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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
JEFFREY OPPOSES
JAPANESE LABOR
Address Before Fruit Growers
Urges Need of Greater In
tereSt in Horticulture
[Speeial Dispqteh to The Call

STOCKTON. Dec. -Supplementing
his address with the statement that
Japanese were taking the places of the
California fruit growers and admon-
ishing the latter to take greater inter
est in the industry, PRESIDENT J. w.
Jeffery opened the thirty eighth Cal
ifornia state fruit growers convention
this morning.
Ihe state commissioner of horticul-
ture laid particular emphasis upon his
statement concerning the grip taken
by the japanese and declared that II
more interest in the greatest of Cali
fornia' sindustries.
This statement and the address by
Judge N. P. Chipman of Sacramento.
in which he predicted great things for
Stockton and pointed out the remark
able development of the San Joaquin
valley, were striking features of the
days session.
Thursday Will be the big day OF the
convention, as it will be devote dto the
subject of Standardization, the topic in
which the greatest interest is taken by
the delegates.
President jeffrey called the conven-
tion to order at 10 o'clock at the Con-
gregational church.
WELCOMED BY MAYOR
Rev. John Stephens of the Central
Methodist church pronounced the in
vocation, after which Mayor r. r. Rel
bernstein delivered the address of well
come. in which he said:
The fruit industry of the state
has shown wonderful development
in the last decade and has been one
of the important factors in giving
to California an increased popula-
ton of more than 60 per cent dur
ing the last 10 years.
A few years ago large tracts of
land which are now devoted to
grapes, fruit and berries were
either barren or devoted exclusive
~ to the production of grain.
Blessed as We are with fine soil, a
climate that is unexcelled, the fruit
industry has turned these grain
fields into a garden, but the indus
try is only in its infancy, and you
must consider how this infant can
be wrought into vigorous man
hood
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
SUPERVISORS FIND
funds INADEQUATE
Reduction of Tax Rate Causes
Loss of Road Work and
Game Warden
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

SANTA CRUZ. Dec. 6.-After redue-
ing the tax rate the supervisors find
that they lack funds to meet neces-
sary expenses during the coming year.
After a lengthy session they decided
to do away with the Glenwood
(Charley Martini, Mount Madonna and
Park road funds. aggregating $4,000
There is no money on hand to pay
the F. A. Him company for the IA
nous highland way road that involved
the county in an expensive lawsuit
and proved an obstacle to supervisors
seeking reelection for several years.
1t is said that the office of fire, fish
and game warden will be abolished,
and it is hinted that the county will
withdraw its support from the fish
hatchery unless the state agrees to
finance it for the coming year. The
cost of maintaining the hatchery is
So, 900 a year. 1t has been instrument
tai in making the county a fisherman S
paradise.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
RHEUMATISM KEEPS
CONGRESSMAN AT HOME
Duncan McKinIay Unable to
Leave for Washington
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
SANTA ROSA, Dec. 6.-Congressman
Duncan F.. McKinlay, who was to have
left today for the east to attend con-
gress in Washington, was unable to
get away owing to an attack of rheu-
matisn. He is under the care of a
physician and it is hoped he will be
able to leave by the last of the week.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
HEALTH OFFICERS TO
WATCH IMMIGRANTS s
Strioter Quarantine Laws Are
Favored by Doctor Kuser
[Special Dispatch 10 The Call

SPECIAL DBpdtch 10 he Oolt
SAN RAFAEL. Dec 6.-"Immigratio
from the disease infected districts and
cities Of Europe should be checked en-
tirely until foreign officials can give
emigrants clean bill of health" said
Dr. J. II. Kuser. county health officer,
on the receipt Of communications from
the state board Of health directing him
10 keep watch on the health of all i'm
migrants in this district.
AT present" he continued, 1T is the
custom Of the immigrant inspectors to
keep immigrants in quarantine 10 days.
United States officials cooperate with
foreign officials at European ports and
hold the immigrants five days. When
they reach Aemrica they are held five
days longer The time is not sufficient.
A contagious disease may break out in
the subject after 10 days"
At the recent convention Of county
health officers Of California at san
Diego Doctor Kuser and others advo-
Gated a general reform which they will
place before the state legislature This
reform embraces a reorganization by
which the county health officers will
have control of their own districts.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
SYNDICATE BUYS
MONTEREY PLANT
All Light, Power and Traction
Concerns in County May
Be Consolidated
Especial Daoaich to The Call

