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Census Returns Show Lure of City
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WASHINGTON. The census bureau
has made public figures concern
ing enough localities to indicate cer
tain interesting trends in the growth
Df American population. What stands
out first is, of course, the general in
crease in population all over the coun
try. While this growth la perhaps
more striking in the middle west, or
even in the far west, the east is little
behind those sections. Increases in
city population rarely fall below 20 j
per cent, for the last ten years. Often
the increase is considerably in excess
of 50 per cent.
This growth has been expected, but '
there will probably be some surprise
to find how far the growth of the
cities exceeds that of the rural dis
tricts. Here, save in a few localities,
there is an increase, but generally it
Is below ten per cent.
Some spot in Illinois may mark the
center of population for another ten
years. It is worth while to emphasize
Uncle Sam Watching Aeroplane Men
THE experts in both the army and
A the navy are watching with keen
interest the development of the
heavler-than-air craft. While the of
ficials are not willing to say much pub
licly about the possibilities of the use
of airships In time of war, they are
saying privately that the probability
is that when the next great war comes
the airship will play a more effective
part than battleships, land batteries,
or great masses of troops.
The prediction is freely made by
army and navy officials in private that
not a dollar will ever be spent in forti
fying for the protection of the Panama
canal. They have arrived at this con
clusion because they think they fore
see that within a few years the airsliip
will be brought to a stage of perfec
tion that will enable It auicklv to de
stroy any rortincatlon3 tnat might be
erected along the route of the canal.
Congress at the recent session de
clined to appropriate money for the
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VICE-CONSUL General Stuart J. Ful
ler of Hongkong sheds light on a
problem which has vexed the brain of
man for many moons where all the
hair comes from which goes to make
up the wide expanse of coiffure which
adorns the head of woman.
Much as he would like to believe
that all womankind has suddenly come
Into the secret possessed by the Seven
Sutherland Sisters, detached wisps,
curls and occasional plaits, to say noth
ing of startling variation in texture,
has forced upon the most unobservant
suspicion that she bedecks herself
with a foreign product. Our represen
tative at Hongkong clinches the evi
dence with brutal statistics. He gives
the following data of the quantities
and value of hair shipped from that
port in the last three 'ears:
Overhauling the
TIE treasury building is undergoing
another overhauling, which this
time costs $180,000. The renovators
have been at work on tha Jreasurv
building for a good many years. Not
very much has been done to the inside
cf the great pile of masonry, where
the United States money is kept, but
more or less work is all the time going
on on the outside. All of the original
sandstone or soft limestone that faced
the outside of the building has been at
last removed, and granite has been put
In its place. The principal change that
will now be made will be to eliminate
the huge granite entrance steps on the
Fifteenth street side. Several new
passenger elevators will be installed.
Lockers v I II be-furnlshed sufficient for
all of the clerks; the money-handling
divisions will be segregated on the
ground floor; supplies will be shipped
from the west entrance instead cf the
1 J fejLA mice: (
the word "may," because there is not
available at this time much definite
information on which to make specula
tion as to where the center of popula
tion will be.
The remarkable increase In the pop
ulation of Oklahoma must be taken
into consideration in a speculation as
to where the center of population is
likely to "light." A fact worth bearing
in mind is that the increases in popu
lation in the east particularly have
been In the larger cities.
The center of population has moved
almost due westward since 1790, when
It was at a point 23 miles cast of Balti
more. From 1730 to 1800 it moved
almost due west to a point IS miles
west of Baltimore. In the next ten
years, from 1800 to 1810, it moved
westward and slightly southward to a
point about forty miles northwest by
west of Washington.
During the ten years between 1890
and 1900 the "center" moved west
ward a little over 14 miles and south
ward a little les3 than three miles, and
halted at a point six miles southeast
of Columbus, Ind. This movement be
tween 1890 and 1900 was the smallest
in 100 years.
The "center" will have to travel
something like 70 miles to get beyond
the borders of Indiana this year.
fortification of the canal. No public
reason for this failure to make an ap
propriation was ever announced, but
it is now pretty well understood that
the experts in both the war and navy
.departments suggested that it would
be well to defer action until the gov
ernment understands better what to
expect of the airship.
