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, 1923-09-27
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
CLOSE ESTATE

To all Creditors, heirs and others
interested in the Estate Of N. j.
Peterson, deceased.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned Administrative Of said
estate has filed her final account and
petition for distribution of said es-
tate with the Clerk oftheDistrict
, 1923-09-27
ST. JosEPH's CATHOLIC CHURCH

Masses on all Sundays at 8 and
10 o'clock.
Evening devotions at 7:l5.
Sunday School at 2 o'clock.
Weekday masses at 8 o'clock.
Non-Catholics r always well
come.
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Truth Obseured By Darkness

Tolstoy wrote in his diary week later
IT cannot accustom myself to consider her words
ing from delirious person This is the Of al my
trouble Il Is impossible to talk to her. because either
logic truth her words conscience are bind
ing her Il is terrible not speaking Of love for
Of which there is She does not need my love-
She needs only thing that people should think that
love her. That is the horror Of it.
The breach between Tostoy and his wife, caused by their
difference Of opinion a. who should his works after
his DEATH had widened mpassaby with years The Countess
eager to them for herself and her children
Tolstoy who believed that "the Divine power spoke
through me- wished them to be given to mankind. In
March, 1895, he wrote:
There were times when felt had become the agent
Of the Divine will Often impure, 50 filled with
personal passions that the light Of this truth obsced
by my darkness but at times the truth passed through
and those the happst moments Of my Me The value
Of my writings lies in this alone
Finally, his works left to his daughter Alexandra
one of thirteen chldrenand his literary executor who
gives this diary to the world Tostoy died at the age Of
eightytwo. His wife, who by her autobiography recently
published caused his literary executor to give the world
the extraordinary diary which have translated the
original Russian for the Hearst papers, still survives her
famous husband at the age of eghty-two
Universal servics)
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Words Bsfor. q Physieal collaps.

This is good-it drivs to- God. Only il hold
out aware Of very great change taking place in
right aware Of it through my calm and
cheerfulness and kindness towards people"
On July g. 1908 Immediately before physical collapse
Tolstoy wrote in his diary follows:
IF were to overhear by chance someone talking Of
(eferrng meg who lives in luxury who robs peasants
much possible who puts them in prison. and who at
the time processes and breaches Christianity, who
gives small aims and who hides behind his dear wife while
committing all these dsgraceful things. would not hest
tate TO call that sCoundrel y =
Doubts creep into my head whether do right when
keep silent and whether would not be better for
60 away disappear from here have not done IL mainly
because it would be for my good escaping from the
poisoned atmosphere surrounding But believe need
just such . change Of atmosphere"
July 8, 1908.
- Wherever 60 there is disgrace and distress"
July 8, 1908
Help me, God. Again want to 60 away and cannot
come to decision"
July 81, 1908
y Just went out horseback riding and it seemed
desirable and pleasant to 60 away from here paupe
full Of gratefulness and love for all "
The Countess Tostoy the diary charges endeavore to
ALLEVIATE Tostoy from his friends One of them Dushan
Makovetky TOstOy asked to believe had tried to
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ExpIains HE Failure 70 Write

Here for the first authoritative explanaton~o
Tostoys failure write with his former prodgous speed
The Countess the diary nfer kept trying to get him to
sign her all rights his works He had given her
these rights up 1884, but refused to farther than that
April Is, 1910.
IT woke up at five and thought all the time Of way out
But do not know any. thought Of writing, but it is
disgusting 20 write in this environments Talk TO herr Go
away? Deceive her little by ittle7 Apparently can and
will do the latter. Nevertheless it hurts ma"
Tostoy FRIEND Chertkof charges that the Countess
Tostoy entirely dsregarded Tostoy working hours She
said have made frequent nteferences that prevented
him from writing She would not let him take his accus
toned recreational walks.
She reared barriers between him and his friends She
eavesdropped behind She made repeated demands that
he give his manuscripts to but herself She secretly
red his pockets for his most intimate diaries These
Chertkoff adds he let get away from his person
Often she would rebuke him sharply in the presence of
his friends that Tosoy suffered heart attacks and faint
ing spells.
Many vste were barred from seeing the aged writer
although he found delight conversation and In table talk
to the Russian what Dr. Samuel johnson
to the English lsvees Chertkoff, in publishing the
Tolstoy diary, adds:
she pretended jealous Of of his intimate
followers and would sometimes utter publicly suspicious
base that dares not repeat them bringing him TO
state Of complete collapse and forcing him to seek refuge
in his room, behind locked doors.
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His wife Eseited 1Pathologieally''