MONTEREY. Dec. 6.-The control
ling interest in the Monterey county
gas and electric company was
purchased Friday by syndicate OF San
Francisco and Los Angeles capitalists
for a sum in the neighborhoOd OF
100000, 100000 of which was paid
down.
1t is believed in Monterey that the
purchase OF the companys plant is a
part of deal being made to buy up
all the light power and traction plants
in Monterey county.
F. G. Baum. who has been connected
with the Pacific gas and electric COM
pany of San Francisco, is to have the
entire mana cement of the company
interests which include the electric
light and gas plants of Monterey. the
electric light, gas and water plants at
Salinas and the electric railway be-
tween Del Monte and Pacific Grove
BURGLARS LOOT BANK SAFE-NIexico No.
Dee 6.-The Bank OF Nfartinsburg at Martins
burg. near here. was robbed Of S1.2OO today
by men who blew open the safe. Citizens VINO
heard the explosion were repulsed By a guard
the robbers had near the bank
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
Chinese GIRLS
AGES ARE FROM
IA TO 20
One Maid Was Drugged When
She Wouldn't Board Liner
at HOngkOng
Wealthy Husbands in San Fran
cisco Was Bait Held Out
by Smugglers

for the captain TO visit during the
voyage. I also fail to see the necessity
for this imprisonment. There were
some I'VE or six hundred Chinese on the
ship and Fl would have been the sim
pIest thing in the world for the whole
Is to have mingled with the other
Asiatic passengers. It is true that at
frequent intervals during the voyage
we mustered the Asiatic passengers for
the doctor TO look them over. We also
mustered the Chinese crew. When the
passengers were mustered the crew was
below and vice versa, so you can see
that there would have been no diff
hculty at al in concealing from the
ships officers the fact that there were
Is Chinese stowaways on board.
IF they were kept as you say they
claim the room or locker must show it
and II such a state OF affairs was dis
covered the matter has not been re-
ported 10 me"
FIRST EXPOSURE
William Chisholm, marine superin-
tendent Of the Pacific Mail company,
said last night that he could not think
OF any place on the ship where the
women could have been so shut in and
lived TO tell the tale.
"On some trips" he said, "it might
have been possible. but this time the
ship was so chock full of freight that
practically every inch Of space not
needed for passengers was filed with
cargo. II there is such a place il
wouldn't tell US much If we found it.
A thing like this couldn't have been
carried out without assistance from
the crew and whoever is responsible,
II they really did come over on the
Manchuria, would take good care to
have the place cleaned out just as
quickly as they got rid Of the stow
aways."
Edsell. however. who spent all Of
yesterday listening 10 the tales Of the
girls who had suffered. believes that
they spoke the truth and knows that
they are not the first Chinese girls
who have crossed the Pacific under sim
liar conditions. It has been known for
long time that Chinese men and
women were being smuggIed into the
country. hut this is the first time that
the rings methods OF operation have
been exposed.
SLAVES WORTH $1,000
Collector Of the Port Frederick S
Stratton stated yesterday that he felt
certain some OF the customs inspectors
were implicated in the attempt at
smuggling the orientals ashore, and
that just as soon as the guilty ones
were determined they would be sum-
marily dismissed from the service.
Stratton stated that big bribes were
known TO be always awaiting con-
scienceless inspectors. especially where
the smuggling ashore Of Chinese women
was concerned. Thew omen, who be-
come the slaves of Chinatown bring
down a price 10 the lucky owner" of
$4,000 apiece.
Surveyor Charles II. Blinn expects to
receive and has requested from Com
missioner Steward a full report stat
ing the manner in which the escape
was effected from the steamer. AS soon
as the details are ascertained Blinn
viii confer with Stratton and other Of
fcoails for the purpose of deciding who
Were IN the plot.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
BOYS CAREER ENDED
BEFORE 1T is BEGUN

LOS ANGELES, Dec. e.-The heavy
hand Of the law brushed the first bloom
from an incipient romance of the west
ern plains yesterday when il descended
on the shoulders of Walter Stephens.
aged IS. as he was about to take a
train for the wilds Of Nevada, properly
attired in broad brimmed hat and high
heeled boots and carrying a 45 caliber
gun and cartridge belt filled with new
and shining cartridges. Walter was
taken TO the central station to await
action by the Juvenile court on charge
OF having sold a stolen horse for S45
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
MIDWINTER VACATION
TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK
School Will Close Friday for
Twenty-three Days

