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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MASS.
ES MORE SELF-RETIANT

Dear Sir:-As my time for The
Jeffersonians is about to expire, |
enclose postal order for renewals.
L have been reading your periodi-
Gals from the Peoples Party Paper
until now. | am glad that our Gov
eminent has at least one man who is
conscientious enough to speak what
he believes to be true, regardless Of
fear or favor. If you can educate a
little more self-reliance into your
readers, and a courage to contend
for their rights, at least some good
will be accomplished.
Another wrong our people are
guilty of, is voting in the old party
primaries. l believe when one votes
in primary, he is honor bound to
support the successful candidate of
that primary. l am so strongly con-
WINGED of this truth, that my own
skirts are clear of the pollution of
voting with the crowd I do not be-
IieVe in. Does history give a single
instance where large bodies have re-
formed within themselves? If it has
never been so in the past, can we
hope it will in the future? If this
is true, the man who believes the old
parties are corrupt, and still affili-
ates with them, is corrupt himself,
or is too weak to assert his man
hood. Perhaps moral cowardice is
the trouble of our times. If it were
not so, there would have been no
need for your timely criticism of
mission boards, nor of Socialism or
Catholicism.
Husband your strength, for the
battle has just begun. The hosts are
coming together, and with proper
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
ON PICKET DUTY FOR THE
JEFFS.

Dear Sir:-I am writing you this
short letter to say that you may ex-
pect me to be as loyal to you and
The Jeffersonians this year as l have
been il the past. You will find me
on picket up here in Hart county at
any time, and when l am needed
down at Thomson, sound the bugle
and l will be there.
You raised Cain the past year,
and we are expecting you to raise
the Devil this year. 1t is just as
important for some one to roust him
out now as it was when that man
Dow made him shuttle out, and if
you can't do it, I can't think of any
one else that can do it. / remem-
Der it was an easy job for you to
show us how to find the negro in the
Woodpile. So, shake the bushes: we
are standing guard.
w. J. GLOVER.
BoWersVille, Georgia.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
GOOD WISHES FOR THE JET
PERSONALS.

Dear Sir:-The Jeffs are certainly
Give wires, and the man who can
read them without feeling the shock
must certainly be very deep in the
rut of Indifference.
They demand the attention of
thinking men and women wherever
they go.
I hope the friends to these publ
cations will put their shoulders to
the wheel, this year, and help roll
up a subscription list that will touch
every nook and corner of this old
country of ours.
Assuring you that I put in a lick
opportunity, I am
Lincoln, Alabama.
Your friend, GEO. H. LOVE.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
MISSOURI MAN LIKES TO BE
SHOWN.

Dear Sir:-Enclosed find check
for $40 for renewal of subscrip-
ton to your Magazine (Watson's
Jeffersonian Magazine) and ex-
change. I don't want to miss copy
You are performing a great public
service, and are entitled to the graf
itude of all patriotic citizens.
In these days it is refreshing to
find a man possessed of the courage
and ability to make the fight you
are making for the South and West
Respectfully,
Joplin, Mo. HUGH DABBS.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
WANTS WHISKEY ADS. CUT
FROM PAPERS.

Dear Sir:-When will we ever get
the large dailies and weeklies that
circulate in our homes to stop the
Whiskey ad.? | find them tempting
ly arranged on every page at any old
price and in any quantity. My boys
read them if I take the paper, and
in order to avoid the continuous vile
temptation I must take from them
the privilege of the good to avoid the
bad. l suppose the papers take con-
ISOLATION from the fact that they ad-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
JUDGE BRAND, ON GOLFERS
GROSS INSULT.

Dear Sir:-I take The Jefferson
ian. I read with a great deal Of
pleasure your article against Col
lier's Weekly and Hapgood. I am
glad some newspaper man in Geor-
gia has the nerve and the moral
courage to denounce this ass and
this infamous slanderer.
Yours truly,
Athens, Ga. G. H. BRAND.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
ANOTHER CONVERT TO DOMES-
TIC MISSIONS.

