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Friday, December 3, 1909.
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I In Alabama the way of the amendment
is bard t y
S At Christmas a man is reminded of his
gsistives.
F Alabama didn't want to wait ‘hat long
pbotwoen drinks. *
I Carrie Nation still has a chance. She
could become a suffragette.
I Dr. Cook probably wishes sometimes
that he had stayed at the north pole.
I The government will at least find Nica
ragua easier to deal with than Standard
OIL
Now is the Um* for the pioneer citi
gen to recall ocher autumns as ideal as
I glahama apparently doesn’t mind acute
faNMkibition. but objects to the chronic
•tage.
’ Peary would redeem himself with the
public by heading a relief expedition to
Dr. Cook.
K ——
t The shirt waist strike has been settled
’The peek-a-boo outlook for next summer
rarightens accordingly.
>. The man who hates to give Christmas
rseeents has never been known to return
any that are given him.
I ■The truth about Santa Claus had just as
well be told. He has bought an autorno
blle since last Christmas.
Speaker Cannon has again denounced
■the -tosurgents. It begins to look as if
I ride Joe feared something.
i The person who said man finds his great
est happiness in work poisoned the happi
f.®ess of many an innocent millionaire.
A Tammany office holder insists that
his salary be cut. and yet there are
people who say this is a prosaic age.
p-If you slip on a banana peel don't
swear. Rather bo grateful for the op
portunity given you to remove a snare
from another’s footsteps.
I Chicago suffragette says she never has
sewed on a button for her husband and
never will. But It's ten to I she makes
him button her up the back.
BE*
S A great deal of unwarranted surprise
has been manifested over Uncle Joe Can
non giving only a dime to the pretty St.
Louis girl who ’tagged" him. The real
wander is that he gave anything.
A Florida paper accuses an Atlanta man
of wanting to swap a cemetery lot for an
automobile. This Is not so remarkable,
considering how narrowly some automo
bile drivers have escaped the cemetery.
J' Bays Colonel Bailey, of the Houston
: F»wrt. "One of the reasons why an At
lanta suffragette thinks woman should
: have the ballot is that an Atlanta man
kicks his wife out of bed every morning.
That woman doesn’t need ‘ the ballot, she
wants to take a rolling pin or a bootjack
to bed with her and return the morning
■•alute -
Epigram Criminal Code
Puck.
HMfocrnatlnation is the thief of time.
is the porch climber of so
| Good fellowship is the firebug of so-
is the sneak thief of con
tsdtmer.t
£ The bore is the pickpocket of patience.
If The college boy is the check-kiter of
L The firecracker is the pirate of peace
« The welsh rabbit is the ghoul of sleep,
f. Hard hick Is the shoplifter of hope.
Bad cooking is the sandhaxge. of elvil
»y.
Japan’s Luxurious Prison
Tld-Bits.
F The most luxurious prison In the world
l» in Japan. about lo rniPa frjm
Tokyo. In the midst of gardens where
.-flourish medlars and cherry trees, where
"are seen ornamental popd* with water
lilies, arises the palatial prison
fc The cells are spacious and airy. The
iightirq throughout is by electricity, and
.the apartments are furnished luxurious
ly. Bathrooms with marble baths, r.ot
rand cold water being laid on; dressing
rooms and reading rooms—nothing seems
to be wanting to make the sojourn in this
prison pleasant.
Tn fact. It seems an ideal country resi
4ence, scarcely calculated to reduce crime.
Tit for Tat
Lippincott s Magazine.
Z Mama: "Isn't this tnuff Aunt Sarah sent
ine for Christmas a beauty?”
■ Dorothy: "It’s nice, but I want a much
larger one."
< Marne; "Os course you do. But this i.-
pienty big enough fcr my hands '
A Practical View
K-Hookworm Horace—What do youse tink
of all dis money bein' given ter fight dls-
JaaAe-
. Pellagra Pete—A rank waste. Es dey
want ter spend tt on parasites, why don't
«m it to us?
THE DOCS OF WAR LET LOOSE.
The relations between this country and the Central American
republic of Nicaragua have reached the breaking point, and the
only Nicaraguan representative at Washington has been given
his passports.
