Ottawa County Courier (Wyandotte, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1910 Page: 3 of 6
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989000 If that la all the expense It la
heap The lata Gen Frond's A Walker
who waa a census authority greater than
any other living or dead onee wrote that
"the people of the United States can well
afford to pay (or the Very beet oenaua
they can get” He penned thla remark
In connection with a frank conteaalon of
hie own ebortalghtedneea In undereat!-'
mating the cott of the tenth ceniua -It'a
the old atory: When you are 111
get the beat doctor you can afford -The
comparative cneapneea with which
the thirteenth ceniua haa been taken waa
' largely due to Director E Dana Ihirand’e ec ‘ j( mortgage lndebtedneaa la decreaalng fait
nomlcal metboda to the Introduction of eetcl-au-tomatlo
electrical card-punching tabulating
- and aortlng machines and to the Inheritance
of wisdom from the experience gained by the
permanent cenaua bureau During the term of
the latter the uethoda of Inquiry tabulation and 1
' compilation hare been greatly improved both
In accuracy and In economy Millions will be'
oared v
' Mr Durand la reaponalble for many of the
new methodi to Increase atatlstlcal accuracy
at every step of the cenaua taking and to de-
crease the per eaplta coat of the enumeration
The card-punching tabulating and aortlng ma-
chinery la the Invention of a cenaua mechani-
cal expert and the patent rtghta belong to Uncle
Bam The machlnea are novel In plan and de-
sign are of greater apeed and efficiency than
tboee they auperaeded and can he built and
operated at a large earing of money aa com-
pared with prerloua expenditures for thla pur
Other monej-uvtng features are the elimi-
nation of the vital-statistics Inquiry from the
work of the decennIM census u It belongs to
the permanent branch of the United Statu
census' the reduction In the number of ached-'
ules the piece-price method of paying for ma-
chine work the omission of the hand house-
hold and neighborhood Industries from the
manufactures branch of the cenaua and the
‘reduction of 'the else ud number of copies of
the final report
Congress limited the thirteenth census to
tour general subjects— population agriculture
manufactures and mines and quarries-The di-
rector to authorised to' determine the form and
subdivision of Inquiries The Inquiry as to
population relates to the date April 18 1919
that as to agriculture eooeems the farm opera-
tions during 1909 and sails for aa Inventory of
torn equipment April 16 1910 that relative to
manufactures sad quarries to tor 1909
’ Tbs enumeration carried only the popular
tioa and agriculture schedules April 18 1910
Bpedal agents were sent out with the sched-
ules tor ths manufactures mines and quarries
data There were fully 66000 enumerators of
' whom about 48000 carried both the population
and agriculture schedules' as It to estimated
that there are now fully 7000000 separate
(arms In America with farmers numbering
well up Into a score of millions In 1910 there
were many more billions of dollars of fixed
gapltal Invested In agriculture than there were
la manufactures strange aa it may seemJ And
the farmer to getting better off all the time
hta taxation la email aa compared with the
urbwlte's burden and be haa taken to auto-
mobile riding on a large ecale
Cenaua taking every ten yearn la a tremen-
dona task It la the greateat elngle operation
undertaken by Uncle Bam with the exception
of the Panama "i work and the asaembllng
of an army In time of war The American cen-
aua la the largeit coitlleat and moat accurate
of any taken by the " drillied nations IU
methoda are the moat modern and IU equip-
ment the most complete The census bureau
force comprlsea drat Director E Dana Durand
In the British museum In London on qxhl-'
bltkm to the Portland vase the masterpiece
