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About The Cordele sentinel. (Cordele, Ga.) 1894-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1899)
Why So Many British Officers Get Killed in War. r, % A K m i i r r\ VI Vfm Vi») ' A i if •A'Y jfeX m id • The extraordinary fatality among the leaders of the British soldiers in actions at Hmith Hill, Elanilslaagte and Behnont is clearly explained in this picture. While the men in tho rushes up the Kopjes took advantage of every cover, the officers esteemed it their duty to stand erect. Iu this posi tion they became conspicuous quarry for tho Boer marksmen. file Plans par the fwElfth §ensus # * All .,, through .. , the past . six months .. preparations have been going busily on m Washington for a great publish ing enterprise, which will be launched promptly on tho first day of the com ing June. Ihe results of tho under taking will begin to appear iu finished form two years from that date, and will continue to be brought out at in tervals for three or four years there after. Tho publisher will is the govern ment; the publication be desig nated as the Twelfth Census of the United States. The twelfth census will differ in sev eral particulars from any of tho pre ceding ones. It will be conducted on a a n > m ’ 0: IV , Iff R , ■ WILLIAM It. MKRRIAM. (Director of tlie Twelfth Census.) a larger scale, as thero are of course more people to be enumerated. It will embrace a greater nroa; for the first time the inhabitants of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto ltico are to be in cluded in the count. Moreover, tho coming census will bo the first in which all the work of recording and computing statistics is to be done by mechanical means. Electric tabulat ing machines were introduced for this purpose toward the close of the elev enth census, but in the coming enum eration they will be relied upon en tirely. The thorough organization neces sary in order successfully to carry through such an undertaking as this may be appreciated when oue reflects upon tho labor involved in counting seventy-five millions of anything—a task that would require one man’s un divided energies for twelve hours a day during more than a year and a half. lu the case of the census the labor is multiplied by tho considera tion that tho seventy-five million units are human beings, concerning each of whom a (Jozen facts must be recorded, and that they are scattered over some four million square miles of the earth’s surface. The task of taking the census will require altogether the services of more than forty thousand persons. They will be separated into two main di visions—the field forces, aud the head quarters staff in Washington. The former will include by far the greater number—nearly forty thou sand, all told. These will be the enu merators, who will gather tho re quired information from all parts of the country, and the superintendents in charge of this branch of tho work. The data thus collected will be com piled and prepared for publication by X, ^-1 N . r - fi p iyamfSi •i– ,p B 11 0 n 9 B TSTg^OA lyfl f WW m X - FRONT VIEW OF NEW CENSUS BUILDING. a staff of three thousand clerks in the central office. Jtonghly speaking, there will bo one enumerator for each township through out the country, or, in the cities, one Tor each ward. The euumerarators will be local residents appointed by I he Director of the Census, ou the ■ ecommendatiou of some influential person, usually the Congressman from viie district. The superintendents will have charge of divisions generally tho same in limits as the Congres sional districts. In the case of the larger cities, however, there will be but oue superintendent to each city, although bis territory may include sev eval Congressional districts. In Mus Nschusetts. where an efficient census bureau exists under the direction of the State authorities, thero will be a BingIo superintendent, The enumerator* are expected to 8tart OIl tUoir rouu ,j Hon j uil0 j 1900 They wiU be applied beforehand with portfolios containing blank schedules The punched record cards are counted, or tabulated iu the electrical tabulating ma chines. These machines are provided with a circuit clos ing devico, into which the cards are rapidly fed oue by one. Tho holes in the card control the electric circuits through a number of counters, which will as desired count the simple facts as to the number of males, females, etc., or the most complicated combination which tho statis tician may ask for. 1J 1 11 ? 