OAKLAND, Dec. 6.-The superintend.
ent of schools announced officially to-
day that schools will be closed next
Friday afternoon for the, three weeks
midwinter vacation. They will reopen
January 8. Examinations in 40 gram
mar schools have been completed by
A. c. Barker, C. N. Shane, Miss Eliza
beth Sherman and Miss Ida Vandergaw
of the superintendent office.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
ACTORS OPTIC AND HIS
DIGNITY ARE WOUNDED
So Disealeh % "a CeIIl

PALO ALTO. Dec. e.-while Burke
and Burke vaudeville actors. were
PLAYING a one act comedy at the Jewel
theater last night some one in the audi
ence threw something which struck
Burke senior in the eye, severely
wounding not only his organ of vision
but also his professional dignity. Burke
the elder refused to finish the act and
the curtain was rung down. The
wounded actor declared that the mis-
sile which struck him was either a tack
or poisoned dart. He Cancelled the
engagement
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07

Thomas Hills Paintings at Auction
Today at 2:30 and 200 p. m, Red Room,
81. Francis Hotel. Exhibition after 10
a. m.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
Where's Peace Message?
BusINEss RuILpING,

BUSINESS BUILDINGS BURN-sutherlin. Ore.
thsr oronerty rolmsd az s o snra ana
ings- including hardware store a market
and pool hall. were destroyed, with a part
of their contents
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
$SOO,OOO IS URGED
FOR MONTEREY BAY
War Department Recommends
Congress Make HarbOr
Improvements
Continued From Page 4

mended an appropriation for Arkansas
Pass, Tex, harbor, at total cost of
s375,ooo, including 100000 for dixie
along st. Joseph's island.
Cummins Thinkers With Tariff
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-Senator
Cdmmins of Iowa will introduce reso-
luton in the senate tomorrow designed
to help in the revision of certain sched-
ules of the tariff law. The rule will
permit the taking up of single sched-
ule for revision without rendering the
balance of the law open for amendment
Senator Cummins also will introduce
resolution limiting to so days the
time a bill may be held in senate
committee.
The resolution provides that after
that time bill may be called upon the
floor of the senate, as though the COM
mittee had reported it back.
Three New Senators Sworn
WASHINGTON, Dec 6-Practically
all the time In both houses of congress
today was occupied in the reading of
President Tafts message. In the SEN
ate three new senators were sworn in
They are: Claude A. Swanson of Vir-
ginia. who succeeds the late John w
Daniel; Joseph NJ. Terrell of Georgia.
successor to the late Senator A. s. Clay,
and Lafayette Young of Ohio, who
takes the seat made vacant by the
death of Senator ]. P. Dolliver.
Where's Peace Message?
PARIS. Dec. 6.-The American dis
armament proposition based on the con-
gressional joint resolution of the last
session and mentioned in President
Taft's message to congress today has
not yet reached the French foreign
office
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
Pigs and Peckerwoods.

A brother-possibly one whose
members sometimes run away from
him on Sunday to hear other pas
tors in the city-told me a good
story. Passing through a forest
used as a pasture, man came upon
bunch of pigs, mostly snouts, tails
and bristles, with their heads close
together, and their ears pricked up,
as if intent!y listening. In mo-
ment, the herd rushed away hum
dred yards, and then suddenly stop
ped. After a time, away they went
again, and so they kept up con-
tinual scatteration. At this juno
ture, the owner came up, and the
visitor asked the meaning of the
strange conduct Of the pigs. The
old fellow explained the matter by
saying, Yes, stranger, them's my
pigs. ! used to call them to give
them few nubbin's, until last win
ter, when l lost my voice, and could
not make myself heard. Then l
fell to striking on tree with
stone, and they'd come to that
Now I've got my voice back, but
no matter how much | call, they
won't come to me. If they hear a
woodpecker thumpin' on tree,
away. they go, an they're about to
run themselves to death after wood
peckers, and yet no woodpecker
ever has give them grain O. corn"
The moral of this storl- is mani
fest. The folks who go away from
your preaching are merely running
after woodpeckers. They are at
tracted by all sorts of sounds, and
refuse to hang around The man who
has some genuine food to give
them.
If any of The Courier readers
among the preachers are afflicted in
this way by runaway members, it
might be well to preach sermon
entitled Pigs and Woodpeckers, y
DR.. G. G. Brown in Baptist Courier.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
The Executive Committee Ar
ranges For Eight Meetings.
Take Magistrates Out of
Primary.