of ancient glasswork A chance discovery led
to the rescue of this magnificent urn from the
grave where It had lain for hundreds of years
hidden and unknown The vase was' found
early In the seventeenth century by some la-
borers who digging on a hillock In the neigh-
borhood of Rome broke Into a small vault
On further examination It revealed a suite
of three sepulchral chambers In the largest
' room they found a finely sculptured sarcopha-
gus which contained the beautiful vase It
waa full of ashes but It bora no Inscription as
to thb remains It held nor baa the mystery
ever been solved which shrouds Its origin
The vase was deposited in the Barberlnl pal-
ace where It remained until 1776 when the rep-
resentative of the Barberlnl family a Roman
princess was forced to part with It to pay her
gambling debts The vase changed hands
twice then It waa disposed of to the duchess of
Portland but with such secrecy that her own
family was not aware of the transaction until
after her death
At tho sale of the duchess of Portland's col-
lection It was purchased by her son the third
duke of Portland (or the sum of 95148 and It
wu deposited In the museum By hla successor
The rase wu wantonly smathtd In pieces by
n drunken visitor but the fragments were
however Joined together but the bottom with
Its mysterious figure la Phrygian up wu not
ftplftOtde I
The material of LhU vase wu long almost
of Michigan who al-
though only thirty-eight
years old U older than
moat of the generaU com-
manding the forces In the
Civil war and who la
too a statistically scar-
red hero a veteran In
government service and
likely to prove the moat
practical and efficient di-
rector connected with
any of the past censuses
Then there U the assist-
ant director WUlUm H
Willoughby of Washing-
ton D C former secre-
tary of state of Porto
Rico Next In rank are
the live chief staUstl-
dans: William C Hunt
la charge of the popular
tlon division Le Grand
Powers heading the ag-
ricultural division WU-
11am M Stuart oversee- -Ing
the manufacturing di-
vision Dr Creasy L
Wilbur the vital statis-
tics work and Dr Jo-
seph Adna Hill the di-
vision of revUloa and re-
sults Charles 8 81oene
U the geographer Al-
bertos H Baldwin U the
chief clerk Voter V
b chief of the publica-
tion dlvUlon Hugh M
’ Brown U private sec
retary to the direct-
' or Robert M PlndeU
la the appointment Clerk: George Johnnes la
the disbursing officer and C W Spicer U the
mechanical expert In addition to these are
the chiefs of the divisions' under the chief sta-
tistician -
There are about 750 permanent clerks and
1000 temporary clerks -etc The supervisors
numbered MO and they employed and directed
Jhe 68000 enumerators About 1000 chief
special agenU and assistant special agents
The supervisors also employed 1000 clerks 800
special agents and 4000 interpreters to assist
them In the direction of the enumerators
The data relating to population Is trans
aa great a puulo u tho atory It Illustrates
Brevet refers to It u “the famous vase of
chaledony" Mtuon calls It an agate Bartoll
a sardonyx while Caylus and others correctly
decided that It wu made of glass The blue
body wu first formed and while still red hot
coated over u far u the bu reliefs were In-
tended to reach with semiopaque white glass
the delicate figure being afterwards cut down
to the blue ground In the same manner u with
real cameos
“No Optcbjt Nowhsre”
- She la ‘fortunate In having girl chums who
draw rosea from their friends now and than
Tho other afternoon cm of her rosy friends
plnned a bright rod one ou her and she sal-
lied forth Into tho street to make other wom-
en envious She had not gone far when she
felt a tug at the shoulder and turned tsesca
strange woman
“Where’d you git that roeef uked the
stranger covetously
"A friend of mine gave It to mo” wu
tho answer produced with tome chill
"A friend of youraT In a store?"
