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and others OF his century was intcn-
sified by his own unsyrnpathetic yet
fascinating personality. The impure
sources OF his inspiration were no.
where denied; there was a bravado
of daring to be daring in his work.
His premature experiences tainted
his conception Of certain phases OF
life. He evoked from them images
of bewitching beauty, caresscd the
ear with voluptuous cadence. But
his exquisite wordcraft could no.
hide the emotional impotence and
spiritual sterilty of his art. From
the banquet spread before them. tho
diners rose surfeited, but their SOUS
were hungry. lie who claimed and
affected an aristocracy Of intellect
had no message for the aristocracy
of sentiment.
A newer and purer note was struck
III Ills lSOltSu dilu -" SiiiiSio
and still later in the "Sonette dele
Anime" and "Odi Naval" The de-
fiant pride Of the flesh seemed huni-
bled; the purple pomp Of pseudo
paganism had paied. He celebrated
his victory over sensualism and
greeted as his guardian spirit Mother
Earth. With a tenderness quite
foreign to him he pictured the simple
tasks and homely joys Of the men
and women that till the soil of his
country and shadowed forth the
meaning Of their labor in the grea:
scheme Of human life and toll. HIS
voice most closely approached a no-s
OF sincerity in the "Odi Navali," III
which he sang the lraise of his
native element, the sea, in verse that
seemed to vibrate with the undula.-
ing rhythm of the waves and in a
language OF such rhetorical beauty
as has rarely been reached by a poet
OF our time. Yet there was some.
thing lacking for in the lines.
.--s-At. iaaa ~ Tia h.a- YArt u.,
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letti. Gabrielle d'Annunzio is name
to be softly breathed, tenderly
whispered in the scented atmosphere
Of a dimly lighted room with heavy
rugs and tapestries and vibrating
with the harmonies Of hidden viols.
II.
For a great artist was this man
and in his novel "Piacere"-- plea
sure--which can stand for q fair
summary Of his reading Of life, he
called art
"the faithful, immortal ever youth
full mistress, the source Of joys
unspoilt, hidden to the multitude,
meant only for the elect 4. the
ainbrosia which makes gods Of
men," e
His heroes are men whose cult of
beauty is coupled with barbarous
cruelty, whose fanatic pursuit Of art
shrinks from no sacrifice. Like the
priests of old who grovelled in the
bloody entrails Of dumb beasts,
laughtered upon their affairs, and
ittered inarticulate prophesies, so
,ey delight in vivisection Of the
20 and shroud their deductions in
.rbal draperies often SO opaque as
defy penetration, but moro often
,pallingly transparent.
There is little doubt what prompted
e poet to expose and exploit shis
vn ego in the same manner. when
9 has read the above manifesto
his personality and has traced
development from the publica-
N Of the "Prima vere," his first
,l OF verse. No living writer with
lai conscientiousness chronicled
the benefit Of future biographers
ne and place Of the birth of each
book. Only about his infancy he
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revel In evil with something like
voluptuous defiance.
With the novel "Piacerc' the scene
Of his stories shifted TO the elegant
world Of modern Italian culture and
with the hero Andrea Spcrelli began
the long line OF characters in which
he chose to mirror forth his SUPER
man. The father Of Sperelli had
taught his SON.
One must mold ones life as an
artist molds his work. The life OF
an intellectual r7an must be his
own creation. Freedom must
be preserved at any price, even in
the deliium OF pleasure. +. Re-
morse is the sterile pastime Of an
unoccupied mind Ono must es-
cape it by incessantly feeding tho
mind upon new images and sem
sations. The science Of life is
perhaps to obscure truth. + =
iHS yOutD DiOuSut W NPOi eiii'
philosophy developed into a man
with an exquisite taste for art, an
absolute contempt for convention
aud an Unsuitable desire for pleas
ure: a man in whom the esthetic in
stinct had supplanted the moral.
Andrea Sperelli became the model
upon which were nodded all the
heroes Of D'Annunzio.
= The second novel in the series
which he called Novels Of the
Rose" was "L'Innocentc." 1t is a
story Of infidelity, eliminating in in
fanticidc, and is reminiscent of Mau.
PEASANTS "Une Confession" in which
father unburdens his remorse-
stricken conscience. But D. innun-
zio's hero knows no remorse. Tullio
Hermit is worthy disciple of the
elder Spereli. Whether these
stories, If transplanted into another
climate, would have made their au-
thor as famous. is debatabls ques.
