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treatjaps badly
Is Charge Made Against People
of San Francisco.
INVESTIGATION STARTED
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Unless Municipal Boycott is
Lifted ? President Roosevelt
Takes Action.
President Roosevelt Friday night directed
Victor K. Metcalf, secretary of
the department of commerce and labor,
to proceed to San Francisco, and
make a thorough and complete inquiry
into the situation affecting the exclusion
of Japanese children from the
schools provided for white children,
and the determination to piacp Japanese
pupils in separate schools. The
president is anxious to obtain at first
hands from a cabinet officer who is
* . acquainted with local conditions in
(San Francisco, full information affecting
every phase of the subject to
the end that whatever action is taken
i by this government may be after an
accurate understanding of the situation.
The president feels that every
effort within the power of the adminA
istration should be exercised to see
that all the treaty rights claimed by
the Japanese for its people residing
in the United States should be respected
and protected.
The determination to send Secretary
Metcalf to San Francisco was
one of the results of the request
made by Viscount Aoki, the Japanese
* ambassador, who at a conference
with Secretary Root, asking in behalf
of his government that the Japanese
subjects in California be accorded
their full rights under the treaty
of 1894, including that of the children
to attend the public schools in
' San Francisco. This request was the
subject of very long and earnest discussion
at the cabinet meeting on
Friday.
It is hoped that the expressed de*
sire of the administration to secure
the treaty rights of the Japanese will
tend to allay the anti-American feel
lug in1 Japan, until the whole matter
Is diplomatically adjusted.
Viscount Aoki also represented to
Secretary Root that Japanese restau*.
' rant keepers in San Francisco have
v suffered indignities. At least seven or
r ' eight reports have been made concerning
a boycott inaugurated against
these restaurants, andl the reports
state that agents have been posted to
prevent patrons from entering the
restaurants, and in several instances
stones have been thrown and windows
broken.
* Administration officials do not hesitate
to express privately their views
; of the present anti-American feeling
growing out of the wrongs which the
Japanese declare they have suffered,
and one member of the cabinet said
after the meeting that the general
opinion of the cabinet is that the situation
was exceedingly grave and
would require the most delicate treatment
to prevent an open rupture.
\ Judge Wolverton of the United
States circuit court has issued an
order to the board of education of
San Francisco citing that body to
show cause why an injunction compelling
the reinstatement of Yasuhate,
a Japanese student recently exr
eluded from the Paciffc Heights grammar
school, should not be issued.
The board is ordered to answer on November
5.
NATIONAL W. C. T- .U. MEETING.
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Thirty-Third Annuai Convention in
Session at Hartford.
The thirty-third r.nnual convention
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union opened at Fart
ford, Conn.. Friday, at. Parson's theater.
Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, o? Portland,
Maine, presided and more than
^ 450 delegates from all parts of the
X'nited States were present. Deletes
from Austria. Japan, England. Greece
and other countries also were on !
? liand.
COTTON EXCHANGE CLOSES.
Promoters of Concern "In," While Customers
Are "Out."
The customers of the Taylor-McRae
Cotton Exchange at Fitzgerald,
Ga., were very much surprised when
the doors of the house failed to open
at the usual hour Tuesday morning.
^ Tom McRae, local manager, left the
city, and before leaving he stated that
the shop "was "in about thirty-five
hundred dollars." The assets are practically
nothing. The property is now
in the hands of the sheriff.
PniTOR KNOCKED OUT.
v Railroads Cannot Give Transportation
For Advertising Space.
Under the ruling of the interstate
commerce commission transportation
over railroad lines no longer may
be given to newspaper publishers or
editors in exchange for advertising
space in their papers.
A protest against this ruling has
been received by the commission from
the Massachusetts Press Association.
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BARRETT SCORES JORDAN
Head o* Farmers' Union Replies in
Scorching Card to President of
Southern Cotton Association.
