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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-19
Free State Is with Kruger.

Pretoria, Sept. 19.-The Transvaal
state secretary. +. w. Reitz. in the
course Of an interview yesterday de-
clared that the government, the volkS-
raad and the people were unanimous
regarding the attitude which the
Transvaal has assumed and that there
WAS no foundation whatever for the
reports of differences. ReitZ also as
serted that the Tranvaals decision
was arrived al in conjunction with the
Orange Free State.
Will Connscate the Mines.
The volksraad yesterday readopted
the mining article in the gold law
eliminated last year-empowering the
government to cOnfiscate the claims
and mines belonging to people CON
victed of treason or conspiring against
the state, and empowering the govern
ment to order that the mines be
worked, and if this instruction is dis
regarded to work them through it's
own agents. The readopted article
comes into force Immediately.
Would Have u Intervene.
London. Sept. 19.-The Cape Town
correspondent of The Daily Mail says:
The United States consul in Cape
Town has gone to Bloemfontcin at the
request of the government of the
Orange Free State. to confer regard
ing the crisis. The Orange Free State
executive is anxious to secure Ameri-
can intervention. BOer spies invest all
the border towns. Two troops will be
dispatched to Kimberly within a week.
Five hundred started last night and
others will 90 forward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-19

22c per ID: extra dairy, 17c: packing
stock, BE. Eggs-Fresh stock. 12IAGD
1Sc per doZ. Live poultry-Turkeys
9d12c per 10; chickens, sc; springs, 10c;
ducks. 7GSc: geese, $3.5OG6.OO per doz.
Potatoes-Early Ohio, S0@32c per bu;
Hebrons. 31G33c. Sweet potatoes-Jer-
seys. S2.75G3.O0 per Dbl. Apples-S1.25
d3.0O per Dbl. Cranberries-Cape Cod.
& nnNi5 ~ Iar hhI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-19
Chicago Live Stock.

Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day,
"a 600. Sales ranged at $S.60G4.55 for
pigs. S4.35a4.75 for light. S4.15d4.25 for
rough packing, S4.30q4.75 for mixed and
$i.309i70 for heavy packing and ship
ping lots.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day. % 600. Quotations ranged at 500
d675 choice to extra steers. So. az. 35
good to choice do. S5.1095.60 for fair to
good. 81. 60G5.O0 common to medium do.
s42Od45O butchers steers. S450G6.35
fed western steers. s3.25G4s0 feeding
steers, s.. 25G450 COWS. s3.25@550 heif-
ers. S2.S0G4.50 bulls and oxen, S3.75Q
475 stays. S3.60Gi.75 Texas steers, $500
Ts-35 grass western steers, s3.4004.60
western cows and heifers and $500
500 veal calves
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
day. Il 900. Quotations ranged at $40
GAS westerns. S2.75G4.60 natives and
tiO0I6.50 lambs
Milwaukee GRAIN
Milwaukee, Sept. 1e.
Wheat-Firm: No. l northern, MO
72c; No. northern, 69G691z. Rye
Lower; No. l, 511G5T%<.c- Barley
Firm; No. :, 45Iz G4Sc; sample, 39G45c.
OatS-EigheT; 23Q24%c.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
ENTRANCE TO sHA1AM COURT.

the order of Mr.. Bellamy have made
us familiar
The founder of this community was
DR.. Newbrough, a New York dentist
and spiritualist, who died in 1890.
He wrote mammoth work which is
the Bible of the sect, and is called
"Oahspe," a word meaning earth, air
and sky in language spoken before
the food. 1t is said to have been
written on the typewriter by DIR.
Newbrough, his hands being guided
by supernatural beings, and was
printed without being read by the
doctor. 1t is certainly work without
counterpart, filed with extraordinary
phrases and with more peculiar illus
tratlons, but it is the sacred book of
O unique community, which was
founded to establish the religion it
teaches, and out of the spiritual and
economic doctrines set forth therein
to found new race. And the few
who constitute the fraternity not only
follow its economic doctrines and re-
frain from considering anything as
theirs--they call themselves "Kos-
MONS" which is to signify in the Ian
guage Of their sacred scriptures, non
owners of any and everything; but the
children are taught to revere the book
as the inspired dogma Of their religion.
The community of Shalam is called
'"The Children's Land" and num-
Der of buildings have been erected.
The childrens building, built of brick
is the largest; the Fraternum, of
adobe, is another. The walls of the
latter are hung with number of the
most extraordinary pictures ever
painted, the work of DR.. Newbrough.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

