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FACTS SHOWN
Bf CUBAN CENSUS.
Population of the Island is Now
1,472,7970-
THE BLACKS IN MINORITY-
The Fear of Nejcro Domination
beams Ground less-1 n No Pro
vince Do They Outnumber.
Washington, April 19. —Gen.
Sanger today made public the com
pendious Jesuits of the Cuban cen
sus taken under his direction. The
figures are very instructive and in
the opinion of the war department
officials, fully justify the decision
of the adminisLation to allow
municipal suffrage in Cuba at an
early stage. The officials are giati
fied to fiud that the native Cubans
constitute so large a portion of the
population; that the whites so
greatly outnumber the blacks and
that so large a proportion of the
native population can read and
write. In their opinion there
seems to be no room for the objec
tion that the proposed basis of suf
frage would result in turning the
island over to the control of Spam.
The total population of Cuba is
1.572,797, including 815,205 males
and 756,592 females, There are
447,372 white males and 462,926
white females of native birth. The
foreign whites number 115,760
males, and 26,458 females. There
are 111,898 male negroes and 122,-
740 female negroes. The mi::;d
races number 12,5500 males and
1 45>3°5 females. There are 14,-
<>94 male and 163 female Chinese.
The population of Havana city
is 235,98:, and of the province of
Havana 424,804.
The population of the province
of Matauzas is 202,444; of Pinar
del Rio 173,064; of Puerto Principe
88.234; of Santa Clara 356,536; and
of Santiago 327,715.
Of the total population of the is
land 1,108,709 persons are set down
as single; 246,351 are married;
while 131,787 live together by mu
tual consent. There are 85,112
widowed persons.
Of the total population, accord
ing to citizenship, 20.488 are Span
ish; 1,296,367 are Cuban, 175,811
are in suspense; 79,526 are of other
citizenship, and 616 are unknown.
The Spanish by birth number 129,-
240, of the children of ten years of
age and over 49,414 have attended
school. Of the total population
443,425 can read and write, and
19,158 have a superior education.
The table on citizenship, litera
ture and education is specially im
portant as forming the basis of suf
frage about to be conferred. Be
cause so many citizenships are
still in suspense, and for other rea
sons, the returns are not quite com
plete, but the conclusion is drawn
that there will be at least 140,000
qualified Cuban voters under the
proposed basis of suffrage, and
against this there will be 55,707
Spaniards whose citizenship was
in suspense when the census was
taken, less the number who have
since declared to preserve their
Spanish citizenship, and plus il
literate Spaniards, not declared,
who are the owners of property. It
is not believed that there will be
any great number of the latter
class, as the total number of illit
erate Spanish males over 21 years
is only 17,426. The comparisons
show a much greater preponderance
of Cuban voters than was expected.
There are 187,826 white adult
males who were boni in Cuba as
against 96,083 born in Spain, 6,-
974 born in other countries, and
127.300 colored.
Males are in excess in the total
population, except in Santiago,
though the female whites outnum
ber the male whites, except in
Pinar del Rio. Among the ne
groes and mixed races the females
are in excess; while among the
foreign whites the males are large
ly in excess.
The negroes are in the minority
in Cuba, constituting only 32 per
cent, of the population, being most
numerous in Santiago, where they
constitute 43 per cent. The native
whites constitute more than o.*( k
half the population or 58 per cent.
The proportion of children under
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5 years is usually small, but the
proportion under 21 is normal;
about one-half the population.
Only 15.7 per cent, of the adults
were married. Nearly nine-tenths
of the inhabitants were born in
Cuba. Nine-tenths of the chil
dren less than 10 years of age do
not attend schools; 43 per cent,
above 10 years are illiterate.
The College and Self-Support.
PhUarfe'ntiia Keoo-d.
Presi lent Harper,of the Universi
ty of Chicago, is moved to compas
sion by the spectacle of ambitious
young men straining every nerve
and their fathers’ purse strings to
enter professions that are "over
crowded to the starvation point.”
With admirable frankness he makes
public mention of facts that are
calculated and intended to diminish
the number of those who swarm
into the colleges with the object of
qualifying themselves for the pro
fessions. It should be said, how
ever, that a large proportion of col
lege young men have in view other
occupations than the law, medicine,
divinity and pedagogy. Persons
who have chosen to be journalists,
literary men, etc., often look to a
college training as a means of pro
moting their ambitions.
Overcrowding is not limited to
what President Harper, with ques
tionable j ustice, calls the four learn
ed professions. It is quite general.
