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OLD STYLE INSULATING MAcHMB
ToBE DISPLACED In CENSUS
NORK BYNEWMVENTI

into government service merely for the
one, two or three year interval covered
by a census project.
AS the disadvantages of this plan be-
came more and more apparent Congress
was urged to act, and finally in the spring
of 1909 the census once was made a
permanent bureau Of the government.
Although this permanent census bureau
Is only just now on the threshold Of its
first national canvass of Americas popu-
iation it has already proven its worth
by the more thorough preparation that
has been possible. There is no doubt
that 1t will also produce q census more
accurate than any taken under the old
conditions, and will compile and publish
the results more promptly than has ever
heretofore been dreamed possible
Having perfected a census-taking insti-
tuition that is admitted a model for the
whole world the federal officials are now
busy with yet another project that will
on our population. This Is a plan for
the erection Of permanent home for
the census bureau-a specially construct
ed building arranged and equipped as an
Ideal mandatory Of statistics. Mr.. S.
N. d. North the director Of the census.
will present this project in a communica,
ton that will be laid before Congress
soon after II assemblies. Director North
ngures that the expenditure of the sum
OF $4,000 will purchase a site and pro
'AIo SAA-Seoiy ihCpIOOI structure that
will afford ample accommodations for
the volunteer army of more than 5000
men and women that will be assembled
in Washington to do the clerical work of
the coming census.
What Census Will Cost,
At present the census bureau Is &C.
cupying a rented building in Washing
ton. having continued the occupancy of
the one-story brick structure that was
erected for the census of 1900. This build
ing accommodated only about one-half of
the large force Of clerks employed on the
last federal census and inasmuch as a
large portion of its floor space has since
been given over to the storage of census
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and experiments are being made on cot
ton. A South African Agricultural Col
lege is now proposed. and Gen. Botha is
said to favor 1t. He says that agricul-
ture and mining are the two brothers of
the Transvaal and that they must work
together. hand in hand. for the benefit
of the country
AS to live stock. the colony now has
more than 100000 cattle. over 100000
sheep and about 10000 pigs. There are
about $4,000 horses large number Of
goats and few ostriches. The most o.
the stock is kept on the high lands.
AS to prices of farm animals. they seem
fair for this far-aWay country. Goats
are worth about IS each. pigs from so
to $40, and Merino sheep from IS to SIS.
Almost any kind of a good horse will sell
for 500. and a mule for the same. Ma
tive cows bring from $50 to $40. and those
imported from the Cape of Good Hope
sell for 500 and upward.
am writing this in Pretoria. the cap
ital Of the Transvaal and the seat OF
government Of this now English state.
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year VI this l ball write more when
l visit Johannesburg
Farming in South Africa.
The chief Importance of the Transveal.
outside Its mines, is as a stock-raisins
country. The land is high and hea!thful
and the climate Is fitted for white man,
Ihe most CT the colony lies 1900 or more
Feet above the sea. 1t Is vast table
iand.> composed Of great rolling plains,
crossed here and there by low ranges Of
mountains. A great part Of the country
Is covered with scrubby brush. but much
or 1t is semi-barren and 40 scantily
watered that the grass burns up in the
summer The seasons here are Just the
opposite of ours. The winter Is from
April to September, and the summer from
October to March. The winters are cold.
dry and bracing. The summers are hot
with some rainfall to temper the heat.
So far only a small part Of the land
has been taken up. There are something
like 13.OOOOOO acres in the Transvaal, and
the registered farms number only 1900
The average size OF farm is 600 acres,
or nearly ten square miles to each farm.
The most OF the farmers are Beers, who
cultivate only a small part OF their land.
and either Craze the remainder or let 1t
out to the native kaffirs who plant 1t In
little patches Of from one to FIVE acres
The chief crops raised by the negroes are
direction of the owner. and as a rule give
him half of the harvest. All farming,
however, Is slovenly done, notwith-
standing the demand IL good. The
Transvaal Is now importing farm pro-
duce Of $15cCO.0OO per annum. and the
main supplies for the gold mines come in
from abroad. I have the market prices
of Pretoria and johannesburg lying before
me. Chickens are bringing % cents a
pound. butter 60 cents a pound, and
eggs are selling from IS cents to $125 a
dozen. Milk Is worth Is cents q quart,
and tobacco, manufactured, II cents
per pound
AS to grain. it is sold in bags Of DIFF
ferent capacities. Barley is put up in
bags Of 16O pounds, and sells at s. per
bag. or 3 cents pound. Rye brings
over cents pound. oats 2 cents
and kaffir corn almost 251 cents while
Indian corn brings cents per pound
This means that rye and corn each bring
Wiz and that barley and oats bring re-
spectively. 96 cents and 81 cents per
pusheI. which Is far more than they sell
for. even at the highest. in our part Of the
world
Some South African Pests.
These prices are largely due to poor la.
Dor. lack of transport and insect pests.
One of the chief pests is the locust. which
sweeps over the country in swarms Of
great magnitude. l have ridden through
miles of such swarms on the cars At
times the locusts are so thick that they
almost hide the sun. The air Is filled
with flying beetles, with sparkling white
Wings and one looks on and on. seeing
nothing but locusts as far as the eye can
reach Looking down along the sides OF
the train the ground Is covered with
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reports and other documents it will not
afford space for more than one-fourth
of the clerks that will be mustered for
the coming census. Thus II Congress does
not authorize the erection of a govern
mental home for the census bureau Uncle
Sam will have to geek more commod1ous
rented quarters for this branch of his
family work.
The country will be called upon to go
down in its pocket for $14,OOO.OOO for the
census. OF this tidy total $l.5OO.OOO is
needed for the maintenance of the per-
manent census bureau. and the remain
der. or $l25OO.OOO, is to be set aside for
the thirteenth national census Although
It is estimated that the population or
the United States has increased some
thing like 20 per cent since the last pre-
vious census. and the census work Will.
OF course, expand proportionately, 1t IS
predicted that the census of 1910 will
cost very little more than the census
of 1900. This economical miracle will
be made possible through the introduce
ton Of unequaled time-saving and labor
SAVING machines in the compilation. BY
the aid of these mechanical wizards a
force of clerks no larger than that en-
ployed ten years ago will be able to turn
out one-fourth or perhaps. even one
half more work than was accomplished
then.
The mechanical mathematicians win
prove the wonder of the thirteenth CEN
euS, dIu IL rs DVuiu W prove matter
of patriotic pride that these automatic
lightning calculators are the invention
of our own government officials OF
course. the use of machines in census
work is no new thing. AS far back as
1870. with the population Of the country
increasing by leaps and bounds. 1t was
found that tabulation by hand was be-
coming inaccurate and extremely expen-
sive. Moreover. the officials realized
that point would be reached ere many
decades had passed where complete tabu-
lation within the census period would be
impossible
Confronted by this state of affairs. Gen.
Walker. who was the superintendent of
the ninth census, cast about for mechan-
ical assistance. and finally made a be-
ginning in this direction by introducing
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WILL1Ar1 c. HUNT
UNcLESArf5 CHIEF CTHrI5T
ON POPULATION

