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Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
100000 SEEKING
THE CENSUS JOBS
Twice as Many as There Are
Positions to Give Want to
Join the Staff,

WASHINGTON. July 14.-In spite
of the fact that il will require the
services Of 10000 men and women TO
take the next census of the popuia-
ton and resources OF the country,
Director OF the Census North has IA
ready received twice as many appli-
cations for work on the force as there
are positions. He puts in nearly half
his time now answering the applici'-
lions for jobs that are coming in from
every state in the union.
A force OF $500 extra clerks viii be
employed in this city, and in addition
to these, here will have to be em-
ployed $4,000 enumerators in the field.
The remainder of the 10000 is maue
up of district supervisors and other
superintendents of the work.
The flood of applications for posi-
tons is largely accounted for by the
fact that, by the terms of the act Oh
congress passed in the last session
affecting the census, there is no civil
service requirement for the work.
Members of the house and senate
put this provision in under the idea
that it, would give them chance 10
.help out their constituents by giving
them work. 1t turned out to be a
boomerang. The members cannot
find enough places to meet the de-
mands of the congressman and the
wishes of the public.
A striking fact is that nearly
Iseyenty-fye per cent of the applicants
are women, showing that the lure OF
the government job is much stronger
with woman than with man. This =
probably true because. the salaries
paid by the government to women
are higher than those paid to them
by private concerns.
In addition to trying to adjust the
demand for work to the supply, Mr..
North is mapping out a plan which,
he thinks, will result in there being
in the next census no enumeration OF
dead persons and, tOmbstones to
swell the percentage pay of the emu
merators. The census will be taker
in 1910.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
FIRE CUTS RESIDENCE.

The residence of Richard GOrham,
situated in Dubaker Canyon, was par
tally destroyed by fire shortly before
10 O'Clock last night. The contents
were partially saved by removal, but
the house was Quilted by the flames
before they were put under control
by the fire department, which made
a prompt response. The walls and a
portion Of the roof were saved. u
was not learned whether or not there
was any insurance on the building
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
MRS. MORRIS MISSING.
Woman Who Created Scene at White
House Escaped.

PENNINGTON, Mo. July 14.-All
Francois county was searched yester-
day by county authorities in the hope
of finding Mrs. Minor Morris, who re-
Gently came into prominence througn
charges she made that she had been
forcibly elected from the White House
Nv secret service men and who has
escaped from the state hospital for
the insane here.
Mrs. Morris lowered herself trou..
a second story window by means OF
towels Saturday. and no trace OF her
has yet been found.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
SUES FOR $4,000
Alleged to be Due for Services to
Railroads.

CHICAGO. July H-Suit for ST.
OOO. 900. which sum the plaintiff claims
is due him for services rendered, was
begun here today against the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad
company, Chicago, Indiana & South
ern railway. Rock Island company.
Robert Mather, Charles w Hotchkiss
and w. c. Brown The plaintiff in
the suit is William Armstrong. He
makes his claims for alleged ser
vices in buying different railroads and
properties for the defendants.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
cHINKs IN ORE CAR.

ABILENE, Kans.. July l4.-Six
Cinnamon smuggled from Mexico In
a car Of ore are being held here.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
Mann With 80 Automobiles

