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YOL. IY. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8S 1881. . NO. 44.
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THE WORLD AS I F I ND IT.
Tlicv say t h e vvorld'd a w e a r y place,
Wliere t e a r s are never dried,
Where p l e a s u r e s p a s s like b r e a t h on glass,
And only woes abide.
I t may be so—I cannot know—
Yet t h i s I d a r e to say,
My lot has had more glad t h a n sad,
And so it h a s to-day.
They say t h a t love's a cruel j e s t;
They tell of w o m e n ' s wiles—
That poison dips in p o u t i n g lips,
And d e a t h in dimpled smiles.
I t may be so—f cannot know—
Yet s u r e of t h i s I am,
One h e a r t is found above the ground,
Whose love is not a sham.
They say t h a t l i f e ' s a b i t t e r curse—
That h e a r t s a r e made to ache,
That j e s t and song a r e bravely wrong,
And health a v a s t mistake.
It may lie so—I cannot know—
But let t h em t a l k tlieir (ill;
I like niv life, I love my wife,
And mean to do so still.
I N ! : M : U DOCTOR.
" I think I will .try the new doctor."
Esther Warren spoke in a faint half-pleading
tone, as if she expected to meet
a storm of objections, but somewhat to
her sunrise, her aunt Martha said:
" I would if I were you."
"Dr. Wyek, it -would seem, has tried
his utmost skill for the last five years,"
sighed Esther, wearily, "and I get no
better. It may be Dr. Dun will know
of some new remedy."
" I will write to Dr. Dun now," said
Miss Martha. "I will see Robert har-ness
up to drive to the town."
I t was a very brief note, merely re-questing
Dr. Dun to call upon Miss
Warren at his earliest convenience, yet
Miss Martha's pen traveled very slowly
over the paper, and she kept her head to
one side, lost a tear drop should mar the
neat letters.
Five years before there had been -no
brighter, stronger maiden in all Millville
than Esther warren, only child of Bates
Warren, who had made an enormous for.
tune in iron, and held Esther as the
choicest of all this earth's treasures.
At eighteen her father was killed and
she seriously crippled in a railway col-lision.
Her hands and arms were strong as
ever, her brain clear, but her lower
limbs were utterly without power.
Heiress to immense wealth she was
almost a prisoner in her splendid home,
subject to attacks of pain that prostrated
her for days, suffering intensely.
Books, needlework and a feeble
attempt at drawing helped to fill the
time; but it was not easy to be patient,
and Esther was not yet perfectly saint-like,
although she tried to be submissive.
Dr. Dun's practice was small, and
much of his time at his own control, but
he was an enthusiast in his profession,
and gladly took much of the old doctor's
gratuitous practice off his hands.
He had come to Millville as Dr. Wyck's
assistant, to take his place when he re-tired,
but the patients of the old doctor
were a little shy of the new one.
"Ah—yes!" said Dr. Wyck, reading-
Miss Martha's note. 'Little Essie War-ren!
Sad case,' and the doctor entered
into a long description of the case, sum-ming
up in the words, 'Utterly hopeless!
She may live for years, but she will
never walk or stand.'
It seemed to Herbert Dun when he
entered the beautiful room where Esther
Warren spent her long making hours,
that life even with pain, must be pleas-ant
surrounded by such luxury, and the
rare exquisite beauty of Esther's face,
pale, it is true, but delicately lovely,
was a jewel worthy ef exquisite setting.
There was a little flush, upon the inva-lid's
cheeks as the new doctor took a
chair beside her, a light of liope in her
large eyes that made his heart ache.
It was not long, before Esther Warren
under the grave professional manner,
felt the power of his sympathy, and
found herself expressing more freely
than she had ever before spoken the
hope that filled her heart, fully satisfied
when Dr. Dun said:
" In a case of such, long standing I
cannot express an opinion at once, Miss
Warren; but depend 011 me to give my
my most earnest study and care to it."
But if Dr. Dun could not restore
strength to Esther Warren's crippled
body it was not long before she felt her
life flooded with anew strange happiness.
The hour that the new doctor spent
with her every morning gladdened the
whole day.
He was not a conceited man, and
Essie seemed to him like a child, so that
he was blind to the fact that he was
gaining the heart of the crippled heiress.
So. when Martha invited him to spend
some chance evenings there he went.
