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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17
The United States Census.

Briefly told the history OF CEN
sus taking ii the United States il
that twelve times we have made
inquiry into our state as nation.
at total outlay Of more than S57. :
600. 900. The thirteenth census
will bring the total expenditure to
upward Of SIC, 900 900. Starting
out in 1880 with but four questions
about a single subject Of inquiry
population the work expanded in
a hundred years to- such remarka-
BILE extent that in 1890 there we're
thirty one separate subjects Of in
quiry. carrying 13.16l questions.
The most remarkable expansion Of
the work of census taking took
place at the tenth census. in 1880.
AT the preceding census there had
been but twelve subjects of inqui-
ry. embracing only 156 details or
questions. Ii 1880 the number Of
subjects of inquiry was increased
from twelve to twenty-six, and the
number Of questions from 156 to
13, ,010. The lesson Of the top
heaviness of the tenth and eleventh
censuses did not fail to impress
itself on congress. and that body
limited the scope of the investiga-
tions of the twelfth census to four
subjects, population. agriculture.
manufactures and vital statistics,
leaving all other inquiries to
special Investigations.
The thirteenth census will follow
the lines of the twelfth in the
limitation of the scope of inquiry,
except that vital statistics will be
omitted and mines and quarries
substituted. About half of the
United States is now included in
what is known as registration
area where births and deaths
and the cause of death are register
ed by local authorities. The per-,
manent census now prepares an an
nual report on mortality statistics,
SO that the occasion for vital statis-
tics inquiries by the thirteenth CEN
sus has been removed.
1t is indeed a far cry from the
seventeen marshals and two hum
dred assistants, with their quill
pens and saddlebags, who took and
prepared the returns of the first
census. in 1870, to the director and
his force of 1000 assistants, with
their electrical tabuIating machin-
cry, who will take the forthcoming
census Of 1910. Likewise, it is a
long journey from the $44 900 that
was spent in taking the first census
to the $14. 100000 that will be spent
in the taking of the thirteenth.
A famous French statistician.
Moreau de Jonnes, declared during
his life that the United States pre-
sents a phenomenon without par
alIeI in history that of people
who instituted the statistics Of
their country on the very day they
founded their government, and who
regulated by the same instrument
the census of their inhabitants.
their civil and political rights and
the destinies Of the nation.
From the time that the great king
of Israel offended his God by TAX
ing count of his people down to
the present day, there have been
thousands Of reckonings Of popula-
tion, but nowhere else in the world
has the art Of census taking reach
ed the high state of perfection ex-
listing today in the United States.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17
Newspaper Man Has a Close Call.

Jackson, Miss, Nov Is. 1909.
A. G. WalthalI, local correspondent
of the Memphis Commercial Appeal
and the New Orleans Picayune. and
one of the best known newspaper
men in the State, was struck by
No. "a, northbound local train on
the Illinois Central. at the Union
Station at 2::30 o'clock this after
noon, and painfully injured. Mr..
Walthall was hurrying up the sta
tion tracks for the purpose of mail
ing a news letter to his Memphis
paper, and in stepping from ore Of
the tracks to avoid a Gulf and Ship
Island train backing away from the
station he stepped directly in front
of No. "a. and was hurled dis
tance Of several feet. Several by
ISLANDERS rushed to the assistance Of
the injured man, and he was car
ried to the Office of DR.. Ell. If.
Hughes, Illinois Central surgeon.
in the Hart building. where his
injuries were dressed. 1t was
found that his nose had been mash-
led and an ugly concussion inflicted
on the forehead. A careful exam
ination was made by Drs. Fl. II.
Hughes and N. G. Womack, who
stated that the injuries. while very
painful, are not likely to be OF
serious character unless the concus-
sion on the forehead causes a hem-
orrhage Of the brain.
Mr.. Walthall's first thought after
recovering consciousness was Of
his duties, and his first inquiry was
as to whether he had succeeded in
mailing his news letters. Assured
that he had, and that his interests
would not be permitted to suffer
while he Is incapacitated. he was
satisfied. He was placed under
the infiuelace Of an opiate, and slept
during mIHch of the afternoon
The news Of the accident spread
rapidly over the city. and there
were numerous anxious callers al
the WaIthaIl home during the
afternoon and evening Among the
| FIRST Of these was Governor Noel,
who has grown to admire The
wounded man very much during hiG
teefa II oIffre The popularity 81
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17