Even my health Is now much improved Am trying 70
possible have apparently less attained the p-
pose Of calming her.
few days later Tolstoy wrote that his wife had asked
the forgiveness Of Totoy and others Of the family for her
actions Ten days later Tolstoy wrote il his diary
she is very irritated-no irrtated is the wrong
word She is excited pathOlOgica emphasize this word
She is suffering and is unable TO control herself talked
to her just She arrived thinking would leave TO-
gether with her. but refused without setting definite
date for my departure And this hurt her very much
do not know what will do later, but am trying 70
bear my day BY day
It is recorded that the Countess greatly perturbed
following the foregoing incident MakovetEky, who had
companed sTolstoy to his daughters estate wrote:
Sophie Andreevna has been fury for three days
She in her all morning She complained Of head
ache declaring she had not touched food these three days
In the afternoon she vanished into the park AL day she
remained there alone
.Tolstoy sent TO look for her with these words:
"0h, il Is getting worse and Everything IS hap
penng for the She insists that go away with her
but absolutely cannot do ii for her demands growing
ever more Crescendo and CresCendo.'' =
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Something Unseen Worries Him

Tolstoy wrote in his diary in November 1901
IF you suffer- Is only because you do not envisage all
because the end not been reached yet and the purpose
of the suffering has not yet been revealed"
Further excerpts from the entries Of 1906 follow:
March IL, 1906
Yesterday i especially dependent One feels par
ticulary keenly all disagreeabe things This is what tell
myself but matter Of fact seek out take in, absorb
all that dagreeable cannot rid myself Of this feeling
tried everything, prayer and becoming conscious Of my
wickedness, but nothing helps
Something is wrong Am painfully dissatisfied with
thing but do not know what e IS think It is with
life that dssatsfied wanted 70 die Towards
ing this condition changed to something like Of
orphancy to pathetic desire for affection for love- J.
old man. wanted 60 become child 60 press myself 70
who loved me- repne 70 and be caressed
and comforted.
But whore Is the person whom could cling and in
whose arms could cry out and give vent to my dissas
faction? There il no such person among the living
Tolstoy diary alleges that his wife prosecuted various
peasants making it that he instead Of she, was
guilty Of such acts On another occasion his wife caused
the Imprisonment Of peasant for taking wood from the
estate. In commenting this and calling attention to his
being criticized more and every side, the diary
adds:
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Sslf-Saerisee at IL. crossroads

