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| ng Company, No, & to @ Park Row, New Tork | ik as Second-Class Mat! Matter, Presa Pupiiel t-OMee at New ¥ by the ‘Entered at the Pr econ. te A HEN fA Bergen County farmer writes f | Poetion between a hen ar A farmer detects a ‘ tea Justified. Now, is a ma fied in sh ae fe, even if the wife is ag e A hen is property is not Which it has taken cen! mewhat similar to t! elween a neg Bince the emancipation. So long a -Bent to be taken from its owner's po: @rty, if it has powers of | tion, it sicncteniniastaccoemecssntin | NO 16,482. | legal dis thu: | Hens have always been property, They ‘are not part of the realty ‘Pike a standing tree or a house, but they are personal property. A hen is} same kind of property as a horse or a purse. Wild animals are not Wpersonal property until they are either confined or domesticated. A bear Wet large in the woods is not prop Confined in a forest preserve or in| eemmepagerie, or-kiled by 2% bunter,it becames the property of whoever | appropriated it Away back before civilization began, wives were in the same property as_other domestic animals. Perhaps further back in the original days| history does not record women were not property at all until the} been captured. The first trace of women’s property status was in the itriarchal system, where the father or the grandfather, whichever was head of the family, had property rights over all of his descendants. his sons his property right lapsed when they became warriors his daughters his property right continued until he sold them to other man. Usually the sale was for purposes of matrimony, but theory the father had-the right to sell his minor children into slavery for the father’s debts the children could be seized. While civilization has not affected the position of a hen except to machinery to supplant her natural instincts, civilization has worked @ wonderful change in the rights of women. In some States a wife may elope without taking the risk*of criminal prosecution for adultery. New York her rights are so far advanced that she may ¢lope when she and with whom she pleases. All her husband can legally do is to a divorce, and if he too has been guilty of lapses from virtue he can- If the wife is not agreeable the husband has the legal right to shoot man who attempts to steal her if he catches the thief in the act. in is respect the farmer has the same right as about his hens. But in the Wase of neither tle hens nor tt fanless it is necessar The Beigen County inquirer thas duties to i hens and the cruel to the mmits the converse sid wife. He compel him to from cruelty to her { can Supy —“them, while he has -ne-clains ¢ earnings, in this Pespect differing from his property right to the eggs which his S may ‘hay. ; Under the present New York law a man who seeks to elope with a farmer's hens takes a greater risk than should he elop the farmer's wife. USES FOR THE SAGE MILLIONS, t Nine persons, writing for the current number of the Independent, Wuggest things that might be done with the Russell Sage millions, These writers are people of distinction and of enthusiasms. Their ,Subject, that of spending the r of somebody els¢, is among the most | Minteresting topics known to marikind. Amc he suggestions they offer, ithére is not one that may not be praised. Ac attached, nevertheless, to the ight of Prof of Columbia Universit) Prof. Cattell mentions the establishment -of ser ral commu jin the neighborhood of large cities as a good use to which the mon might be put: ‘But these,” he adds “would probably prove té he profit- ble investments rather than charitable institutions?’ Further along in the symposi isly expressed scruple James McKeen Cattell, James W, Cooper, secretary of ~ |the American Missionary Society ygests such a division of the Sage hundred millions as should give $25,000,000 for betterment of the social conditions of City of New York—set fe schools, Ischools of music and art, nfo tenements, parks and Suppose this recomme Mr to be adopted, ut, as might well he the case he ap m expanded to cover more extensively the great proposals involve Id it occur to Prof. Zattell that, in the er cent, or more have been from a Nothing in New ited than the fa lenements pay. Th I fi etter wumble tenants is based tT that the best ph th ¥ " 1 By the Phipps plan, t ding t | ite itself | rough retums on 1 W f ple tinate the | nvestment of the llions, y go into model tene-| ments-—with superb 1 x ns t lement f the public school tops !