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ENJOYMENT 4 NATURAL RIGHT
Much Truth In Writer'S Protest
Against the Eternal 8ombsr.
ness Of Things.

The child, With his unclouded vision.
unbroken IS yet by life and the greed
and the cunning Of humanity. has the
Unborn sense Of mans right to Joy.
What are we here for? Surely not
Just that some malignant being, or
some force of nature, may have the fun
Of hammering at Us and seeing US
writhe. The truth n, man, born into
mortality, attempts flrst TO make his
own joy and invariably fails. The ma
tural attempt 10 to get Joy for our
selves. Whereas. a. man grows. he
knows that instead Of dragging Joy in
to himself he mlet initiate an entirely
opposite process; no must expand him
self into 10y. The natural mortal VI
sion sess 10y In material things, in
circumstances, in events, in personal
possessions and aggrandixsment,
whereas Joy ID spiritual. essential. out
going. Joy never leans on what hap
pens, but on what 10.
SO long A. the dull and the ignorant.
tho suffering and the diseased. look
up to great possessions. to comforta-
BILE surroundings and responsibility.
and fancy that Joy lives there. and
that II they captured the means they
would capture the prize. 20 long poor
exi1ed Joy can do no more than drop
at odd seconds upon quiescent mind
here and there. It cannot come to
earth to dwell. to turn fife into Para.
disc, until It comes equally to all. It
would seem that only spiritual gifts
could be equal. Natter IL unmanage-
able. It heaps itself up In spots and
draws away In others: II 10 eternal
restless motion: 1t IL the changing.
floating unreality In which for the mo-
ment We are set. But the spirit r.
changeless. immovable, permeating all
space. And At odd corners, here and
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PLAN OF CONCRETE
SHEEP DIPPING TANK
Cheap Plant whsrs Four Men Can
Easa1y Dip q Ons Thousand
Animate IN Day.

sheep will drain on one ode while the
other u nllins. Unless sheep are thor
oughly drained dipping 10 costly op-
Grafton. Even . wsil-drainsA lamb OF
large size will take away . galloa Of
dip In his wool. II he goes out too
soon he may take out three gallons.
We learned that dipping with this
new tank IL mainly matter Of heat
ing water and mixing dip. The mere
act Of dipping the sheep IL not .
serious matter. One or two men catch
the aambs and drop them into the vat.
We learned that proper drop was
rather head first, like = divers pos
ture. thus they disappear and come
up completely immersed. They swim
across and walk easily up the incline
and into the draining pen.
The illustration shows the very sim
pie tank quite clearly. The gentle i'm
cline is easy to walk up. It should be
rough at bottom and had better have
transverse grooves. The draining pen
should slope about inches in II feet
toward the tank. 12x12 feet will ba
large enough. Since q pen ex12 feet
will draing SO lambs BY the time an
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meled. with the pitilessly pictured
sapho Of an Alphonse Daudet to flnish
the encyclopedia Of woman's short
comings ~ harshly ~ the Madame
Bovary Of F1aubert began It.
The one Englishman wha has dared
parallel the whole indictment brought
BY the French has been Kipling, whose
Vampire" seeming to sum up svery-
thing that could reduce woman "a
Ewes original role as the means Of
mans ruin, has bee Internationally
famed with the impressive Bufns.
Jones picture Of the vampire At worh
helping to carry it, maliEn sisnin.
canoe around the world.
All the charges against this lovely
creature. woman. can't Of course. b
true; and 20 they must BE- CHASED q
passing strange. But stranger than
the prejudice the authors appear "a
cherish 10 the fact that those vesy
books which most severely srraign hsz
are the books that are usually mos,
popular.
And stranger yst IL the fact that
nowadays. most Of the readers an
women.
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TYR . gosd many years. We have an
sually dipped sheep. sometimes only
he farm fiock and sometimes the
western feeders. Recently we have
ordered the westerns dipped In Chi
cago, writes ]. E. Wing. In Breeders'
Gazette. That saves time and trouble
at home and is NO doubt slightly
cheaper, but the lambs do not ship
very we'll when loaded right from the
dripping vat In the cars. They are
too weak. after their long journey. to
stand the dipping we'll Therefore this
year we had the lambs come to us
undipped. 1t was very notable that
they were much stronger when unload.
ed from the cars. and they began n
once to feed and gain.
No appearance Of scab was visible.
but some Of the lambs were slightly
infested with ticks. and scab might
have been contracted through contact
with infected pens or cars. 80 we de-
cided to dip them az soon as they
were rested. 1t Is interesting to find
dicks on western range lambs and
shows that the ranges are getting
cleared Of Acab, else there would be
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IN him only . peculiarly callous genius
with IN sys 70 business.

