Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-20

" sAtOc AlontnS IMPRISONMENT on De-
ing convicted Of lying In q horse trade.
This Is the worst precedent 1t could be-
possible to establish In free America.
1t every mafi who tells a lie in q horse
trade was sentenced to three months
imprisonment, the public buildings,
stch "a halls, wholesale Houses, skating
rinks, etc., would have to be Transform
ed in to prisons. II every man III Mil
waukee who has told q he in d horse
trade was to be Imprisoned, the EXPOSE
tion. building HUuld not hold thehl
without putting UIi an addition, and
the proportion would be the same In
the population of any Uthet city or viii
age. 1t is perfectly natural to lie in
horse trade, and men who think their
calling and election is s,ire for glori-
Gus immortality bttbnd the grave have
been known to lie terribly about horses
they were selling. A man has horse
that acquires the heaves, ana he wants
to get rid OF the animal. He don't want
the animal any more, and is anxious td
sell at any price. He Is an honest man,
as men go. and on matter of any other
busifiess his Word is good, and he would
not cheat person for anything. And
yet when purchaser asks hini what h8
will take for his family horse be LAUGHS
at the idea Of selling, says ne doesyaot
know where he eonld get anothers and
that his family w0uld not consent t0
selling the horse; and yet times ars
hard, and he does not know but he may
sell the horse and not keep one this
year. The cuss he has his eye on an
other horse that he would buy within
an hour after he sold the old one. The
purchaser gets in to ride with the own
sr, and he dfites the horse slow; when
he has always brassed that 1t was the
best road horse iii town, and when
asked to let him out little he says ths
horse is too fat, and The woypen have
beeh driving him so l6hg that he 10 8
regular pet. The purchaser takes Hold
OF The lines and slaps the horse, aud he
starts up and trots for couple of blocks
like storm, and the owner knows that
in another block he will begin to wheeze.
SO he takes the lines away from the GUS
toner and says there Is no use talking,
he would never consent to part with
the horse. They 90 back to the hdAse
and the customer looks the horse over
and asks if his wind is all right, and
the owner sneers at the question. and
says there is not better winded
horse On four legs, and that there
Is not pimple on him no
where" and the customer offers him
three hundred dollars for the family
horse. The owner looks sad; says it is
mean trick for a richlman to get stuck
on poor fellows horse, and offers him
so mulch that a poor man is almost
tempted to sell, and then says, mo I'll
be darned IL do-without can make
1t Gil right with my Wife," and then
he goes into the hotise with tears in
his eyes to ask his wife. He says
placing his finger OH his nose, ssNow;
Maria, am going to sell that old horse
with the heaves, and when the man
leads him away, l want you to come
out on the front steps and cry. Just
fairly belief; and have the children go
into hysterics;" and they both laugh.
The man goes out again to the barn,
where the c'istottiet is looking the horse
over, and Says he don't know what to
do. His wife is in the house and cry-
ing like baby, and it seems as though
he had rather loose his right arm, but
the fact is, he bwes three hundred and
| fifty dollars that has got to be paid that
day, anu he does not.know btt he would
take that amount for the horse. They
finally split the difference on the TWEEN
ty-five dollars, and the customer leads
the horse away, and his heart smites
him as he sees the wife and children on
the frort steps wringing their hands
and "bellerine:" He has half a mind
TO 60 back and retttn the horse, and he
hesitates moment, when the man who
has sold the horse sees that his custom
er is weakening, and he is afraid the
tears and the sobs of his wife may have
tile wrong effect, SO he pulls his wife's
dress and says, "Get in the house, YOU
are OVERRIDING the thing and he may
bring the horse back" and they all 20
in the house, and the horse goes. The
next day they are ont driving with this
new horse he has bought, and they
meet the man with the old horse, and
he stops them and says, "By the way
did this horse eyer cough very fi1uch, Or
show any disposition To have the
heaves?" The triils good hiafi looks
astonished, and says he never did, and
asks his wife; ard she tries to say the
same, but has TO swallow something,
and then the little boy In the carriage
says: 20, yes he did. pa; don't you re-
mertbef when you had the veterinary
surgeon to see old Dick; ana he said he
had the heayes, and never w0tild get
over it, and yot'd better sell him 20
some fool for eighty dolIarsp" The two
men drite on, and when they are separ-
ated the man who has sold the sound
"old family horse" tells tis wife she
ought TO know enotgh to choke that
young one:
And that tnau and woman 30 to church
regularly; ana they are pious, and they
wonder If bad people, people who sweat
and go fishing on Sunday, will be pun.
ished for their sins. There is some
thing about selling a lame horse, or q
horse afflicted in any manner, that
makes the best man forget about bad
points OF the horse and excuse them;
and lie about them, and yet If hc is buy
ing horse, he can see more bleniishes
than anybody, until he owhstife Atiimal:
We, therefore, hope the time will never
come when fnen who lie in horse trades
will be sent TO jail. It would be terribly
lonesome for q few of us who rieyef