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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-04
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE &

friendly papers over the country are
nobly helping in this work. Send
for petition blanks.
Yours truly,
JOS. N STEPHENS,
Natl Sec'ty u. S. Monetary League,
634 18th St., Denver, Colo.
October IS, 1909.
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l had the pastor to spend the
night with me few nights ago, and
he takes different view from most
preachers. He said that he believed
the discussion of foreign missions
would do more good than anything
that could happen-that the people
would give more intelligently. Then
he burst out in laugh and said
that you had said that one American
child was worth more than all the
negroes and Chinese in heathendom.
Now, I did not dispute with him, but
l don't think you said exactly that
You intimated that one American
soul was worth cowpen full of ne
groes and Cinnamon.
Well, allow me to congratulate you
for being so prudent as not to go
off MISUNDERSTANDING to the
motto, 'Be sure you are right'-and
then giving them hail Columbia.
Respectfully, your friend,
H. A. FLORENCE.
Stimson Ca, Oct. IS, 1909.
Answer.
You were right, and Brother --
was altogether wrong. You will find
what | said in the Magazine article
in reply to Miss Janet Hay Hous-
ton. My statement was that the
sixty thousand white girls who
are being made the victims of
the white SLAYER, in this country,
every year, are worth more to
the future of this country, and
Of humanity, than all the negroes on
the face Of the earth. That, of
course, meant the victims of the white
SLAYER Of past years, this year, and
all of the coming years in which the
vile traffic is allowed to prey upon
Caucasian girls.
Taken in that sense, l think that
even Brother would agree with
me, that this enormous number of the
female members of our race are more
important to the future of civiliza-
ton than every negro that now lives.
T. E. w.
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THE AVERAGE PREACHER WON'T
READ AND MISQUOTES.

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ley, Ca, R. F. d. 5, Box 26. Send
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A BROTHER EDITORS ENDORSE
MENT AND ENCOURAGEMENT.

Hon. ThOs. E. Watson,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:-Allow me to congratu-
late you for those articles on Social
ism, which I have been able to read
in some of our State papers.
enclose check for 81 90, for which
send me the paper in which you
are publishing these articles.
Yours truly,
A. K. McGILL.
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Shopping Hint.

John, this firm is advertising
dresses seventy-five per cent. off;
what does that mean?"
'Bathing-suits' Houston Post.
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ton in all matters political it will
see the passing of party slavery and
party ejudice.-Royston Record.
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Those Conspicuous Letters.

''Is this Lincoln penny the design
er's initial work?'
Eyes; that seems to be the trou-
BILE. Baltimore American.
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II. j. PITCHER, A NOBLE SOUL,
CROSSES THE GREAT DIVIDE.
Resolutions on the Death of Brother
Il. j. Pitcher.

Resolutions on the Death of Brother
Il. y. Pitcher.
Whereas, On June the twenty
eighth last, an allwise Providence
saw fit to remove from our midst
our friend and brother, T. J. Pitcher,
who was an ardent, loyal and enthu-
siastic member of Local Union No.
1415, therefore,
Be it resolved by the members Of
this local, That while we sincerely
regret the loss of our friend and
brother, his wise counsel, his ar
dent love for, and his loyal and en-
thusiastic support of, the principles
of the order, yet we humbly submit
to the rulings of an allwise Provi-
dence, trusting that his loyalty to the
Union may prove an incentive for
good to those of us who remain, and
trusting also, that our loss is his
gain.
Resolved further, That we, as a
Union and as fraternity, extend
our profoundest sympathy to the
widow and sons of our deceased
brother.
Brother T. J. Pitcher, son of Ran
som and Martha Pitcher, was born
May 8, 1S48, and was married to
Miss Lettie Francis Crutchfield July
i, 1871, they having reared a family
of five sons, the youngest having
sons have been members of Local
Union No. 1415.
Brother Pitcher was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church. and
bore his suffering with Christian for
titude. To those who waited on him
during his last illness he expressed
his perfect resignation to the will of
his Maker and his readiness to meet
Him when he should CALL
J. G. KING,
JNO. STEWART,
R. J. PERRY,
Committee.
Ed. Comment: One of the last
things that Mr.. Pitcher did before
taking the bed, from which he never
arose, was to write me and tell me
how the Rev. Norton was slandering
me about the Greene county estate.
1t is with deep sense of sympathy
for the family and the friends of
this good citizen and loyal follower
that [ give space to the resolutions.
T. E. w.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
MAY POLE DANCE
FEATURE OF DAY
Children Rehearse for Big CeIe=
bratiOn to Be Held in the
Park Saturday