IN him only peculiarly callous genius
with IN sys 70 business.
Literature has seldom. II ever. made
sAtnin9 success with the perfectly
good woman. they say: and It Il dss-
tined. ultimately. to match Mark
Twain's monument to Adam with
smother to Eve. in gratitude for the
frailtiss which make her descendants
good material.
In their expert opinion, ~ in the
observation of the critics generally.
the good woman 10 too tame for art:
and the fne frenzy Of the poetic Wat
son. whether inspired BY his pro-Boer
sympathiea, ~ he alleges, or by chag.
rim. eyer failure to achieve knight.
hood. ~ averred BY the Asqaiths. went
straight 70 the Oldest and the most
Interesting topic literature canthandle
Tho frailtiea Of q woman.
In the universal literary diatribs
against lovely woman, Watson IL 70
far from singing solo that his, a.
though the latest, shrek Of continually
q ouiy part OF the chorus.
What In the world can the other
authors Of our time have against NO
mani
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given for-scab eradicate ticks.
Our old dipping vat was Of wood. It
had q cage that was lowered into the
vat by windlass, and the lambs were
then drawn out and drained. 1t was
very hard to use and by NO means
easy on the lambs. This year we CON
structed one Of concrete and 1t. suits
Us almost perfectly. The tank 10 .
small one. 4 feet long ON the bot
tom. IA feet on top, Z feet deep. IS
inches wide At top and 6 inches at
bottom. Therein IL our one mistake:
It Il too narrow At bottom. Widen It
to ~ inches at bottom, leaving the
top 10 inches and 1t win be perfect.
A. It u. now and then . very wide
lamb finds It too narrow when the dip
II used out 30 that 1t is low in the
tank.
Such a tank IL not costly. Ours took
about 3h barrels Of cement and two
days time to build. counting the work
Of excavation and form construction.
It viii last practically forever.
Unfortunately We did not at the
time build . concrete draining pen.
but used the old wooden one which IL
3 feet wide and II feet long. This u
altogether insufficient for rapid dip
ping. We win for next year construct
. draining pen about II fest square.
divided BY fence into two parts. The
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says. InstsaA, - was vssy ~ -
stick closely 70 III palace saA At -
period almost two years slapssA bseors
he gracsd any public occasion with
his presence.
Thsn there was some formality b
the cathedral Of his capital town which
he could not well avoid. II appears
that some Of the cadet corps. made up
Of sons of the good Nicaraguan FAM
lilies, conceived the idea that thu
would b . good time to abolish T.
laya- They formed . plan that Ger
tain Of them who would BE- present in
the cathedral should load their Rides
with ball cartridges and on . signal
should pepper the president.
This plan was not carried through
very we'll. The secret got out just
about ut the last moment and the ball
cartridges were removed from the
rifles. A few Of the cadets In their
turn discovered this fact and they ~
loaded their rifles with ball cartridges.
When the signal was given the devot-
ed group arose and fred. The shoot
ing was Central American and bad.
and Zelaya's wound was one In the
shoulder.
The punishment was prompt. accord
ing to the surgeons story. The 900 or
so cadets Of the corps were lined up
on the parade ground and one Of Ze-
laya's trusted men simply told on
every NTH boy in the ranks. Those
checked on were shot.
A story IL told too of another pa
triot who hired room near the plaza
in which the palace stands. The house
in which the patriot was had the
advantage Of having the only available
window that gave q clear sight Of any
of the windows In the palace. The
patriot watched at his window on and
on for about six months. until one day
he got view Of the president passing
by the palace window on which he
was spying. He fred quickly and
again Zelaya was slightly wounded
in the shoulder. They got that patriot
and shot him too.
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wrote that Immensely popular drama,
Leah Kleschna." Leah was Just Q
plain, outand-out thief-a lady burg
Lar, who starts the dramatic bali roll
ing BY attempting burglary. and IN
prevented from accomplishing It BY be-
ing caught IN the act.
Leah's noble nature comes out
strong through all the complications
that ensue. and she ends ~ the bride
Of the phiianthropist who caught her
stealing: but she. above any popular
heroine Of recent years. has past
that may be called record breaking.
romance. however. whose past was
worse than hers, because It IL q Axed
principle Of morals In English litera-
ture that burglary and the other
crimes Of the calendar are merely
peccadilloes in comparison with that
one woman's sin - to which all
Britain virtuously refuses ever to
speak-and has been most ardently
reading for the past generation.
fhsmss H1Fay's zrssS.r
Thomas Hardy's Tess Of the dur
bervilles" had committed that offense.
Respectfully pronsred the saving
hand In marriage. and Tess. believing
she had cleared her conscience by
confession. took the happiness that
was hers, and Tess herself had the
elemental passions which doomed her
to be her evil destiny's toy.
She ended very badly-and there
was another woman indicted and con-
victed by an author who. thus far.
hasn't shown the smallest prejudices
against women In his private life. nor
has ever been accused. like Watson,
Of regarding the whole adorable sex
a. being composed Of any but perfect
ladies'.
The forbidden theme-And that at
time when the forbidding meant
something-was the whole motive of
wilkie Collins most human novel. II
not, perhaps, his most complicated
one. His 'New Magdalen" took the
vilest Agure to be found in a great
city's scourings. and exalted the true.
womanly soul that lived under the
hideousness Of her manner Of life.
Evil Characters Interest.
His readers. then and now, have
always bssn frss to admit that Collins.
IN that one story. Ut any rate. did
sueessd II creating woman who
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ity.
When such heavy guns as Ibsen un-
timber for action against that dainty
butterfly. woman, the general eject
comes pretty close to apparent ami.
ililation.
That is what happens to unhappy
Hedda Gabler. who managed. with
every advantage Of beauty and posi-
ton In her own modest circle. to ruin
the men who loved her. drive genius
to its death and end In nothingness
herself. all through her Unsuitable pride.
temper, Jealousy and selashness. A
heavy Indictment indeed. but one
which the ponderons and thunderous
Ibsen found plenty of other butter
fiiss to aim It at.
Msreltsss pramatlst.
Woman and her weakness furnish .
dramatist 10 thoroughly up-to-date as
Arthur Wing Pinero with his most
effective topics. and the characters
in his Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith" are
only selections from what seems to be
an inexhaustible repertoire Of observa-
lions. Of which but few, in the way
Of saving graces. are creditable> to
womankind.
When. occasionally. an American
playwright succeeds in making his
female lead" worth worrying over
from across the footlights. he fnds II
very. very hard to go further along the
line of approval by emphasizing the
saving graces.
There was c. N. 8. Mcclellan. who
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could hold the Interest 70 tho end.
Thacksfay, II n notorious, aeA3eysd
his most couspicuous suoeeae With the
most evil IT his wouAAly shAracters.
Becky Sharpe. Thsre. Y anywhere.
was ample evidence that the author
who paints In evil woman dooe Il for
sheer love Of the Job.
The great Thackefay could fudge
and condemn the shrswd, conscience.
less. calculating Becky - 1nercilessly
A. though he were on the bench and
she criminal 1T the bar before him.
Yet he loved In his capacity Of artist
- . scientist might love . rare and
perfect speciment Of species4yps; and
every stroke and shading be put into
his portrayal OF the inimitable Becky
Sharpe was done with almost loving
kindness.
Both he and Dickens must ever re-
main monupental examples support
ing the theory that the good woman 10
too tame for Art rather than that the
authors are indulging any prejudice
against the sax. Both made repeated
attempts to depict the perfectly good.
lovable girl and woman; ana II has re-
manned that both scored repeated fall
ures by presenting milk-and-water f1g-
ures that had no moro saliency and
genuine life to them than 10 many
marionettes.
Rsads and Stevenson.
Even Charles Reade, Of whom q wo-
man critic declared he made all his
women cats, left figures In his stories
that seem to be alive, and did II purely
because Of their faults, not Of their
virtues.
1t was that sense Of the good wo-
mans artistic futility. - many admir-
ers Of the late Robert Louis Steven
son believe. witch 20 long debarred
him from introducing her In his ro-
mances. save ~ he could linn her in
the faintest sketchings.
Il was hard for Stevenson to believe,
and harder for him to say, that every
woman ON earth failed to all the spec
incations Of = full-hedged angel, at
only for sinful and fallible man to wor.
ship. It was equally hard for him, as
the born artist, to put his pen to any
literary adventure whose ample pic
turesqueness Of action threatened to
be doubtful.
Between the Unborn chiyalry Of the
man and the acute perceptions Of the
artist Stevenson had to reach matu-
rity before he could even dare attempt
the drawing Of woman; and, when
all IL said and done with him. his sue
ceases have been exclusively with
-
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Anllng the Asiauc breeds Of fowls
the Langshans have won perhaps the
BEST reputation ~ winter layers. A
Black Lansshan cock IL here pictured
come strains oe Brahmas are fully
their equal. From the farmers stand.
point the LAngahAns arc preferable
to the other Asiatics because Of their
ability to forage better and their less
peonounced desire to ait The chicks
are fairly quick maturing and make u.
ssllent table fowls at I'VE to six
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squashes for FattsnIna.