Officials in the army and navy de
partments are greatly impressed with
the performances of Glenn Curtiss
with his aeroplane at Atlantic City re
cently. Those performances were not
under the auspices of either the war
department or the navy department,
but agents of each of the fighting arms
were present, and were deeply im
pressed with what Curtiss was able to
do. They have reported to their re
spective departments that from a
height that would have protected him
reasonably well from a fire directed
at him from either land or water, he
dropped small articles on boats and on
objects on land with remarkable pre
cision. Some of the experts from the de
partments who saw the Curtiss per
formances came back firmly convinced
that if war should come on tomorrow
the aeroplane would be able to do de
structive work.
Ypar. Pounds. Value.
1907 6R.132 $ 14,8S0
1908 207.2S3 92,209
lSOJ, 445,733 327,559
Note how the price has soared. In
1907 hair was worth only about twenty-five
cents a pound, wholesale, and
we imported only 5G.132 pounds of it,
while in 1909 we brought in 445,733
pounds, with the price at something
more than seventy cents. Such a rate
of growth in face of so rapid an in
crease in price is almost unprecedent
ed in other lines of commerce and is
another illustration that woman wants
what she wants when she wants it and
is going to have it expense be
hanged!
Our diplomatic representative leaves
us in the dark as to what woman in
China is doing for hair. If the trade
keeps on, the will certainly be bald in
course of time. He pays a compli
ment, however, to the geniu3 of the
Chinese artist by remarking that "Chi
nese hair is treated at home in various
ways so as to match almost any tex
ture desired," leaving us to conclude
that the diversity of color not infre
quently noted on the same head is
due to lack of circumspection on the
part of American women.
Treasury Building
Fifteenth street; frieze windows will
be placed on 'the third floor, and a
general adjustment of bureaus and
divisions will be made to facilitate the
work. The treasury department has
been seriously overcrowded for a num
ber of years. One of the very first im
provements was the elimination from
the building of the branch priuu
office, with its combustible inks, oils,
etc. With the great Fifteenth street
steps removed, a fine entrance at
grade will be provided for the em
ployes, and a count will be kept of the
people entering and leaving the build
ing, which at the present time seems
to be impossible. At the present time
the employes are obliged to carry
their clothing, hats, rubbers, umbrel
las and everything of that character
into their working rooms, so that lock
ers are imperative. It will certainly
be $180,000 mighty well expended, for
in the present condition of the treas
ury department it is impossible to
keep It clean or to run it on business
ike methods with departments of the
various bureaus widely separated, so
ciiit the chief of one of these spends
most of his time traversing the corri
dors in his attempt to keep track of
hla clerk3 and of his work.
Their Minds in
President and Great Warrior
Who Thought Alike,
Garfield, After Political Victory, and
the Duke of Wellington, After
f Waterloo, Used the Same
Words.
"There were many Btrange coinci
dences in connection with my associa
tion with President Garfield as a mem
ber of his cabinet," said Garfield's
postmaster general, Thomas L. James,
recently. "But I sometimes think that
the most interesting of them occurred
during an afternoon I spent wtth Glad
stone at his country home at Hawar
den. "I went to the national Republican
cosvention of 1880, held in Chicago, as
a spectator. My personal impression
was that either Blaine or John Sher
man would b nominated for presi
dent. I did not see how It was pos
sible for Senator Conkling and the
others who were leading the battle In
favor of Grant's third nomination to
succeed. When I, heard General Gar
field's magnificent address. In which
he placed John Sherman In nomination-
for the presidency, It seemed to
me that in all the United States you
could find no Republican more worthy
of the nomination and election than
Garfield himself. That, however, was
only a passing thought, although,
after Garfield was nominated, I re
called the vivid impression he made
upon me by his address.
"Within a few hours after his nom
ination, Garfield's friend, Mr. Henry,
whom Garfield afterwards appointed
United States marshal for the District
of Columbia, called upon me, and
asked me If it would be convenient
for me In the course of an hour or
two to call upon General Garfield.
"'Has he asked to see me?' I ven
tured to say.
" Yes ; in fact, I have come directly
from him to you, was the reply. J
"Of course, I felt highly honored by
the invitation, and in the course of
half an hour was heartily received by
Garfield. He had apartments in tho
old Grand Pacific hotel. He led me to
the eofa after I had congratulated
him, sat down by my side, and en
tered upon a very chatty and cordial
Afraid of "Innocents Abroad"
Why Its Publishers First Accept
ed Twain's Work.
Readers and Directors of Company
Rejected It, but President Bliss
Was Sure Public Would
Like Book.
