Show I GERMAN FIELD ARTILLERY 5 Iu Ic I sk w I IA i S S I This gun has hag new device to care car for tor the recoil UNCLE SA SAMUEL IS A ROBUST YOUNGSTER Shows A A Intellectual and f Physical Growth A i iThe liThe li The enormous growth of the United J States during the last half half- century i was wa shown in a a. report issued last week by the bureau of forel foreign foreign and and t j domestic commerce While the r re report report re- re l port i is for the period 1914 1800 the meagre statistics for the first half of i the he century makes them com comparatively para para- unimportant After pointing out that since 1850 v the of the has population country more than quadrupled quad being now more than th the report report- H 7 says saya In the same per period peric c however foreign foreign foreign for for- eign commerce has has' grown from to and the per capita value of exports from 1696 1606 to oj 2327 National N wealth has increased from in 1870 to approximately approximately money in i circulation from to c j Evidences of improved social conditions conditions conditions con con- among the people are also found foun in the statistical record For tj example children childr m are n now w i enrolled in public schools and about students In colleges and other higher institutions institutions of learning and 1 J the total expenditures on behalf of e education now approximate l 1 a year the result being a rapid in increase rease in general intelligence and a f marked decrease in illiteracy More J than newspapers and periodicals periodicals period period- i are disseminating information amon among the people and there is a a.- a. steady growth in the number of li libraries libraries li- li in the country In 1850 depositors de de- in savings banks were 2 1000 in number numbe today the number is 11 11 with deposits exclusive of those in other savings institutions aggregating or more than times as much as at the w middle of the last century s 's Increased activity on the farms A Ain In Ia the the- factories and in the great traus- traus transportation transportation trans trans- industries has t ed during the che last half century The he value of farms and aud farm property property property-in- i in increased creased from In 1850 to to in 1910 the value of manufactures from Crom to more and the number of miles of railway in operation from in 1850 to in 1912 In n the thelast last quarter century the number of carried has increased from passengers to laud and the volume of freight handled from to short tons 1 v. v Nearly Nealy pieces of outgoing outgoing out ont going mail matter are handled annually annually annu annu- ally by y the t de department nt disbursed in this thiN important public service last las year or per capita |