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Couf I J MS < M . LD DR. U. S. CENSUS who has just complete! v thirteenth diagnosi [ KAj Y of the condition of Unci I i rnffii I Sam and his family, be I J gan it in 1790 and ha: \ Kmsm A been repeating it ever: ten >*ears since. Unci amv ^am ^as ^??te<^ XJB Uli tQ ^ate am0unting t< about $47,000,000. Ou: eenerable dad has calculated that th< thirteenth Investigation will cost abou 113,000,000; $60,000,000 has been spen tor this purpose since 1790. \ The twelfth census cost about $13, 300,000, and as Uncle Sam's landed pos J lessions have increased since then am his family gained about 15,000,000 mor< members than belonged to it in 1900 I It would be considered no more thai fair if the present diagnosis were t< call for the spending of about $19,000, 000, which would be the sum If the rat< of Increase of expense at each censui up to the twelfth were to be main talned for the thirteenth. A census expert has estimated tha of the thirteen millions, the headquar ters office force will earn $4,000,000 the enumerators $4,600,000, the super visors $910,000, and the special agent! $700,000. The administrative cost wll be $300,000, the stationery $200,000 rent $125,000, tabulating machines $250, OOGL cards for tabulation processes $lo0,000, printing $800,000, Alaska $85, 000, Porto Rico $160,000. Total. $12, PUNCHING K 950,000. If that is all the expense, It cheap. The late Gen. Francis A. Walk who was a census authority greater th any other, living or dead, once wrote tt "the people of the United States can w afford to pay for the very best cens they can get." He penned this rema In connection with a frank confession his own shortsightedness in underes matirfg the cost of the tenth census. It's the old story: When you are get the best doctor you can afford. The comparative cneapness with whi the thirteenth census has been taken w largely due to Director E. Dana Durai Qomical methods, to the introduction of tomatic electrical card-punching, ta and sorting machines, and to the inh of wisdom from the experience gainec nprmnnpnt rpnsns hnrpnn T>nr1np- tho the latter the methods of Inquiry, tabula compilation have been greatly improv In accuracy and in economy. Millions ?aved. Mr. Durand Is responsible for man new methods to increase statistical i at every step of the census taking an crease the per capita cost of the enun The card-punching, tabulating, and sor chinery Is the Invention of a census i cal expert and the patent rights belong Sam. The machines are novel in plan sign, are of greater speed and efflciei those they superseded, and can be b operated at a large saving of money pared with previous expenditures for pose. Other money-saving features are tl nation of the vital-statistics inquiry fi work of the decennial census, as it be the permanent branch of the Unitec census; the reduction in the number c ules, the piece-price method of paying chine work, the omission of the hanc hold and neighborhood Industries fr manufactures branch of the census, reduction of the size and number of c the final report. Congress limited the thirteenth c< four general subjects?population, agr manufactures, and mines and quarries, rector Is authorized to determine the f ' subdivision of Inquiries. The inquir r population relates to the date April ] that as to agriculture concerns the far; tlon3 during 1909 and calls for an inve farm equipment April 15, 1910; that re manufactures and quarries is for 190? The enumeration carried only the tlon and agriculture schedules April Special agents were sent out with th ules for the manufactures, mines and data. There were fully 65.000 enumer whom about 45,000 carried both the pc and agriculture schedules, as It Is e that there are now fully 7,000,000 farms In America, with farmers nil well up Into a score of millions. In 19 were many more billions of dollars capital Invested in agriculture than th< In manufactures, strange as It may see the farmer Is getting better off all tl Euilt Bath fo f woiuery proprietors scneme was Appreciated by the Animals and Prolonged Life and Vigor. "Some time ago the proprietor of a colliery at Plains, Pa., which is known as the Henry, built a big bath tub for the mules in tho company's mines. 1 can't *av that this was done altogether from an altruistic mo]ve. The owners, after consulting with ' ? 4-1 t., ' - Mil N O INOJ ? *?><? ? m . '.#^r^:-"'?