—into rural communiti nto other F a public benefit side t “Unele Russell worked “for him. The harder it works + as Secretary Cooper say the making of any jrea 4 rises | It also worked hard for that whole world;| suggestions, contributes om rlin Song of the Brutal Rapid (? “Pench, brothers, punch! Punch with care! Pungh In the features of the Passengairi Get ten cents for a fivecent fare Or-punch In the featuren of the Passengalr!” THE FEMALE SHERLOCK HOL Adventure No. 11—The Passing of Hagar. (Copyright, 1906, by W SOPSIS QF PRBCEDI vie hae 2 Bk nde hive on a tha. Satter nco—Hagrar—tt-primented ed eyon of Jacob Dix, and of the olf miser had lett her in sole charge of the pawn-shop. During all these months she had striven hard to do bwr @uty for the wake of the man who had taken pity on har poverty, She had tolled early and late; abe had neg lected no opportunity to make bargains, and ene hed lived penuriowsly the meanwhile, All moneys accruing from the business #hé had paid into the bank, and all sooounts af receipts and payments she had placed in the hands of Vark, the lawyer At any time that Gollat) chose to arrive she was ready to hand over the pawn-ehop and property to him, after which it was her intentior As yet eho had ho idea become of her whe @uced her to the po ovourred to her thar It » her tribe again and take acount of Goliath ahe had Romany tents, eo when he whe would be free to ret. ead what waa to he lost heir re- jad, indeed. to return to the old gypay Ute. On exiled herself trom the © into his inberitence As & Wealthy would not care to vagrants, And thus she grould be relieved of his presence. Ha- tting tined of the ehop and the weary lite Crescent, and often the nostaigia of the Soveral times of late whe had would claim his heritage and relieve her of the trksome task which whe had taken on her own shoulders out of gratitude to Jucod Dix, et thie, «bien nad not made his appear Hagar knew very tng for him. her and expec © Lorn whe look o had given a re. well that Busta arsuant to the promise ot ber hand on ), Lorn bh 7 ha on the traf) of the missing 4 A nd and ficotiand hed he tramped, quiet { every «ypiy, every Vagrant, every town scx the whereabouts of Go: Math, but ed! in vate jollath seemed to vanished oom pletely F » began ¢ that he walk not tn the ed K tise he would certa Y c the man would have tise quiring f time time Bustace } succes# and recelved feplies fetestation of the shop and s Ke whereupyn, ¢ courn@ed to fresh oxertions, Postace would remume Dis wanderings. Ay rea while thus engaged n the end his efforts were many and vA Were crowned with success. One day whit ed rather divoonso. Inteky tn ‘the back © aide door, which bad been used by for such of his trienda as wished to dimpose of stolen goods—a form uainess whtoh Howar had abandoned—was opened boldly, and @ tall man strode inte the room Hagar rose indlynantly to repel the tntruder, who had no might to enter by that way, when suddenly she aw hie countenance and fell beck « step. “@olteth!! abe said, with « pale face The tal) man-he wae Mmoet a giant in point of height and size—nodded and amiled He nad civtety cropped red hair and @ rather brutal cast of coun tenance, by no means prepowsessing. Again famtiarty nodding to Hagar, who recolled from na he seated himeel? in a large arm chair by which bad formeriv been weed by ded* Jacdo Due 5 Bhatt ed tre: ith grit tae seewnion of it, my deur Ad to hear it,’ replied Hagar, recov K the une of her tongue. “Certalniy it is about e, Mr. Dix ‘Don't call me mister or Dtx, my dear! Yo you Tahal always be Gollath—your Gollat! “Indewad you #han't!" retorted Hagar, in a spirited Manner, “I hate you now