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Rinehart's New Book of Indian Portraits
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NE of the most pleasing of the permanent results of tlic Tnuismlsslssippl Exposition and the Indian HIS collection , which has just been published In lumk form contains of his Indian Chiefs. It Is bound
Congress held n.t Omaha In 1S9S , Is the collection of Indian portraits taken by P. A. Rlnehart. Through I most attractively and contains not only ! ( ) half -mo engravings , but also 1 ! colored plutes which nhow
ihls these Indian Chiefs have won their way to popular favor everywhere'and they have also been in- th.ro . < 1 lnfl" ' " ll11 , lll ° y ° nlth of Clll"r of ' ' ' , ' lllvo f J'itl"-M-8. ' beads and buckskin. The above portraits
reproduce exactly the size oC the engravings of till- now work It also contains a most Interesting Htory
sured of a lasting fame than bv their deeds the b-ittlclleld . Throuirhout the United States the races
more ' " " .us on me uauiciit u.
.I. ; , , , . , . . of tno Illln ) ] | congress and of the braves , whose pictures are presented.
of Rinehart's Indians" are becoming more and more familiar ; In fact they have taken everything by storm Rlnohnrts Indian Portraits will bo on salu at all hook stores at 50c bound In paper , or $1.00 bound In
both in the cast and west. Ills book of Indian portraits , which Is Just published , Is a splendid collection of cloth and printed on one side of the paper only ; or I hey will bo forwarded by mall by remitting 8c extra
the types of the dying race and will receive an appreciative welcome. for postage to F. A Hlnchart , Omaha , Neb.
How tlie Cuban
Census was Taken
Ask any Cuban today what enterprise ol
the American government la Cuba has the
most significance and Importance and ho
will answer without a moment's hesitation :
"Tho census , "
In the United States a census Is only an
Incident of the national life , the results of
which are to bo looked for with mild
curiosity. In Cuba the present census , the
enumerations for which were completed on
November 30 , Is regarded as the formation
step In the future government of the Island.
Upon Us population totals must rest the
first popular election , to which the Cubans
are looking forward as the children of Israel
Irokod to the promised land. It is a fore
gone conclusion that there must bo certain
franchise qualifications as to illiteracy ,
residence , nationality.
The census will definitely settle the pro-
it will decide the ratio of representation
from each province and city. Unpleasant as
it may be to the pride of the American It
must be confessed that the Cubans Imvo
looked upon the Improvements In paving ,
iowerage and police , in the courts and the
customs' service with absolute lack rf In
terest , if not with actual hostility. They
were all right enough In their way , but they
were not what the Cubans had been fighting
for , and who cared for a little dirt or a
little customs tipping , anyway ? It Is the
government that the Cuban is anxious to
manage and the census Is the first indica
tion that there is going to bo an opportunity
for him to try it.
As a consequence , the work of the enu
merators , of whom there are 1,000 in Cuba ,
was looked noon with oxtraordlnay Inter
est and solicitude. In the first place , every
CUBAN CENSUS EN UMERATOR AT WORK.
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portions of population , Spaniards , Cubans ,
negroes , Americans and other foreigners. It
will establish the very Important percen
tage of Illiteracy , hitherto only dimly esti
mated , and In case a constitutional conven-
ilon , or a icpresentatlve assembly Is chosen
Cuban wanted his name In the rolls and ! f
the enumerator did not call promptly liu
complained to the ( supervisor and demanded
promjit attention And then , when the enu
merator finally did call upon him , ho gloated
over the questions and yet looked upon them
with characteristic Cuban suspicion and
tried to see which of them had been set
by "los Americanos" as a trap. Also the
customary census notices , pasted on the wall
of his house and providing fines or Impris
onment for fraudulent answers to the ques
tions , worried him and sometimes ho came
up through the mud and rain a score of
miles on his burro to explain that he was
Innocent.
I'oimliitlon Greater Thau Suppohcd.
The census Is going to reveal some In
teresting facts when the blanks are finally
tabulated at Washington. Immediately be
fore the Spanish-American war the news
papers were filled with harrowing storlos
im to the death by starvation , disease and Ill-
treatment , of hundreds of thousands of ro-
concentradofi , as well as of the poor of the
cities. From what I could gather in an ex
tended trip through Cuba , during which I
saw and talked with many of the cnumcr-
atcrs who wore then busy with their work ,
the population of Cuba will bo found much
larger than estimated at the close of the
war , There can be no doubt that the num
ber of deaths among the reconccntradocs
was large very much larger than among
the Cubans actually In the field , but it Is
equally true that the figures must have been
largely exaggerated In the Unltc'l ' States , n
result , no doubt , of the Intense ami-Spanish
feeling of the days of the Malno disaster.
The last ofllclal Spanish census , In 1SS7 ,
guvo the population of the Island an 1,031G87 ,
Ton years later , In 1807 , while there wnn no
regular census owing to the existence of thu
war , the population was estimated at some
thing over 1,780,000 , exclusive of Spanish
soldiers , At the clrwo of the war some
American authorities placed the number of
deatlis at upwards of 400,000 , wlii'h would
mean a present population of approximately
1,380,000. Other pessimistic prophets bcliovo
the census will show barely l.uoo.oOO , hut
so gooil a judge us Major General Wilson ;
governor of Matanzas and Santa Clara , who
has been keeping a close watch on thi' cen
sus , thinks It will show a total of inoro than
i .noo.ooo.
Never before was there such a census In
Cuba , The old Spaniards had their regular
census years , but their methods of making
the enumerations wore quite characteristic.
A grand supervl or with an army of Spanish
clerks sat In Havana and drew large salaries.
There wore also traveling enumerators who
loft blanks at certain stores In each block of
the towns and cities or with certain magis
trates or storekeepers In the country. Here
the questions were filled In for tbo whole
neighborhood , hit or miss , or not at all , and
the blanks were then forwarded to Havana
and the statistics were completed as soon
as the census appropriation gave out. As
a result the Spanish census wau absolutely
CENSUS ENUMERATOR IN CUHAN JUNGLE , I
unreliable , some districts , particularly I
the country , being wholly uneiiumoratod.
llo\v AinurlfuiiM TociU ( lie OIIHIIH.
Hut tbo American census has been con
ducted on strictly business principles , unde
the wiporvlslon of the War department , n
direction of the president General J. I
Sunger was appointed director of the censui
with his headquarters In Washington , an
Victor H. OlinBtead , an experienced censu
export and statistician , was appointed as
sUitant director , with headquarters In Sant
Clara , Cuba. Upon Mr Olmstead devolve
the task of local organization , tbo appoint
ineut of enumerators and the decision of tl
n thousand and one delicate questions con
nected with the work. These appointments
were made In August of the present year
- and the census was to begin on October llo
r and to bo completed , so far an enumeration
y went , by November 30 In six weeks. Tlum
> . blanks were devised and translated Into
3 , Spanish , all the rules and orders were Issued
d In both Spanish and English and tbo Cuban
is enumerators , wholly new to such work , wore
i- all trained within lew than two months'
a time , from the middle of August to the mlil-
d die of October. And the work began In
> e ( Coutluued on Fourteenth I'ago. )