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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-19

| there was another element in this case
which lends additional justification, but
which. as Il involves the interests OF
/ the national government, We feel that
/ there is a major obligation upon us not
/ 20 disclose az this time
Neither the Mayor nor Commissioner
/ Woods would reveal what was in the
/ case that interested the national gov
| eminent Rumor had IL that certain
shipments Of arms supposedly for the
Allies were destined for smuggling into
Mexico.
Frederick Seymour said that the only
/ shipment of munitions his firm was IN
B terested in was on behalf OF client,
who had a sub-contract from Morgan
F & Co. The shipment Of the munitions,
Senator Thompson later pointed out,
was under the direction OF Morgan
/ & Co.
senator Thompson said that while
| District Attorney Swami was telling
/ his story Frank Moss, counsel for the
committee. asked him II he had inVeS-
tigated the case with a view to seeing
I II there had not been a trame-up' Inc
/ District Attorney said he had not
at appears that in this Seymour &
+ SEYMOUR affair" said Senator Ihomp-
/ son chat Morgan e. Co. believed that
/ their correspondence from the French
/ Minister of Finance was tempered
with. and il appears that they employed
i Burns.
"Rurns produced copies Of cable mes
sogos and letters containing orders Tor
munitions from France within two day
after Morgan & Co. received them. ne
Purns people said they found these
comics written on Seymour & Sey-
mour's stationery, IN the Seymour q
seymour Offices. The information gwen
| nv the detectives was that these copies
Tere sent to each manufacturer at
once. and the lucky manufacturer was
expected TO pay a commission inns
VS. similar TO the methods Of race
track 'touts.' Whether the letterheads
zero genuine Seymour & Seymour let
I terheads | don't know FREDERICK Sey-
mour said he didn't know anything
about II until he heard 1t this evening
Woods to Testify To-day.
Here Senator Thompson was asked Il
ANYTHING was brought out showing
that the wires were tapped to discover
If anv arms were being sent to Mexico
"Ihcrc is no MEXICO DuSiitoo ~ -
was Senator Thompson's reply. Inc
only question is that Of somebody
stealing Morgan's correspondence.
There was talk of clerk in Morgan
Office The clerk has not yet been De
tected. There were reasonable GROUNDS
70 believe that a crime was committed,
but the big question remaining IS If
the police had any right to tap the
wire"
Senator Thompson said that he would
call Commissioner Woods to-day, ana
that he would testify in open session.
He said that he would put on Mayor
Mitchell. at the latter's request, some
time between now and Tuesday. Sen,
ator Thompson said he would a so call
as witnesses to-day three men VINO nave
Sesk room in Seymour e. Seymour's
Office.
They are o. b. Phillips, former vice
chairman of the New York State Com
mittee of the National Progressive
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Springs, Col; Hsrcourt Avery, Boston,
and Stephen ". Foster, Derby Line, VI
Walks Backward for $4,000 Bet.

New Brunswick, ". J., May IS
Walking backward from San Francisco
20 New York on a $4,000 wager, Pat.
rick Harmon reached this city early
this evening. lie left the Coast on
August 5, 1915. lie is now nineteen
days ahead Of his schedule, and expects
70 arrive in New York Friday night or
Saturday.
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NEW l,OOO.FOOT CRATER
OPENS IN MOUNT ETNA
Rome Reports Volcano Again
in Eruption.

London. May 10 Mount Etna is
again active. according 20 a Rome dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany.
A new crater 3lS metres wide has
opened.
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Apt TO Need a
TOpcOat Any Time

Better have il in the ward
robe, ready. BEDLEAF
topcoats, London-made, are
S35. Our American-madc
topcoats are $3.50 to $50
an interesting range.
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Two Men Say They Were
Duped Into Buccaneer
Descent on Prall'S.
10 OF Is INVADERS
ARE NOW IN JAIL
Dealer, Conveying Tract for
Garbage Contractors, Accused
in Watchmen's Kidnapping.