just as much as I did when you forced me to lwave my people” “That is uncommon crue! of you, seeing as you have been wearing my shoes all the time “L have been wearing your father's shoes, you mean, and for your benefit » I @id so simply because your father waa good enough to take me in after you had exiled me trom the Romany.” “Oh, 1 know all @bous that, Cousin Hagar, We're cousina, ain't wer Yam, and we are Wkely to continue cousins. But I'm red of thie aperring, Goliath, Where have you been all this time, and how did you learn that your futher waa deadr’ “Where-j've been I'l) tell you latwr,” replied Gu- Nath, rendéred surly by the attitude of Hagar, “and 4s (0 how I knowed the old un was gone—why, « cove called Lorn told me just after I gor out.” “Got out!” orfed Hagar, noting the queer wording he phrase. “Bo you have been tn prison, Goliath" You're @ sbarp “one, you are!” gricned the red- haired man. “Yes, I've been in quod, th intend to tall you so yee. 1 was No. @ tll week 450, ay t me for hotse-coppi got two years, and wae took just after you eave me the slip in New Fortat; #0 now you know how I didn't soe Cur nooapaper notice about the old ‘un kicking the ucket.” “You my ot your father with more ré: peat!” me adger 1s & dindainful tone; “but wh ean one expect from a convict?” “Come, none of that, oousin, or I'll twist your neo Tou dare to jay a finger on me and I'll kill youl" retorted Hagar, Yah! You re hh @ spltfire as ever ‘More #0—to you!” replied the gir "I hate you now aa I did when I left my tribe come back, I'l) go." nd who Is to look after the shop? At is your business, My task here is ended. To. w Til show you All the accounts you share the property with ati tn a wheedling ‘tone beni "No, 1 shan't! To-morrow you muat o og atk ee come with ime echoed Goliath, starting to his feet, in who is to hand me over my tint? * fe your father employed him, ao 1 thought'— Don't think! there ain't no time fa thinking! gov! [id Dootter get my money afore the hua af 0 ve in Now you have me? Verk t do you meant’ asked Hagar, bewildered by *. mn '" echoed Goliath, pauetng at th. ih quod, ae T told Pt id ¢ door; there T came across “sii mandarin customer?’ we managed to twk—how It , don't matter to you Dut 1 guess when Bill Smith's out of quod that Vark t bound for Kingdom Come! And Hill Smith fs out!” “Whet!” mhtteked Hewar, alive at once to the aan: ger which threatensd the lawyer, "0 ped ‘That's the case, lo got GWaY Laat wee ain't got him yet, "d bem go and tell y. 3 Kis pistol 1 don't want to see the old villain Shope unul , ket my property square, ‘Ou come,- tov, Ce ee ey go om "TOh Saas Bape very. ledetutohiy, “20 te tone ri, Gouieen. 1 i iy Sox iw fou sere bree rar as Transit Co. early a man and Saxon needed was at hand Richard. and rough Integrity word of Bnatish dered him, people of ward the Confessor they presented tt t y a fury of put law and the w Naturally Jc sale of @ river | the People | | Pope |» lege servant to the | bad enieed for aid. Im reply the Pope at once tesued a 4 Magna Charta null end void, and excommunicating al! bold it Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Friday, August 17, 1906. a ‘The FIFTY GREATEST EVENTS in HISTORY By Albert Payson Jerhune MAN lay writhing among the rush AA. its patace on 1 rane he gave entury and a Were becoming blended t @ mutual grievance to make th the “Lion Heart.” descondan: censor as King of Bagland, had pi us peer were prepare the cowardly sovereign into grantir John There the Mag: pinmnnninrontiny The Bights of } | Are Declared. { the night biting the rushes to fragmentr and had made him a popular monarch He had done t and, on bis way home, John Stealg the} Throne , of Engiond, Killed tn battle soon after. Richard died without leaving any chtitren owas thus Prince Arth threw Arthur fnto prison, had his eyes put hus ebcuring the crewn for ht out on @ career of tyranny, ‘oppression and misrt Engiand we grumbled at John’s exactions anc scctalistic laws that had governed England in the good King John ‘This charter war the keyntr basis of many of ou . ammeter own me