The Freeman from Leavenworth, Kansas • 6

54 THE FREEMAN. Febeuart ment. I purchased some horsehair and placed it upon the tail so neatly that it had the appearance of natural growth. When the new man came he attempted to comb up the horse's tail, and the added portion came off in his hand. He had profound confidence in his veterinary skill, and he imagined that the occurrence indicated a diseased condition of the horse.

So he purchased some powders and gave the animal an enormous dose in the bucket of warm "mash." In half an hour that pestilential horse was seized with convulsions, du'ring which he kicked out the stable door, shattered the stall to pieces, hammered four more boards out of the partition, dislocated his off hind-leg, and expired in frightful agony. He was more urbane after his death than he had been during his life, and I contemplated his remains without shedding a tear. He was sold to a glue man for $8, and when he had departed I felt that he would fulfill a better and a wiser purpose as a contributor to the national stock of glue than a3 the unconscious persecutor of his former owner. cast who has no horse, and can't get one," I determined to purchase at once. 1 I have not had much experience with horses, but I found one whose appearance and gait pleased me, and I was particularly drawn towards him because the man rec-omended him as being "urbane." I had heard many descriptions of the points of a good horse, but this was the first time I had ever met a horse whose most prominent characteristic was urbanity.

It seemed one, and I made a bargain on the spot and drove home. "Mrs. Adder," I said, as I exhibited the purchase to her, "I do not think this horse is very fast; I do not regard him as in the highest sense beautiful he may even be deficient in wind; his tail certainly is short; and I think I can detect in his forelegs a tendency to spring too far forward at the knees but Mrs. Adeler, the horse is urbane. The man said that his urbanity amounted to a weakness, ahd that is why bought him.

If a horse is not urbane, my dear, it is Useless, no matter what its merits in other re-specte." 1 She said that had been her opinion from early childood. "I do not care greatly, Mrs. Adeler, for excessive speed. Give me a horse which can proceed with merely a tolerable degree of celerity and I am content. I could never comprehend why a man whose horse can trot a mile in two minutes and forty seconds be 'made unhappy because another man's horse trots the same distance one 1 second sooner; that is, of course supposing-they were not running for money.

One second of Continued from 51st page. best, and for whom 6he has the keenest sexual desire. If this be for the perfect physical man, why, all the better; but I have observed that even when the physical conditions of parents are not so good as they ought to be, but when they are closely allied by love, that good children follow; while I have seen the most interior children result from parents who, from physical appearances, ought apparently to beget the very best; therefore 1 am obliged to conclude thai the order of children 'depends not so much upon the physical perfection of parents a it does upon the perfectness of the love upon which the sexual impulse is based, that precedes conception. The conditions for the future generations of children then, are: 1st, Perfect love second, Mutual desire; 3d, Perfect health. Furthermore, I hold that for a woman to have sexual intercourse with a man for any other reason than that she loves him and has a sexual desire for him, is to degrade herself, while the opposite conditions must always produce the opposite effect of exaltation.

1 hope therefore, that nobody will hereafter class me, among those stirpieulturists who reduce the begetting of children to the level of that of cattle and who would exalt the best merely physically endowed men to be the progenitors of the race, without regard to any natural attraction and denying sexuality to all of inferior endowments. I repeat again, and wish emphatically to impress it upon you, that to me love is the element by which the best children are begotten; and my hands were made too unsteady for penmanship. If I wanted to take a row on the riv'er an exercise of which I am passionately fond that accursed animal had to be danced up and down the turnpike in order to keep him from kicking the stable to pieces. And he was recommended to me as He made my life unhappy. I became depressed and morose, and even sometimes, when amid a circle of friends, there was a provocation to laughter, and I participated in the general hilarity, I would suddenly become conscious of the fact that the horse was in active existence, and the mirth would be extinguished in gloom.

He mingled with my-dreams, Visions of bob-tailed horse consuming spectral oats and kicking with millions of legs, disturbed my rest at I rushed with him over countless leagues of shadowy road, and plunged with him over incomprehensible precipices. He organized himself into hideous nightmare shapes, and charged wildly over 'me as1 1 slept, an I filled all the air of that mysterious slurnber-land with the noise of his demoniac neighing. The reality was bad enough without the unreal nocturnal horrors. I might have sold the brute, but my wife really wanted to have a horse, and I wished to oblige her. But it was very wearing to bear about constantly the feeling' of responsibility which the animal engendered.