Essie was to him a patient; one who
called on his professional skill frequently
to care the most agonising suffering: ai d
if he could also make some of her long,
lonely hours any blighter he gladly con-tributed
his liveliest talk, his best tenor
songs, his most courteous manner to the
service.
But he never thought she loved him
until Dr. Wyck answered his application
for a month's holiday.
"Spare you? Why, yes, I suppose I
can get along. But I am afraid I have
made a muddle of sending you to Esther
Warren. Why didn't you tell me that
you were engaged?
" I waited until I could offer Annie a
home."
"You—you couldn't break your en-gagement,
I suppose. You know you
could have Esther Warren and her for-tune
for asking."
" I never thought of sucli a thing."
"Perhaps you had better consider it.
Now, do not imagine that Essie has
taken me into her confidence."
"She is as maidenly and modest as the
most fastidious lover could wish," con-tinued
the old doctor; "but I have
known her and loved h<5r since she was a
baby, and I can read her heart. Poor
child."
His sigh was echoed by Dr. Dun.
' 'Will you believe me if I tell you that
I never dreamed of this?" he said, earn-estly.
' 'Miss Warren seemed to me set
apart by her suffering from earthly pas-sions,
and I should have as soon thought
of loving a saint."
"She is very rich."
' 'Yes, I am glad she has every allevia-tion
money can give her," said Dr. Dun,
not appreciating the implied hint.
"And Miss Leigh; Is she wealthy?"
"My Annie? Bless you, no! But we
are not afraid. I shall continue to live
here for a few months, because Annie
will select ancj, furnish a house so much
better than I can; but it will be the
tiniest cottage."
"Well, you can go," said the old doc-tor,
"and take my best wishes for your
happiness."
But he said it in a dull, heavy tone,
and his face was very grave when he
called upon Esther.
"You must take me back for a month,"
he said, as cheerfully as if his heart was
not like lead in his bosom. ' 'My assist-ant
has gone away."
Then he looked at Esther's fernery, as
if his whole soul was absorbed in ferns,
and added:
"He has gone home to be married. It
is quite romantic. A long engagement,
with the wedding postponed by poverty
on both sides."
He heard a quick, gasping breath, but
did not turn his head, as he continued:
' 'What luck you have with your ferns.
.My maidenhair, will never grow as yours
does. Mrs. Wyck says that raising flow-ers
or ferns is a gift. She does not suc-ceed
as you do," and so on, and so on,
until a clear voice, low, sweet and per-fectly
quiet, interrupted—
"Dr. Wyck, please come and sit here
and tell me about Dr. Dun."
He told her all he knew.
" I feel very grateful to the doctor,"
Essie said, "for he has been more than
kind, and I should like to make his wife
a wedding present. I hope we shall be
friends."
" I hope so," the doctor said."
"He left her soon after, stopping in
the hall to mutter:
' 'I had rather face the worst surgical
operation I ever performed than repeat
that,"
But Essie made no moau.
Even Martha could only guess her
pain, and before the new doctor returned
to Millville his patient was her sweet
placid self again.
But at the station Dr. Dun and his
happy wife found Robert, the coachman,
waiting with a carriage.
"Miss Esther's compliments, doctor,"
he said, "and will.you allow me to drive
you home?"
It was bewildering to be driven to. the
prettiest of cottages which was brilliantly
lighted.
A little maid-servant opened the door,
and ushered the way to a drawing-room
daintily furnished, where a note was
laid conspicuously upon the table.
" I t was directed to "Mrs. Herbert
Dun," and begged the accex^tance of
cottage and contents from the "doctor's
grateful patient, Esther Warren."
"Ours!"tlie bride cried. This pretty
home is ours!"
And a happy home it proved as well
as a pretty one.
Martha had made it as attractive and
complete as possible, every room hand-somely
furnished, and many trifles of
Essie's own work adding to its beauty,
and the doctor accepted it with a most
earnest resolution to pay her for it if
skill and kindness could ever do so.
There is no more welcome visitor in
the beautiful home of the crippled heir-ess
than Annie Dunn, and if the children
of the pretty cottage ever have a griev-ance,
they are sure of sympathy aad
comfort from Essie, who stands in the
place of a guardian angel in their hearts.
But there has never come to Essie any
dream of love since she took Herbert
Dunn and his wife into the place of
beloved brother and sister.
Solving: a Tough Problem.
Coney Island.
