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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30

car in which he had concealed him
self to be sent to the docks. Shiv-
ering from the cold, he was feeling
his way along long tier of pickle
watts to where the pile of hams lay
near the elevator vestibule, when
suddenly, section of electric lights
flashed up, and there stood a watch
man in arms reach of him. The
next instant two strong hands had
grasped him by either wrist. His
first attempt was to conceal his face
and wrench loose but this proved of
no avail. He now meekly submitted,
and begged for mercy. Having
known the Waterman for several
years, he endeavored to prevail upon
him to let him go and save his fami-
ly the poverty and disgrace his arrest
would bring upon them, as we'll as
the shame he would suffer. But this
catch would make a "bloomin' "
feather for the wachmans cap, so
poor Happy had only to submit to
the handouts and march along to
the Office where patrol wagon
would meet him in a few minutes,
and drive him away, without cere-
mony, to the station.
Next morning the police judge
heard the case, turned him over to
the district court, and, in short or
der, Happy had heard the Company's
attorney tell all about him, what a
] bad fellow he was, until he felt un-
der compliment to the court for let
ting him off on E'ten years..
AS a crime, we cannot condone
what Happy did, nor can we wonder
that he did it. We can only pity
him, pity his poor family, and the
corporation that lost the meat!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30

why? Because the average voter is
more concerned about cholera in his
pig, than he is about political pollu-
ton, in his Government.
Abuses have been legislated i'm, by
the smooth gentlemen who are sent
to Congress. If the people could be
aroused out of their supine and ca
lamitous subservience to party-names,
they could remedy every abuse with
in few years, and restore the healthy
conditions Of the brighter eras pre-
ceding the Civil War.
There's nothing wrong with our
system of government. 1t is perhaps
the best that Man ever devised. But
it has been perverted, abused, rev.
olutionized by war and Federal laws.
What we need is to repeal those
laws, recover the ground lost by
democracy during the war, and make
our system conform to the Constitu-
dOnal model. T. E. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30
PAGE FIFTEEN

that sex plays much greater part
than religion in Chinese Sunday
Schools-and perhaps also in some
others.
Also, it is about time we recog-
nized that the religious missionary's
work is a sorry business, and the
PROSECUTING spirit which attempts to
convert the whole world to one re-
ligion is nothing but silly, fatuous
piece Of impertinence. Let us leave
the heather alone: We have our
hands full of work right here at
home, right at our doors.
If the mother Sigel, instead of try
ing to teach religion to the Chinese,
had instilled some common sense into
tie head of her daughter, the latter
would probably not have forfeited
her young life.-Critic and Guide
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Yours very truly,
MORGAN BROWN.
Cordele, Ga, Sept. Is, 1909.
THE SIGEL CASE.

The brutal murder of the unfortu-
nate Sigel girl has filled the country
with horror. But tragedies have
the effect of making people stop and
think, and if this tragedy should have
the effect of putting out of exist
ence the stupid, useless, wicked and
hypocritical Chinese Sunday Schools,
Miss Sigel will not have died in vain.
The trouble is that our people know
nothing-and want to know-noth-
ing-of sexual physiology and path
ology. If they did, they would know
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30
SOME FINE SUGGESTIONS.