O. S. Barrett, president of the Farmers'
Union, replies to the recent
interview of President Harvie Jordan,
attacking him and State President
Duckworth, of the Farmers' Union,
in a caustic card, which, in part*
is as follows:
"To the Public: My attention has
just beeu cailed to a communication
oi ivxi. n<*rvie joraan, irom wnicn i
make extracts as follows:
" 'It has been reported that Barrett
was a rural school teacher in
connection with his small farming
operations before he became identified
officially with the union, and that
Duckworth followed the same avocation
in Texas beiore being employed
by the union as a lecturer. But whatever
their previous avocations, both
are practically unknown in the cotton
world, and unfamiliar with the
handling and marketing of a great
crop involving an annual purchase
price of more than $600,000,000.
" 'I am daily in receipt of letters
and resolutions from members of local
Farmers' Unions condemning the
present course of some of their leaders,
especially Barrett and Duckworth,
in tryitig to stir up strife at
this critical time. The rank and file
of the union are not responsible for
thef acts and doings of some of their
short-sighted leaders.'
"I am amazed at the tone erf Mr.
Jordan's communication. In the first
place, in my former statement on the
subject of his unfortunate interview I
made no personal charges against
him. I simply criticized him, as I had
a right to do, for having permitted
himself to be used by the bears in
beating down the price of cotton. I
simply stated that it was most unfortunate
that one making the claims
he does should be quoted as having
made the declaration that 'this year's
cotton crop is the S?COND largest
in the history of the south.' If that
statement had come from a recognized
bear it could have done no harm, but
when sent broadcast throughout the
world as the utterance of the president
of his organization, the damage
done is instantaneous and irremediable.
"I recall that less than two years
ago Mr. Jordan himself literally grew
pale about the gills, and frothed at
the mouth, at the publication of the
advertisement of a New York cotton
speculator to the effect that the crop
of that year would be the largest in
the history of the south. That was
the famous 14,300,000 bale crop, and it
turned out that the speculator was
right in his estimates. But he was
denounced by Mr. Jordan, as all but
a tnief, for daring to predict that the
crop was the largest in the history
of the south.
''And now, strange to say, here
comes Mr. Jordan himself, after but
one crop intervening, declaring to all
the world that this year's crop is
the SECOND largest in the history of
the south. In other woFds, he is doing
just exactly what Theodore Prico
did two years ago, and, strange to
say, conditions have exactly reversed.
Price having been for the past six
months on the bull side of the crop,
while the effect of Jordan's utterances
have been to .send the price
of cotton downward.
"Jt must be kept in mind that notwithstanding
Mr. Jordan's evasive attempts
to smother that famous Washington
interview he has not up to this
time denied that he made the statement
that this was the SECOND largest
crop in the south's history, and
that he minimized the damage of the
gulf storm.
"Like myself, these men were so
much thunderstruck by Mr. Jordan's
attitude that they adopted resolutions
asking the farmers of the south to pay
no more attention to his advice on
the subject of cotton.
"That Washington interview of Mr.
Jordan's lias already cost the farmers
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of the south millions 01 aoiuirs, am
other interviews published since that
time have had almost as bad an effect"
SAVINGS BANK GOES UNDER.
Institution at Washington Fails to
Weather the Storm.
The People's Savings Bank of
Washington, D. C., was closed Wednesday
by order of the comptroller
of the currency. An examination by
a national bank examiner showed the
institution to he in an insolvent condition.
John W. Scnofield has been
appointed receiver. The total assets
and liabilities are given as $210,3G9.
The bank was incorporated under
the laws of West Virginia. It is the
second district institution to be closed
within a week.
THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE
From Chicago to Atlanta Will Begin
November 24.
At a conference of the railroads
interested, held at the Piedmont hotel,
in Atlanta, Thursday, schedules and
arrangements for a through train between
Atlanta and Chicago were taken
up and discussed, with the result that
such through service will be established
on November 24.
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DUTCH GARDENING.
Trees and Shrnbs Made to Take on
Queer Shapes.
