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rv Ccans Coasters Get Bnj Friday. Bright and early Friday morning a host of 70,000 interrogators, men and women, white and colored, will be turned loose in pur* suit of the people of fne United States. On that day Uncle Sam will begin the numbering of his children in preparation for the thirteenth census. He estimates that he has a family of about 90,000,000 men, women and children, and he already has employed and will then put to work a body of enumerators considerably greater than the standing army. The enumeration will cover all of the 45 States and two Territories of the Union proper and also Hawaii and Porto Rico. Alaska, the Philippine islands ana uuam will not oe inciuaea, as especial arrangements are made for numbering the people 'of those dependencies. Under the statutes governing the work, the entire enumeration must be completed within a month, and in the cities the .work is limited to fifteen days. .It is expected that some of the returns from the cities will be received as early as the first week in June, but the exact population of the entire country will not be determined before some time in September. The census officials will, however, know within a few thousand of the number long before the close of the summer months. They will be able to reach a substantially . accurate conclusion by their pay rolls, but this will be more or less speculative, and the figures will not be given out. Much interest is felt as to the showing regarding the purely native increase. The enumerations between 1870 and 1900 show a startling tendency towards "race suicide." It is Mr. Durand's fond hope that the reports of his 70,000 subordinates may be able to check this apparent decline. Man of figures that he is. he does not. however ner ?? J - . ? f r-"-' mit his optimism to shade his facts, and until the actual returns show something better, he will hold to his ninety-million estimate. There will be some innovations in the next census, and they are expected to improve the reports. For instance, the country farmer is to be afforded an opportunity to consider in advance the statements he shall make as to the conditions prevailing with reference to his holdings, and the same advantage is to be given heads of families in cities i as to the enumeration of their households. In both cases sheets are to be passed around before the official calls to the enumerators in the hope that both ruralist and urbanite will be more complete in their returns than otherwise they might be. . There also is to be unusual care in the supervision of the work of the enumerators. In the cities supervisors will camp on the heels of the men with the pencils /Inn n/v t /loir aP f hAtw uai 111^. tuc 11101 viii v wi men wui i\ and in the country districts the sheets themselves will be especially scrutinized. The enumerators will want to know a good deal about you for the population volumes. They not only will insist upon knowing your sex, but will expect you to reveal your age, and will ask you to tell whether you are white, black, mulatto, Chinese, Japanese or Indian: whether you are married or single, and if married how often; whether you are j American or foreign born, and if the latter, that you give not only your nationality, but your race and mother-tongue. Then, if you are a woman, you are to tell how many children have been born to you; and, in any event, you are to tell all about your education, your parentage and your employment. All this information is to be for the general average and for the ear only of one of the enumerators. Hp ic ClViirn nnt vtmcul nnir nf AAV 1>' UT1 II 1IVTU WV I V v (II C41IJT V/i the awful truths. The mere getting of the information will cost the government the pretty sum of $5,500,000. Of this amount $4,500,000 will be paid to enumerators, and the remaining million to supervisors. With a few exceptions the enumerators will be paid on the basis of the work done. In