Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 14, 1910, Image 8
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 &
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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 " '
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42-inch " 44 8 44 '
45-inch " 44 6 44 '
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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 '
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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
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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.
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