Tomorrow VIII be Saturday, May L,
to all grownup folks, but at the chill
dren's playground in Golden Gate park
it will be a great and glorious May
day through the courtesy of the park
commissioners, wonderful with bright
ly dressed little dancers whirling in
marvellous jigs and reels and tuneful
with fresh little childish voices in cap
tivating song. A half hundred clever
youngsters are rehearsing for their
parts, and conspiring to make this May
day the banner event of the season to
young San Francisco.
In the Irish dances some tots barely
three years old will twinkle their pink
toes. And then school children by the
hundreds will sing. and there will be
many other events worth taking your
mammas to see.
All the dancing is under the direc-
tien of Pearl and Hazel Allen. who di-
rected the May pole dance last year,
and they promise that their former
performance will seem poor in com
parison with Saturdays jollity Every
day the youngsters have been training
in the hall of the Juvenile Gaelic dan
cling club at 66S Fourth avenue and
they are so perfect in their roles that
every performance is a May day one
there.
Be out in the playground at exactly
10 o'clock Saturday morning. and you
viii see ali the fun the park commits
sioners have provided. The following
will take part in the dancing:
May pole dance-Grace Allen Eileen Horgan
Cecile Rcgerson, Kathleen Rogers, Florence
Prenty, Mary Sweeney, Belle Jackson Dulee
lotte Dietz, Rose Sweeney.
Champion cake walk-Thelma Herrera Belle
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
A small payment secures lot
at Parkside-a small monthly
saving pays for it

What has happened in the Richmond
District, Ashbury Heights, Presidio
Heights, Pacific Heights will happen
here just as sure as that you are
reading this advertisements.
The millions of dollars invested by the
company at Parkside have laid the
foundations
The building of artistic homes sur
rounded by trees, flowers and ma
rine view will make Parkside the
choicest residence section in the city
of San Francisco.
Remember Parkside is in the city of
San Francisco part of its great
life and movement and progress.
Parkside has the same mail service and
police protection as any other por-
ton of the city
The Telephone Company has con-
structed its cables and wires and is
now ready to connect with any home.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
The Day Is Coming
There's S no uncertainty in
city real estate

Electricity affords opportunity for
people to live in wholesome sur
roundings, free from overcrowded
quarters, subject to infection by dis
ease, and the impurities OF atmos-
phere and -oftentimes communicating
influences.
Electricity is powerful element
which makes for home and health
and happiness and contentment
away from crowded centers.
Electricity takes the residents of Park
aside down town in 30 minutes
takes them to the beach in 5 minutes.
Electricity enables you to live on this
sunny southern slope, where the air
is pure and delightful, where the
view of ocean and mountain is en-
trancing.
The quick electric cars enable you to
live in close touch with the citys
life, amusements and finest features,
while at the same time enjoying the
advantages of semicountry sur
roundings unequaled in any other
portion of the city.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
Put your money in San
Francisco property

The man who owns land in San Fran
cisco and holds on to it will find it
growing more and more valuable
every year.
Early buyers at Parkside who have
needed to raise money for other pur-
poses have already been able to sell
at handsome profits.
If you know anything of values of city
real estate in other large cities you
will realize the tremendous advan-
tages that the improved property at
Parkside offers at present prices.
To invest one million dollars in sand
dunes-to invest another million in
permanent improvements-an then
to invest the third million in still
more and better improvements has
been great undertaking and re-
quired greater courage and greater
faith in the future of San Francisco
than has ever been evidenced before.
That is what has been done in Park
side.
It's sand dunes have been leveled
It's streets and blocks have been
graded
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
San Francisco real estate
always increases in value

