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THE FARMER : AUGUST 6, 1910 LET THE PRICES TALK The VALUES on examination -will speak for themselves ARROW AND L. & D. SPECIAL SHIRTS i :$i.00 grademow . $1.50 grademaw . $2.00 grade 'now. . . . .'-V , $4.00 Silk grade now . .. - .45.00andv$6.00 Silk grade now. UNDERWEAR 50cgrade now. ... . ... . .:5.; ' 39c $1.00 grade now. . .t. . -. .. 79c $1.50 grade now. .. . i r r s ' 50c SILK HOSE 79c $1.15 $1.35 $2.85 $3.85 $1.15 35c 3 for $1 $5.00 and' $6,001 Flannel Tronsers $1.50 Khaki Trousers ..w. $3.90 95c 1227-1229 MAIN STREET Stratfield Hotel Building SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY IN PERJURY CASE Slade On Stand Tells Of Con fession By Dora Podoioff In Attorney Klein's Office Here Claims Birl Said She Was Ashamed Of Herself For Test Ifytag Falsely In Soloway Arson Case $2.00 $2.00 DRESSES )pg DRESSES 59c 59c jfON MORE LOT OF $2.00 DRESSES AT . : k THURSDAY OJM s trp et zyspftfrcjt M.hd&2of best attzmiyt- Ramie Cloth in plain colors; also Fancy Striped Percales beautiful ly tailored, sizes 34-to 44. We are obliged to limit the quantity. Two" dresses to a customer. rr gee Our Window Display km Im 'mm Wm ai 111 1 111111111 11 Tiiifaifcilnf M ' it 11 m mm iiiiiiiiiiiMiimiii 11 in, iiaiiiiiTtiiiiiiiiiii i--.-w,,. "BOCK OF AGES" - BURNS TO OKOTHfU MerWen, Aon. 6 The dwelling of) Mrs. Bel d on C. WilliajrrtSv known to Merldenltes and others as the "Rock of Ages" because of ita location In Bast .Merlden on and In a group of huge boulders. was burned to the gioond. today, with . most of Its con tents. .. The loss is estimated at about t'S.&fedf-rfefr -firer-ls 'believed to have been accidentally started by an ama - tear painter who was using a torch to . remove some old paint. - The place was located about half Sri mile from the city line and as there was no water connection outside of -the -city, the local department was un- abie to be of service. ' A message of hope to rcit who are siclc. Have you been pronounced a chronic Invalid? Do not let that discourage you. It does not mean that you can not regain what you b'e lost. . Few, Indeed, are the persons for whom health Is a forlorn hope, if nature Is given half a chance to assert her ruratlve powers. j- The primary cause of your trouble "is located in the spine. Why not try Chiropractic (spinal) .adjustments and get well? A doctor who is talcing Spinal ! Ad justments of Alex N. Cook, D.C., 651 State street, says he feels better, than he has in five years. TAUGS OF HOIfET AXI TAK" " FROM WEST AND EAST. Vm. Lee, Faskenta, Calif., says, "It gives universal satisfaction and I use only Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound for my children." E. C. Rhodes, Middleton, Ga, writes, "I had- a rack !ns lagrippe cough and finally got re lief taking Foley's Honey and Tar Compound." Use no other in your family and refuse substitutes. Adv. Hair SCALP SPECIALIST EpeciaJ Treatment . fa , Qjry " jrr Manicurlag HARRIET E. SHERWOOD, 412 Security Building. lll Main St. Phone 1173. 3 87 tf 8 Custom Suit Sale T SEE IiYlXJRD BROTHERS TRY E East Side and West End TC . LEADER MURPHY TO BE CALLED III ELECTION PROBE (New York; Aug. 6. Contributions toJ Gov. ulaer's campaign' for election, last fall, were again under fire with the resumption here, today, of hear ings by the Frawley legislative com mittee which has transferred its sit tings from Albany. Interest was aroueeSin the session by the possi bility. Hfat both .Charles F. Murphy, the-? leader -of Tammany Hall, - and Governor Suizer may appear as wit nesses while the committee Is sitting here. Another prospective witness was the Rev. O. R. Miller, who has published statements alleging improper conduct on the part of certain senators in con nection with a legislative bill in which certain mercantile agencies were in terested. Miller .challenged Mr.1 Fraw ley, chairman ot the investigating committee,' with the statement that the committee would not dare to call him as a witness whereupon the chair man telegraphed Miller .inviting ' him to appear as a witness either today or tomorrow. The committee members declare their belief that this attack upon certain senators wae Inspired toy those who desired to discredit the work of the investigators of the Suizer fund. " Along the line of inquiry today, sev eral officials of the Farmers' Trust Company were subpoenaed as witness es in connection with the investigation