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BALKY HORSES.
A Fault Sometimes Inherited-Sim.
pie Ways to Overcome It.
From the Horseahoer's Journal

From the HoEeahoers Journal.
The incorrigible balky horses Of the
rural districts find ther way to whole
sale markets. where. under the test of
hauling heavy truck wagon on a paved
street with the wheels blocked. the vice
is Immediately discovered.
II the animal has been sold as service
ably sound and guaranteed a willing
worker and cheerful puller the buyer
rejects his purchase and the horse is re-
sold without any guarantee except clear
title Of ownership.
Some horses have learned to balk by
being overloaded and abused. Their
courage has been overtaxed and they
rebel, disheartened at the task they are
asked to perform. Other ,horses appear
to balk from natural inclination and
appear foaled full Of innate stubbornness.
Baking, like wtndsucking. cribbing,
weaving and halter pulling, is a vice de-
veloped by natural inheritance. In break
ing young horses to harness too much
caution cannot be observed in asking the
youngster to pull light loads to begin
with.
The balky horse cannot be conquered
by brutal treatment, but may be induced
to pull by many devices, intended to
attract his attention from his resolution
not to pull. To lift the forefoot and pound
on the shoe. to put a handful of grass
or dirt in his mouth, to give him a lump
of sugar or an apple TO eat have all
proved successful in some instances in
inducing a horse to pull.
To pass a cord around the pastern
and pull the forefoot forward until the
animal has to move Is also q means of
starting a balky horse. An electric BAT
terry manipulated by the driver gives an
animal shock from a source that he
does not comprehend, and is the latest
device in treating incorrigible horses
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It's genus. Since we have not yet scien-
tifically discovered the methods Of the
immortality Of that which thinks ana
feels in man. the school OF materialists
makes short work of 1t and denies 1t out
of hand" This chapter closes with
quotation from Goethe: Il have the firm
conviction that our spirit is being OF
absolutely indestructible nature; II Is
perpetuated by working from eternity
to eternity; it is like the sun. which TO
our earthly eyes seems to sink below the
horizon, but which in reality never sets,
but shines forth continuously.
DR.. Felkin prefaces his translation with
tribute to Haeckel's greatness as
his books give to the unframed mind
mental and moral indigestion"
THE WAR MAKERS Being the True
BY Horace Smith. Chicago: A. c.
McClurg & Co.
Since we'll nigh anything about the
human is believable, one shuts his eyes
and swallows whole this true stor?-" Of
adventure. Exciting? Interesting? Revo-
luton. piracy, blockade running and In
trigues of the large international sort
are the direct answer to these two
queries. Were 1t not for the pledged
word Of Mr.. Smith that this is an exact
transcript Of the hero's bonded wo d.
belief would now and then be bent to
breaking, but since 1t is such. one mere
ly swallows again and takes it all in.
Filfbustering for the Cubans and making
war against Castro. fighting pirates and
dealing death to the pirate king, stealing
British ship and a-venturing on the
Nile, plotting with the Spanish pretender
and romancing with q beautiful white
devil simply name but a. few Of these
excitements. To get the glow and SHIN
mer of them one must read for himself.
Autobiographic in form, these reminis-
cences are in effect easily guileless, in
genuously truthful. This is just the sort
of book to make boys sit up o'nights by
stealth to devour 1t, one to serve as a
beautiful iridescent lining for dry-as-dust
school books which the same boy appears
to con praiseworthily.
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Of this nice girl cousin. But propinquity
and the absence of other men will work
miracles in this direction-and so it is
here. The fellow does. at the last, take
a trick in the way Of securing a mining
control. but 1t is too late to get excited
over him. The story contains one dis
ttnct and robust thrill. This is in the
description Of landslide, at the very be-
and companion who happens to be in
front Of 1t. The northwest has yielded a
good literary crop to this author. The
present romance bears a faint suggestion
that perhaps the soil Is temporarily ex-
hausted-that a rest, or q turning to
other uses. will restore 1t to vigor and
freshness Of inventive production.
WHAT IS THIS UNIyERsEs CHRIS
TIAN FAITH VERSUS MONIST
DREAMS. Gan Answer to Prof.
Haeckel's Book, "The Riddle of the
Universe.") BY S. Phi. Marcus. NJ. D.,
translated by r. w. Felkin, NJ. D..
F. r. S. E.. etc. With Introduction
York: Funk & WagnalIs Company.