The late Charles Dudley Warner,
who collaborated with Mark Twain in
writing "The Gilded Age," In which
the immortal Colonel Mulberry Sell
ers was introduced to the world, told
me thi3 story of how the book that
gave Mark Twain a permanent place
among American humorists came to
be accepted by its first publishers.
"Out of a series of newspaper
letters that he wrote while touring the
Orient Mark Twain built his book,
'Innocents Abroad,' " said Mr. Warner,
whose fame as a humorist of the re
fined type lives after him. "The book
completed, It looked for a time as
though its author would be unable to
find a publisher for It. Finally
probably In a sort of desperation, but
I do not know for a certainty how he
came to do it Mark Twain submitted
the manuscript to a -firm of Hartford,
Conn., publishers, whose productions
were sold exclusively by subscription;
and looking back on it now it does
seem the height of audacity for a com
paratively unknown author of books
to contemplate having a book of the
extraordinary character of 'Innocents
Abroad sold by subscription.
"Well, in the course of time the
manuscript of 'Innocents Abroad' was
carefully studied by the salaried read
ers of the corporation and then re
ported upon very unfavorably a cir
cumstance probably due to the fact
that the work was along entirely orig
inal lines; and in addition, I have al
ways suspected that a great deal of
its humor was not appreciated by the
readers.
"With their report to the board of
directors the readers turned over the
manuscript of the book. There fol
lowed a lively discussion among the
directors as to the propriety of ac
cepting or rejecting the manuscript
upon the report of the readers. Some
of the directors criticised severely
certain things in the book, and .all, bo
far as I have been able to learn,1 were
at one period in great doubt about th
w?dom of either accepting or reject
Ik.j it, 'but finally, by a practically
unanimous opinion the board decide!
a)t to publish the bock.
"The president of the company at
that time was a Mr. Bliss, a quiet
yjan whose face never revealed the
real sense of humor that its owner
possessed, though It did stamp Lim as
Same Groove
conversation. He was perfectly nat
ural In his demeanor. He seemed to
be unaffected by his triumph, and I
even thought I detected a hint of eith
er weariness or sadness in his tone or
manner. ,
"By and by I felt that it wad time
for me to go, and as I prepared to
take my leave I congratulated Garfield
once more. He took my hand In his,
and this tim there was a sad note
In his voice as he said: 'I am now dis
covering that next to the hour of de
feat, the saddest hour is that of vic
tory. I pondered long over that
strange remark, but I know now that
in the moment of victory there often
cornea an overwhelming sense of the
responsibilities it carries.
"Some years later I was visiting in
England and was invited wtth my
family and one or two American
friends to a tea and lawn party at
Hawarden. It was then that I first
Retort That
Remark Vigorous That Put'f
Quietus on New York Senator.
Cold, Caustic Rebuke Received by the
Now Yorker . When He Was
Gloating' Over His Defeat
of Arthur.
When Roscoe Conkling and Thomas
C. Piatt broke with President Garfield
and resigned from the senate of the
United State, they expected Vice
President Chester A. Arthur, who also
hailed from New York, to join with
them in attempting to persuade the
New York state legislature to re-elect
them as senators, as their state's in
dorsement of their opposition to Presi
dent Garfield. General Arthur, how
ever, felt that he could not with pro
priety take any part in the attempt
of the ex-senators to seek vindication;
in fact, he did not interfere in their
behalf In the slightest way, and so
there began the Conkllng-Platt ani
mosity towards , the vice-president
which was intensified after General
Arthur became president.
It was intense political hatred of
his old-time associate that caused
a keen business man. He waited until
his directors had agreed to reject
Mark Twain'a manuscript, and then
delivered a little speech.
"'Well, gentlemen,' he said, 'you
have all had an opportunity to ex
press your opinion aa to whether or
not our company should publish this
work, and your collective decision,
based upon your individual views,
seems to be decidedly against the
publication of it. Now that you have
had your opportunity to publish thi3
book, and have rejected it, I want to
say to you that I shall immediately
enter into negotiations with Mark
Twain for the purpose of publishing
the book on my own personal account.
The humor of it is new, I'll admit, but
I am positive that it will be cordially
welcomed by the American people for
this reason, if for no other. To me
the . reading of the manuscript has
been a delight. I am willing to risk
a considerable amount of my per
sonal means to publish it, for I am
satisfied that it will prove a most
profitable venture for me. That is
all, gentlemen.'
"For a few moments after Presi
dent Bliss finished speaking there wa3
considerable embarrassment in that
directors' meeting," continued Mr.