Everybody has heard of this popu-lar
summer resort of the New York-ers
with its splendid hotels, the Man-hattan,
the Brighton, and the
Oriental. It lies directly on the Ocean,
and the pure sea air, safe bathing, and
excellent music, make one forget the
heats of summer. The Pennsylvania Bail-road
Company, and the Iron Steamboat
Company of New York,have entered into
arrangements by which extra facilities
are offered for reaching Coney Island, this
popular summer resort. These palace
steamers will connect with trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City,
and land passengers at the Iron Pier,
Coney Island, direct, also at Bay Ridge,
where connection is made witli the New
York and Sea Beach Railroad. Return
trips will be made at such hours as will
afford satisfaction to all visitors to the
island, and enable them to make sure
and close connections with trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad homeward bound.
The time on this line between Jersey
City and Coney Island will be about
forty minutes. This will be a safe,
speedy, and pleasant route from all
points to Coney Island.
IT Joes NC', always follow that a mau is
a sculptor because he chisels his tailor out
of a suit of clothes.
One day Jack Marland, on going to
the gallery of M. Lepage with one of his
friends, found it occupied by a young-man
well known as one of the best shots
in Paris; and most assuredly he was a
good shot. He performed all the feats
which tradition assigns to the Chevalier
St. George; he each time hit the bull's
eye of the target at the usual distance,
snuffed a candle with the ball, split a
bullet against the edge of a knife, and
drove a nail into a wall by striking the
head directly in the center with his ball;
and, in short, by a thousand feats of this
nature proved himself worthy the name
of a first-rate shot.
H i s amour propre was r o u s e d b y t h e
presence of Jack, whom the attendant,
in presenting him with the pistol,
quietly said was almost as good a shot as
himself, but at each shot, instead of re-ceiving
from Jack the tribute of praise
which he deserved, he heard Jack, in
reply to the exclamation of astonishment
which proceeded from all in the gallery,
say "No doubt, that is a very good shot,
but the result would be very different,
I've a notion, if he had a live man for his
butt." ' This incessant calling in ques-tion
of his powers as a duelist, for Jack
had repeated his observation three times,
at first astonished the "tireur," and end-ed
by annoying him; and, at length,
turning round to Jack, and looking at
him with an air half threatening, he said:
"Forgive me, Mr. Englishman, but it ap-pears
to me that three times you have made
an observation disparaging to my cour-age;
will you be kind enough to give me
some explanation of the meaning of your
words?"
"My words," answered our friend, "do
not, I think, require any explanation;
they are plain enough in my opinion."
"Perhaps then, sir, yojj will be good
enough to repeat them, in order that I
may judge of the meaning which they
will bear, and the object with which they
have been spoken," was the reply of the
Frenchman.
" I said," answered Jack," with the
most perfect sang froid, "when I saw
you hit the bull's-eye at every shot, that
neither your hand nor your eye would
be so steady, if your pistol were pointed
against the breast of a man in the place
of a wooden partition."
"And why, may I ask?"
"Because," answered Jack, "It seems
to me, that at the moment of pulling the
trigger, and firing - at a man, the mind
would be seized with a kind of emotion
likely to unsteady the hand, and conse-quently
the aim."
"You have fought many duels?" asked
the Frenchman.
"Not one," said Jack.
"Ah! rejoined the other with a slight
sneer, ' 'then I am not surprised that you
suppose the possibility of a man being
afraid under such circumstances."
"Forgive me," said Jack, "you misun-derstood
me. I fancy that at the, moment
when one man is about to kill another, he
may tremble from some other emotion
than that of fear.
"Sir! I never tremble," said the shot.
"Possibly," replied Jack, with the
same "composure; "still I am not at all
convinced, that at twenty-five paces, that
is, at the distance at which you hit the
bull's-eye each time "
"Well, at twenty paces?" interrupted
the other.
"You would miss your man," was the
cool reply.
"Sir, I assure you I should not, "ans-wered
the Frenchman.
"Forgive me if I doubt your word,"
said Jack.
"You mean then to. give me the lie?"
" I merely assert the fact," replied our
friend.
' 'A fact, however, which I think you
would scarcely like to establish," said the
"reteur."
"Why not?" said Jack, looking steadi-ly
at his antagonist.
"By proxy, perhaps?"
' 'By proxy, or in my own person per-haps,
I care not which," said Jack.