A game that was int roduced among
town boys ABOUT week ago has al
ready become unpopular, despite its
uniqueness. The boys place a com
rade in a large bag, and when man
comes along two of the lads are tug
ging at the bag as il i'll efforts to lift
it and carry it away, while the other
youngsters are out of sight, bnt on
the watch. The two boys at the bag,
painting as if out of breath, appeal to
the passing man for help, and nine
cases out of ten the reGue' is com
piled with. In his anxiety to give
the boys a lift the man plunges right
in and raises the ''boy in the bag" off
the ground. Immediately he is
startled by cries of murder" and
"help,' which come from the lag and
inform him that he has been made the
victim of a boyish prank. Il most
cases the victim .oins in the laugh but
few nights ago a fatherly-loo&ing
indi, idual upon whom the loke was
played got his dander mp and seized
the kid in the bag, roughly pulled him
forth and then, turning the much
frightened lad across his knee, admin
istered an old-fa fashioned spanking.
In that neighborhood the game has
become unpopular because OF the
difficulty OF getting boy to go into
the bag. -Fhiladelphia Record
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
The Difference of Clothing.

How much more toughness and en-
durance the average woman has than
the average man when it comes to a
question of the cold. One would
have sort OF pity for man who
should venture out on the chilly days
of autumn with no overcoat. Vet the
extra coat that the woman dons is no
thicker nor warmer than the ordinary
inside coat that man wears within
doors, and in which he looks
"peaked" in the outer air. But the
woman, on the other hand, wears that
little coat over cotton shirt waist,
and is warm and comfortable. Often
in this climate the addition of fur
collarette is the only concession she
makes to the colder days, when a
mans light overcoat is banished by
the coming of the heavier winter gar
ment. In summer it is as much of u
mystery how the man can smilingly
endure the eternal coat, while his
sister or wife, or mother covers her
shoulders with the airiest of muslins.
New York Evening Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

upon the card. Wherever there are
punch holes the needles pass through
and dip into a cup of mercury placed
beneath. An electric circuit is thus
completed, which moves up the indi-
Gators on the connected dials one
point and records the particular fact
indicated by each punch hole. The
totals are always in view on the indi
Gators. and are copied off on 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.
chimes will be copied on record slips
and turned over to another force of
one thousand clerks, whose business it
will be to make up tables and prepare
copy for the printers.
By the act of Congress providing
for the coming enum Grafton it was
stipulated that the four principal re-
ports-on population, mortality, agri-
culture and manufactures-mus be
ready for publication on July l, 1902.
The Director of the twelfth CEN
sus is William r. Merriam, ex-
Governor of Minnesota. The actual
work of preparing the statistical in
formation of the 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. He was in charge of
one department of the eleventh cen.
sus, and was employed also in the
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 one depart
ment. -Herper's Weekly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
a Touching Scene.

Accompany me, please, and l will show
you Il scene that will touch heart OF
stone. We will enter u miserably furnished
homo whore want and misery reign SUI
preme. There, before n dimiy flckering
are, sits mother clRsping to her bosom a
child OF five years, and from its white lips
come these words, Mamma, I am so
hungry and cold! Why does not the fire
burn better? 1t used to burn brightly
when papa was here.' The mothers face
Is drawn with pain and her ewes are filled
with tears as che replies, "Yes, dear, but
papa is a drunkard now." What punish
ment can be meted out that will seem suf-
Hcient for man who causes such misery?
God pity the man who can hear the cry,
Mother, give me bread" and not raise his
hand to avert its cause.-Mabel Storer, in
Baptist Argus.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

larger scale, as there are of course
more people to be enumerated. It
will embrace a greater area; for the
first time the inhabitants of Alaska,
Hawaii, and Porto Rico are to be in
cluded in the count. Moreover, the
coming census will be 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-
Grafton 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 one reflects
upon the labor involved in counting
seventy-five millions Of anything a
task that would require one mans uu-
divided energies for twelve hours a
day during more than q year and a
half In the case of the census the
labor is multiplied by the considera-
tion that the seventy five million units
are human beings, concerning each OF
whom dozen 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, and 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 emu
merators, who will gather the re-
quired information from all parts OF
the country, and the superintendent
in charge of this branch of the work.
The data thus collected will be COM
piled and prepared for publication by
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

will have charge of divisions generally
the same in limits as the Congress
sional districts. In the case of the
larger cities, however, there will be
but one superintendent to each city,
although his territory may include sew
eral Congressional districts. In Mas
sachusetts, where an efficient census
bureau exists under the direction of
the State authorities, there will be a
single superintendent.
The enumerators are expected to
start on their rounds on June l, 1900.
They will be supplied beforehand with
portfolios containing blank schedules
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

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 few days, and will receive
from SO to $3.50 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 superintendent,
they will be forwarded to Washing
ton.
Here is where the work of putting
the census data into intelligible and
valuable form will be done, and here
is where the tabulating machinery
will come into play. 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 live millions of these cards will be
required, therefore, to contain all the
data collected for the census.
The cards are numbered to CORE
spond with the numbers opposite the
names in the schedules. They con-
tain two hundred and eighty tight
symbols, each of which is an alb
breviation representing some fact
within the range of the census enum-
GRAFTON. They are punched by means
of an electric machine.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
A Pigny Postomce.