am a Home Mission Primitive Bap-
tist preacher. am 81 years old, have
been preaching II years, and the
most of my work has been confined
to Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
although l have travelled and preach
en- in twenty other states, from New
York to New Mexico, and as far
northwest as Nebraska. I do gem
eral evangelical work, having
preached 258 times during the last
25S days; I go without charge or
contract, feeling that as 1 have
freely received I should freely
give
l have been a constant subscriber
for both your Jeffersonians ever
since you began publishing them.
I read, endorse and enjoy them.
hope some day soon to be able to
own every book you have ever pub
lished. How glad I would be to see
your various editorials on the I'M
scripturalness, impracticableness and
extravaganza of this modern Foreign
Mission fad, together with such
other articles on kindred subjects
as you might see fit to write, all
published in a nice volume I sin
cerely believe it would do a great
deal of good in turning the eyes of
many good men and women to the
home field, which indeed is white
to harvest I think, too, that such
a book would sell we'll; as so many
people have seen only a few of your
editorials on this subject and would
be anxious to read all of them COM
plete.
Will you please pardon me for
offering a suggestion to you relative
to the increasing of the effectiveness
of your writings in your papers, as
awaking interest and arousing a
healthy enthusiasm on the part of
the subscribers? In small towns
and in the rural districts debating
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seem enough to tide him over the
winter, must have just one more.
In sense, he began to feel that
he was now even with the Company.
He picked up little odd jobs, which
promised to keep him in coal and
bread. In his heart, he felt as
though he was criminal stalking
about through the day on the dark
side of his fellow-man. He did not
go near the gate of the great pack
ing plant, sense of fear came over
him when he would think of the
"blue-coat" watchmen with their
clubs and stars. The days and years
when he had been happy, honest,
truth-loving and God-fearing man
seemed now like a dream. He was
just as honest with his neighbor as
ever, but he could not feel it, He
had deliberately taken that which did
not belong to him. had sneaked in
under cover of darkness just like
any other thief, and if detected
prison bars yearned for him. If God
condemned the thief, his name was
now Cancelled in the Book of Life,
and the ugly blot awaited him in the
finals reckoning h1
I7t'Humpy,''o the little Pollock truck
er whose duty in the pickle cellar
it was to cart away the F'sours" from
the inspectors's tables, was supposed
to count these hams and tell the seal
er how many were taken over each
day, also how many were trucked to
the sausage room. One day there oc-
Cured a discrepancy in Humpys fig
ures,-two hams were shy. An in
ventory was taken, and Humpy be-
gan over. A few days later another
shortage was detected by the scaler.
This had never occurred before, and
the boss knew there was something
wrong. The matter was Immediate
ly reported to the superintendent,
the place after five o'clock in the
evening, and that careful inspec-
ton be made of every package going
out at the gate.
Poor Happy's evil forebodings of
the Waterman were not amiss in cor
rectness, but miserably at fault in
ann1ica tiOn IT had hnnn CO oacv to
sneak into an empty car and when
it was set to the loading dock, make
his way in through any one of the
many doors unobserved, and out
again and along the great dark wall
10 the back fence. This was easy,
but Happy did it once too often.
The night was cold, and Happy
had waited unusually long for the
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societies properly organized and con-
Quoted: discussing the various issues
for which true Populism stands, to-
gether with kindred subjects would
surely arouse a degree of interest
that could scarcely be attained 9TH
erwise. You could furnish the tam
munitiOn" in the weekly by having
debating department You could
bylaws for such a society, then sub
NIT subjects for discussion, with re-
quest for reports as to which side
was victorious. A thousand such So
cieties would develop some good
fighters, and cause many, many peo-
pie to hear and think who, other
wise, would not. For in thus train
ing the masses to do their own
thinking, investigating and fighting,
they soon come to see and feel that
it is their cause, their battle, and
hence will naturally put up better
fight to win victory that they will
fully understand to be theirs. With
your wide experience in dealing
with "men and things, and with
your perfect knowledge of the situa-
ton and its demands, together with
the fighting force at command, your
fertile brain would have but little
trouble in formulating and putting
movement like this on foot, and
ng it we'll organized and prop
erly boosted. Such an organization
of societies by counties, states and
even national, would reach hundreds
and thousands of people with the
same proofs of the Populist position
and demands and would greatly aid
your papers in Systematically and
economically and effectually educat-
ing the masses to rise up by the
might of popular demand and do for
themselves what no leader could pos
sibly do for them.
[ feel fully persuaded that you are
living and laboring through the JEFF
fersonians-not for the vain ap-
plause of men or for filthy lucre''-
but for the uplift of the shamefully
down-trodden masses. Hence it
would be no abuse of such organiza-
lions to make them instrumental (if
possible) in securing every subscrib-
er to your paper and books that
they possibly could.
/ Trusting you will understand and
appreciate the spirit in which I write
these lines, and sincerely wishing
you and the Jeffersonians Godspeed,
I am,
Yours very truly,
MORGAN BROWN.
Cordele, Ga, Sept. Is, 1909.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30

The KOOKERBAKER bakes po-
tatoes in twenty-five minutes and
everything in half the time required
by any oven and no burn ON bottom.
Cooks vegetables at same time on
any size or kind of stove over one
blaze or griddle. Expressed to any
address, $1.25. Agents make Sc to
$40 day. One sold seventy-one in
three days-so can you.
Thrifty Appliance Co.
739 Monolith Building, New York.
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NOT NECESSARY.

"Your husband has only one fault
he isn't polite to women"
Mo- broke him of that just as soon
as we were married" -Cleveland Leader.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30

We want active agents to sell
Bethany" and other books of Mr..
on a liberal commission.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-30

For rs cents we will send you The
Jeffersonian for months and a piece
of music worth Is cents in any music
store.
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NO EDITORS THERE.

