The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-03-11
ALIVE Or DEAD.
Whether You are Ether, The
CeasuS Men will Discover.

The pardon bic ignorance of a great
many good people in regard to the
census, m kes the presentation of a
few f cts, in that connection, by The
BAzoo, OF value. AS correspondent
remarks. "rhree m nths from now
the Census Blu eau will have $4,000
men in the field, viii h by the emf of
June, will ave swept the country
of inior nation on every subject that
u a ats zeal barring
Th-se hume atOrs al find out the
day and p ace of your birth, whether
you re tNin or a triplet, and Will
insist upon knowing from what r ce
you are sp ung, what your sex is, ans
whore yOur faith and mother were
born. Also, i will require informa-
ton as to whether you are married,
single or divorced; how nigh above
the -ea-leyel you live, in what e Ell
drainage basin you dwell, what the
lowest degree of cod may be from
which y'u suffer in the winter, how
hot YOU find in the summer when
the thermometer touches its Top no ch
ahd ow many other people live with
you in your house.
You will be obliged under a pen
slty of a fine Of 500 to tel whe her
you own the house or not; if you do
own it, whe her or not there Is mort
gage on it, and. supposing that there
is one, the reason why you borrowed
the money on the proper y. If you
have farm around The house you
will nave to tell SIMILAR facts about
ihit, e, en- 10 the value of the cows
and the roOls i'm The barn.
These facts are gathered in simple
manner. The United States are d.
vi.ied into l75 districts, each Of which
has person in charg-, ca led super
visor, and under each supervis Ir is q
large number Of enumeratOrs.
Each enumerarOr is given a il tie
district of his own, so ar
ranged as to contain from 1900 to
1000 people. 1t is the enumerators
business to 90 personally TO every
family in his district and fill out the
blank schedules givel him by The
Supervisor with the information he
obtains from the households visited
information, that is, as the members
which compose them in all the detail
as to personal history, etc., before
spoken Of He is allowed one month
to do this work, ii it is in rural parts.
or two weeks in case it is in city of
10, 900 or more, the labor being more
easily accomplished where people live
close together. In payment for his
services he receives &c for each live
person reported on and SC for each
dead person who has departed this
life at any time during the census
year, from the Is, of next June to the
ast day of the following May. The
enumeratar also gets l5c for each fac
tory or institution and 20c for each
farm visited.
The subjects for investigation by
the tenth census, apart from vital sta
tistics and population, viii be largely
looked into by special agents, of whom
The division on manufactures alone
will have 200 at work within three
weeks. Electricity, silk.makipg,
wool, glass, pottery and newspapers
are among the manufactured products
particularly TO be found out about.
The agricultural division will devote
Its most active attention to grape
growing and Embarrassing matters.
Mining AMI quarrying will occupy
the largest share of the mineral d.
Visions interest.
Even The churches and church.
gcers will be regarded with an in
quiring eye, with a view to ascer-
tanning the number of church build
ings in the United States, their
and value, and the pay their
pastors get. Whether you yourself
60 TO church or not will be asked.
You are expected to impart every
thing you know about yourself TO the
relentless agent or emu
merator. You must even
tell how many fish you catch in
a year, if you are a lover of the gen
lie sport Ofangling. This last require
ment would seem like serious test of
the average mans veracity, but what
ever you choose to say is taken for
gospel, and set down as such in tabu-
lar shape. There is no Ananias and
Sapphira business about the Census
Bureau. If you are insane, deaf, |
dumb or blind, you are recorded as
such, with notes ON the cause of your
affection, including the mention off
those relatives, dead or living, who
have been similarly troubled. If you (
we're born an idiot it is so mentioned |
by the simple word "congenial;', or