The Democrat.
FRIDAY, MAY 30. 1890.
REPORTS from the West continue to
come in announcing serious injury to the
wheat crop.
OVER 200 German immigrants arrived
in Pittsburgh over the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Saturday afternoon.
THE fruit crop promises well. All but
the peach crop, and that you know is al
ways a dismal failure about this time cf
the year.
THE Bracers' and Dealers' Journal says,
concerning Philadelphia : " There are
in this city about one thousand licensed,
and over live thousand unlicensed places
for selling liquar.
THE Senate has received the tariff bill
and has referred it to the Committee on
Finance. If the bill is as long in the Sen
ate as in the House, Congress will
be in session all summer.
STAM-EY, the African explorer, regards
the young Emperor of Germany as one of
the wide-awake men of the times whose
purposes are well defined and whose plans
in their achievement are of the best that
could be m ide.
DELEGATES to tliu number of 350, repre
senting the engineers, firemen, conduc
tors, brakemen and switchmen, met in
Indianapolis yesterday to consider meas
ures for a federation of the different
unions. The scheme was adopted and
will be submitted to the engineers' con
vention in the fall for ratification.
THE Salt Lake Herald says that one
marked result of Mormon rule is that
that city of 50,000 people has no debt and
has the lowest tax rate of auy city in the
United Siates—five mills a year. The
rest of the country might take some les
sons in municipal financieiing from the
Salt Lake people, while the latter would
profit by adopting the marital >icws of
the former.
SOME people are kicking against the
inquisitorial nature of many of the ceusns
inquiries. There is now no time to amend
the matter and the best thing the American
citizen can do is to make up his mind to
answer them and avoid trouble to himself
and to others. That the statistics called
for will be useful there can be no doubt,
although it is likely that some points the
information received will hardly be taken
as a true representation of things concern
ing which inquiries arc made.
OCT of the 2,000,000 inhabitants of Nor
way as many as 20,000 emigrate to the
United every year. The cause seems to
be, not that the country is too poor to sup
port the the population, but that an ans
tocratic class has been built up which ob
tains its slamp of nobility from the uni
versities, and in its selfish exclusiveness
cares nothing for the needs of the arti
sans, the tradesmen or the agriculturists.
Says the Philadelphia llecord: Such a
draining of the bone and sinew of a na
tion is a false economic policy. It is just
as true to day as it ever was that
—a bold peasantry, their country's pride
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
A FUNNY incident connected with the
censorship of the press lately occurred
at Constantinople. A Greek benevolent
•ociety in publishing its report, put on its
title page a quotation from Paul's Eoistle
to the Oalatians. Soon a police oflici r
swooped down upon the office where it
was printed, and demanded of the editor
information of who this Paul was who
was writing letters to Galata, a suburb of
Constantinople, as he had orders to pro
cure copies of these letters and bring
Paul himself to headquarters. In vain
the editor explained that Paul could not
be brought to headquarters, for he was
dead. The officer retorted thai his orders
were to bring Paul, and If he could not
bring Paul to bring the editor. His pro
test that Paul had been in heaven eighteen
hundred years was of no avail ; the edi
tor was taken to headquarters and thrown
into prison. Finally the Greek Patriarch
interfered, presented the bureau of cen
sorship with a copy of Paul's letter, and
at last succeeded in convincing the astute
officials that the letter was not addressed
to the people of Galata, but to a province
of the ancient Roman Empire, where
upon the unfortunate editor was liberated
from durance vile.
IN the advocacy of his land loan bureau
Ben at or Stanford, in speaking in Senate
on Friday last, said : "The principal of
the Government loaning money upon
property is completely established in its
present advance of ninety per cent upon
Government bonds. The tremendous
results of energizing this ninety per cent
and putting it into activity are apparent
to all. Equally valuable will be the ener
gizing of the latent forces of real estate-
The bill confines its provisions for 1 oans to
agricultural lands, but in time they will
probably be extended to some other kinds
of property and even to municipalities
with proper restrictions." The bill is on
a level with the proposition to establish
store-nouses for surplus agricultural pro
ducts and Issuing certificates to a certain
value of the same in that is getting away
from the business of the Government.