Two mud-stained young men. hungry,
thirsty and much Disguised with buc-
caneering. rushed from the South Ferry
house into Battery Park at dusk last
evening They were Charles McLester
and Arthur Goyett, two Of the fifteen
adventures who for eight hours,
Wednesday night and yesterday morn
ing, held possession Of Prall's Island,
Arthur Kills. upon which the city ex-
poets TO erect great garbage disposal
plant.
They were likewise the only two Of
the Inflated expedition who succeeded
in getting free on bail after the crew
Of the launch Robert p. had been taken
Off Pralrs Island by the police, and
had been later held for trial by Magis-
trate Evins on a charge Of unlawful!
entry. The other thirteen are in Rich
mond County Jail at Richmond. Staten
Island.
Forced TO Buccaneer, They Say.
McLester and Goyett make startling
charges against J. Sterling Drake, real
estate dealer OF % Broadway, who has
sold Prails Island TO Gaffney, Gahagan
& Van Etten. the firm which holds the
contract for erecting the disposal plant.
They assert they were "shanghaied
into the buccaneering expedition, and
that they were misinformed as to the
nature of the work they were TO per
form
Other new developments in the raid
and Staten Islands night against the
garbage plant are:
William and James Farmer, the two
aged men assigned as watchmen on
Pralls Island by Edward p. Doyle,
who claims ownership of the land I'M
der a grant made by Queen Anne, re-
sumed guap duty. They we're kid
mapped and landed in Brooklyn late
Wednesday night by members Of the
buccaneering expedition.
Real Estate Dealers Accused.
McLester and Doyle name Drake and
Thomas Graham, real estate dealers,
with Offices at No. $50 Broadway. as the
brains" Of the expedition. They as
sert these two men took the Farmer
brothers from their shanty, and started
them on their way 20 Brooklyn by
boat.
Women of Staten Island at mass
meeting in Curtiss High School formed
the Anti-Garbagc League for Women
and started a canvass for 10000 petit
tions asking Mayor Mitchell to revoke
contracts for building the disposal
plant.
Last night McLester and Goyett told
a vivid story of the raid on Pralps
Island They have consulted James A.
Turley. attorney with Offices in the
Woolworth Building, in regard 70
starting a suit for damages as result
Of their arrests.
"Goyett and | were lunching in a
restaurant at so Sixth Avenue Wednes-
day, when a man describing himself as
George Stewart called by phone and
ordered 200 sandwiches and forty
quarts of coffee delivered 70 Pier g.,
East River" McLester said. 1--WE knew
the proprietor Of the restaurant, so
we helped him make the sandwiches
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drew Jansen.
OBSERVATIONS. - He who en-
courages the clashing of nationaIi-
ties deserves isolation from the hui
man species. Men exist for mutual
assistance, not to sacrifice their lives
in warfare to crafty the mercenary
spirit of property owners,
Soldiers kissing the cricifix before
marching to murder IS an appalling
scene.
The cOrnering of markets proves
the ,baseness of spectators.
Applauding the pulpit is disgrace
full. Why? Because the pulpit toll
crates in the rich what it condemns
in the poor.
Contractors patter about national
honor and rob soldiers on active
service of their ratiOns.
A pinched body in ragged gar
mentssisEa deplorable spectacle.
Dedication to mOnkhOOd is unad-
visable, for the ascetic life has a ster-
liking effect upon the, mind and
passions.
The absence of order proves that
no ethical impulses -agitate the
champions of the capitalistic regime.
Laymen are requested to. esteem
the mysteries of religion, but those
are queer in the Uranium who revere
what is beyond explanation.
Humility is hideous because it
breeds self-depreciatiOn.
Artisans die in agony in trenches
while capitalists live in splendOr at
home, yet artisans become Infatuated
when called empty-headed jaekals.
Mourning for departed souls is SUI
perfuQus, for death is the renewal of
activity.
Politicians fawn before electors for
votes and consider themselves supe-.
rior to constituents after election.
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campaign that the Guardians carry
on.-Jack Doyle, 1858 Leland Az.
MOTHERHOOD seems to me
that we are being fed quite freely on
Aliens lofty ideas concerning moth
erhood.
Why not get down to real life?
Surprising conditions were as AL
len suggests, who is going to care
for all these little waits, who is go
ing to educate. them and bring them
up so they will have a chance in this
world?
Rather discourage the rearing of
children when children of legitimate
birth are brought up without an. ed
ucatiOn and without a chance, yes
and without enough to eat in too
many cases.
Speaking of the disgrace that &C
companies the birth of an ilegiti-
mate child, why not? Does the crav-
ing for children get them into trou-
ble?. am afraid not. Is it not self
ish that they do not first consider the
future of the child in a world where
children of ordinary folks are raised
for cannon fodder or fed into the
claws of industrial machinery.
The craving for motherhood has
nothing on the craving of / child in d.
it's childhood, youth and manhood
for the decent things of life. Yes,
motherhood is a wonderful thing and
worthy Of the higbesf resDaet yyber
mother has protector and provider
to stand by her in her trials and tTib-
ulations. Motherhood is beautiful
when mother considers the future
life of the child over her own desires
of day or year.
Loose talk on motherhood is
harmful.
]. S, Davis writes: THE old idea
that a woman lisa slave is surely in
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of slave than a woman with child
and no husband? Our orphan asy-
lums are full of such babies and the
sweatshops of betrayed girls.-An-
drew Jansen.
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Are they ashamed to let those out
side their clique know that. they be-
long to that organization? There
has been but one man who signed
his name and admitted he was G.
of L., but even he Ieft-Out his address.
1t certainly is a snake in the grass
campaign that the Guardians carry
on.-Jack Doyle, 1858 Leland Az
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-23

