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J I i f I 1 II rr IT LOOKS o GOOD TO HUH ALL ALL RICHT ALL ALLRIGHT RIGHT I WASHINGTON Tho The census bureau I TV V has made public figures concerning concern concern- Ing ng enough localities I to indicate certain tam tain interesting trends in the growth I of ot American population What stands i out first is Is of ot course the general Increase Increase increase In In- I crease in population all aU over the coun coun- try While this growth is perhaps more striking in the tho middle west or even in the far tar west the east Is little behInd those sections Increases in city population rarely fall faU below 20 per er cent for tor the last ten years Often I the Increase Is considerably In excess of 50 per er cent I This growth has been expected but i there here will probably be some surprise to find how far the growth of the cities exceeds that of the rural dIs- dIs Here save In a few tew localities there here is an Increase but generally ItIs it itIs its Is s below ten per cent Some spot in Illinois may mark the center of population for another ten years It Is worth while to emphasize the tho word may because ther Is not available at this time much definite Information on which to make speculation speculation specula specula- tion as to where the center of ot population population population tion will be The remarkable Increase in the population population pop pop- of ot Oklahoma must be taken into consideration in a speculation as asto asto asto to where the center of ot population Is likely to light A fact worth bearing In mind Is that the Increases In population population lation In the east particularly have been In the larger cities The center of ot population has moved almost due westward since 1790 when It was at a point 23 miles east of ot Balti Balti- more From 1790 to 1800 1300 it moved almost due west to a n point 18 miles west of Ba Baltimore In the next ten years from 1800 to 1810 it moved westward and slightly southward to a a. point about forty miles northwest by west of Washington During the ten years between 1890 and 1900 the center moved westward westward westward west west- ward ward a little over 14 miles and southward south ward a little less than three miles and halted at a point six miles southeast i of Columbus Ind md This movement between between between be be- tween 1890 and 1900 was the smallest I in years ears I The center will have to travel something like 70 miles to get beyond the borders of Indiana this year Uncle Sam Watching Aeroplane Men I T THE HE experts In both the army and the navy are watching with keen Interest the development of ot the than craft While the of of- are not willing to say much publicly publicly pub pub- about the possibilities of ot the use of ot airships In time of ot war they are saying privately that the probability Is s that when the next great war comes the airship will play a more effective part than battleships land batteries or great masses of ot troops The prediction is freely made by army and navy officials In private that not a dollar will ever be spent in fortifying fortifying forti forti- fortifying for the protection of ot the Panama I canal They have arrived at this conclusion conclusion con con- because they think they foresee foresee foresee fore fore- see that within a few years the airship will be brought to a stage of at perfection perfection tion that will enable it quickly to destroy de do- stroy any fortifications that might be erected along the route of the canal Congress at the recent session declIned declined de de- de- de dined to appropriate money for the fortification of ot the canal No public reason for this failure to make an appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap was ever announced but it is now pretty well understood that I the experts in both the war and navy departments suggested that it would be well to defer action until the government government government gov gov- understands better what to expect of ot the airship Officials in the army and navy departments departments de do- are greatly impressed with the performances of Glenn Curtiss with his aeroplane at Atlantic City re re- re Those performances were not under the auspices of ot either the war department or the tho navy department but agents of ot each of ot the fighting arms were present and were deeply Impressed Impressed impressed Im Im- im- im pressed with what Curtiss was able abl to do They have reported to their respective respective respective re re- re- re departments that from a height that would have protected him reasonably well from a fire directed at him from either lan land l or water he dropped small articles on boats and on objects on land with remarkable pre pro Some of ot the experts from the departments de do- who saw the Curtiss performances performances per per- came back firmly convinced that if it war should come on tomorrow the aeroplane would be able to do destructive destructive de work Coy Curls Are C Coming ming in From China I OFF I Ic c OFF THEY CM JN CHINA i IT I II I General Stuart J. J Fuller Fuller Ful Ful- VICE CONSUL V ler of ot sheds light on a problem which has vexed the brain of the man for many moons where moons where all hair comes from which goes to make maite makeup 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 nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing of ot startling variation in texture unobservant forced the most h has s upon herself suspicion that she s1-e bedecks with a foreign product Our representative representative representative at clinches the evidence evi evl dence with brutal statistics He gives the following data of the quantities and value of hair hall shipped from that I I port in iii the last three years tears Year Tear Pounds Value 1907 1903 1908 1909 1909 Note how the price has soared In 1907 hair was worth only about ty-five ty cents a pound wholesale and we Imported only pounds of it while In 1909 we brought In pounds with the price at something more than seventy cents Such a rate of growth in face of so rapid an Increase Increase increase in In- crease in price is almost unprecedented ed in other lines of ot commerce and is another illustration that woman wants what she wants when she wants It and andis is going to have it expense It-expense expense bo ho hanged Our diplomatic representative leaves us In the dark as to what woman In China is doing for hair halt If It the trade keeps on on she he will certainly be bald In course of time H He pays a Compliment compliment ment however to the tho g genius of the Chinese artist by remarking that Chinese Chi nese hair Is treated at home in various ways v so as to match almost any texture texture texture tex tex- ture desired leaving us to conclude that the diversity of color not mir infrequently noted on the same head Is due dup to lack of circumspection on th tho thoI I part of American women Overhauling the Tre Treasury sury Building building is undergoing V T I m IE another B treasury overhauling which this renovators The Ime costs work on the treasurY treasur it at have havo been for a good many years ears Not building has been done to the Inside very much pile pUe ot of masonry where of the tho great states money Is kept but butmore butmore the United less work wont is all nil the time going more or outside All of the orIgInal on n on Stone the or soft ft limestone that faced sandstone oSe outside of the building has been at the d and granite has been put removed last principal principal change that The place in its eliminate made w will I be to be e 1 will granite entrance steps on the he huge the street side d several new Fifteenth elevators U will be Installed sufficient for furnished Lockers ker will V III b be the clerks the money-handling money I all nIl of be segregated on the will m divisions vis ons supplies will be shipped floor floor- ground Instead of the I from tilt west we-t entrain Fifteenth street frieze windows will wUl willbe willbo be bo placed on the third floor floors floor and a general adjustment of bureaus and divisions will be made to facilitate the work worle The treasury treasur- department has been serious seriously overcrowded for a number number num num- ber ot or years One of the very first Improvements Improvements improvements Im Im- im- im was the elimination from the building of the branch printing office with its combustible Inks oils etc With the great i Fifteenth street steps removed a fine entrance at grade will wUl be provided for the em em- and a count will vIll be kept of or the people entering and leaving the buildIng building build build- ing which at th the present time seems to be impossible At the present time the are obliged to carry their clothing hats rubbers umbrellas lac las and everything of that character into their working rooms rooms so that lockers lockers lock lock- ers are imperative It will certainly be mighty well expended for forIn forIn forin In the present condition of the tho treasury treasury treas treas- ury department it Is impossible to keep it clean or to run It on businesslike business business- like methods with departments of tho the various bureaus widely separated so that the chief of one of or these spends most of his time traver traversing the Hie corridors cord corri dors In his attempt to keep tro lt of his clerks and of his work I II I |