the country the remuneration will be from 20 to 30 cents for each farm reported, while the pay for hames will range from 2 to 4 cents. The districts will average 1,300 names, 1,100 in the country and 1,600 in the cities. In the Southern States there will be two en'imer; tors in each district, one white, and the other black. All told there will be about 1,500 negro enumerators, but some of them will be i ' i it employed in the Northern States. In the South the negroes will be Visited by enumerators of their own race, as will also the whites by their own people. There also will be about 500 women enumerators. In point of numbers New York will lead the list with 6,500 enumerators, while Nevada will close the procession with 86. The results of the labors of this army of people will be published in 12 or 15 volumes, which j win come out trom time to time i for two or three years after the < completion of the work in the 1 field. All the tabulation as well 1 as the general preparation of the 1 the matter for the printing will \ be done in Washington under Mr. Durand's supervision. i < The Purchase of Alaska. Up to March 30, 1867, when the J United States purchased Alaska, that vast territory of the northwestern part of North America was known as Rus sian America. The present name is j the English corruption of the aboriginal word "Al-ay-ek-sa," the great land. ' The reason the Russian government claimed this land was on account of discovery. They sent Vitus Bering, a Dane by birth, at the head of an expedition to the northeast of the Asiatic 1 country. In July, 1740, he discovered a number of islands, among them the one . bearing his name. Other expeditions j followed, the explorers and traders gradually extending their territory. The Alaskan coast was visited by * Capt. Cook in 1778 and by the Spaniards at about the same time. In 1778 ! a Russian company was organized to 1 exploit the new country. Ten years later the Russian-American company was chartered and was granted all 1 Russian interests in North America for ' 20 years. From the time of the planting of the f czar's flag ujkjii the soil of this great 1 unknown country its honor was sullied by acts of oppression and cruelty. The 1 Russian-American company established a number of trading posts, but its rule was characterized by the most barbarous conduct, and it became so notorious that the government refused to re- * charter it in 1862. ' The purchasing price paid by the ( United States to the Russian govern- s ment was $7,200,000. At the time of the purchase this was generally looked ' upon as an extravagant expenditure, { but ridicule at the action of Secretary ' Seward in this transaction has been 1 changed to a sentiment that credits him with shrewd diplomacy in thus securing this great and resourceful territory. Several reasons have been assigned as to why Russia disposed of this vast territory. It was supposed the United states commenced the negotiations to ? remunerate Russia, under the guise of purchase, for her friendly attitude toward the North during the Civil war. Many also believe that Russia sought 1 to dispose of this territory to the United States that England might not in some way absorb it. The most reasonable explanation is that she wished to he relieved of the eare and protection which her subjects so constantly required of her in maintain- ] 1 ing the semblance of a government. I W. H. HOOVER'S PRI CORN WHISKIES. 1 Qa! New Corn J2.0i One Year Old 2.31 Two Year Old 3.0i Tliree Year Old 3.2! Hoover's* Old Mountain Corn 2.6' Hoover's' Private stock 3.0 l'ucahnntuH Corn 2.01 RYE WHISKIES. Hoover's Choice 3.