The letter "B" in shrubbery and
the shrubbery pig here shown are
striking specimens of topiary, or
Dutch, gardening as practiced in
England. "It would seem," says the
j Tatler, London, "that there were toJ
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piary gardens in England as far back
as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Long before the time of
Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare
these formal gardens existed in our
country. Of course, the practice goes
baclt to the time of the Romans. All
that we owe to William in. is that
he accentuated the prevailing taste
and that he carried the thing to such
an extreme as to produce a reaction,
' so that the gardeners of a little later
began to cut down all these beauti
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ful fancy shrubs in a most cruel
fashion.
"Curiously enough, the age in
which literature and in many phases
of life we consider the most artificial?that
is to say, the age of Pope
and Addison?was that in which theprotest
against formality in gardening
came to a point. Both Pope and
Addison were eloquent in prose and
verse in favor of letting nature work
its way in freedom, in a plea for luxuriancy
of boughs and branches as
against mathematical figures."
A Biff Xueffet.
In the presence of Professor Parks,
of Toronto University, there was
tested the other day a silver nugget
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of altogether remarkable dimensions.
The mass had been taken from the
Cobalt mine, Ontario, and had been
found in a newly discovered vein, five
feet wide, at the surface of the mine.
The nugget weighed 100 pounds, and
contained 70 per cent, of silver.
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A Fishing Trick.
There are plenty of patented hooks
and devices for catching fish, but
when they are not available all sorts
of ingenious devices are rigged up by
those who tire of sitting in the sun
for hours wondering why the fish
don't hook themselves. Here is one
of them. It is not recommended
when there is a scarcity of bait, but
otherwise it can be used with success.
It must be kept in mind, even with
this device, that all fish do not bite
on a hook and pull anxiously in the
hope of being caught. The slightest
How the Hooks Are Placed.
pull of a line should be responded to
by the fisherman, who must pull hard
enough to jerk the barb of the hook
through the very tough fiber of the
mouth. With this In mind, a fisherman
has better chances with this device
than one with the plain hook.
Each hook should carry a very
small piece of bait, nicely covering
the point and barb. The bottom
hook can carry the attractive bait,
but the others are used to catch the
fish.?New York Mail.
Cheese Making Gardening.
Cheese-making has been shown by
recent bacterial research to be a sort
of gardening?an inverted gardening,
in which the plants are grown for
the sake of modifying the soil. The
peculiar qualities and flavors of the
different cheeses have been proved to
be due to the growth of various species
of bacteria and moulds in them.
And it has been found possible to
produce the flavor of any required
cheese from the milk of any locality
by introducing the appropriate plants.
In a recent paper, for example, C.
Gorini shows that the familiar red
and green patches which characterize
Gorgonzola cheese are the combined
work of a special mould, and
a species of bacillus. These organisms
are introduced as the result of
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cess of manufacture.
SOLE SURVIVOR OF A FAMOUS
BREED OF CATTLE.
Changes in the Cattle Business Witnessed
by an Old Texas Steer.
Of the million long htmed cattle
which roamed the vast prairies of
Texas thirty years ago only one survives.
This last survivor, a spotted
steer, long since past the span of
life supposed to be allotted to his
kind, is an honored guest in the
choicest pasture of Rancho de la
Parra, in Cameron County, Southwest
Texas. The patriarch might
well be overcome with amazement at
2XAS LONG HORNS.
the extraordinary advances In the
business of cattle raising which have
taken place in his lifetime, but as he
is only a longhorn he merely chews
his cud in placid content and lets
others do the wondering.?C. F. Carter,
in the New York Tribune.
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How Crimioa
No man in this country knows
more of criminals and the causes
which produce them than Mat Pinkerton.
He says if children were
reared in a right environment criminals
would be unknown at the end
of one generation, meaning, no doubt,
habitual criminals, yet we are praotically
doing nothing to check the
growth of an army of brigands such
as now infest some European countries.
If anyone questions this statement
let them read "Tramping With
Tramps," written by an intelligent
college-bred man who "struck the
road" i? order to study the life of
this law-defying cl .ss at close range.
Let me quote from it. The author
says:
"Thpre arp four distinct wavs by
which boys and girls get upon the
road: Some are born there, some
are driven there, others are enticed
there, and still othex-s go there voluntarily.