MY Lear SIR nave been quite
interested in your articles regarding
Foreign Missions. They appear to
me to be based upon a strong founda-
ton, and until the present conditions
OF our country are overcome, I be-
l1eye no hurricane in all Christendom
can weaken them. Among our peo-
pie today , in the cities and the coun-
try, the crying need is for helping
hand" We should organize our
selves as a Christian people, the
church ought and is to a great ex-
tent our stronghold, to pull together
as brothers and sisters for the pro-
lection and perpetuation of mankind,
the uplifting of humanity. 1t is true
we must give credit to our churches,
but they are at fault when they are
so earnestly endeavoring to educate
and cultivate heathendom at the
great sacrifice of our own people. It
is also true the churches are the
greatest institution we have in our
land today don't think you will
deny that fact, God-founded and God
inspired, and it often puzzles me
what they expect to accomplish. Now,
| take the same stand as you do, as
did my mother, whom I consider one
of the most refined and cultured wo-
men, church-Worker, and was loved
by all who knew her, ''Practice what
you preach at home," if such evils
exist among our own people, or, if
We are giving heathendOm something
they are deprived of, then after our
obligation along this line is perform
ed we are commissioned as civiliz-
ed people to use our influence in
spreading the gospel in other lands,
for the standard of Christendom.
1t makes me grow sick at heart
when look into the United
States postoffice and see negro clerks
in the majority, and on railway
trains in the employ Of the Uni
ted States Government, working
along with men of our own flesh and
blood. I often wonder in amaze
ment if these white men feel humili-
ated over such conditions; as Uncle
Sans almighty dollar makes us
stand lot when it means our bread
and butter, especially SO when a wife
and little children are dependent
upon us for support.
I have been a great admirer of you
since your articles on Foreign Mis-
sions. We have young man in our
office who is a staunch Watson man,
likewise his father. My associates up
to this time being practically anti
Watson, I, of course, naturally was
led to believe most anything, but
since you jumped on BrOughtOn and
the other Foreign Mission fanatics,
began to read for myself and see for
myself. AS a result thereof, it has
converted me to the right side, re-
CARELESS of politics, and from your
great amount of surplus information,
it is my opinion that you are the best
all-rOund informed man our country
today has.
Very truly yours,
w. B. WALTHOUR.
Atlanta 90
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PAGE THREE

leading the battle will be won for
others if not for us. Send me the
knives, ii L am entitled to them.
want them for my grandboys.
l am in this fight until the end.
H. G. ROBERTS.
Franklin, Tennessee.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14

~SOAAO1
dent from time to time, advising him
kindly as to his studies.
Reading law in this way does not
interrupt any other work in which
the boy may be engaged. I, myself,
read law at night, while teaching
school in the day time. This has
been done in numberless cases.
Where the student, and would-be
lawyer, has the money, and can af-
ford the expense, it is, doubtless,
better to attend law school, but it
is by no means necessary that he
should. Alexander H. Stephens pre-
pared himself for the profession by
reading two or three months This
can be done by any Industrious, in
telligent young man, for, after all,
it requires practice in the Court
Room to rake good, practical,
case winning lawyer.
After Blackstone's "Commenta-
ries" have been finished, you might
read Kent's commentaries" which
apply peculiarly to modern condi-
tons and to the American system.
Then you should read "Greenleaf
on Evidence, or some other stand
ard authority on that subject. After
this you might read Bishop on
Criminal Law, or some other stand
ard work on that. If you have the
time, you could very proftably en-
ploy it by reading "Cooley's Consti-
tutional Limitations" or some other
work on Constitutional law. This,
however, is not necessary to your adj
mission to the bar and your begin
ming of practice in the common law
courts of Georgia, or any other
State. The Code of Georgia, you
will, of course, study.
AS a matter of fact, while it is ex-
ceedingly useful to read the books
which I have mentioned, you could
become frst-ciass lawyer, ESQ far
as practicing in the Courts is con-
cerned,) by combining your studies to
the Code of this State, and to the
decisions of our Supreme Court.
Our laws are so plainly written, and
the decisions of our Courts are so
thoroughly annotated, that the stu
dent who masters the Code, and who
familiarizes himself with the decis-
ions made upon the various ques-
tons of civil and criminal law and
of pleading and practice, and of the
rules of evidence, will have become
a thoroughly equipped attorney for
all practical purposes.
Blackstone is read in order that
the student may have knowledge
of the historic origins, and the true
meaning of our various legal max
inns, etc. Comparatively little of the
lore contained in Blackstone or Coke
applies to our own time. The learn
ing is what we call "obsolete'. We
read it as we do history, to learn the
origin of things.
Yours very truly, T. E. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14