alien were going to come in and
steal our birthright. But now it
is possible for us to hold fast that
which is our own by right of in
heritance. the wonderful riches Of
the South. The boil weevil is the
final stroke which looses US from
our bondage to King Cotton. and
now we are about to march into
the land Of promise land flow.
ing with milk and honey which is
the New South.
N. T. TULL.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17
what the Boil hleeYII Can Do.

Mr.. Andy Greer. one Of the most
successful and thrifty farmers Of
district No. 8. Lincoln county, had
heard SO much about the boil wee.
vii and what he and his numerous
relations could do to the cotton
farmer when he got down to sure
enough business, Mr. Greer. like
the man from Missouri, wanted
to be shown. " Last Saturday
on his return from Adams county,
where he went to observe conditions
in some of the boil weevil sections
of that county. he called upon The
Leader and gave a brief report oi
some things he saw.
Mr.. Greer stated that when he
reached Natchez he made the object
Of his visit known to Mr.. Ben Viii
son, formerly of Brookhaven. and
was referred by him to Mr.. Geo.
w. Furhellon, a big planter and
merchant Of Natchez.
He learned from Mr.. Furhellon
that last year he had raised 945
bales of cotton on his plantation in
A dams county, but that this year
he had raised only 10 on the same
land. Mr.. FurheIlon then courte-
ousIy offered to carry him out in
the country to his cotton fields, so
that he might witness the situation
for himself. They accordingly
went out together and Mr.. Greer
says he was shown hundreds of
acres of as fine looking cotton,
viewing it from a distance. as he
ever saw in his life. The stalks
were large and full of green leaves
and still forming young squares.
and every acre nearly looked as if
it might have produced a bale or
more but when he got nearer and
inspected it more closely, he dis
covered that there had never been
any mature bolls on the cotton to
speak of-the weevils had made
almost clean sweep. He was
shown one tract of 120 acres of
fine cotton land equally subdivided
into four 80 acre sections, each be-
ing cultivated by separate squad.
From the fourishing appearance of
the stalks, every acre looked as if
it ought to have produced bale;
but Mr.. Greer was informed that
the whole crop had been picked
clean and that by the four squads
of negroes who had cultivated these
four 30 acre subdivisions putting
all of the cotton together, it would
make one bale!
Mr.. Greer says that all the cotton
he saw on this plantation seems to
have been we'll cultivated and he
could hardly believe his own eyes
when he saw what ravages the boil
weeviI had wrought, and strange to
say, he added, very few weevils
were visible in the cotton where
all this destruction appeared.
Other fields and plantations he did
not visit were reported just as bad.
"The very trusth is, added Mr..
Greer to the editor after he had fin
ished telling what he had found
out by his trip, 1T is SO bad I'm
afraid if tell it just like it is
people will not believe it and think
am yarning; but if there is any
body who doesn't believe it. / want
The Leader to tell him to go over
to Natchez and see MIR. Geo. w.
FurheIlon's plantation and others
for himself, as | did, or write to
that gentleman. whose address is
postoffice box 241, Natchez, and he
will find | haven't exaggerated in
the least.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17
CENTURY-OLD NEWSPAPERS.
A Club Of Eiehty-twO Formed in the
United States.