We notice that they have raised
the price of admission to the peni-
tertiary from ten to twenty-five
cents. Personally, we wouldn't care
if they made the price so enormous
that we couldn't get in under any
circumstances.-Co Press.
There are no editors and only
few preachers in our state prison.
The price of admission" is one that
the printer man never has to pay
His course lies in an entirely differ
ent direction. If the editor is lost
from the sanctum look for him in
the grand stand in the New Jeru-
salem.-Better Way
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

LAYING of the cornerstone of the orlgi-
nal building, which occurred August
s2l. 1894. DR.. Robert Mackenzie, presi-
dent of the San Francisco Presbyterian
theological seminary who oficiated on
that occasion, repeated his performance
yesterday. The actual ceremony of lay
ing the stone was done by Mrs Mac
kenzfe, assisted by Mrs. Frederick
Doane, wife of the pastor of the church.
Rex. Frederick Doane, In brief ad-
dress, told the history of the church,
giving all the credit of it's existence to
Mrs Emily B. hopkins.
TT was Mrs. Hopkins" he said, who
gave us the money 10 build the old
church. and when 1T was burned down
she was the first to come forward with
a promise of aid for its rebuilding.
With her we must thank also DIR. Rob
ert Mackenzie, whose untiring efforts
made it possible for us to rebuild"
A receptacle containing copy of the
bible and the Presbyterian confession of
faith, together with the names of the
members of the congregation was de-
posted under the stone by Mrs. Doane.
The silver trowel which was used in
the ceremony was given by Shreve &
Co. to the members FOR presentation to
Mrs. Mackenzie.
The new church will be built on
Greek and colonial lines and will have
a seating capacity for 300 persons
Following the ceremony religious serv-
ices were held in the temporary church
building.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
WIFE OF ENGINEER
COMMITS SUICIDE
Mrs. c. R. BIiven Shoots Herr
self Through Heart After a
Long Siege of Illness
Woman Tells Husband She Feels
Better and Then Ends
Her Life

In Mt OF despondency produced by
illness Mrs. C. r. Bliven. the wife of
an electrical engineer. committed sui
eide by shooting herself at her fat s0l
Taylor street, yesterday afternoon.
She had been ailing for the hast three
years and the continued siege of illness
Rad OF late begun to AFFECT her mind.
Recently she became worse and this
she realized. She maintained an out
ward sembIance Of good spirits until
the very end. however. and to her hus-
bands query at noon yesterday as to
how she was feeling replied that she
was very much better.
This conversation took place over the
telephone, her husband being then at
his office with the General electric COM
pany. On hanging up the telephone
she entered her bedroom and made
preparations for her death. She rum
until she found his revolver and some
cartridges. and few minutes later the
lodgers In the apartment house heard
the shot which ended her life Mrs. NJ.
Healey. the landledy of the apartment
house, ran TO the room to find Mrs.
Bliven stretched on the bed with bull
let through her heart and the smoking
revolver by her side.
Detective Silver and Policeman Isaa cs
took charge OF the case and had the
body removed 10 the morgue. Mrs.
Bliven was % years old and a native OF
New York
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
INSOL VENT BROKER
DENIES LIABILITY
R. Mex. Duperu Sued by Golden
Gate investment Company
for SI93,35O
Action Comes as Result of Stock
Dealing on Margins Be-
fore the Fire

Il. NICK Duperu, who was a we'll
known stock broker before the fire,
filed answer in the superior court yes
terday to the action in which he is
being sued by the Golden Gate invest
ment company for $1e3,35O the value
of certain shares. The answer consists
of denial of the fact that he ever re-
ceived the stocks for the investment
company, as alleged in the complaint
Duperu went bankrupt some years
ago and is now in the employment
agency business. The shares he is
alleged TO have failed to account for to
the Golden Gate investment company
are thus enumerated in the complaint:
325 shares of the Honolulu plantation
company, worth s12,S50; 800 shares Of
Contra Costa water company. $500;
400 shares Truckee river general cleo
trio company. $4,000; 200 shares United
railroad Investment company S1S,6O0;
1000 shares United steel corporation,
s104, 600.
There was a running account be-
tween Duperu and the Golden Gate in
vestment company. it is claimed by the
plaintiff, the defendant broker buying
stocks for the company. on margin He
is alleged to have fallen largely in
arrears in his dealings with the COM
pany. and, an accounting being de-
manded, it was shown he was indebted
10 the corporation more than 100000,
according to the plaintiffs side of the
case. When the company demanded
the stock it had instructed Duperu to
buy, the securities were not forth
coming.
In behalf of Duperu it is claimed
that fall in the price of stock, par
ticularly of Contra Costa, wiped out
the margins. and that the company is
now trying to make him responsible
for what the stocks would have
brought If they had gone up. Duperu
also makes the point that he had no
dealings whatever with the Golden
Gate investment company but only
with Etienne, the president OF the
company
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
RELAY CORNERSTONE
OF MIzPAH CHURCH
Prominent Presbyterians Parti-
cipate in Ceremonies in
Fifth Street