Count Tooy said Chertkoff when it seemed that his
Life about done:
' Is becoming clear me- that when stands the
crossroads not knowing what 70 do all that Is necessary
a 60 give preference the decion Ia which there Is
self-saerifice." 5000
Tolstoy decided several times to leave home. Not until
three years before his DEATH which occurred 1870 did he
leave his estate Yasnaya Poyana which he had
inherited from his father
Although Tolstoy kept from the world his of
personal grief he c0nfded In ChertkoM and two
Others At times certain of his works were thought
contain photographed revelations In fiction FORM Such
the with his greatest work, Anna Karenina
which published in the Russian Herald
Tolstoy own opinion Of Anna Karenina his famous
story that translated later into nine languages
pressed to Of his children indicates his tendency toward
enlightenment It is interesting literary curiosity He
said:
surprised that people pleased with such or
binary and empty stuff So It Is two months since
have defsd my hands with or my heart with thoughts
But setting TO work again the second part Of
tedious vulgar Anna Karenina, with only wish 20
clear out Of the way as possible and give myself
leisure for other occupations but not schoomasterng
which am fond Of but wish to give up takes too much
time
April number lie my table, land am afraid that
have heart TO correct them Everything in them
Is beasty and the whole thing ought be REWRITTEN
Al that has been printed too-SCRAPPED and melted
down, thrown away, RENoUNCED. ought to say: I
am sorry; viii not do il any more and try TO write
something fresh instead Of all this ncohereut neither-h
n0r--flesh- nor-fowlsh stuff
In the way Goethe belitled Faust" and preferred
his other works s4.Is~@~z.r-. $50.
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because he exercised it without
seeming to do so. 49,
"If Harrison gives you an ap.
pointment," said a Republican
politician, 'you leave the White
House chilled and do not like
him, whereas Mckinley can re.
fuse to give you what you re-
quest and make you leave the
White House loving him and feel
ing that 1t hurt Mckinley more
to decline your request than 1t
hurt you"
That was the secret of McKin-
ley's leadership.
The agreeable Mr.. Taft let AL
drich and Payne lead to his own
undoing. Mr.. Harding started in
on the McKinley.Taft theory of
the executive function. Lacking
McKinley's genius at making
friends, though he has talent in
that direction, and lacking Taft's
legal ability, he seemed after
some months of drifting to have
taken down the Lives Of Roose.
welt and Wilson, and read the
chapter on How an Executive
Was the Real Leader" and to
have. with some tact and less
vigor. to have assumed leadership.
He has had some measure Of
success to his credit, but lost the
chance Of real leadership, because
he had denounced Wilson's 80.
called dominance with Congress-
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ARDNG HAS CONGRESS ON HIS HANDS," SAYS DANIELS

win by personal conferences with
legislators and by his power of
persuasion. He Is affable and
a good persuader. But the
leader In the White House must
make TIE Congressman know that
what the man in the White House
wants will please the voters in
Podunk.
For a time Mr.. Harding forgot
that hard fact and did not appeal
to the people in q vigorous way
while quietly using his arts Of per.
suasion on the legislator. He
would have done well to have
taken this leaf out OF the record
Of Woodrow Wilson when he was
governor Of New Jersey.
Governor Wilson had his heart
set on a certain measure being
enacted by the Legislature. He
sent for the party leaders and
sought by personal persuasion to
induce them to support It on its
merits. One Influential State
Senator said: -
Governor, I would love to sup
port It. but my people are against
It," ~
How do you know your people
are against IT." asked Governor
Wilson,
IAN the letters J have had"
vas tho reply. "teli ne that my
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~ CALLS DEATH A SOOTHING MYSTERY
s Approach Cannot Fail Lure and Delight Me- He Wrote Near

purported prosecutions He added that he regarded
death soothing mystery Here is another diary.
exeerpt
81 pity her and she undoubtedly deserves it than
and would feel badly II increased her suffering BY self
pity. Essentially my condition is good although
weary Nearer and approaches the revelation Of
the soothing mystery something Of which divine And,
It's approach cannot fail 20 lure and delight me
Tolstoy finally promised his wife not Chertkon
again. He wrote to the latter IN explanation
~ agree that should make promises to any
and especially TO person such condition hers But
now bound not at all by the promise, but simply
pity, which have felt particularly strongly and about
which wrote you condition IS very grave. No
see il and sympathize with It IS much as can.
Shortly after this Tostoy left his estate He resided for
several days he enjoyed complete rest Then his
overfowed with sympathy with his wife in her Wreched
condition He from his daughter estate follows
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constituents want me to vote
against It."
"If you are right was
Governor Wilson's answer. ''you
should vote against the measure.
But I am afraid to be guided by
letters. My observation Is that
people with q special interest
write, but that the bulk Of people
who have no special interest do
not take the trouble to write TO
their representative.
"Now. let Us tSet out the sent,-.
ment of your constituents. Next
Tuesday night I win go to your
county seat ana make q speech in
favor of this measure and invite
anybody who opposes 1t to be
present. I viii give the reasons
for It and IN viii give the reasons
against. Then let the people de-
eide. Isn't that fair?'
The senator was not Apleased;
he did not want the meeting.
but he could not say It was not
fair to test the sentiment Of his
constituents.
The next day tho senator told
Governor Wilson he had decided
to vote for the measure and the
appeal to the people in the sug-
gested meeting would not be
necessary.
Copyright, 1S2s. by Fwenty-tiTst Cen-
tury Prsss.)
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By JOsEPHUS DANIELS,
Secretary Of the Navy In Wilson's
Cahaue&.

