The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-05-21
ODD LETTERS.
Bonner and Dexter Dexter Grant
The Race.
tDonn Piatt in Cincinnati Commercially


- The Race.
d tDonn Piatt in Cincinnati Commereial-l
e BONNER AND DEXTER.
Through the kindness of my friend
Y Mr.. Busbey, of the Field, Turf and
Farm, came to know the first, and
l. experienced the LAST named, and
} mark the 9th Of May as day men,
: orable in the annals of your CORES
e Ipondent.
c We first visited the Ledger build
8 ings, where we found the famous
J proprietor and manager closing up
e his days work. Mr.. Bonner is a
(; stout gentleman, rather under the
q medium height, and weighing well
L on to two hundred. He does not
carry over forty five years in his
s kindly, fresh face, and his hazel eyes
y are as clear as Dexter's, and as Low
e ing as a woman's-
The world knows how successful
Bonner has been, but the world does
:, not know how. To make money, to
5 make great heaps of money in the
ordinary way of business, brain is in
, the way. We note the fact as rule,
that the more successful are the
more stupid. To gather up the
worlds goods, one must have in
stincts, not sense. To have few
mental wants, no refined tastes, and
great greed, are the requisites for
your rich man. His happiness must
consist in his mere accumulation
A man makes a fortune as q hog
gathers up a bed before viewless,
unfelt wind, from instinct. Not
that an intellectual man may shut
down on his refined tastes, and,
through a mental process. discover
the road to sffluence. The goose
flies thousand miles north or south
on straight line. from instinct A
man invents the compass and
accomplishes the same result.
MIR. Bonner is q man who thought
out his process. He discovered that
the common school system had
thrown upon the world thousands OF
readers 10 whom the Atlantic,
Harper, Home Journal, and the
ordinary run of literature we're desd
letters. So he proceeded to supply
that want, and then he advertised j
How he did advertise! One thing
puzzled me. His face is SO kind, i
said:
"You will excuse me, Mr.. Bonner
but there is one thing in you that
bothers me. Your face does not
say no"
He laughed and replied: "You
have hit my weakness. See here"
And he pulled out an old wallet
''On the inside of this for years
have had the word No. printed in
large letters, so that every time /
took out my pocket-bOok it would
meet my eyes. You have no idea |
OF the struggle the utteranee of the
little monosJ liable cost me-"
Not being strong on 'shoss,' find |
l lack the words to express my emo
tions on seeing this king of trotters
l can only say that the combination
OF speed and endurance are visible
in the stall. The lungs are large
enough to pump the blood through
the body with ease, and the mu, cles
are distributed and developed in a
way to aStonish a horseman. His
hair and skin are exceedingly fine,
while the eye is the most remarkable '
eye ever thrown away on a horse
1t is human in its beauty, and q l
DEVILS IN its expression. Dexter
had bad character in his colt ship. /,
He was handy with his hoofs, and
sorely disposed TO take the bit be f,
tween his teeth, and make off,
There is the life of hundred horses [
compressed in one, and the conse- 1
quent ugliness to the square inch can 1
not be calculated. 4
"They say, Mr.. Bonner, thai you
took the devil out of Dexter by I
kindness" i
partly true, but mostly FALSE 6
l convinced Dexter that l was hi q
friend, but / taught him, too, that l q
was his master. Watch him. c
Entering the box stall, he struck, r
the animal smart blow with his :
open hand, and said, sharply - t
"Come, sir, move round' The
horse moved quickly around the =
stall. ''Now, come here, SIR" he :
said, pleasantly, and the horse put "
his head kindly against his masters !;
arm, and received with evident salts =
faction the csresses given him. =,
We were soon seated in the trot-
ting buggy, and Dexter moved out
over the stones quietly as an old
family horse. Little boys ran after
US, shouting dexter" and men and h
women, turning, gazed earnestly at :
the celebrity. We talked Dexter, =
and in that connection talked In
GRANT. o.
Mr.. Bonner was telling me of the .
warnings given the President, by U
anxious friends, when it was propos- G
ed to drive him out behind Dexter, 9
when l asked his opinion of the o
General. a.
81 believe him to be good man, >
and as a soldier great man, but as o
President he lacks training. He "
went into office undertaking it and d
overrating himself. He had the mis- a
taken idea that he could run the I'll
Presidency as he commanded an
army. Wind is goOd-muscles are le
good-but both, when of the best, "
require training. A good man with t
out preparation may make hit in a P
new position, but the rule is that he L
makes a failure' p
"You consider the President, then, I!
q failure l.
$50 far, certainly. lie should e
have gathered about him practical o.
men of the world-politicians we d
call them. Instead OF this he has II
excellent gentlemen, as much out of A
training as himself. But ] believe o
he has a power like this of Dexter, e
that will enable him to retrieve the b
past, and come in all right at the u
end. oi-
Il wish you had given him some I
advice. felt better when i saw b
Grant associated with you and Geo. t.
Wilkes. / regard Wilkes as one o. Ii
the most remarkable men of the r