According to diplomatic usage it is probable that the
American vice consul, who has been occupying the United States
legation at Managua, will, in tiirii, be given his passports today,
and then there will exist as nearly a state of war as is possible
without the direct declaration by congress, which convenes on
Monday.
The tyranny and despotism of Zelaya were long known to
all student® of Central American affairs. He has been aptly
characterized as ar “international brigand.” and nothing else
seems to describe him sc well.
Matters reached a climax when he ordered the execution of
two American citizens. Cannon and Groce, who were participating
in the revolution now going on against the Zelaya government.
The letter from the secretary of state to the Nicaraguan
charge d'affaires at Washington, giving him his passports, is about
the most vigorous diplomatic paper that this government, or any
other, has sent out in many years.
In all the navy yards of the country preparations are being
made to hurry cruisers and marines to Central America, though
it seems certain that public sentiment runs so strongly against
Zelaya that he will be compelled to flee without putting up much
of a struggle.
The United States has taken its present action in the nick
of time, for France had already begun to take a hand in the
matter. A detachment of Zelaya's forces landed on the plantation
of a celebrated firm of French chocolate makers, on Lake
Nicaragua, and committed wanton depredations which brought
out a strong representation to the home government from the
French consul.
The indications are that this is to be followed by the sending
of a French war ship from Martinique to some Central American
port for the purpose of demanding reparation.
If hostilities had been begun by France instead of the I nited
States there is no telling what might be the terms of the peace
negotiations, when that time came, and if France should demand
territorial concessions she would come in direct conflict with the
United States. *
The timely action of Secretary Knox has prevented such
complications, as it is now certain that the offending government
is a thing of the past and that a new order of things will soon
prevail. —_
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
The indications are that the constitutional amendment, making
prohibition in its strictest form a part of the organic law of the
state, has been defeated by an overwhelming majority.
The returns, as given out this morning, showed that only three
out of the sixty-seven counties in the state had voted in favor
of the amendment. .
It is reported that many advocates of prohibition worked
actively against the amendment, believing that it would not
promote the cause of temperance.
The most important question which suggests itself in connec
tion with the election is whether the verdict registers the sober
and dispassionate will of the people. Ihe campaign has been one
of the longest and bitterest in the history of the state. At times
emotional elements have been brought into the fight, and the
personal equation has not been wanting.
Under circumstances like these, whatever may have been the
result, there would be a possibility that the verdict did not repre
sent the settled and mature convictions of the great masses of the
people. It is by personal investigation and deliberation that men
arrive at opinions on any given subject which they feel to be
definite and final.
If the result of Monday’s election, as indicated so far. really
represents the sound convictions of the people, the vexed question
may be regarded as settled. Otherwise there will be a recurrent
agitation such as has gone on for many years.
The results as they stand will be read with interest all over
the country and will be closely studied everywhere.
A LESSON IN EXTRAVAGANT FEES.
The fact that two of the most prominent members of the bar,
and former judges of the court of common pleas, were disbarred
in the state of Ohio because of the exorbitant fees and the wasteful
manner in which a large estate was administered in the courts
over which they presided will have a sobering effect upon the
latter day tendency to allow compensation for services in the
matter of large estates without any regard to the real value of
the service rendered.
’ Judges Robert M. Campbell and Henry C. McCray, who
formerly presided in the court of common pleas, were among the
most prominent judges in the state of Ohio. W hile acting in that
high judicial capacity the estate of the late Mary C. Freer came
up for settlement before them and became the subject of a great
deal of litigation. The bulk of the estate was to have been given
to the Ashland County Children’s home.
It is evident that when the estate made its final escape from
the courts there was little of it to leave to anybody, or anything.
It had been eaten up by the lawyers—with the consent of the
court, of course, and by the functionaries of the court.
It may well be imagined what was the indignation of those
concerned when it was found that the processes of justice had
devoured the substance which should have gone to the devisees.
Fortunately there was one way open by which punishment
could be administered and a signal example given to all who
should be guilty in like manner hereafter. Those who had been
unfaithful stewards while serving on the bench were prohibited
from practicing their profession as members of the bar in the
courts of the state of Ohio.
Public opinion has long been growing in vigorous protest
against the practice of looking upon large estates merely as food
for the cankerworms of so-called justice. The demand for an
economic administration of the law in the settlement of estates
has been growing more definite and more emphatic.