I had to choose between driving him constantly and having the lives of the members of mv family imperiled when they took him out; and the consciousness that, whether there was sick Thoaght and the Condition of the Brain. now a well established nhvsioloffial It is fact that mental 'action is a distinctly physical process, depending primarily on a chemical reaction between the blood and the brain, precisely as muscular action depends primarily on a' chemical reaction between the blood and the muscular tissues. With out the free circulation of blood in the brain there can be neither thought nor sens ation, neither emotions nor ideas. It neces sarily follows that thought, the only form of Drain action wnicn we nave here to consider is a process not merely depending upon, but ness or business, storm or earthquake, calamities, or death, the horse must be driven, gradually placed me in the position of a man who is haunted by some dreadful spectre, which clings to him and overshadows him forever and forever. The perpetual nervous worry told upon me.

I became thin. My clothing hung loose upon me. I took up two inches in my waistcoat strap. The appetite which enabled me to find enjoyment at the table deserted me. The food seemed tasteless, and if in the midst of the meal, the neigh of the horse came eddying up through the air from the in us mm timiuuiig uie puysiuai cuiiuiuon of the brain, precisely as muscular exertion of any kind depends on the quality of the muscles employed, and affects the condition of those muscles, not at the moment only but thereafter, conducing to their growth and development if wisely adjusted to their power, or long continued.

It is important time never makes only special difference with me, even when I am in a hurry. What I want in a horse is not swiftness, but urbanity. I would rather have a kind-hearted horse, like ours, than the most rapid trotter with a wicked disposition." For ft while I enjoyed having a horse, and I felt glad I had bought him. It seemed cry pleasant to drive down by the river bank upon a pleasant evening, with the cool breeze blowing in from the water, and the country around beautiful with the bright foliage of early autumn, with green hedges and ripening crops. There was aufficient compensation for the heat and wretchedness of the busy day in this quiet journey over the level road, and past the fragrant field in the early twilight, and as we came home amid the deepening shadows, we could find pleasure in watching the schooners far off in the channel fling out their lights, and we could see the rays streaming across the wide interval of rippling surface, and moving wierdly and strangely with the motion of the water.

Sometimes, upon coiner out, we would to notice that this is not a mere analosrv. The relation between thought and the condi tion 01 the brain is a reality. 00 tar as this statement affects our ideas about actually stable, i turned away witn a ieeung oi uis existent mental power, it 13 ot little Import gust, and felt as if 1 wanted to prod some in. 11.. 1 ance tor it is not more useful to announce that a man with a good brain will possess good mental powers, than to say that a muscular man will be capable of considerable I urged you I thought he DOtiy wiui toe One day my wife said to me "Mr.

Aaeler, you know that strongly to buy that horse, and would do, but" "But now you want to sell exertion. But as it is of extreme import-. hiinl' 1 ex ance to Know ot the relation which exists be claimed, quickly and with delight. "Very tween muscular exercise and the growth or well. I'll send him to the auctioneer's tilts that when mere shall be no sexual intercourse except that based upon love, then there will be no half-made-up children born to be a curse to themselves and a burden to society.

Again it is to be observed that there is no course so safe when there is danger of ny kind ahead, as to have those wiio are to encounter it fully informed of its character, and thus prepared to meet it. But in the matter of sexuality the world's practice is entirely different. Those know anything about the dangers by which the sexual passion is surrounded, make the most strenuous efforts to conceal them from those who are ignorant of the perils which attend their development. It is utterly incomprehensible to mo how mothers, fathers, preachers and doctors are so diligent in impressing the young under their charge against the habits of lying, cheating and. stealing, while never a word is said to them, about the dangers of self abuse.