^te " ' ? '^URfetii s i^^^^a^itgjjBB as id's eco- his mortgage indebtedness is decreasing fast; Is semi-au- ^ his taxation is Email as compared with the th bulating urbanite's burden, and he has taken to auto- m leritance mobile riding on a large scale. th 1 by the Census taking every ten years is a tremen- tl: term of dous task. It is the greatest single operation itlon and undertaken by Uncle Sara, with the exception 3, ed, both of the Panama canal work and the assembling ni will be of an army In time of war. The American cen- th sus is the largest, costliest and most accurate si y of the of any taken by the civilized nations. Its T accuracy methods are the most modern and its equip- sj d to de- ment the most complete. The census bureau 11 aeration. force comprises, first, Director E. Dana Durand ting mamechani |~~??????????????? ?? to Uncle ? s Masterpiece of as com- ? this pur- . In the British museum, in London, on exhi- 'as 16 6 th * bItjon- Is Portland vase, the masterpiece Bi j"om 6 of ancient glasswork. A chance discovery led cl 0 to the rescue of this magnificent um from the a h h3 grave, where it had lain for hundreds of ye?- a, de ) sc ed- hidden and unknown. The vase was found be for TM 0. \ . , early in the seventeenth century by some la- co ' ?Ufhe borers, who, digging on a hillock in the neigh- te 0m, ? borhood of Rome, broke into a small vault th and the t0 ;opies of 0n further examination it revealed a suite of three sepulchral chambers. In the largest re ;nsus to room they fouQd a finely sculptured 6arcophar "iculture gus' v'hicl1 contained the beautiful vase. It The di- was of asbes, but it bore no inscription as orm and to rema*n8 R held, nor has the mystery y ag to ever been solved which shrouds its origin. l5, 1910; The vase was deposited in the Barberlnl pal- dr m opera- ace> where it remained until 1770, when the rep- tj tntory of resentative of the Barberini family, a Roman pj lnMvo tn princess, was forced to part with it to pay her I. gambling debts. The vase changed hands eB popula- twice, then it was disposed of to the duchess of je 15 1910 Portland, but with such secrecy that her own Btj ' h family was not aware of the transaction until quarries after her death. ^ ators, of At the sale of the duchess of Portland's col(pulatlon lection it was purchased by her son, the third th stlmated duke of Portland, for the sum of $5,145, and it separate was deposited in the museum by his successor. :mbering The vase was wantonly smashed In pieces by 10 there a drunken visitor, but the fragments were, wl of fixed however, joined together, but the bottom, with ;re were its mysterious figure In Phrygian cap, was not m. And replaced. fo le time; The material of this vase was long almost th H/?' m i the mine entrance to r /Wine Mules uid think they i ?, pasture for six months, j they show as they gal veterinarians were convinced that a ? stable entrance. ine daily bath would prolong the life and cach other in their eff the vigor of the mules which they i water. used in the mines. At any rate, they ! "I'll venture to saj built a big bath about 40 feet long would make a brenk ! and something like four feet deep, near and the stall to get (he i tho entrance to t.he stables. The the day, if worked as l mules are pretty tired, as you can im- those mules, and won! j agiiie, at the end of a day's work. bath. But not so wii Hut you fchoiild see them race irom Hungry as they must SES f'x red hero, a veteran in government service, and likely to prove the most practlc.il and efficient dlMmmil rector connected with fg&ggM^p/y anjr of the past censuses. Wj$W%ufi&lll Then there is the asslstH^t director, William H. Wllloughby, of Washlng*^Wml II ton' D' *ormer secre* HOT// tary of state of Porto Rico. Next In rank are the five chief statistlclans: William C. Hunt, ^mMiH *n char60 tb? populaJRSffl j tlon division; Le Grand W$i Powers, heading the agZjStjll rlcultural division; Wllysj iiam M. Stuart, overseeZzf/ll Ing manufacturIn? dlWffl vision; Dr. Cressy L. <&lll Wilbur, the vital statlsWH tics work, and Dr. JoJJj eeph Adna Hill, the dlw vision of revision and rej Bults. Charles S. Sloane ' la the geographer; Albertua H. Baldwin Is the chief clerk; Voler V. fKo niihHrn. IS UU1CI Uk mo !/-?.? tion division; Hugh M. Brown is private secretary to the director; Robert M. Pindell, the appointment Clerk; George Johnnes is e disbursing officer, and C. W. Spicer is the echanical expert. In addition to these are e chiefs of the divisions under the chief stastician. There are about 750 permanent clerks and 000 temporary clerks, etc. The supervisors imbered 330 and they employed and directed te 65,000 enumerators. . About l',000 chief jecial agents and assistant special agents, he supervisors also employed 1,000 clerks, 500 >eclal agents and 4,000 interpreters to assist lem in the direction of the enumerators. The data relating to population is transG!ass Work 1 great & puzzle as the story it illustrates, eval refers to it as "the famous vase of taledony;" Misson calls it an agate; Bartoll sardonyx; while Caylus and others correctly tVio* -nron TY-ia^o nf trlaoc Tho hlno ILiUCU Lua L it ?? UO Uiuuu Ui, ?dy was first formed, and while still red hot, ated