T HE Herculean Task That
j Confronts This Depart
ment of Uncle Sans Govern
ment in 1e1o-Cost of Pro-
posed New Building and the
Other Expenses Will Reach
a Total of $4,000, ooo-The
New Machines THAT Almost
Think" - One Punches the
Holes That Tell All About
Each Individual Tabulated
and the Other Machine Does
the Tabulating-Invented by
Expert Mechanics Who Are
Employed by the Census
Bureau Lavor-saving and
Time-saving Qualities Have
Been Tested-Merit in Com
parison With Old Systems.
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Transvaal The state has been
big in the eyes of the world
for the past half dozen years.
1t seems small and poor when
one travels over it. I entered 1t from
Cape Colony at Fourteen Streams above
Kimberley, and came thence by rail-
through johannesburg on my way here
The distance is a little farther than
from New York to Washington. and 1t Is
about an equal distance from Pretoria
TO the east where the Portuguese terri
tories begin. ! am just about three hun
dred miles or so south of the boundaries
of Rhodesia
These figures give you some idea of the
area OF the country. The Transvaal Is
about twice big as Illinois or Iowa.
II is high. dry and comparatively barren,
and some of ii seems almost a desert.
On my way here / rode for miles without
seeing house, and all along the way from
Kimberley to johannesburg there are no
towns of large size. The whole country
has a white population less than that OF
the city of Minneapolis. and including the
blacks who number three times Ghe
whites. IL has not as many people as
Philadelphia
The biggest town in the Transvaal Is
johannesburg. 1t has 10000 and of these
less than $4,000 are whites. Pretoria has
$4,000 and only 22.OO0 whites. Both towns
claim more; but these are the official
figures and they include every one,
negroes. English and Beers.
The great Importance of the country
is in its mines. 1t leads the world as
to gold and it bids fair to do so to
diamonds. l have already written of the
Premier mine. which produced the Guilt
nan diamond, the -sgest ever discovered.
II lies within thirteen miles OF this. city.
and 1t has turned out $2o.OOO.O00 worth
OF precious stones in the past four years.
There are other diamond mines nearby.
and there are also copper and coal.
AS TO the gold mines of the Rand. which
lie within few miles of Pretoria. their
product is greater than that of any other
region. They have added more than 800
million gold dollars TO the worlds supply
in the last twenty-odd years. and they
are now yielding more than 40 millions
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A GRICULTURE Since the
"A War-New Experimental
Farms-The Terrible Locusts
Stock Farming and Its
Prohts-A Look at Pretoria
In the Footsteps of Dom
Kruger-A Word About Gen.
Botha, the Premier-The Pos
sibilities of Truck Farming.
Copyright 1905 by Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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PREPARATIONS are already un-
der way for that herculean task
the taking Of the next national
census of the United States in
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PRETORIA.
he about the

