The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-08-29
4 Brief Equestrian Experience

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\ Brief Equestrian Experience.
from the Philadelphia News
! Ny doctor said | needed a change.
! He told me that | was sitting around
/ too much; that IN my burning desire
/ to impart my stores OF wisdom to my
! fellow-beings | was sticking too close to
my desk. He said / needed vacation;
/ that / ought to 90 to the country and
rough it.
! asked him if he didn't think | would
/ find it rough enough down at COney
/ Island, but ne said the beer that vast
/ eth at nOOntide and the dance that
slayeth at midnight were altogether too
/ frequent down there.
/ SO | went right out into the wllds OF
/ New Jersey, where there are more
wilds to be had for the money than
anywhere else | know OF.
And when | had been there two days
1 the farmers son grasped the fact that
/ | wanted to rough it. | told him /
didn't care to 90 as far as runningmy-
self through a hornets nest or a
/ thrashing machine at first; a little
mild excitement would do to begin
with. SO hesuggested a bareback ride.
| told him that was just what |
wanted. | didn't know what it was,
but | was not going to give in to
mere boy ike him.
! So he went into the barn and brought
out a tall, narrow horse, and told me
to get on. ] didn'5 say anything, but
/ expected a great deal.
got on and he mounted in front OF
me to keep the horse going. You may
think it strange, but | became preju-
diced against bareback riding as soon
as | got on that horse; he was so tall
and so exceedingly narrow.
Well, the farmers boy started him,
and then | thought the earthquake
had come. The way in which the sum-
nit OF that horse endeavOred to pene-
trate through my spinal column to
my soul was something remarkable.
/ told the boy there was no hurry.
| did not know where we were going,
but ! said we would get there soon
enough if we let the horse walk. But
the boy was game and kept the ami
NAL on the Jump.
Then | said: My son, my bareback
riding terminates right here" And |
rolled myself off the starboard side of
that horse and struck on my head in
wild blackberry bush. | went home
with a nose full OF briars and an accu-
mutation OF raw experience that would
have been worth its weight in gold to
!. me-if l could have realized on it.
The Trade in RevoIvers.
From the Philadelphia News.J
His hair was unkempt, his hat was
broken, his clothes dusty and frayed
at the edges, and he was almost "On
his uppers, but it was with the air Of
a COnnOiSseur with which he examined
the stock OF revolvers displayed in the
showcase OF a prominent gun and cut
lery firm on Market Street, yesterday
afternoon. He was Enthusiastically a
tramp, but he was an tait in the no
p menclature of the trade.
''Them 'bulf dogs is no good, no
5 more'n the Union an the Terror, "
Z said he to the dapper little clerk who
I stepped forward to ascertain his
. wishes. 'sGim' me a dOuble-action,
} Smith Il Wesson, 3S-Caliber. | know
} what | want"
He paid for it and went out.
THAT is the best kind of customers
/ we have remarked a member OF the
= firm to a News reporter. They are
: scarce, but they know just what they
t want, ask for 1t, get it and pay cash
{ without any attempt to lew us down.
e They know the best and when they have
the money they get only that kind.
; They never buy the cheap goods as
T long as they are able to buy the better
e grades"
+ No, 3" continued the dealer in re-
T Spouse to inquiries, 1.-The trade in re-
T EOIverS is not what it used to be. A
good revolver lasts longer than a life
/, time, and ten or a dozen years ago
none but the best goods found mar
; ket. Five or six years ago the cheap
goods were thrown on the market
? and We're bought with avidity, princi-
7 pally by those who had hitherto been
e deferred by the high price OF the good
weapons. This trade has fallen down
! TO almost nothing, and it is the ex-
2 ceptlOn for a customer to ask for a
b 22-caliber, which can be retaiIed as
low as $3.50, or the bull DOG" which
70 ranges from 81 or 81 so according to
E calIber. People have found out that
l they are unreliable and practically
useless. Those who have been bitten
; on them once never buy them again.
The principal run Is now on the Colt
] or the Smith 4 WesSOn No large
callbre, II and 10, are sold here. We
: ship them largely in our wholesale de
= partment TO the West. The greatest
demand here Is for the medium sizes:
- and 33 cahber are now purchased.
the former principally by gentlemen
, for their private use and to keep in the
house, and the latter more generally
Tor watchmen. Farmer boys geneT-
ally buy the - caliber, which is hard
~ more than plaything.
Prices range from 20 to 25 Der
cent. lower than five years ago. The
Bull Dogs are out OF favor now. The
original British Bull Dog was a fine
weapon, but was ran out OF the mar
ket by reyolvers OF a superior quality
and OF American manufacture. The
Bull Dogs now on sale are cheap imi-
tar10DS made har.- y ? homo