Warner. "Then one of the board
spoke up. 'Why,' he said, 'if the
president of this company Is of that
opinion and sees a fair profit in the
publishing of this work, I think tho
company ought to publish it'
" 'It is- just as you say, gentlemen,'
said the president.
"So they decided to publish 'Inno
cents Abroad and entered into the
necessary negotiations with Mark
Twain. Everybody knows what the
re sult was. It was the bit of the time.
It sold like hot cakes, and I have al
ways believed it to bo true that Mark
Twain's royalty in the first two or
three years after its publication ag
gregated $100,000."
(Copyright. 1910. by E. J. Edward3.)
Conclusive.
The girl with the blonde hair and
the dark girl with the dimple were
making various purchases preparatory
to their summer vacation. When It
came to bathing suits there was a
disagreement. The girl with the
blonde hair wanted to select a de
cidedly abbreviated costume, and the
dark girl with the dimple was trying j
to aissuacie ner.
"You are not tall enough to wear
it," remonstrated the dark girl. "Don't
you know a skirt that end 3 above the
knee3 makes a g'.rl look shorter?"
"I know it makes the men look
longer," Insinuated tho little blende.
And that settled the matter.
met Gladstone. He took me through
the park, pointed out Its beauties, es
pecially the great trees, talked tariff
for a while, and then asked me to tell
him something about General Gar
field something of his personal char
acteristics and whether it was true
that Garflejd was all his mature life a
student of the classics Virgil, Homer
and the other great writers of an
tiquity.. "Mr. Gladstone was immensely In
terested when I told him of Garfield's
habit of reading a page of some classic
every morning while he dressed.
Then, some association of ideas bring
ing the incident to mind, I repeated
what Garfield had said to me la Chi
cago when I congratulated him ,the
second time upon his nomination for
the presidency.
"Gladstone was clearly startled. He
stepped for an instant in his walk and
turned his great, unfathomablo eyes
upon me. 'Did he say that? ho ex
claimed. 'Why, that was exactly what
the Duke of Wellington said after Wa
terloo!"' (Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards.)
Silenced Plait
Thomas C. Piatt, at the, Chicago Re
publican national convention of
1S84, to support James G. Blaine for
the presidential nomination, though
Blaine, also, was an old-time political
enemy. Nevertheless between the
two, Piatt preferred to see the nom
ination go to Blaine, and because of
Piatt's support and political cunning
Blaine triumphed over Arthur.
Piatt always contemplated with
great satisfaction the part ho played
in defeating Arthur at Chicago. On
the evening of the day that he brought
about this, defeat he was In great good
humor, and be did not hesitate to
show it to the politicians who crowded
about him as he sat upon one of the
benches in the lobby of tho Grand Pa
cifl hotel.
In the midst of the congratulations
that were being showered upon ' him
on the successful outcome of the big
politics that he had played, Senator
Piatt suddenly spied General Howard
Carroll of New York city passing
through the lobby. For years General
Carroll had been an intimate personal
and political friend of President Ar
thur's. Piatt knew it, and he aleo
knew that General Carroll was great
ly depressed by the defeat of Arthur
in the convention; nevertheless, Piatt
hailed him, and the general walked
J over to where the "easy boss" was
holding court.
"Howard," said the senator with a
manner that clearly showed the vin
dictive pleasure he was taking In his
triumph, and in a voice loud enough
for all to hear, "I think I have at last
succeeded in ending the career of
your elaborately dressed friend in
Washington."
There was no need for Piatt to
specify further; everyone In the group
knew of General Arthur's penchant for
immaculate dress. But as the presi
dent's friend , stood there, apparently
alone in a circle of political enemies,
and not daring to trust himself to
make reply, a voice close by spolA up.
"Senator Piatt," it said, and the
tones were clear and defiant, "you for
get that General Arthur is president;
you forgot that you cannot erase his
name from the list of presidents. And
I tell you now, In your hour of tri
umph, that as time goes on he will
stand higher and higher in the es
teem of the American people, and his
memory will be respected long after
the name of Tom Piatt has been for
gotten."
It was the retort vigorous, and, de
livered with calculated coldness, it
struck Thomas Collier Piatt silent, in
the hour of his triumph, with his po
litical cronies and adulators grouped
about him.
(Copyright, 110, by E. J. Edwards.)
Putting It Politely.
After yachting, Lord Brassey's fa
vorite recreation Is cricket. On the
magnificent grounds surrounding his
beautiful Sussex seat matches are
frequently held during the season.