.HIS letter is to be about the
Transvaal. The state has been
big in the eyes of the world
for the past half dozen years.
1t seems small and poor when
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year or this I SHALL write more when
/ visit Johannesburg
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
The nodesty Of Women

Naturally makes them shrink from the
hdelicate questions the obnoxious ex-
aminations, and unpleasant local treat
ments, which some physicians consider
essential in the treatment of diseases of
women. Yet, II help can be had, it is
better to submit to this ordeal than let
the disease grow and spread. The trouble
y that 30 often the woman undergoes AL
the Annoyance and shame for nothing,
ThousSnds\Qf women who have been
cured By DR.. Rlerce's Favorite PrescrIp-
Zion writA In Appreciation Of the cure
which dispshSes WI the examinations
and local treatmentssS There Is no other
MeQlclAe % sure and sale for dellcaie
women ss -Eayorite Prescription" II
cures debllitatlng drains, irreglIaTIty and
female weakness. 1t always helms. II
almost always cures. 1t is strictly nom
alcoholic, non secret, all its Ingredients
being printed on its bottle- wrapper: con-
tains no deleterious or habit-forminr
drugs, and every native medicinal root
entering into Its composition has the full
endorsement OF those most eminent In the
several schools OF medical practice. Some
OF these numerous and strongest of pro-
fessional endorsements Of It's Ingredients.
VIII be found In a pamphlet wrapped
around the bottle, also in a booklet mailed
free on request, by DIR. R. v. Pierce. Of
Buffalo. N. Y. These professional en-
dorsements should have far more weight
than any amount Of the ordinary lay, or
professional testimonials.
The most intelligent women now-a-davs
insist on knowing what they take as med
icine instead OF opening their mouths like
lot OF young birds and gulping down
whatever is offered them. uFavorite Pre-
scription is OF KNOWN COMPOSITION. II
makes weak women strong and sick
women well.
Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser Is sent free
on receipt OF stamps to paw expense Of
mailing only. Send TO DR.. r. V. Pierce.
Bufalo, N. Y, "a one-cent stamps for pa
per covered, or 81 stamps for cloth-bound.
III SICK consult the Doctor, free OF charge
by letter. All such communications are
held sacredly confidential.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorata
and regulate stomach. liver and boweiN
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s1o.sls,4s7ss, or sss5.sss.45 less than
two mon his agn