The country has witnessed the " tre
mendous results of energizing" the ninety
per cent by the national banks. While
getting interest on SIOO,OOO, the banks
have the useof 4 500,000 of it. That would
be enough to energize mostly any branch
of business, but where would such a
scheme stop were its extension to be com
mented
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
The Rain—The Craze for the Flag—Capital
and Labor—The Condition of Many
Worker*.
OAKDAI.E, STANILAUS. GO , CAL.,)
May 19. 1890. /
■lonw Bailor of Johnstown Democrat.
On the 7th inst., we had a great rain
that extended throughout all central Cali
fornia, a rain that completely saturated
the ground the fall being 1.35 of an incb
This made the gardens worth double, and
the wheat crop worth one-third more than
what they were the day before, but it was
death to the hay. Hay here is made of
barley or wheat, cut when it is yet green,
and rain spoils it very easily. There was
a big loss in hay, and in cherries and
strawberries in the gardens.
Since the rain we have had very warm
weather tor May, but it is cooler to-day.
The Signal Service is a total failure in this
State. The officials do not pretend to tell
the condition of the weather, except
twenty-four hours ahead, and then they
miss half-time.
There is nothing said in this State about
census taking, matters being kept very
close, but there is no doubt but that the
11 ma arc well matured and the deputies
appointed. It will be a J'at take for the
party in power, which the Democratic
party might and should have had if Presi
dent Cleveland had not put out too much
paper.
The craze in this State is raising the U.
S. colors on the various school houses in
the different counties. It looks like
patriotism until one considers who is at
the lieud of it. then it dwindles down to
very small dimensions. Not oue out ot
ten that make the biggest noise, would
risk his life in defense of the country if it
were imperilled. It reminds one of the
crv of loyalty during the war. Loyalty,
draft, and substitute were the three
things most noticeable then.
We may need patriots soon, if the diffi
culties between capital and labor grows
to greater dimensions. Where these
difficulties will end .time cad only de
velop. The old world as well as the new
is shaken to the centre. Men of capital
can buy legislation, and the laborer will
be oppressed in proportion to the ability
of the capitalist, which is becoming
greater every day, but there is a limit to
endurance.
There are hundreds of thousands of
men, women auil children now in the
United States who cannot tell where to
morrow's grub will come from, or where
they will earn the next dime. From the
poor sewing girl to the sun-burned laborer
the wail of poverty goes up, while
millionairs are increasing by the thousand.
There must.be something wrong in our
system of political economy .that pro
duces this state of thiugs. How these
wealthy people can feast on fat things
and glitter in jewelry, when they know
that the money that bought them has
been extorted from the poor without con
scientious remorse is a mystery to those
who are not initiated. But such is the
case. Why do people who are over
burdened with wealth grasp for more?
This, to me, is stranger than fiction.
Yours,
8. B. MCCORMICK.
THE RIG IST CRM.
A Regular Hurricane AUUeil In the Heavy
Rain Hues Much Damage Near Maker's
Furnace on Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon just preceding the
heavy raina destructive wind storm passed
over a portion of East Wheatfielil town
ship, Indiana county, doing much dam
age. It was somewhat in the nature of a
cyclone, and first struck on the farm of
Benjamin Stutsman, near Baker's Furnace,
and taking a northerly course swept over
a section about forty rods wide and a
mile or so in length, and doing much dam
age. Part of Mr. Stutsman's baru was
unroofed and a large shed completely de
molished, heavy timbers being carried
quite.a distance. A number of children
and young people who were in the barn
at the time miraculously escaped unhurt.
All the fruit trees on Mr. Stutsman's farm
were uprooted, and the adjoining farm of
Harvey Fmlcy fared nearly as badly.
Fences and trees were torn down all along
the path of the storm and at Mr. Shryock's
on the old pike near Armagh considera
ble damage was also done.
TWO MEN HORRIBLY MANGLED.
Fifty FOUIKIH of Dynam te Explode During
■ t Fire Caused bv Lightning.
MANSFIELD, 0., May 27.— A powerfu'
rain storm passed over this place Satur
day night, accompanied with lightning
and thunder. Lightning struck the John
Charles block in Lucas, six miles east of
this city, about 3 o'clock in the morning.
