News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-27
THE HORSE AND HIS MISTRESS.
THE HORSE.

THE HORSE.
TAnna c. Bracket in Christian Union
1t was not without significance that
| Mr.. Curtis in his recent address at
the graduation at Vassar College
should speak of Henry Bergh, whose
touch even now arrests the whip ham
die over the head of many horse in
the streets of New York, though his
voice is no more heard. For if is
the Enthusiastically feminine ouali-
| ty of pity, in modern times so strong
ly affecting. public Judgment, that
gave rise to the Society of which Mr..
/ / Rerasha-was the leading spirit. "a
asMonld not be just to say that there
kLtts- = ~ pltySin aRcient Civilizations
nGIlpuls. eert ainl ystrue that as won-
q . We td take up her even
share OF fh1 >. work, the qusli-
ties which are Supposed to be most
essentially feminine must more and
more penetrate the abric of society,
and bring in not only milder laws
towards erring humanity, but Il
kinder and more sympathetic treat.
ment of what we are pleased to call
the brute creation.
In modern thought a large proper
tion of the lines which were supposed
to divide the world into completely
different departments have become
effaced, and natural science now
looks upon the world as its Creator
has always looked upon it, as one
whole, where every division shades
off into another We once found it
easier to separate from each other
the animals and the plants, the Ovip-
arous and viviparous animals, than
we should consider it now. Nothing
is greater than the patience with
which God watches our blind at
tempts at searching out his thought,
not sending us celestial messengers
to explain the truth. but leaving us
to feel after and find him by our
ceaseless eXperiments-our expert
ments which, as Il writer in the " An
dover Review" strikingly says, are
only a cry of the investigator who
has hazarded his guess and seeks to
confirm it: "This is my intelligence:
will you own it, o Intelligence Su-
preme?'
But while dividing lines in the
physical world have melted away,
they have done so no less IN the
psychical world We can draw with
no ruler the line between intelligence
and instinct, and we are strong y
moved to give over any attempt at
doing this, and to abandon the idea
of quality altogether for that OF
quantity. No thoughtful woman,
and certainly no experienced teacher,
can be for any time in the cOmpan-
ionship of horses without being in
clined to this view, for she soon rec
oo.nizes in the animal the same ways
of reasoning that she has learned so
we'll TO know in the child As she
Hooks down into the working OF his
, mind. it is as if she felt her way back
and back in her own, and a great
part of her pleasure in riding comes
, from the recognition OF her own
thought dimly foreshadowed in his.
| fancy the horse OF a aympathetlc
mistress must partake OF TINS pleas
ure from the other side, and 1eels a
keen 10Y in the response whlch he
pets to his fancies and plans. lit Is
not an unmeaning but a questioning
glance that comes back out OF the
eve to the rider, and the joyful cry
with which he answers as 1say, with a
, little toss ofthe bride, "Oh, yes, Mac
you may CO." is almost pathetic &c
one who feels never so dimly how tht
D whole universe is fast bound togeth
+ er about the throne of God.
! When the horse is well trained it II
the crv. too. of the helpless to Ih'
Y ruler, for we put bits IN the horses
j mouths that they may obey us ant
+ no longer have any rule OF their own
a AS BLACK Beauty" says in Mis-
f SewalPs delightful title book, 4
I horse must never start at what n
o sees, nor speak to other horses, no
!; bite, nor kick, nor have any Will o
+ his own; but always do his master
+ will. even though he may be yer.
: tired and hungry; but the Worst Q
f all is, when his harness IS once on, n
Z? may neither jump for joy nor IL
down for WEAKNESS.
A horse is not naturally machine
, If he were, all horses would be allkt
But, on the contrary, every hors
=, that has not been ground down INT
. a machine is an individual character
e with his own likes and disilkes, no
u only towards people, but towards III
- own kindred; his own SPECIAL ne
v tions. habits, and fancles; his oW
- strong, or weak will, his own tempe
!, = and courage, and his own greater 9
= smaller share of Judgment. ID
- senses are generally keener ina
ours. He shows unmistakable sign
u of fear when he comes near a melas
n erie, though he sees nothlng' an
h though we are A,.nsclous OF no odo
- Though very thirsty, he reiuSeS :,
~ y, dirk of water EfiStn seeliS peTlect !,
so sweet to US, and while eating u
y clover from our hands carefully cas-
" !sout a little weeS in the bunch, whl(
~ we had not seen at all till IL Wa
10 dropped out at our feet. All hors
- are not alike in tn s, either. Son
~ are more particular about drin
"i some about food. My Dick will M
eat an apple that has been in a Gig;
shop. till it has been washed. AS
a hearing and sight, there Is no dou
". that they are by far our superior
lp. and no delicate woman can be mo
ar sensitive to the slightest touch tn;
I'm is her horse, even through his cove
ing of hair.
wv But, leaving the senses alone al
ks. roing deeper to the functions OF t
mr. brain as manifestations OF MN
horses have a memory which IS
The sunerior to ours. They are never {
To ceiyed as to whether they are or
RI now road or not. The same hOl
is that will 90 on seemingly without
rod tpntion on an old road, even thou
INV it be dangerous, becomes alert
the avery wav on q road he has not SCI
TO His ewes and ears are full of att
md tion He picks his way carefully W
ynr- his feet. and SHES at the fall OF lie
oxt You can feel that he has collected
.ess his energies and is holding them
like in n state of high tension to be rea
- I for anv unforeseen occurrence un
- 7 those new circumstances. L bell
ow. that n horse never forgets anyth
20 that he has once known or seen.
he once knows gait, he may not
uph nracticed in it for long time, bu
is ready when you call for it.
ONE horses are elSno lioi'I9 m W oi'o ,
he familiar with Central Park and
Boulevards, and there is not b
Rut or n tree there that they do
), know and miss if it be taken aV
vers AT the end of the eight months, a
the a long railroad journey, they wa
and. with great suspicion a pie OF iun
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