Copyright Company Reserved
Registered U 8 O1ioeL
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only available from around May l I'M
til the first frost in the fall, whereas
the tame grasses come earlier and
continue later.
In the fall of 1887, a neighboring
farmer who had bred a superior class
of grade Shorthorns made a draft sale
and included in the Offering a regis
tered Shorthorn COW which he had for
merly purchased with a bull calf at
foot at a Kansas City sale, with a
view to obtaining a cheap herd bull.
Mr.. TOmson purchased this COW at
slightly above the prevailing prices
for grade females and in this selec-
ton the foundation of one Of the
best-known Shorthorn herds in the
middle West was laid. Her next calf,
a heifer, was of such attractive type
and quality that T. K. Tomson and
his sons definitely decided to purchase
more registered females. A number
were secured that year and later a
well-known sire, Imp. ThistletOp, bred
by Amos Cruickshank in Scotland,
was placed in service. He was some
what advanced in years and was there
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"That's Why You Wanted Me to
Work Until Five o'Clock!"

it on the buck, gave her the buck-saw,
and watched her first efforts, grinning.
Go away" she laughed. you
bother me-
So l went, opened the west window
by my desk to the wandering sum-
mer breeze, and went at my toll. Pres
emily l heard her tiptoeing into the
room.
"DOne?" said [.
She nodded. "Now I want-let's see
what | want-well, l guess 'Marius the
Epicurean' and Alice in Wonderland
will do. I'm going to sit in the orchard,
You work here till five or your salary
will be locked. Good-by."
l heard her go out by the front door,
and then silence settled over the sun
filed, cheerful room, while | plugged
away at my tasks. [ don't know how
long l worked, but finally my attention
began to wander | wondered If she
were still in the orchard l looked out
upon the sweet stretches of my farm,
with the golden light of afternoon upon
it, and work became burden. Shall
[ ever be able to work, except at night,
or on rainy daysr' | wondered with
smile as l tossed the manuscript l was
reading into a drawer, and went out
through the front entrance.
The girl was nowhere to be seen.
"She's probably in her beloved pines"
| reflected 1T would be a good time
to clean out a path in the pines" |
turned back TO get a Ratchet, and then
went down toward the brook.
| trod as noiselessly as l could
through the naples, thinking to sur
prise her at her reading, and took care
in the pines not to step on any dead
twigs. She was nowhere to be seen
near the upper end of the grove, but as
l advanced l heard a spiashing louder
than the soft ripple of the brook, and
suddenly around a thick tree at bend
in the stream, where the brook ran out
toward the tamarack swamp in the
corner of my farm, | came upon her
She had her shoes and stockings off.
and with her skirts held high she was
wading with solemn, quiet delight in q
little pool. Her back was toward me.
| could have discreetly retreated, and
she been none the wiser. But, alas!
Action was neither the first nor the
last of his sex. The water rippled so
coolly around. her white ankles! The
sunlight dappIed down so charmingly
upon her chestnut hair. And l said,
with a laugh, 80 that Is why you
wanted me to work until five o'clock
She turned with little exclamation,
the color flaming to her cheeks. Then
she. too, laughed, as she stood in the
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Had Her Safe.