Mr. Anderson has made his College
the most famous in America by rea-
son of his enetrprising methods for
advancing the interests of his stu
dents and patrons, and for enabling
his students to do Office work for
pay while taking their course with
him. His efforts are said to have
resulted in making the Georgia-Ala-
bama the most perfect training school
in the world today, and it is attract
ing the attention of educators every
where. Mr.. Anderson has also
sprung a sensation by working out a
plan for letting people get their edu-
cation and then pay for it afterwards.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
WON THE GESAS SUIT
Blackfoot Attorney, After Several De-
fcats, Gets a Favorable Decis-
ion Against o. S. l..

Attorney G. f. Hansbrough was in
Salt Lake City last week engaged in
the trial of Jesse Gesas VS.. the Oregon
Short L'ne railway for damages for
the LOSS OF his limb in September,
1905.
AT the time of the accident, Jesse
Gesas was crossing under the freight
car near the depot when the train
backed up, cutting off one of his legs.
me case was tried at Salt Lake City
and the railroad won A new trial
was secured with the same results,
and people were very much surprised
at Mr. Hansbrough securing a third
Trial and getting judgment, on which
We understand the Short Line will
pay the money.
Mr.. Hansbrough and his client are
feeling good, and this adds one more
to the number OF cases where Mr..
Hansbrough seems to be beaten but
finally bobs up with judgment that
Is tinal.
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Continued on page 81
ECHOES OF BUNTING FAILURE
BlackfOOt Case That Has Been in
the Courts For Years Rec
emily Settled

The case of Henry Dunn VS.. w. G.
Stufflebeam has just been decided by
the supreme court of Idaho in favor
of Mr.. Dunn, Hansbrough & Gagon
having conducted the case for the
winner.
Charles Bunting was the guardian
of the Burgess heirs, minors, and up
on his failure and death some four
teen years ago it devolved upon the
bondsmen, Henry Dunn and w. G..
Stufflebeam, to make good the sum
for which the guardian was RESPONSE
Bile.
In 1901 Mr.. Lindsay, acting as
guardian of the heirs, brought suit
against Dunn and Stufflebeam, and
obtained judgment for $67O9.85. Mr..
Dunn paid his proportion of the judg-
ment, and at another time paid Mr..
Stufflebeams part of it, and later
became involved in suit to recover
from Mr.. Stufflebeam. The case was
very complicated one, and was stub
bornly contested on both sides to the
court of highest appeal.
Mr.. Dunn and his attorneys are
feeling little jubilant over the vic
tory that hung SO long in the balance.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
BIG REDUCTION
IN LIGHT RATES
Vice President Hughes of
Idaho Consolidated Power
Co. Promises City Council
Big Reduction in Prices

After the reading of the minutes
| Mayor West stated that Vice Presi-
dent M. e. Hughes of the Idaho Con-
solidated Power company was pres
ent and wished to confer with the
council relative to a new franchise,
and by consent of the members the
regular order of business was sus-
pended and he was invited to speak.
Mr.. Hughes said he observed that
the city government was adding to
the number of street lights, and with
out any solicitation he had offered
new schedule giving lower rate.
That the Idaho Consolidated Power
company would always be found will
ing to do its part and that on tn /,
request of the committee which had
conferred with him about lowering
the rate for individuals, he proposes
schedule OF IL cents per kilowat,
instead of Is as at present, which is
reduction of 2S % on. present rates,
with the usual reduction of 10 70 for
cash, same to go into effect whenever
the council enters into the new con-
tract. They also agree to furnish
lights free for the city buildings un-
der the new contract. He submitted a
statement showing the amount of ex-
penses and income for the past year
as follows:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
FARMERS INSTI-
TUTE FEBRUARY ID
Many Good Speakers Will
Instruct Farmers or All
Things Pertaining to the
Cultivation of Land.