The hlock took fire from the stroke, and
was entirely consumed, together with two
dwellings adjoining. There is no fire
apparatus in the city, and the citizens
turned out with buckets, but could do
nothing toward extinguishing the fire-
Wlien tlicy saw this their efforts were
directed toward saving the contents of
the building. While removing the goods
about fifty pounds of dynamite, which
was kept in the store, exploded with dis
astrous effect. The bodies of John Smith,
and Jeremiah Jones were horribly man
gled and mutilated beyond recognition.
About twenty-five persons in all were
more or less injured. The seriously in
jured are: Joseph Ilanna, bad cut on
forehead and limbs; F. Russel, severe
cut over left .eye ; John Gallagher, leg
severely bruised by falling from a ladder;
F. Myers, badly hurt by 11 ying bricks.
Of the remaining persons injured none
are considered seriously hurt. Physicians
were quickly summoned, who attended
the injured. The report of the explosion
was heard five miles distant, and the
shock was so great that nearly all the
windows io the village were broken.
A YEAR AFTER THE FLOOD.
HOW A NEW I IT* OK JOHNSTOWN IS
RISING FROM THE RUINS.
A Million Uollars Fnt Into Permanent Im
provemente Since That Fatal 31st of
May—Town LoU Are Higher Than They
Were Before the Flood. Money In Not
Scarce, the Mills Are Running. Pay Bays
Have Taken the Place of Charity, and
the Community Is Regaining Its Pros
perity.
The Pittsburgh Timtn , of Saturday,
contained the following, written by Mr.
George 11. Welshons, " St. Geo," a cor
respondent of that paper, who was in this
city on Friday:
In a week it will be a year since the
flood.
The grass is green and lush in the
mountain-bound hollow where the lake
crouched for its deadly leap, and green
over thousands of iittle hillocks ou the
hills hereabout, that would not be there
but for that day. The forgetful grass
has covered both. The stream which
burst restraint, and with the gatherad
force of sixteen million tons of water,
holding in its grasp a hundred thousand
tons of stone and iron, sprang dcwn the
valley, has shrunk again to a slender
thing that giggles among the stones and
would not float a washtubhalf a mile with
out stranding. It frets itself in ineffectual
froth at every barrow load of cinders
that disputes the way where it played
pitch and toss with sixty-ton steam
engines. The sunshine barely finds it
out with searching at the foot of the rock
bound hills, whose summits it challenged
with its flood. Its ripples break iu silver
dimples round a hundred jagged spikes
of iron and ends of wire that thrust them
selves up from the creek bed. A boy of
ten would not stoop to jerk a stone across
it, and in the streets of Johnstown every
other woman you meet wears black.
JOHN FCL-TON'S PROMISE.
The town is building up again. We
have heard it before, and were glad to
have cause for anything but tears for
Johnstown. The millions poured in from
the open hand of the world relieved the
instant suffering. The liberal credits
given to those who had the heart to open
stores again did much more to set the
peeple on their feel. Much wis lost, hut
some was left—enough for seed. The
causes which had made this the center of
a rich community of 30.000 people were
not destroyed. On the second Sunday
after the water had been pouring through
their works. John Fulton, speaking tor
the Cambria Iron Company, made a speech
at a prayer meeting over iu the ramp of
the Fourteenth Regiment. Prayers were
said there, and (lie hymns they sung and
sobbed needed no printed lines to prompt
them, hut nothing that was said or sung
that day brought so much brightness to
the faces of those gathered there as this
declaration of the manager of the mili :
" We still stand by Cambria, men. The
works will be built bigger than ever. You
shall have work and wages. We have
worked together heretofore and pros
pered ; we have beco swept into the
wreck together, and witli God's help and
good couruge, men, we will pull through
it together."
HOW IT WAS KEPT.
The iv en were put to work at once
clearing up the wreck of the mill and
patching up machinery that was worth
mending. Hew machinery took the piace
of those that had been destroyed. Occu
pation conquered despair. Work brought
relict from suffering. Pay day took the
place of charity. The first gathering of
t-ie men after the flood was like tho roll
call of an army after a great battle.
