Mower County transcript., 1904-08-24
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.

on the ground that home was too tame
and commonplace for her because her
man alwus let her hav her own way
wasn't so big fool. If I was woman
wouldn't Civ much for putty man
that was so dead easy that he didn't
hav mind of his own and didn't dare
to say Boo to cat. It's just as true
of the woman in the house. 1t there's
anythin' that makes my nerves strain
and tug it's SEEM henpecked man
that's afraid to spunk up to his woman
but lets her pull him round like he was
a puppy, and never has any mind OF
his own. I'd taken poison or emlgrate
to the North pole do somethin' to get
away from such conditions. Exactly
the same Oh the other shoe. A brute
of a man will lord it over his hard
workin' patient wife until she's actual
ly to be pitied. Why, she can't even
hav a cent of money of her own but
has to account for every bit to her
tyrant when she can squeeze a few
pennies out of him. l don't blame such
women for stealln' out of their hus-
bands pants pockets when they are
asleep. like leetle excitement once
in while. 1 tell you when my wife
gets walked up she's caution and my
admiration of her stayin' qualities is
unbounded but when she gets lamblike
agen it's just like a leetle paradise right
here. No wonder that Kansas City
woman found her ennui monotonous
and intolerable.
I'd just like to pat that New York
landlord on the back who is goin' to
build flats for families with lots of
children. He is goin' to have play
grounds and all conveniences for raisin'
of young ones and nobody who amt
got any children will be admitted. l
tell you this will be nifty popular and
it will help to take off the curse from
those who are forever shuttin' out the
little folks from their tenements. [
like this recognition of the great fact
that in order to get grown up men and
women we must first hav babies and it
we amt havin' babies the race is goin'
to run out teetotally in a generation.
just wish was millionaire. I'D fix
up nice for the little folks to make 'em
healthy and happy. What is home
without a baby, with just a man and
woman CROWN old together and dryin'
up all by themselves? This ain'tmulti-
plyin' and replenishin' the earth by a
long shot. It must be lonesome and
selfish existin' when an ybody shirks in
such a tremendous responsiveness.
I'd like to know if babies and little
folks amt got as much right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness as
big folks. l alwus liked to hav 'em
around and alwus will.
Nobody studies the war between the
leetle Japs and the Bear with so much
interest as the old soldiers who fought
in the war. They can catch on to the
maneuvers and shifts and battles as
no greeny can dream of. calkerlate
that good deal of the Russian troubles
is in lack of competent generals. The
Bears privates seem to hav lots OF
courage and grit and it is simple
murder for incompetent generals who
hav no intelligence or education or ex-
perience or military genius to lead 'em
to sure KILN and no excuse for the
slaughter. If old Grant or Sherman
had charge of the Russian forces in
Manchuria today things would be diff
ferent decidedly. The Japs are we'll
generated. They hav got long heads
on 'em and on the chess board of Man.
churia they look far ahead and plan
moves that take the queen and check
mate the king. So they move right on
to victory on land and sea. They hav
studied and experimental and analyzed
and tried the latest methods in military
tactics and weapons and explosives and
communications and attacks and wire
less telegraphin' until they are masters
of the arts and they deal sledge hammer
blows right under the fifth rib every
time they get chance. The veterans
of the war of the rebellion in this coun-
try alwus had confidence in their
generals, that is in the later years of
the war, and that is what made 'em
confident and willin' to fight like Mars.
O . .
wish there was some way of break
in up these big estates every time the
owner dies so as to scatter the wealth
and start over again. This tyin' up
property so that wife and children can't
dispose Of it as they want but hav to
be boxed up with trustees and all such
for the remainder Of their days and.
fortunes kept inact for unborn great
GRAND children amt righteous and