<h Hoover 2.7! Southern States 2.6 Excelsior 2.1 Gibson 4.Si Old Times 3.7 Old Prentice 4.0' Pennbrook (bottled In bond) 3.7 Cascade Green River (bottled In bond) Old Taylor (bottled In bond) 4.0 Mellwood (bottled In bond) 3.7 Overholt Jefferson Club 3.7 Old Henry 3.5 Old Grand Dad 3.6 I W. Harper Y.i. Valley 2.5 NO CHARGE EOR JUGS OR PACKI charges. deduct for 1 or 2 gallons 60 c J I ft.r. 19 mi?rlu ?1 in 1 4 W. H. HOOVER & | J I We have just bought a lar Oak Top Dining Tables like next 30 days at the following 54-inch Quartered Top 8 feet lo 48-inch " " 8 " ' I<?o-incn " H 42-inch " 44 8 44 ' 45-inch " 44 6 44 ' 42-inch 44 44 6 4 4 4 Wo guarantee these tables work well and give satisfacti I We pay the freight. W. G. REI1 0 ROCK HI ~ v Piaiin a ProfitaUa Gray. The Barnwell Sentinel has an interriew with a prominent farmer of that :ounty, H. C. Creech, about the profit o be derived from the cultivation of he pinder. In speaking of his last rear's crop Mr. Creech referred with mthusiasm to the planting of pinders >etween the corn rows. He tried it for he first time last year and is so weU fieased with the results that he is doing .he same thing this year. Mr. Creech planted 30 acres on this dan and harvested more than 1,000 sushels of corn and secured several x>ns of forage. Besides the fodder, he ped his stock on the pinders, the horses ind mules seeming to relish them as nuch as they did the corn. He got enough to feed ten head of stock for ibout three months. On the 15th of September he turned n 50 hogs, including pigs, on 20 acres jf this land. Many of them were purchased from improvident farmers in his section at a small price. They fed ' ?v... ..... -l i ?e:i? ! me piuvici a auu in rt suui L vvinic i were in the pink of condition; the ma- ; jority were butchered without being p--<t in a pen to fatten. From the hogs butchered he got more than 4,000 pounds ){ pork and over two barrels of lard. He has been selling in his store the bome-cured meat and lard, and in addition will have enough to supply all his lome needs until he butchers again lext year. Mr. Creech kept no account of what was expended on this 30 acres, but t is not hard to figure a big profit for lim. Ten acres of the pinders he fathered and they will yield him an ) additional profit. Mr. Creech stated j hat he could have fed twice the i number of hogs on the pinders raised j f he could have secured them. This i 'ear he is preparing to raise enough ! nogs to consume all of the pinders aised and thinks that he will get as j nuch profit from the meat he raises is he will from the corn and forage fathered. In addition to all this, he s of the opinion that he has increased he fertility of the soil on which the rop was planted. Friday Not an Unlucky Day. There is a very general superstition hat Friday is an unlucky day, which jvidently originated from the fact that 3hrist was crucified on that day. The superstition is as prevalent now as it was years ago, however. The New Oreans Picayune, in a recent article, calls ittention to the part that Friday has ilayed in the history of this country, is follows: It was on Friday, August 2, 1492, :hat Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, ! >n his voyage of discovery that gave a lew hemisphere and the world's greatest free nation to mankind, and it was in Friday, October 12, of the same /ear, that he made land in the New World. It was on Friday that Henry II of England gave a commission to John ; Cabot, which led to the discovery of North America. It was on Friday that St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States, was founded. It was on Friday that the ship Mayflower, with the Pilcrims. landed ?t Plymouth, Mass. It was on Friday that George Washre MOT EXPRESS CHARGES OL Lldi, PREPAID. ? ???o 4??' ?Q<? 5 4.10 6.00 * I 0 5.60 S.00 5 6.00 S.26 ! ' 5.00 7.00 2.60 3.60 ' 8.2 6 ' ?-?? Z-5<? 3.00 4.25 9.00 0 6.00 <.50 3.00 4.25 9.00 0 6.50 8.25 2.00 3.00 J -1.75 6.75 0 4.25 6.75 0 3.60 5.25 0 8.60 12.75 16.00 4.76 7.00 i3.50 ft i'Jft l?5r 1300 4 00 6 00 12 00 c JA25 425 6.25 12.00 5 (.10 10.50 13.00 4.25 6.36 12 00 6.00 6.75 12.76 5.00 6.75 13 25 ? -r i?n |A*?5 14 00 6 00 6.76 13.25 5 7.10 10.50 13.00 4.75 6.75 13.26 c :;v: 4fi0 6.85 12.60 5 ,.10 10.60 13.00 4.00 6.80 10 00! 0 6.60 9.50 12.00 1.00 6.75 10.00 0 6.50 9.60 12.00 . . 