Westward It Moves

Tlie Eteventh Censué Rep irl lia a ciin-t showing the maoner tu which iiic ol populatton has changed y decades lo üue pasi centmry. Iu IT'.hi 'liii' center jí populatlon i oj the United Btates was 23 miles east oí I'.ali ni In 1S00 it moved to i - ■■:: due west from Baltimore. In 1S10 it sliiíti'd a ltttJe to the scratíi, and ivas tooated 40 miles northwesi by west oí 'Washington. D. C. Dwrlng l lie iH'Nt (li'.adr ii moved a littlo fioutli ai;-ain. and carne to wlthin 1C' miles (north) oí Woodstock, Ya. In 1S30 the BopUi still galaed as ii etatloned itself 19 miles soutiiwest of Mooi-íicld. W. :. Thla was sireatest íx:'m Ole BOUth ever lliaiie. f ín 1840 ít gladbed nortliwavd slihtly. añil lnve stakes 10 miles snuth of ('lailcslniii;-. W. "a. Ir 1850 lit Inallned a ii 1 1 feo the .-ciiith. bniiniiií; nip at a jmiat -'■' miles soutlirasi oí Paritersburg, W. Va. TUMIS t-i'inainiím' lliree decacles iu tíw new state ií W. Virginia, i --i v i-il írum 1lie nli! Iiominiim. Tlie year 1860, momentuous in the iiaiion's liistory, wc find it Ín Ohio, 20 miles Kouth oí Cliillicotlie. The foBowing decade, I870, chaogedit, itd alxMit IX mil"s cast and north of Ciíicinii Tw year 1880 ir turne.l BOUth .■maiii. owing to tbe rapid increase nindc by tne watihern states, and located iisi'lf just ÉiCTOSB tlie river south of ('ineiiinati. in Kentr.clcy, near Coviiyi.Mi. In 1890 ir took a northward teadeiiey again and carne back in tlie line of 1870. being loeated in Indiana, some 0 miles west by rvorfch of Cinrinnati. This records Bhows hovr sieadily 1lie wesi is üainiiiK nion tJie east, aml aleo how the sonth■vest la keeplog pace -wit.h the northWesl ; a fa;-t ili;i bhe av"ri;r northei'ii mind doea n;ii grasp readily.