CoD10OJs
~ F President Harding has the
same feeling about Congress
- which Mr.. Cleveland was sup
posed to entertain from q remark
Grover made. Warren G. IL glad
that Congress is folding its tents
and departing. for home to give an
account Of fits stewardship.
They did not fold them very
quietly or Silently steal away" The
session ended with long-drawn-out
eloquence. called by some a fill
buster and by others the consti-
tuted right Of full debate. Mr..
Cleveland, In enumerating some
Of his troubles. said, II have Con-
Rress on my hands,
There are two ways Of looking
at Congress- Mr.. Cleveland, Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Wilson had
Congress on their hands"
They regarded themselves as the
selected leaders Of their party. re-
eponsible for presenting and en-
forcing programs. and they felt It
q duty to see that these programs
were carried. out.
That conception of party and
Government leadership made 1t
necessary for them to be in close
touch with party leaders, to try
% convince them that party soil.
darby and the public good depend.
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too much even to exercise the
leadership In 1921 and the early
part Of 1922 which later he un-
dertook to assert. I suspect II
we had an x-ray on the real
thought Of Mr.. Harding this
morning we would find, that for
several weeks he had echoed the
feeling Of Cleveland and felt that
among his other troubles he had
Congress on his hands,"
CAN HARDING LEAD?
When Mr.. Harding finally. after
giving his early theory Of non
intervention a long trial, essayed
to mount to the drivers seat and
take the 'reins. he found the
horses unruly and somewhat un-
manageable.
But he held his seat.
Sometimes he applied the whip,
sometimes he coaxed, sometimes
he held a bundle Of fodder (politi-
cal pie) before the unrulya animals,
sometimes he felt like swearing
and would doubtless have done 90
II his Baptist affiliations had not
forbidden.
The horses tried several times to
throw him out and sometimes it
looked as If they would do so. But
Warren when he get his dander
up has q firm grip. He sat tight.
More than once he had to let
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mentioned in the platform Of
either party in 1915 or in 1920.
But to conc back to Presidents
and their dealings with Congress.
They called Roosevelt and Wilson
drivers and "usurpers," and
they are the two dominant execu-
tives Of a quarter OF a century.
They claimed leadership and they
exercised it, and their measures
generally came through, even IL
after travail. On the other hand,
Mckinley, Taft and Harding did
not assume the character Of lead.
ership which Roosevelt and vii.
son chow unlike they were and
yet how alike in knowing what
they wanted done and knowing
how to get it) believed in and
practiced.
These three Republican Presi-
dents quietly and constitution.
ally" delivered their recommenda-
tons to Congress and asserted no
right to leadership. Mckinley had
the advantage Of all other Presl.
dents of his generation in two
ways: a. He had served 90 long
in Congress he knew all the ropes
> and was liked by all his associ-
ates; C2) he had such remarkable
tact that he secured cooperation
without. friction. Members Of
Congress did what he wanted not
because he claimed leadership but
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Visitors Barred From, Seeing Hin,

''To make him obey against his WILL she simulated
Mysteries fits Of insanity attempts at suicide and
times in bad weather out ct night half dressed
pelling a search for her throughout the park
"She would break into his at any time Of the day
or night awakening him when he had just fallen
asleep from exhaustion in order to exort from him the
promises she desired. And when members Of her own
family told her that she would kill him in such manner
she answered coldly:
"'His soul has been dead to since long time His
body does not concern me-
when asked what she would do if he actually died as
a result Of her behavior, she replied:
"At last should be able to 60 to Italy;
therev"
Count Tolstoy, realizing that death not far off
expressed his nmates that he had forgiven his wife
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Writes TDo LISTERS to HI. wife

