The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-01
TROTWOOD'S TALK.
Interesting TO Farmers, breeders and
Dairymen.
Facts, Figures and Information OF
General Interest to the Country
Gentleman.
TROTWOOD's TALK.
The Pessimlst.

He is abroad in the land; he is to
be found everywhere from the cradle
to the grave; he was born in cloudy
weather, baptized on a rainy day,
and his soul has had the grippe ever
since it crossed the border OF the
shadow of that land between Nothing
and Life. He thinks the sunshine
was sent to blister his back; flowers
to remind him Of a sweet life soon
ended; laughter, to fill an empty
void in an idiots head religion, the
dream of q moral mailman; love, but
another name for lust, as Byron said;
heaven, a myth, but hell a stern re-
atty, where all but he are going.
Such is the pessimist.
May the Lord have mercy on his
soul!
II a few men work together for
good, whether in politics, social life,
or the church, they are the ring and
the clique, committee from hades,
sent to carry out the work of their
master. They damn every enter
prise for good with faint praise, IL at
all, and il it succeeds II did il only
because the most glaring, unhOly and
unrighteOus frauds were pracliced.
While at home, he is a back-biter
and a knifer, and away from home
ments the dissecting table and the
scalping-knife. He needs only two
things TO make him a useful citizen
to be born again with n new heAd and
heart, and then to get Just enough, IL
no more, OF that religion which COM
mands us, as the highest human vir-
tue, Ito love our neighbors as our
selves"
Among other things the pessimistio
is now clamOring that the bottom has
fallen out of the horse business; that
the cow business has had the nozzle
Of its pump busted; the mule business
has been born again with only three
legs, (and two of them are fore ones >
that the farming business has the
rust, the blight the bats and the devil
generally and that the goat business
and the weeds are the only things
now basking in the sunshine OF
heavens blessings.
Well one of these at a time or we
would fill page refuting the para
lytic conceptions of his wormed fence
ideas.
The bottom is not out of the horse
business. The numerous Gales OF
trotting and pacing horses held dur
ing the last six months have been
remarkably successful. Animals
brought long prices and they brought
low prices.
The public has recently exhibited a
caution in purchasing what hereto
fore WAS lacking. Formerly the in
gradients, the blood line fetched the
big sums. The most important char
acteristic of individuality was then
overlooked. 1t is different at present.
The individuality of the horse must
balance the elongated radiant pedi-
TO IN
thousands. That's horse sense of the
quality that keeps the "wOlf from the
door, and makes oats plentiful in
winter. Wrapping "sheckels' uU i'm
pGdigrees count for naught. More and
better horses are in training than ever
before. More money is offered in
prizes and tidal wave of interest in
harness racing is sweeping over the
land. The light harness horse is dis
tinctively an American product, and
why shouldn't he be the popular
equine of the century? Are not deeds
of tie trOtter and PAGER thilling in the .
extreme? If as writers so stenuOusly
insist, it is excitement that the
American Graves; surely the races OF
the light harness animal will sAtiate
that craze. AS American products,
the trotter and PAGER should arouse
the characteristic loyalty of Ameri-
cans and inspire enthusiasm. The
trOtting and pacing turf Is as spot
less white" compared to its cOntem-
pOrary, the running turf.
What a great work our Driving
Park Association and our South Side
Park are doing for the stock inter-
este. Think of offering over 800, 600
for one meeting! That's what these
associations are doing. Such an
amount distributed among the many
victors will stimulate the Interest OF
breeding the light harness horse aud
add many dollars to the wealth OF the
county.
Brethren and sisters; sages, phi.
losophers, heroes and poets, most
potent, grave and reverend selgnOrs,
sc gods and little fishes; the horse
business in Msury County IL just be-
gun.