Taking The State Census

The eemsus man will be around next month. We print below a few of the lon he wili ask. A refusal to :)nvi'v on your part may result in a fin? oí $50, or a six inonths res(i 11 (- ;n tli ciuinty j-iil. Xo olie 11 I have any feor that the enunierator will "give htan away," as the law says tli-u i' he does he shall be fiiied $300 or m in to ja,;l for '!() days, or both iiiü'ii and jailed aecording to the extent of the "give-away" and the merey of the court. The questions how oíd, what color, ex. jiaiiH', oecupatton, where bom, where father ■'.ui mother vvere bom, will be rapidly flred at y on. Tuen the official will take breath and want to kmow how many eluldren i any your step mother had, if you had a step mother, and also how many your own mother had. Wrltii dowoi your replies, ne will dien look j you in the face and want to knovv wii: ther y-m are single, marrled, wldowcd or diorcted. He probably wi 1 not ak wiieilicr you are eiigageu, as the statiite does not requü'ethe quesliuii to be answered. Thon he wil] want to know if you c:ui read and write, whether you are subject to iits, crazy or a. fooi, ulso whether your eye-sight is goou, and il' you cun heer. If you are dumb lie will know it before this, but he must ask the questioin just the sanie. A wise provisión of the law dirests Inquiry as to who are the ■■hcads" of the faini.ly. ïhis is well and will doubtleis expedite the work oi the enumerator In many families where the question ■who is the head" is a matter iui dispute. A correct invcntory of the people in your iamily must lx; giveu. with the relationsliip they bear to you, if you are one of the ''lieads" of the faniily, includiii'4 all the births and deaths occurriug during the preeeding year which Onded Jtuie 1, 1894. These are some of the more Important thmgs ïhre state of Michigan wants to know about you and for which mformation along with that ooncerning your neighbors, the army of enumerators will start out on the first day of June The farmers will be asked to teil how ■much buiter they have made, and how many cliiekeiis, calves, turkeys, horses, mules, cows, etc., etc., üiey have on haml and thelr value. ilanufacturers will be asked a lot oï questions in regard to their business and value of their goods made during' the year. W-hen the work of collecting thi.s array of facta is complete, a special force of 00 derka appointed for the parpose will !be wnployed months and momths nt Lanslng in tabulating the reporte 'and gettdng tliem in shape for the printer. Eventually they will set into book form t an enormoua expense to the stut' and then the bnoks will be disdistributed-. One person mi oí 10, OOOonay readthem, but It isn-ot probable. The expenÈe of enunierators, mileage, ete.., to be mei by the county will be in the neihborhood of -'. Ihe c.Np;'iisc to the state must ïeach half a. milliom.