Impressive in their simplicity were
the ceremonies which marked the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the Mizpah
Presbyterian church yesterday after
noon in Fifth street near Harrison on
the same site occupied by the church
prior to the disaster of April, 1906.
The little group of church members and
spectators gathered around the flag
draped platform, and. though clouds
of dust and sand were continually
whipping into their faces, this fact in
nowise seemed to detract from or inn
pair the sentiment of piety and thank
fulness which pervaded the gathering.
BY a peculiar coincidence the event
took place exactly 15 years after the
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
CLUB WILL GIVE FLAG
TO McCOPPIN SCHOOL
Park-Richmond Organization
Plans Dance to Raise Funds

A large American flag is 10 be given
10 the Frank McCoppin school in Sixth
avenue when the building is dedicated
by the Park Richmond Improvement
club. To raise funds for the star span
gled banner and 10 secure a fund to
pay the expenses of the dedication ex-
ercises. the Park Richmond improve
ment club viii give an entertainment
and dance Saturday evening" August
2S, al Richmond Masonic hall, First
avenue and Clement street The Ma
tive Sons drum corps viii assist in the
entertainment and popular local talent
viii appear on the program The en-
tertainment viii be followed by a
dance
The Park Richmond Improvement
club was organized a year ago to pro-
mote the interests of the district
located between Point Lobos avenue
and Fulton street. The officers of the
club and the members Of the commit
tees working for the success of the
entertainment and dedication are:
r. E Sullivan. president; George, w.
Morse first vice president, f. L Cotton.
second vice president; George r. Meyer
uerks, secretary. J. Gleeson, treasurer.
Executive committee-F. L. Cotton
lchairman), ". II. Pyburn. Orrin Knox,
W. II. Groat E. :. Harding. l. F. Frb.
r HOelscher, ]. c. Meussdorffer. s s.
Reed, ). W, Molkenbuhr, L A Cotton
and j. =. Wagner
Floor manager, Louis F. Erb.
Assistants. A Cotton and F. E.
" agener.
Reception committee-Fernand Mel
son fchairman), ". H Groat. J c.
Muessdorffer. :. Ellery and J. GutfeId.
Floor committee. L. Cotton, R.
French, George W. Morse, r. E. SuIii-
van and George r. Meyerderks.
Social committee. GutfieId (chair-
NAM, +. Hoelscher, R. Spahr and L. A,
Cotton.
Flag committee-R French CHAIR
mani and L. T. Erb
Dedication committee - Edwin A.
Cohen 0chairman), W. II. Groat and r.
T. Wagener.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
CLOSING OF MAILS FOR
TRANS-PACIFIC PORTS
Sailing Dates of Steamers for
Orient and Islands

The following sailing dates and clos
ing times at San Francisco of trans
Pacific mails are based on the latest
information furnished by steamship
companies. They are subject TO change
on notice Paper mail for Hawaiian
times given
or australia and New zealand-Stesmer Ka.
elaka k caves San Francisco August "a. Mai
~, or T Cnina and Japan-Steamer Empress Of In.
pia ieaFes seattle August % Mail closes =. II
4. M. August p Steamer Siberia Ieavee Ca
francisco August "a Mail closes at I0.30 q
il- steamer Aki Maru leaves Seattle i1s,,s, =
~ NAH closes 70 p m. August 2s
tpr ne Hawaiian islands-Steamer Fg5iont.~
leaves San Francisco August % MafI ote
~ a. m steamer Siberia leaves San Frsnc3so,
s5s-,.as I,.aa MAJ cioses at 10 a m. Steamer
a,s.leqs -.,a, ieages San Francisco August 2s Mai
For the Philippine islands-Steamer Fr,n-os.
~ China leaves Seattle August 25 Mai c9osss
~ ~ a. m. August % Steamer Ak Msr
caves Seattle August 81 Mail closes at 10 5
For Tahit-Stesmer AIsriposa lssv.s 6.
fancisco September IL Mall closes A. 8 Sal rn
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Personal Brevities

