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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28
TO KILL CRAFT
Of FREE SEEDS
FARMERS BACK UP EFFORT TO
Do AWAY WITH 1T
Special Committee Named at Recent
Farmers Convention to See Con-
gress About Stopping It-caII
1t Swlndie and Fake
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. GA
sad blow was dealt the congressional
free seed distribution by the National
Farmers congress a few days ago al
Rock Island, ILL.,, and those congress-
men who have contended that the only
reason they voted to continue the dis
tribution Of these prize packages OF
catnip and rhubarb seed was because
the farmers want them" will, from
self-respect, be compelled to abandon
this plea. The Farmers congress was
composed of a thousand delegates from
all parts of the country, representing
various organizations of agrlculturists.
Naturally free seeds came before 1t and
several anti-free seed resolutions. were
presented. A special committee was ap-
pointed to consider the subject and the
resolutions and reported the following:
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
system of seed distribution as now con-
Quoted by the federal government, but
believe in the work of exploring for
egn countries for such seeds and
plants as may be profitably introduced
into this country, and recommend that
the money expended for seed distribu-
ton as now, conducted be added to the
fund for maintaining American seed
and plant explorers in other countries,
under direction of the United States
department of agriculture and the dis
tribution of the same among the agri-
cultural experiment. stations of the
country for practical test"
A lively debate followed in which one
speaker after another denounced the
free seed distribution as fake and
swindle. One of the most prominent
speakers said ii was "the biggest hum
bug that has been perpetrated on the
American farmer for fifty years"
None of the speakers had a word to
say in defense of the practice, and at
the conclusion of the, discussion ris-
ing vote was demanded. With shout
the thousand delegates rose and the
resolution was declared unanimously
adopted, amid great applause.
According to the Washington repre-
sentative Of the "anti-free-seeders." :"
the resolution adopted by the National
Farmers congress is the platform on
which the farmers and seed dealers are
united. 1t is also claimed to voice the
opinions of the department of agricul
ture. Discussing the subject he said
today:
"Secretary Wilson has carefully re-
Trained from expressing any opinion
in the free-seed controversy other than
i'm his official communications, where he
has frequently stated that a change
should be made from the present sys-
tenn OF indiscriminate distribution Of
turnip seed, and that the work should
be limited to the distribution of really
rare and valuable seeds. The impress
sion that certain members of congress.
intent on continuing this charge on the
public purse, that they may keep them
selves before their constituents, seeks
to convey that the seed merchants
and the department OF agriculture are
at variance is wholly without founda-
ton. The secretary of agriculture has
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

day that nobody but the states attor-
ney general has the power to compel
her to produce it.
AS the whole vagary of the election
is now working its devious passage to
the supreme court the attorney general
will soon have his opportunity.
Meanwhile, regardless of legal pit
falls, Long Beach continues to cluck
around us like mother hen.
We enjoyed a notorious fire on the
18th of September, supposed by out
siders to have been caused by gaso-
line stove. Long Beach sent us a fire
engine, which reached us when the fire
was out. She demands robber TOLL
mean building license-when we try to
rebuild our burned out shacks, and
hales us to Jail when the eye of our
conscience does not see it's way clear to
pay it, She sends us official notice to
set our chimneys two feet higher, she
hints that she will have to be very
strict about our sanitation and plumb
ing, and-worst and most of it-she
dubs us West Long Beach. All of
which, If amusing, is yet gall and
wormwood.
Drive People from Homes
1t is not amusing at all and some
thing more bitter than gall and worm
wood, that the day after the fire she
sent around deputies to help drive us
altogether out of our burned-out hold
ings before their embers had sizzled to
blackness in the bay.
That fire in the upper part of our
breakwater settlement has been called
picturesque. Its flames certainly
charred a good many old, tide-eaten
foundations-piles set deep into green
tidal water, Tapped up unlikely ram
shackle little bridges and gangways,
and turned some queer cabins-and
some ordinary machine shops-to
swift ashes. The neighboring sands
were Uttered with the poor remnants
of our effort to be human-here a lit
tie huddle of kitchen chairs, there a
SCARED looking-glass, yonder broken
cookstove.
The next day little groups of dishev-
eled men and women gathered about
the black nothingness that had been
their home. 1T stood right there,
Johnny" a half-clad wisp of a girl
whispered quiveringly, drawing closer
to the scorched young workman beside
her. How she told one place from an
other it would be difficult to say.
But that fire was picturesque in a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28
ARCHBISH0P'S SON GOES
AFTER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ecia, Cable to The Herald.