Haeckers eminence as a scientist gives
tremendous import to his materialistic
theories Concerning the earth and its
Creator. Dr.. Marcus. an equally strong
mind force. combats monism with argu-
ments that seem to leave the Haeckel
doctrine wrecked on q foundation Of
brilliant but baseless supposition- The
author lays no claim to original method
Of warfare. His weapons are the thoughts
of countless thinkers" which he has
gathered and Yields with power that
comes from the conviction that his cause
is just one.
In a chapter on immortality" which is
the most important in the book, from
the viewpoint that immortality is the
most important study of mortal man. DR..
Marcus put ms deduction M,io WITH torce .sa
child of a former man; he, again, was
the descendant of previous sire, and
so his forbears in an unbroken chain back
to the first human pair. All animals and
vegetables are the descendants of fore
runners in an unbroken chain back to
the original animal or plant, according to
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WILD BOAR ON BANK NOTE.
How It Came to Be Used on Bill Of
japan Bank.
From the Japan Advertiser.

From the Japan Advertiser.
Only those we'll versed in the history Of
Japan have any idea Of the reason why
the wild boar is used as q decoration on
the back of the ten-yen note of the
Japan Bank. The story dates from the
early dawn of the country's history. from
the beginning OF the period which may
be said to be historical in contrast with
that part which is wholly NEUROLOGICAL.
and has to do with the era Of the En-
press Shotoku, 769 A. D.
1t seems that after this empress had de-
posed the Emperor Junnin in 765 that the
man who had been most, useful to her in
her deposition was a certain, Dokyo
Dokyo became, with the favor of the
empress. the most powerful man in the
empire. and although he was q monk
there is no doubt but that all the while
he was in the service of the empress as
her most trusted retainer he was plan
ming to seize for himself the imperial
throne.
Through a follower Of his own he had 1t
suggested to the empress that the god Of
war, Hachiman. had told him in a dream
that if the empress would secure the
throne to him after her decease that the
empire would enjoy forever after years
of unbroken peace. The empress. how
ever. replied that she was powerless to
do this, but agreed to consult the oracle
of the god before giving her answer.
Her majesty thereupon sent Wake no
Kiyomaro, whose picture adorns all the
old notes Of the Bank of Japan, and in
structed him to procure an answer from
the god on this question. Before setting
out on this mission. however, KiyomaIO
was approached by Dokyo. who told him
that the empress was favorably inclined
toward the project Of setting him on the
throne and that If he would see that a
favorable answer was sent back he should
have many favors showered upon him in
the next reign.
The reply Of Kyomaro was not at all
to the liking Of Dokyo. who banished
Kiyomaro, after mutilating him In a hor-
rible manner. During his Punishment he
was one day walking In the mountains.
when he found that he had completely
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One passes abruptly from a curiousiy pro-
found and artistic study Of one among
the many irOnies of life. to a mild farce
about wicked woman who turns out.
after all. to be only silly girl. Here are
stories OF poverty, hard stories. with chill
dren more often than otherwise it's vic
TINS. Brutal stories and romantic ones
keep strange company here. But the same
movement. the same pregnant silences
and then on again to the inevitable end
are in them all. These. out Of the essen
tial qualities Of the man himself-his con-
f1dence, audacfty. courage-make unity
Of deeper root than that resting upon sub
ject and literary purpose alone.
SYDNEY CARTERET, RANCHER. BY
Harold Bindloss. author Of Winston
OF the Prairie" etc. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Company.
SO unambitious and slack-twisted. so
feeble and incapable. is the English hero
of this American romance that only the
courtesy Of custom grants him the title
of hero at all. Prospectless in England,
this young man emigrates to the north
west. carrying an unconvincing resolu-
ton not to better himself as he has
been advised to do, by a marriage with
tied in Canada Before reaching these
relations, while wandering about the
west, startling reports from England
come to hfm-his brothers bankruptcy
and sudden death and 'scutcheon blot
ted with sinister suspicious. This ap-
pears to settle his somewhat wavering
marital and financial groupings. However,
In moths way of coquetting with
fame. he buys hands breadth of ranch
adjacent to that of his uncle, where he
lives incognito as neighbor and some
times as hired man. The story from
this point moves right along in the reg
ular way without hitch or subtlety Of any
sort, save some very obvious complica-
tons rising from this unrevealed identity
There is no stir at all, except that Of
mild wonder on the part of the reader
that q young man who can neither split
wood. nor milk a cow, nor paddle
thing that happens to be in his
job, does manage to engage the affections
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are both sense and courage in II II ;s
not to be imagined that the author is UNI
aware OF the touch OF charlatanry in this
Trick. But. what is he to do? This is the
pest point Of evidence in support of his
tneory. So. why not use 1t? Why leave
tae pest things to the uses Of the unprin-
clpied and inventive clever? In addition
70 the purely personal experiences that
make up the body of this volume there
Is. besides certain press comments the
testimony OF many who have successfully
used the Tasting cure. A very suggestive
and believable book
LOVE AND MARRIAGE. By Ellen Kew.