Iion Fer sysat Is IA ae%l 0 III
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D,Annunzio the Man Of Letters

preserved a singular silence; yet
a record OF that period might have
added an interesting chapter to the
psychology OF prodigies. For. born
on board Of the brigantinc Irene,
then cruising in the Adriatic, the
poet was descendant Of the half
barbaric Abruzzcse. His first book,
proudly published by the father
when the lad was oNlv l6, induced
Marc Monni&r to say .. him in the
Revue Suisse IF were one Of
his teachers, I would give him a
gold medal and a sound spanking"
For the amazing prcmaturity Of SEN
sual experiences revealed in his verse
was equalled by an amazing perfec-
tion of form. His whole future was
foreshadowed when he sung the
praise Of the f'
infinite joy Of living, Of being
young and strong, Of biting with
SIeSuy WIute LSStu iutO al tho
fruits of the earth, of boldly and
covetously grasping beauty and
ever aiming at new prey"
D'Annunzio was then student al
the College of Pinto, the old seat ol
classical Tuscan oratory. A yea
later he. sent out his "Canto nuovo.'
1t was indcsd a new song" for
unprecedented was its undisguiscd
eroticism and quite unusual its mas
terry Of technique. When the "Inter-
mezzo di Rime" appeared the tite
page appropriately bore a design by
his friend Michetti, reminiscent ol
Franz Sucks "Sin." The sonnets in
this volume were as perfect in con-
struction as any Of D'Heredia, bu,
their spirit was hopelessly pessi,nis-
tic. Whatever the poet had learned
from the great sensualists of the
cinaEs csAtq and from Baude.aire
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away from other folks. which to-day Is
the chief end OF man, no matter what tho
catechlsm sayg. II done Mis- Potter good
TO sail into that shiny butcher shop where
the best folks was tradin'. an buy more
sun m what they did. She could sec 1t
in q business way. s'pose. but l couldn't
An III bet the men. that comes draggin'
homo on the 6:32 every night after fight
in the devil around the stump all day in
town. would be glad TO cit the stun they
eat at discount Of 30 or 40 per. cent.
Anyway, here's what done. just TO show
you the difference there is between what
farmer gifts for first class stuff an what
the town folks has to pay for it in order TO
buy bonds an automobiles fer the fellcrs
in between. We had twenty-one eight
r,onths-old pigs-Yorkshire crossed on
Chcster--that was just as fine as a pig
ever gifts to be. That cross II throw ye a
streak O. fat m streak o. lean that'll
melt in the moth OF a snow man. They
sure did look appetlzin' hanging up there
in the cola the mornin' after we butcher
all white as lilies an as near Of size as
milk bottles.
My boy laughed, an he says, "Pa. pigs
is pigs, mcbbe, but they's darn few like
them there They're gonta Put dent in
the taxes"
So he picked out one OF em an sewed
1t up nice in cheesecoth, an then wrapped
a sheet around 1t and put it in the Henry
an started off. He took it to Bascoms
Bridge, an then he took it to Meredith,
an then he took it to Holbrook, where
there's the fanciest place anywhere in our
section, an at night he come back with
that pig. The highest price he could git
any Of the shippers to pay. anywhercs in
the county, was IL cents. He'd used up
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
The Farmers Side of It
BY ONE OF THEM.

any Kind Of business nowadays has got
TO put on all tho sIdo possible up to the
minute the receiver is appointed. An In
tho big ctics, an the towns all around
'cm fer nifty miles. every iivin' soul goes
on tryIn' 10 keep up with tho Jonescs TN
their hands Ia lonesome when they put
'em In their pockets
There Amt nothing quite so expensive as
rcspcciabIllty. an tho way Il works out
nowadays gnew II keeps moro people
out o. work an on tho brlddlc than BUSH
ness slump does.
hut they Kit away with II. an most OF
'em nsgers out II helps 'em to take money
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"But just the same" says. "they's a
change comm as sure as sunrise. In the
meantime don't mind little filibustcrin'.
an II you'll start an try II III sit tho
stun to Sc IL have TO smueyle II down
here TO ye en- my back. In ive years
you'll be the Millionaire Landlady OF The
Bronx. an my Of farml be free an clear
for the first time in twenty years."