I warn you, you would be somewhat
rash."
"Not at all," said Jack, for I merely
say what I think; and, consequently,
my conviction is that I should risk but
little."
"Let us understand each other," said
the Frenchman; "you repeat to me a
second time, that at twenty-five paces I
should miss my man."
"You are mistaken, monsieur," said
Jack; "it appears to me that this is the
fifth time that I have said it."
"Parbleu?" said the Frenchman, now
thoroughly exasperated, "this is too
much; you want to insult me."
"Think as you like, monsieur," said
Jack.
"Good!" said the other, "your hour,
sir?"
"Why not now?" said Jack.
"The place," said the other.
' 'We are but five steps from the Bois
de Bologne," cried Jack,
"Your arms, sir?"
"The pistol, of course," was Jack's an-swer,
"we are not about to fight a duel,
but to decide a point upon which we are
at issue."
The two young men entered their ca-briolets,
each accompanied by a friend,
and drove towards the Bois de Bologne.
Arrived at the appointed place, the sec-onds
wished to arrange the matter. This
however, was very difficult; Jack's ad-versary
required an apology , whilst Jack
maintained that he owed him none; un-less
he himself was either killed or
wounded; for unless this haiypened, he
(Jack) would not have been proved
wrong. The seconds spent a quarter of
an hour in the attempt to effect a recon-ciliation,
but in vain. They then wished
to place the antagonists at thirty paces
from each other; to this Jack would not
consent, observing that the point in
question could not be correctly decided,
if any difference were made between the
ddstance now to be fixed, and the dis-tance
at which his antagonist had hit the
bull's-eye in the gallery. It was then
proposed that a Louis should be thrown
up in order to decide who was to shoot
first; this Jack declared was totally un-necessary,
that the right to the first
shot naturally belonged to his adversary,
and although the Frenchman was anxious
that Jack should take advantage of this
one chance, he was firm and carried his
joint, The "gaicon" of the shooting-gallery
had followed, and was ready to
charge the pistols, which he did with the
same measure, the same kind of powder,
and the same kind of balls as those used
by the Frenchman in the gallery a short
time before. The pustols, too, were the
same; this condition alone Jack had im-posed,
as a sine quanon. The antagon-ists,
placed at twenty-five paces from each
other, received each his pistol; and the
seconds retired a few paces, in order to
leave the combatants free to fire on one
another, according to the stipulated ar-rangement.
Jack took none of the precautions usu-al
with duellists: he attempted not to
shield any part of his body, by position
or any other means; but allowed his
arms to hang down at his side, presented
his full front to his enemy, who scarcely
knew what to make of this extraordinary
conduct. He had fought several duels,
but it had never been his lot to see such
sang froid in a n y one of h i s a n t a g o n i s t s;
he felt as if bewildered; and Jack's theory
occurring to his mind, tended but little
to reassure him; in short this celebrated
shot, who had never missed either his
man or the bull's-eye of the target, be-gan
to doubt his own powers. Twice he
raised his pistol, and twice he lowered it
again; this was of course contrary to all
the laws of duelling; but each time Jack
contented himself with saying: "Take
time, monsieur! take time." A third
time he raised his arm, and feeling-ashamed
of himself, fired. It was a mo-ment
of the most painful anxiety to the
seconds; but, they were soon relieved,
for Jack, the instant after the pistol had
been fired, turned to the right and to
the left, and made a low bow to the two
friends, to show that he was not wound-ed,
and then said, cooly, to his antagon-ist,
"You, see, sir, I was right!"
"You were," answered the Frenchman;
"and now fire, in your turn."
"Not I , " said Jack, picking up his hat,
and handing the pistol to the garcon;
' 'what good would it do me to shoot at
you?"
"But sir," said his adversary, "you
have a right, and I cannot permit it to
be otherwise; besides I am anxious to
see how you shoot."
"Let us understand each other," said
Jack. ' 'I never said that I would hit
you; Tsaid, that you would not hit me\
3rou have not hit me; I was right; and
now there is an end to the matter;" and
in spite of all the remonstrances and
entreaties of the Frenchman, Jack
mounted his cab, and drove off, repeat-ing
to his friend, ' 'I told you there was
a mighty difference between firing at a
doll and firing at a man." Jack's mind
was eased; he had solved his problem,
and found that he was not a coward
«100,000,000.
Fred Archer.