5.00 7.00 i2 25 0 4.60 6.75 8.50 . . .. ..... | you desire to pay the express ents; Rallons, 75 cents; 4 gallons n large quantities. In/> 522 E. Broad Street, me. RICHMOND, VA. ipecial Table i Sale. 4 I ge stock of solid Quartered cut and offer them for the reduced prices: ng $30.00 " $24.00 .$'20.00 r --$17.50 $18.00 ....$14.50 | to be in perfect condition, to ft on or your money refunded. > & SONS, I ILL, S. C. ft I,;,.. ii ;? ington was born. It was on Friday that the Declaration 1 of American Independence was adopted. It was on Friday that the British general Burgoyne and his army surrendered at Saratoga. It was on Friday that the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown ended the war. It is evident from this that Friday, so far from being an unlucky day in America, should be deemed most fortunate. PHOTOGRAPHS iir a nnnttn t\rn it it w. a. me wenknown Columbia Photographer, will spend three days in Fort Mill, April 21, 22 and 23. He will come prepared to do firstclass work. Mr. Reckling's reputation is State-wide and those who wish good Photographs at reasonable prices should have him make them. Group and baby pictures a specialty. CAROLINA ?V NORTH-WKSTKRN RY. COSII' \NS ?AND- CAIiDWEI.Ii A NORTHERN R. R. CO. Si'IiimIiiIc I.HV,||\.. Sept. .'III. ISHIJI. ?=> 1* d-X Northbound. x * p ' t*? ?? f- - /d a* *? -y. H ; ^ K _JL . J Lv.Chester ...I 7.55a| I 1.15pl Yorkville ... S.42ni ? 2.40p Gastonia 9.30a! . . Ar. 4.30p' Gastonia ...l J . .Lv.j Rlncolntoii ..'10.26a( ' fi.4fip Newton .... ll.o&m 7.40i?' Hickory .... 11.55a| I 8.35p' L<enlor I 1.10p| |10.05p 3.15p Mortimer ...i 2.42p' ' 6.3&P Ar.Eilgemont .! 2.&5p| j 6.nop S'boun.l. Nob. I 9 | * I fil | 63 Lv.EdKemont ,|12.05p| I 7.15a Mortimer ... 12.1 3pl ' 7.25a I<enolr I 1.28p( 7.00a 9.40a Hickory .... 2.52pi 8.40a! ..... Newton .... 3.20p' 9.3oa Ldncolnton . 3.67p[ 10.18a Gastonia ... 4.50* ..Ar. 11.40a <; istonla Lv Yorkville ... &.39p 1.45a Ar.Chester . . . 0.25p 3.20pj At rlvc. Connection*: Chester?Southern Ry.. S. A. H and U & c. Yorkvllle?Southern Railway. Gastonia?Southern Railway. I.lncolnton?S. A. I.. Newton and Hickory?Southern Ry. Lenoir?blowing: Rock Sta^-e Dine and C. & N. T? !. > i >t .1 n r? * ?. /- > .? a -J3?I?M?1 [A TWEN The Savings E Bank will place girl under sixte the greatest nui "THE PEOI Subject to the folli 1. No proper nami 2. Each word mus 3. "The Peoples N 4. No word shall c letter appears in "The P 5. Each list when therein. 6. The lists of wor first day the Bank occu] nounced later. 7. This deposit of other deposits in the Sai it will draw interest a pounded quarterly. I The Peo ROCK SAFE, "Rock Hi! We are the Fort ] brated "Rock Hill" to ride in the best a on earth buy a "lloi of money could buy buggy. As to its dui the hundreds of usei lie has one. Farm 1 i t W TJigftOlW One- and two-lion sizes and of t he best such as Studebaker Thornhill. See us i T"1 _ rort ivnii TY DOHA )epartmei : oi i he $20.00 to the cre< ien years of age mber of words fr PLES NATION wing conditions: es shall be used. t appear in Webster's Dicti ational Bank" may be coun ontain a letter a greater n eoples National Bank." sent in must state the nu ds will be received, and the pies its new building, the d Twenty Dollars may be wi zings Department, but if lei it the rate of four per < pies Natio HILL, - - SOUTH CA SUCCESSFUL, SSBBaSSSBaKSBaBBBBaaOSBB IF' Buggies. Mill agents of the cele- 4 Buggy. If you want nd easiest, riding buggy ck Hill." No amount you a more comfortable nihility, we refer you to rs. Ask your neighbor; W agons. so in all of the different makes manufactured, , Carver, Nissen and < ' i you need a wagon. Mule Co. iR PRIZE. I i Peoples National dit of the bey or , who will form om the letters in IAL BANK." | onary. ^ ted as four words. umber of times than the imber of words contained ; deposit awarded on the late of which will be an thdrawn at any time, as all Ft three months, or longer, """"1 : nal Bank, ROLINA. SECURE. I