New-York tribune., 1908-08-30

WARMER ASRAEL HOPKINS has the best pas
-ure Cow could ask for. l ought TO know, be
= cause. being q Cow, ! m Judge OF pastures
There's plenty Of grass,-yo1l1lg fresh green grass
5e-a-d there are trees stand under while you
i7ch flies or chew cud; there's a brook through
one corner with Just enough weeds and scum on
j ~ give the water the proper flavor; and Al the
south end there's stump fence where sassatraS and
all kinds Of berry bushes grow among the roots
Now what could q Cow want more than tins
Whv whenever ] thought about II. and re1le1ll-
ia-5 that was producing the best quality ol milk
-h- could be produced: and that l was admired
] may almost say reverenced, by all the other
Cows and that my tact and social eXTertTess pro
-l--e9 oeace and happiness IN the pasture twhen-
ever saw TWO Cows quarTeling Joined IN right
away and helped one defeat the other),-wheTeVer
al these blessings before my mind, got 50 sat
seE and ha71r7v and conented that / was perfectly
miserable You see. ] knew that this was de
graded and downtrodden world, and to find myself
cursed with content II Il was terrible blow We'll
l-1gded about how had no right to be happy and
pleased and to have things 90 smoothly, TIL Il
seemed as # ! couldn't endure my life any longer
II, 7,,- 7rst1v bad when one dav thing happened
Il which made me feel / wasn't 50 fortunate as
] had feared and that | needn : have been 50 CON
-erl-ed after all For some DAYS had noticed that
-s-e women who was sure did not belong TO the
family Of Farmer Hopkins, spent every morning IN
:fe shade OF the stump fence They looked 50 dis
.antented and advanced, 50 admirably desPondent
with their life that / envied them, and drew near
70 see Il ] could absorb some crumbs OF wisdom
:r.rl their conversation
] did They were talking about thing they
ca led the Higher Life, and they seemed TO think
was the one thing worth living for. / Judged
hi they thought we should elevate ourselves by
getting way down TO a high basis where we didn
have ANYTHING; that the only way 70 60 on being
--E civilized get nd Of civilization, 70 dis
re-.-e with the things civilization had gwen US;
,h,, he Higher Life process OF elimination, as
Il we're and that thing was valuable only when
we didn't have it,-that the fewer the better as
VHu may say.
These people referred 10 Whiteface. the Spotted
iIe-,,- and all the rest OF Loving hlne; and
1hl- phrase appealed particularly beautl-
tuI and effective one ] hadn't been used TO being
called ANYTHING more poetic than a Cow, or alice
-lnuate1v Bossv, by humans, and seemed TO take on
more exalted, more spiritual aspect, even II my
own ewes, as the classic phrase fell on my ears
tet that belonged IN a poem IL what they called
The EmbaIned Solitude OF the Meadow As
Lowing Kline, / part OF Art, contribution
e Music. / could aspire place III that Higher
actlv understand it. but then j always open TO
argument always reasonable Dear Hereford Ill
Saws that a mind as logical mine IS almost uI-
feminine.
went away from that stump fence enlightened
and exalted, you may say, above my ordinary
C9Whood. happy in that there were stll plenty OF
things 10 he miserable about and ] strove 10 share
my ov with Whiteface.
Whiteface " said l. ' do you know that You are
a Loving Kline: You are
Whiteface looked earnestly, and saw that
she rlsinterpreting the expression OF my couI-
tenance
Bur hurried on. whiteface this Is an En-