Specia, Cable to The Herald.
LONDON. Oct. 26.-The serious pro-
gress of the Roman Catholic conference
at Brighton was enlivened by a paper
read by the Rev. r. H. Benson (son
Of the late archbishop on "Christion
Science"
1t was extremely difficult, he said
not to make fun of Christian Science
1t appeared to solve problems by de-
nying that they exist, to alleviate pain
by assuring the sufferer that he is
under a complete nisapprehension. AS
fair sample of the reasoning Mrs.
Eddy INDUCED in, Father Benson adj
vanced such proposition as "East is
real; the west is opposite to the east;
therefore, the west is unreal"
Father Benson drew a picture of Mrs.
Eddy sitting in her study imagining
meanings to Bible names Cad" must
mean something, why not make it
mean "Science?" So she decreed that
Cad meant science. There was no
rights. The river Gihon seemed an
unoccupied word, with no settled
meaning. So Mrs. Eddy fixed upon it
as meaning "wOman's rights" I'm
religious matters,'' he added, "she re-
sembles a bull-or rather, shall we
say, a well-intentioned cow Pin
china shop"
MTS. Euuy maintained tnaL material
things did not exist, that they We're
deluSions. But he noticed that she
charged $3.50 for her book, and $1OO
for a course of instruction. But, as a
lady disciple said, who would not
pay $3.50 to be free from all disease?p
Since, however, this lady declared that
after following Mrs Eddy's treatment
she had increased in weight from nine
ty-five pounds to 100 pounds, it seemed
10 lNTnf IA hot alsr let
flying the cardinal doctrine that matter
does not exist. After the Eddy treat
ment she should have weighed nothing
at all.
So far from abjuring food, Chris
tian Science family uhe knew had three
square meals day, and they sat
down to supperS of lobster, rejoicing
in the knowledge that Indigestion was
only delusion of the debased mortal
mind.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28
EAST SAN PEDRAN TELLS OF
HARDSHlPS
Graphic Story Written Where Tides
Ebb and Flow, but the Octopus
Dread Tentacles Draw
Ever Nearer
ny Lillian RANEs LONG

am an East San Pedro squatter.
live between the devil and the deep
sea- The tides of the blue Pacific CREEP
and the tentacles of the octopus creep
nearer-but never retreat-on the
other.
That which we call a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet. y
Among us in East San Pedro the octo-
pus bears the names Salt Lake rail-
road, Pacific Wharf and Warehouse
company and few other less material
ly important cognomens.
AS, for instance, just now, the city
of Long Beach. No doubt there is a
majority of excellent people Lying in
Long Beach, but they must be Gis un-
tarnished by knowledge of what is do
ing. or who is being done, in their own
municipal affairs as the angels above.
Otherwise how should so white, not to
say whited city ever have drabbled
herself through the mud to play cats
paw for the railroads?
Various desirable waterfront fran
chiseS on the east side of San Pedro
harbOr were the proverbial cheStnuts
Some time ago San Pedro began to
show signs of reluctance to scorch her
hands further in the fire of opposing
public sentiment. So Long Beach un-
obtruSiVely thrust in her paw. She
philanthropically annexed everything
between herself and Deadman'S island,
including the old government break
water. The accruing waterfront priyi-
leges We're promptly dropped into the
waiting mouths-I should say mouth
of the octopus, and San Pedro found
herself by just so much the more
closed harbor. That Is, If a knot so
clumSily tied can be made to hold the
legal strain In regard to these an
nexation nuptialS East San Pedro
found herself in the implied position of
DR.. Brown:
Tommy. I am going to marry DR..
Brown
Bully for you, ma! Does DR.. Brown
know it?'
Says Election Was Queer
East San Pedro did not know it."
Still less did we desire it when the
morning after election found the mantle
of Long Beach flung over our squat
ter-Shacks" Nobody could be discov-
cred among us who had voted for an
nexation, but there was an odd rumor
af1oat that two East San Pedro lumber
companies, each of which shortly after
ward received wharf franchises from
Long Beach, had thoroughly bestowed
a half holiday on their employees, and
that the Salt Lake road had consider
ately furthered their outing by free
trip to Terminal island and the poll
ing booths. Besides that, we had been
jugEIed into lump vote with Terminal
Island, whose interests are not ours.
Moreover it gradually tranSpired that
nobody in East San Pedro had ever
seen, much less signed, any election
petition. Long Beach said that she
had it. then said that she had mislaid
it, at last defiantly asserting the other
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