The best sewer system in San Fran
cisco has been constructed. Water
mains, gas mains and electric cables
have been put. in on all the east and
west streets.
Now contracts have been let for all
these things in the cross streets.
Sidewalks have been made.
Trees have been planted.
Homes have been built and sold.
Individual homes have been bought
and are occupied.
Many new homes are either under con-
struction or are being planned.
Content is rich and rich enough
And the people who are building and
living at Parkside are the most con-
tented people in the city.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
$4,000 given away
Sunday, May I'd

$1,000 FREE TO HOME BUILDERS
TO HELP BUILD YOUR HOME
We will give $3.50 to the two buyers in
each block who first let their contracts
and start construction OF home to cost
not less than $1,000, within months from
June 1st This applies to contracts closed
for building in each block and only on
lots purchased at this Special Sale.
IN ADDITION
We will arrange to finance your home on
easy monthly payments.
REMEMBER
Every lot is ready for building. street
work, gas. sewers, water, electric service.
REMEMBER
Parkside is San Francisco property.
Be on the ground early and get the choice
locations
Take Ellis and O'Farrell line or Ingleside
cars and transfer to Parkside cars
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
Sunday, May2, last of the
no interest, no tax sales

In the last ten blocks offered for sale
there were set aside and reserved
Us lots. These were the choice
the very best.
All the remainder have been sold
Now we offer these Us at the same
prices and on the same terms as the
others-that is, with ) years to pay
no interest and no taxes.
After these are sold the terms will be
changed.
This is the last opportunity to get inn
proved city property at such low
prices withSnt interest or taxes.
Remember, every house they build at
Parkside is adding to the value of
the lots.
Lot owners themselves are not only
adding to the value OF their own lot,
but to the value OF all the neighbor-
ing lots when they built their artis-
tic homes at Parkside
Get ready to buy Sunday
If you have time go out to see Parkside to-
day-see these ten blocks-see these un-
sold LIS lots and select yours
Then go on Sunday and buy it-you'n never
have such an opportunity again.
McEnerney title and policy of insurance
titles are FINISHED free with each lot-the
price YOU pay is all YOU paw at Parkside
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30

Jackson Eileen Horgan. Grace Allen.
Scotch dancing-Eight participants. Irish
dancing by the whole Juvenile Gaelic dancing
club under the special direction of the Allen
sisters.
Instrumental music will he furnished by this
baud from the Jewish orphan asylum.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
CONCERT TO AID
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Exceptional Program to Be Rem
dered at the Fairm0nt Hotel
Wednesday Next
Prominent Professional Talent
Secured to Take Part in
the Affair

The young peoples society of the
Trinity English Evangelical Lutheran
church has arranged an exceptional
for the benefit of the church at the
Fairmont hotel next Wednesday even
ing, May 5.
Some Of the city's best musical art
lists will appear, among them being
Hother Wismer, the violinist; Mrs.
Mathilda Wismer. the mezzo soprano;
Eugene Blanchard, the pianist; L. A.
Larson. the basso; Miss Bertha Arents,
the soprano; Mackenzie Gordon, the
tenor, and Fred Maurer, the pianist.
Seats may be obtained for 81 at
Sherman, Clay & Co.'S. corner
Sutter and Kearny streets, or at the
hotel on the evening of the concert.
Tickets may be exchanged for reserved
seats without extra charge on May 4,
commencing at o'clock a. m.
The following program will be
given:
{6 { VASE eapree op 81 Saint sage
Hother Wismer
Prologue from ''IPagliacci''. .Leoncayallo
l.. A. Larsen.
ta) ''Mlt Myrtnen uuu hosen .ScnuInann
(bj ''verklarung'' TRANSPORTATION Schubert
(c) 'wuszte ich doch den Veg zuruck'' Brahms
(dl March, 'Violets". "..-...-............ .Gade
Mrs. Mathilde Wismer.
Violin .iLe Trille du Dfable'' Tartini
Hother Wismer.
Agatha's aria from der Freschutz" Weber
Miss Bertha Arents
Songs
(al louvre tes yeux bleus''. '........... Massenet
fbl Am Rhein beim Vein. ".............. Ries
Mackenzie Gordon.
(a) seherzo, fiat minor nor................ Chopin
fb) Cavotte ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .Rubinstein
(c Rhapsodie No. II. ..........:....... List
Accompanist. Frederick Maurer Jr.
While remaining on Van Ness ave. we
will remodel and repair furs for 33 1-3
per cent less than usual summer prices
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30