author OF THE Century Child" etc.
Iran from the Swedish by Ar
thur G. Chatter. With a critical and
biographical Introduction by Have
lock Ellis. New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sons.
EHeh key, at present known to English
readers chiefly through her book. 1.-THE
Century Of the Child will be further
known hereafter through her Love and
Marriage. The evolution OF love, it's
freedom and selections: the rights Of
motherhood and Its exemptions; free d.
Vorce and q new marriage law, indicate
something of the nature and scope Of this
study. Its special character and quail
yes can be reached through reading
alone. The author examining these
themes In the light Of history, psychol-
ogy. philosophy, draws deductions and
comes to conclusions that will prove star
Ting, even repugnant. to many. Every
aspect Of marital unrest appears to have
come under the scrutiny of this student
OF tho fundamental social relations The
nous increase in all grades of society
point, according to this author, away from
accidental personal idiosyncrasy as the
cause, and. instead, toward a general
reimbursement between the claims of life
nd the requirements of custom. Invent
a before the rise Of individualism and
the liberation Of woman. marriage, by a
refusal to relax any part of its rigidity
to meet these enormous changes to the
fundamentals of it's existence, suffers
weakness as an institution and ineffl-
cheney as q social force. Miss Key, as
might be expected from her study of the
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

LOVE BESIEGED, . Romance OF the
Defense Of Lucknow. BY Charles L.
Pearce, author OF THE Bungalow
Under the Lake" ETC. Illustrated
by III. s. De Lay. Chicago: a. c. Nc
Clurg & Co.
Hickox New York: Broadway
Publishing Company.
THE PRODIGAL JUDGE. BY Vaughan
Hester. author OF The Fortunes OF
the Landrays." etc. illustrated by
NJ Leone Bracker. Ind annapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
MOTHERS AND FATHERS. BY Juliet
Wilbor Tompkins. New York: The
Baker & Taylor Company.
CAPTIVATING MARY CARsTAIRs. BY
Henry Second. Boston: Small, May
nard & Co.
THE BROWN MASK. BY Percy ].
Brebner. author OF Princess Ma
topher clark. r. l. New York: Cas-
sell & Co.
Balance. BY Agnes Elinor Albert.
New York: Broadway Publishing
Company.
PRINCESS KATHARINE. By Katha-
rine lyman, author Of "The Hand
some Brandons," etc. New York:
Duneld q Co.
THE HUMAN MACHINE. By Arnold
Bennett, author OF How to Live
On Twenty-four Hours a Day." etc.
New York: George II. Doran Com
pany.
A sATCHEL GUIDE FOR THE vACA-
TION TOURIST IN EUROPE, q
Compact Itinerary Of the British
Isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany
and the Rhine, Switzerland, France
Austria and Italy. By w. ]. Rolfe.
Lift. ID. With maps. Revised an
nually. First edition for 1911. Bos-
ton: Houghton Mif1in Company.
Great War. By John Merritte
Driver. Chicago: Forbes & Co.
MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES. A Descrip-
ton OF the Terms and Conditions
Upon Which Private Corporation
Enjoy Special Privileges I'm the
Streets Of American Cities. BY De-
los F. Wilcox. Phi. D., author OF
The American City," etc In two
volumes. Volume two: Transporta-
tion Franchises. Taxation and Con-
troll of Public Utilities. New York:
The Engineering News Publishing
Company.
BUTTERED TOAsTs. BY Fred Emer-
son Brooks. Chicago: Forbes & Co.
WORLD LITERATURE, and It's Place
In Generai Culture. By Richard G.