tion of Independence 1 atraw that covered the floor of Hie waa foaming at the mouth, filling the spacious apartment with June emy and lamentations. on The man John, ® of Eugiand. He had that day been forced to * Gocument that cut down hip own tyrannina! powers and granted certain just riehte tot * people, How unwillingly he had aMxed his elenature wae proven Way to as soon am he reached his own abode, t had parsed #Mce the Norman conquest Nor- At blend complete, And the grievance tof the Conqueror and John's prede- assed moat of hia Ife in France. His courage although he knew no If Ineffective, work tn the Crusades, had been captured and thrown into an Austrian prison. John, hin brother, had taken Sdvantage of hig absence to make an effort to seize the English crown. Richard was the typtoal knight errant, the highest type of ohivairy. John, « Se contrary, waa a coward an all-around scoundrel nation raised money for Richard's ransom and he returned home, only to B® tant, The natural hetr to the throne ur, fon of Fichard'd younger brother, Geoffrey. But Jobe out with hot trons and at test enti welt, Having done eo, he leunched ale Worthy of Nero. But the missive ax had been those of Rome, ‘They Teoalled with longing the fatr and sem Id Saxon days of Bd- not #0 mb: or by this time the many grave fauits ofthe Saxon rule were forgotten and oily its virtues remambered ait tn ehel ontent Norman Baron and Saxon farmer ware ab fiteie GHe He trey Beate Wel cheno tus The Bane pe the notility and the peaple, drew up a modified sar o? Dectaration of inde. pendence. This document they called the Magna © ta (Great Charter), end Saxon Mberty, and wa. thee in @ way the maa Te DOT ae rom fair triad rary royal power and ¢ the mere dictates of the King gn a document that would cut hte ple, Whom he despised. But the & refusal. They rose in Armes and intimidated K the people their rights tthe Barons met at Bu a Charta wa AWA Amane resis nnymede, m Iittis Jaland tn the ead aloud to the King, while armed to the teeth and in no m to refusal, stood threat ly about ening) scared monarch sigzed the red Gas in m paroxyem « & circle mood to lia him. Th rushed hoi Recover! ern om © & con : ne baa done. time ron being ad become a atican, explaining hte tli-luak lecroe declaring the who should seek to up nered rat. for some .way to undo what he fant idea came to hink Some frightened by a Papal threat, he hy He now sent to the Vi A or end people of Wngiand ware t Put the Barone re too thoroughly aroused by even this command. ‘They stood by the Magna ‘A 7 thetr rights to the death, With @ vast ermy o Pe ger tie own kingdom tn a mad effort to Siesia . te retaliation the Barone declared he wea no longer fora geo King of France, to come and reten over them, ‘The deadlock was broken by John's death | ceeded to the throne, and a Dew era of honest iaw slowly dawn, Charters principles. To the cournae ° | Ren MPiiough of Gespotiem ahd oppression MES | Hii No 1 have given ¥ 1 bent « bullying with Hagar. & coul wot; and this great, bulking a Aawre thle spirited serpay air] and money ould only ad who dindatnedt | Said Hager to herself as she saw the tast of him." have had one unexpected visitor, #0 by all the laws of coincidence 1 should have another to-day. I never knew one strange event happen without an- other following on ite heels.” Hagar did not think precisely in so bookish # tush ton, but the gist of her ideks Was as above, and thia proved correct before nightfall, at whion time the un~ xpected second event duly ooourred, Thin wes none other than the afrival of Mustace Lorn, who entered the shop with @ amile on his lips and « lowe ligt in bie eyes, ‘The iri knew his atep—by some Intuition of ove, no dowbt—and rushed to moet hii with ouc- stretohed bands. These Duatace clasped ardently in lis Own; Wut as yet—0o dignified was the attitude of Hegar—he did not venture to Kiss ber, His speech than hiv ection. | my dear Hagar!” he cried, in raptuiw ve come back.” Are you not glad to #ew ine?” 1 Hagar, Deaining with piaas- ury—“more delighted than I was to see Goliath, 1 he haa