate of increase," says Mr.
< ioaaelin, Secretary of Kmbaaay at Her
lin, "fifty yeara hence the United State*
will have a population of 190,000,0tX),
Ruaaia approximately 1 f>3,000,000, Oar
many 83,000,000, the United Kingdom
113,000,000, Austria Hungary and Italy
both 44,000,000, Franoe only 40,000,000.
No.