of the bank account of Louis A- Sar ecky, confidential clerk. PRIMARY REGISTRATION , CONFINED TO OM PARTIES New Haven, Aug. 6 Much curiosity is beingshown by political workers in tire,., primary registration. The last SSSSHVPf theyfeoard will be on FridayJ night. The city election will come in October. The present registration Is to provide party check lists for the primaries. The progressives have been very backward in putting names on their list and unless Friday' night sees a great rush of members of that party a progressive city ticket Is unlikely. ; Waterbury, Aug. ft The case of the state versus Dora Podolofl. charsred with perjury in the recent Soloway- Kata arson' trial, came up in the city court yesterday and lasted through the afternoon. Startling testimony was given by Attorney Benjamin Slade of New Haven, counsel for Sol oway. Attorney Frank Garvan of New York, son of the late millionaire paper man, Patrick Oarvan of Hartford, and son-in-law of the late Anthony N. Brady ot Albany, the traction king, who died abroad a week ago, appear' ed for Dora. All morning long he fired Questions at Maurice Soloway, who was subpoenaed while on the cars " in New Haven Friday, to appear in court to testify. Associated with him in the case is Attorney Benedict Holden of New York; Attorney James Hamill of New York and Attorney Albert EJ. . Brian, who' .is assistant, to Attorneys Oarvan and ! James Osborn of New York- Messrs. Holden and Oarvan are un derstood to be .'retained by the In surance companies interested In the case and it was said " yesterday that before the case was ended some very interesting arson testimony would be aired. Attorney William j. Moitenna, personal .counsel for Dora, and At torney - Benjamin Slade of New Ha- ven, counsel for Soloway, with Prose cuting' Attorney John MoGfrathi corn- Dieted the 'select circle around the table. ; Soloway. in his testimony, said he "knew Dora for four iyears, bat never talked to her of the fire here In -Wat- J'rbury, when the building occupied oy fioiowaj oc A.cx.o vu . - -was burned. He ' denied that Dora asked him who eet the fire and "-that he replied "My utile brother,", and he also denied that he told Dora he was "verv successful in the Are, as she testified at the arson trial. He said he had resided, since the Waterbury fire, in Bridgeport, at East Main street, and at 806 Howard avenue, in New Haven, where he now - makes his home. "Have' you worked since the fire?" Attorney Garvan" asked. - '3Io, .sir,? was the answer.. "1. have been' " aUppBrted by my brother-in-law and1' my father-in-law." Did you take any money from Mr. Weisman -of New Haven?" continued Mr. Oarvan:. ' ;' " . '' "No, I hate -Mr:-Weisman,.. was the answer. r - Being pressed as - to - why "be hated him, Soloway said it was because he had been mixed up in the business ever since the case commenced and that he did not like Welsman's activi ties. He added that he took no money from Attorney Slade of New Haven either, when questioned on this point. "Where were you during the last 48 hours ?" continued the lawyer. "In a Turkish bath in New Haven, said Soloway, and explained he was there In order to get to Waterbury on time for the trial. ' Why ma you start this prosecu tion of Dora, anyhow?" was the next question. "Because I wanted my reputation cleared up and my . standing In the community back, so I told my law yer to prosecute lawyers and Dora, and insurance agents and everybody else. I want to show that this to the greatest frameup in the state, and Z told them at the time, "Gentlemen, please show up this frameup ! ' " Attorney Benjamin Slade of New Haven then took th? stand and gave the most sensational testimony of the day. He told - of b.eing called to the house of one Mrs. Brownetey In Bridge port on Sunday, June .29. There he met Miss Podolofr and greeted her with "Hello, Miss Podoioff." She said: "Please don't call me that. Call me Dora. Mir. Slade. I have something to tell you. I am heartily ashamed of myself."