St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

were rejected. Athletes OF all kinds
are apt to suffer from heart troubles.
The heart has to pump faster, is over
worked, and becomes prematurely old.
Those who drink over-mucl, and the
worse the case the more irritating the
fluid, have kidney troubles.
Taking ice-water or ice-cream after
eating binders digestion, as the tenn
perature of the stomach must rise to a
certain point before the process begins,
and some of the ices are even below
freezing point. Let your moderation
be known unto all, is good rule,
physically as well as morally.
HOW FATHER CURED HIS HORSE.
"Well," said Reuben, the story-tell-
err, ''father always wanted horse be-
cause the folks in Greene live scatter
ed, and he had SO far to go to attend
funerals and weddings and visit
schools, you know; but he never felt
as if he could afford to buy one. But
one day he was coming afOOt from
Hildreth and a stranger asked him to
ride.
"Father said: That's handsome
horse you're driving. l would like to
own such horse myself
"sWhat will you give for him p ask
ed the man.
"'DO you want to sell 2 returned
father.
"'Yes, 1 do; and I'll sell cheap,
too said he.
"'Oh, well, says father, it's no use
talking, for I haven't the money to
buy with
"'Make me an Offer says he.
"' Well, just to put an end to the
talk father says, 'Tll give you $75 for
the horse
"'YOu may have him. says the
man, as quick as a fash, but you will
repent of your bargain in week
'Why, what ails the horse |? asked
father
calls him He's got the "Old Nick"
in him, that's what ails him. says he.
'If he has a will to go, he'll go; but if
he takes notion to stop, all creation
can't start him. I've stood and beat
that horse till the sweat ran off me in
streams have fired a gun close to
his ears, I've burnt shavings under
him. | might have beat him to death,
or roasted him alive, before he would
have budged all inch.'
"I'll take the horse says father.
whats his name p
"GeOrge,' said the man.
"I shall call him Georgia. said
father.
"Well, father brought him home,
and we boys were pleased, and we fix
ed place for him in the barn, and
curried him down and fed him well,
and father said, Talk to him, boys,
and let him know you feel kindly
$50 we coaxed and petted him, and
the next morning father harnessed him
and got into the wagon to go. But
George wouldn't stir a step. Father
got out and patted him, and we
brought him apples and clover tops,
and once in while father would say
Get up, Georgia. but he didn't
strike the horse a blow. By and by
he says, this is going to take time.
Well, George, we'll see which has the
most patience, you or L. So he sat in
the wagon and took out his Skeletons
"Skeletons ?" said Poppet, inquiringly.
"Of sermons, you know. Ministers
always carry around a little book to
put things they think of into when
they are walking or riding, or hoeing
in the garden.
"Well, father sat two full hours be-
fore the horse was ready to start but
when he did there was no trouble for
that day. The next morning twas the
same thing over again, only George
gave in little sooner. All the time it
seemed as if father couldn't do enough
for the horse. He was round the sta
BILE, feeding and fussing over him, and
talking to him in his pleasant, gentle
way and the third morning, when he
had fed him and curried and harnessed
him with his own hands, somehow
there was different look i'm the horses
eyes. But when father was ready to
go, George put his feet together and
laid his ears back and wouldn't stir a
step. Well, Dove was playing about
the yard, and she brought her stool
and climbed up by the horses head.
Dove, tell what you said to George
that morning"
81 gave him an awful talking to-"
said the little girl. 81 told him it was
perfectly 'ediculus for him to act so
that he'd come to a real good place to
live, where everybody helped every
body that he was minister's horse,
and that God would not love him if he
was not good horse. That's what |
told him. And then 1 kissed him on
the nOse."
"And what did George do"
"Why he heard every word l said,
and when l got through he felt so
'shamed of himself he couldn't hold
up his head so he just dropped it till
it most touched the ground, and he
looked as sheepish as if he had been
stealing hundred Sleeps"
eyes," said Reuben, "and when
father told him to go he was off like a
shot. He has never made any trouble
since. That's the way father cured a
balky horse. And that night when he
was embarrassing, he rubbed his head
against his shoulder and told him as
plain as he could speak that he was
sorry. He's tried to make it up with
father ever since, for the trouble he
made him. When he's loose in the
pasture, father has only to stand at the
bars and call his name, and he walks
up as quiet as an old sheep. Why,
I've seen him back himself between
the shafts of the wagon many time
to save father trouble. Father wouldn't
take 5000 for the horse to-day. He
eats anything you give him. Sis very
often brings out some of her dinner to
him.
"He likes to eat out of plate" said
Dove sit makes him think he's folks"
Good Deeds as News.