the Manx. lily IS al
Robert c. Kelly OF Los Angeles is q,
lhe St Francis. -
W. S Clayton Of San Jose is a sues,
At the Union Square.
K z Hill Of Winnipeg registered al
tle 81 Francis yesterday.
R. J. Dunn registered at the Me-.
yesterday from Kansas City.
Charles Wood Eberlein Registered q,
ele Union Square yesterday
". Z. Taylor and wife OF I,os An
Eeies are guests at the Manx.
=. W Card and wife of Salinas req
lstereo yesterday at the Manx.
W c. Rannells and w. NJ. RannelIs
ot Goloheld are at the Stewart.
Attorney J. NJ. Kile and wife n,
stockton are at the St Francis.
Thomas W. Patterson of Fresno re9
istereo at the Fairmont yesterday.
w. A. Goodman Jr. and wife of Gin
clnnau are guests at the Fairmonf
s. M. and L D. Perkins of Eugene
ore, are guests al the Union SQUARE
J. A. McCusker and wife of los An
Eeles are registered at the St Francis
Attorney 5. Luke Howe of sacra-
yesterday.
II ". Read and family and q. O.
Ferguson of Coffeyville, Kan, are al
The Fairmont
J. F. Govan. a Sacramento real es.
tate man, is at the Stewart, acconpa-
MED by his wife
Colonel E. A Forbes, wife anc
daughter OF MarysvilIe registered al
Tie Stewart yesterday.
Mrs A. A. Easton, who is quite i'll II
the apartments Of her granddaughter
Miss Jennie Croker. in the st. Franci,
hotel. was resting easily yesterday
with a slight Improvement in her con,
cition.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
POWER COMPANY'S
ASSETS ARE ATTACHED
Sheriff Levies on Valuable
Water Flights and Reservoirs

Valuable water rights and other
property in CaIaveras county belong
ing to the Sierra Nevada water and
power company have been attached in
satisfaction of claims against the cor
poration FOR se,521.O6 on a promfssory
note and for s4.O4L45. representing
money owing for work performed.
These claims have been assigned to
Milton Bernard, who is the plaintiff In
the action.
Including in the property upon
which attachment has been levied are
the water right or location of 1000
miners inches of water flowing in the
south fork of the Nfokelumne river;
the water right or location of 10000
miners inches of water flowing in the
middle fork of the Mokelumne river;
the water right or location of 10000
miners inches of water flowing in the
south fork of the Mokelumne river; the
water ditch called Clarks ditch, u
miles from the town of Railroad Flat,
| in Calaveras county, together with
water rights, franchise and reservoirs,
and a lot of land on the road leading
from Railroad Flat to West Point, Cal
faveras county.
Joshua Jones, sheriff of CaIaveras
county, yesterday filed with the county
clerk of San Francisco notice that he
levied the attachment August 16.
The water rights attached stand in
the name of Frank z. Towle who is a
claimant against the company in the
sum Of S1.617. The promissory note
for $6,521O6, forming the greater part
of the sum sued for, was executed by
the Sierra Nevada water and power
company to the Market street bank.
now defunct. February Is, 1908 The
Sierra Nevada company was closely as
ISOLATED with the Market street bank
before the bank went into receiver s
hands.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

$3.50 French crushers, all colors.
Tom Dillon. opposite Call building.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Taxfcabs for Rent

- All hours. Taxicab Auto Livery Co.
els Van Ness av. Phone Market $50.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

2. T. stoll dentist, Post St at Grant av. :
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

to the word instead of the present sys-
tenn of ten letters to the word.
The new rule was to have been put
in operation September 1. and the
postponement is to give code word
users opportunity to revise their
cipher If they so desire
The new rate applies only to land line
messages and does not disturb present
cable dispatch rates
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
POSTPONE INCREASE OF
CIPHER MESSAGE RATES
Telegraph Companies Allow
Time for Revision of Codes

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-The Postal and
Western Union telegraph companies an
nounced today that they have post
poned until December the application
of the new rule making cipher mes
sages payable at the rate of FIVE letters
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

DR.. CIV. Decker. Phelan bid. rms 30s-9-
10. $50 Market St: phone Kearny $780,