The eastern and western branches* of this polar race (* Vater, in Mithridates volume 3.

In addition to providing for the home trade, he has exercised constant personal supervision over the supplying of the western branches.

It shares Catholics' conservative morality but disputes still strain relations nearly a millennium after the Great Schism split Christianity into eastern and western branches.

It also acquired a dominating interest in the Chicago and Alton property, operating from Chicago to St. Louis, with Western branches.