Yet no battle that ever was fought cost
so large a proportion of slain. Not one
third of the great industrial army on the
rolls of the Cambria Iron Company and
the Gautier Steel VV orks answered " here "
when their names were called.
The promise Mr. Fulton made that Sun
day has been kept. The output of the
Cambria Iron \Vork9 for the last six
months has been greater than that of the
same period of last year, and the employ
ment of labor ha; been proportionate.
Tho Gautier Steel Works, operated by the
same company, has been reouilt and will
be enlarged. The contract is let for an
additional building to be called "The
New Gautier," 1,000 by 400 feet. An ad
dition is being built to the company store
at a cost of $85,000. Payday has beeii as
constant as it was before the flood. Save
to those for whom those who carued
wages have done their last turn, the chief
resource of the community not
failed.
REBUILDING THE TOWN.
The rebuilding of what we carelessly
call the material part of a town has gone
on rapidly. Not less than a million dol
lars has been spent, by the best estimate
of builders whom I have seen, in perma
nent rebuilding and repairing in the last
year. One brick business block, occupied
by stores, offices, etc., has been put up
that cost $30,0! 0. Another, a four story
brick, cost $83,000. The new libiary, the
gift of Andrew Carnegie, is under contract
at $05,000. The firm of Hoover, Hughes
& Co. kindly furnish me the following
statement from their books :
WORK DONE IN THE LAST TEAR.
1 block $ 23,000
1 block 15,000
1 dwelling 5 000
3 dwelliugs, $4,000 12,000
1 dwelling 3,000
3 buildings at $2,500 5,000
2 buildings, $3,000 4,000
2 buildings at $1,500 3,000
1 building 1,200
2 buildings, SI,OOO 2,000
50 temporary storerooms 22,500
8 storerooms, SSOO 4,000
16 houses, SSOO 8,000
455 average, S4OO 182,000
307 average, S3OO 92,100
Bridges iu aggregate 10,000
$380,000
IN COURSE OF ERECTION AND UNDER CON
TRACT.
Library building $ 65,000
Cambria store 35,000
1 business block 10,000
1 business block 8,000
1 building 5,000
1 building 4,000
1 building 3,000
1 building 2,250
1 building 2,000
8 buil lings, $1,500 4,500
2 buildings 2,000
1 building 650
1 building 350
$141,750
One would suppose that where so many
millions of value had been destroyed
money would be scarce. The natural ex
pectations would be to find a good deal ot
paper in the foundations of the new town.
It is not so. There is undoubtedly a good
deal of credit under many of the business
houses, but it is good credit. The busi
ness of Johnstown is largely in the hands
of men who were in business here before
the flood. Those who were successful
then, it is fair to assume, will succeed
again with fair treatment aud a little time.
There has been a geueral disposition to
accord them these, and they are prosper
ing. The permanent rebuilding has not
been done on cicdit, The invariable
answers of contractors lo an inquiry con
cerning this is that those who are building
are paying cash tor their improvements.
Few ask for long credits. Men build
wilhin their means or wait. Many are
building double dwelling houses, half for
a home, half to rent. The new houses
are in many cases bet ter than those which
stood in the same sites before, though
the large number of cheap frame houses
would probably bring the average lower.
THE FLAT TO BE FILLED UL*.
There is a noticeable falling off in the
demands on contractors just now. The
people are housed. The rush to get any
sort of a roof that they could spread a bed
and a kitchen table under is over. People
have time to think. Houses that held one
family before are large enough to hold two
or three, and the people are enduring
some disoomfort, and are taking their
time about rebuilding.
To look from the tram passing through
Johnstown gives a false notion. The
par; of the town most plainly in view
seems but little changed in the last six
months. Temporary shanties and 'wo
story store-rooms built of unpainted
boards still fill up the heart of the
city. The reason of this is that the prop
erty owneis there are waiting for the re
grading of the flat. The level of Ihe
ground is to be raised, beginning with a
lift of ten feet at the point where the
streams come together above the fatal
stone bridge and ruining "lit to nothing
at Market street, five blocks up. The
filling .s to be taken, so far as may lie,
from the bed of the river, thus getting a
double hem til of additional safety. As
soon as this grading is dime new and sub
stantial buildings will cover this ground.
