HOUSE FOR FREE SEEDS.
LOWER BRANCO OP NATIONAL
LEGISLATURE PASSES THIS
APPROPRIATION.
ANTI-MONOPOL Y LA IFS.
Regulatlons in France Which Rigidly
Prohibit the Cornering of Neces
sary Commodities.
It seems that our anti-trust and mon
oply crusaders might learn something
from the methods employed In our
Sister Republic of France. There,
capitalists are limited in their opera
tions of "cornering” commodities. This
applies particularly to those products
which are considered necessities of
life, such as grain and its products,
bread, meat, wine, vegetables, fruit,
butter, vinegar, coal, wool, silk, etc.
Any "cornering” of such articles is a
criminal offense in France. It has been
so, with varying forms of penalties
dealt out, since 1793. The offense has
been made so broad and sweeping that
It now includes all persons who de
stroy or permit to perish merchandise
of prime necessity, whether It is their
property or not.
The criminal code prohibits mani
pulations tending to bring about an
advance or fall tn price that is not
warranted by the law of supply and
demand. The law does not Include
tobacco, of course, for tobacco Is a
government monopoly and controlled
absolutely by It. The punishment met
ed out to the violators of this law con
sists of both Imprisonment and fine,
the term and amount being measured
by the magnitude of the offense. In
addition to this the offending manu
facturer, merchant, or manipulator has
his factory or bustness establishment
placed under police supervision, the ex
pense of which he pays for from two to
five years. There is no more trouble
In handling offending corporations
than Individuals. Every director or
employee In a managerial capacity Is
responsible. For a second offense, the
penalty is so severe that it would re
sult in the extermination of almost
any establishment
Members of Congress “Haze” Op
ponents of Free Seeds.—Confusion
Precedes Final Vote on Bill..—Agri
cultural Oratory.
When the House of Representatives
took up the agricultural appropriation
bill, quite a discussion arose over the
elimination of the usual free seed item
by the committee on agriculture. The
House gave to the country during the
days of debate, a spectacle that else
where than on the floor of that parlia
mentary body, would have been known
as "rough house.”
There was a great tendency to
"haze” members when they spoke in
defense of the action of the committee.
Much was said about the attempt to
strike down the hard-working farmer
and take from him that helping hand
in the shape of free seeds which had
been held out to him for so many
years.
None of the advocates of free seeds
emphasized the fact that the total val
ue of the package containing five
small packets which forms the quota
sent to each farmer cost the govern
ment 1 V* cents, and that each member
had the enormous sum of $150 worth
of these seeds to distribute among his
entire constituency. The arguments
advanced sought to prove that the
withdrawal of this subsidy of less than
2 cents to each farmer would drive the
entire agricultural voting strength of
the country into bankruptcy.
ELOQUENCE ON TAP.
Some of the speeches made will go
rolling down the "corridors of time”
as specimens of that matchless elo
quence always on tap in the House of
Representatives when a great national
MEMORIAL DAY.
issue is up for consideration.
Mr. Henry, of Connecticut, submit
No memorial day, or Decoration
ted innumerable letters from his con Day, as It Is more generally known,
stituents and from organized granges has ever come around, since after
urging the abolishment of the free-seed the Institution of the observance, more
practice. Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, than thlrty-flve years ago, when a
delivered himself of a humorous better state of feeling existed between
speech In which he poked fun at the the North and South, and between
Department Mr. Burleson, of Texas, the men who fought In the war, than
opposed free seeds because he did not now. There has been a decided ten
believe the intelligent farmers of the dency this year to all sorts of Blue and
country expected the government to Gray proceedings. The Grand Army
aid them in caelr business. Farmers, posts and the Confederate camps have
under all circumstances, he said, had mixed themselves up In a most genial
supported the government and never way.
expected the government to support
This does not mean that the special
value of the day, to the northerner, as
them.
Mr. Burleson paid his respects, a commemoration of the services and
rather sarcastically, to certain mem death of the Union soldier has lost Its
bers who advocated free seeds on the fine edge. On the contrary, It has
floor and then in the cloak rooms ' gained in zest The soldier died for
sneered at the "Reubens” and "hay the Union, and those who lay flowers
seeds” who demanded them. Mr. Bur- on bisgrave cannot do so without tblnk-
IS OLD AS HE FEELS.
CONFEDERATE DAUGHTERS.