III
AS contributors TO the record ot
lie tragedies in tho United States
automobiles now outrank cyclones.
Hhipwreclis on the great lakes and the
buhonic plague. According to n count
Kept by the Chicago Tribune 1868
persons. were killed or seriously In.
jured blythe road locomotives In 1907.
Fatalities Increased more than flfty
Per cent, 324 persons having been
Killed outright. as compared With 200
IN 1906. The increase In. the num.
Der injured was almost equally. an.
pailing Where s51 were severely
iiart IN 1906. last years total was
i'<44' this count including only those
cases reported in the, newspapers.
Ihat these iigureslare far from he
ing complete Is Indicated by stats.
Tics compiled IN Massachusetts, show.
Ing that in three months ending Sen.
TEMPER Il there were Al deaths caus.
cd by automobiles in that State
alone. '''''e
New Yorks record OF accidents,
is equal to that of Chicago. phira JeI-
phia, st. Louis. Boston. baltimore
and Cleveland, with total popula-
lion OF more than six million. com.
oined Forty.eight persons were kill.
ed In this city in the course of the
year the record OF death and destruc.
tion is being fully maintained. In
the first twenty days of January au.
tomobile accidents" chronicled in the
Herald Killed five, fatally injured five
more and hurt nineteen other per-
sons. 80 -
When it is remembered that auto.
mobiles are dangerous only tyhen
recklessly driven. tfis Ndi1icult TO es.
cape the conclusion. that this de.
plorabie rccordrof manning ana Kill.
ing Is almost wholly due to the wide.
spread and increasing disregard of
speed regulations. Perhaps no one
can consistently wonder that automo-
biies are recklessly driven or that
speed laws are constantly violated
when no one is eyer punished. excell
by paltry fine. 1t is on record that
more than one hundred persons have
been killed and three times that num-
ar injured in and around New York
In the last three years, aud il any
one has yet served out q sentence in
jail for even the most wantoniy reck.
less driving, resulting in death or "a.
jury to others, the case has escaped
the attention OF horsemen. t
One OF the chief obstacles In the
way of preventing automobile "acci!
dents" seems to be lack of realiza.
,tion as to what constitutes reckless
driving. Because a machine can he
stopped more quickly than a horse
going at the same rate of speed a
great many antomobilists assume that
1t is safe for them to drive faster
than horses can lawfully go. But the
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31

seilsrs with the brass trough before
them full OF silver and, bills up TO
their knees on the floor are so
much; to, the good. i,
\ This left over change. more than
Offsets the losses from and coin and
bills put on Sthe ticket men,. AS the
formar is 'raked from the. wndoww
upon brass plate below. the false
sound quickly bettsys. The spurious
COIN there is nothing but the quick
eye and the = experienced, touch to
protect the Lightning ticket. seller
from counterfeit bills. He often gets
stuck, for $he must make good per-
sonally The, honest 'fa!mer is not
always averse to. this method OF get :
ting rid or his bad money. =,
Tha distance covered by many. of
these circus goers seems incredible
or course We bill the railroads for
fifty miles III. every direction and get
excursion rates. "a. fifty rail,
road ride, for people who never ride
that much all the rest of the year is
merely afpicnic--a pleasant excursion
with another. amusement nj the end
of it. Bnt'.what would you say Of a
couple of fellows from AZ West yir-
'ginia-viilage drying forty miles TO
the railroad station, riding fifty miles
10 Il junction with, the. main line and
then many miles. fur or to see line
-show, at Wheeling? After the last
performance they took the next train
back sleeping in their seats and get
ting back home afer FIVE days on The
road saw this In my last season,
and have heard Of many similar
hardsships ;braved for a single three
hours under the Big tents. = ~
In the bicycle period we used to
Rave a tent purposely TO check and
store the machines of those who used
that means of getting TO town, and
they used TO come twenty and twen-
ty- five miles by wheel. Ont west IL
Is a common thing for farm boys who
have worked .belfind' a team MI day
TO walk four or i've miles .tp view
a night ,prformahce. and then walk
back home again at midnight. the
horses getting the only rest.
The circus press agent sees more
OF these. people than-any o,iiersliving
=. nm =. IN IT. not excepting the. other
employees Of 1he cifcns-%Sho are loo 80
busy TO sit up and take notice. IN
these later years on the road II have
discovered q rapid thinning out OF
the clesn-cnt, impressive ( American
features Even In, New England,
outside OF Boston. the change is con.
sEjapn;s. ln,.y some, Naw England
manufacturing towns like Woonsock-
ct RI, Fall River and Lowell. Mass.
tho great majority are foreign born,
with many Welsh and French. Canad-
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31