returaed, then? I found him at last, zed him from your descrip: on. {He aid not toll me of your meeting, Dustace.” “Oh, it wee in this way,” replied Lorn, as thay @n- tered the parior together. “I had searched for him everywhere, 4 you know, but Where he has sil these months | carnol say, as “Perhaps he bad @ good mason fo hls mi was for ence,” Hagar, pagar the faot that Goliath had kept quiet cogperning /PrBen, cee, dere “He looks a soamnp. Well, I was down near Weybridge, resting by the roadwide, when | saw 4 tall, red-haired man pasatng embertng your description of Jimmy Dix, I fet wure that it was him and I called out the name ‘Go- fath.” 10, My surprise, instead of stopping he took to hee la." “Ah, ho had @ food reason for that ateo.’ tan honest one, Iam atrek. Well, I ran after him, and in spite of his lonw legs t manawed to catch up with him. Then he showed fight; but when I ox- plained who I was end who you were, and bow his Father had died@.nd left @ fortune, Goliath grew quiet and friendly, He traternise’ with me necepted tho loan of @ few phillings—which Was alll could #pare end took himself off. to London. You have seen hain f “Yon; and to-morrow 1 make sive him over his property. Ont ated vp my socounts end 1 wball be weary London and » y and slars, sunr and wurisel—to hear the birds and breathe the fresh air of the moors! I am going back to my tribe, you know.” “{ don't know," waid Bustace, taking her Hand; “put 1 do know that | love you ‘and I have an ies that you love me. In thie oase, I think that, instead of kolng back to your tribe, you should come to your husband.” “My husband—youj” ried Hagar, with « charming OA you Jove me} ald Kmataon and then was quiet ‘if "You leave the burden of on me!" ¢ried Hagar, again. “Well, my dear, 1 pot bite from you that | do love you. Yaush! lat me go ob” have ween but ttle of yoy Waa f Ran sone i awe ineh 0} adobe end ewtinne constr ie han most, and J know that you are & true, good, orable man, who will make ‘me, @ . better husband than I dared to expect. Yen, Bistaos, T'love you fy eas kere twit tartar "S\oare! Marry me!" said Lor, th rapture. “Why, wpoaapta aks Set ate ter gu BLAoet Mes ce ‘ass aap Ea Charte aod preagt f foreign famion to thie Ring, and Henry f01., wm ed, based on the Hie infant son, and manhood of her Baro: greatnees, But or them whe might for contorne peCle Boginnd, owes ‘uries longer have Tt PANASHOP y Fergus Hume. leave thin shop so poor es when I t, (WO years Now, you art poor also, “ae foolish to marry.” cried Eustace, amiling. * « am Romany by tnetinct.” sald Bustece, a ously. “Have 1 ny thn —wirtie Bee ire, trl he Moren- to @ collector of books for a os money 1 bought s caravan wt books sultable for the country folk. All ‘nde Un my dear. I have bean cravellt: from town to town, darning my ving Dy medity f booms, And I find it, really and truly, a moet prenseth corn, 1 ask you t6 be my und wrpay Mite. 80, 1f you —— once In tse world theta nu co in wor! ‘courte ThA wad all. The sitoation itwett them without further words. the pair out ante Gartye Cregoent to ses the cars: arou 4 corne©r—| were arma around ble peak”, navn oe. ning smoothly, To marry Bustice, Om van. to wandse about the country 0 ete w iion—Hager could conbeive at ab. ence At last she wae tewarded for Ber oy pawn-shop, “This futwre bome, Haga” pointed iy A pi ASC Bus tee tent oil by | eae Eee Th to nal ‘ered with « hairy Sores ficeat Rte en / and The gant oe nent, out, and, brushi, a larger thoroughfare. Eustace looked fat sudden Meht, and turned an inquiring * 7m - ear who waa pale aa sculptured stone, (ko Be Continued.) UNCLE RUSSELL’S PAYROLL. (John Ernest MoCann tn the Journalist.) UT from 1880 to 1800, When I waa Mr. Sage's conte Sentind olerk, those printed insults were fow and far between, for the newspaper imen of Wali sireek were my friends, and the good things that mere printed of Im in those year in the New York, Foston, Philadelphia and other out-of-town papers would fill many large sarap-books Pe consolidated Engligh race. “It* 0 15.-THE MAGNA CHARTA, Ancestor of the Declara- ; »