Pursuant to the call of County
Chairman B. E. Nicholson, sihe
executive committee met Monday
morning to consider the matter OF
electing magistrates in the primary
and to attend to routine business.
The first item of business to re-
ceive attention was arranging for
the county campaign meetings. A
committee, consisting of A.sE. Pad
gett, J.,C. Shaw, B. ID. Kitchings,
c. E. Quarles and J. w. Hardy,
was appointed to select the dates
and places for holding the meet
ings. The committee arranged the
following schedule which was unan-
imously adopted:
Long Branch, Saturday, July
3oth.
Johnston, Tuesday, August 2nd.
Berea, Thursday, August 4th.
Red Hill, Saturday, August 9Th.
Rehoboth, Tuesday, August 9th.
Parksville, Thursday, August
1lth.
Lanham Spring, Tuesday, Au-
gust 10th.
Edgefeld, Thursday, August
18th.
The above committee was also
requested to suggest or fix the as
sessments of the candidates. AS
there are several offices that did not
have to be filled this year the num-
Der of candidates is not so large as
two years ago, consequently the as
sessments had to be increased III
order to raise sufficient funds to de-
fray the campaign expenses. The
following assessments were levied:
House of Representatives, s5; .coun'
ty auditor, So; county supervisor,
So; superintendent of education,
3; Judge of probate, $3.50; super
visors of registration, county
commissioners and coroner 81 each.
Altroutine business being dispos-
ed of, the matter of election of
in the primary was
next taken. up. Capt. John r.
Blocker spoke at length in favor of
his motion to allow magistrates to
be elected in the. primary this year
as heretofore. A. E.. Padgett, w.
L. Coleman and j ohm G. Shaw spoke
in opposition to this motion. B. d.
Kitchings also spoke in favor of
Capt. Blocker's motion. Theyote
stood to I in favor of taking the
magistrates out of the primary.
The vote of the committee was
as follows: For election of magis-
trates in primary, d. L. Mathis, w.
w. Adams, B. d. Kitchings, John
R. Blocker, G. M. Williams, G. E.
Quarles, and &. w. Wise, Jr.
Those opposing their election in
primary, G. NJ. Smith, A. E. Pad
gett, j. w. Hardy, w. l.. Coleman,
S. T. Williams, J. f. Atkins, /. V.
Claxton and John G. Shaw.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
Not Much Difference.

A stranger addressed the far
mer's boy across the fence:
Young man, your corn looks
kind o yellow,
Yes, that's the kind we
planted"
Don't look as if you would get
more than half a CROP"
1--WE don't expect to. The land
lord gets the other half"
Then, after short time, the man
said:'
boy, there isn't much difference
between you and a fool"
"None," replied the boy, only
the fence."- ."--London Standard.
''Well, old man, you've been
married twelve times now. You
surely aren't going to take chance
at Number 1872"
Nope. / can't see any way out
of it but to marry twins. toledo
Blade.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
A Budding Merchant.

The jeweler left his new boy in
charge of the store while he went
home to his dinner, but not until he
cautioned the youth that all the
goods were marked and that he
must not let any one take goods
with him unless they were paid
for.
"Well, sam," he asked, upon his
return, did you have any custo-
mers?"
''You bet!" said Sam gleefully.
And l got his money, too: l sold
one man all those brass rings you
had that were marked 1sc. on the
inside, and here's the money--a
dollar and ninety-eight cents. -
Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
Raise Cowpea Hay For the Milk
Cows.

tits my firm conviction that it
would be cheaper to pay $1,000 a
ton for cowpea hay than to pay Sc
per ton for cottonseed hulls for
milk production. When the farmer
has cowpea hay, the best way to
this would be to feed
a ration consisting of one-third cot
ton seed meal, one-third corn meal
and one-third wheat bran feeding
this grain in the proportion of one
pound Of grain 10 about four or five
pounds of milk. In case the rough
age consists of corn stover. corn
fodder or other poorer classes of
roughage, grain should be fed at
the rate of about one pound to three
pounds Of milk.-John Mitcels, in
Raleigh On. CO. Progressive Far
mer and Gazette.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
Zen Things to do This Month.