The Beat Way to Get Brooms Was
A T EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS, SENA- to Beg tbe Money and Buy Them. MRS. GOODLETT OF NASHVILLE—
OR PETTUS DISGUSTED AT
A veteran of the civil war. In com
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF
menting on the so-called Panama
BEING CALLED AGED.
NATIONAL ORDER.
Constituents Idolize Him-But They
are Preparing to Hold an Election
to Decide on Successor—in Case He
Dies.
Something unusual is happening in
Alabama. The people unanimously
want Edmund Winston Pettus to con
tinue to serve them in the United
States Senate as long as he lives. Yet
they are preparing to hold an election
to decide upon his successor. The rea
son is that when Senator Pettus' pres
ent term expires, in 1909, he will be
88 years old, and the election is to be
held because Alabamans fear he will
not live longer than that. But “Grand
pa" Pettus is indignant. He says he
is as spry as he was at 60 and that be
expects to live out the whole six years
of another term. He is candidate for
re-election on the platform: "A man
is as young as he feels.”
Senator Pettus had reached the time
for chloroforming, according to the
so-called Osler doctrine, back in '63—
about the time he was performing
deeds of daring in defense of Vicks
burg, fighting with the Confederate
army. It seems that the situation had
become desperate; volunteers were
called for a forlorn hope. A brigade
of reckless Texans offered for the
service, and Pettus offered to lead.
And he did lead—led where fight was
hottest, and at the head of the column,
his six feet four looming large in front,
that protruding lower jaw set on tak
ing those works at any cost. Where
that tall figure rose and that black
straight mane waved those Texans
followed. They loved him for his dar
ing, and when all was done and they
learned that he was from Alabama
and not from Texas they Insisted on
adopting him for their State, and by
one acclaim he was christened "Old
Texas.” Pettus was a Forty-Niner.
He rode from Alabama to California
on horseback with a company of some
forty of his neighbors. * He was a mere
lad then of twenty-eight, but had al
ready had adventures in the Mexican
war, in which he fought. At eighty-
five his record is said to be something
like this: Enjoys a game of cards,
reads his Bible, loves flowers, runs no
bills, carries a red bandana, calls his
wife sweetheart, has a fund of subtle
humor, and being a Senator who works,
hasn’t time to think whether the Grim
Reaper is twenty or only ten years
off. That, his friends believe, is a
good enough platform in itself.
Joys la Tree Planting.
In the early spring the tree fakir Is
thriving upon the fad for foreign trees
and shrubs. About the time the snow
disappears in early spring the tree
fakir takes his grubbing hoe, his prun
ing shears and a ball of twine and goes
into the woods. There he grubs up tree
sprouts—sumach, oak, alianthus, hick
ory, beech, poplar, chestnut—or almost
anything else will serve his purpose.
These he trims and prunes and ties up
in bundles for removal to the place
where they are to be stored.
When the spring tidying up of the
home garden commences the tree fakir
makes bis appearance in public. He
will show pictures of rare Japanese or
Chinese or Mexican or East Indian
shrub trees and offer to supply you
sprouts at a figure that is most Invit
ing. You see an opportunity to get a
plant worth $12 for $1, and then you
think of the envy which that queer,
red-leafed, wide-spreading bush will
excite In the breast of your neighbor—
and you buy.
By and by you shout with joy and
call your wife out to see the tiny
leaves, and then you begin to brag and
look down upon your neighbors. You
invite them in to see the wonder, and
you talk learnedly of horticulture in
Japan or the East Indies.
And then your glorious tree bursts
into leaf—when you discover that you
have bought an ordinary, common,
everyday sumach or a maple, or, per
haps. a scrawny little peach tree. Then
you lie in wait for him, and you meet
with another disappointment.
He
doesn't come around any more.
Aftertbougbts.
SCENES IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETRY.
Where Are Burled 26.000 Union and Confederate Dead.
1. Monumept to 2,111 "Unknown Dead.”
2. Mansion House of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
3. Amphitheatre Where Memorial Services Are Held.
RED TAPE IN DAYS OF ’81.
The ratio of married couples living
to celebrate the golden anniversary Is
1 to 11,000.
According to Pekin reports, the Chi
nese bandits are almost as active as
leson challenged anybody to show a i ing of the Union and its sacredness. East Side rioters In New York.
single resolution passed by an organ But the Union is now secure forever.
A Milwaukee poetess won a barrel
ised body of farmers favoring this The rancors of war time are dead.
