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You will perhaps be interested in what your anarchist friend has been doing since he left Chicago, and here goes a brief history. We published Free Society (in New York) up til 1905 when the revolution in Russia broke out, and most of the so-called radicals were so absorbed in the revolution that they forgot to support their own paper, so we quit and prepared to pay the debts of the publication, although I hated to see "Free Society" die. Then I went to work in a book store for six years. This was an agreeable occupation, especially, so since the store handled good literature only, but still I was not satisfied; for there was never a Saturday that I was not ashamed to accept the pay-envelope. I felt that I had not earned anything -- I had not produced anything for society, at least nothing of value. And so we decided to go to California, purchase a small acreage of land and grow fruit. That was about ten years ago and both Mrs. Isaak and myself are still enjoying it very much, even if we have uphill work to build up a home. It is hard work when you have only a four hundred dollars to begin with. But it is a great pleasure to see the trees grow up and bear fruit. We have a little of everything: plums, pears, apples, peaches, oranges and lemons -- even some figs. [[]] it is harder for us than the average farmer who works during the day and goes to bed early. We work during the day and read at late at night -- especially since the world war started in American was supposed to make the world safe for democracy. The [[]] and labor troubles we now see all over