A farmers institute will be held at
the Commercial club rooms or other
suitable place in Blackfoot on Friday,
February 14th. Some speakers will
be here from the University at Mos
COW and several local speakers will
aid.
Prof. j. B. Griffing, principal of
the Blackfoot schools will speak on
the care of the SOIL A. r. Turner
will speak on the condition of the
fruit industry as it looks to man
from Michigan; Jas. G. Johnston will
make a report upon the experiments
being conducted in feeding potatoes
to sheep, and there may be other
speakers whom we will announce
laer.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
Public Sale
EN-. KENNEDY, Auctioneer
W. A. YOUNlE, Clerk
If you expect to hold a sale write
US for terms at BIachfoot, Idaho
SECOND WARD MASS MEETING

A mass meeting of the voters of
the second ward of the city of Black
foot will be held at the Office of the
probate Judge on Monday evening,
the 31st of January, 1910, at 8 p.
m. for the purpose of nominating a
councilman to succeed H. B. Curtis,
whose resignation was accepted on
January 25th, 1910. Mr.. Curtis hav-
ing been appointed post master, can
not legally fill any other Office, and
the person nominated by the mass
meeting will be appointed by the
mayor and same confirmed by the
council at the regular meeting on
Tuesday evening, February 1st.
JAS. G. BOND,
Councilman for Second Ward. 32-1
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28

If you don't know n AR D Z STY' s
ExTRAcTS-get acquainted.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
Planting Potatoes

| Experience has shown that a six
year rotation, raising clover or alfal-
ia for three years, potatoes for two
II years and grain as nurse crop one
year to start the clover or alfalfa
keeps the soil in good condition and
absolutely prevents disease in the po-
tato crop"
Pillow the ground in the fall, STIR
ring it deep; in the spring disc it
thoroughly, going over it both ways
to cut it up fine, and then go over it
with a plank or drag to make a
smooth surface commonly called a
dust mulch.
Plant the potatoes about nine
inches apart in the row, and have the
rows SO inches apart. The best po-
tato for seed is the ten ounce pota-
| to (shoWs audience some potatoes)
the one sorted by the 2A inch
screen. Cut them in to lengthwise,
| leaving plenty of substance to nour-
ish the plant while it is getting it's
roots established, and it will not be
checked in it's growth, but will -four
ish without any delay. Plant from
1000 to 1900 pounds OF seed per
acre, and cover about four inches
deep.
Next begin cultivating with a bull
tooth cultivatOr, setting the shovels
deep, and stirring the ground deeper
than it was plowed getting the air
down into it, and piling the dirt up
on the rows covering them to a depth
of about six inches total Ridge high
and furrow deep. Then put the har
row on and harrow the ground in
every direction, keeping the weeds
from starting and preventing the
evaporation of the moisture. Use
harrow with fine teeth about four
inches long set slanting back. Do
not harrow while the potatoes are
coming through the ground, but re-
sumo as soon as they are we'll up,
and continue until they are about six
inches high.
Grubb introduced Mr.. Staufacher
who continued
THE purpose in raising a field of |
potatoes Is to make money isn't it? |
And the way to get the most money |
out OF your potato crop is necessarily |
he best for the farmer and the con-
sumner. The consumers know what |
they want, and when we learn just |,
what they want and how they want |
it, we can supply it. And you want to
raise the potato that brings the best.
price. Here it is (holding up round
white potato) the potato weighing
about ten ounces and having a diam
eter of 2 u to inches. The smooth
round form with shallow eyes. The
one that can be easily baked, or east
ly peeled without heavy loss by cut
ting off thick places that look like eye
brows on the tuber. The deep eyes
make greater loss in peeling." Here
a discussion continued for some time,
led by those in the audience asking
questions about what variety to raise,
but in closing, the speaker dwelt up
on the texture and quality of Idaho
potatoes being superior to those rails
ed where the nights are warm as in
corn countries, or in older potato dis
trcts where farmers have not main
tanned their soil by proper rotation
of crops. The scabby potatoes ship
ped occasionally by some shiftless
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
Discussed Potato Culture and Orchard Heating
Test of Lectures and interviews with Master
Minds on Agriculture Cash Prizes for Farmers
TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES FOR FRUIT
AND POTATOES