- Then Slade said to her, ac cording to his testimony: - "If you have confidence In me, Dora, I will listen to ybu, but you must tell me the whole truth." "She then told me," declared the witness,- "that she had testified falsely in the city court at Waterbury in order to save her un cle, Mr. Katz. She was prompted to testify falsely, she said, by Attorney Brown of Boston and Attorneys Mc- Kenna and Holden. She then told me of being summoned; to NeW York to be a witness In the Katz case, as she thought. When she arrived in New York she was . asked to testify in the Soloway case. She signed a contract with the Burns Detective agency in which she ..was to act as 'operator in New Haven'..at the rate of $15 a week and was to receive $1,600 for her testi mony in the Soloway case. On the train from New York she met Attor ney McKenna and, she said, he in duced her to testify falsely against oloway." "Dora and I," continued Attorney Slade, "then went to Attorney Klein's office in Bridgeport and we went into his private room with him! The first thing Dora said was, "There aren't any dictagraphs here, are there?' x We then went into the parlor so as to allay her suspicions. Mr. Klein asked her: "Dora, tell me, was there any conver sation between Weisman and Soloway, such as you testified to?' Her reply was, 'No. She then told Mr. Klein that she was ashamed of herself and continued, 'Mr. Brown of Boston and Mr. McKenna and Holden told me to say It.' Mr. Klein asked her to come with both of us to Attorney Ailing" office and she replied, 'No, I couldn't face him after deceiving him so much.' Attorney Klein then said: TDora, he would take you in his great big arms when he saw . that : you felt sorry for deceiving him." " "Dora came to my office the first day of July," Slade said, "and said Mc Kenna-came to her and toM- her not to tell anything; that she would get them all in - trouble. She said at that time she was preparing to be a wit ness in the Boston case involving $180,000, another insurance case. She requested the . transcript of the testi mony she gave in the city court and I pointed out the statements in cross- examination which showed that her testimony was improbable. She said she could see on testimony that she lied, adding that if I had not been so rough she would have admitted it on the witness stand. She said to me: 'Slade, you know I have tried to save Katz. I don't care what becomes of me:' I said to her:' 'Dora, it appears yeu are a tool, but you are not as bad as those who advised you." Attorney Slade said that Benedict N. Holden, W. E. McKenna, Louis Katz and a Mr. Brown of Boston were the "master minds" of the affair and had caused Miss Podoioff to commit per jury. Alleged conversations In Bridge port where Miss Podoioff again con fessed her guilt , in the presence of Slade and Attorney Klein was testified to by A. H. Slade. A' letter from Katz to his wife, in which he showed that he was told to get away,' and was to receive $3,000 for it, figured in the tes timony. CANNIBALISTIC SCORPIONS Child Tvolxw- ha This Country Voted In Same Class With Cannibalism. IN AID OF FARMERS (By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner.) Washington, Auk. 6 Garrett T Serviss, whose scientific discussions are always interesting ' has been telling about the scorpion, a cannibal insect. Scorpions fight and the victor devours the vanquished. And the femal scorpion will often eat her own broods or ortsprlng. e scorpion Is very low in the mental scale, even among insects. There are other forms of animal life wnien are cannibalistic. Most fishes are cannibals. But as a rule, the nignex one goes in the scale of ani mal life, the less cannibalism is found. xn practically all the higher " ani mals the protection of offspring is one of the fiercest of brute instincts. The female animal with young Is no toriously more savage and dangerous than the male. Even the timorous raoblt will fight desperately to pro tect her offspring, while any lover or outdoors knows -of the pathetic de ceits 1 employed by mother ' quail and pheasant to lure Intruders away from their nests. ' In fact, to find 'the refinement of cruel cannibalism one must skip from the female scorpion devouring her brood up to the very highest form of animal life, the two-leggedd.