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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1893-04-07, Page 3'LACE. U EATJ,1, •Rf Part L. C.ONTINIIDD. Master, rode me home slowly, and could tell by his voice how the thing had grieved him, •Tilee was just as fro to speak; to gentlemen of tits own rank as to those below him; for another day, when we were out, we met a Captain Langley, a friend of aur master's ; he was driving a splendid pair of grays in f, kind, of break. After a little con versation the Captain, said,— "What do you think of my new teams, Mr, Douglas ? You know, you are the judge of horses in these parts, and I should like your opinion." The master backed me a little so as to get a good view of them. "They are an uncommonly handsome air." he said, "and if they are as goo as they look, I am sure you need not wish for anything better ; but I see you still hold to that pet scheme of yours for worrying your horses and lessening their power. "What do you mean," said the other, "the check reins ? Oh, ah ! I know that's a hobby of yours; well, the fact is, I like to see my horses hold their heads up." "So do I," said master, "as well as any man, but I don't like to see them held up; that takes all the shine out of it. Now you are a military man, Langley, and no doubt like to see your regiment look well on parade, 'beads up,' and all that; but you would not take much credit for your drill, if all your men had their heads tied to a backboard ! It might not be ,ouch harm on parade, except to worry and fatigue them; but how would it be in a bayonet charge against the enemy, when they want the free use of every muscle, and all their strength thrown forward? I would not give much for their chance of victory. And it is just the s e with horses: you fret and worry their tempers and decrease their pow , you will not let them throw. thein weight against their work, and so they have to do too much with their joints and muscles, and of course it wears them up faster. Yau may de pend upon it, horses were intended to have their heads free, as free as men's are; and if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier; besides, you know as well as I, . that if a horse makes a false step, he has much less chance of recovering himself if his head and neckare fastened back. And now," said the master, laughing, "I have given my hobby a good trot out, can't you make up your mind to mouut him too? Your example would go a long way." "I believe you are right in theory," said the other, "and that's rather a hard hit about the soldiers; but—well —I'll think about it," and so they part- ed. "ilos, hoso hoyl. halloo l step t" h cried, "What's the matter r shouted in master, ""The bridge is broken in the midd and part of it is carried away; if yo come on you'll be into the river. 1 "Thank God!'" said in master, "You Beauty[" said John, and took the bridle e and entl turned me "round to the right and roaii by the river aide. The sun had set some time; the wind seemed to have lulled off that furious bleat which tore up the tree. It grew darker and darker, stiller and stiller, I trot- ted quietly along, the wheels hardly making a. sound on the soft road. For a good while neither master nor Joh spoke, and then master began in a s nous vofce. ' I could not underarm much of what they said, but I foun they thought, if I had gone on as th master wanted me; most likely tis bridge would have given way made us, and horse, chaise, master, and ma would have fallen into the river; an as the current was flowing very strong ly, and there was no light and no help at hand, it was more than likely we should all have been drowned. Master said God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. John had many stories to tell of dogs and horses, and the wonderful things they had done; he thought people did not value the animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do. I am sure he makes friends of them if ever a man did. At last we came to the park gates, and found the gardener looking out for us. He said that mistress had been in a dreadful way ever since dark, fear- ing some accident had happened, and that she had sent James off on Justice, the roan cob, towards the wooden bridge to make inquiry after us. We saw a light at the hall door and at the upper windows, and as we came up, mistress ran out, saying, "Are you really safe, mydear? Oh t I have been so anxious, fancying all sorts of things. Have you had no accident?" "No, my dear ; but if your Black Beauty had not been wiser than we were, we should all have been carried down the river at the wooden bridge." I heard no more, as they went into the house, and John took me to the stable. Oh,what a good supper he gave me that night, a good bran mash and some crushed beans with my oats, and such a thick bed of straw! and I was glad of it, for I was tired. r r., „ e A ledLien investigatkin 4n�uwe eUghly sohme crushed and SteelecrawlingI files' aside that which is merely theoretical, ;about helpless. and I showed him, the wings and makes vigorous search, after those: on he i h sll, I never saw him truths which are practical in thea!' na= le. so angry. before: but as $111 was soil u howling hnd whining, like the coward kora, and suitable for application, The CHAPTER XII. A STORMY DAY, One day late in the autumn my mas- ter hada long journey to go on busi- ness. I was put into the dog cart, and John went -avith=his- master•- I' always liked to go in the dog cart, it was so light and the high wheels ran along so pleasantly. There had been a great deal of rain, and now the wind was very high and blew the dry leaves a- cross the road in a shower. We went along merrily till we