very poor are jumbled together like
pigs In sty. ,t
Certain racial distinctions are very
plainly visible in certain states. The
Frenchman and the German have
left an absolute record of their ma
tionality. and the Spaniard and the
Slavs are marked in certain actions
with equal distinctness. In every
mississippi river town the traces of
the French settlers remain. indelibly
In the architecture. names and char
acteristics of the people. The wom-
en- there are the Partisan types
slender. round WASTED, 1.-THE. grace
ful. The manners are French man
.ners-politc. g,aclous. most consider.
ale Of strangers and sudden ana Sc
we're quarrel. The old warehouses
along the river, the Ievees, where
once the fast packets excited the adj
miration of the populace.' are ware
houses and landing places that might
have been transported bodily from
the Seine and Loire
Yet while general characteristics
may be thus easily accounted for.
there are special differences. between
the .townspeoplc OF, the same SECTIONS
. OF country. The physical difference
/, the traveller sees readily; what the
moral and menta' differences are
may be Appropriated only by study
of their respective surroundings.
] used 10 stop regularly in front OF
the local photograph galleries. where
n frame Set with portraits or local
people Is always hung out. In one
town could he seen broad features
thick l'Ds and robust noses; In an
other delicate features, the saucy
Irish nose and patrician chin and
mouth; iii the next a prevailing Of
face, with fair hair and blue ewes
and heavy forehead; in the next the
hawk-like Indian cast of countenance
suggestive Of the early Georges.
In Norfolk. Va, for instance. one
VIII meet many tall slender. will
iowy women OF refined English
type of features. In Georgia and al.
ALBANIA there are. to. be found the
same delicate complications to be met
In Wisconsin and northern Michigan.
Bnt In the lake regions the eyes OF
the people are smaller. owing prob
ably to the high winds and SHOWS OF
winter, and eyeglasses are as prey
alent there as in New England.
There are certain towns whore the
women are particularly good looking
other towns where the rnle is exactly
tahe reverse. a dozen different
types of negroes may be counted in
the South. The Frencf speaking
negro of Louisiana is as widely from
the Virginia article as could we'll be,
and the South Carolina and the cot
ton belt negro differ as widely from
each other as from the other two
varieties.
The Charleston negro often has a
well shaped head and straight nose.
While the negro from the Kongo has
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31

low mental development and fiat
noes. The various negro types are
(. due to the unprejudlcri views of
the Yankee slayc-traders as TO whera
TO catch their load of "blackbiris.'
on the African. coast,
A dirty town almost always has
dirty people-dlrty in person dirty in
. morals and dirty in business deal
lngs clean, wellbuilt thriving lit :
] Tie city, with agreeable surroundings.
produces an intelligent, thrifty and
agreeable people. OF clean habits.
clean morals, and fair and sound
business principles. Or. ia IL that
the character Of the town springs
from its inhabitants? Anyhow. |
nave always found that they 20 TO-
sether. They fit.
Show me an ill-arranged. badIy-
built, filthy. smoky, cherries town.
or which You may find some In al
most every state In the Union. anu
! VIII show you an ignorant. low
lived. sordld community, where, ii YOU
are going to do business. you'd better
Keep both eyes open and both hands
on vors pocketbcok.
There are two other unfailing in.
dications OF the character OF a town
and It's people. These are its hotels
and newspaper Offices They are the
| INST thing study when hit the
pace. The conduct OF tho hotel Won
Stop at shows the local idea OF de-
cent everyday life. The character
OF the NEWS paper Offices Indicates
'he degree OF local intelligence and
culture. | have found them almost
certain guides. If the best hotel Is
mean. dirty and poorly conducted
my prejudice begins TO work. When
find the newspaper office moor ana
hait asleep. that settles it. am
ready then to classify that commune
NY Tor have not had hundreds Of
examples; to insure my conclusion.
/ There are few exceptions % this
rule. The reasons for which In eacn
case are readily apparent. Such
newspaper Offices are almost inyari-
ably associated in my mind with no
tells to match-and poor show bus
mess.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31

