The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

nal who had fool for nm owner and who
would pour down his throat prescription
from each of the ten doctors, provided he had
the luck to live until he got down 10 the
tenth dose. But have seen them take ten rem.
edies and still get over them, but could only
account for it on the ground that that was
not the day SGT apart for that horse to lie a
natural death or be killed. In the meantime
how desperately would the poor, prosecuted
animal fight for his life, and beg his persecu.
tors to allow him to quietly lie down and try
to get easy But no sooner would the poor
thing try t. lie down than four or five would
seze and make him stand upon his feet. The
last one of them are agreed that it is Of the
first and last importance to make a sick horse
stand up and walk about, and | have actu-
ally known them to, when he was dying,
rope them up until dead or make them
stand until they fel cad in their tracks.
Suppose you would step into hospital aud
find Il regular physician practicing that way
upon sick men under his charge? Making
his patients with pneumonia head aches,
yellow fever, kidney affections, rheumatism,
and all manner of complaints, stand up and
walk around until the breath left their b d.
les. You would feel like bootiIg him out of
there or calling policeman to do so. And
yet that would be no worse treatment than
the poor, dumb sick horse is subjected to
every day.
The sovereign remedy with everybody ia
bleed, bleed, bleed. Let out blood for
everything from bots to scratches. Enough
OF his life bloc is often taken to only re-
quire one small dose of some vilainous COM
pound to finish him then and there. An
yet horse should never be bled except when
in told, and not then unless very unwel
from swollen veins.
Whether in health or in sickness there Is
not one question in thousand relative to the
horse which cannot BIO correctly answered by
the test of human nature. He requires a
warm, comfortable bed to rest in with plenty
of fresh, pure air and pure water, sound, well
cured food, and will sicken upon all these
when impure just as readily rs man will,
and, like man, will often partake too much
of fresh vegetables after being deprived of
them for a long time. Stagnant, filthy
water impregnated with the dirty washings
Of the gtOund, rotten corn, fodder, hay and
oats, stables located in proximity to msari-
Gus swamps, are just as fatal to the health of
Il horse MS they are to nun. And to him ex.
ercise is as absolutely necessary rs to man.
He must have it every day and in unlimited
amount. Turn him loose from his stable
and he is like n boy let out of school,
Keep him tied there for days at a time and it
is not only deeterous to his health, and will
be certain to disease him in some form or
other, but you could not intlict more refined
cruelty. Suppose, again, you are tied in one
place without the privilege of even turning
round, for whole day and night, and for
days and nights at time, would you not
welcome any kind ef.out-door work in any
sort of weather as relish SO does the
horse. The horse will tell you in the plainest
sort of language all his complaints fyou will
look at and listen to him attentively. You
talk to him and he thoroughly understands
you, and yet you, who claim superior sense,
don't often understand what the horse tells
you. He may repeat the same sentence over
dozen times by word of mouth, by gesture,
by look, by the motion of his own body, and
yet you won't understand him. The reason
you do not is, you foolishly suppose the
horse means nothing or don't know what he
is doing.
Thirty years of Dr. Weatherford (ifI get the
name right of De Soto county, Miss, was
decoyed from the road, murdered and his
body covered under brush. nis horse, an
animal of superior intelligence of his kiud,
came home riderless, restless and showing
every symptom that something had happen
ed to his master His family grew alarmed,
and summoning neighbours, search WAS made.
One Of them rode the horse, and when they
came to a certain point the horse made per-
sistent effort to leave the road, which was for
some time resisted by the rider, but at last
he was given free bride and quickly ran to
the brush pile where Law the body con-
cealed. But the most remarkable
fact of the story is to come.
On the following day a man was arrested
several miles from there and brought back.
The moment the horse saw him be made
plunge at and would have trampled him to
the earth had he been permitted. The crowd
present becoming deeply interested, turned
take his revenge for an hour. lie did hi.
best to run him down; bit and kicked at
him. AT the trial of the man all this WAS
sworn to on the stand and permitted by the
court to go to the jury for what il was worth.
There was other but purely circumstantial
evidence, and the man was hung not man
on that jury but took the testimony of the
the horse "ss confirmation strong as proofs
of holy writ At the time this happened,
1850 or 1851, it was widely published and at
trscted unususl attention, and while some
thought the man was condemned perhaps
outside of written law, no one doubted his
guilt, or in the least lmpeachcd the main
witness against him.
To Measure Hay i'm the Stack
Five hundred cubic feet of timothy hay
will weigh ton. To estimate the contents
of round stack, measure the diameter at
the middle of the upright part and the
height from the bottom to the caves and half
the height from the caves to the peak. Add
these two heights and multiply them by the
diameter, and this product by the diameter
second time, which will be the same as tax.
ing the square Of the diameter. Then take
three-quarters of the final product, which
will give, approximately, the cubic feet in
tho stack. 1t may be made clearer by tho
diagram here given;
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