New York, Nov. 13. The World
tomorrow will say: Eighty-tWo
newspapers, which have been pub.
iIshed regularly in the United
States for one hundred years or
more, compose the Century Club of
American Newspapers, founded last
year at the suggestion of the st.
Louis Republic, which has just is
sued a booklet giving the history
Of all the 10O-year-old newspapers
of the United States.
The oldest daily paper on the list
is the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, founded by Benjamin Franklin
in 1928 as the Pennsylvania Weekly
Gazette, from which the Saturday
Evening Post also claims unbroken
descent.
Of the eighty-two members Of
the Century Club. fifty-fve are
daily papers and twenty-seven
weeklies. Twenty-Five are publish
ed in New England, thirty eight
in the Middle Atlantic States, ten
IN Ohio and Indiana. eleven South
of the Mason and Dixon's line
-four Of them ii virginia., and
only one, the st. Louis Republic,
west Of the Mississippi.
One paper of the eighty-two ii
published in a village Of less than
1000 inhabitants. Newmarket, ii
the Shenandoah Valley New York
has only four century-oId paper rs,
Philadelphia two and Chicago none.
For more than a century the
proprietary control Of the St Louis
Republic has been in the Knapp
and PaschalI families and Nsincf
1923 a Knapp or a PaschaH has beer
at the head Of either the editoria!
or the business department, Of
both.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-11-17

Or. Love stock medicines are
the best y0n can buy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

changed. The matter of laying
walks should be considered intel
gently so that the same will be
done in satisfactory manner and
at a minimum of cost.
Another pump of about the same
capacity as the one at present al
the light and water plant should
be installed as soon as possible.
In my opinion the city should
have team of their own to be kept
at the city hall and used in getting
out the fire apparatus in the night
time. During the day time the
team could be used in doing the
ordinary city work and there is suf.
6cient to keep a team busy nearly
all the time. A place in which
they could be kept could be exca.
waited at the rear of the city hall
without great expense.
Now that all the street water taps
have been closed it is necessary
that drinking fountain for horses,
cattle and dogs should be placed al
some convenient locality.
1 believe the city should lease
the sand pit from Mr.. Serner foI
another year as considerable sand
will be required should cement
walks be constructed.
LOUIS EIsENAcH, MAYOR.
City of Ely, MINI
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Sir Robert Hart, for many years in
spector general of Chinese customs,
has made a striking suggestion as to
the possible future of China. The
world has long wondered what would
happen if that great country of 4OO.-
100000 people should awake to its full
power and stand up like giant among
nations. Sir Roberts idea is reassur-
ing. The Chinaman is lover of
peace. China would turn round to the
rest Of the world and say, Gentlemen,
there must be no more fighting" The
strongest nation would become bene-
fcent policeman, keeping us little fel.
lows in order. Sir Robert says that it
is a curious statement, but not so un.
reasonable as it seems to those who do
not know Chi
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23
secret Service Duties.

It falls to the lot of the secret serv
ice, too, to protect the person Of the
president of the United States-a re
sponsibility that was first placed upon
this division after the tragedy at Buffa
10, and in addition to this the safety
Of distinguished and titled official Wis
itors from abroad Is intrusted to the
service. Prince Henry of Prussia.
Prince Fushimi Of Japan, the crown
prince of Siam, the crown prince OF
Sweden, the duke of Abruzzi, and
many others of lesser note have been
carefully protected from annoyance
while guests of the nation, and in no
instance has there occurred the slight
est incident to mar the pleasure and
tranquility of their visit. For more
than ten years the merit system has
prevailed in the service, which is
strictly non-partisan, non-political or
ganization. Pulls" are unknown and
unrecognized every man is measured
anu low dluC dCSOl uluS0 W LILO
cy and knows that his retention in the
service depends wholly upon the char
acter and quality of his work. He
wastes no time lining up influence" to
help him hold his job, and being free
from obligations and entanglements,
is able to devote his whole time and
energy to the impartial discharge OF
his duties. To this unhampered atten-
ton to the work of suppressing coun-
terfeiting says writer in the National
Magazine, I attribute the fact that to-
day the proportion of counterfeit
notes in circulation is aboue one to
100000; that is to say, that for each
half-million of genuine currency in cir
culation there are about five dollars in
counterfeit notes; and for each $780,
900 dollars in gold and silver in circu-
lation there is trifie under three dol
ars in counterfeit coin. All of which
would suggest that the business of
counterfeiting is not overwhelmingly
attractive as a financial proposition.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23
TelItaIe Footprints of Old.