"Mister Bean" she says. sliakin' her
head, "you paint very entcin' pitcher,
but I'm afraid Ephraim is welded to his
idols"
/ seen Just what was the matter with
that wldder. She was afraid to cut down
her operatin' expenses 40 per cent. becus
IL she did she'd lose her yeller jacket with
that pop-eyed butcher, that's built himself
a hun row OF apartment houses just
around the corner, out OF the vanity Of
her an lot Of other women jest like her.
to git by in New York you've got to make
folks think you're somethin' you amt,
especially in the money line. which Is the
hull thing, an she was scared pink fer
fear 70 she quit payin' that burglar three
prices hell tell somebody she was cheap
skate.
oh man, oh mani She'll be workin for
him till her sciataca gifts so bad she can't
go on, an hope she's got bit laid by
fer the undertaken an decent frock to
be laid out In.
wasn't talking no nonsense at all when
told her she could cut the expenses of
her boardin' house in two by sittin' her
stuff direct from the farm. But UNDER
stood why she wouldn't do it. Simply be-
Gus landlady. like everybody else in
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"Oh, poet. divine is the word,
The heavens bathe in beauty
All our joys. and verse is every
thing" ftl 4Gg
he had set limit to his mission as
q poet.
III.
The novelist dAnnunzio began his
career almost as carly as the poet
But Of genuine originality his carly
fiction gave little proof. Schopen-
hauer stood sponsor for his pessim-
ism; Nictzsche for the egotism Of
his superuonio; and from Zola he
borrowed a realism more boastful
than truthful. At the age Of sixteen
he had written a rural tale, 1.-THE
Bells strongly reminiscent Of Vic
tor Hugo's "Notre Dame" His
"Siesta" was closely fashioned upon
Maupassants "Abandonnee.p III
LiDro delle Vergini," published when
he was twenty, suggested the in-
fuence of Stendhal, Flaubert, Bar
hey d'Aurevilly and others. The
stories skinned the surface of NOR.
bid psychology, reveled in realism
Of repulsive details and revealed an
imagination corrupted by depraved
sensualism. Another product Of that
period, San Pantaleonc," pictured
o panorama Of sordidness unequaled
in modern naturalism. The scene OF
these stories, as of his first more
ambitious novel, Giovanni Epis-
copo," being his native province, one
was reminded on reading these
records of wretchedness aid brutal
ity Of the words of Nelson: "Rub the
Abruzzese and you will find the wild
boar" But as crime and corruption
reign in the word Of his works
even when he did not picture the
ignorance, The superstition and the
unbridled passions of Eis country
men, it must have been an impulse
of perverted tssts tat hsSs hiIa
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By AMELIA v. ENDE.


sss q. T 7 "a, ~ !, ..s.., s e.
intellectual and moral essence
of a man and strike the keynote OF
his character. Such words are con-
tained in the following outburst:
Praised be my ancestors, who
from distant past bequeathed
to me their rich and fiery blood.
Praised be they for the deep
wounds they struck, the mighty
confiagrations they caused, the
delicious cups they drained, the
magnificent garments they wore.
the beautiful women they enjoyed.
Praised be they for their mur-
derous fights and their drunken
orgies, their eccentricites and
their dlssipations. For by all
these they trained in me the five
senses in which the beauty Of the
world mirrors itself as in five wide
and deep oceans" ~
These words were spoken b,
Gabrielle d,Annunsio many year
ago, when he was first hailed
the protagonist Of a new ItaI,
renascence. His very name WI
its symbolism. its ripping rhyth
and sensuous vowel music caress
the ear and wove q spell about u
reader who saw it on the title pas
Of q book. The author was. we
aware Of its subtle charm, when,
the tale goes, he exchanged the nai.
OF his ancestors for that insinua
ingly melodious creation Of his ow
For there is = world Of differcn
between d'Annunzio and Rapagnet
Raoasnetta Is . name that rumbl.
thunders and strikes among II.
9Eash os angry eyes and sharp ST.
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says: IL want to have a heart to heart
talk with the proprietor"
"wcll. here we be-" they all say at
onct
They was all good lockers. but after
glvin 'cm all the onct over picked out
a blackcycd one that had pencil behind
her ear. | figured she must bc tho
business member. an was right
"You got somo elegant pork in yore
winder." says. 'IIow in the world do
ye Sit H?'
"wc break our ncclSs gittin' It," she
gays; "the kind o pigs We buy on'y grows
on a tree.
II knowed the minute I looked at you
mom." says. that they wouldn't nothln'
ever suit you but the best
She says, "oh, you OIL drt," an begun to
laff. No matter how much business
they be- you kin never stop woman be-
In a woman.