Tolstoy wrote two letters addressed his wife the
of 1897 He making another attempt leave
home He decided to deliver the letters and to stay
None knew of the existence Of the letters until 1902 when
Tostoy became very ill. .sset
Toloy asked his daughter Masha the presence Of her
husband Obolensky to the letters from upho
stored chair In Tolstoy study He told them deliver the
letters Fifty years after my DEATH On conva1escng
Totoy asked concerning the letters His daughter told
him she had not touched them OF this Obolensy says
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RY IsAAc Don LRVINE.
Univsrsal service Special coFrespondsns

- MOSCOW, JAN 90.
- OTINT LEO ~TOISTOY greatest of Russian writer's,
carried the Of his unhappy married life to the
~ grave. His diary is being published Serially In
the Russian language 1T reveals for the first time facts
concerning his private lfe
The diary public by Tolstoy most intimate friend
Vladimir Chertkof indicates that many of his PHILOSOPHERS
were based on personal suffering Had the Countess Toll
stoy refraned from publishing recently autobiography
in which she described herself martyr to the famous
novest eccenrcities it is presumed the secrets OF Toll
stoy's home life never would have been told
Through the Tostoy document. striking current of
conflict religious beliefs and soul hunger In
era entreates the aged cries out for to
other him. "A long list of petty annoyances charged
by him to his wife, whom he married when he was thirty
IN his diary: se&4f n.ssss
.aslWhen man grows weak be il weaker than water
when he grows hard, he il harder than rock. What
strengthens me difficult moments is the consciousness
that that which pains provides the very element which
should cultivate and the more difficult the moment
the more valuable this element :,
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I'm the spring of 1907 Countess Tolstoy remarked that
upholsterer would repair the chairs Recalling the let
ters exchanged gances with Tolstoy. Later he asked
the letters early next morning But when
woke up found him already there holding envelope
The envelope delivered to Countess Tolstoy after
her husbands death. She found two letters il it, Of
which she Immediately reading it. The other she
made public The published letter explained Tostoys de
cson to leave home Of his inability change
his habits and point of view. a5z
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the animals take a course Of their
own to get around to the portion
desired by q circuitons route. The
Oriental people call such road
Saving ones face" Mr.. Harding
tried to save his own face, ana
the face Of Congress at the same
time. It didn't always succeed.
And 1t wouldn't have succeeded at
all, after the November election
IL he hadn't had an almost solid
phalanx Of lame ducks" behind
him.
It would not be accurate to say
that President Harding has sue
ceeded in leadership in legislation.
1t would be equally wrong to say
he has failed. It has been about
fifty.fifty, with the desire OF Con-
gress to follow his suggestions
where they could do 50 without
doing too much violence to their
own views ana the views OF their
constituents.
That il the rub! Your Congress
man IL ever ready to follow the
lead of the Executive II he. can do
so without losing the support OF
his constituents.
WILSON'S WAY. "
Mr.. Harding lost by delay in de-
claring his purpose to DO the
leader Of his party on publlc
measures. He thought he gould
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poison the Countess Makovetzky had lived at Tolstoy
estate for several years. The diary adds:
July I'll, 1909.
Last night Sophie Andreevna 1.-THE Counteesl weak
and ritated could fall asleep until after O'Clock
! was weak when opened my eyes. She had awakened
She could not sleep all night went over 70 her
vain weary and keep it up any longer
and altogether broken feel the absolute mpossbhty
Of treating her with and love- have seriously con-
sidered fleeing Well now put your Christianity to test
Now never But have very strong desire 50 away
Tolstoy was invited to attend Peace Congress Stock
holm in the summer Of 1909 He wanted to GO HB wife
would let him leave He made this entry his diary
II began conversation about my trip to Sweden There
followed violent hysterical outbreak She wanted to
poison herself with morphine snatched il from her and
threw il underneath the staircase decided TO give up
the trip