two mon his ago.
After several weeks work and the
employment of many different meth.
ods in the effort to stop leaks In a
reservoir the engineers OF the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining company
at Cokedale have hit upon the novel
scheme OF using goats to trample the
inside OF the basins and make them
watertfght. The company has been
having trouble for several months. Re-
Gently the reservoirs were enptied
and herders were placed at work driv-
lns the goats around the basin OF one
OF the reservoirs which has been sub
]eeted to this method and having baen
reniled is now perfectly watertight.
Peter Santo of Denver was almost
instantly Killed Saturday afternoon by
peing thrown from a train as Il round
ed curve near the Pay Rock mill
siding. He was riding on the platform
and lost his balance when tho train
struck the curve. Santo had gone 10
Silver Plume only a few days ago to
bury his brother, Martin. a well known
Italian OF that district, and was on
his way back to Denver when the ac.
cfdent happened.
For the first time In twenty-five
years the Johnstown district was Sat
- S.s S"SPe ny u udilbtOTu, ln1uring
heids In strip of country twenty
miles long by four miles wide. The
storm started In Spring canon. on the
foudre. and Travelled In a southeaster-
iy direction through the Fossil creek
valley. where Its havoc was fierce.
y continued in the same direction,
ioiiowing a ridge north of Johnstown.
southeast to the Packham country. I'm
and about Johnstown the storm did lis |
worst Grain fields were laid bnre
potato plants pounded Into the ground |
beet fields riddled and window lights |
on the north side of houses shattered. |
with terrific fury D storm broke
from OIL the mountains northwest Of
fort Collins Saturday afternoon and
passed directly over the city and down
In = southeasterly direction, washing
out bitches, moving down beet fields |
ana cutting fruit from the trees. While |
the city proper did not suffer much
The country north and south suffered
severed from hail which was piled up
In some sections two inches deep and
broke window lights, killed chickens
and did other damage. The storm cut
a path about two miles wide. the high
llne ditch about four miles west OF
The city. burst from the rushing wa.
iers but the headgates were locked
peiore any serious damage could be
done. The storm will mean a great
loss to many OF the farmers, especially
those growing fruit.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

army the negro battalion, some oi
whose members were charged with
having shot up Brownsville, Texas, In
August, 1906.
| Farnsworth's presence here within
twenty.four hours after Mr.. Bryan had
been compelled to qualify" his decla
ration that he had never discussed
the brownsville Incident, because Of
the discovery OF Commoner editorial
penned by firm. assailing the colored
troops quite as firecely as had Roose-
welt and Taft, indicated that the can
uidate had made up his mind that only
desperate measures could secure the
negro vote
MIR. Farnsworth has been suggested
to Mr.. Bryan as handy man for treas
urer OF the national committee. He
may be selected when the subcommit-
tee meets at Chicago next week.
Mr.. Bryan was somewhat perturbed
today by reports that President Roose-
welt VIII stump Nebraska for Taft.
Colored men who resent the Browns
Vile affair say that II would be en-
tirely appropriate for Bryan and Roos-
evet to speak from the same plat
forms here and jointly justify the Or
der by which the battalion was drum
med out of the army.
Mr.. Bryan declined to discuss Roose-
velts projected visit.
DES MONIES. Ia, July 21.-Billy
Williams. former star minstrel and
baseball player, disappeared from his
FAMILY last week and his wife says
he has become demented Mrs. VIII
liams and three small children live
here. They lack the necessities of
life and the youngest child Is III. Since
early Saturday Williams has been
missing and since then his wife has
searched for him when the iii child
could be left with his little brothers.
Mrs. Williams declares that her hus-
bands troubles and trials have made
him complete wreck and he has wan
dered off. Williams was recently en-.
gagged In regligious work in this city.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.--The First
National bank OF Rock Creek, O., was
closed today
NEW YORK. July 21.-A new form
OF freak insurance recently issued by
the Lloyds of London Is BLACK handp
which has recently been
taken out by lease holders in New
York In districts where the dynamite
outrages have been most frequent for
the reason that the ordinary fire In
surance policy is no protection against
damage from explosions unless fol |
lowed by actual fire. 1t is said black |
hand policies have been taken out
10 cover number of Astor tenement
house properties in New York.
CHICAGO. July 21.-Chicago will |
probably be headquarters OF the Re-
publican congressional committee, as
well as the center of activity for the |
ticket. Conference of the |
congressional leaders was held at the |
Union League club and another meet |
ng VIII be held late this week. Speak |
n Joseph G. Cannon, Congressman Nc. |
kinley, Congressman Loudenslager of |
New Jersey, Senator James Hemene-
way OF Indiana we're present and went |
over n list OF state in which the work |
)t the congressional committee will |
Dc centered. II has been agreed that |
he burden OF work will be In the west |
and for this reason 1t Is thought ed |
'isable that headquarters of the com
nittee be established In Chicago.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
ELECTRO
CUI'ED
Silverton Electrician
Receives Shock Of
5000 Volts