over as far as the bas reliefs were innded to reach with semiopaque white glass, e delicate figure being afterwards cut down the blue ground in the same manner as with al cameos. "No Openings Nowheres" She is fortunate in having girl chums who aw roses from their friends now and then. ie other afternoon one of her rosy friendB nned a "aright red one on her and she sal:d forth into the street to make other worni envious. She had not gone far when she It a tug at the shoulder and turned to see a range woman. "Where'd you git that rose?" asked the ranger covetously. "A friend of mine gave it to me," was e answer, produced with some chill. "A friend of yours? In a store?" "No, not in a store." "Well, hain't there no openings notieres?" "Not tnat I Know or.' "Humph! Just my luck. I'm Just crazy r a rose, and when I saw you I just knowed ere was a fall opening somewhere." i the bath tub. into the bath. Some of th bad been out on are so reluctant to leave from the speed that the stablemen have to ( lop clown to the out. One old mule that nas y clamber over car for years, absolutely d orts to get Into leave the pool Inside of ten i "Directly over the bath ri r that a horse forated pipe. When the for I he stable think the mules have been i : second meal of tor long enough, the water hard as one of through this pipe, and the f Id pass by the bathers get a fine shower b lb those mules, of the foremen recently toll be, they rush some of the animals will acti ferred to manila cards, by the' punching of holes In them to correspond with the different Items In the schedules. An electrical machine controlled by a clerk can punch holes In 3,000 cards a day. Three hundred of these were used and 90,000,000 cards were ordered. After the punching the cards are hand-fed Into an electric tabulating machine with a "pin-box" attachment which permits the re quired pins to pass through the variously placed holes In the cards, In this establishing an electric circuit resulting in the tabulation of tbe items on counters which register their results in printing on spooled paper somewhat like a stock "ticker." There are 100 of these machines. After certain comparisons to prove accuracy, the schedules are permanently preserved in a great iron safe In the census bureau. As the card does not contain the name of the persons for whom it stands, all personal ! identity Is eliminated from the cards. All danger of misuse of such Information disappears. 1 Severe penalties are provided In case any employee discloses census Information to outsiders. The next step is the making of the maps and tables to accompany the analyses, and then, finally, the issue of the printed bulletins ! and reports. Before July 1, 1912, the work must be over and the thirteenth census gone to Join its scientific ancestors. I - I Romance of Old Portugal The recent deposition of King Manuel of Portugal and the events In the -young king'* life that led up to it will no doubt bring back to the minds of some of the .older residents of the city the story of Eliie Hensifer, the Springfield girl who married a king and became the Countess Edla. i , i The king she married was Don Ferdinand II. of Portugal, a great grandfather of King Manuel. Elise lived in Springfield about 60 years ago, probably for about four years. The Henslers were humble people and I lived simply. The daughters, Elise and Louise, were well received here and were given' a good musical education, especially Elise, whc had quite a remarkable voice. Signor Guldi, an Italian, at the time a well known teacher of the voice, took an interest in Elise and it was when Signor Guldi went to Boston that the Hensiers went there, largely through his Influence. He believed that Elise bad a fu- : ture as a singer and wished her to be where he could continue teaching her. i Elise Hensler after her removal with her family to Boston continued her studies. She 1 was perseverant in her work and progressed so veil that she not only appeared in concerts in the large cities in this country, but also in Europe, where she sang before royalty. It waa while singing in Lisbon several years after the 1 death of Queen Maria that King Ferdinand heard her voice and felt the attraction that led him to marry her. Ferdinand was the titular king of Portugal, having been the second husband of Queen Maria II. of Portugal. Ferdinand married Maria in 1836, when he was 20. The queen died In 1853, and he was regent, during the minority of his son, Pedro V., who was the father of the assassinated King Carlos, the grandfather of the deposed King Manuel. The? regency ended In 1855, and on June 10, 1869, he married Miss Hensler. When the European powers decided the time had come to restore Spain to a monarchy, following the overthrow of the short republic, which existed from 1873 to 