came to the toll - bar and the low wooden bridge. The river banks were rather high, and the bridgenstead of rising, went across just level, so that in the middle, if the river was full, the water would be near- ly up to the woodwork and planks; but as there were good substantial rails on each side, people did not mind it. The man at the gate said the river was rising fast, and he feared it would be a bad night. Man of the meadows were under water, and in one low part of the road, the water was half way up to my knees; the bottom was good, and my master drove gently, so it was no matter. When we got to town, of course I had a good bait, but as the master's business engaged him a long time, we did not start for home till rather late in the afternoon. The wind was then much higher, and I heard the master say to John, he had never been out in such a storm; and so I thought as we went along the skirts of the wood, where the branches were swaying a- bout like twigs, and the rushing sound was terrible. ""I wish we were out of this wood," said my master. "Yes sir," said John "it would be ra- ther awkward if one of these branches came down upon us." 1 The words were scarcely out of his mouth when there was a groan, and a b crack, and a splitting sound, and tear- s ing crashing down among the other j trees came an oak, torn up by the y roots, and it fell across the road just h before us. I will never say I was not h frightened for I was. I stopped still, and I believe I trembled; of course I b did not turn roupd or run away; I was e not brought up to that. John jumped t out and was in a moment at, my head. a "That was a very near touch," said h my master, "What's to be done now?" 1 "Well, sir, we can't drive over that tree, nor get around it; there will be t nothing for it, but to go back to the . a four cross ways, and that will be a good six miles before we get to the w wooden bridge again; it will make us le late, but the horse is fresh." h So back we went and' round by the t cross roads, but by the time we got to p the bridge it was very nearly dark; we o could just see that the water was over the middle of it; but as that happened some times when the floods were out master did not stop. We were going along at a good pace, but the moment my feet touched the first part of the bridge, I felt sure that something was wrong. I dare not go forward, and I made a dead stop. "Go on, Beauty," said my master, and he gave me a touch with the whip, but I did not stir; he gave me a sharp cut; I jumped, but I dare not go forward. "There's something wrong, sir," said John, and he sprang out of the dog- cart and came to my head and looked all about. He tried to lead me forward. ""Come on, Beauty what's the matter?" Of course I could not tell him, and I knew very well that the bridge was not safe. Just then the man at the toll -gate on the other side ran out of the house, *lasing a torch about like one mad, that lie was, he did not give him 'any terms, applied science, applied pay. more of that kind, but set him up on a etiology, etc., are familiar to our ears, stool for the rest of the afternoon and said that he should not go out to pity 'but has it ever dawned upon tis, that for that week. Then be talked .to a,I there is such a thing as applied Chris - the boys very seriously about cruelty, tianity. Ignorance of such a fact may and said how hard-hearted and cow- ardly it was to hurt the weak and help- cause our life's influence to be quite less; but what stuck in imy mind was different froin what it otherwise might this, he said that cruelty was the Devil's own trade mark, and if we 11 ' saw any one who took pleasure in e- cruelty,we might know who he belonged d to, for the devil was a murderer from d the beginning, and a tormentor to the e end. On the other hand, where we saw r people who loved their neighbors, and n d CHAPTER XIII. THE DEVIL'S TRADE MARK. One day when John and I had been out on some business of our master's, and were returning gently on a long straight road, at some distance we saw a boy trying to leapa pony overa gate; the pony would not take the leap, and the boy cut him with the whip, but he only turned off on one side. He whip- ded him again, but the pony turned off on the other side. Then the boy got off and gave him a hard thrashing,aand knocked himabout the head; then he got up again and tried to make him leap the gate, kicking him all the time. shamefully, but still the pony refused. When we were nearly at the spot, the pony put down his head and threw up his heels and sent the boy neatly over into a broad quickset hedge, and with the rein dangling from his head he set off home at a full gallop. John laughed out quite loud. "Served him right," he said. "Oh, ob, ah 1" cried the boy as he struggled about amongst the thorns; "I say, come and helpme out." "Thank ye," said Jhn, ""I think you are quite in the right place, and may- be a tittle . scratching will teach you not to leap a pony over a gate that is too high for him, and so with that John rode off. "It may be," said he to himself, "that young fellow is a liar as well as a cruel one; we'll just go home by farmer Bushby's, Beauty, and then if anybody wants to know, you and I can tell 'em, ye see." So we turned off to the right, and soon came up to the stack yard, and within sight of the house. The farmer was hurrying out into the road, and his wife was stand- ing at the gate, looking very frightened. "'Have you seen my boyy?" said Mr Bushby as we came up; "he went out an hour ago on my black pony, and the creature has just come back with- out a rider." "I should think, sir," said John, "he had better be without a rider, unless he can be ridden properly." " What