VSSOoVSe sVT FokSOUSUHs
A Colorado farmer relates in Co
burns Swine in America the following
reference to the use Of Hibbard
squashes in that state: "A neigh
Dor claims he can flnish the fattenins
Of hogs on Hubbard squasAss in one
half the time he can with corn. while
with pumpkins he can only make
them bold their own. He says 10 can
finish hog In fair condition IN six
weeks ON about one ton Of souashes.
making 200 to 7So-pound hog. He
cuts the squashes and feeds them raw.
and says the hogs clean up everything.
shell and ALL" The squash apparently
has . fat.ening value greater than that
Of the pumpkin. and sauashss are
worthy Of more attention IN swine
husbandry than has been generally
given them.
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sa1t OI0of1 IN LuAL l&t2l &c
pusation. In modern literature, at
beast, Caesars wife cannot be wholly
above suspicion and interesting 1t tho
same time-csrtainly not upon the
grand scale that makes . novel the
nook Of the year."
One Of those books Of the year"
was Mrs. Humphry Wards Awaken
Aeg of Helena Richie" in which the
wilful Helena .Has very much indeed
spen to suspicion: the immortal Jul
sus. for . hundreth part Of her indis-
cretions. would have surely drawn his
giadius and chased her all the way to
the Temple Of Janus. And some other
thrilling novels Of the same august
Engitsh romancef depended for their
thrills upon the self same theme.
In the United States, one Of tho
strongest novels Of recent year, was
Edith whartou's House Of Mirth,"
where all American society was drawn
upon for types Of vain and ambitious.
greedy and Intriguing women. with
LILY Bart. the heroine. weakest and
most intriguing Of them Ill, her virtue
nssailed and withheld from destruction
only 1t the extreme verge, and death
dtpicted as-the only fitting close for
ehe vacillatin1. greedy. Inundated self
che carries about through the .conclud.
ting chapters OF tho novel
Ths most severe comment current
eitSraturs, which embraces it, criti-
DIANA, made upca woman was in the
usltacal seQusls 70 Mn. Wharton's
STARTLING story, Tor The general verdict
vas a. much in lndorssment Of her
social facts ~ ol her artistic SKIN.
psiticism, Joining forces with romance,
eat IL modern eeoaelV woman only
CATCHES q shasaseee. suppssmenAsd
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Under normal conditions the egg
producing organs become enlarged
With age. An old hen may lay larger
EN- when she becomes \ year or two
Old. especially II she Il heavy layer
- Q pullet.
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Prevent Too. cr.aklna