l Keep the cultivators going
i IEeyeE shallow, frequent cultivation
is what the crops need at this sea
son. Don'tscut corn and cotton root:
Eby deep plowing.
Plant cowpeas, soy beans, vel
I vet scans, peanuts, some legune
will work stwenty-four hours a day
for you gathering nitrogen, making
money and building up the land.
Put IN all stubble lands not other
wise employed as soon as the oat OF
wheat cropiis taken off.
Saye all the crimson clover
tseed possible. If no clover huller is
Iavailable, the seed can be beat
en- hand and sown in the
Setsthe mower in good run
lning order See that all bolts are
ltlglt, the knives sharp, the guards
on straight and the bearings we'll
Eoiled "a mower is a splendid weed
killer MS Wellsas a necessity in the
hay field
Plant late corn and potatoes.
Keepsip "a succession of garden
crops; beans, tomatoes, sweet corn
and other vegetables should be
lplantsds this month. Fresh vegeta-
.blss are cheaper and better than
meat on store bought foods.
ss Spray the apple trees again
with Bordeux and Paris green, and
the lat ts peaches with lime-sulphur.
2low oatsthe first year strawberry
bed ndsplow up the old ones.
Look after the work stock.
Cut out some Of the corn these hot
days ind substitute cottonseed meal,
oats or peaYine hay. See that there
isaeno1gh shade and water as we'll
ga grass sin your pasture.
S Fix up a bathroom of some
sort, So thatyou can free yourself
from dust and perspiration at the
closebf the day. It will prove in
gi orating, add to your sense of
dignity dis and enable you to do better
u % ILeepaup the warfare against
flies and mosquitos and so help
ward: off, # yphoid fever and malaria.
lScrsen the doors and windows,
drain the stagnant pools, and look
fafterthe breeding places of the flies.
Prepare for the Farmers In
;sftutes in your section, and if there
are no NV Wsomen's Institutes in, your
ste. keep after olr officials until
started Prog gressive:
NJ
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-08
The School Teacher.

There are teachers and teachers,
and if the writer felt himself COM
petent and was a good deal braver
than he is, he would undertake to
discuss them from all standpoints:
but such a task would involve
more wisdom than one man could
be expected to have, and courage
enough to suffice for a crack regi-
ment. 1t will be assumed for the
purpose of these remarks that there
is only one kind of teacher, and he
is the one who measures up to every
reasonable qualification.
Of all the public servants who
have the hardest rows to hoe in tn is
world, including the country preach
er, Tie country editor, and the coun-
try school teacher, the i. country
school teacher proabbly runs
afoul of the most: briars and thistles,
and gets more unfriendly criticism
and less sympathy fr~m those
among whom and for whom he la
bors.
The ideal school teacher is a jew
ell among men, or if she be of the
other sex, a jewel among women.
The primary qualifications are to
know his business; to understand
the things he is to teach; to recog-
nize the value Of thoroughness; to
compel obedience; to be strong
enough or diplomatic enough to
overcome unreasonable stubborn
ness in parents as we'll as in chill
dren.
Somebody has said that men and
women are only children grown up.
In a sense, the truth of that is SO
obvious that it does not necessarily
suggest much wisdom; but the say
ing was to suggest the idea that
the same unreasonableness, the same
lack of wisdom, the same ,egotism
the same wilfulness, that is SO char
acteristic of many children contin-
ues to exist in grown ups, and most
experienced teachers have observed
that the parents who are able to
pride themselves on having been to
school through college, give more
trouble generally than the parents
who have had no educational OPP
portunities whatever. They know
how they want it done, but they are
unable to appreciate the fact that
no one else, other than themselves,
is capable Of doing things exactly
in accordance with their.own notion
All-these things the teacher. has
to contend with, and the more thor
oughly he, understands and accom-
plishes his work, the stronger and
more unreasonable the opposition
he must encounter. The erdeavor to
placate that opposition by yielding
to it, necessarily destroys the eff
cheney of the teaching as well as
the usefulness of the teacher, and
of course, the really competent
teacher will do nothing of the kind.
Enquirer.