The time has come when services in connection with receiver
ships or any other, form of litigation into which estates may fall
shall be compensated with due regard to the actual value of the
service itself, and not by the arbitrary standard of what the estate
will yield to those who temporarily have it in their keeping.
No form of legalized injustice is more imperatively in need of
correction than this and the disbarment of the two judges in Ohio
is one of the most significant signs of the times.
THE HUMOROUS MR. WELLMAN.
Nothing in a long time has contributed more to the gayety
of nations than the deliberate criticisms which Mr. Walter
Wellman has passed upon the respective claims of Cook and
Peary to have discovered the pole.
Mr. Wellman would have us believe that he has gone into
retirement with all the Cook and Peary data before him, and in
generous anticipation of the duties of the great geographical
societies has weighed the evidence and pronounced judgment.
He comes forth from this brooding silence with the opinion,
which he gives to the world, that Peary’s statements are credible
in every particular and that Cook’s version is “suspicious in what
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY ' JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909
it does tell and in what it does not tell. . . . It is |oo precise
in the wrong place.”
We can imagine the Homeric laughter with which any state
ment emanating from Mr. Wellman on the subject of the north
pole will be greeted by the scientific world, or even by the general
public. Mr. Wellman has been in the discovering business for at
least twenty years and the only thing he has Ver discovered was
Watling’s island, which Columbus had discovered four hundred
years before. To be exact, he discovered that it was at Watling’s
island that Columbus had made his landing.
Mr. Wellman erected a tablet on the island, setting forth
Columbus’ achievement, and his own, with his name engraved
deeply in the tablet, and sailed away.
Almost continuously since that time he has been discovering
the north pole. With each recurring open season for hunting
north poles he has equipped himself with a balloon, arranged fur
a series of syndicate letters and sailed away for Tromsoe and
proceeded to rig up his balloon. Months invariably elapse in this
tinkering process, and seeing that time flies, which as Artemus
Ward used to say is “away time has.” he would finally reach
the conclusion that it was too late to make the trip that year.
So he would come back, to Paris, spend a few weeks there, and
then come back to explain why it was impossible for him to make
his flight that year.
He was up in the near north when word came to civiliza
tion that Dr. Cook had discovered the pole. He had already made
his annual fluke and was preparing to come home when this news
reached us. He proceeded to pack his kit and come home.
The records will show that he had already abandoned his
voyage, but now vague rumors are afloat that he gave up the
job this year because of Cook’s announcement that he had already
turned the trick.
True, the other explanations had become a little threadbare
and this one is a relief from the monotony.
But Mr. Wellman as an arbiter on the subject of arctic
discovery is the finest contribution to the humor of the season.
VINDICATING MRS. OLEARY'S COW.
Another historic tradition has been shattered and. after years
of unjust odium. Mrs. O’Leary's cow has been vindicated.
“Big Jim” O’Leary, son of the woman whose cow was said
to have kicked over the lamp which started that historic confla
gration in Chicago, is still living and working somewhere in the
stock yards district of the Windy City.
He was interviewed by a reporter a few days ago and he took
advantage of the opportunity to do justice to the cow. He
declares that the real cause of the great Chicago fire, nearly forty
years ago, was spontaneous combustion generated in a lot of .
new-mown hay in the loft of the barn. It had been hauled in
during the afternoon, and at an early hour in the morning the
blaze broke out spontaneously.
The first he knew of the cow story, he says, was when he
read of it next day in the newspapers. Every effort was made
to correct the canard, but it is undeniable that a lie can travel a
league while truth gets its boots on. and that was the case with
the story of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. »
So another of our cherished traditions is exploded. The
incident of William Tell and the apple has been discredited for
lo! these many years. It is doubtful if there ever was such a
person as King Arthur, with his round table of chivalric knights.
And so. one by one. the stories which have been handed down
from sire to son as truly true have had to wither away under the
fierce light of truth.
Byron said:
I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb
And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome.
Among the most cherished of our traditions was Mrs.
O’Leary’s cow. and it is a genuine sorrow to have to lose that
familiar but tragically mischievous animal.