Fred Archer, the man who rode the
American horse Iroquois, to victory at
the late Derby race in England, was
born 011 January 11th, 1856. His family
had always been famous for their powers
of horsemanship, and his father was a
well-known performer between the flags,
and as recently as 1858, or two years af-ter
Fred was born, he rode and won the
Liverpool Grand National upon Little
Charley. Before Fred was ten years old
he showed that he knew how to stick on
a horse, and it was resolved that he
should be brought up as a jockey. He
was apprenticed to Matthew Dawson, of
the Heath House, Newmarket, with
whom he has remained ever since. At
the early age of fourteen so thoroughly
proficient had he become in the business
that he was given amount on Athol Daisy
for the Nursery Handicap at Chester-field,
which he won 011 September 28,
1870, previous to which he had ridden
and won a match on a pony belonging
to Mrs. Willan Matthew Dawson, and
all connected with the Heath House
stables recognizing that they had a very
promising light-weight in Archer, gave
him every chance possible, and his first
success in any great event was on Sal-vanos
for the Cesarewich in 1872, which
he rode at 77 pounds. In this race _ he
showed a wonderful amount of ability,
coolness and judgment of pace, which
foretold the brilliant career in store for
him. During the remainder of that and
the following seasons he did not ride,
but in 1874 he began a series of brilliant
seasons which at the end of 1880 showed
a total of 110 less than 1,430 successful
mounts. As early as 1870 he had al-ready
won the confidence of Lord Fal-mouth,
and although his riding weight
was little more than 88 piounds, he rode
Atlantic for the 2,000 guineas at 122
pounds and won. Since then he has won
all the classic events—the Derby in 1877
with Silvio, in 1880 with Bend Or and in
1881 with Iroquois. With Jannette and
Wheel of Fortune he took the Oaks in
1878 and 1879. Silvio and Jannette in
1877 and 1878 were liis winning St. Leg-er
mounts and besides Atlantic in 1874he
won the 2,000 guineas with Charibert in
1879, while for the 1,000 guineas he rode
Spinaway and Wheel of Fortune in 1875
and 1879, all with the exception of Iro-quois
and Bend Or being the property of
Lord Falmouth. Five times in six years
Archer has won the City and Suburban,
viz., 011 Thunder, Julius Cassar, Parole,
Master Kildare and - Bend Or. With
Parole Archer also took the Great
Metropolitad Handicap in 1879. Twice
he has won the Dewliurst Plate with
Wheel of Fortune and Bal Gal, but
singular as it may seem he has never
been able to run a place for the Middle
Park Plate. It is utterly impossible to
mention all the important events Archer
has won, he being alike at home in a
dash of half a mile or at a distance, and
as he is still able to ride at 118 pounds
or a trifle less, he will no doubt be kept
busy in the saddle all the present season
although he went in partnership with
Matthew Dawson last January as a
trainer. If he is as successful as a trainer
as he has been as a jockey he will cer-tainly
have a wonderful career. He has
already built for himself a very hand-some
and comfortable residence in close
proximity to the Hoath House stables,
but is as" yet said to be unmarried.
L'ESTRANGE says: "80 long as we
stand boggling at imaginary evils let us
never blame a horse for starting at a
shadow."
THE young man who wrote and asked
his girl to accept a "bucket" of flowers be-came
a little pale when she said she wood-en't
ware xU
For more than three hundred years
the mines of Pachuca have been worked
by the Mexicans—first by the Mexicans
pure and simple, then by the Spaniards
and now again by Mexicans who would
scorn the name of Spaniard, though his
blood mingles in their veins. Here in
this very town was discovered the pro-cess
of amalgamation now in use to-day,
by which all the precious ores dug from
the mountain are made to yield their
silver. Yes, more, the very hacienda is
still worked and profitably, in which, in
1857, Senor Medina made that discovery
so valuable to Mexico. Senor Medina
has passed away, it is presumed, but his
memory still lives. The English colony
comprises about 350 men, women and
children, from the mining district of
Cornwall. The first Cornish miners
came here about fifty years ago, intro-ducing
English machinery and modes of
working the mines, much to the benefit
of the owners. Some of the original
number are still living, though very few,
and all here now agree as to the health-fulness
of the climate as a place of resi-dence
for English people. Though
some of them have acquired wealth and
some have, retired to old England with
enough and to spare, the majority have
earned little more than a living. Pre-carious
property are these mines, except
in exceptional cases. The most note-worthy
of all the instances of poor men
striking it rich is that of the Santa Ger-trudis
mine, which is now "in bonanza."