A man never knows when he is COW
ering up his tracks; he never knows
how long they will stay covered or
who will get on his trail, says the Bal
timore Sun. Up in Canada, where
they are digging for the new Toronto
water works, the diggers found in the
blue clay 70 feet below the water line
the footprints of a gentleman who had
tramped around that way some years
ago. The biologists disagree as to the
exact time, some holding that the
freshness of the footprints indicates
that 1t was only $4,000 years ago, while
others believe that the toe-nail prints
indicate that it has been about 100000
years since the gentleman passed that
way. Not that this slight discrepancy
matters to the gentleman or to us; for
nobody had to sit on the fence there
and wait for him $4,000 years, even if
he did happen to be late.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

dition. I would recommend that
the city put in a certain amount of
cement sidewalks each year, using
the old lumber taken up for repairs
in other places and that all new
cross walks be put in of cement
In this manner after a certain time
the city will have all cement side
walks without having incurred
much more expense than would
nave been made in repairing the
wooden walks.
The city engineer should be in
structed to make and establish a
un form grade for the city so that
any work done will not have to be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23
MAYORS MESSAGE
Mayor Eisenach Makes Some
Recommendations
Gentlemen of the Council

Gentlemen of the Council
At this first meeting of the coun-
Gil l wish to call your attention tc
certain things which, in my opin
ion, should be done.
During the past year there has
been a great deal of complaint
about the main sewer in the west.
ern part of the city, where it fol.
lows the creek bottom to the lake;
1t IS fast becoming nuisance and
a menace to the health of the peo-
pie and / believe immediate action
should be taken toward construct
ing new sewer from the alley be-
tween Conan and Harvey Streets
down First Avenue and on to the
lake. AS the city has not sufficient
funds in the treasury for doing this
work the council should take action
toward obtaining same by bond
issue if necessary.
Last year it cost the city over
$500. 90 to keep the sidewalks in
repair and it will cost the city more
each year to keep the presen,
wooden sidewalks in proper con-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

THE sooner the Marathon craze
dies out, the better it will be for
the country's youth, declares the
Anaconda Standard. Physicians
everywhere are deprecating it. A
race of twenty-siX miles is a ter
rife strain for even the trained
athlete who is continually in con-
dition, and for a young man who is
not in training and not in the pink
of condition it is little else than
suicide. One medical writer says
that only athletes who have had
years of careful training should be
permitted to engage in such long
races, and the desire for continued
existence ought to restrain even
them from making the effort. No
man is made more fit for the per-
Torrance of any other duty in life
by running many miles without
falling in faint. On the contrary,
a young man who may have been
born with a weak heart may, by
careful and gentle regimen, so in
crease the strength of that organ
as to enable him to live to the full
age of man. Over eXertion IN
physical contests by the youth OF
the land needs to be carefully
guarded against by parents, guard
ianS and teachers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

The history of the country shows
that tyrannical oppression brought
on the founding of the United
States, standing today pre-eminent-
ly above any other country of the
earth. Why not cut loose from the
southern part of the state and form
a commonwealth of our own. Cal
the new state Superior name
indicative of the true condition Of
this end of the state over anything
in the Union today The lower
end could keep the name of Mime.
sofa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

J. J. HILL, says the farmers of
Minnesota are not as good as those
of neighboring states. AS the
larger part of the farmers are locat-
ed in the southern end of the state
where the principal part of their
energies are employed in lodging
taxes and trying to soak" the
northern end, it is not strange that
the statistics do not show up better.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Down in Sharon, Pa, preacher re-
Gently announced that he hoped all the
ladies of the congregation except the
elderly ones would remove their hats.
1t is needless to say that one minute
after his request was made not lady
in the church had ner hat on.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