THE 1.0.5T TOWN OF WOODVALK.
Looking out of the right-hand windows
as the Haiti goes east from Johnstown,
one sees a waste of sand. I'liete VV.i d
vale stood, with Us ~300 people. This
was the ■nun that caught the first full
plunge of the flood after it had boiled
through tin' twisting gorges of the hills
Hiid a mile of straight way before it. Tin
town lay in the fiat, scarcely above Un
natural level of river. The avalanche had
time to gather speed, to arm itself with
trunks of trees, and masses of masonry.
It had seized more than a score of locomo
tives at C'ouemaugh. It had ten up for
ests by the acre, snatched 500 cars from
the rails, ripped rails, ties and ballast
from the earth, tore off even the
earth itself down to the rocks,
like flesh from the bones. Weakened
with the ruin it had mace, tho mountain
of water, whirling over and over as it
flung back and forth from hill to hill, in
its thirsting course cow 11 the crooked
vallcv, with the motion of a bullet fired
out of a rifle, hurled itself through Wood
vale.
The expression is weak It did nut go
through Woodvale. It came and in an
stant rushed in, and there was no Wood
vale. The flood seized the town, tore it
from the ground, mangled it for a mo
ment in its frothing jaws, added the Gnu
tier Steel Works to it, ami tlung it through
Johnstown against the hill and the atom
bridge beyond. Not the houses aline
were taken. Their very foundations and
the soil they stcod on were ripped off,
down to '.lie level of the cell ir floors. A
plough-share going through the fragile
nest of a cummunity of bumble bees never
made ruin more complete.
RECLAIMING FLOODED I AND.
When the flood had gone, and the
waters had gone back to their natural
channel, they left a new soil. A deposit
of sand, several feet thick, covers
of the town. One may drive over it at
random. The remains of one street have
been discovered, but there is notiiing to
indicate where the others were. No grass
grows out of the sand. It is a dead waste,
its flat surface broken here aud there by
pieces of wreck, a set of truck wheels, a
boiler, or a jagged fragment of machinery
sticking tip. The flood dug the surface
down until it is not safe to build upon
until a dike or levee is mads to keep the
water out. A few weeks ago, in an
ordinary flood, it was covered four feet
deep, and a tannery, reconstrucfcd since
the flood, floated off. The Cambria Iron
Company is about to build a railroad
bridge, by which they can'ship slag and
cinder to the place where the fill is re
quired, and expect thereby to reclaim the
town site. The river channel has also
been widened fifteen feet for a consider
able distance. The excavation from tue
bed of the stream to fill in the lower part
of the town will also improve the channel,
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is deepening the waterways under the
arches of the stone bridge. By the time
this work is finished Johnstown, which
now includes what used to be the
boroughs of Conemaugh, Woodvalc,
Johnstown, Moxhara, Prospect, Millville
and Cambria, will be free from the danger
of flood. Of these sections ot the new
city, Moxham has been created since the
flood. It had a name and perhaps a score
of houses last year. Now it has a popu
lation of over a thousand. The building
elsewhere is general, save in the low-ly
ing sections indicated before. From the
hillside the valley shows red and yellow
with new brick and new lumber. The
bank statements show abundance of
money. Real estate is held (and sold)
higher than before the flood. The last
vestige of the great raft of wreck above
the bridge is cleared away, and a circus
has pitched its gaudy tent to-day in the
sand-flat dowu by the Point.
Where the ring is and the painted clown
is cracking his jokes to-night, could not
have been fat from the center of the
whirl pool in which thousands were
churned to death a year ago. The fetid
smell that comes up out ot the ground
whenever it is stirred mingles with the
scent of the sawdust.
The brass band opens the show with a
crash of music, and the telegraph, like a
discordant death-tick in the wall, protests,
with this reminder, that tragedy has first
claim to the ground.
THI. MECHANICS' LIEN LAW.
Uov the Kecent Dlcislon Will Benefit Ponr
and Honest Contractors.
