Mohave County miner., 1905-08-19
As to Worth lessness.

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 Thomas Browne, superintendent of the state census in New York city, has made public explanation of the delay {, in com pleting the returns there which ', is deeply disgraceful to the clsss of i men employed as enumerators.
 :, ''So badly is the work done," says Superintendent Browne, "that the re. porte of three out of every five enumer ators have to be carefully gone over, verified, and the territory covered by the enumeratory investigated again."
 It is known that over 25,Ol0 persons were not included in the returns.
 These botchers in the work of emu meration were carefully instructed aud drilled, yet when they undertook their duties nearly half of them deliberately omitted some If the essential features of the count, such as defining the blocks and a-certaining whether per. sons listed were citize or not.
 We have in this case an illustration of the large nun Der of incom petents in nearly every community. New York city, while it. contains many of the brightes. and brainiest people in the co" "ntry, also has perhaps more than its share of dull witted and shiftless citi zens. Among the enumerators there were many capable men who did their work we'll, and they are entitled to credit for it, but the others evidently are the driftwood of the great city, the fellows who can never keep job be-. cause they have never com prehended the necessity of being thorough and fsithful and square with their employ CTS.
 Accordingly when they started out on their quest for facts they did just as little as was necessary to make show ing on their reports. There was no possible excuse for a failure tn the part of any man who could read, write i and ask questions. Their work was all cut out for them and was so simple i that any intelligent 12 year.old boy could do it. Here and there, it is true, ttey ran up against some tough situ- ations, but they could report their difficulties to headquarters and get help in solving them.
 Worthlessness. That word defines the quality of most of these delin quents; and you will f1ud others just like them in every l rse community, not only out of em ploy meDt but in em ] ployment. They are in the trades and even in the professions. Whenever they undertake anyt hing they make a poor job of it. They half do things as plum bers, carpenters, ironworkers, school teachers, lawyers, doctors, min isters, editors, merchants and manu factors. They deal in shoddy either in service or in materials. If one is a housemaid, she never sweeps up the corners or under the lounge. They are eye servants, not to be trusted out of sight of an em mployer, nor to build con cealed foundations as honestly as those exposed to the light.
 Thoroughgoipg business men and em. ployers soon weed out these worthless characters, and then the latter float around ready to pick up any job that offers itself, as in the case of those de fective and incompetent census emu. merators. Let every youth, male or | female. make it the rule of life to ob- serve the old.fashioned maxim that "whatever is wortb doing is worth doing well. l."-Rochester Democrat. Mexican Her Id: August saw the end of the poker dens, billiard "acade mies," cockpits and other gam bling places that have been an ulcer in the community. The gam bling spirit has been so prevalent and so many games of chance were being run clsndestinely that the experiment was tried of hay ing the gamb bling done in open fashion and under the surveillance of the su. thorities. The experiment now ceases and gam bling houses are done away with for good and all. A recent decree signed by the president of the republic ordered that all such places in the fed eral district be closed on August un. less their licenses are renewed, and as ,the governar of the district, Senor