The cost of a reservoir system ade-
quate to regulate the streams in the
Ohio basin is estimated at $125, 100000.
This estimate is based on a supposed
necessity for the building of 100 reser-
voirs at an average cost of $3.50, 900
each. To regulate the whole Missis-
sippi valley, in this manner would cost,
It is estimated. $500. 000. 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

A Cleveland judge has ruled that a
young girl has perfect right to sit on
her sweetheart's knee. This seems
fair enough, but can't man even ask
her to get off when his foot's asleep?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

1t is said satirical history of the
kaiser is to be published in Germany
and that nothing has been limited of its
suppression on the ground of lese ma.
este. If the pendulum is going to
swing as far to the other side as it
has been kept on the one, there is
going to be some interesting contem-
porary history made in the near flu.
ture.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Some of the old love letters of ST
Walter Raleigh to his wife have beer
unearthed. Couldn't Lillian Russel
get them and give the love letters sen
to her the benefit of contrast?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Don't you rather miss the old-time
hotel clerk with a 60-candle-poweI
stone on the front of his shirt? He
belonged to the less strenuous day
when men had time to be sociable.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

About year ago it was predicted
that Boston would sink into the sea
some time during the year 1908. We
hasten to congratulate Boston on hav.
ing lived down that prediction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

The author of How to Be Happ'
Though Married." is accused by h
wife of driving her out of the hous,
with a razor He knew how, a.
right.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

HARRIS BENNETT, one of the
best known of the Johnson sup.
porters in this country has beer
appointed a surveyor general Of
logs and lumber for the Duluth
district. Bennett received his dues
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

1t will be suspected that several of
New York's rich men, if not more
were guilty of disingenuousness when
they were answering the questions of
the personal property assessor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gil.
man ought to rise to protest against
the governments expected argument
that when Mrs. Chan l. Wing, the pref.
ty Chinese woman now being held by
the authorities on the charge of being
unlawfully in this country, left her
husband she became "laborer." Mrs.
Gilman's contention recently has been
precisely opposite.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

GOODBYE to the cigarette after
August 1. The Minnesota 1egis-
lature has decreed the death of the
stick" and the markings" and
the governor has signed the bill,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

A milkman has invented an airship.
It ought to be fine for delivering milk
to the third and fourth story flats.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23
Properly, OF course. sIguln

Properly, of course, d sIedIn
merely the scent or trail by which :
fugitive is followed, but 'by extension
q sleuth is also a detective, and the
ordinary purveyor of language avails
himself of the extension.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

In sleeping out of doors during the
winter season it is permissible for
bald-headed gentlemen to wear stock
ing caps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Cuba has put her own shoulder to
the Wheel" says an exchange How
many revolutions does that portend?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

A Pennsylvania butcher has manu-.
featured a sausage 81 feet long. A
regular dachshund of sausage!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Any gentleman with the patrOnymic
of Lowell should make good presi-
dent of Harvard university.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23

Somehow, the uplift of the farmer
and his wife seems to have been lost
sight of in the recent rush.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23
Application fOrLiquOr
License
State Of Minnesota. 90
County of ST. Louis. 90

State of Minnesota. So
County of ST. Louis.
Notice is hereby given that appli-
cation has been made in writing To
he village council of the village Of
Fall Lake aud filed in the office of the
village recorder praying for license
30 sell intoxicating liquors in the low
ar front room of he building situal ed
N lot IL, block !, original platof Fall
Lake. and to the following named per-
aOn, viz;
ANDREW PETERSON
for the tenn of one year beginning
Nav It'll. 1909, and ending May 9th,
1910.
Said application will be heard and
determined ny said village council al
he council CHAMBERS in the village
nall in said village. COUNTY and state.
on Tuesday the 81 day Of April 1919,
Witness my hand and the seal of
laid village this IA da, Of April 1909.
4 % CHAs G. NILSSON. Recorder.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-04-10

Our sale Easter have the larg
Of the Suits taking place ohOse sodl