1 H.y.'V//.iy j j r, \r m/ iSSlissati r— i : i-' S i-U- I; ; no i ■f" I TABULATING RECORDS. on which to enter the name of each person in their districts, together with the information provided for by law. Most of them can complete their tasks within a few days, and will receive from $50 to $150 for their services, according to the amount of work in volved. As soon as the schedules are completed and revised, under the di rection of the district superintendents, they will bo forwarded to Washing ton. Here is where the work of putting the census <fyita into intelligible aud valuable form-will be done, and here is where the tabulating machinery will come into piny. These machines, by the way, are the invention of a former census employe. Mr. Herman Hollerith. They were designed with a special view to use in the census, although they have proved valuable for other statistical work. By this system the statistics con cerning each person will appear on a separate punched card. About seven ty-five millions of these cards will be required, therefore, to coutaiu all the data collected for the census. The cards are numbered to corre spond with the numbers opposito tho names in the schedules. They eon tain two hundred and eighty-eight symbols, each of which is an ab breviation representing some fact within the range of the census enum eration. They are puuched by means of an electric machine. In recording the statistics a clerk roads from the schedules the iuforma tiou entered opposite a certain name to an operator seated at tbo key-board of tho punching-machine, With a little practice this pnnching-machine cau be operated as last as au ordinary type-writer. Experience lias shown that the average number of records that one clerk cru transfer from the schedules to the cards is seven huu- dred per day. It is the intention of the Cenans Bureau to put one thoua aud clerks at work with these ma chines as soon as the returns are in, so that this branch of the work should ft 1 rr '• -■ '■ i-' W3 L L ■ H , j • * * j * fy*''''*'' * * •- *' **_* •''' - '*' *\\ Vr flflMH.... \ r !i 1 "iiillllilljjHpia : : LLiiiliillliiiiiiji: VI 0 ^®sg§g§Bgs|i ELECTBICAL TABUL ATI NO-MACHINE. bo completed iu about a hundred days. From the pnnehing-maebine the record cards go to the electric tabn lating-machine, which is even more ingenious. In form it is something like au upright piano. In the face of the upper part of the box are set a number of indicator dials, each one devoted to some one sot of facts com prehended in the census. Inside tbo machine is a complicated system of electric wiriug connecting these indi cators with the operating apparatus. It is the mission of this machine to total the various facts recorded on ITl 'Qoooo_ nuoofiooo US Sr. | I|| W»~o ^acDouo ~ “r- ; -- „ c ^ •i! f % ti is V simm //If / 0^ r.Y__^ ^ / f // m r 25 rl ■] THE PUNCHING MACHINE. The transcript of the orig inal returns of ihe enumera tor to the punched card will be done with small machines, something like a typewriter, culled keyboard punches. About one thousand of these keyboard punches will be used, and tho entire work of transcribing the 75,000,000 or more individual records will be doue in about 100 working days, or nearly four months after the first reports are iu. tho punched cards. To do this tho punched cards are slipped into the machine beneath a set of electric nee dies, mounted ou spiral springs. The operator presses these needles down f#il |/4 A FREDERIC! m H. Jt i WINES if 1 '. 7 ! m 1 w / / 11 THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. upon the card. Wherever there are punch-holes the needles pass through aud dip into a cup of mercury placed beneath. An electric circuit is thus completed, which moves up the indi cators on the connected dials one point nnd records the particular fact indicated by egch punch-hole. The totals are always in view on the indi cators, aud are copied off ou slips at the end of each run. Each machine is capable of disposing of five thou sand cards per day. The statistics computed by the ma chines will be copied ou record slips and turned over to another force of oue thousand clerks, whose business it will be to make up tables aud prepare copy for the printers. By the act of Congress providing for the coming enumeration it was stipulated that the four principal re ports—on population, mortality, agri culture aud manufactures—must be ready for publication ou July 1, 1902. The Director of the twelfth cen sns is William R. Merriam, ex Governor of Minnesota. The actual work of preparing the statistical in formation of tho census for publica tion will be in charge of Assistant Di rector Frederick H. Wines. Mr. Wines has had long experience in this sort of work. Ho was iu charge of one department of the eleventh cen sus, and was employed also iu tho census of 1880. As assistant to Mr. Wines there are five chief statisticians, all experts in their lines, to each of whom will be assigned oue depart inent.—Harper’s Weekly. REV. DR. TALMAGE; ___ . . _ _ The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject: Tlie World as It Will He—Im provement In Human Conditions After the Earth lias lieen Itevolntlonlzed For flood—The Coming Century. tCopyrigkt, Louis Klopscli. 1839.] Washington, D. C.