There is a surplus everywhere of
men with services to rende >r
things to sell, or (what amounts
to the same thing) a deficiency of
persons with an excess of money
and a disposition to spend it. Yet
the old saw is still true that “there
is always room at the top.” There
are not too many of the best in any
pursuit. This is proved by the
great rewards which the best com
mand. The overcrowding that is
so often tragic is necessary to the
raising of the standard of efficiency
and the gradual weeding oulof the
incompetent. There is an element
of brutality in all progress. Men
are thrown out of employment by
every labor-saving invention, even
though it lead to the employment
of a larger number. Those who
are not able to adapt themselves
to the new conditions must go to
the wall. The man who is mis
placed in his occupation and lacks
the natural qualities that insure
success, and also the man who docs
not give the best that is in him 10
his life work, must suffer from the
ove crowding.
Quite ns tragic is the young
man’s discovery that there has
been a good deal of waste in his
college years. In spite of the great
improvement in the past half-cen
tury, it is still charged that his
education is not just what is requir
ed by the conditions of modern
life, that it takes too much of his
lime. There is no lo ger the feai
that college learning is acquired
a. lie cos' of any mot be w t the boy
may have. Still,when ht comes forth
with his hard-earned diploma (now
a man past his most impressionable
years) he is not qualified for any
bread winning pursuit unless he
have been through a special school.
At the moment he is not superior
to others who have had only a com
mon school training and he educa
tion of circumstances.
“Cried Her Eyes Oil”
One of<en hears '.he expression,
‘‘Cried her eyes out,” as an exag
gerated figure of speech; but it ap
pears that is actually what a New
York woman has done. For sev
eral months, because of her grief
for the loss of her husband and
child, she cried every day, and now
she is blind —the doctors say from
excessive weeping. Technically
they describe the cause as a rup
ture of a blood vessel, depressing
the nerves which enable sight.
Some sudden shock, they say, may
remove the blood clot which form
ed, but unless that occurs she will
never see again.
If you would not have affliction
visit von twice, listen at once to
what it teaches. —Burgh.
RIOT IN STATE HOUSE-
Republican Factions In Montgom
ery Shootlr.Br at Each Other,
Montgomery, Ala., April 19. —
I The republican state convention
scheduled to meet in the state cap
itol building at 12 o’clock wa: at
tended by two factions. The
Vaughn faction took charge of the
capitol admitting only uncontested
de.egates. Gadston Scott, of Mon -
| gomery, was at the rear doorguaru
! ing it, when Moragne, of Ftowah
| county, who had been appointed
sergeant-at-arms by a majority of
the executive committee and de
manded admittance and was re
fused.
This brought on a w’ar of words
and Moragne shot Scott once n
the thumb and in the breast aim
one shot went wild. Scott made
no effort to shoot
There was great excitement and
Moragne was carried to the : o -
ernor’s office, where he was Wucu
Taylor Scott, a brother of the
wounded man. ran to the outside
doorof ihe governor’s office and fir
ed two shotsdown the hall. He was
slopped and quieted by bystanders.
The governor then expelled both
factions and cleared the building
and grounds.
Vaughn and Bingham were in
consultation with the governor at
the time of the trouble, trying to
arrange a peaceable settlement.
Gov. Johnsi on stated to a repre
sentative of the Associated Press
in regard to the matter:
“I recognized the right of the
executive committee to appoint a
sergeant-at-a-ms and turned the
hall over o Moragne as appointee
of the committee. He had the
r ght as a convention officer to say
who should go into the hall.”
Both conventions are now in ses
sion and are contesting the dele
gates to be sent to the na ional
convention.
A REPUBLICAN DEFEAT.
Predicted by Congressman Mad
dox-Next House.
Rome, April 18. —Congressman
John W. Maddox returned to
Washington last night. He came
home on important business mat
ters.
Judge Maddox says that the
passing of the ta iff law on Porto
Rico has not only cemented demo
cracy against the republicans but
that it has turned thousands upon
thousands of their own party
against lhem. It means, he said,
that the net house will be demo
cratic by a large majority and in
Washington the belief is strong
that the national democratic ticket
has an excellent chance for win
ning.
“The revolt against this impe
rialism is complete among tfce
great thinking masses of the east
and west and re •mblicanism is go
ing to meet a crushing defeat at
the polls,” said Judge Maddox.
“Porto Rico a ten doty of the
United States and the saddling of
a tr*riff upon the island is clearly
unconstitutional. The republicans
and McKinley have been whipped
into line by the trusts and capital,
but they are trembling in their
shoes for the enormity of their act,
because they see defeat staring
them in the face.”
Judge Maddox said that the re
publicans had it arranged ‘.o ad
jmm congress on June 12th as
they want to attend the national
convention and also look after their
fences.
The federal court bill,which was
signed by the president on the 12th,
establishes a record for the rapid!./
of its passage. From (he time of
its favorable report by f be judiciary
committee to the affixing of the
president’s name was less than
two weeks. The first term will be
in November.
