The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-07-26
VOL. V.-NO. 6.

"Checktng up' H0rseS.-Among the
various modes invented for torturing,
without any adequate benefit, that noble
beast the horse, one, in its excess, at
least, entitled to some prominence, is the
present mode of shocking him. A horse
that has been accustomed to it from colt,
and has never been used for heavy
draughis, will perform in a light carriage
without any Inconvenience. When
hore is called upon however TO draw
heavy load over uneven ground, the case
is different. lie then needs free use of
his head and neck, and naturally inclines
them downward. To check up a stage
team TN their necks reach an angle of for
| ty-fve degreos-horses too, which hav-
ing been perhaps raised on farm, are
unaccustomed to it--and then force them
to draw the heavy COACH with mails, bag
gage, and ten passengers, through contin-
uous miles of mire, is a piece of cruelty
a little too severe. 1t is as if--ony
hundred times wOrse-you should take a
farmer who had been accustomed 10 easv
labor in his loose tIowsers and frock;
put on him tight pants strapped snugy
down, vest and coat fitted and girt up
Ia dd1dy. and then put a dull scythe in
to his hands, and pointing 10 grass of
three tons to the acre, tell him to NOW.
We saw noble farm horse the other
day, which had been so unucky as to fall
into the hands of somebody who wanted
TO cut dash, with his head drawn up till
his eyes seemed to be starting from their
sockets, unable TO turn either way. and
seeming to be in mtolerable pain. Be-
sides being cruel, we do not believe it
pays.-Prairie Farmer.
THE SomebodieS and The NoJoaies.-
"Mamma," said Miss Juliana Selma Ca
rolina Langulsh, "who are these Middle
tons arc they dnyJody ?"
"Why, my dear, young Middleton Join
ed in the hunt last week, and was intro
duccd at the last ball, and keeps a grey
hound, so you know he must be some
Jody."
eyes, mamma, but can't help think
ing that they are only retired, very good
sort Of people, no doubt, and all that sort
of thing, but there is something about them
that makes me think that they are nobody
after aR.'
"My dear, they must be somebody"
"No, mamma, they want to pass for
somebody; but, as everybody knows
there is always something which tells
you directly whether anybody is nyJo-
dy, and it is not bit of use for any body
who is nobody, to pretend to be some
body."
Elihu Burritt, the learned Blacksmith,
has better fancy Of the steam horse,
than we remember to have met elsewhere
before. This is his way of describing
| him.
Il love to see one Of these huge crea-
lures, with sinews of brass and muscles of
iron, strut forth from his smoky stable,
and salu,ing the long train of cars with a
dozen sonorous pulls from his iron nos
triIs, fall gently back into his harness.
There he stands, champing and (oamng
upon the iron track, his great heart fur
mace of glowing Goals, his Emphatic
blood is boiling in his veins the strength
OF thousand horses is nerving his sim
ows-he pants to be gone. He would
snake St. Peters across the desert Of
! Sahara, if he could be fairly hitched to il,
but there is a little sober-eyed, tobacco
chewing man in the saddle, who holds
him in with one finger, and can take
away his breath in a moment should he
grow resiiye and vicious. am always
deeply interested in this man, for, be-
grlmmed as he may be with coal, diluted
in oil and steam, regard him as the ge-
Mus of the whole machinery, as the ply
steal mind Of that huge steam horse
Ciimor.-The Boston Post gives the
following as a part of speech made on
Wednesday, at the Anti.Slavery Conven-
ton, by "a Jealous but simple minded AZ
rican:'
My grandfather was king in Africa
4 King you see before you some Of the
royal blood But de Americans came
an stole away de son OBJ King, to make
a slave oh him. What dye think ob
dat perhaps you don't think much OBJ
| it; but what would de Americans say if
de AIgerlnes were to come an carry off
Young Bob Tylerr
| II Pointed BlOw,--An invalid sent for
a physician, the late DR.. Wheelman, aud,
after OBTAINING him for some time with a
description OF his pains, aches, &C., he
thus summed up Now, doctor, you
have humbuggcd me long enough with
your GOOD. for.nolhing pills aud worthless