Show ir ir about husbands and wives squatter rights the specialist by ED HOWE ASIAN SIAN Is disposed to believe that bhea vieu he fie fights a woman he h tie one hand behind him bo cause lie he Is the biggest ile Is mistaken the woman Is able to care for herself the most natural controversy of all Is that between men and women and the condition of women has steadily improved since the dawn of history what rule custom or law la Is best for them they have fought for it steadily and won if an old savage could be resurrected today become twenty five years old instead of a thousand and be turned loose with the present crowds of manicured and perfumed women the other men would hang him in an hour because of his bis bad manners anyone who reads of the past must constantly note cote the steady march of subjugation of men anyone who looks about him now must note the same thing thin g in the early days day S of or the west squatter sovereignty was a recognized principle to wit settlers rushed into the country before jt it was organized and squatted on the land when it was formally opened to settlement the settlers armed themselves collected at the land office and saw to it that every squatter had the first and only bid on the land he had settled on squatter sovereignty la in being practiced now in paying taxes at tax paying time taxes are not paid but when the properties are offered for sale eale by the sheriff for taxes th tho e owner of each tract is protected in his right to be the only bidder sometimes the taxes and penalties on his property amo amount to a thousand dollars and the owner gets a sheriffs deed to it for a trifle it Is being done in my community look around and see it la Is being done in yours the ordinary man cannot become a specialist and devote years of stud study V to figuring out how far the more remote stars are from the earth the citizen who makes an ordinary good living achieves respectability in hla his neighborhood rears and educates a family and helps support the many specialists must know many things and know them well A man of my acquaintance is not only able to make a respectable living as a farmer but cures hams bams and bacon better than the well paid specialists of the packing hoyles he can cut hair as well as a barber and knows automobiles so BO well he be not only fixes his own but town men come to him for advice people send for him from miles around to top their hay and wheat stacks and during the winter he does very good work as a blacksmith at about half hal f town prices in addition he reads enough to get about all there Is of value in print and has very excellent practical sense 1 the specialists are well enough eno ugh in their way but should not be permitted to make laws for those who from necessity are allaround all around workers I 1 was out in company lately and among the guests was a husband with a deaf wife every little while he be would go up to her and bawl in her ear car you are the sweetest thing in the world you suit me and the wife i would seem pleased once he roared in her ear 1 I just told joe holt I 1 am not the sort of husband who fusses busses about being married I 1 like it we get along dont we other guests told mo me the man was noted for appreciating his wife and making a disturbance about it if a man marries the tha right sort of woman and she likes him and submits to him gracefully hell like her whether she elie Is old stout thin wise or ordinary it to Is the wife naturally opposed to everything her husband does that complains he no longer loves her 0 0 when a widow writes a letter to kin begging for aks assistance istance to in feeding her hungry children she Is compelled to pay an extra cent for the stamp eliat tills this sort of waste may continue in thousands of other places I 1 wonder statesmen are not ashamed instead of being the proud creatures they are 0 the correct and moving reason for good behavior Is because it Is profitable the surest way to avoid punishment any other teaching of good behavior Is complicated and less effective than sound teaching should be everyone occasionally remarks the rapid flight of time it becomes more noticeable after one becomes old and an old man gets very much less out of the hours as they hurry burry by 0 0 A man named lecky Is a famous his borlan and quotes st jerome as saying that in olden times one man slept naked in a marsh to court the stings of poisonous insects ahli he icet up for six months A disciple slept at the bottom of a well and when he walked about carried on his back a hundred and fifty pounds of iron lecky fully documents these stories M and wonders what the explanation la many volumes have been written to provide explanations but ican I 1 can explain the stories in five words they never happened most acost wonders are made up we pretty generally know what really goes on and why a 0 tio ml reil ell 77 |