1875, considerable pressure was brought to bear upon Ferdinand to induce him to accept the vacant throne. ' But his wife could never be queen of Spain, and it Is possible that this fact alone induced him to refuse. This absolute refusal on his part to accept * n_Ll_ ?iiV ?1l *U . me tnrone OI opmy, Willi uu uat> pump auu. eplendor of royalty in exchange for the romantic life that he was living with his morganatic wife, had far-reaching consequences. The complications and jealousies resultant on the attempt to find a king acceptable to all the powers helped to bring on the Franco-Prussian ' war, and Alsace and Lorraine went back to \ Germany,, whence they had been wrested by Napoleon Bonaparte. In consequence of these peculiar historical , facts, which geographically practically changed all western Europe, Ellse Hensler, Countess Edla, became famous throughout the world as "the woman who changed the map of Europe." ' During the life of the king they lived in the beautiful castle of Cintra. It is certain that their life was above reproach. In 1885 the king died, and after that the countess lived in 1 retirement in a cottage near the castle. j e animals | to the shower pipe with their noses rh? water in order to call the attention of the Irive them stablemen to their desire for a show- | j drawn a er bath. One evening the stablemen ? eclines to were in somewhat of a hurry and tried . ninutes. to get the mules out of the water with- , jns a per- out the ehower- 0ne animal, more destablemen termincd tban tho rest. refused to be < n the wa- drlven 0llt' and the water was turned | is run on 10 obli6e that Particular mule. This | our-leggod saved tlme> ns tbe muIe ls a pretty , ath. One difficult object even for a dozen men i 1 me that 10 handle, especially in the water."? tally point Washington Post. i i PETER'S 1 DENIAL Sunday School Lesson for Dec. 4, 1910 fj Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT-Matthew 26:31-35, 69-75. Memory verses, 74-75. GOLDEN TEXT?"Let him that thlnkith he standeth take heed lest he fall."? . Cor. 10:12. TIME?The denials were early Friday norning, April 7, A. D. 30. J PLACE?In the court of the Palace ol :he High Priest Calaphas. In the southwest part of Jerusalem. , The first thing Jesus did for Peter was to set before him in his first interview the goal and ideal of his life. He was to be changed from the Simon we have just been viewing Into Peter the Rock. His incohesive qualities were to be unified into one beautiful whole; the separate and sometimes discordant notes of his character were to be formed into the exquisite harmonies of a Hallelujah chorus. He was like the soft stone in some quarries, easily cut and shaped when first taken from the quarry, but soon hardening Into rock. Peter expresses the possibilities Jesus saw in the nature of Simon, an "ideal which God would make divinely real." For three years Peter was an earnest pupil in Christ's school. He mads many mistakes; he fought many battles on' the battlefield of his heart; he had some severe reproofs, but he naa a wise, encouraging, pauem teacher. After a time he was advanced to the highest grade with James and John. "The first essential for success is a soul," an awakened soul. C)ne of the most Interesting studies for a teacher, is to go carefully through the Gospels, and study Christ's method of teaching and training such an unruly but earnest scholar1 as Peter was. "Thou shalt deny me thrice, disown me as your Lord and Master." Peter was sure that he would not fallen the hour of temptation. No one knows what he will do in unexpected circumstances. But Jesus did all he could to put Peter on his guard. An interval , of some1 hours. Gethsemane; Peter, wearied, sleeps on guard. The arrest; Peter and all the apostles desert Jesus. But Peter and John follow afar off. The trial before the Sandhedrin in some room of Caiaphas' palace, opening into a court. Peter was sitting with the servants and others around a fire and he denied Christ before them all, who were gathered around the fire. The main charge was prominently made by one, a kinsman of Malchus, who had seen Peter in the garden and was Known to at. Jonn irom nis acquaintance with the high priest's household. For thy speech betrayeth thee, "betrayeth," shows that thou art a Galilean, and therefore one of his disciples, or why else art thou here? Then began he to curse, call down curses on, himself if he did not speak the truth. And to swear, to call God to witness that it was true. It is more than probable that Peter, in his earlier life as a fisherman, before his conversion, had been in the habit of using profane "language, and now, in the sudden surprise of temptation, the Did habit broke forth anew, as the language of youth, long unused, is almost certain to be employed in times of great