SlLVERTON, July 20.-E. L. Hick.
man. lineman and electrician for the
Animas Power company, was electro.
cuted and instantly killed at the Nam
moth tunnel yesterday forenoon at five
minutes past 10. MIR. Hickman with
two others, Meyers and Rose, were
engaged In taking down lightning ar
rester at the transformer house. They
had removed the arrester and were
getting the transformer wires In place
when. in some manner unknown to his
companions, Hickman touched the cur
rent wire with his left hand, receiving
the full shock of 5000 volts. The
man was brought to town. He is a
member of the Odd Fellows and
leaves a wife and children who will
accompany the remains to the old
home at Eyerton, Mo-, for burial to
morrow morning.
SILVERTON, July 20.-The funeral
OF ]. w. Brewer will take place to-
morrow under the auspices OF the Ma
sons. Mr.. Brewer. met death Satur-
day afternoon in a peculiar manner.
He was driving a four-horse team
hitched to load Of sand which he was
hauling to Silverton to be used in
the construction of the new court
house. He was at the narrowest and
ASst dangerous point of the mountain
road when in rounding sharp curve
he was confronted with a runaway
team dashing madly toward him.
Quick as flash he pulled his horses
to the extreme edge of the road, be-
lieving that he would leave room for
the runaway to pass. Had he taken
che inside Of the road the accident
probably would have been avoided.
With the wheels of his wagon barely
an inch from the edge of the roadway
the other team struck his vehicle and
the entire outfit was plunged over the
embankment. Brewer. who was AZ
years old, and had lived In the San
Juan district for years, was caught
under the sand and his life was crush.
ed out
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
LABOR UNIONS NOT BEING CA
JoLED.

Democratic papers with big head
lines tried to make 1t appear that be-
cause Gompers had declared for Bry-
an he would be able to take along all
union men, but In this they are being
sadly left. Even the Western Fedora
tion and the United Mine Workers OF
America turned down a proposition
to endorse Bryan. leaving IL for mem
bers TO vote their individual prefer
ences.
And the following from the New
York Herald indicates Gompers is not
cutting much of q swath In the east:
"Gompers cannot call upon organ
lied labor 10 support any political
party and, as to influencing them by
argument to vote for Bryan. the labor
men know how they are going 10
vote and they can think for them
selves"
SO spoke Edward Hourigan. OF ,he
International Association Of Machin-
lists.
Julius ID. Davis, OF the United Gar
ment Workers, said:
THE same arguments that appealed
to workingmen against Bryan In his
two former campaigns appeal to them
still. There Is no real argument to
appeal to them against Taft. but there
is very solid fear Of the setting
back OF matters when the tide Of pros
perity is beginning to flow again, II \
radical like Bryan is elected"
The Debs and De Leon socialists
have also come out against Goinpers
with statements declaring the work
ingmen will pay no attention 10 his
appeal. The statement from the De
Leon headquarters characterixss the
labor leader thus:
"Gompers. abegging and receiving
crumbs and smirking with content
ment at the receipt, well symhoiisss
the gentleman's triple office Of prest-
dent. editor, and last. but not least.
undertaken Of the Civic Federation
system Of unionism."
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

CRIME
Cripple Greek Man
Kills His Wife Then
Commits Suicide

VICTOR. Colo. July 2I.-Pounded
on the head with the butt of a ro.
volver until her skull was crushod.
with one bullet through her body, Tho
blood gushing from her wounds. Mary
Wilhelm battled for life last night
with her husband, Charles Wilhei,n.
until second bullet through the hear,
ended her sufferings and her MUIR
derer. putting the smoking revolver TO
his own head fell dead at her feet
with a bullet through his brain. A
Mortified witness to his mothers death
struggle was her son, Frank Wilhelm.
IA years old. The boy ran to summon
aid but had hardly left the house when
he heard three shots, and returning
found his parents dead.
Wilhelm was employed in a local
furniture shop. He and his wife we're
living in different parts of the city
and after leaving work last night vii.
helm sought out his wife at her home
and Quarreled over trivial matters.
The coroner this morning decided an
inquest unnecessary.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
coNcENrHArRa.

The Amazon stone. found In smAil
quantities near COLORADO Bprings.
Colo. In greatly In dtnaAd. A flsm IN
Germany ordered ali that 6ould - m.
cured. Tho stone y green n coact ~