- upright onunai wmcn is the only animal en dowed with a moral sense. Man of modern civilization is the prototype or. me scorpion. - . . .. Many savage tribes are cannibalistic but these beings, little better " than beasts, at least have the virtue- of practicing their horrfble custom only upon enemies taken In battle. Mod ern Americans' live upon their own children. As long as Americans permit child labor they are cannibalistic. Child labor is a blight and a blot In that it costs the lives of many of its help less victims. Every yard of cloth that . is. bought over the counter, every pound of coal consumed in- stoves and furnacesysv ery can of fruit or vegetables-.eaten into which, child labor has gone,makes the purchaser moralty- a cannibal Just as surely as If this country sanction ed the slaughter of children at abba- toirs as an Industry. Some ' day the people of this ooun- try ..wlrl awake, to this; responsibility, and then' there wflfte no more child labor In trr factories. There were two interesting local events In Washington, D. C, recently. A. newspaper invited subscriptions to buy a $300 anniversary cup for Walter Johnson, the baseball pitcher. And cltaritable person found a young girl in Washington whose eyesight might be saved.If $100 were contribut ed to send her to a hdfepital for an op eration. , The pitcher gets a salary' reported to be around $9,000 a year.' The af flicted girl. la wretchedly poor , and friendless. , The enthusiastic citizens of Wash ington, many of them in poor circum stances, chipped in their pennies and quarters and dollars in such .quantity that the $800 for the cup was. not only raised, but there was over $1,000 in cash to put in the cup. . But the' attempt to raise $100 to save the sight of the girl who is go ing blind, was a failure. Sun rises tomorrow....... 4:53 a. m. Sun. sets today. . 7:03 p. m. High water 2:01 p. m. Moon rises . .:. . .j. . ...j.-. .9:21 p. m. Low water .. . ..... . .-.u . 8:39. p.! m. There is an old saying that the man who never takes a vacation takes one all the time. . t t (By Our Staff Correspondent.) A nation wide movement to interest the American rural population along financial, business and social Jines, as a means to strengthen the position of the farmers, increase their income and their production and to lower the cost of foodstuffs - fo the consumers, was announced here recently in a letter to the 'governors of the States, to the farmers organizations, agricultu ral Institutions and farmers of Amer ica from the American Commission on Agricultural Co-operation which arrived from Europe on the S. S. Ced ric. - The Commission found that Euro pean agriculture was organized along co-operative lines and also found that the European farmers have apparent ly secured a financial, business and so cial strength equal to that of the or ganized urban classes of capital and labor. , Dr. C. J. Owens, of Maryland, Di rector General of the American Com mission and Managing Director of The Southern . Commercial Congress, has given out the following letter ad dressed to the governors of the States, the farmers' organizations, agricultu ral institutions, and the farmers of America: "The American Commission on Ag ricultural Co-operation has completed its tour of European countries and has perfected plans to digest and corn- pile the information obtained with re gard to co-operation and the organi zation of rural life In European coun tries along financial, business and so cial lines. It is believed that this task can be completed before the end of the present year, when the final report of the Commission will be sub mitted. "The Commission is deeply impress. ed with the vital importance of thoroughly organized and united ru ral population. In this respect the countries of Europe ' offer a lesson which may not long be disregarded in America, without serious consequences. "The agricultural Interests of most of the European countries : visited by the Commission are organized along oie or more" of the following : lines: credit, production, distribution and so cial organization for the betterment cf country Hfe, 'Organizations for the provision of credit facilities for European farmers follow the natural division into short time personal credit and long time land-mortgage credit. The organiza tions for the provision of personal credit facilities are as highly develop ed as are the systems of commercial banking. The prevailing rate of-in terest paid by the : farmers for short time loans,, is from four to five and one-half per cent. The' terms offer ed European farmers are generally better designed to meet the peculiar. requirements of agriculturists than are the terms obtainable to-day by the American, farmers. "The personal credit organizations have the form of co-operative socia bility for the debts of the society while in other cases the societies take the form of limited liability. As a rule in European countries, the law makes little or no provision for exemptions of i any kind. These short