At the amateur operate perform
ance of 1.-THE Mistletoe Bough"-in
which, as you remember, the heroine
hides in cellar chest and is smOth-
cred to death-the lady who played
this part was, vocally, terrible fias-
co. Nevertheless, they struggled
along until the scene where she
climbed into the box-a real "prop-
erty" kindly loaned for the occasion
by John Smith, president of the local
safe-deposit company. The lid snapped
down with a click that was only too
realistic.
A frightened stage manager rushed
out to where the owner of the box
sat and whispered.
Gimme the key! The lid Of your
blooming box has sprung locked"
'Is that woman going to sing any
more?"
Sure, she comes in as a ghost In
the next act and sings two songs"
"That settles it." muttered old Jones
Smith. "She can just stay there"
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SaIvini's Descendants.

Salvini, the great Italian tragedian,
made 1t a condition that none Of his
sons should act in Italy SO long as he
remained on the stage. SO Gustavo
was banished to the other countries
of the continent and acted In Russia
and Austria with some successes. Alex
ander learned the English language
and played In this country until he
died at an early age. Tomaso is now
an actor in Italy and is said to have In
herited to a greater degre than any OF
his brothers the talents Of his father.
Salvini was married twice; first to
Clementine Cazzola, an eminent Italian
actress, who died, leaving him three
small children. Many years later he
married an Englishwoman named Lot
tie Sharp, by whom he had two chit
dren. His grandchildren have attract
ed attention In art and other circles
in Italy.
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from the highway. This plan has
proven an effective means of advertis-
ing and lends an attractiveness to the
farm that would otherwise be lacking.
The pastures are skirted by native
timber, providing ample shade and
adding to the beauty Of the landscape.
Valuable Asset.
Neatness and order in the farms
appearance is regarded as a valuable
asset Silos are an important fea-
ture of the improvements Automo-
biles are a necessary part Of the
equipment The whole achievement
is based upon safe, practical methods
and the intelligent use of good blood,
good seed and crop rotation. The
farms today have more than doubled
the producing power they had twenty
years ago. With these methods con-
tinued what will the producing value
Of their acres be in the next twenty
years..
The accomplishment of Tomson
Brothers is one OF the most interest
ing and instructive within our knowl-
edge, considering it is the result Of
practical, near-conservative methods
and a continuous faith in livestock
husbandry. With the Improvement of
the farm and herd, Tomson Brothers
have grown in influence. John R., the
senior member, is director and vice.
president of the American Shorthorn
Breeders association, the strongest or
ganization Of its kind in America.
Both he and the junior member,
James G., are recognized as expert
cattle judges and their services in this
capacity are in demand in leading
shows from Chicago to the Pacific
coast. The third member, Frank D.,
has been conspicuously identified with
the agricultural press for decade and
liore.
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(Q0