Moulton, NJ. A, Phi. D., professor OF
literary theory and Interpretation in
the University Of Chicago, etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
THE MORRIS DANCE: Descriptions of
Eleven Dances IN Performed by the
MOrrfsmen of England. Edited by
Josephine Brewer New York: The
II. w. Gray Company.
NORRIS DANCE TUNES. Edited BY
Josephine Brewer New York: Tho
H. w. Gray Company.
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guished life and noble personality are
glories Of his generation, while American
art owes him a debt of gratitude for his
influence, his ideals and his work"
The exhibition which is now on view at
the CorcOran Gallery has been shown this
winter in some of the most important art
museums and galleries in this country. It
was assembled by Mrs. Shirlaw and Is set
forth under her personal direction. Quite
number of Mr.. Shirlaw's paintings
have found their way into permanent COL
lectiOns, and 1t is understood that one or
more of those remaining as a part of his
estate will eventually go to the National
Gallery in this city.
THE National Gallery Of Art is prom
Used several valuable loans in the
immediate future. among them Benjamin
Vests celebrated painting The Raising
of Jairus' Daughter" which was recently
purchased by T. B. Walker of Mime
apolis. This picture was bought by the
Blakeslee galleries some time ago from
Augustus c. Edwards In England, and
by order of King George III, who died.
meeting with approval after the kings
death. it passed into private ownership,
and thus eventually to an American. 1t
is 10 by 10 feet In dimensions. and there
fore not very easy to ship or properly
exhibit. Without question it is one of
Vests most important works, and it's ar
rival is awaited with much interest The
Corcoran Gallery purchased q painting
by Benjamin West entitled Cupid and
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lost the way. He was in a very difficult
position. when suddenly he saw a herd
of wild boars directly in front of him.
seemingly making off in a straight path
through the mountains He at once set
out to follow them, and after much hard
climbing Kiyomaro found himself on a
main road in front Of temple. But look
Ing for his guides, he found that they
had vanished. He at once fell on his
knees in prayer to the gods, and went on
his way rejoicing.
This great favor was vouchsafed to
Kyomaro because he had refused to be a
party to the crime Of placing upon the
heavenly descended throne a line of en-
perors who were In no way capable of Oc-
cupying the throne once held by the &C.
leStial spirits.
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MINISTER FOR WAR
English Clergyman Sees DAN
ger in Too Much Peace.
AUTOS IN THE CORONATION
British Peers to Discard Horses for
Motor Cars.
RUSSIA BUYING AER0PLANEs
Car Planning to Have an Army
Aerial Fleet Of Three
Hundred.
RUSSIA BUYING AER0PLANES
srec,., C.blesram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. April 15.-In nearly all Of the
churches Of England today sermons have
touched upon the remarkable stride for
ward made by the movement for the pro-
motion Of international peace and the
debt of gratitude which the world owes
to President Taft. but there is. strangely
enough, among the ministers of the
Church OF England quite number who
dread the abolition of war, because they
fear that the absence Of danger from
vitbo,,t will tend to deteriorate and de-
generate the national character. The
leader of these militant ecclesiasts Is
Canon Tupper-Cary Of York. one OF our
most eloquent ministers.
I do not know what this war-loving
servant of the Lord has to say today. but
In his last sermon. to business men OF
York, he asserted with great emphasis
that peace has greater dangers than war.
and asked his listeners TO put the frank
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feels that the pressure OF construction
and the promptings OF art round Caroline
up, SO to speak, into strange Enclosures
and unlikely actions. However. these are
fresh and delightful pictures, which the
most are too busy or too dull to see with
out assistance.
THE INTELLECTUALS: An Experi-
Sheehan. D. D.. author Of The
Blindness OF DR.. Gray" etc. New
York: Longmans, Green & Co.
This ingenious and profitable volume
purports to be the record of an experiment
in Irish club life. These are the minutes,
as it were. of the thirty-seven sessions Of
society. The purpose Of this organiza-
ton is that of intellectual association and
enjoyment. with the higher humanities as
the chief subject Of study and considera-
ton. Its membership Is something Of a
motley of sect and nationality. about such
as really make up the commonwealth Of
Ireland. The contributions Of each men,
Der In information, opinion or SUCCESS
ton, the general drift of discussion and
the social aspects Of the gatherings are
set down in vivid detail and complete
ness. This. however turns out to be the
description Of a dream, a possibility" a
hope on the part of the author. This
Is not fact. but a method, one showing
not what is being done in Ireland but, in
stead, what the author desires to see done
there under the spur OF common intel
lectual hunger and the bond Of kindly in
tercourse. These people who seem so real
are Pigments Of the Imagination. A very
interesting experiment. whose most strik-
ing feature is the authors protean power
of characterization.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS: And Other
Stories. BY Jack London. author of
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: Brentano's.