"Of those who are born on the
read, perhaps the least known are
the children of the ambulanters. The
name is a tramp invention, and not
popular among the ambulanters
themselves. They prefer to be called
gypsies, and try at times, especially
when compelled by law to give some
account of themselves, to trace their
origin to Egypt; but the most of
them, I fear, are degenerated Americans.
How they have become so is
a questioji which permits of much
conjecture, and in giving my own explanation
I do not want it to be
taken as applicable to the entire class.
I know only about fifty families, and
not more than half of these at all
familiarly, but those whom I do know
seem to me to be victims of pure and
simple laziness handed down from
generation to generation until it has
become a chronic family disease.
From what they have told me confidentially
about their natural history,
I picture their forefathers as harmless
village 'do-nothings,' who
lounged in corner groceries, hung
about taverns, and followed the fire
engine and the circus. The second
generation was probably too numerous
for the home parish, and, Inheriting
the talent for loafing, started out
for roomier lounges. It must have
anH Inner fnr linntl thfi
third generation, the one that I know,
the love of roaming descended to
such a degree that all North America
is none too large for it. Go where
one will, in the most dismal woods,
the darkest lanes, or on the wildest
prairies, there the ambulanter may
be found tenting with his large, unkempt
family. He comes and goes, as
his restless spirit dictates, and the
horse and wagon carry him from
State to State.
"It is in Illinois that I know his
family best. Cavalier John, as he
proudly called himself, I remember
particularly. He gave me shelter one
night in his wagon, as I was toiling
along the highway south of Ottawa,
and we became such good friends
that I traveled with his caravan for
three days. And what a caravan it
was! A negro wife, five little mulattoes,
a deformed white girl, three
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phemous parrot, a squeaking squirrel,
a bony horse and a canvas-topped
wagon, and all were headed 'Texas
way.' John had come from Maine
originally, but he had picked up his
wife in the West, and it was through
their united efforts in trickery and
clever trading that they had acquired
their outfit. So far as I could learn
neither of them had done an honest
stroke of business. The children
ranged from three years to fourteen,
and the deformed girl was nearly
twenty. John found her among some
other ambulanters in Ohio, and,
thinking that he might make money
out of her physical monstrosities as a
'side show,' cruelly traded off an old
fox for her. She ought to have been
in an insane asylum, and I hope John
has put her there long ago. The other
'kidlets,' as they were nicknamed,
were as deformed morally as was the
adopted girl physically. They had to
beg in every.town and village they
came to, and at night their father
took the oldest with him in his raids
on the hen-roosts. It was at town
and county fairs, however, that they
were the mcst profitable. Three
knew hew to pick pockets, and the
two youngest gave acrobatic exhibitions.
None of them had ever been
in school, none could read or write,
and the only language they spoke
was the one of their class. I have
never been able to learn it well, but it
is a mixture of Romany and tramp
1 dialect with a dash of English slang.
I "On the iourney we met another
caravan, bound west by way of Chicago.
There were two faxniles, and
the children numbered sixteen; the
oldest ranging from fifteen to twenty,
and the youngest had just appeared.
We camped together in a wood for a
night and a day, and seldom have I
sojourned in such company. John
hsfd given me a place with him in the
wagon, and now the woman with the
babe was given the wagon and John
and I slept, or tried to, 'in the open.'
In the other wagon; both sexes, young
and old, were'crowded into a space
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omnibus, and the vermin would have
| made sleep impossible to any other
order of beings. The next day, being
' Sunday, was given over to play and
revel, and the poor horses had a
respite from their sorrows. The children
invented a queer sort of game,
something like 'shinny,' and used a
dried-up cat's head as a block. They
kicked, pounded, scrstche'd and
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cursed one another; and when the
play was over all was well again and
the block was tucked away In the
wagon for further use. Late at night
the journeys were taken up once
more, one caravan moving on toward
Dakota, and the other toward
the Gulf.