Never mind,"s1 says; "f'm married, but
to cheer you UP I'm gonta tell ye that
Bol ftNcHty-ohe youu6 Pibs thash 6No
this place a gastronomic reputation from
here to Albuquerque, New Mexico. They
weigh hundred pound apiece, an IL We
kin come TO price I'm gonta sci! you the
hull ton. Believe me, MON, you're gonta
git somethin' from Josh Bean that you
kin make some money on. What are you
payin fer pigs in the csrcass!" She looked
kind of funny. an after minute she says.
"Thirty-five cents"
"All right" I says; you chase out'n
grab off few feet Of cold storage space
wich no man a livin, old r young, kin
refuse ye--an' I'll sell ye them twenty
one pigs at twenty-five cents a pound,
(. o. b. Bascoms Bridge, an IL you don't
say, an yore customers don't say, it's the
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si,tIn' my meal from him ever senst my
husban' died.
"0oshi Mister Potter must OF loft YOU
well nxed." says I.
"iIs did not" she says. very short.
"rhen why on earth. mom." says to
her. "dont you sit some good reliable farm
or 20 raise all this stun fer YOU an ship
Il down fer about half what YOU pay that
buzsard down TO the corner' They's plenty
of 'sm would DO glad TO do it--turn ypu
out anything. almost. at savin' Of pretty
near hail."
'why.' she says "it's impossible
B ''It probly IT," says. "becus six million
Of you folks let's a lotto perfected strong
arm men cooper up all the machinery Of
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three gallons o gas an no ives about sicls.
AN right. Den." says. "you hang that
pig back where no was. an tomorrow YOU
sew up all the rest OF en-. TIA good an
cold an they'll keep fine" ! wns comm
down to New York on the night train. an
m the mornin' the first thing done after
rIltln' some pancakes an sausage. which
wasn't like homo stuff. was 10 drift off up
Sixth avenue. Ioolin' at tn outsIdes OF
restaurants. Blmeby come TO one that
had lot Of prime meats an fish an mush-
rooms an things In the windcr. went
went In. an there was three mighty good
lookln' women slandn' by the desk.
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picturesque landscape painted with
consummate skill in the most cue
phonious language evolved by man.
In his "Trlonfo dele Morte,' too.
d'Annunzio conjures all the magic Of
his native land to create a marvel-
ously beautiful setting for the story
OF The two beings whose idle narrow
life Of the senses he portrays. Wien
not more than boy, the author had
sung:
my strong and untamed youth
Is strangled in the arms of woman
and all his heroes blame the womet
whom their will had subjugated fol
the failure OF their lives. Giorgio
Aurispa, insatiate yet A disgusted
seeks Ippolitta's destruction; he
drags her to a precipice,i but as she
does not release her hold of him, he
too, is hurled to his death. , u
In tho "Verginl delle Rocce.
D'Annunzio began new series. HI
pictured the family Of an impoyer.
ished noblennan: the mother victim
OF some harmless mental disorders
two sons, hopeless imbeciles, H,d
three daughters, no longer young, uut
Of rare beauty and charm, Claudio.
Cantelmo hopes to make one Of Them
his wife and the mother of tis son
who is to be the long3d for
superuoino. He makes love ~ each;
but not the difficulty Of ''aaking
choice, each being the e1Abcdiment
of some ideal Of womanhood, but the
inability OF feeling genuine love,
makes him turn away and leave
them to their maidenhood. The pic
ture, Of the three women. reclining
on the marble steps. their hands
closely clasped about their knees
recalls a scene in Maeterlinck's
"SsYsn PEiRcass~x" ......s--.-
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Ezra. 100000.

Ezra Hagadorn died up to Bascom's
Bridge the other day. lie left three hun
dred thousan' dollars that he. took away
from his ncighbors on mortgagcs--an he
never done days work in his life. Ezra
used 10 say: "A stummick ache don't
amount TO much, so long as I. amt ournl"
I'm nursin' secret hope that where he's
eone he gifts eternal appendicitis. All he
left me was that sayih.' an it sums up the
hull philosophy of a few millions Of folks
in this country at the present minute.
What's more, it's at the bottom OF most
Of the trouble. includin' this fad business.
Even il wasn't so bald as l be, /
wouldn't be no Bolshcvild This here uni
versal altruism is a lot like Bill Smiths
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-16
GROW ALFALFA CAMPAIGN
IN WADENA COUNTY

In an. effort to get 500 Wadena
county farmers to grow at least one
acre Of alfalfa each, the agriculture
extension division OF the university
and the Wadena county farm bureau
are operating In inaugurating a
county wide grow alfalfa campaign
to continue all fall and winter. S..
