Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
Horses and Their Drivers.
Humane Record

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Horses and Their Drivers.
Humane Record
Very many years ago / made up my
mind that when there was a quarrel be-
tween man and horse, in nine cases
out of ten the man was in the wrong. Con-
tinued observation cas- only served to con-
firm this belief.
The radical error into which the drivers
fall is the belief that the horse knows per-
fectly what is wanted of him, and will not
do it. Then the driver proceeds to show
that he IS the master, and in the vast ma
jority of cases the horse is punished
without the slightest idea why he is so
treated.
For horse to understand instantly
what his driver desires, there must exist a
pleasant feeling between them. The horse
must feel a confidence in his driver. With
one driver horse will show himself fear
less of locomotives, and with another he
will dread them. One man will drive a
horse fifteen miles with no more fatigue
to the animal than another will produce
in driving him ten.
Nothing tends more to cruelty to ami
mails than cowardice. The man who has a
treats him the most harshly. The man
who is afraid of no horse is just the man
who treats all kindly. He is perfectly
aware that there is always danger with
horses, but he always knows that this does
not depend upon the horse, but mostly
comes from some extraneous source-the
bad driving of others whom he meets on
the road, or accident of some sort. He
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being q willing and useful servant and
companion, ready to do his whole duty,
and more than his duty. So there springs
up pleasant feeling on both sides, the
horse is encouraged and cheerful, and
gets through his work easily and well.
Such driver gets vastly more from his
horses than does the cruel one. They
come in fresh, they feed and sleep well,
and begin the next days work under
favorable conditions. Age tells but slow
ly on them; at Is and 16 years such
horses still show speed and endurance,
and are still gay and free-goers, with
years of usefulness before them, whereas
the cruel mans horse is used up long be-
fore this.
There should be kindness simply from
king feeling, but it does not the less GER
How to Kill The Blues.
Prof Mathews.
Generally speaking, if you are troubled
with 'the blues" and cannot tell why.
you may be certain that it springs from
physical weakness. Instead of lying on
a sofa and counting painful ideas, if you
are despairing lover, hypochondriac
or valetudinarian, you should be up and
stirring yourself. The blood of melan-
choly man is thick and slow, creeping
through his veins, like muddy
waters in CANAL the blood of your mer-
ry, chirping philosopher is clear and
quick, brisk as a newly preached cham
payne. Try, therefore, to set your blood
in motion. Try, rather. what smart |
walk will do for you; set your pegs in
motion on rough, rocky ground, or hurry
them up steep, dragged hill; build a
stone wall, swing an axe over pile of
hickory or rock-maple, turn grindstone, |
dig bitches, practice ''ground and lofty |
tumbling," pour water into sieves with
the Danaides, or, with Sisyphus' sup the
high hill heave huge round stone;' in
short, do anything that will start the per-
SEPARATION, and you will soon cease to have
your brains lined with black, as Burton
expresses it, or to rise in the morning, as
Cowper did, 'like an internal frog out of
Acheron, crowned with the ooze and mud
OF melancholy"
How To Tell When Person Is Dead.
From the Medical and Surgical Reporter.
While we are decidedly in favor of |
we do not admit that the fear
of being buried alive should be a reason
to cause US to reject burial and to adopt |
cremation. There are two simple tests
by which we can always convince our
selves whether a person is really dead or
not. One test is the same that has been
crowned with prize by the French gov
ernment which had for years offered a
large reward for the discovery of any
always applicable, always reli-
able, and one that may be practiced by
the most ignorant. The method of de-
termining the actual death which was
considered by the French government as
being worthy of reward is the following:
When the fingers of a person who is
to be dead are fully extended,
bat kept near together, are placed in
front of candle light in dark room, a
peculiar bright color, due to the capillary
will be visable where the fin
gers touch each other, if there is any life |
left.
The other is based upon the well-known |
fact that that the muscles of human be- |
ing will never respond for longer time |
to the strongest electrical current than
for one hour and half after death;
while as long as life lasts. may its evil
dence be ever so little, the contractility
of the muscles, if not affected by some
forms of paralysis and in cases thus
when death seems to occur, it is
always real-remains.-
A Tried Remedy for Biliousness.
Those who suffer from disorders or inaction of
the liver will never get the upper hand of the
unruy organ so long as they use such irrationss
remedies blue pin, calomel and podophyllirt
But from the tried and popular medicine, HosteS
ter's Stomach Bitters, they may expect relief
with certainty of obtaining it. The influence of
the Btters upon the great hillary gland is direct,
powerful and speedily felt. The relief afforded /
is not spasmodic, but complete and permanent. |
The sallowness of the skin, furred appearance of
the tongue, indigestion, costiveness, headache,
nausea, pains through the right side and Shout
der, In fact every accompaniment OF the obsti-
nate complaint are entirely and promptly renoy-
ed by course of this inestimable medicine. IN
behalf of which testimony is constantly em,nat-
ing from every quarter, and from all classes OF
society.
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