"I wonder what has become of that
little baby for whom I sat the night _ '-1
out? It is over ten years ago now,
and he has probably long since been
compelled to play his part in crime,
and' scratch and fight as his older 4
brothers and sisters did on that autumn
morning. Certainly there is
nowhere in the world a more ferocious
set of children than those of
the ambulanters. From morning until
night it is one continual snap and ^
bite, and tbe depraved fatners ana ' \r\^
mothers look on and grin. . Jhey
have not the faintest idea of home,
and their only outlook in life is some
day to have a 'rig' of their own and
prowl through the> land, seeking
whom they may devour. To tame i( . ;
them is a task requiring almost dl- ^
vine patience. I should not know #
how to go at them. They laugh at
tenderness, never say 'Thank yon,' ' ' ^
and obey their parents only when j M
driven with boot and whip. I wish
that I could suggest some gentle
method by which they cogld be rescued
from the road and made good
men and women. It always seems
harsh to apply strict law to delinquents
so young and practically innocent,
but it is the only remedy I can
offer. They must be put under stiff
rule and order, and trained strictly
and long. Although lacking gipsy
blood, they have acquired gipsy character,
v and it^will take generations
to get it out of them.
"Another kind of ragamuffin, also
born on the road and in many ways .**1
akin to the ambulanter, although
wanting such classification, is the one
found so often in those families
which every community supports but
relegates to its uttermost boundary
line. They are known as 'the McCarthys,'
'the Night-Hawks,' or 'the
Holy Frights,' as the case may be.
I have found no town in the United
States of 20,000 inhabitants without
some such Whitechapel in its vicinity,
and, like famous original, it is often
considered dangerous to enter un- arreted.
Speaking generally, there is
a great deal of fiction afloat copcern- ^
ing these tabooed families, a number
of them being simply poor or laxy
people whcta the boys of the vicinity
have exaggerated into gangs of desperadoes.
They are not exactly outand-out
criminals whom the police
can get hold of, but moral lepers who
by public consent have been sentenced
to live without the pale of civr
ilization.
"I cannot leave this division of my
theme without saying something
about' the large army of unfathered
children who, to my mind, are just as '
much born on the road as the less
known types. True, many of these
are handed over at birth to some family
to support, but the greater majority
of these families are not one whit 4
better than the ambulanters. They
train the orphans put in their care in
sin and crime quite as carefully as * - ;|
the hobo does his beggar boy. These
are the children who make up the
main body of the class I have been
considering, and it seems to me that
they increase from year to year. At
present the only legitimate career for
them is that of the outcast, and into
it they go. Few, indeed, succeed in
gaining a foothold in polite society.
Their little lives form the borderland
of my second class, the children ?
driven to the road."
The author has evidently looked . /M
so long on the "hellward" side of
humanity that he Ignores in his r <
prophecy the transforming power qf '
love. Instead of its taking several
generations to change the disposition
of these children of the road, two
or three months is all the time needed
to change a very large majority of
them, provided they are kept nnder
different influences. I say this from
years of close personal touch with
them, having lived, eaten and slept
with thousands of them; in fact, I
do not hesitate to say that,the most
miraculous thing I have witnessed in Jj
a long and active life is the sudden , ;%
transforming power of love, not only
of the disposition but of the features * ^
of these young lives whom I have *
been privileged to rescue from evil , *
associations. Not only this, but many .
of these children exhibit talents far
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of the children of well-to-do parents.
While it becomes a source of in- m
spiration to those engaged in "mining
for men" to dig up from the
wreck and ruin of society boys and
girls of an unusually high order of
intellect, yet, after all, the uplifting
of children of ordinary talents, or
even those below normal in mental
capacity, so that they be kept from
becoming the enemies of society and
making shipwreck of their own lives,
is of the greatest value.
,When it is remembered that the
society, although but in its formative
period, has made it possible for over
^24,000 helpless little ones, who were
wiposed to the worst influences society
could place around them, to become
good citizens, is it the imaginatifcln
of a visionary to say that with
proper financial backing it can be
made one of the most important agen- ?
cies in the land for the elevation of
our citizenship??W. B. S., in the
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a fresh brain.
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