The book Of short stories is fretting
thing to read unless it be built in unity
Of purpose and in fair congruity of parts
In this volume there is no obvious bond
Of union, save that Mr. London wrote
these stories and that they are all good.
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nations, and would be able to mobilize
an aerial navy of 800 aeroplanes in two
days, most of them capable OF a speed OF
sixty miles an hour. while a great guam
tity of shells especially made to be drop
ped from aeroplanes are stored In all the
Notifications along the German frontier
Mummies at Auction.
Mummies are one Of the few articles
nowadays Of which the demand exceeds
the supply, but a number of them will
shortly come under the hammer here, SO
ambitious American collectors had better
cable their orders If they want to make
use of a very rare opportunity. The late
Lady Meux of TheObalde Park, near Lon
don, left a very fine collection of num-
mics. and as no acceptable bids have been
made for these venerable relics of celebri-
ties, who lived something like 1000 B. c.,
they are to be sold at public auction like
any other commodity.
That mummies are not without their
practical value is proved by the fashion
experts, who discovered the much abused
hobble skirt on a mummy in tomb near
the Pyramids.
. Mummies seem to possess a subtle
fascination for many minds. The draw
ing power of a genuine and we'll attested
Egyptian mummy is considerable and
every museum longs to possess at least
one, so the dispersal Of the Meux collec-
tlOIl, uue 10 the TeluSdi VI tIle BRUSH Mu-
scum trustees to take the lot is awaken
ing a keen, though friendly, rivalry
among provincial museums.
A real mummy, possessed Of undoubted
pedigree, SO to speak. will fetch anything
from $500 to 81 900. But SO few have been
the sales at auction that the present state
Of the market is undefinable.
Choosing a Language.
One OF the problems-a minor one, it is
true-that will confront the first Uni
versal Races Congress when it meets in
London in July will be that Of an official
language. Many races speaking many
tongues will be represented at the gath
ering, and it will be difficult, il not, In
deed, impossible. to find a common me-
dunn Of speech.
At a preliminary meeting held at the
Hotel Cecil the general secretary Of the
congress said there would be four official
languages-English. French, German and
Italian; but he added that If there were
interpreters the congress would be de-
lighted to hear any language. The pa
pers will be In two editions-English and
French.
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education Of the child, gives much at
tentiOn here to eugenics and child culture,
disc ussing love in this connection as "a
consciously formative art instead Of a
blind instinct of procrsation." She re-
jects the idea of institutional life for
children and here will receive the SYM
pathy and support of thousands working
under a similar impulse at present. In
ity with having exalted the spirit at the
expense Of the flesh and points to the
reactionary losses to both under this reg
linen of Puritanism. 1t is we'll nigh i'm
possible to do more than indicate the gen
eral cast of this book and quite beyond
possibility to foresee its effect. The high
character Of the author. the sincerity and
seriousness OF her work are to be reck-
oned with here. The supreme test is that
she fearlessly takes her stand where re-
search and study lead her.
WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING.
BY Josephine Daskam Bacon, author
of THE Imp and the Angel" ETC.
New York: The Macmillan Company
Only few-not more than a half dozen,
all told-out of the millions of fathers,
mothers and teachers in the world have
qualified. to any mentionable extent, for
comprehending association with children.
Among the few Josephine Daskam Ba-
con holds place Of honor. The unfor-
getable Madness of Philip brought this
author into notice, and since that her
ways have been thought to be we'll worth
watching Through several volumes
about babies. boys. girls, imps and an
gels, one reaches this latest group of
stories-all Of them about Caroline whose
activity and ingenuity of invention make
her e better subject for stirring literature
than for the soberer use of schooling in
lessons and departments. Caroline who
is at one and the same time denizen
Of two worlds, the real one made out of
her own imagination and the puzzling I'M
real one of grown folks, is the center of
each of these amusing or touching ad-
ventures. AN Idyl of the Road" the
first of the group. is the most simple, the
most natural. and withal the most artfu
of any of them. The story frame here
fits Caroline with the least constraint
Now and then, once in a long while, one