Of one of these fights his lordship
once told a capital story. It appears
that there was a scarcity of available
talent, with the result that it was
necessary to secure one' of . Lord
Brassey's footmen as umpire. In due
course, his lordship himself went In,
and, a local bowler was put on. The
second ball he stopped with his leg,
and the cry was raised "How's that?"
It was the footman who had to an
swer, and turning to his master,
he exclaimed in a half apologetic
tone: "I'm afraid I must say, 'Not at
home, your lordship."
"Not at home?" cried Lord Brassey.
"What do you mean?"
"Well. then, if you will have it."
the butler made answer, "I mean you
are hout"
Hcuce of Smacks.
Cupid passed a railroad station and
removed his bat
"Know anybody in there?" asked
his friend. Hymen.
"No, but that place is a great insti
tution. Mere kissiug goes on in there
tinder the excuse of boarding depart-
I ing trains than anywhere else in the
J world.'
Striking Article In North American
Review That Is Attracting Wide
Attention.
The attention of business and pro
fessional men In all portions of the
country has been attracted to a strik
ingly strong article by Col. George
Harvey in the September Issue of the
North American Review in which the
writer takes a view of the greatest
hopefulness for the future of America
and Americans. The article is en
titled "A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense," and It is meeting
with the cordial approval of business
men of all shades of political opinion
throughout the entire country. In
part, Colonel Harvey ays:
"Unquestionably a! ' Spirit of unrest
dominates the land. But, If it1 be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country is sound, must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before clouds
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyze conditions, search
for causes, find the root of the dis
tress, which even now exists only In
men's ml'fids and then, after the
American fiJlion, apply such rem
edies as BcC.b most likely to produce
beneficent results?
Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
"The Link that connects labor with
capital is not broken but we may not
deny that it is less cohesive than it
should be or than conditions war
rant. Financially, the country is
stronger than ever before in Its his
tory. Reoovery from a panic so
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt and compara
tively complete. The masses are
practically free from debt. Money is
held by the banks in abundance and
rates are low.
"Why, then, does capital pausa
upon the threshold of investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain.
It awaits adjustment of the relations
of government to business. The
sole problem consists of determining
how govrnment can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
of interests, on the one hand, and the
wrhole people, on the other, protect
ing the latter against extortion and
saving the former from mad assaults.
"The solution 13 not easy to find
for the simple reason that the situ
ation is without precedent. But is
not progress being made along sane
and cautious lines?
Conserve Common Sense.
"Is not tho present, as we have
seen, - exceptionally secure? What,
then, of preparations for the future?
Patriotism is the basis of our insti
tutions. And patriotism in the minds
of our youth is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring. It
Is taught In our schools. A new
course has been added a course in
loyalty. Methodically, our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries, conventions and elections,
how to discriminate between qualifica
tions of candidates and, finally, how
to govern as well as serve. They are
taught to despise bribery and all
forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creed, which they are
made to know by heart, is not com
plex. It is simple, but comprehen
sive, no less beautiful in diction than
lofty in aspiration. These are the
pledges which are graven upon their
memories:
"As it is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, so it is coward
ly for any citizen not to contribute
his share to the well-being of his
country. America is my own dear
land; sh nourishes me, andf I will
love her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant andivil soldier
I am. '
"As the health and happiness of
my' body depend upon each muscle
and nerve and drop of blood doing
its work in its place, so the health
and happiness of my country depend
upon each citizen doing his work In
his place. f 1
"These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles ani
mating their lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been laid with such
care and promise of durability?
"The future, then, is bright And
the present? But one thing is need
ful. No present movement is more
laudable than that which looks to
conservation of natural resources.
But' let us never forget that the great
est Inherent resource of the Amer
ican people is Common Sense: Let
that be conserved and applied with
out cessation, and soon it will be.
found that all the ills of which M-e
complain but know not of are only
such as attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country.
He Knows the Game.
According to the Metropolitan Meg
azine, Fire Chief John Conway of Jer
sey City, h. solved the baseball ex
cuse question by the posting of the
following printed notice on hia desk
at fire headquarters:
"All requests for leave cf absence
owing to grandmothers' funerals, lame
back, house cleaning, moving, sore
throat,' headache, brainstorm, cousins
wedding, g-ineral imlif position, ctc.
must be hnr.ded to the chief not later
than ten o'c.'ock cn the morning of the
;aine."