Why Don t Farmers
Raise I heir Own Beef?
New York Commercial.
As a prerequisite to the Hating of $30,-
000.000 of 4 1-2 per cent bonds on the New
York stock exchange, under the rules of
that organization. Armour & Co., have
issued a formal statement of income
and expenses—the first bit of official pub
licity ever given to the concern's inside
affairs. From this report it appears that
the earnings for the year ended October
23 show a surplus of $7,127,926, which is
equal to 35.6 per cent on the $20,000,000
capital stock. Consumers of beef, mut
ton and pork products from one end of
the country to the other, who paid the
ruling retail market prices for them dur
ing the year in question and are paying
even higher prices now, will not marvel
that the leading concern In the business
was enabled to pile up a profit 35.6 per
cent on Its capital stock during that pe
riod. The only wonder is that the farm
ers of New England and the south—or in
the region generally east of the Missis
sippi river—do not return to their former
system of supplying their own meat
wants and the demands of their locai
markets.
In New England particularly the farm
ers have very generally abandoned oxen
and steers for heavy farm work, substi
tuting horses for them who “eat their
heads off’’ in winter time; and as a con
sequence they have no fatted cattle to
kill or to sell in the late fall and are
obliged to pay 35 cents a pound for beef
steak. The “beef trust," so called, nfever
forced them into that wholly abnormal
and unnatural situation. If the Armours
can buy cattle and make money- on them
—"big money.” at that—the New England
farmers can certainly make money rais
ing cattle, as they used to. It is further
Interesting to learn that the Armour com
pany reports a proflt-and-loss surplus of
more than $70,000,000. The gross profits
were $10,582,000, a decrease of $1,637,660,
compared with the preceding year, which
was due mainly to the smaller profits
from manufacture and sales.
FINE COLEGE SPIRIT
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Nov. 27.—A great J
many think that the thing referred to as
"college spirit” is a myth. Well. It ,
isn’t. And Brown college is full of it
College spirit is the most broad-minded I
thing you ever heard of.
I
One Vernon Edgar Babington is a stu
dent. one who thinks thoughts. Worse
than that, he writes them. He signed a
“piece” for the Providence Journal,
which stated that in his opinion Brown';
bad showing upon the gridiron was due
to the college fraternity evil: that frater
nity men were placed on the team re
gardless of better material.
| Well, the fellows who fraternize took
him out and paddled him. and then
ducked him at the college pump.
This will teach Edgar to be shy and re
tiring when he gets Into life'e bxoad field
of battle, and always vote with the gang
Instead of being an Independent.
Would Do His Part
Father of the Bride—Now that you’r;
married, are you able to furnish a six
room house ?
Eloping Groom— Er—yes, if you can fur
nish the six-room house.
Quit Whisky. Now
Cancer Has Him
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GEORGE CROCKER.
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| NEW YORK. Nov. 26.—George Crocker,
' the man who made $6,000,000 by refraining
from overindulgence in intoxicants for
five years, is dying of cancer. His fath
er, the late Charles Crocker. California
pioneer and associate of Flood, Fair and
Mackay—'49ers—left $60,000,000 to his chil
dren when he died In 1888, but stipulated
that in this his son should have no share
till “for the space of five years continu
ously he shall abstain from liquors to
the extent that he shall not during this
period have been intoxicated.”
In 1891 George Crocker notified his
brothers that his abstinence had begun.
And he made good. Up£n a Utah ranch
he worked for three years, converting a
‘ valueless ranch into a property that has
I ever since paid well.
Two years later he received his $6,000,000.
Since then he has devoted his business
life to carrying on the companies started
by his father. He is a director of a score
of large corporations, notably many Pa
( clfic coast improvement companies.
Sunbeams
: "Mr. Taft is ready for hard work.”
■ Look out, Ballinger!
' Spring house-cleaning weather!
[ It is never too late to be rescued alive
! from a mine.
The British uudget now has the center
of the stage near the limelight.
A Virginia woman killed herself rather
» than move to Ohio. Os course, it's ter-
I rible to have to move to Ohio.
I
| The Standard Oil company looks upon
i Judge Sanborn’s decree as a slap on th*
j wrist.
IMr. Rockefeller knows how to assume
, an innocence if he has it not.
