Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1890-07-11
An Iniauitous Business.

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Mr.. Editor. The census enumerator has
paid us visit, but there are no other calam-
tiles to note indeed we have been truly Tor
tunate in escaping the storms and hoods
which have devastated other sections OF our
country. do not think that the census has
interiered materially with business; indeed
believe that in some cases it has acceler-
ated it, A good many people have been so
busy that they have not been able to enter
tain the census man at all, A great many
are away from home on important business
| when he makes his visit, and think That
| if he makes his report from the difficulty he
| finds in drawing men from their business
| he will report great progress therein. rms
is quite gratifying, but | fear the census mas
greatly stimulated lying, Indeed, do not
think there has ever been given such an I'M
petus in that direction since the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company bought up V:r'
! ginia muskrats at ten cents head; since
dog breeders liz our county were taxed two
dollars apiece on their stock, or since the
"Swets' system was introduced into our
public schools.
1t is said that figures will not lie; but old
maids and old bachelors will when they are
interviewed upon the length of their earth
ly pilgrimage, and if the census man is gov
erned by such figures las they may see NJ TO
give him, he will be badly fooled. why,
so lew family bibles were found by the en-
umerat1r that fear he will report absolute
heathenism in the land, and home mission
aries will be sent out 1t is said that the
birth records in the bibles have been badly
mutilated. One entry, by single strokeoi
the pen, was altered from 1917 to 1871, and
when the officer questioned the owner OF
the bible in regard to her age she pointed
to the amended records and replied :"There
are the records, figures cannot lie
Another question that causes considerable
agitation is in regard to the number Of
chickens on hand. The ladies usually think
the census man has some especial interest
in that portion Of the family, especiafy n
it is near feeding time 1t is said that the
chicken crop will show considerable short
age when the census is completed, and if
the census man is hereafter included among
the "varmints" of the chicken yard, why it
will only prove that the best of us are not
proof against the shafts OF SANDER.
good many of our venerable aunties
are largely interested in the production of
| fine poultry, and question in regard there
| to sometimes causes them to stop hall way
| in their interpretations over the wash board
| and deliver memorial upon their family
name. Such questions are likely to unset
| tie any one, and should be INDUCED in
SpdllHSly. n Registrar OHCe dsheu your CUT
respondent if he had ever served his time
in the penitentiary. Now that may have
been fair question, officially speaking, but
| if the man had not thus Intercepted me |
| could scatter violets over his grave with
great deal more sadness, in case he should
be called away, and think Aunt Dinah
would perform the same beautiful rite over
| the ashes of the census man with far more
| sadness and solemnity if he had never ques.
toned her on her poultry business.
think | can safely say, lromu somewhat
| close examination, that, in spite OF scab, the
wheat crop of this immediate section is at
least an average one. The weather has been
| favorable for the wheat harvest, but if the
harvester could besuppied with an awning
| and Il spring mattress the wheat crop could
be saved with II great deal more comfort
Before your humble correspondent tried
riding on binder he imagined it was as
| easy as Il Pullman palace car, but now he
knows he was sadly mistaken, for there is
no better machine in the world for stirring
| up bile in the system of u man than one OF
those binders
Comus, June 80, 1890. Y.