Don't be too hard on the robins
smiled.
We looked our fill at the new bird
bath, which was already functioning.
as she said her boss on the dictionary
would put it, and at the white sundial
pillar, and at our prospective aqueduct
of roses, and at the farm and the far
hills beyOnd-and then she suddenly
announced with great energy that she
was going to saw wood.
You may saw just one piece" said
|, land then you are going to take a
book and rest. I'm going to work, my
self. Twin Fires is getting in shape
fast enough now so | can give up part
Of the daytime to the purely mundane
task OF paying the bills"
l wheeled up a big dead apple branch
from the orchard to the wood shed, put
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yield similar to that just mentioned.
The practice on this meadow, chiefly
from necessity, was to allow the
stock to pasture it until near the first
of May and again during the fall.
This late season pasturing had the eff
feet of scattering the seed from the
second growth clover more evenly and
tramping it in, insuring reseeding
each year and uniform distribution
of the fertilizer.
If a field, or portion of it, did not
show a satisfactory yield, the ground
was fortified and grasses sown and
tested until the proper grass or va
riety was found. In this way all of
the farming land was brought to a
higher state of production. No IN
usual means were employed to bring
this about, for the Tomsons are not
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had been in the hands of tenants for
years. The land was foul, the soil de-
pleted. One field had grown corn for
a period of nearly thirty consecutive
years and the maximum yield rarely
exceeded thirty-fve bushels per acre.
Mr.. Tomson being a stockman by in
stinct and practice, began a plan of
crop rotation and since then all of
the crops grown on the farm and a
considerable amount purchased from
the neighbors, were fed chiefly to cat
tie on the farm and the fertilizer
spread on the fields.
Success With Grasses.
Tame grasses, timothy and alfalfa
were introduced with increasing sue
cess. The field just referred to pro-
duced alfalfa for a period of ten years
and was then broken up and planted
again to corn. The first crop aver
aged between 80 and 100 bushels per
acre. Another field sowed to clover,
timothy and blue grass remained I'M
broken for q years, when it was
again planted to corn. The first and
second crops that followed made
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WORK DONE BY TWO SUCCESSFUL
BREEDERS IS MOST INTERESTING
Result Gained Is Result of Practical Conservative Methods
and Continuous Faith in Livestock Husbandy-Sos Are
important Feature of improvements Neatness and
Order in Farms Appearance Is Valuable
Asset-Shorthorn Is Favored.

much given to experimenting. Pos
sibly the results would have been bet
ter if they had, but the point is that
only such methods were used as could
be readily applied on any farm, by
any average man.
Best of All Grasses.
In Kansas, particularly in the sec
lions more or less broken, the native
prairie grass, largely blue stem, is
prevalent and is regarded as the best
of all grasses in season. 1t has been
the practice to feed more or less tame
hay in these native pastures where
the grass had become thin and in this
way the seed Of the several tame va
rieties was scattered and many thin
spots were set to tame grass, blue
grass naturally predominating. This
plan resulted in frightening out the
pasture season, for prairie grass is
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ARE YOU ABOVE ALL THESE?
If One Can Truthfu!ly Answer Eyes"
Then He May Claim to Be Free
From Superstition.

If you are not superstitious you will
not mind splitting salt, walking under
ladder, breaking a looking glass,
starting a journey on Friday, forget
ting a parcel, or naming your baby
after a person who has just died.
You will never have your fortune
told. You will not be worried by
vour dreams. You will not believe
that you have lucky number, and
YOU will never wear a mascot You
will laugh at four-ieafed clovers. You
will see no harm in putting your shoes
on the table, or opening your umbrella
in the hall.
Darkness will not scare you Creaks,
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SYNOPSIS.

/ crow tired of my work as a college
instructor and buy d New England farm
on sight. ! inspect my farm and go to
board at Bert Temples. Bert helps me to
hire a carpenter and a farmer hard
Cider, the carpenter, estimates the repairs
and changes necessary on the house. Mike
commences blowing. l start to prune the
orchard tree. Hard Cider builds book
cases around the twin fireplaces. Mrs.
Tempe hires Mrs. Pillig for me as a
hOusekeeper, and announces the coming
of rev Doarder from New York, half
air. I discover that Stella Goodwin will
make delightful companion and believe
she ought not to return TO the hot and
dusty city for long time. l squeeze her
hand Siyly Together we dedicate Twin
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If he proposed marriage to
Stella at this point, do you think
she would accept him-or does
girl like to be pursued little
while longer when she feels she /,
has her man enSnared?

ratings, signs and tappings will not
cause your flesh to creep. You will
not mind investigating a light in
churchyard at three o'clock in the
morning or living in a house where q
murder has just been committed.
You will not believe in omens. Yog
window. You will not believe 10
fairies, spirits or ghosts.
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fore available at a nominal price. He
was kept in service several years. His
daughters retained in the breeding
herd were large, roomy, well-fieshed
cows, a trife prominent at the hips,
but useful breeders. A small adver-
tisement was placed in standard
agricultural publication in the hope
Of interesting prospective buyers from
outside the local community, hope
that was readily realized.
The firm of T. K. Tomson & Sons
became widely known under the ac-
tive management Of the Junior mem
bers, who, in later years, succeeded to
the ownership. They added well-bred
females from time to time at modest
prices, and from the first continually
weeded out such as did not prove
satisfactory breeders, or that repre-