dreds of oranges and horticultural So
cieties, farmers clubs, etc. In the face
of this conclusive evidence that the
farmers want new seeds instead of
prize penny packages, congress will
have to get a new excuse if it continues
this practice. The seed dealers are de-
termined to fight the popcorn and rad
ish seed distribution until the govern
ment either abandons it or takes over
the seed business of the country. If
we are going to give the farmer his
seed let us do it right and give him all
his seeds, and then buy the railroads
and haul his products to market free,
That program ought to appeal to Mr.
Gaines'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

Big iire. Venice Halloween evening
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

"FOr over thirty years" writes a
gentleman in Los Angeles, 81 have
used Arbuckles' Coffee. Many times
my family has tried other coffee only to
come back to our old reliable. unchange-
able Arbuckles. No other coffee has
this Uniform never falling aroma. / care
not at what preA, | have often wished
! could tel you this" Many other
people have the same opinion
Arbuckles' was 'he 6rA roasted paekssed
coffee. and is salss ezeesd al the others Pu.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

,osether. That It costs you less is due simply
to our coffee business being 50 much greater
than any competitors. in fact. il is larger thanths
next four largest hrms in the world combined
We naturally can and actually do give better
coffee in AFlOSA than anyone else can give
for the pneei Being the standard article i Is
sold at the nsnowess margin d profit.
Some grocers will try to sell
you instead loose coffee which the
Toaster is ashamed to sell in a
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
Stroke of Econo-

Stroke OF Econo-
my.
Friend-Who is
that man you al
ways have with
you when you go
out for a ride?
Automobilist -
He's my claim
agent. I find 1t
saves time and
money to refer the
matter to him for
immediate settle
nlent whenever l
run over anybody.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
PRACTICAL.

II despise practical joker" said the
woman in pink bonnet
THAT is the only kind of joking that
pays" responded the woman in a sailor
hat.
She was the wife of professional
humorist and was therefore qualified to
speak with authority on the subject
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
HE WAS PROUD.

Magistrate-You are accused of hav-
ng beaten your wife.
Accused--I did, your honor, and I'm
proud to say it.
Magistrate-How is that, you brute?
Accused-Because, your honor, she
weighs seventyfive pounds more than
do
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13

II hear that Hamlet went out on a
lour through the west"
yes; lecture tour, believe"
II thought it was tragedy. How did
t happen to be a lecture tour?"
His wife went along"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13

Philomena-His auto bumped into
the fence, you say? What then?
Jack-I can't tell you what followed.
Philomena-Why, don't you remem-
Der what he did?
Jack-Oh, yes; can tell you that
thought you wanted to know whai
he said.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
Well Expressed.

Well Expressed.
Little Girl (after
w at C hing her
mother peel po-
tatoes) Why,
mamma, there's
one you didn't I'M
wind.
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Quite the Con.