speeders forget that the hoofbeats OF
the horse always give warning OF hin
approach. while the automobile rim.
ming nolselessly ON rubber tIreg. often
mQkes no Sign until too larc. II
steals upon Its victim literally like a
thief IN sthe night. aud 1t is Just this
Ireacherous silence of approach which
puts far greater burden OF care uron
me Chauffeur than on the coachman
ana calls for greater precaution In
operating an automobile on the high.
ways. i.
interesting and important statistics
bearing on this point were recently
compiled in England by the secretary
or the Highways Projection League.
an organization called into existence
py the alarming increase of fatalities
ON English roads since the introduce.
ton OF. automobiles. He notes that
It is impossible to compare rhe nuns
per Of accidents caused bv horse
drawn vehicles and automobiles res.
pecpyeiy, as the number OF the for.
iher Is unknown, but comparison
rs made, with regard to cabs and ON.
ninuses from the figures given In the
repore of the London Commissioner
of Police.
This report shows that the num-
her OF licensed horse buses 10 9e64
and of motor buses ,7S3. the former
mus outnumbering the latter by al.
most four TO one. II shows also that
the number OF persons killed by the
buses In one year was 80. and that the
number injured was 1874. Now IL
an buses were equally safe or equally
dangerous, the 7S3 motor buses must
nave Killed about ten persons and
injured about three hundred, while
the horse drawn would have killed
about twenty-nIne and injured about
nine hundred and forty But the DO.
lice report shows that the 7S3 motor
vehicles killed % and injured S24.
thus doing more than two and one.
half times their share OF the dam.
age. while the 1854 horse buses were
responsible for but ia of the 80 deaths
and for only 420 of the 1924 injuries.
or good dea! less than onehalf their
fair allowance. So that whereas
there was only one accident for every
seven horse buses in use the number
OF persons injured by motor buses
was greater than the whole number
OF motor buses licensed.
In the face of figures like thess
morse owners and Others who uses tho
highways Will hardly consent to loos,
enine up the speed laws. as proposed
by. a bill now before the legislature
at Albany. SO that automobiles can
lawfully go tearing through the corn.
try at unlimited speed, leaving IN
their wake trail OF dust ami doTastE
ton and making 1t even moro unsafe
than it now Is to venture out with
horse and earring New York Her
aid.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
AS Zine Circus Sees Them

The biggest shows In the country
often play. in towns SO small that
they never see The cheap, ay.by :
night theatrical combinations, writes
Tody Hamilton IN the Washington
Star Yet circus day viii sea from
10000 TO 10000 visitors there, most
of whom come In farm wagons and
other road vehicles, althoughfin re-
cent years the'T interurban. trolley
lines throughout the country have
greatly facilitated. the gathering OF
these crowds ~
Your farmer almost Invariably has
money laid aside FOR circus day So
in an INLAND country town on show
day you will see the real vertebrae
OF the Union. ~
II is Immediately after seed time
or after harvest that the shownian
has fixed TO come and separate the
farmer from this money. On that
particular morning. the, roads lead ,nE
to'.the county seat are lively with
wagons, bcggies aud pedest.iansand
a cloud of dust Il mile In length. on
siiil summers day hovers over the
highways and byways In the town
the courthouse sqiiare Is packed With
vehicles, the horses having been ia
Ken out and stabbed elsewhere. The
owners and their families, covered
with dust, lounge in the hot sun or
beneath the store awnings. painting,
or race up and down impatiently,
waiting for the parade
AS soon as hiatt event is over they
betake themselves TO the wagons un-
der the trees-fo- there is no place
elsewhere to sit down--and eat their
basket dinner with their children
and sweethearts; then for the circus
grounds. all the time in cloud of
dust. pushing, sweating and chatter
Ing and keeping hand on their
money. p
They surround the ticket wagons
antbours before sales begin, 30 as 10
gel IN hrst; md when the ticket, sell
lers make theft 'appearane the people
form such rush and crush as may
he elsewhere seen, only at the doors
OF broken banv In their Intense
excitement and dfstrust, OF the show
man they will frequently hold their
money with so tight a fist that the
ticket sellers. haves.ao crack THEM bver
the knnekles to get 1t.
Let 20 your money" GIVE, up
your moneyl"is the steady cry OF the
t'cket sellers N6w and then It is
broken by: Get! your changer
Here, yon, take yonr CHANGE" For
men and women having, finally given
up. forget their change aud have to
fight their way back again through
me struggling mass In order to get
1t. Some never get it, and the ticket
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
GET ONE AND GET BUSY.