"No not In a store"
"Well halat there no openings no-
whereaT" "Not that I know of”
"Humpkl Jut my luck' Pm Just crasy
for a rue and when I uw you I Just kaowed
there wu a fall opening somewhere" '
ferred to mantis cards by the punching of
holes In them to correspond with the different
Items In the schedules An electrical machine
controlled by s clerk can punch holes In 3000
cards a day Three hundred of these were
used and 90000000 cards were ordered
After the punching the cards are hand-fed
Into an electric tabulating machine with a
“pin-box" attachment which permits the re-
quired pins to pass through the Variously
placed holes In the csrds in this establishing
an electric circuit resulting In the tabulation
of the Items on counters which register their his hemming was not only by far the
results Jn printing on spooled paper somewhat neatest but he did nearly double
like a 'stock “ticker" Therp are 100 of these
machines After certain comparisons to prove
accuracy the schedules are permanently pre-
served In n great Iron safe In the census bu-
reau As the card does not contain the name
of the persons for whom It stands all personal
Identity la eliminated from the cards All dam
ger of misuse of such Information disappears
Severe penalties are provided In case any em-
ployee discloses census Information to outsid-
ers The next step Is the making of the maps
and tables to accompany the analyses and
then finally the Issue of the printed bulletins
and reports Before July 1 1912 the work
must be over and the thirteenth census gone
to Join Its scientific ancestors ’
Romance of Old Portugal
The recent deposition of King Manuel of
Portugal and the events In the young king’s
life that led up to It will no doubt bring back
to the minds of some of the older residents
of the city the story of Elbe Hensler the
Springfield girl who married a king and be-
came the Counteu Ed Is ' I
The king she married wu Don Ferdinand
H of Portugal a great grandfather of King
ManueL Ellse lived In Springfield about 89
years ago probably for about tour years I
The Henslera were humble people and
lived simply The daughters Elbe and Louise
were well received here and were given a
good musical education especially Ellas whe
bad quite n remarkable voles Signor Guldl
an Italian at the time a well known teacher
of the voles took aa Interest la Elbe and It
wu when- Signor Guldl went to Boston that
the Henslera went then largely through kb
Influence He believed that EUu had a 'fu-
ture u a klnger and wbhed her to be where
he could continue teaching her
Elbe Hensler after her removal with her
' family to Boston continued her studies She
Made a Better Play
Walter" called the bats dined
there seems to be a dollar on thin -bin
I cut account for"
"Ok that’s Just a Joke Mr" apoto-
wu perseverant In her work and progressed so gld the waiter "Just a bet the cash-
well that she not only appeared In concerts In tor and I have fll have It fixed right
the large cities in this country but also la Eu-
rope where she sang before royalty It wu
while singing In Lisbon several years after the
death of Queen Maria that King Ferdinand
heard her voice and felt the attraction that
led him to marry hey
Ferdinand wu the titular king of Portugal
having been the second husband of Queen
Marie II of PortugaL Ferdinand married
Maria In 1636 when he wu 20 The queen
died la 1663 and he wu regent during the mi-
nority of his son Pedro V who wu tho fa-
ther of tho assassinated King Carlos the
grandfather of the deposed King ManueL The
regency ended In 1866 and on June 10 I860
he married Mlsa Hensler
When the European powers decided the
time had come to restore Spain to a monarchy
following the overthrow of the abort republic
which existed from 1873 to 1878 conMderable
pressure wu brought to bear upon Ferdinand
v to Induce him to accept the vaunt throes
But hla wife could never bo queen of Spain
and It la possible that this tact alone Induced
him to refuse ' I
This absolute refusal on bis part to accept
- the throne of Spain with all the pomp and
splendor of royalty la exchange for tho roman
tic life that ho wu Hvtng with hla morganatic
wife had far-reaching oceeequencee Tho com-
pllcatlou and Jealousies resultant on tho ah
tempt to find a king acceptable to all tho pow-
ers helped to bring on tho Franco-Prussian
war and Alsace ud Lorraine wut back to
Germany whence they had bon wrested by
Napoleon Bonaparte
In consequence of these peculiar historical
tacts which geographically practically changed
all western Europe Ellu Hensler Counteu
Edta became famous throughout tho world u
"the woman who changed tho map of Europe"