do you mean ?" said the farmer, "Well, sir, I saw your son whipping, and kicking, and knocking that good ittle pony about shamefully, because he would not leap a gate that was too igh for him. The pony behaved well, ir, and showed no vice; but at last he ast threw up his heels and tipped the oung gentleman into the thorn hedge; e wanted me to help him out; but I ope you will excuse me, sir, I did not feel inclined to do so. There's no bones roken, sir, he'll only get a few scratch - s. I love horses and it riles me to see hem badly used; it is a bad plan to ggravate an animal till he uses his eels; the first time is not always the ast." During this time the mother began o cry, "Oh, my poor Bill, I must go nd meet him, he must be hurt." "You had better go into the house, ife," said the farmer; "Bill wants a sson about this, and I must see that e gets it; this is not the first time, nor he second, that he has ill used that ony, and I shall stop it. I am much bliged to you, Manly.Good evening." So we went on, Jhn chuckling all the way home; then he told James about it, who laughed and said, Serve him right. I knew that boy at school; he took great airs on himself because he was a'farmer's son; he used to swag- ger about and bully the little boys; of course we older ones would not have any of that nonsense, and let him know that in the school and playground, farm- ers';sons and laborers' sons were all alike. I well remember one day, just before afternoon school I found him at the large window catching flies and pulling off their wings. He did not see me, and I gave him a box on the ears that sentlum sprawling on the floor. Well, angry as I was, I was almost frighten- ed, he roared and bellowed in such a style. The boys rushed in from the playground, and the master ran in from the road to see who was being murdered. Of course I said fair and square what I had done, and why; Children' C ffti Pitcher's Oatitorlao were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark, for "God is Love." "Your master never] taught you a truer thing," said John; "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham,—all a sham Jaynes, and it won't stand when things come to be inside out, and put down for what they are." CHAPTER XIV. JAMES HOWARD. One morning early in December, John had just led me into my box after my daily exercise, and was strapping my cloth on, and James was coming in from the corn chamber with some oats, when the master came into the stable ; he looked rather serious, and held an open letter in his hand. John fastened the door of my box, and touched his cap, and waited for orders. "Good -morning John," said the mas- ter ; "I want to know if you have any complaint to make of James." "Complaint, sir ? No, sir." "Is he industrious at his work and respectful to you ?" "Yes, sir, always." "You never find he slights his work when your back is turned?" "Never, sir." "That's well; but I must put another question: have you any reason to sus- pect when he goes out with the horses to excercise that he stops about talk- ing to his acquaintances, or goes into houses where he has no business, leav- ing the horses outside?" "No, sir,certainly not; and if anyone has been saying that about James, I don't believe it, and I don't mean to believe it unless I have it fairly proved for witnesses; it's not for me to say who has been trying to take away .James' character, but I will say this, sir, a steadier, pleasanter. honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and can trust his work ; he is gentle and clever with the horses, and 1 would rather have them in charge with him than with half the young fellows I knowof in laced hats and liveries ; and whoever wants a character of James Howard," said John, with a decided jerk of his head, "let them come to John Manly." The master stood all this time grave and attentive, but as John finished his speech, a broad smile spread over his ' face, and looking kindly across at James, who, all this time had stood still at the loor, he said, "James, my lad, set down the oats and come here; , I am very glad to, find that John's ' opinion of your character agrees so exactly with my own. John is a cau- tious man," he said with a droll smile, and it is not always easy to get his opinion about people, so 1 thought if I beat the bush on this side the birds would fly out, and I should learn what I wanted to know quickly; so now we will come to business." TO BE CONTINUED. At Durango, Mex., a young women ap- parently died. When placed in the coffin she opened her eyes, looked astonished and then got up and wanted to know what it all meant. The relatives fled in terror, think- ing the devil was at work. Charles Hilton Davidson, the Burlington forger, confessed when put on trial at Mil- ton Friday, and was sentenced to five years at Kingston with hard labor. Cures Others Will cure You, is a true statement of the action of AYER'S Sarsaparilla, when taken for diseases originating in impure blood ; but, while this assertion is true of AVER'S Sarsaparilla, as thousands can attest, it cannot be truth- fully applied to other preparations, which unprincipled dealers will recommend, and try to impose upon you, as " just as good as Ayer's." Take Ayer's Sarsa- parilla and Ayer's only, if you need a blood -purifier and would be benefited permanently. This medicine, for nearly fifty years, has enjoyed a reputation, and made a record for cures, that has never been equalled by other prepara- tions. AYER'S Sarsaparilla eradicates the taint of hereditary scrofula and other blood diseases from the system, and it has, deservedly, the confidence of the people. 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