The work of the hero of that war is of flour in a poetical contest. Few
“species of graft."
Mr. Mondell held the attention of ; complete. There Is now no further poets are so lucky in landing the
the House until he had concluded, and occasion for maintaining the conflict dough.
bla speech was the one cool, dispassion that be had part in.
"Chicago bristles,” says Henry
At the side of the soldiers’ graves.
ate episode of the day. "The question
James, proving that they took him on
la.” said be, "Shall we continue to en In this year of 1906, many stalwart the usual sightseeing trip through the
dear ourselves to the hearts of our grandsons of men who are buried stockyards—bogs and cattle.
constituents by distributing among there will stand with flowers in their
•
__—
them a few packages annually of seeds bands. 1865 was a good while ago.
The baby that was born In a parlor
A
certain
amount
of
the
decorating
of unknown vintage and uncertain
car on the Lake Shore road can claim
heredity of the fragrant onion the ! this year will be done by veterans' that whatever success he achieves later
great-grandsons.
For
there
were
old
luscious rutabaga, and the humblejbut
in life was due to early training.
glorious—'the kind that mother used to ■ fellows In the ranks of Bull Run and at
m»kg—pie promoting pumpkin, or shall Gettysburg on txrth sides. But there
Henry James calls himself a "frus
wfc with Spartan self-denial, forego were youngsters, too, and thousands of trated American.” Those of us who
thli ancient and potent promoter of these we have with us still. They are have tried to understand Mr. James’
honored above all other men and pro books belong in the same class.
our claims to statesmanship?”
Mr Mondell concluded by convulsing perly, on Memorial Day. It Is their
The Washington State Supreme
„ House with a famous poem wnt- day. Nothing can be more impressive
Un by ^e’poet lariat" of hi. State than, their annual turnout. It is the Court has given George H Melse $14,-
on the subject under d.scussion by nation's most beautiful spectacle, and 000 for the loss of a leg. George’s
the honoring of it weaves Into Amer financial standing la now assured.
*hWben Mr. Cocks, the representative lean lives the enduring pattern of
. 'president Koosevelfs district on l>atriotism.
Dr Wiley, the Government Chemist
EjTsfcnd. began to
Is looking Into the question of how long
Boston has a public school teacher— refrigerator plants may keep food with
iree-seed evil be soon had the House
t^Tears. Messrs Sullowey and Mias Clara Donne—who has taught out detriment to the consumer. He is,
of course, after ths cold facta.
| continuously for fifty-seven years.
(Costlawd os next »•*•>
circumlocutlqn oliice, gave some amus
ing reminiscences of the working of
the “rep tape” during the days of 1861.
“I was quartermaster sergeant in a
New York regiment and had been
detailed to assist in handling a bunch
of recruits,” he said. “At the end of
the first week I discovered that we
were out of brooms, and when I re
ported the matter to the lieutenant he
told me to stop off at tbe ordnance
store when I rode in to get the rations.
Strove for Years to Unite Various
Southern State Organlzations-
Active Worker In Many Charitable
Institutions.
Few have accomplished more for
living patriotism as well as peri>etuat-
lug the memory of the heroic «lead of
the Southland than Mrs. M. C. Good-
lett, of Nashville, Tenn., the founder
and first president of the United
hers, whose birth has
ments and loving tribute
lug and dead Southern
object in uniting the
South was to bring
pull shoulder to should
Confederate veterans in
necessary aid to the needy
the war between the State
historic places of the Con
record the part taken by
women, as well In untiring’"
the war in the reconfltrgM
South as in patient e
hardship and patriotic d*.,_____________
Ing the st niggle; to honor the wflfkory
/
of those who fell In the eervi0$ M the
Confederate States; and to. cherish
ties of friendship among the member*
of the society.
She worked for years striving to ■I
organize the United Daughter« of the
(
<'.>nf<sl.-ra<-> In-fore even her own
association of which she was presi
dent would co-operate with her In call
ing a convention and inviting other
Daughters of tile Confederacy to Unite
In forming a national association. At -
this time, besides being President Otthe w
Tennessee Daughters, she was a mem
ber of the National Conference pf
Charities ami Corrections, the atlooal
Prisoners Association, and the National
Humane AssocintIon, and was edth
cated up to the point where she could
see the advantage of eousolldating the
scattered forces of Conf »-derate work
ers who were few and fur apart. Her
work with the national association*
showed her tlie great possibilities 1*
concert of action, and, having time,
means, and social Influence to back her
in the work, she determined to carry
out her plans, and unflinchingly fought
opposition from start to finish. The .
result was that on September 10, IfflM, /
the Society of the United Daughter* of £■
the Confederacy was- organised at x
Nashville, Tenn.