While remaining on Van Ness ave- we
will remodel and repair furs for 33 1-3
per cent less than usual summer prices |
H Iiebes &, Co. 1444 Van Ness avenue = |
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
Twenty early buyers get
$3.50 each
Sale begins 10 o'clock Sunday

Here follow some figures which are
good to look at
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
Sunday, May I'd, last Of the
no interest, no tax sales

The day is coming when San Fran
cisco viii be a great city.
In so years she's grown half million.
Between the intervals of census taking
every ten years she adds so per cent
to her population.
In 1910 she will have half more peo-
pie than she had in 1900, notwith-
standing the most fearful loss that
ever overcame a city in the history
of the world.
San Francisco is growing faster today
than she ever grew before.
If San Francisco only gains so per cent
in the next ten years she will need
twenty-five thousand to fifty thous-
and new houses.
Where are they going to be built2
There is only one direction and that is
in the direction of Parkside
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
THE WINTER
COVER

now Of the North Carolina Depart
ment, has made a special study Of
seed selection, Also Professor De-
loach, Of the Georgia station The
University of Georgia has recently
issued a bulletin, Nc. 1O6, giving a
most interesting account Of Professor
Deloach's work. 1t will we'll repay
most careful reading
I'm the matter of heavy fertilizing,
there is much misapprehension, and
often feeling Of fear that the expenses
might not be justified. Then it is
pretty generally believed theory that
poor land will not respond immedi-
ately to intensive fertilization. But
this is true only in a limited sense.
L have under personal observation
this year about 500 acres of average
cotton land in fields widely separated,
on various kinds of land under vari-
Gus ownership and planted with vari-
Gus kinds Of seed. This land was sup
piled with commercial fertilizer at the
rate of 1000 pounds per acre. Most
of this land formerly mad 200 to 300
pounds of fertilizer per acre and
Welded from one-third to one-half
bales Of cotton per acre, but this year
the average production from all these
fields now give promise of a bale to
the acre. Some acres viii produce two
bales. This demonstrates most clear
iy that almost any of the cotton lands
will generally respond the first year to
three times the average amount now
applied.
The increased cost of 700 pounds
cf fertilizer was about SO. If this
additional half bale costs only 50, it
is certainly the most profitable half
Of the bale"
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
Farm and Garden Work for October

1t has been shown at one Of the
experiment stations, whose bulletin
| have miSlaid and cannot just now
lay my hand on, that thorough prepa-
ration of the land, fining the surface
soil as much as possible, resulted in
almost doubling the wheat crop com
pared with land of like quality along
side that was left loose and lumpy.
| have often insisted upon this point
and have urged my readers that every
time they put the harrow over the
field they are adding bushels to the
crop. [ want to still further empha-
size this for October is the time for
doing this. From North Carolina
southwark I would defer sowing
wheat till after there has been a light
white frost, and in the mea antime keep
the harrow going on the land
If wheat is following on a pea stub
re-plow the soil deeply, but let it re-
main settled from the earlier plowing
so that the capillarity of the lower
soil will be undisturbed, while you
make a dust blanket over the top to
retain the rising moisture. In
dry fall field that is left to lie
rough plOwed and dry out will have
while one that has been kept con-
stantly narrowed will have plenty of
moisture, and October in the South
is apt to be a very dry month
The amount of wheat to be sown per
acre will depend on the fertility Of the
soil On strong clay loam we'll suit
ed to wheat the plants will tiller or
spread more than on thin soil, and
less seed need be used. AS an av-
erage amount I would say five pecks,
but on thin land would SOW six to
seven pecks.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
Charlotte Observer.