excitement. It is a long and hard discipline that entirely conquers the sins or youth. "I know not the man." And this in the very presence of Jesus. "The ways down which the bad ship Wickedness slides to a shoreless ocean must be greased with lies." "A lie ia put out to interest, and the interest is. compound." It was now that Peter was "sifted as wheat." ! Part of what he thought was wheat was really cbaff, and this terrible sifting under temptation blew away in the roughest manner mo6t of the chaff,?his inconstancy, his fiery temper, his self-confidence, but preserved all the good in his character, purified and perfected. We can be good in spite of falls. ri/id o!an hrinc irnnri nut nf evil That In his glory, and our hope.' Buf'he can do far mo.re with our victories than by our failures. Then Jesus looked upon Pe{er. Tha Greek word for "looked" occurs but in one other place in the Gospels. It means that "he looked into him," into his very heart, "with eyes that went like lightning to the quick of his conscience." Peter remembered the warning, and went out and wept the bitterest tears of repentance. From this time on Peter Was a new man. The charcoal had become diamond. He describes the effect in his first Epistle (1:7). "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that persisteth, though It be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" Peter rejoiced when he could express his love to Jesus by suffering in his cause. He wrote a letter which has been a comfort and a power all down the ages. His victory?not his fall?In the great I irisls gave him power over men to the end. "In the pain and the repentance, md In the acquaintance with the as pects of folly and sin," says Ruskln, 'you have learned something; how much less than you would have learned In right paths can never be told but that it Is less Is certain. Youi Jberty of choice has simply destroyed ?ou so much of life and strength never regalnable. It is true you know :he habits of swine, now, and the :aste for husks. Do you think that your Heavenly Father would not have :aught you to know better habits and pleasanter tastes if you had stayed in his house. Timeliness. All measures of reformation are er fective in exact proportion to rheir "lmeliness; partial decay may be cut away and cleansed; incipient error corrected; but there is a point at which corruption can no more be j :ijivpfi nnr wanderine recalled. It ! las been the manner of modern phianthropy to remain passive until that j lireclse period, and to leave the sick 1 to perish, and the foolish to stray, ivhile it spent itself in frantic exer 1 ions to raise the dead, and reform j :he dust.?Ruskin. _ OWES HPP UK TO Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Chicago, 111.?"I was troubled with falling and inflammation, and the doo> tors said I could not @get well unless I had an operation. I knew I could not stand the strain of one, so I wrote to yon sometime ago about my health and you told ma what to do. After taking Lydia X. 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Her advice is tet% HUMOR IN THESE VERDICTS Quaint Ideas and Expressions Re- . corded as Having Been Rendered by Coroner's Juries. Referring to a verdict recentlj given by a coroner's jury that death waa "caused by the medical evidence," the British Medical Journal says:. . - - - - .. * "Tills verdict may be added to tnos* cited In the report of the select committee on death certification, where Dr. Ogle Is quoted as saying: 'One verdict came before me a little time ago which was this: "A man died from stone in the kidney, which stone he swallowed when laying on a gravel J. path In a state of drunkenness." That * was given as a verdict. I thought ' 3 some joke had been played, and I wrote down about it, and found it was an absolute fact. Another one Is like this:* "Child three months old, found dead, but no evidence whether born alive. These novel judg- . " ments recall that an up-state. newspaper not long ago spoke of taking a murdered man's "post-mortem" statement. Couldn't Do It. "I can't stay long," said the chair man of the committee from the col* - .. ored church. "I just came to see if . " yo' wouldn't join de mission band." "Fo" de lan' sakes, honey," replied * the old mammy, "doan' come to me!.' , I can't even play a mouf-organ."? Llpplncott's. ????? _ 'J Penitent. . > Irate Father?Wretch! I saw you stealing kisses from my daughter. Young Man?I admit it, but I am quite willing to give them back to her. , ,, ?i;! Twin Extravagances. don't suppose there is anything gets out of date quicker than a woman's hat?" "Unless it is a battleship." >'% - -< i "Don't | Argufy" : ' A single dish of i Post T oasties with sugar and cream tells the whole 6tory? 4'The Memory Lingers'* Poetuci Cereal Company, Ltd. / A Unttle Creek, Mich. r r .