Show a century aso A hundred years ago about five mil lion americans free and slave en joyed a bumble christmas without so much as a cooking stove in all the united states this month nearly seventy aeden millions will observe the same holiday with almost every thing that the palate can desire and with aery means from hot coals to electricity for cooking it the ameri can of a hundred years ago edby had a better stomach and a larg er appetite than the american of to day but all the same we are all glad we are living in the year 1900 in no point of contrast is the growth of this country so wonderfully shown as in the census figures in 1800 there were in the eight northern states and in maine indiana and ohio which were not states at that time 2 whites free blacks and 35 slaves in the eight southern states and mississippi and the district of co lumbia there were 1 02 whites 61 free blacks and slaves making a total of 5 |