Mr. E. w Thompson, district super
intendent of the Southern Cotton Oil
Company. with offices in this city, is
quoted as follows:
Now is the time to give thought
to cotton seed selection. Formerly cot
ton was cotton; but every season now
shows more and more earnest en-
deayOr on the part Of progressive
planters to differentiate varieties, and
even to produce new ones, with view
to growing only the sorts which are
best adapted to given lands, and
yielding the most products per acre.
There is no more profitable field of
endeavor than this. 1t has been time
and again proven that one bale OF
cotton to the acre is an easy accom-
pl1shment, While as many as three
bales per acre have been produced
With this goal in sight, just CON
templated the spectacle Of men and
mules wearily spreading their endeav-
or over 32,OOO,0OO acres Of good ma
tive cotton land, to make 100000
bales. Think how much labor would
be saved if the 100000 could have
been grown on half the present acre
age.
"A man has to walk more than 25
miles to plant, cultivate and harvest
one acre of cotton. This means that
the Wolking necessary to raise 1000
acres of cotton would just carry a man
around this world Of ours
IF we plant 16,0O0000 acres more
than we need to plant, we have to
walk around the world 5000 times
more than necessary. 1t is surely
worth while to study methods for
turning some of this wasted energy
into useful channels.
THE most obvious ways Of increas-
ing yields of cotton are to plant bet
ter seed and fertilize more heavily.
MIR. Burgess, late of the United
States Department of Agriculture but
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12

greens SO nice all winter. You can
still SOW Seven-top turnips for spring
greens. When the cold weather
comes throw some soil to each side
Of the rows as q protection.
Plant sets of the yellow Potato
onion now for green onions and ripe
ones. White Queen, too, is a beauti-
full onion and very early, but it runs
to seed in spring and should be used
green only. Make burrows and fer
tiliZe we'll and bed on these and set
the sets deeply in the ridges so that
they will be on the surface when the
soil is pulled from them in spring.
Have few glass sashes and a. frame
for growing lettuce and radishes OF
the early sorts in spring after the
lettuce has been cut. One who has
never had a cold frame in the South
has a faint idea of what an amount
Of healthful vegetables can be had
from a small space.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
Sow Oats as Soon as Possible.

[ am satisfied that the best results in
the oat crop VIII be had from sowing
in Septem Der. at feast as far north as
North Carolina South of this Oc-
tober will do very well. Then. too,
if you have oats for seed that are
thoroughly famed and cleaned IF
trash and cheat seed you can SOW the
crop better with the hoe wheat drills
than in any other way. This will put
the seed in deeper and at a uniform
depth far better than any broadcast
sowing, and the little furrows VIII
feed in and protect the crop in winter
just as we'll as the so-called open fur
row method and will make heavier
crops. But, as with wheat make the
soil fine and we1l settled. for there IL
more winter killing from sowing IN
a loose and badly prepared soil than
from any other cause
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
(NeW Bern Sum-

TO meet the completion Of the
Plnetown Cutoff between Bishop q
Crossing on the Belhaven Branch and
PlnetOWn, on the Pamlico division,
by October 10th. the Norfolk & South
ern Railway Will operate through
train service, New Bern to BelhaNen,
Via Washington. BY the use Of the
new Pinetown Cutoff, A miles are
saved and two hours in time. between
New Bern, Washington and Rel'iaEen.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-10-12
Work in the Garden.

My first sowing of spinach is now
up we'll, also my lettuce plants for
fall and winter. I shall make anoth-
er sowing of spinach, for there is no
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WORK WORTHY OF WOMEN.
Preventing Cruelty to Animals
They Put Men to Shame.

From the Chicago Examiner
woman in Cincinnati the other day
caused the arrest of a man who was
cruelty beating horse. That same day
Chicago woman performed similar
mission in the name of humanity. volun-
teering to rebuke the offender and bring
about his prosecution when a small army
OF male spectators had declined to in
terfere.
Here Is a field OF endeavor In which
women are constantly putting men to
shame. The man may argue quietly to
his friend that such cruelty to animals
should not be permitted, and that the
authorities should be invoked. but it is
always the woman who is courageous
enough 10 take the matter in hand. to
summon the policeman. and to see that
the barbarity is punished.
Ii has been long the contention that
women never know how to treat an ami
NAL. This may be still i'm dispute, but IL
cannot be denied that women arc quick
to know when an animal is brutally mis-
treated, and IL is to women that the poor
animals may look for prompt expression
OF sympathy and equally prompt asser-
ton Of defense.
Nearly every woman is by nature q
member of the Humane Society and the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. 1t is true that there are some
women too timid or too diffident to be
Immediately assertive as the two
women whose actions have been speci-
fled, but all the impulse of disgust and
wrath is there, and, happily. In many
instances they express themselves.