Prevent Esss Cracking.
TO prevent eggs cracking when n
number are placed In boiling water. let
warm water from the faucet run over
them before placing than h the
dish.
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esry'4im ns.
HZNJ
ARCH foa. hfAIlNs WATER
a conersts Dipping Tank.

other pen 10 full they will be pretty
dry. With this simple cheap plant
four men can readily dip 1000 lambs
in day.
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~ crazy.
watson himself has been trying to
prove Ne was neither.
The general public has been wonder
ing whether he isn't both. and then
some. largely along the lines Of In
gratitude and petty meanness.
But the Authors guild, Of which his
venomous eifusion proved him 10 dan
gerous member. being versed in the
history Of literature. has been seeing
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months. For best results in laying
they should be Matched not later than
April With proper rearing and feed.
ing pullets will lay all the following
winter.
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NUMBER Of loving friends
are Joining with solicitous
relatives to aver that VIII
liam Watson. the English
poet who wrote 1.-THE Wo-
man with the Serpent's
Tongue" is not mad-mere-
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INDIANA PROTESTS
PULLMAN CHARGES
= Attorney General Asks Com
mission to Cut Rates on
Upper BerthS.

Complaint against the rate charged
for upper berths On Pullman sIesDfng
cars has been lodged with the Inter
state Commerce Commission by the
State OF Indiana
The attorney general for the State, in
setting forth its complaint. declared
upper berths are inaccessible, practic-
ally unfit for comfort, and that the
rates for them now are highly IN
reasonable and should be reduced. He
considers that an upper berth should
not cost the traveller more than one
half the price charged for a lower
berth
IN this complaint the Pullman Com
pauy and the various railroads opera
ting its coaches through Indiana. are
named as defendants. An early ex-
animation and disposition OF this case
- urged by the State
This complaint is similar 90 that re-
Gently made 10 the Interstate Com
merce Commission against upper
berths In sleeping cars by the state Of
Kansas II is IutmaIed that other
States in the middle West are likely
70 follow the attitude Of Indiana and
kansas
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KILLS FOUR PERSONS
WITH FOUR SHOTS
Shooting Gallery Keeper Murders
Family of Three and Then
Commits Suicide.