Summer lingering ih the lap of fall.
• Are we going to have fresh broiled
Zelaya on toast?
The good cooks die young.
Do your Thanksgiving thanking early.
Senator Aldrich found the west very
Fairbansky.
“Distressed” has been the aggressor in M
quarrel between bls sweetheart nnrf himself, and
he wants to “kiss and make up.” The sweet
heart refuses to recognize him and he doesn’t
know what to do. The 'only thing to do If you
really love her Is to eat humble pie. Go to her
and tell her that It was all your fault, and
that you are sorry. "Faint heart won
fair lady,” you know.
♦ SI,OOO FIRST-PRIZE CHECK
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♦ The county authorities of Guilford county, North Carolina *
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*■ best roads south of Roanoke, Va., on the national high- *
♦ way that was officially opened by The Journal-Herald tour ♦
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♦ house as a precious relic. , *
♦ Following is the letter acknowledging receipt of the ♦
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■* “Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 29, 1909. ♦
♦ “The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga. *
♦ “Gehtjemen: We beg to acknowledge with sincere thanks *
♦. .the receipt of your check for SI,OOO, awarded as first prize *
■* for the best roads south of Roanoke. ♦
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♦ (Signed) “J. LESLIE ABBOTT,
♦ County Auditor. ♦
Machinery and System Are
Keynotes of Census Taking
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Machinery will<
play a considerable part in next year’s
stupendous task of counting the people
of the United States. But the keynote of
the job is system. An army of 70,009 men
and women, fully equipped with a com
mander-ln-chief. majors, colonels and sub
officers, will work out a well laid cam
paign plan, for in no otner way count
the undertaking ever be finished. Rene
Bache, writing in the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, thus describes some pictur
esque features of the campaign!
If one were to put side by side the fig
ures of the census of 1790 and 1910 (as the
latter will present themselves when as
sembled) the most striking single fact
shown by the comparison would be the
cTsappearance of the children. A cen
tury ago one-half the population of the
United States consisted of boys and girls
under 16 years of age. Today the propor
tion is only one-third.
The reason for this fact is that people
bring fewer children into the world now
adays. If the average family in this
country todpy were as prolific as in 1800
there woulube 16,000,000 more children in
the United States than are actually liv
ing! In 1790 there were In this country
780 persons over 20 years of age for every
1,000 girls and boys under 16. Today there
are 1,600 such adults for every 1,000 cnil
dren.
Thus it appears that, whereas in the
early days of the republic there was a
very large proportion of young persons,
at present the percentage of children in
the population Is comparatively small.
In view of which facts it is easy to un
derstand the statement of the late Carroll
D. Wright that the artificial limiting of
families was the cause of a greater loss
of population than war, pestilence and all
other agencies combined.
BABY BORN EVERY TWELVE SEC
' ONDS.
Nevertheless,a baby is born every 12 sec
onds. and thanks to this fact, about 2.500.-
000 fresh citizens will be added to our pop
ulation in the census year 1910. The pass
ing bell will toll every 23 seconds, usher
ing 1,350,000 Americans out of the world
during the 12 months. Every 24 seconds
a marriage will take place, giving expec
tation of filled cradles, and five of these
latter will be supplied with occupants ev
ery minute during the year.
So huge has the population grown that
the taking of the census of 1910 would be
a job nothing short of appalling were it
not for the recent introduction of ma
chinery into the business. It is reckoned
that the mere tabulation of the sex, age.
nativity and occupations of the people if
made by hand would consume for those
four items alone the entire time of 100
clerks for 8 years. But most of the work
is done by machines which may almost
be said to think and which when the
facts are once gathered by the enumera
tors attend to the task of putting them
together.
The census bureau id buying a large
number of machines of entirely new pat
tern, which are a great improvement on
any apparatus of the kind hitherto
known. They are run by electricity, and
so perfect is their operation that if the
clerk makes a mistake the contrivance
stops automatically. The tabulating ma
chine will handle as many as 415 cards
a minute, but the average speed in actual
work is about 350. This is an average of
80.000 or 90.000 cards in a working day of
7 hours, including stoppages for reading
dials, etc.
