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The faults OF our friends reconcile
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19

Riches can buy a man a whole lot of
trouble.
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One swallow may not make sum-
mer, but any cat can make spring.
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Nearly all the tram conductors In
Valparaiso are now women.
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Any act Is meritorious that is not
misnt.
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There is nothing more remarkable
in history than the misstatements.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19
What to Do.

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Military Parade
Unveiled.

Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge, president
of the Society of the Tennessee, pre-
sided at the ceremony in Iowa cir
Gle. After the invocation had been
pronounced by Rev. Frank NJ. Bristol.
the presidents pastor, Gen. Dodge
presented the sculptor, Mr.. Franklin
Simmons. Young Master Tucker then
released the clinging draperies of the
statue and the splendid work was
disclosed.
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
That Seed Steal.

We fail to see exactly why the gov
ernment of the United States should
distribute seeds, without charge, to all
applicants. There is no reason why the
interests of one class in the community
should be advanced at the expense of tax
payers. Why should not merchants de-
mand goods or manufacturers ask for raw
material and have their requests granted
by patriarchal and benignant admins
tration? But the seed steal has existed
for so long, and, as it is supposed to
please the farmers, we think that the
precedent of Uncle Sans gratuity will
continue.
If the government is to distribute
seeds there seems no reason why good,
honest goods should not be handed out
by the secretary of agriculture. Yet
the directors of the Wholesale Seeds
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
To Seeds are Added Trees.

The free distribution of seeds by a
government anxious to develop agricul-
ture and, incidentally, to make con-
gress as popular as possible in the rural
districts, has been so pronounced sue
cess, that, by provision of the recent con-
gress, gratuitous beneficence and cheap
getting is to be extended. This spring
the constituent will not only receive
his annual package Of seeds, as usual,
but if he so desires, some small trees for
the decoration of his bucolic home or
the replenishment of his orchard. Thus
will timber culture be developed through
out the country, and the postal depart
ment be induced to show up with the
regular annual deficit. The free dis
tribution of Plymouth Rock chickens,
Durham calves and Berkshire pigs may
be expected in due time. - Newark
IN. j. News, April 10, 1901.
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
Free Seed Charges Sent to Tracewell.

Free Seed Charges Sent to Tracewell.
Seedsmen say that an attempt made
by Secretary of Agriculture, James
Wilson, to ignore the complaint Of the
Wholesale Seedsmen's League against
the quality and weight of the seed
packages sent out from Washington,
under this years contract, will lead to
sensational developments.
It is asserted by league members
that various heads of departments in
the bureau of agriculture at Washing
ton, are in open revolt against the seeds
furnished the government for free dis
tribution prior to April 12, by the con-
tractors, the Market Gardeners Asso-
citation, of New York. These en-
ployees, it is said, have complained that
the seeds are not in accordance with
contract specifications
W. Atlee Burpee, Of the leagues
board of directors, with offices at Ats
North Fifth street, this city, is in pos
session of the names of the leagues in
formants, but refuses to disclose them,
fearing to compromise the men with
Secretary Wilson. In the event of an
The Conservative, 1901-05-02

important as any at Washington, but
now the secretary has further smirched
it, by one of the most unbusinesslike
concessions ever granted contractor.
We urge you to write to your member
of congress protesting against con-
tinuance of the free seed process.
The league members will notice that
this communication is not issued in the
name of the organization, but in the
name of the firm of D. Landreth &
Sons.
d. LANDRETH & Sons.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 10, 1901.
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
Withhold Payment on Vouchers.

Would it not be a good move, on the
part of the auditor of the treasury de-
partment, to withhold payment on vouch-
ers presented by the seed contractors,
(The New York Market Garden Associa-
tion) until the allegations of Landreth
& Sons, and other reputable persons,
shall have been thoroughly investigated?
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
Free Seed Scandal.

