The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-07-13

Immediately after the passing O
the sentence, Attorney Fairall asked
that Schmitz be admitted to hal
pending an appeal.
PACHEs WITHOUT DRIVER.
Wonderful Little Horse Will be ,
Drawing Card ut the State
Exposition.
Pacing mile in better than 1926
without hopfles ldrlver ,or sulkv,
Joe Joker. king of harness horses
is bound to prove big attraction al
the state fair in Huron next Sep.
tember, from the 9th to the 18th
/ The state fair management has Sc
cured this wonderful little horse at
considerable expense believing that
he will be drawing card. Joe Joker
not only PAGES alone without drive,
but races against another horse
Mary Adelaide, time 2:14h, racing a
NILE at each performance. The
following extract from letter to
the president of the fair board from
an old friend at Springfield, Illinois,
the home Of Joe Joker, gives some-
thing of his wonderful feats:
Joe Joker is perfect beauty.
He PAGES without hopples, driver or
sulky and PAGES race every time
he starts, always better than 2:25,
and has gone as fast as 2lGA. Ho
generally goes off the first time, but
Mcconnell, driver of Mary Adelaide,
says mo go" and the bell taps, Joker
slows up, comes back Of his own
accord, and starts again. When he
finishes no one has to go out to him,
he simply turns about of his own
sweet will and comes back to the
judges stand. He was the great
feature at last years fair at Spring
field and l think created more in
terest than Dan Patch or any other
track entertainment ever had here. /"
Duties and Dangers of Self Develop
| ment.
Tin Current Literature.)
The great dramatist Ibsen once
wrote to friend: $50 to conduct
ones life as to realize ones self
this seems to me the highest at
tainment possible to a human be-
ing. 1t is the task of one and all of
lis, but most of us bungle It," These
words may be said to sum up his
life's creed. and their spirit is re-
fiected in the philosophy of grow
ing number Of modern thinkers.
Duty and self-sacrifice used to be
recognized as the foundation stones
of ethics; but nowadays stress falls
on self development. Maeterlinck,
for instance, points out that the in
junction to love our neighbors as
ourselves is of no practical value If
we love ourselves in meager wise
and faint-heartedly; and Bernard
Shaw takes the position that each
step in self development means a
duty repudiated. AS an editorial
writer in Harper's Weekly puts it,
I'VE are now in an age of reactions" ("
and continues:
There is a new doctrine in the
air controverUng the old way of
feeling that life offered us but little
choice; that there was always some
thing to hand to be done, and that
the higher law demanded that we
set our hand to the most Immediate
task.
"1 WONDER said an Oxford pro-
fessor one day, "if American women
are happier, in the end, than En-
glish women And when he was
questioned as to why he should ex-
pect it, he said that wherever he
went he met American women intent
upon self-fulflment, self-develop-
ment; they were studying philoso-
ply in Germany, cathedrals in
France, painting in Italy; they were
journeying over the world, seeking
enlargement of self; whereas the
Englishwoman accepted her given
place in life, did the task that came
to hand, and talked mainly of du-
ty. He was uncertain whether, in
the end, the sum of the new expert
ment was greater happiness. That,
however, is hardly the question to
ask. The real question is whether
the sum is fuller consciousness or
not. The stuff of our sorrows, Of
our studies, of our experience, must
be translated into consciousness be-
fore 1t becomes power. Which ma
terial translated becomes the best
consciousness is again the matter
to decide. Bernard Shaw is partic-
ularly severe upon self-sacrifcers.
He says Marie Bashkirtseff was
the source of delight to every one
around her by her mere exhilaration
and hope-giving atmosphere of her
wilfulness. The self-sacrificer, he
says is always drag, a responsible
ity, a reproach, an everlasting and
unnatural trouble with whom no
really strong soul can live.' Mr..
Shaw is always giving cold plungea
by way of tonic, and what he says
witty and crystalline, and striking
as it is, needs a GOOD deal Of shak-
ing down and looking over before
we finally swallow IT"
The type of duty driven, self-sac.
rificing person described by Mr.
Shaw is by no means rare. There
are plenty of them in the world Z
Bays the Harper's Weekly writer
"and they are usually--not always-