—By a novel mode Dr. Talmage in tills discourse shows how the world will look after it has boon revolu tionized for good; text, II Peter 111., 13. “A new earth, whoreiu dwolloth righteous ness.” struggle make the world Down in the to better and happier we sometimes get de pressed with tlie obstacles to bo overcome nnd the work to be accomplished. inspiration Will look it not be a tonic un i an to at the world as it will bo when it has been brought back to paradisaical condition? Bo let os for n few moments transport our selvos into the Vuture and put ourselves forward in the centuries and see the world In Its rescued a»d perfected state, permit- as wo will see It If In those times we are ted to mvislt this planet, hs I am sure wo will. Wo all want to see the world after it has been thoroughly gospelized anil all wrongs have been righted. We will want to come back, and we will come back to look upon the refulgent consummation to ward which we have been ou largor or smaller scale toiling. Having heard tho opening of the orchestra ou whose strings some discords traveled, we will want to hear the lust triumphant bar of the per fected oratorio. Having seen tha picture as the painter drew it* first outlines upon ounvas, we will want to see It when it is as complete ns Reubens’“Descent From tbo Cross” or Michael Augolo’s “Last Judg ment.” Having seer, tho world under the gleam of tlie star, of Bethlehem, wo will want to sco it when, under tho full shining of tho sun of righteousness, the towers shall strike 12 at noon. Thera will be nothing In that eomiDg cen tury of the world’s perfection to hindor our terrestrial visit. Our pow«r and velo city of locomotion will buvo boen long improved infinitely. It will not take us locomo here, however far oil In God’s universe heaven may he. The Bible declares that such visitation U going ou now. “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall bo Loirs of sal vation?” Surely tho gates of heaven will not be bolted ifftcr the world is Edenized so as to hinder the redeemed from descend ing for n tour of Inspection and congratu lation nnd triumph. You know with what interest wo look upon ruins—ruins of Kenilworth cast!*, ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins world of Home, ruius of Pompeii. So this in ruins is an enchantment to look at, but wo want to see It when , rebuilt, , , repillared, ,, retowered, realterud rededicated. The oxuct date of the world’s moral restoration I cannot foretell. It may be that through mighty awakenings it will take place in tlie middle of the nearby twentieth century. It may be at the opening of the twenty-first cen tury, but it would not be surprising if it took more than 100 yeurs to correct the ravages of sin which have raged for 6000 years. The chief missionary and evangel Istlc enterprises were started in this ceu tury, and be not dismayed if it takes a couple of centuries to overoome evils that have had full swing for sixty centuries. I take no responsibility earthly calendar in suying will on roll what In, pnge of the it but God’s eternal veracity is sworn to it tiiftt it will rod in, and as the redeemed in heaven do as they please and have all the facilities of transit from world to world, you and I, my hearer or reader, will come and look at what my text culls “A now earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.” I Imagine that we tire descending at that period of the world’s complete gospeliza tlon. There will be no peril In such ude scent. Great heights aud depths have no alarm for glorified spirits. We cau come dowu through chasms between worlds without growing dizzy and across the spacos of ball the universe without losing our way. Down and farther down wecome. As we approach this world we breathe the perfume of illimitable gardens. Floraliza tlon that in centuries past was here and there walled in lest reckless and dishonest hands pluck or despoil It surges Its billows of color across the fields and up the hill sides, ;if*d that which was desert blossoms as the rose. All the foreheads of erug crowned with flowers.the feet of the raouu tains slippered with tloweral Oh, this per fume of the continents,this aroma of hemi spheres! As. we npproaoh laughter nearer and and hosannas, nearer we hoar songs uud but not one gioan of distress, not one sob of boreuvement, not one clank of chain. Alighted on the redeemed earth, we are first accosted by the Spirit of the twenty first century, who proposes to guide and show us all that we desire to see. Without His guidance >ve would loso our way, for the world is so much changed from the time when we lived in it. First of all, He points out to us a group of abandoned buildings. We ask “What this Spirit of those the twen ty-first century, walls falling are down struc- and tures whose are whose gates are rusted on nie hinges?” Our escort tells us: “Thoso were once penitentiaries filled with offenders, but the crime of the world has died out. Theft and arson and fraud and violence have quitted and the earth. should Boople they have all they want, flhy appropriate the property The of marauders, others even the if assassins, they had the the desire? buccaneers, the Herods, the Nana Sahibs, the ruffians, tbn bandits, are dead or, transformed by the power of the Christian religion, are now upright and beneficent and useful. After passing on amid columns and statues erected