To Reward Lee and Wheeler-
Washington, D. C., April 18.—
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,
introduced a bill today authorizing
the president to appoint three vol
unteer officers as brigadier gener
als, with a view to their retirement.
The bill is an administration meas
ure, having been presented by Mr,
Grosvenor after conference with
administration officials and at their
request. It is designed to benefit
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Gen. Fitz
hugh Lee and Gen. James H. Wil
son, all of them volunteer officers,
who, by ihe terms of the bill,would
be given rank as brigadier generals
in the regular service and subse
quently retired.
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When the Census Man Shall Come-
Chicago Journal.
These are the census questions
which yo j will be called upon to
answer this year:
1. Surname, Christian name, init
ials.
2. Residence, street, number of
house.
3. Relationship of each member
to the head of the family.
4. Color of race.
5. Sex.
6. Age at last birthday.
7. Day, month and > T ear when
born.
8. Are you single, married,
widow, widower, or divorced?
9. Number of years married.
10. How many children?
11. Number of children living.
12. Sex of th."e children.
13. Where were you born? If in
the United States, give state or ter
ritory; if of foreign birth, give
name of the countrj r only.
14. Where was your father born?
Your mo'.her? (Same conditions
as the foregoing).
15. If of foreign birth, when did
you come to the United States.
16. How manj' years have > r ou
resided in the United Stages?
17. Have you been naturalized?
How many years since you became
a citizen?
viß. What is your occupation,
trade or profession? (This ques
tion app’ies to persons ten years of
age or over).
19. How many months during
the year are you employed?
20. How many months have you
attended school?
21. Can you read?
22. Can you write?
23. Give the main facts concern
ing your education.
24. Do you own the house in
which you live?
25. Do you rent the house in
which you live?
26. If you own the house, is it
free or mortgaged? (The same
questions appty to farms).
HORSES FOR THE PHILIPPINES-
Army Officers Are Gratified With
the Success of Their Work.
Washington, April 19. —The
army transportation department is
very much gratified at the success
of its plans to supply horses and
mules to the army in the Philip
pines. The transportation of
animals over long si • etches of wa
ter has alwaj r s been a serious pro
blem and was inaugurated by this
government with apprehension.
The principal improvement that
has been introduced in (he maiter
is perfect ventilation of the quc.-
ters of the animals in the lower
portions of the ship, and animals
are now transported from tne Paci
fic coast to the Philippines in com
parative safetjx
Telegrams were received at the
war department today announcing
the arrival of the animal transport
Lennox at Manda and the animal
transport Port Siephens at Hilo.
T.ie Lennox carried 457 horses
and mules, and lost only one of the
number on the voyage. The ves
sel made a stop at Hilo but did not
land any of the animals.
Up to the (ime of the a r ival of
the Port Stephens at Hilo the-e
had been no losses whatever in her
cargo and it is e pee'ed aat she
may qual the record of (he Len
nox during the remainder of tue
trip to Mani'a.
MONEY CHANGE.
Substitution of American for Puerto
Rican Currency.
Washington, April 19. —The
t easury department has completed
the arrangements for the retire
ment of ihe Puerto Rican money
and the substitution of American
currency. James. A Sample, the
chief of the issue division of Treas
urer Roberts’ office, and W. P.
Watson, of New York, an expert
accountant, have been selected to
go to Puerto Rico to make the ex
change. Mr. Watson was appoin
ted auditor of Cuba, when the Uni
ted f tates took ch rge there, and
remained in mat wc.k until his
health failed. He has now recov
ered and has accepted the appoint
ment offered him.
The work is to be done under
the Puerto Rican bill recently
passed by congress, which pro
vides for the retirement of the
Puerto Rican peso and all other
money on the island and the change
therefor for American money. It
is estimated that there are 10,000,-
000 pieces of silver and other me
tallic currency in the island and
now in circulation. These pieces
are wo th 5,000,000 pesos. Con
gress has decided that the ex
change shall be made on the basis
of 60 cents far the pesos.
The amount of each kind of
money to be sent at once is as fol
lows: Minor coins, $15,000; sub
sidiary sbver, $60,000: silver certi
ficates, $260,000, end gold coin,
making $500,000 in all.
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was selling for in neighboring
towns where there was not a
Roundlap plant. In some raises
the premium paid by square-box
ginners in competition with Round
lap gins during the greater part of
the season was as much as half a
c-nt per pound above the price rul
ing at other old-stvle gins in the
same county. The inevitable re
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owners’ trade with it) was drawn
for long distances o Roundlap
points to the profit of the entire
community, and at the expense of
towns 1 hat did not enjoy the ad
vantages of round bale competi
tion.
The effect of such object lessons
ha* been a demand for Roundlap
presses for next season which will
tax the fuil capacity of The Amer
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