When the Tenneseeana announced a Y
little over a month ago that they pro
posed to have a portrait of Mrs. Good
lett painted and placed In the museum
at Richmond, Va., appeals came at
once from the chapter of the States re
questing that they might also con
tribute loward honoring their founder.
The requests were complied with and i
the portrait was unveiled at Nash
ville, Tenn., June 8, 1905.
Granted.
MRS. M. C. GOODLETT,
President United Daughters of the Confederacy.
I made out a requisition for half a
dozen brooms and he signed it. When
I got to the store I showed It to the
sergeant In charge and be laughed at
me.
“ ‘You must get it signed by the
major,' he said.
“I finally hunted up the major and
he told me that the order must be on
army form 7iX),H97K, and not on
foolscap. I told him that my party
were recruits and we had no statlon-
ery. He told me to go or to send to
Washington and get some. I explained
that this would take long and that the
brooms would not do any good if we
did not get them sooner. He then
asked if the lieutenant was tbe com-
mander of my corps. I answered that
of course he was not. ‘Then,’ I was
told, 'he must put under his name
“For Officer Commanding.' ”
“I went back to camp, and after
writing out a new requisition had the
desired Improvement made. When I
returned to the major he explained
that it was all wrong. Instead of
saying ‘required for such a regiment
and company, six brooms,’ I should
have concluded It with 'brooms six.'
I scratched out the line and rewrote
It. I was then told such corrections
were not allowed, and a new requsi-
tlon was necessary. I drew up a new
one and asked If it was ail right
The major reluctantly said he thought
it would pass. I then rode back to
camp nnd got It signed. Taking It to
the ordnance store I was Informed that
nothing could be Issued on such an
irder. It had to be registered. I asked
for further particulars, and was In
formed that tills could lie done at the
major's office. Once more I trotted
back and eventually a corporal placed
my patter under a little stamp and In
flicted a mark something like a no
tary’s seal. Again I went to the ord
nance store.
“ 'Is this all right now,' I asked.
“ ‘Yes,’ answered the sergeant. ‘It's
a bit irregular, but it will do.'
“ ‘May I have the brooms now?’
" ‘You can’t have them at all,’ an
swered the sergeant, severely.
“‘Why, In Heaven’s name, can't I?"
" 'Because,' he replied as he turned
away, we haven’t any. We are all
out of them.' ”
Scrutinise your rbsnse carefully; a dan-
seroua counterfeit thousand dollar bill baa
been discovered.
Pirates bare stolen s Htandard OU vessel.
There Is sppsrenily no longer honor auiouf
members of tbe profession.
Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricul
ture! Department, says that hottlad whis
key la tbe safest. Of course It Is, ss long
as It stays bottled.
Tbe Chicago New« ways that » man may
flirt with aome of the girla all the time
and all of the girls sorrte of the time; but
that no man has a right to flirt with all
tbe girls all tbe time
It Is solemnly asserted that the two grast
political parties t<ol»tb»r. only sp.at Pair
million dwi'srs darin« th* last presidential
campaign. How ro-ild tb»y manag» to pay
for stationery alone with such a miserly
allowance.
Daughters of the Confederacy. No
one but a woman of such force of
character united to the social training
that comes from Inheritance through
a long line of ancestors, together with
parliamentary experience, could have
conceived and firmly established In so
short a time a society that now num
bers 40,(XX) members.
Mrs. Goodlett Is very modest in
speaking of this cherished child of
At the Grant family dinner Major
General Frederick D. Grant told thig
story on himself:
"I was booked to speak at a large
dinner In town and the toastmaster
felt It Incumbent upon him to make
my path as smooth as possible. He
therefore spoke of my father and said
I strongly resembled him. This had
the desired effoct on the people present,
and they gave me their best attention.
"Although I spoke as well as I could,
I felt that everyone was disappointed
In me and I sat down with relief that
It was over.
"The toastmaster rose and smiled
at me. Then he said to the guests:
" 'Didn’t I tell you he was just Ilk*
his father? He can’t speak worth *
cent'"
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