In memory of thoso who have been mighty highest for goodness and In the world’s history,'the the most exqulsitely sculptured those in honor of such as have been most effectual in saving ltfe or improving life rather than those re nowned for destroying life, wo come upon another group o-f buildings that must have bean transformed from their original shape aud adapted to other uses. “What He is this?” we ask our escort. answers: “Those were almshouses and hospitals, but accuracy in making and prudence In running machinery of all sorts have almost ubolished the list of casualties, and sobriety and industry have nearly abolished .pau perisra, so that those buildings which once were hospitals aud almshouses have been turned into beautiful homes for the less prospered, and It you will look in you will sea the poorest table bus abundance, and the smallest wardrobe luxury, nnd the lmrp,waiting to have Its strings thrummed, leaning against the piano, waiting tor Us keys to be fingered. “Hospitals and almshouses must have been a necessity once, hut they would iso useless now. And you see all the swamps have beer, drained, tbo sewerage of t’he greRt towns bus been Improved perfected, and the world’s climate U so that there are no pneumonias to come out of the cold, or rheumatisms out of the dampness, or fevers out of theheat. Consumptions ban ished, pneumonias banished, diphtherlu banished, ophthalmia banished, neuralgias banished. As i/ear as I cau tell from whut I have read, our atmosphere of this cent ury Is a mingling of the two months of May and October of the nineteenth cent ury.” I escort: “Did all this But say to our merely happen so? Are all tho good here spontaneously good? How did you got the old shipwrecked world afloat again, out of tho breakors into the smooth seas?” “No, no!” responds our twenty-first century es cort. “Do you see those towers? Those are the towers of churches, towers of re formatory Institutions, towers of Christian schools. Walk with me, and let us enter some of these templ03.” We enter, and I find that the music is lu the major key and uono of it in the minor. “Gloria Iu Ex celsls” rising above “Gloria In Excelsis.” Tremolo stop In the organ not so much used as the trumpet stop. More ol Ariel than of Naomi. More chnnts thnn dirgea. Not a harmonies that roll from the outside door to chancel and from floor to groined rafter as though Handel had come out of the eighteenth century luto the twenty-first and had his foot ou the organ pedal, and Thomas Hastings had comeoutof the early part of the nineteenth century into the twenty-first and were leading the voices. Music that moves the earth and makes heaven listen! But I say to our twenty-first this. century Ilnvo es cort: “I cannot understand these worshipers no sorrows, or have they forgotten their sorrows?” Our escort re sponds: “Sorrows! could Why, they bnt had sorrows by di more than yon count, n and vine Illumination that the eighteenth enjoyed nineteenth centuries never they understand the uses of sorrow and are com forted with a supernatural coudolence such as previous centuries never expert encod.” “Has I ask again of the interpreter, death been banished from the world?” The answer is, "No, but people die now only when the physical machinery is worn out, and they realize it is time to go and that they are certainly and without doubt going lDto a world where they will be ln ilnltely better off and are to live In a man sion that awaits tbelr immediate oc cupancy." But how was all this effected?” I ask our escort. Answer: “By flood of gospel power. You who lived In the nine teenth century never saw a revival of reli gion to bo comparod with what occurred in the latter part of the twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first century. The prophecy has been fulillled that Ve nation shall be born in n day’—that converted is, ten or twenty or forty million people churoh in twenty-four hours. In our his tory we read of the great awakening of 1857, when five hundred thousand souls were saved. But that was only a drop of tha coming showers that since then took into the kingdom of God everything be tween the Atlantic and the Pacific, be tween the Pyrenees and the Himalayas.” The evils that good people were in have the nineteenth century trying to destroy been overcome by celestial forces. What human weaponry failed to accomplish has been done by omnipotent thunderbolts. As you and I see in this terrestrial visit ation of the coming centuries that the church has under God accomplished so much, we ask our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, to 3liow us the differ ent kinds of churches. So wo are taken in and out of the churches of different denom inations, and we find that they are just as different in the twenty-first edntury ns they were different in the nineteenth when we worshiped in them. Thero is unity in them ns to the great essentials of salvation. But we enter the Baptist Church, and it is bap tismal day, and we see the candidates for membership immersed. And wo go into a