It had been successively worked and
abandoned years and years ago, and was
finally "pronounced"—or taken to work
—by a Comishman, who has just died.
Forming a small company in 1877, ho
commenced active work. After it was
proven that the mine was paying he sold
out his share—nine twenty-fifths—for
§15,000. Since then, one twenty-fifth
has sold for §80,000, the present price
per bana or share. This would give at
that rate $720,000 for what he got but
§15,000 for. The mine has been " i n
bonanza" now for three years and is
yielding about 3,000 cargas of 300
pounds each of metal weekly, and giving
a clear profit of $1,000 per day. From
June, 1877, to March, 1881, the mine
produced $2,800,000 and declared thirtv-two
dividends of $20,000 each—$640,000.
In June, 1877, there was but one shaft
of sixty varas—a vara is a little less than
a yard—now the deepest shaft is 170
varas ; there is a powerful pumping and
hoisting engine, many large buildings,
and all the appurtenoes of a mine in this
section, all paid for. With all this pro-fit,
present and prospective, all the ere
obtained here is sent to be reduced to
Regla, a distance of seven leagues. This
mi-no, which is located less tin!)} two
miles from the center of Pachuca, is
owned principally by men who were
poor at the time they commenced to
work it. There are, it is said, two dis-tinct
lodes, running parallel and at less
than fifty yards from each other. At
first the vein worked was only a vara
wide, but as they went down they found
a cavern filled with "metallic mush,"
twenty-four feet wide. They were at
first compelled to timber around a great
deal, for the sake of economy, taking-out
merely enough to meet current ex-penses.
What remained was "pure
black sulphurets, which exhumed glob-ules
of native silver when exposed to
fire." One can trace the silver lode as
it crops out above the surface and runs
diagonally across the hills ; and if
appearances are good for anything, the
two hew mines of Dr. Skilton, the Santo
Tomas el Nuevo and the Santa Catarina,
to the west of Santa Gertrudis, are right
in the silver track. We visited these
latter, which are at present operated by
the old-fashioned Mexican mode, t he
metal being brought up in bullock skins
by means of long ropes of maguey fibre
wound about a large drum operated by
mules or horses. The whole district
abounds in picturesque features, but
none more so than these primitive mines.
One litmdred million dollars taken from
one mine in thirty years ! This is the
amount declared on good authority to
have been extracted from the Rosario
mine since it was started in 1850, and
the books show that there has been paid
$500,000 per share in dividends !
A Knowing Horse.
Water Superintendent Busli, of Spring-field,
Massachusetts, has a horse about
which some wonderful stories are told.
The animal has been in the family for
several years, and since the water-works
were built has aided its owner largely
in superintending them. Mr. Bush's
headquarters are at L. R. Norton's
store and there Huldah stands most of
the time ready for any emergency. It
is said that she knows the location of
every hydrant and can scent a leak in
the water pipes in any part of the town.
If in doubt about it she will start alone
for the suspected spot, and, not finding
anything the matter there, will sheepish-ly
return to her post. But, if there is a
genuine leak, then she trots rapidly
back to get her master. Sometimes it
happens that Mr. Bush needs assistance
in reparing the break, and in such
cases he simply says, "Huldah, go and
get Pat and Mike, I want them to help
me." The animal trots off to the houses
of the Celts, and they, understanding
what it means, jump in the carriage and
are carried to the place. If, while the
leak is being attended to, a tool is re-quired
that is not at hand, Mr. Bush
ties a slip of paper to the whip,
explaining what is needed, tells the
horse the name of the implement he
wants and the intelligent animal goes
straight to headquarters, and when the
needed tool is found starts back with it.
Sometimes the wrong tool has been' in-tentionally
put into the buggy to deceive,
but she is too smart for such tricks and
refuses to start until she is given what
the note calls for. Innumerable stories
of this sort are related of the animi>3's
intelligence which one can believe or
disbelieve as they please. Certain it is
that the horse is mofe than ordinarily in-telligent,
and shows in that line, as well
as in gentleness and affection for its
owner, the effect of kind treatment—
it never having been struck a blow or
been struck a blow or been spoken cross-ly
to since coming into Mr. Bush's
possession.