time or ed it societies furnish cheap; safe and elastic credit to their members by reason of their control by farmers and are - organizations exclusively , in , the interest of .farmers who operate . them at nominal cost and without seeking dividend profltto such sooleties, - "Land mortgage credit has been organized so as : to place ' a collective security back of bonds issued by land mortgage sooleties in contrast with the system of marketing individual loans upon Individual mortgages. Without discussing the form of organ ization employed for this purpose, it may be stated that these land-mortgage Institutions bring to European farmers low interest rates; the privil eges of repaying -loans in small fixed annual installments extending over a term of yea in some cases as long as seventy-five years under the amor tization plan, although provision for earlier payment is made if the bor rower so desires; protection from ad vance in interest rates; and the prac tical elimination of commission char ges. Many of tniese personal credit societies and land mortgage associa tions are fostered by government grants, loans or special provisions of law. Mortgage -bonds issued by com mercial banks and by private joint stock land-mortgage banks sell sub stantially on the same basis with like securities issued by government fa vored institutions and Both classes of banks are recognized as needful in the development and conservation of ag ricultural resources. - In many Instan ces private and commercial banks pur chase the securities of , land-mortgage associations. Experience has demon strated that such land-mortgage bonds are liquid assets. "The systems of land title registra tion, in countries possessing such BORDEN'S MILK (Bottled in the Country) Is the best value that your milk money will buy Rain or shine, summer or winter, the wagon with the eagle sign will be at your door the same time every morning with a bottle of pure, wholesome milk clean milk in a clean bottle and route salesman is prepared to take care of all your milk needs. This service Is as certain as a perfect or ganization and a dispositon to go the limit to serve you can make it. Hail any Borden wagon and the route salesman will take your order; or write or telephone. Borden's Condensed Milli Co. vent dispute of title upon mortgaged land. Provisions are also generally afforded these mortgage institutions which eliminate undue legal delays in the recovery of loans placed with de faulting borrowers. Savings and trust funds are frequently invested in se curities of such mortgage institutions under sanction of law. Loans up to fifty or even sixty-six per cent, are made on lands of dependable value and are considered safe and conser vative and . compare favorably with provincial and government bonds. "The organizations for production and distribution of farm products fol low co-operative lines. Farm pro ducts are sold by the producer at' a relatively higher price and are bought by the consumer at a relatively lower price because the cost of distribution is considerably loewred by co-opera-N trve marketing which results, also, in improving the quality and uniformity of farm products and In promoting more business-like methods in farm ing operations. - - ' ' .' "It is the opinion of many of the leaders of this movement in Europe that the question of rural credit ought not to be divorced' from co-operation for business purposes and the general organization of community life in ru ral , districts. In some European countries visited, agriculture and country life interests generally are thoroughly, organized and co-ordinated. , The studies of the Commission emphasize the necessity of defining the functions, on the one hand of the gov ernment, and on . the other of volun tary organizations, in promoting the development of country life. In some of. these countries great emphasis is placed upon the value of voluntary as sociations and such State aid as in volves governmental control over the activities of rural organizations is de precated as tending to stifle the Ini tiative of the people. i "Rural conditions, environment and temperament in .Europe diifer widely in the various countries and also dif fer from rural conditions, environ ment and temperament in America, as conditions differ in our several States and Provinces; therefore, it may be necessary, fh some cases,'' to -'modify these European systems if they are to be adapted ' to meet the needs of American farmers. At the same time. co-operative effort among the farmers of America might' well be more gen erally employed and the facts gath ered -should be of great value m de veloping methods suited to the needs of the farmers In the several sections. States, and Provinces. - To- this end, the American Com mission with a membership in thirty- six. States -and in four Provinces of Canada, has effected an organization with headquarters at Washington, D. C, and Invites the aid and co-op eration of. farmers and all agricultur al organizations and persons concern ed In promoting a more prosperous and contented rural life as the endur ing basis -of our material, social and civil welfares The Commission desires to call at tention to the geographical scope of its inquiries wib-ich were conducted In Italy, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, England, Ireland and Wales, while sub-committees were sent to 4 Russia, Denmark, Switzerland, Hol land, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Egypt, Spain and Scotland. In all of these countries the members of the Commission were officially received by the respective governments and were given every opportunity to car ry out their studies. National and local officials, central institutions, and local societies, eminent economists, leading agriculturists and " business men, all contributed with most grati fying willingness to the successful ac- HALT III LOBBY PROBE AS MULHALL WANTS MORE TIME Washington, Aug. . Examination ot -Martin M. Mulhall, self-styled lobby Ik t of the National Association of Manu facturers, was postpdned today by th House lobby committee until Monday at the. request of Mulhall, who an nounced that In the last few days hi has discovered In hjs flies in Baltime some 200 additional letters bearing on national politics and he believed tha t if given a few days he would be abli to discover more. He said the letter found were important and that soma contradicted testimony already given before the committee by Representa tive FaircMld. Mulhall insisted that he needed a rest. "Furthermore. I nm my 61st birthday today and have been Invited home," said he. The committee excused him until Friday, granted his request to have counsel during his examination, but withheld decision 'on his Invitation t the committee to send a representative to Baltimore to assist him in golna through his flies. Weather Indications ; New- Haven, Aug.-. Borecat: Fair tonight; -Thursday increasing cioulU ness and probably followed by show ers. For Connecticut: "Unsettled weather with showers late tonight or on Thurs day. Light to moderate variable win'is. The western disturbance is central this morning over Missouri. It in caus ing unsettled, showery weather from Kansas eastward to Ohio. Shower were also reported from the north west, the northern portion of the la-ke region and the south Atlantic state?!. Moderate temperatures prevail except in the southwestern districts whers maximum temperatures ranging from. 60 to 100 degrees were reported. - - . t ICE A NECESSITY." comDllshment of the wore- of tri Corn- mortgage institutions preotloaJIy p-re- J mission. An elderly man, observing an ice cart distributing freely in a tenement district, was heard to remark tht when he was young every one got along without buying any ice. He regarded it as an extravagance fo poor people. Farmers, he said, almost never u to have it. They lowered perishables Into wells. Of coarse a' descending bucket might tip the milk can over, which made the water look sickly, bu did no harm. Of course farmers very commonly hatve -lct now, but if it tif In cool latitudes, they cut dt from thei own little ponds. - Still it Is very questionable If it pay even a poor man to go without a l!t- tie ice if he can possibly buy it. WIthi out his milk and butter waste almos fas enough to pay for the refrigera- tor. " The poor man's poverty never fall much more heavily than when he let the Ice man go by. No one can eat s square meal on a hot day from wariij and partly tainted foods. There an few more practical charities than fre ice stations. tiHE3 I I I I illli i rz t li I HihfpligX . ' "TT Oil Goo Hoirye Yow poingTo Cook ( ' ; This Summer? If you want cool, quick service use a ion k-tStove Always ready for use. No coal, smoke or ashes. Food cooked better, every body happier. Made with 1, 2, 3 and 4 burners. STANDARD OIL COMPANY cf New York