Presbyterian Church and see a group of parents around the baptismal font holding U1) their children for the christening. Aud * the Episcopal Church and hear w e enter tho solemn roll of lier liturgies, surplioed. aud Aud her ministers are gowned and Church, and enter the Lutheran we hear In the sermon preached the doctrines of the greatest of German reformers. And W o go into the Methodist Church just in time t0 s!t down at a love feast and give audible “Amen” when the service stirs us. At least fifty kinds of churches in the twenty-first century, as there were 150 dif ferent kinds of churches in the nineteenth century the twenty-first will « 0 spirit of century, you not show us something of the commar cia i i ife 0 r your time?” He answers, “To morrow I will show you all.” Aud ou the morrow he takes us through the great marts of trade and shows us the bargain makers and the shelves on which the goods i, ly and the tierces.and hogsheads I that in which they are contained. notice the fabrics are of better quality than anything j ever saw in our nineteenth century, for the factories are more skillful, and the wheels that turn and the looms that clack ou j the engines that rumble are driven by force that Were not a century ago discov ere( ' f The prices of the fabrics indicate n rea sonable profit, and the firm In the count room and the clerks at the counter alu t the draymen at the doorway and the errand boy on his rounds and tlie mes senger who brings the mail and the men who open the store In the morning as well ns those who close it at night all look as if they'were swallowing satisfied and of small well treated. No up houses of merchandise by great houses, no ruinous underselling until those in the same line are bankrupt and then the prices lifted, no unnecssnry assign me nt to defraud creditors, no over drawing of accounts, no abscondfngs, no sharp practice, no snap judgments,, but the manufacturer right In his dealings with the wholesaler, and the wholesaler with the retailer, and the retailor goods with the customer. No purchasing of that will never he paid for. AH right behind the counter; all right before the counter, No repetition of what Solomon describes when he writes, “It Is naught, it is naught, salth the buyer, but whou he is gone his way then he boasteth.” “O spirit of the twenty-first century, how glad I am that you showed us these stores and factories und places of bargain aud sale! It was not always so in the nineteenth century, when we were earthly residents. Many of thoso merohuuts who are good at ciphering out other rules inarithmeticnovercould cipher out that sum in the rule of loss and gain, 'What shall it profit a man if ho gain the whole world and lost his soul?” “But,” I say to our escort, the Spirit of the twenty-first century, and you and I say to eucb other, “we must go home now, back again to heaven. We have staid long enough on this terrestrial visitation to see that all the best things foretold in the Scriptures and which we read during our earthly residence have come to nans, nnd all the Davidlc, Soloraontc and Tauliuina uud Johanuean prophecies have boen fui filled, and that the caTth, instead of bo ing a ghastly failure, is the mightiet sue cess in the universe. A star redoemed. A planet rescued! A world saved! It started with a garden, aud It is golug to close with a garden. What a happiuess that we could huve seen this ofU world after it tvas righted and before it burned, for its iu ternal fires have nearly the burned out to the crust, according to geologist, mak ing it easy for the theologian to be iieve In the conflagration that the Bible the predicts. Ono and that element will taken burn, from water and another element taken from the atr and that will iurn, and surrounding plan ets will watch this old ship of a world oa fire and wonder It all its passengers got surely off. Before that heaven. planetary Farewell, c.atas trophe, hie us back to spirit of the twenty-first century! Thanks for your,guidance! We can stay no longer away from doxologios that never end, In temples never closed, In a day that the immor- has no sundown. We must report to tuls around the throne tha transforma tions we have seen, the victories of truth on land and sea, the hemispheres irrndi ated, and Christ on the throne of earth, as Ho is on the throno of heaven.” And now you and I have left our escort ns we ascend, for the law of gravitation has no power to detain ascending spirits. Up through immensities and by stellar nnd lunar and solar splendors, Which cannot bo described by mortal touguo, we rise higher and higher, till we reach the shining gate as it opens lor our returu, and the ques tions greet us from nil sides: “What Is the news? Whut did you find in that earthly tower? What have you * to report in this city of the sun?” Prophetic, apostolic, saintly Inquiry. And, standing on the steps of the house of many mansions, we erv aloud tho news: “Hear it, all ye glorified Christian workers of nil the paid centuries! 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