Quite the Con-
trary.
you misjudge
me-" said the hyp-
ocrite reproach-
fully. II admit I
am a poor, weak
mortal, but lying
is not one of my
failings."
"It certainly is
not" agreed the
hard headed man.
"It is one Of your
successes"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13

Truth Comes Out.
II shall never
forget" said the
major, who was in
a reminisce t
mood, "the first
time I ever drew
a sword"
CIV h e r e w a s
that 2" asked the
casual acquaint-
ance.
AT a rattle"
answered the ma
jor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
Always the Way.

Always the Way.
Mr.. Stubb-Con-
found it! I have
not time to. move
that chair so you
can hunt for your
hairpins.
Mrs. Stubb-And
you are the same
Henry who prom
ised to move
heaven and earth
for me before we
were married.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
A Sweet Road to
Fame.

ELSIE" cried
mamma in con-
sternation, what
do you mean by
sticking your fin
ger in the pud-
ding? I'm asham-
ed of you'll"
"Well," respond
ed the little girl
tearfully, Jack
Horner did. and
you said yourself
that it made him
famous!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
Absent, but Not
FORGOTTEN.

His Wife-Well,
I thought you'd
never come!
He-Ah! I see
you've been think
ing only of me.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
1t All Depends.

1t All Depends.
"How long" ask
ed the youth,
Should I know a
girl before marry
ing herr"
THAT" replied
the home grown
philosopher, "de-
ponds upon how
long you expect
to remain mar
ried."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
Agsravatins Fell

Assravating Fell
low!
"How is it pos
sible for you to
find fault with
him?"
"Why not?"
"Why, he ap-
pears to be a man
who is absolutely
without faults of
any Sort
Huh! That's
his g'r e a t e s t
fault"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-14
American League.

CleVeland's new outfielder is al
ready having his troubles. He has
played only three games, and his name
has already gone out in the press
scores as Coffin, Coffyn, Coffryn, Chat
feyne, Coffryn and Caffin.
Louis Brockett, a pitcher of the
Buffalo baseball club, has been sold
to the New York American league
club. He will not leave Buffalo until
the end of the Eastern league sea-
son.
There are only IA players in the
American league who have escaped
injury this season. Football never
claimed such a rich harvest.
This has been Waddelrs poorest
season in years The once great Rube
has not been just right, bad hands
hampering him materially.
Cleveland pulled off triple play
the other day, Turner engineering it.
That made three for the two big
leagues this season.
The Milwaukee club has sold Pitch
er Frank Oberlin to the Boston club
for $4,000, and Outfielder Sullivan, Of
the Minneapolis team, has been pur-
chased by the same team for $4,000.
Pitcher Cicotte, of the Des Moines
baseball team, has been sold to the
Detroit team.
Announcement has been made that
the st. Louis Americans had drafted
Paul Davidson, the fast outfielder with
Dubuque, of the Three Eye league.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-14

Cleveland for $4,000, is one of the Sc
lect few. Besides costing the Cleye-
land club high purchase price, he
will draw $4,000 year salary.
The Erie Interstate league team de
feated the Pittsburg National leaguers
by the score of 4 to 3.
A number of big league managers
are keeping Pitcher ToZer, of the Buff
falo club under surveillance. He is a
steady winner and has speed.
Second Baseman Knabe, OF the
American association, will in all prob
ability be the next player to be sold
to faster company. He is star in
his position.
President O'Brien, Of the American
association, has suspended Manager
Cantillon and Pitcher Hynes, of the
Milwaukee team, pending an investi-
CATION of the case in which the Mil
waukee baseball men are alleged to
have assaulted a spectator after the
latter had thrown missile at Third
Baseman Clark, who muffed q ay In
q game the other day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-14
In Touch With q. Lion.