Fiom the f ittsburgh Dispatch.
The State Supreme Court recently de
cided in two separate cases that a sub
contractor engaged in the erection of a
building lias 110 lien against the building
if the co ntract between the owner and
principall contractor provides that the
building shall Lc delivered free of liens.
All contracts contain that provi-o, but
heretofore it was not supposed that it
affected sub-contractors and material men,
who are not parties to the contract and
whose lien is given to them by statute an
extraordinary remedy.
This interpretation of the law practi
cally wip 'S out the mecliauics' lieu law,
which lias beeu iD operation since 1800,
and makes all people who work on or
furnish material for a new building look
tc the principal contractor alone tor their
money. Its effects will be far-reaching,
and the parlies interested in it have not
yet prasped its full meaning, ihe general
opinion thus iar is very much in avor of
the decision as tending to freeze out all
dishonest contractors niul raising such
11 ansae lions to a higher level. When the
bricklayers, plasterers, masons, painters,
lumber 1 eulers and others find, however,
that liny will not have the slightest claim
against a building on which the. ur
working, a dilt'ercutslory will be told.
Builders ainl contractors who deal di
rectly w i n the oivnuis will be beueflited
by tl.e iU c.si'ii, ami are very well satis
tied wan 1. A will known Imilih r said
the new inle. I iei.iiu.il would not only
l.em lit liUiidus, Put it wuti.d tie la r lo
own. rs who tiavi neietofoie been coin
pelted in some e. >• sp- pay tvice for Hie
same work. "I. a" the yeuis I have
beeu in busine.--, 1 ' -a il he, " I have never
ha I to eliler u lien against a bulking.
The law has i.s goo., prims, but it nas
be n greatiy abused. A dishonest con
tractor could easily keep all the money
skiiup his wink and lel use to pay the
sub-contractors. Incus were filed against
the owner, and rather than haven blur on
Ins title lie paid for large part of the work
u second time. I'i iucij al contractors aie
now required to enter heavy security but
the new ruling will relieve them of thai.
Honest and reliable contractors will be
benefitted by the decision, but dishonest
and tiicky ones will be driven oui ot
busim ss."
Among lawyers the decision has been
geuerally accepted as good law, and 1 lie
opinion is generally expressed that there
should be 110 lien law whatever. As the
new interpretation puts it the 11 echauics
will suffer in some particulars and be ben
efitted in others. m
Under the 1 hi ruling a dishonest con
j tractor could uiuleibiil all competitors, do
I pari of the work, draw about half the
money and then refuse to pay the men.
With the fear of a lieu huuging over his
property, the owner was compelled to pay
the men, although he had already paid
the contractor. Poor and honest build
ers were the men who would be mostly
benefitted by the new rule.
LEECH BURG'S ORIGINAL PACKAGE.
A Car Lonil Snlil ill ail Hour anil a Half-
Tin- Agent Wilt be Sued and in Turn
Intends to Sue for Damaires.
Lebchburo, Pa., May 20.—At 5 o'clock
Saturday a car load of beer was delivered
to Mr. Silverman, at bis place, and be
immediately began to dispose of it in the
original packages. By 0:30 o'clock all
but seven kegs were disposed of. Suit
will be brought against Silverman for
violation of the Brooks law. He says he
will give bail or go to jail, and then, if it
is decided that his business is legal, will
sue for damages. The seven kegs that
were not sold here were taken to Apollo,
where they were quickly disposed of
The better class ot people here and at
Apollo bitterly denounce the brewing
company and their agent, and will fight
the matter in the Courts,
Six divorces were granted at Lancaster
Saturday. This is an unusual number
for that staid community.
THE CENSUS TAKER.
The Question* the People Will Soon H
Called Upon-to Answer.
On Monday next the Census Enumer*!
tors will be let loose upon the country.!
In cities the work is to be completed in
two weeks, and in other districts four
weeks will be allowed.
The questions are as follows:
1. Give Christian name in full, and ini-<
tial of middle name, surname.
2. Whether a soldier, sailor or tnartnW
during the Civil War (United States or'
Confederate) or widow of such person.