The accompanying cut conveys an
excellent idea of Virginia Postoflice,
which is situated on the stage road
between San Diego and Escondido,
In San Diego County, California.
Two stages stop at this postof1ice
daily, except on Sundays, to deliver
and take on mails. The entire struc-
ture of the postoflice was originally
mere piano-box, and is about six
feet high, three feet wide and five feet
long. 1t has five private boxes on
one side, fitted with Yale locks. 1t is
undoubtedly the smallest postoffice in
the United States, if not in the whole
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
THE sHALAM COMMUNITY.
Homo OF tho Most Remarkable Sect In
tho World.

Homo OF tho Most Remarkable Sect In
tho World.
On tract of land nearly thou.
sand acres in extent, and situated
about six miles north of Las Cruces,
and about fifty miles north of Ell Paso,
in New Mexico, is the most remark
able community in the world. Here
fraternity, with new civilization, a
new religion and Bible of its own, is
being reared, with the idea of the per-
Reliability of the human race, which
was the dream of its founder. From
the raw material of castaway infants
and foundlings a new kind of people
is intended to result.
The adults composing this COM
munity are spiritualists and vege-
tarians, but the children reared un-
der this strange system are the chief
hope Of the believers. It is they, and
not the grown men and women who
live in Shalam, who are to demon
strate to the world the possibility of a
new economic and social fraternity.
Through them earth is to be regener-
ated aud man led out of the darkness
of the competitive system into one
where private property, if not wholly
abolished, is made subject to a sort
of communism with which writer's Of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
be completed in about hundred

be completed in about hundred
days.
From the punching machine the
record cards 60 to the electric tabu-
lating-machine, which is even more
ingenious. In form it is something
like an 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 set of facts com.
pretended in the census. Inside the
machine is complicated system of
electric wiring connecting these indi.
Gators with the operating apparatus.
1t is the mission of this machine to
total the various facts recorded on
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
;The Plans For the
Twelfth Census.

All through the past six months
preparations haye been going busily
on in Washington for great publish
ing enterprise, which will be launched
promptly on the first day of the COM
ing June. The results of the under
taking will begin to appear in finished
form two years from that date, and
will continue to be brought out at in
tervals for three or four years there
after. The publisher is the govern
ment: the publication will be desig-
mated as the Twelfth Census of the
United States.
The twelfth census will differ in sew
eral particulars from any of the pre-
ceding ones. 1t will be conducted on
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
The Crusade in Brief.

The man who "can drink or let it alone"
is generally one who does not let it alone.
Health is the worklngman's capital. In.
diligence in strong drink destroys this
capital.
To-day 1t is the rhrest thing in the world
that member OF Congress is seen in a
state OF intoxication.
The spirit of this age is against overin-
diligence In strong drink. Slowly but
surely drunkenness and lewdness are be-
coming things OF tho past.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and sew
enty.five men and women voted this year
in favor of the prohibition OF the liquGF
VaCac In Chrlstlana, Norway. y
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
Sober WOrkInen.

The fact that the industries OF this coun.
try are making inroads upon territory
hitherto controlled by British manufac.
turers aud have obtained n large trade In
the British homo market itself, has given
rise to much study and investigation OF the
causes which produced this remarkable re.
suit.
The New York Commercial publishers IN
interesting letter from London on this sub.
ject. The writer Is an Englishman, but in
reply to question as to- why 1t is that so
many orders are coming to the United
States from England he answers that 1t Ia
because the American workmen are better
artisans than the English. The main rea.
son assigned by this writer for the superi.
GRITTY OF the American artisan Is that he
less on Intoxicating liquors than the Brit.
ish workingman. There are about 40, ,0O0,-
600 people IN Great Britain and Ireland. OF
this number 1t is estimated that 1900 .00C
are abstainers from strong drink. The
drink bill for the nation was S772. .504 900
in 1898, and the $4,000 900 people who did
the drinking paid an average Of SO $3.50
wear or sixty-ave cents week for tn at in
diligence.
The average rate OF wages in the higher
lines Of manufacture is about the same in
this country and in England, but the
American workingman spends an average
OF only thirty-fve cents week on drink
as against sixty-ave cents by the British
workiDgmaD.
The former Is, presumably, therefore,
more energetic and In better possession of
the faculties which his work requires.
| There may be something in the theory
! which tho London correspondent OF the
| New York Commercial puts forward, but
he does not give due consideration to one
OF the main reasons, in fact tho principal
reason why so many orders are being re-
ceived from England by tho great In
dustrial establishments of this country. 1t
Is that the British have found that they
could get their orders filled SO much more
readily here.
The British Government itself has borne
testimony to this fact. When it wanted
great quantities of steel for the railroads
and bridges which 1t is to build la the
Soudan the contracts we're captured by
American manufacturers simply because
they could fill them in so much shorter
time than their British competitors. The
great number of American locomotives
which the English railroads have bought
and ordered is due to the same cause.
The American workman produces more in
Il given time than any other and does his
work quite US well. But the London writer
may claim that this extra speed without
tho sacrifice of ef1lcRncy is largely at
tributable to the comparatively ab.
Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
Temperance Pays.