Meetings have been held in every
township with Ralph Grim, extension
agronomist, and S. B. Cleland and
Brown, assistant county agent
leaders at University Farm, as the
principal speakers. A farm to farm
canvass is. under way. Farmers are
being assisted in every way possible
and are being provided with seed,
lime, and all necessary materials at
minimum prices through the co-ppera-
ton Of seed companies and business
concerns of the county
Each farmer is being asked to sign
card agreeing to put in one acre
of alfalfa under certain standard re-
Quirements in order to insure a sue
cessful- crop. These, according to Mr..
Cleland, require the land to be fall
plowed, the soil to be tested for acidi-
ty and lined if necessary, Grimm seed
to be used and the seed to be sown
without nurse crop when seeding
is done next spring. =. y ~,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-16
LOANS AMENDMENT
., FIRST ON BALLOT
Rural Credits Law Designated AS
Amendment
No.

The rural credits amendment to
Minnesota's constitution, up for adop-
ton this fall, will appear on the Off
cial ballot as Amendment No. 1. This
announcement was made Wednesday
at st. Paul by Mike Holm, Secretary
of State. w.
Placing the amendment first on the
ballot will greatly improve it's chances
for adoption, according to Harry Ed
munds, general manager of the Farm
-ers' Terminal Packing company and
member of the farm organizations
committee that is sponsoring a state
wide campaign to impress on all voters
the Importance of favorable action. w.
"As the campaign progresses, says
Mr.. Edmunds, "the amendment will
become known as NO. l.. The popu-
larity of the good roads amendment
two years ago, which also was first ON
the ballot, will be an important factor
in overcoming the present danger OF
indifference The amendment must be
favored by majority of voters voting
to be adopted; hence failure to vote is
the same as voting against it.
'Being first on the ballot also will
help the amendment to adoption be-
cause it will get greater consideration
in voting booth rushes than if it was
SecOnd,'' +.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-16
$4,000 SAVED ..=
. + TO CREAMERIES
First 100 Cars Shipped by State Asso
citation Prove Value of Cooperation,
Mcclure Says '.=>

| On the first 100 cars of butter mar
keted by the New York Office of the
Minnesota Cooperative Creameries AS
ISOLATION, Inc, net savings were $1S,
600, according to A. j. Mcclure, gen,
eral manager. This is at the rate OF
$3.50 car. e. - l =
The savings grew out of the asso.
cations plan to ship Minnesota's co.
Operatively made butter in carload lots
instead of part-car consignments. The
latter plan was the rule before the
association entered the field.
Since June %, the New York Office
has been receiving practically all the
butter made by member creameries.
A large percent of the first 100 cars
has been handled during the last two
weeks.
"This $4,000 saving, says Mr.. Nc
CURE, lis but an indication of what
the association will do, as it extends
it's activities. 1t, moreover, is dollar
and cents proof of the worth of CO.
operation in marketing dairy products.
At present our freight savings are 100
percent more than the entire cost Of
running the association -
Mr. Mcguire is in Chicago this
week, attending final hearing which
he expects will result in still further
freight savings. He has been working
for some time to obtain additional rate
reductions on concentrated shipments.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-16
BREEDERS ASKED
TO CONFERENCE
State and County Associations .tl
Boost Better Cow Program Dur
ing Dairy Show

{. = :
State and county cattle breeding as
sociations in the Northwest Wednesday
were asked to take part in public con.
ferences during the National Dairy ex,
position, Oct. to IL The Invitation
was contained in letters mailed from
st. Paul by W.. E. Skinner, secretary
Of the National Dairy Association, who
is directing arrangements for the e1'
position. - -'--- e.
The conferences will aim to bring
about closer cooperation between
cattle raisers, machinery men, manu-
facturers of dairy products and sup.
plies and others interested in the dairy
industry:>in carrying the message of
good cows and pure food to the public.
Each state breed association-is urged
to join in roundup Of it's members,
either the evening before or the even
ing after the cattle are judged.
Officers of all national breed asso-
Citations will attend the exposition and
have been invited e to address these
State secretaries who are seeking to
develop additional markets for good
stock are urged in Mr.. SINNERS letter
to enlist the cooperation of county
breeds organizations in making the
roundup of each breed an inspiring
demonstration.