Children at some period of growth find a strange, jsensation present with them, and in their simplicity, perhaps, seek to learn what it all means but they are met with a certain and effectual rebuff, and probably are treated to a dissertation about the awful wickedness of such thoughts, and the most positive injunction never again to entertain them. But they will come, and they will not be discarded, and thus they are left to drift almost assuredly into obtaining, surrnptitiousr l', suflicient knowledge to teach them the manner in which gratification is had. With this knowledge, added to the stifled but still growing passion, they decline into a morbid sexual condition which, running into tar.iesthem beyond the possibility of are-turn to natural and healthy action and to maturity, utterly ruined, sexually and physically. Now, in the place of this repression, children need early instruction in the uses and abuses of sexuality. They need to be taught that it is a agent for human happiness, and to regard it as a capacity to be cherished equally with all other -Development ox bodily strength, so it is verv dav." highly important for us to remember that "I wasn't going to say that," she remark overtake Sensenderfer, in his dearborn, and then it was felecitous to observe how, when I touched my horse with the whip, the horse tint his head down, elevated his abbreviated the development of mental power depends largely on the exercise of the mind.

There ed. "What I wanted to mention was that nearly everybody in good circumstances is a "training" for the brain as well as the body real physical training: dependin tail to a horizontal position, and left Sensen- about here drives a pair, and I think we ought to go another horse; don't you, my derfer far behind, flogging his cream-coiored like bodily training, on'rule3 as to nourishment, method of action, quantity of exer horse with such fury as would sureiy nave dear it 8 so mucn nicer man iiaviug umy sub ected him to the reproaches 01 tne ooci one." cise, and so fort h. Cornhill Magazine. "Mrs. Adeler," I said solemnly, "that one horse down there in the stable now has re ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, if that excellent organization had been present My horse could achieve a tolerably ranid trait when he desired to do SO.

That I -in bracing: Photographer. Sahini, the actor, when having a photo duced me to a skeleton, and made me utterly miserable. I will do as you say if you insist upon it; bit I tell you plainly that if another horse is brought upon these prem graph taken, was so delighted with tne proof furl made existence in this world of anguish and tears seem even more sad to Sensender-fur than it had done previously. I feel sure ises I shall go mad." 'TVin't. srtpak in that manner, mv dear." that he would have given labuious sums 11 his cream-colored horse could have trotted "I tell you, Mrs.

Adeler, that I shall go stark, staring mad Take your choice go mile in a minute just once when we were without the other horse or have a maniac upon the road together. 1 pegan 10 uiinn husband." it was lust as well, alter all, to have a pro- jrrpanivn hnrse as a slow one. She said, of course, she would do without mat ne nung his arms about the operator, and embraced him. Thisivas gratifying to the operator, and did not cost Salvini anything. A gentleman in his place, whose name we will not mention, was very much pleased with the great actor's artifice as he persisted in terming it and believing that appreciation is dearer to a true artist than money, he concluded to have some photographs of himself.

When proof was shown him he knew that was the time to fling his arms around the operator, but he could not pluck up suflicient courage. He thought he would wait a more "favorable opportunity, and became very nervous in consequence. Pretty soon the operator had occasion to reach under a case of the horse. But the affliction was suddenly and nnex. pectedlv removed.

My horse had a singu But when the novely of the thing had passed, my old indisposition to amusements -of that kind gradually returned, I drove less frequently; One day my man said to me, "Mr. Adeler, that boss is a eatin' his head off, sir. If you don't take him out he'll be Id that he'll bust the machine to flin larly brief tailand I thought that it might be that some of his violent demonstrations in the stable were induced by his inability capacities. All secretivencss and false mod- esty and sickly sentimentalism ought to be removed and the subject reduced to an everyday affair, and thus we shall rob it of the morbidness and mawkishness by which it is now enveloped, and by which it is and the passion itself will be permitted to to switch off the flies which lighted upon sensitive portions of the body. It occurred ders, sir! 1 me to get up an artificial tail for home use aid I procured a piece of thick rope for specimens lor a cloth, and as he turned to come out, the agitated patron, full of desper that purpose.