3. Relationship to head of family.
4. Whether white or bhek, mulatto,'
quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japunese or,
Indian.
5. Sex.
6. Age at nearest birthday. If mnder
one year give age ill months. .
7. Whether single, married, widowed
or divorced. a
8. Whether married during the ceusus
year (June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890.) 1
9. Mother of how many children, and
number of these children living.
10. Place of birth,
11. Place of birth of father.
12. Place of birth of mother.
13. Number of years in the United
States.
14. Whether naturalized.
15. Whethe r naturalization papers navt
been taken out.
10. Profession, trade or "lupution.
17. Months unemployed during the cer
sus year (June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890.
18. Attendance at school (in
during the census year (June 1, 1889, t<
May 31, 1890.)
19. Able to read,
20. Ab'e to write.
21. Able to speak English, It nrf!
language or dialect spoken.
22. Whether suffering from acute o
chronic disease, with name of disease am
length of time afflicted.
23. Whether defective in miud, sight
hearing, 01 speech, or whether cripple''
mained, or deformed, and name of di
lect.
24. Whether a prisoner, convict, homi
less child or pauper.
25. and 20. Is the home you live in hirei
or :s it owned by the head or a member (
the family if
27. If owned by head or member i
family, is the home free from mortgag
incumbrance!
28. If the bead of family is a farmer, i
the farm which he cultivates hired, or i
it owned by him or by a member of hj
family V
29. If owned by head or member <
family, is the farm free from mortgaj
incumbrance ?
30. If the home ■ r farm is ovyiied t
head or member of family, and rnor
gaged, give the postofflce address i
owner.
We print the questions that our reat
ers may prepare to answer as they itu;
think pioper, and thus save the Enumen
tor much time. As to the last eight'
them there has been much discussion,
lute in the various newspapers, some
wl ich think they inquire into priva
matters to 1111 extent to which the Gffi
eminent has no right to go. Howev/
that may lie, it is not the fault of
Enumerator. He is obliged by his 1 1.
{ to ask the questions.
' Commenting on these special qui
! lions, the New York Worhl, both seriof
: ly ami hall humorously remarks:
| "The last six questions have be
i muled to ilit: usual list by Superintend^
Robi rl P. Porter, and are expected
j cause 1 rouble. A refusal lo answer lb
mean arrest and SIOO fine. It nury me
! a contest in the higher courts, too, (
\ well-known lawyers have already ej
i pressed the belief that some of the searq
| iiig queries are of a character that rein;
their legality doubtful. It is uot hard i
imagine a woman with a physical defy
who would throw hot water on a censtJ
taker before she would confess to a nltl
foot or any other little deformity wh:<
art and long practice has tnabled her '
conceal. Family skeletons will be ilraggi
from closets in very truth if a man mu
tell a census taker, who may be hi§aets
bor. that he spent a year in jail soii
where a long time ago, or that the
house which lie is maintaining in elegu|
style is mortagaged to the top notil
Must glass eyes be removed from sightlJ
orbs or waxen noses lifted or false
taken out to make a holiday in the ft a
of the census-taker'/ It seems so." .1 ■
Appreciating the importance of U
statistics sought for the Lancaster
ami net* thoughtfully says: "In the jfl
no sensible man or woman can obj ■
the questions asked. Correct aug#fer J
most of them will prove important. I' 9
well to know something about the incre ■
of the deaf, dumb, blind, etc. The w
crease of mutes through inter-raarritf 1
is something startling. There 'are w e' 1
nent men who predict that the con;' I
man will be bald and toothless. Staa
tics may show that a good many of V
coming race will be sightless if mar * '■
with the blind continues. These
tions are not so terrible that they n I
frighten anybody; so do not kick ■
enumerator, answer him as truthf ■
as you know how, and you V
soon and easily get rid of a tern 1
ary occupation of your time."
Philadelphia has now the third lrf
Young Men's Christian Association
world, London being the first and
York second. There ate nine bratif
of the association in Philadelphia, tw
which were organized duringythe '
At the thirty-fifth anniversary, which
recently celebrated, the report of
Treasurer showed receipts to
amount of $16,778, and expendi!
$6,300.