Weight has been given the allegations
of irregularity in connection with the
free distribution of seeds by distinct
charges made by the Wholesale Seeds
mems League of the United States. The
charges are made in protest to the
department of agriculture against pay
ment for seeds furnished on the April
contract. -Four specific accusations are
urged over the signature of the secre-
tary, any one of which, if substantiated,
should be sufficient to stop payment on
the vouchers of the contractor.
The league, through it's secretary de-
clares:
"First. The specific varieties of seeds,
indicated in the printed specifications of
the 27th of January, 1900, have not been
supplied, but very common, and very
The Conservative, 1901-05-02
Che Conservative.

mems league, in meeting at New York
the other day, adopted resolution de-
claring that the Department of Agricul-
ture has been brought into disrepute
and departed from it's traditions in giving
out bad seeds.
1t seems that when the contract for
the distribution of 1901 was awarded,
the usual specifications were made. but
but they seem to be ignored. Instead of
named varieties of vegetables, packages
are marked selected variety" and the
quantities in every package are less than
required. Packages of cucumber seed
were to run 80 to the pound. Those
weighed run 1874 to the pound. Onion
seed, which should run 96 to the pound,
take 1O6; peas, which should run 100 to
the bushel, run 3O4, and sweet corn
packages take 300 to the bushel, where
they should take only 60.
Packages marked with the names of
high priced tobacco seeds contain only
cheap vegetable seeds, while none shows
contents such as were called for by the
printed list upon them.
Many contained cheap seeds of
varieties not called for at all under the
contract.
According to the seedsmen, the con-
tract was let for about $7S, 900, and called
for the distribution of sixteen or seven
teen millions of packages. Filling the
contract as it is now being filed, say the
seedsmen, can be done for one half the
money and at a profit. There must be
collusion somewhere, as the govern
ment is being imposed upon.
There should be an investigation of
some kind, but, probably, in these days
of billion dollar congresses, such trivial
matters as $4,000 contract is hardly
worth the trouble. ble.-Bridgeport Conn.
Post, April 1S, 1901.
The Conservative, 1901-05-02

as witnesses.
Comptroller of the treasury, Robert
Tracewell, received this reply yester-
day, to his request for specified charges
against the seeds furnished by the Mar
ket Gardeners Association:
April %, 1901.
ROBT. j. TRACEwELL, ESQ.,,
Comptroller of the Treasury,
Washington, D. @.
Sir:-I have carefully read over the
copy of the letter of the secretary of
the Sediments League, published in to-
days North American, as per enclosed
clipping, and can state, from my per-
sonal examination Of many of the pack
ages, which have been received through
congressman of Pennsylvania, New
York and New Jersey, that the charges
therein are absolutely correct.
In addition to the points made by
Captain Landreth, in nearly every pack
age of five examined, find one paper
of spinach seed. This was not asked
for, when the department of agricul-
ture advertised for bids, and, being sub
stituted for more expensive seed, re-
duces the cost to the lowest possible
point, as there is no vegetable seed so
cheap as spinach This would give the
contractor an advantage in cost, in
many cases, of at least 40 to 80 per
cent. In common, with other seed
houses, we have weighed the packages
being sent out, and find in the great
majority Of cases, the contents are very
much less than the specifications called
for.
You ask now for proof of these very
serious charges, made by the Wholesale
Seedmen's League? Surely, any repre-
sentative of yours, can obtain from the
secretary of agriculture, copy of the
circular letter asking for proposals.
Then compare the specifications with
the seeds that are being distributed
today, (or were being distributed prior
to April 10, when the first expose was
made). These packages can be seen at
the seed papering establishment at
Washington, by any of your represen-
tatives, and, unless changes have been
made since the charges of the Seed
League, you can obtain conclusive
proof. Yours respectfully,
w. ATLEE BURPEE.
A copy of this letter has been mailed
to wholesale seedsmen throughout the
country to encourage united protest
from the league and outside seedsmen.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-05

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rent is that now, in these days of civili-
cation, he Is a polished assassin instead
of proclaimed barbarian. He illus
trated his argument that man is dete-
riorating mentally by imploring his
hearers to note the fact that every
great man, from the statesman to the
poet, that the world knows, was be-
ing of the past. He compared the mo-
rality of past ages to the present in il
Illustrating his statement that man is
becoming more and more degraded as
the human race lives. 1--WE are living
in the last stage of the worlds exist
ence," he said. Man will grow so
wicked that God will not be able to
stand his SHINING longer, and will de-
stroy the world. God will then make
his children white as snow by making
all things anew''-Kansas City Jour
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LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE
SAD DEATH OF WALTER HURD.
Thought That He Was Temporarily De-
ranged-Services i'm the Churches To-
morrOw-Other Notes