Young men aud women may still believe
that, with trusts or without them, with
combination or competition, with depart.
meut stores or individual enterprises. bust.
ness cannot go on without workers who
are accurate, honest and capable. In
business these gifts are Indispensable; and
those who need them must pay those who
have them, whether they will or not
More and more, also. they may se sure
that steady nerves and unclouded brains
arc the most valuable commodities in the
market. Temperance pays now as 1t never
paid before.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

In recording the statistics, clerk
reads from the schedules the informa-
ton entered opposite certain name
to an operator seated at the keyboard
of the punching machine. With a
little practice this punching machine
can be operated as fast as an ordinary
typewriter. Experience has shown
that the average number of records
that one clerk can transfer from the
schedules to the cards is seven hun
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
The punched record cards

The punched record cards
are counted, or tabulated in
the electrical tabulating ma
chimes. These machines are
provided with circuit clos
ing device, into which the
cards are rapidly fed one by
one. The holes in the card
control the electric circuits
through 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 the statis-
tician may ask for.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
The Drinking q ,it Disreputable.

In view of the immense amount of liquor
consumed in tho United States, 1t Is difn-
cult to believe that the temperance cause
Is making much progress, but 1t is a fact
that excessive drinking was never so dis
reputable us 1t Is to-day. Self-respecting
men shun the society of the immoderate
drinker more than ever before. They
don't like to be seen In his company. A
young man who is known to drink even
moderately is dlstrustei by his employers
and his standing in society suffers de.
cline. Society frowns more and more upon
The drinking habit, and tippling as fash
lonable accomplishment Is on the decline.
Liquor Is not as openly pres ented to guests
at private houses as 1t was twenty-five
years ago. AN invitation from your enter
taner to "tako suthin'" is apt to be com.
municated by II whisper and wink, and he
leads you to some secluded cupboard. He
is ashamed 10 mention whisky in the
presence OF the ladies and children. There
Is much talk outside of clubs about the
dissipation INDUCED in there, but it is
greatly exaggerated. Excesses are frowned
Gpon in all reputable clubs. When drunk
snness becomes thoroughly unpopular it
will be confined to the dissolute alone
Texas Siftinss.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

a staff of three thousand clerks in the
central office.
y, Roughly speaking, there will be one
enumerator for each township through
out the country, or, in the cities. one
for each ward. The enumerarators
will be local residents appointed by
the Director of the Census, on the
recommendation of some influential
person, usually the Congressman from
the district. The superintendents
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
THE GREAT DESTROYER,
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
(. THE VICE OF lNTeMPsRANCE.

The Man Behind the Bar-Americau
Workmen Arc Better Artisans Than
tho English Because OF Their Colnpar.
atively Abstcinious Habits.
They talk OF the man behind the gun,
And the deadly work that he has done;
But much more deadly work, by far,
Is done by the fellow behind the bar.
They talk OF the man behind the gun
Yet only In battle his work is done;
But never ceases. in peace or war,
The work OF the man behind tho bar.
Sacred Heart Review.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

the punched cards. To do this the
punched cards are slipped into the
machine beneath set of electric nee
dies, mounted on spiral springs. The
operator presses these needles down
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

The transcript of the orig
inal returns of the enumera-
tor to the punched card will
be done with small machines,
something like typewriter,
called keyboard punches.
About one thousand of these
keyboard punches will be
used, and the entire work Of
transcribing the 5000, 900
or more individual records
will be done in abont 100
working days, or nearly four
months after the first reports
are in.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21

dred per day. 1t is the intention Of
the Census Bureau to put one thous-
and clerks at work with these ma.
chimes as soon as the returns are in,
so that this branch of the work should