As the census returns come in from the
enumerators all over the country, in the
shape of filied-in blanks, the facts they
contain will be transferred to cards, each
card representing one person. The facts |
in question are copied on the cards by <
punching holes, and the position of each
hole indicates its significance, so that no I
writing is required. Thus, for example,
a few holes will tell that the individual
represented by a card is white, of male
sex. 45 years old, married, a teacher by
profession, able to read, write and speak i
English—with the additional information
that he was born in England, that he has
been In the United States ten years, that
he is a naturalized citizen and that he re
sides in the Eighth ward, Albany, N. Y. |
It will be understood, Chen, that ail the
people in the United States In the year
1910 will be represented in the census bu
reau by ninety odd millions of cards—one
card for each man. woman and child.
The biggest job. however, is to put to
gether the facts on the cards so as to
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<*make tables of figures, telling how many
persons there are of each age, how many
are white, black or of mixed blood; how
many carpenters, undertakers and trained
nurses there are; how many can read and
write, and so on, even to the tabulation
of these and hundreds of other matters
In every township and city.
QUICKLY, AUTOMATK/ALLY.
To do all this by hand would be a vast
ly expensive and almost. ’ interminable
job. But the machines attend to it auto
matically. and with an expedition that
is nothing short of marvellous. All that
Is required is to feed the cards Into them,
and they do the rest, working out the
problems and giving the results without
possibility of error. With the help of one
of these contrivances a capable clerk can
tabulate from 80,000 to 90.000 cards, as al
ready stated. In a working day. all the
facts they contain being duly assembled
and classified.
Some of the new tabulators have adding
machines attached to them to prepare
statistics of agriculture and certain other
arrangements of figures Informational.
Another novel device is an automatlo
sorter, which separates the cards into
classes, electro-magnets controlling their
passing through a series of chutes. In
deed, all of the mechanism from begin
ning to end depends upon electricity, the
current being made and broken by little
metal rods which pass through the holes
in the cards.
The enumerators employed to gather the
facts for the census of 1910 from all parts
of the country will number 65,000, and ail
of them will be men, save perhaps a few
who for some special and particular rea
son will be of the gentler sex. Some wo
men did this kind of work for the last
census very efficiently, but ordinarily it
is too rough, not Infrequently Involving
quite a little hardship of one kind or an
other. The business of putting the facts
together, however, after they have beea
collected will be intrusted mainly to wo
men, the great majority of them being
young.
Experience has shown that women are
more clever than men at such work,
though they are not easy to manage. A
census bureau official said the other day.
"I once knew a man who had 20 girls
under his control. He would introduce
any one of his friends to 15 of them, aa> -
Ing that he reserved the other five for
himself. Now, during the last census I
had 700 young women under me, and any
body might have been welcome to them
all. I say without reserve that a . man
who can manage that number of gir:s
: can do anything. The greatest difficulty
is to curtail their chatter. Yet In the
long run they make better clerks than
the men.”
The census bureau is now a permanent
establishment in Washington. It is kept
running, with a. comparatively small
force of clerks, all the time, whereas it
used to go out of existence after each
enumeration of the population was ac
complished, springing up anew and sud
denly every ten years, like a gigantic
mushroom. As things are at present ar
ranged, however, the plant Is always in
existence on a small scale. There is a
skeleton organization, so to speak, and
i this is readily expanded, when the occa
sion arrives, into a huge and effective
, machine for the gathering of facts. Such
an expansion is now beginning to take
place, and within a short time the ma
i chine will be in full operation for tire
taking of the 13th census of the! United
States.—Exchange.
AJi the Same
| “Ml dear, suppose we take the chi dren
| to the zoo today?”
"Why, John, you promised to take them
1 to mother's!”
"All right, if it's all the same to the
children.”— Browning's Magazine.
i '
Football ~</■
He n-srte a ran arouud the »r 4.
Was tackled from ttie rear.
Tlie right guard eat npoß his ix-k;
The fullback ou hta ear.
• ■ /' •' ?.--r
The center sat upon his legs.
Two ends sat on his chest.,
The quarter and the halfhack tliea
Sat down on him to re»f.
The left guard sat upon his Heart,
A tackle ’on his face.
The corner was next calkd in
To sit open bis case. »
—Edgar A. Guest, In Detroit Free Press.