morrow-Other Notes.
Further PARTICULARS regarding the sad
death of Walter Hurd, who was bur-
led in East Haven, Thursday, have
been received here. Mr. Hurd commit
ted suicide in Central park, New York,
by taking poison. He was identified by
papers found in one of his pockets adj
dressed to the firm in Easton Pa,
which he represented. A representa-
tive from the firm came to New York
and had the remains prepared for
burial and shipped to East Haven by
express; no one accompanied the body.
His nearest relative is brother,
Charles S. Hurd, who is in Europe. AS
previously stated, Mr. Hurd formerly
resided here and his mother, Mrs.
Hurd, an old resident, died in 1899.
MI. Hurd was in Fair Haven only last
week visiting relatives and there was
no indication then that he was in poor
health and his suicide seems the more
unexplainable, but it is thought he was
temporarily deranged.
Rev. Andrew Burns Chalmers will be-
gin his labors with the Grand avenue
Congregational church tomorrow,
preaching morning and evening. There
will be special music by the choir to
include the sacred cantata, "Penitence,
Pardon and Peace" by J. H. Maunder.
At the Grand avenue Baptist church
Tomorrow morning the pastor, Rev E.
w. Stone, will preach on "Silent
Harps." The evening subject will be
1.-THE Chief Thing" There will. be a
fine musical programme.
Martha L. Fash, who has been Wis
iting friends in this vicinity, has re-
turned to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGregor of Hart
ford, who have been visiting here, left
yesterday for Long Island.
Superintendent Grant of the fire
alarm telegraph has been rearranging
several of the fire alarm boxes in this
district this week
A musical service will be given in
Christ church, East Haven, tomorrow
evening, by the vested choir of st.
Johns P. e. church. this city. An ex-
cellent programme has been arranged
by Professor Fowler.
At the East Pearl street M. e. church
to- morrow the presiding elder Rev. J.
E. Adams, D. d.. will preach in the
morning. In the evening the pastor,
Rev. L. r. Streeter D. D., will begin
a series of Sunday evening lectures on
Famous Women" The lecture to-
morrow evening will be upon eve the
Mother of the Human Race"
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says: AT the end of that hours jour-
ney from my hotel, l reached the Eue-
| no Park, the Hyde Park of Tokio-but
| with so many differences! There was
| a lake, on the smooth surface of which
the maple trees We're dropping the last
of their red leaves. Tiny doll-like
Japanese children were playing about
in every direction; Japanese girls with
! children on their backs, and children
| with smaller children still strapped
} thereon, till one came to the tiny mite
who carried doll on it's back in pre-
paration and training for the next I'M
! born baby. Backgrounding all this
were stately, venerable pines, aisle-like,
pillaring the blue sky. and a Buddhist
| temple with old oak columns very
much like the pine trunks, and lacquer
and carving that harmonized with the
MOSES on the pine trunks, and seemed
/ to mingle so intimately in feeling that
apparently there was no gap where ma
ture ended and art began. And now
and again from these temples came the
mellow, soft sound of a great bronze
bell, bell that never seemed to be
struck but from the inner part Of it's
hollowness appeared to breathe forth
into the air around quiet sigh of mu-
sic, soft, gentle, hallowed sigh, filling
it with mysterious color, and leaving
no football of echo in the air as it died
away. There was a wonderful charm
and restfulness about this park and 1t
seemed quite in keeping with the fit
ness of things when ] strolled into an
unpretentious building, almost booth,
wherein was held an exhibition of pic
lures of the Yanaka Bijitsuin school,
A delightfully."- interesting exhibition 1t
was. TIE purity simplicity and di-
rectness of these pictures on white silk
admitting no retouching or daubing
over Fresh, direct and final, there
was therefore delightful artistic SIM
plicity about them And the pictures
were hung unmounted and without
frames, and besides the pictures there
We're statues, vases and pieces of met
al work executed by the students of the
school. The exhibition showed many
signs of the influence of European art.
Many of it's members have studied in
Paris, and evince feeling of being un-
tramelled by old Japanese art tradi-
lions, but their work shows still more
strongly tHdl us Hlosl po"clIui iiio.iN
is the native, artistic feeling of the |
country
THE Business Side of Great Uni |
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University of Chicago. is the opening
article in the College Mans number,
October H. o. the Saturday Evening |
Post, of Philadelphia. Theodore
Roosevelt, Harvard 49," is the title Of
an entertaining paper on the presi-
dents college life, by his friend, Ownn
Wister. Other strong features of this
number are short stories by Max
Adeler, Jesse Lynch Williams and
Frank Norris, and a page Of dro!l
Mature Studies" by Oliver Herford.
This number will be of unusual inter-
est to all college men.
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Educate Your Bowels.

