Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-16

| A frienf Of our, WHO pSns fine farm
near Cs.mp Deunison-JuAn we viii cai
t1fmS-is I'd - horseG. nj has private
ua-arsekNfq1A he p911 his last nAgi
IGk1oush : eoexseof equinasprouta Those
faosidine 81 tho yfcini(y wto have, or thinh
t9hey hsvN faat naes ftoq1ently resort r.
| this rsce-track for the purpose Of testing
| the speed OF their horses. Now, John 4
| . bit Of : wag, and numerous are the joke
| be has played Of upon his friends ~
timing their horses with his. peteni
stop-wstcb. Every man likes to think he
| ~ rot I ct horse, zAnd when toldstAA
J his horse has made mile in 2:30 when he
| had no idea ~ cosh ~ below tie fifties,
he naturally feels elated, dsk$ you ses-
especi.TT When so grave and. earnest I
man g our friend John holds the watch,
and that watch 10 known the country
round for it, reliability. -
II anybody else we're TO time the speed
of the nags they might question its an.
thenticity, but John no one thought OF
questioning him or his patent watch
one dsy rAG 1Ailxne&Shbo boring sfarmer,
-hsoc uuii,iu I sleep very wei nights because
he had got it into his head that colt he
OWNED was fast, brought the said colt to
Johns race track to try him. John very
accommodates held his patent watch
while the owner of the colt drove around
the track
.Two4hirty-sightl" yelled John, a. the
colt psssed TIE mile pole. ~ II III
whats that:" shouted the man, In
astonishment.
aTwo minusss and thirty -eigh seconds
exactly. replies. John, Without moving .
muscle.
YEswss - much better than the colt
proprietor had anticipated that he couldn't
believe 1t possible, and said go
.Hoid the wstch yourself, them" said
John, somewhat grufiy, (. If you can't b.
heve me-" hi...t .,.f Etfsl e,4gt i.l, tJia
aOh," replied the man, fastening to
conci4iate, "Isdon't question your mean
ing in the matter, but you might have made
a mistake on the watch" sjes.8 - i
Don't you know this is patent stop
watchs" imputed John. at cant make
any mistake; there, you see, it has
stopped on two minutes thirty-eight
seconds. III drive around and you time
the colt" '''s 80"
Now the interior of the track was
planted with corn, and a forest OF corn
stalks reared their lofty heads there, COM
pletely obstructing more than a very
limited view of, the track. The word
Z" go" was given, and John got" AS
soon as he was out of sight Of the Others
he dsrted througAa woods that trayersed
the corn field, cutting off nearly half the
distance, so that when he reached the
mile post the owner Of the colt fairly
danced with joy as he roared: VIA .ziI
" Isoo-ttSyty one and a hall, By hokSy.
Z The man was nearly wild with excite
fment, refused five hundred dollars john
offered for the colt on the spot, and hur-
ried home with his newly-found treasure
He was ON lookout for some fair where
he was confident Of being able to scoop
EN- ALL" as he said. The Blanchester
Fair came off in a little while, and there
was our hero with his wonderful colt.
He put him in against the fastest trotter
they had, bet his money freely, and to his
own horror and the uprOarious mirth OF
the crowd, his fast colt was. nearly I've
minutes in getting around. In utter dis
gust, he sold the colt Tor moderate sum,
and is entirely cured of the fast horse
complaint He don't know to This day
that John stopped his, stop watch on
him, and he is ignorant Of the short cut
through the corn field. but he don't want
any more fast horses. John has cured
several embryo horsemen in the same
way, and looks upon himself as bene-
fasfOr Of his race IL he isnt II the horse
race. 4 His treatment is expensive but eff
fectual - Cincinnati Times.