During tho life of tho king they lived la the
beautiful cwtlo of Clatra it la eortala that
their lUq wu above reproach U 1818 the
king died and alter that tho eouatau lived In
raUrcmeat la a cottage near the castle
CLERGYMEN IN QUEER ROLES
Three Took Part in a Towsl-Wsshlsf
Competition and Another Got
-Prise for Sewing
At basars sad such-like functions
ministers of the to pel sometimes en-
gage In very amusing competitions
which they would scarcely dream of
entering under any other auspices
At a church baser at Slough
little time ago great fun was
atoned by the appearanoe of a trio of
reverend gentlemen la the rote- of
washwomen -They
pitted themselves against each
other In a dusterwashing competition:
and having been provided with s
bowl of water a place of soap and a
dirty duster they set vigorously to ’
work -
The time allowed for the washing
wu three minutes on the expiration
of which the dusters were submitted
to the critical Judgment of three mar-
ried ladles But they found the dust-
ers of two of the competitors so well
wuhed that they could not decide
I which wu the cleaner
A somewhat similar clerical cob teat
formed one of the attractions at a bn -sar
held In Manchester In this in-
stance the articles elected to bo -wuhed
were towels and each com-
petitor bad not only to wub one buti
hang It out to dry being allowed 1
minutes for the work
Two vicars and Sires curates took
part In this competition the way they
“shaped" at the washtuba causing
some of the lady spectators to shriek
with laughter
The but wu considered to be that
which had been done by a curate re-
cently married and somebody had the
hardihood to suggest that perhaps he
bad been taking lessons at boms
At a basar arranged for the benettt
of a Liverpool church a handkerchief
hemming competition took place be-
tween three clergymen of the tows
They were to do as 'much u they
could In the time limit of a quarter of
’ an hour and the prise halt a doses
choice pocket handkerchiefs wu to
be awarded to the one who did the
most hemming of a presentable char-
acter One of the reverend gentlemen
proved quite an adept at the work for
much u the next best competitor and
therefore carried off the prise In tho
16 minutes allowed be hemmed nearly
one aide of his handkerchief
A Rellgloue Movement
"Buddhism" says a Berlin paper
1s rapidly spreading In Europe The
number of converts la dally Increas-
ing especially In Germany England
and Hungary"
The Influence of the higher religious
thought of the Orient wu bound to
these days of rapid travel and aroused
Intellectual curiosity to make Itself
felt and one of the signs of the timu
b the growing Bale of small popular
epttomu of various phases of eastern
religious and philosophic thought and
also translations of the gnat rellgloue
poems of the Orient
On this continent Vedantbm The-
osophy and esoteric Buddhism have
become fairly well known and the
I work of the new teachers to not sel-
1 dom on bread humanitarian tines
especially may be cited the education-
al work carried on at Point Loma In
southern California and In Cuba by
I the Universal Brotherhood and Then-
sophlcal society la which are en-
listed men of wealth and high bnelnaao
capacity under the leadership off
Katherine Ttngley a woman of grant)
executive ability The work done In)
training the young tor practical like
to notable
Sway sir"
“What do yon mean about a betT”
askrd the diner detaining him
“Well Mr I bet the euhler 89 cuts
you would see the mistake ud he bet
you wouldn't so I win str"
“Suppose I hadn’t noticed ttr
"He'd have gotten tho dollar elr”
"Oh I see Give mo your pencil
ud he wrote a few Haw on tho bock
of the bill folded It np ud handed
It to the waiter “Taka that Jo tho
euhler" -
The waiter lowed over the cashier's
shoulder u hs unfolded the paper ft
read:
“111 bet you 18 that when yon send
this back you don’t find me"'
And they dldn’l
In Bummer and Winter
Hudsome Walter Clarkson for
many years tho star pitcher of tho
old Hamrd college team Is uw tho
manager of one of Clovelud's Mg
itorti M
The other day tho once groat col-
lage twtrier wu appealed to by a
mu who asked
Can yon toll mo why thaw patent
Iwthers have cracked so badlyr
"Probably" wu tho reply "yon
bought them la tho winter Then tt
to not hard to explain In tko
a shoo win fit Itself to
loot la tho winter a Mx or eight
dollar pair of ahoas la ruined ky a
low days of cold wwthor"
A Debt of Art
"The professor says th music owan
a gnat deal to RoeMnl" said Cs
yomg woman "What’s Rossini F
"Thai" replied Mr Cumrox tS
probably Italian for 10010'”
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