The most uncomfortable hunting adj
venture that / ever had was during
an expedition in search of the mines
of Ophir. We did not discover them,
by the way. 1t was many years after
ward that Mr.. Peters found them far
Their south.
We did very little hunting on that
trip, except such as was necessary to
provide food for the party. Conse-
quently we did not disturb the game
around our camps during our stay at
any place, and the wild life of the
jungle went on freely around us.
This made the scene at the water
holes particularly interesting, and
many times | saw herds of animals
glide down to the water in the even
ing. Sometimes we saw gnu and an
telope come down, quietly as ghosts,
though there were big herds of them.
One evening / decided to spend the
night at the water hole to watch the
strange doings at my ease. l took
along my heavy rife, in case / should
meet a lion or other cat animal, and
before dusk l was comfortably hidden
I'm thicket right by the side of the
hole where the spoor showed that the
most animals entered to drink.
They began to arrive almost as soon
as the sun had get. The first animals
that came were small gnu, very pretty
and graceful, despite the ugly hump on
their shoulders. They stepped into the
water as lightly as race horses, and,
indeed, their hind quarters resembled
those of dainty little ponies very
much.
After them came a herd of zebras,
cleaning specially with their white
and black sides in the bright star
hight of the African night They
tossed their little heads and snorted
wildly at every whisper of the breeze
and though / was watching them
closely, they were off and away so
suddenly that | hardly realized that
they were going before they had van
ished.
Spring box and Gland followed with
hosts of smaller animals, many of
which moved so furtiyely that l could
ont distinguish them.
But all at once all the beasts seemed
to fade away like scene in a dark
ened theater. / stared in amazement.
The next moment l became aware of
an odor close to me that could not
mistake, for | had smelled 1t often
1t was lion sure.
Cautiously | turned my head in the
way the wind was blowing, and there
within not more than 20 feet of me-
crouched a great named, tawny beast
He was watching the water hole in
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BAlEsRAf
NOTES.,
National League.

Pop" Arson picks the Cubs TO win
the National league pennant. There
are others who readily agree with him
Catcher AL Shaw, of Louisville,
bought by Pittsburg, will report at the
close of the American association sea-
Eon.
Mullin, who has had a couple of
tries In fast company, has been signed
by the Giants. He will not work till
next season.
Fred Miller, giant left handler from
Kentucky, is the latest acquisition to
P1ttsburg's pitching staff.
Carl Rothgeb, the former Chicago
National league ball player has gone
to Fort Collins, Col, to become ath-
letic director of the Colorado agricuI-
tural college. He has been drafted
by the Philadelphia Nationals, but
may give up professional playing.
Bert Maxwell, one of the, leading
pitchers of the Southern league this
year and former member of the uni
versity of Kansas ball squad, has been
sold by Montgomery to the Pittsburg
Nationals. Maxwell has won ma
jority of games pitched this year
The average number of points be-
tween first place and the tail in IL
professional leagues is .291 The
most scattering race of the IL is in the
National league, where, on Monday
last, there was a difference of $40
points. At that time there were 800
points difference in the American
league, 259 in the American associa-
ton, $40 in the Central league, 283 in
the South Atlantic, 269 in the North
ern Copper, 1853 in the Western, 23s
in the Kitty, 243 in the Eastern, 212
in the Three Eye, 296 in the Ohio
Pennsylvania, and 319 in the South
srn.
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rault the most annoyance by the per-
sistency of his infatuation was Kiesler.
He would not hesitate to make love
anywhere. He showered kisses as
well as presents upon Mrs. Verrault.
When dining out he could not restrain
himself in falling upon his knees at
her feet and kissing her hand. He
would write the most gushing love let.
tiers of all the group of infatuated
dupes.
Il find myself speaking your name
when ] awake" he would write, and
then go into raptures over her beauty.
The burning love missives We're a
source of much merriment at the daily
cabinet sessions of the love troupe.
Actor Keene would read them with
the greatest gusto and accentuate the
most tender passages. Keen said the
letters could be made-into thrilling
love drama, and he had good plind
to do it himself.
The Wall street broker, E. j. Syme,
whose name was used in connection
with the fuel scheme, was an unwill-
ing victim, 1t is said, of the syndicate.
He fell in with the fuel idea, believing
that the company had acres OF fertile