There was, too, a certain hu- The threatened catastrophe seemed so alarming that "I took him out, although I had important work to do at home. The next day I wanted to stay up in the city to tm tn the lecture but that morning: early the develope, healthfully, under the guidance of morousncs3 about the idea that pleased me, an enligutcneu understanding ot all its pos ation, shut his eyes and swooped down upon him. The frightened artist, believing that and as the amount of jocularity which that sibilities. disnhivpil an alarming amount of this was a new process forgarrotery, straightway screamed murder, andsouirht to defend horse had occasioned had, thus far, been From the that sexual science is infro- duced into schools, as apsundy it will be. particularly small, the notion had particular himself until the arrival of aid, by beating the assassin over the face and head with a attractiveness.

1 unraveled about eighteen inches of the brush full of varnish. Every lick of the from that day the sexual evils that now beset the youth of both sexes will begin to vanish. Familiarity with anything robs it of the power to harm as well as of the power to rope, and fastened the other end to the horse's tail." This. I estimated, would ena brush developed additional ferocity in the face of the customer, and, concequently increased the terror of the operator, whose ble him to switch a fly off the very end of demoralize. If this question of sex were as common a subject of conversation as that of his nose when he had acquired a little practice.

Unfortunately I neglected to speak to shouts aroused the inmates of the building 1 1 diet or any other human need, many of the and Drought to his help in quick succession His that now grow out ot it would fade the hostler upon the subject, and when he came to the stable that evening he examined tailor, two dressmakers, tour clerks, and one-legged basket-maker. The benumed the rope and concluded that I was trying ex and varnished victim was quickly overpow away, and it would be rapidly reduced to a science, and everybody come to know to whom they are and to whom they, are not related by the ties of love; and knowing it for their own happiness, would be guided ered, and, being at upon by as many of the masculines as could be accommodated, was periments with some new kind of hitching-strap, so he tied the horse to the stall that night by his artificial continuation. By morning the feed-box as kicked into kindling-wood, and the horse was standing on three legs, with the other caught in the hay nrmly held until the arrival of ai officer. FortunaUJy, he was known by the oflicer. friskiness, and I felt as if I must exercise him.

I drove him for three hours at a rapid gait, and succeeded in working off at least the exuberance of his spirits. On the following Wednesday I came home in the afternoon exhausted ith work, and intending to retire at an early hour. At half-past 6 o'clock Chubb came in. He remarked 1 "Adeler, that horse of yourn'll go crazy if you don't move him around. He kicks like a flint-lock musket now if you come within forty feet of the stable." I went out and hitched up, and that night I drove twenty-four miles at a frightful upeed.

Horses have perhaps gone further and faster, but few have been pushed forward with a smaller regard for consequences. Nothing but a recollection of the cost of the horse restrained me from driving him into the river and leaving him there. By degrees the despicable brute became the curse of my existence. If I desired to go on a journey the restlessness of the horse" had first to be overcome. If I received an invitation to a party the horse must be exer-ciscd beforehand.

If I had an important article to write, I must roam around the rountry behind that horse for two or three Lours, holding him in with such force that who recognized him from his apparel not being able to see his features for the varnish rack, while he had chewed up two of the best boards in the side of the stable in front and, upon explaining that the cause of hi coming down upon the operator was a sudden dizziness he experienced, lie was releas of him. Subseaucntlv I explained the theory to the ed. A hack was obtained, and he was taken man. and readjusted the rope. But the pat home, and his head put to soak in lime-water by this knowledge.

But what is this mystic power called love, and from whence docs it derive its potent power over mankind? In the first place genuine love is something beyond volition, and exists entirely independent of the will. There never was a love that was learned. A deep and sincere regard, even a pure affection, may be acquired but love is the recognition of the relationship that exists naturally between the positive and negative conditions of matter. "Wherever there are two or more elements blended by attraction there is the love of nature. Love, therefore, is the attraction of opposites by the inherent power of relation that exists but can never ent tail annoyed the hostler so much while currying the horse that he tied a stone to it for the removal of the varnish from his face.

But it was found nccssary to shave his scalp, as it was impossible to save his hair, lie is to hold it still. The consequence was that in a moment of unusual excitement the flad now he got the pictures when lie did. lanbury horse flung the stone around and inflicted a severe wound upon me man neau. loe man resigned the next morning. Hardship of the ocean Iron clads.

I then concluded to introduce an unprove-.