CHICAGO Aug. 1.-THE deadly
skin OF W J Meyers, keeper of a
shooting gallery here, accounts for
the fact that three members Of his
family and himself lie dead here to
day, with only four shots fred out
OF Myers pistol
The cause OF the tragedy. which
occurred yesterday, is unknown. ex-
ceDt for the fact that there probably
was a dispute between Myers and his
wife, who had had him placed under
bonds TO keep the peace. which re-
suited IN the auger1ng OF the keeper
Of the shooting gallery and the sub
sequent murder OF his wife. their son
aged seven and F. s. Bouton, the
father OF Mrs Meyers Meyers then
turned the gun on himself and in
ficted q wound from which he died
instantly
Policeman O'NeiI was passing the
house AT the time and heard the shots.
On entering he found the four dead
bodies on the floor Of the living room
and discovered that the same number
OF shots from Meyers revolver had
been sufficient 10 DO the damage.
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ROCKHILLS IN Russia

ST. PET 5RSBURG. Aug. civilian
~ ttockfiiiI- American ambassador TO
Russia. and Mrs ROckhiH have re-
turned to the capital after a visit 10 the
United states on leave Of absence.
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Snead Case Prosecution
Weakened by Miss Ward
laws Slow Suicide.
SACRIFICE MADE
FOR OTHERS SAKE
Authorities Convinced Eldest PRS
oner IN Bathtub Murder Case
Died TO Save Companions.

NEWARK, n J.. Aug 12.-With the
death from starvation OF Miss Vir-
GINA o. WardiaW, chief prisoner in
the East Orange bathtub mystery, the
case against her sisters, also under
arrest, has collapsed, according TO the
opinion Of the authorities here today.
They declare that the woman DELHI
erately starved herself to death IN
order to weaken khe case against the
sisters, Mrs. Caroline B Martin and
Mrs. Mary ". Snead-
The death OF Miss Wsrdlaw is de-
clared 70 preclude the possibility Of
ever solving the mystery surrounding
the death OF MIS- Ocey Snead. niece
OF Miss WardIsw, who was found dead
in bathtub IN q partially furnished
house in East Orange, to which she
had been taken by Miss WardIaw-
Attorney Beasley, attorney for the
sisters, announced today that Miss
WardIsw would be buried tomorrow
IN Mt Hope Cemetery where OCey
Snead lies
In the last few weeks. according 70
the officials Of the house Of deten-
tion, where she died, Miss Wardlaw
brOoded much, and seemed 10 be
worrying over the plight Of her sis
tiers.
Shielded Her Sisters.
She bore the brUut Of the murder
case, and from the first her attitude
was one Of protection for her sisters
although she took no one into her
confidence, those who watched her
day by day are firm in the belief that
she absUained from food with suicidal
intent for the sake OF the other pris-
Ohers. who, like her are elderly
women
Miss WardIaw's death is the third in
the case Ocey Snead's body was
found on November %, 1903. A
month ago her baby, David. died in a
Brooklyn hospital at the age Of one
year.
Mrs Martin and Mrs Snead were
permitted today 70 see the body Of
their sister They wept bitterly An
other sister, Mrs Richard b Spiugfe,
and a brother. the Rev A G. Ward
law, of ChristianburE, Va, who were
both with Miss WardIaw at the end,
conlforted them
The prosecution IS held IN allegiance
pending the recovery OF Prosecutor
Wilbur A Mott. who is i'll in Nan
tUcket.
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ACID BOMB THROWERS
SOUGHT BY POLICE:

CHICAGO, Aug. R-Oa suspicion OF
having thrown acid bombs into a taxi
cab. burning the clothing and hands OF
Knights Templar visitors. the police
today arrested John Mckeuna ana
Louis Lowell
Both men are said by the police 70
have been under arrest before for al
legged violence during The taxicab
strike
Mrs. J. F. BOeke. wife OF an indian
apol4s knight, was one OF the victims
and J. C. Lewis commander Of Darius
Conmandery, OF Minneapolis, was the
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most valuable properties in Pittsburg
All are in the downte- N business sec
ton, and when Hattie fled his bond il
was discovered that e rec OF the prop
critics We're encumbe ed with heavy
mortgages
and is seen but seldom at Pittsburg' c
social affairs