The lecture train arrived in Black
foot at $40 Monday morning, ant
representative of the Republican
boarded the train at the upper enc
of the yards on it's way down to the
depot. We found the train to con
sist of one baggage car used for car
rying machinery for demonstrations
of farm work, two day coaches useG
for lectures, one combination car ir
which the lecturers had their desks
baggage and typewriters, and din
ing car
The train was in charge of Joel
l.. Priest, publicity agent for the Ore
| gon Short Line whose office is at
Boise. The train was run on a special
schedule and had it's own crew and
attendants who went out from Salt
Lake City for the entire trip.
The lecturers were e. H. Grubb, a
| potato expert of national reputation,
| whose home is at Carbondale, Colo.
and who is the author of pamphlet
| issued by the U. S. Department Of
Agriculture entitled, Potato Culture
on the Irrigated Farms of the West. :"
So high does this gentleman rank in
the bureau OF plant industry that his
work on potato culture was approved
by the secretary of the interior, and
the pamphlet dated December, 1909,
is being distributed from that de-
partment as the latest and best work
the government has to offer on this
subject. COPIES can be had by writ
ing the department of agriculture,
Washington, D. c. Mr.. Grubb is
now in charge of the potato interests
OF the North Side Twin Falls pro-
ject, with headquarters at Jerome,
Idaho.
Thomas F. Mahoney, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce of Grand
Junction, Colorado, the expert on or
chard heating, who won for himself
and his locality, world wide fame last
spring by heating the orchards of
Grand Valley, Colorado, every time
the temperature fell to the freezing
point and destroyed so large a per-
centage of the fruit bloom all over
the country. When they harvested a
bumper crop and sold it at top-notch
prices, they were interviewed and in
vestigated by orchardists from all
over the. United States, from Holland,
from Germany, from Austria-all
eager to learn how it had been accom-
plished in the face of one heavy frost
after another, and now Mr.. Mahoney
has left his desk and his home at
Grand Junction to travel with Mr..
Burley's lecture train to tell our or
chardists how to conduct orchard
heating.
w. S. Guilford, agricultural expert
and director for the North Side Twin
Falls Land & Water company, Twin
Falls Salmon River Land & Water !
company, and the Twin Falls Oakley !
Land & Water company, whose office |
is at Jerome, Idaho, known as joy
full Jerome"
A. A. Stauffacher, expert on the i
subject of potato markets and how
to prepare for the market.
H. l.. Edgerton expert on seed po-
atoes, and how to breed up and main
tain the various strains of the potato |
family.
The train was placed on the siding
and at exactly ten O'Clock Mr.. Grubb
stepped into the lecture car and be-
gan speaking, as follows:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
OFF FOR SUNNY IDAHO

On last Thursday, the home of O.
P. Essley was the scene Iof most
pleasant surprise. Mr.. and Mrs. o.
A. Kennedy are leaving this week
for their new home in Idaho. The
friends and neighbors planned to give
them surprise and accordingly came
in body to the home of Mrs. Ken
nedy's parents where they were stay
ing. Some substantial gifts were
left behind as token Of esteem in
which this family is held. All join
In wishing them success in their
western home. News Times, Lenox,
Iowa.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28

oUUoCI IUCu anu oWUI IT IU Uy W. E'
Hughes, vice president.
More About Explosives
The committee on explosives rec
commended that the powder magazine
be located not less than one mile
from the city limits, and explosives
shipped in, or in cars in transit, be
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28
CORA SILL GAGE

One of the early residents OF
Blackfoot one who grew up in the
pioneer village and was perhaps as
we'll known in the then sparsely set
tied region as anybody excepting
Charles Bunting, was Miss Cora Sill.
Everybody knew her, the school girl,
later the teacher in the public schools,
the teacher of music, the teacher in
Sunday school, the organist at a
thousand rehearsals and entertain
tainments for popular education or
public good-the one who served the
public cheerfully in that semi-thank-
less task of furnishing music OF oc-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28

casions great and small, and taking
well, we thank you," for her pay.
Besides growing up in this philan-
thropic service, Miss Sill married a
minister, the Rev. Mr.. Gage, and con-
tinued it as her life work. Indeed it
was probably while helping him in his
church work that their acquaintance
began, and now, after fifteen years of
absence from Blackfoot her name was
one of list of more than hundred
to whom we sent letters asking for
some information supplementary to
what we already had. The letter is
characteristic of the author, and we
print it just as it came to us.
Continued on page A.