Your bowels can be trained as we'll
as your muscles or your brain. Cas-
carets Candy Cathartic train your
bowels to do right. Genuine tablets
stamped c. C. C. Never sold in
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THE COUGAR AND HIS HABITAT.

THE COUGAR AND HIS HABITAT.
Fables aside, the cougar is a very
/ interesting creature. 1t is found from
the cold, desolate plains of Patagonia
to north of the Canadian line, and lives
alike among the snow clad peaks of the
Andes and in the steaming forests Of
| tigation will disclose several varying
| forms in an animal found over such
| immense tracts Of country and living
under such utterly diverse conditions.
But in it's essential habits and traits,
| the big, sinking, nearly uni-colored
| cat seems to be much the same every
where, whether living in mountain,
open plain or forest, under arctic cold
or tropic heat. When the settlements
become thick it retires to dense forest,
dark swamp or inaccessible mountain
gorge, and moves about only at night.
In wilder regions 1t not infrequently
roams during the day and ventures
freely into the open. Deer are it's Gus
tomary prey where they are plentiful,
bucks, does and fawns being killed in
differently. Usually the deer is killed
almost simultaneously, but occasion
the cougar may get bruised, though, as
far as | know, never seriously. 1t is
also dreaded enemy of sheet, pigs,
calves and especially colts, and when
pressed by hunger a big male cougar
will kill full-grown horse or cow,
moose or wapiti. 1t is the special enc
my of mountain sheep. In 1885, while
hunting white goats north of Clarkes
fork Of the Columbia in a region where
cougar were common, / found them
preying as freely on the goats as on the
deer. 1t rarely catches antelope, but
is quick to seize rabbits, other small
beasts and even porcupines.
No animal, not even the wolf, is so
rarely seen or so difficult to get with
out dogs. On the other hand, no other
wild beast of it's size and power is so
easy to kill by the aid of dogs. There
are many contradictions in it's charac-
ter. Like the American wolf, it is Ger
tainly very much afraid of man; yet it
habitually follows the trail of the hun
ter or solitary traveller, logging his
footsteps, itself always unseen. 1shave
had this happen to me personally
When hungry it will seize and carry off
any dog; yet it will sometimes go up a
tree when pursued even by a single
small dog wholly unable to do it the
least harm. 1t is small wonder that the
average frontier settler should grow to
regard almost with superstition the
great murtive cat which he never sees,
but of whose presence he is ever aware,
and of whose prowess sinister proof is
afforded by the deaths not |
alone of his lesser stock, but even of his |
mich COW or saddle horse.
The cougar is as large, as powerful
and as formidably armed as the Indian |
panther, and quite as well able to at
tack man; yet the instances of it's hav-
ing done so are exceedingly rare. The
vast majority of the tales to this effect |
are undoubtedly inventions. But it is
foolish to deny that such attacks on
human beings ever occur.-Theodor
Roosevelt in Scribner's.
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vICE.PRESIDENT

Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary Hay, SecrSs
tary Gage, WI Ting Fang tChincse MINI.
teri, William G.. Whitney tthe Hon. Nxs
nave Mf ane New
their names in connection with Company
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Governm emit Bonds.
Cotton
Ex-Divldend.

Reported over private wire by Harrison s.
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A THEORY OF MANS DECADENCE.
The maatinp of tho 'praSbvtary of

OF
The meeting of the presbytery of
Kansas City was formally opened with
sermon by Rev. DR.. A. d. Madeira of
Independence. He chose for his text
Revelation xxi: so, HE that sat upon
the throne said, Behold. will make all
things new" Rev. Mr.. Madeira con-
tended that man has been deteriorating
ment ally, morally and physically since
the creation, and that he Is now far
Their from a state of moral perfection
than ever. Human civilization is de-
scribing a descending scale" he said, in
part Man is just as wicked to-day
as he was in the days of barbarians.
He is just as bloodthirsty now as he
was then. The only difference appa-
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