ians. Our tabled fishing fleets OF
Gloucester are nine-tenths Canad-
ians and Scandinavians In personnel.
IL Is now only in the back towns
and villages and In the true country
of New England that the pure native
American blood Is visible everywhere
land You are still reminded of Broth
er Jonathan. The foreign manufac.
turing influx has been so great and
the assimilation mas been so conr-
plete that; a new race has practi-
cally taken. the place of the ira
ditionat Yankee
Only the south has measu' ably
escaped this amalgamation. and one
must travel through the Carol;nas
and Georgia to find the true Ameri-
can breed. in form. face. speech and
spirit. One may travel for days in
the North and West among the. com
mon people and hear about every
language of the civilized world but
ones own, especially In the smoking
car. Any one may notice,if he Will.
that the list of the killed and injured
in any railroad accident In these sec.
tons. Invariably contains principally
foreign names. = te'@si't
or course, the most casual tray1
Ieler has observed the marked differ
ences between the peoples OF New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Boston. There are fundamental rem
sons for this difference. But how
about Rochester and Buffalo? And
why sho,.ld there be q difference
between the newer cities of st. Paul
and Minneapolis? have gone fyom
town like Columbus. Ohio. To n
town like Cleveland and marvcled
at the difference between every class
of their respective inhabitants.
SO some ten miles form Goshen to
Eikhart, Ind.,-both IN the same
crnly and on the same trunk lines
OF railroad-and; You can observe the
same thing. The towns and their
inhabitants have their own indivii-
ual characteristics. Why? There is
always reason, One is q railroad
ard manufacturing town. the other
an agricultural town. with. few man
Fractures. The manufacturing town
always differs materially from the
agrlcultural town. Not only are tho
people different. but their business
methods are. different
AS rule agricultural towns pre-
sent a more even and substantial
prosperity The pawnbroker .hrlves
only in manufacturing towns where
periodical strikes, and constantly
changing commercial conditions ms
constantly disturb all lines of bust
ness and all social spheres. There
are more poverty. immortality. and
general misery in. manufacturing
places more disturbances of social
order.
Squalor and ignorance and vice
rule mining towns. where usually
three or four very rich people live in
palaces, aud three or four thousand
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
midas EiImx Muslin.

Another story is told of weave
who was "chas:ised and turned ont
OF Dacca for his neglect In not pre-
venting COW from eating piece Of
muslin spread to dry on the grass
she mistaking it for spiders web
boits records the story about Mog-
null princess whose fathee- was IAN
cry with his daughter for showing
her skin through her clothes. where
upon the young princess rcmonstrat
ed in her Justification that she had
seven suits on!"-Indian World.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
COUPON.

On presentation at the Daily Press
Office, this Coupon and aOc entities
the bearer to one Captain gohn Smitla
Souvenir Puzzle. ~ the puzzle is TO be
mailed, DC must be added to cover
postage.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31

Most of our blessings have such a
thin sugar coating that the bitter
ness Is always tasting through.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-03-05
Order of Publication.

State Of Missouri. -
County Of Tancy, (SH'
In the circuit court April term. 1905
The state " Missouri Ht the relation and 10 tie
use Of 4 >. Brazeal, collector of the revenue
IN and for fancy county, plaintiff.
vs.
John Becker defendant
At this day comes the plaintiff herein. by his
attorney j. 9. l.. Mcknight and files his pcti.
ton and slltayit. alleging. among other things.
that defendant j. not resident Of the state Oi
Missouri:
Whereupon, IL j. ordered by The clerk IN Va.
cation that said defendant b. notified by publi.
cation that plaintiff has commenced a suit
aghin,t him IN this court, the object aud general
nature ~ which i to enforce the lien Of the state
Of Missouri Tor taxes iOr the year i!Eli up0n the
following described rearstatf. situated In Taney
county, Missouri. tO.wit: hf NJ qr section T.
township g, range Is, and that unless tn" said
John Becker b. and appear at this cnurt, ut the
next term thereof. 10 begun and holden at the
court house IN the town Of Forsyth. m said
county, on the 9Th day II April next and on OF
before the first day Of said term. unl.S. longer
time be given by the court answer or plesd 10 the
petition in said cause. the same will he taken MS
confessed and judgment will b. rendered &C.
cordingly.
and II is further ordered that copy hereof be
published, according 20 law, IN the Tnncy County
Republican new paper published in said county
Of Tancy for four weeks successfully. the last
Insertion be at least thirty DAYS before the first
day Of saii next april term Of this couft.
Johnnie II. Biankenship, Circuit Clerk.
true copy from the record
Witness my hand, and the seal Of the circuit
court Of fancy county, this 2ilh
IsEALl DAY 0f February igJs
Johnnie II. Blankcuship, Circuit Clerk.