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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

livelier, able 10 carry his rider at trot
twelve or thirteen miles an hour canter
fifteen miles an hour aud gallop twenty.
and to take fences and bitches easily with
out stumbling or falling, and the park hack.
the SNOWY creature of the horse show and
ladies' mile. He is from fifteen to sixteen
hands high, nearly or quite thoroughbred,
with head and neck of the oriental type. a
carefully educated, housekeeping, pran-
cling. satin-coated creature. much more
snowy shan his more useful brother.
the roadster. The ladies admire the hack
neys. and flock around them at the horse
show like bees around honey. The hack for
light weight, that is for anything under
165 or 10 pounds, may be nearly thorough
bred. or quite so, but if to carry heavier
weight he must be stout cob, and an E lg-
lish cob. American readers should under
stand, is by no means small draught-
horse like the stocky. heavy creatures with
locked tails and reached names that are
sometimes shown here as cobS. A craze
the English are cutgrowing, but which
Americans are just taking up, Is that
of docking the tails of hacks and
other saddle-horses under the impress
sion that 1t improves their appearance.
The writer in tho Breeder and Sportsman
already referred to has some earnest words
of just condemnation of this practice No
more unl0vely. senseless and brutal notion
ever entered the head of man than this of
mutiiating to no purpose one of the most
beautiful creatures that falls under mans
control. The hackney, take him all round.
Is very good specimen of what the art and
constituencies ingenuity OF man can do in
producing highly finished creature. he is
taught high, graceful carriage of the head
by being made 10 stand for hours with his
head held fast in an unnatural po-
sitton, he is trained to step high by
being made to walk through straw and
shavings, and there Is also a continuance of
boots that are put on the animals feet,
causing him to step high in the effort to
step out of his strange footgear. Toe
weights are also used in shoeing to increase
knee and hook action, and these are pro-
life source of lameness and unsoundness in
horses, as overambitious American trainers
are discovering, for many great racer has
had his days of usefulness materially
shortened by injured joints and strained
lgameuts directly traceable to heavy shoes
and toeweights.
"Why do they call them hacksT' young
girl asked me.
Probably, / suppose. because OF their
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
HACKS AND COBS.
Animals Seen at the Ma
tiOnal Horse Show.
SAN FRANCISCO NEEDS ONE,
Such an Exhibition Would Improve
the Breed ding of General Utility
Horses i'm California.
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

Why cannot San Francisco have an
annual horse show? Is it because we have
no MadIson-square Gardens? 1t certainly
cannot be for lack OF beautiful horses to
exhibit, beautiful women to attend the ex-
hibit and make it the elegant and distin-
guished affair it should be. or doughty
horSemen. with long purses, to arrange for
the affair and see to it that it is a financial
success. We have such horses as no other
section In the world can improve upon, and
our lovers of hOrseflesh are both enterpris-
ing and liberal why is it" 1 asked one
of the latter, recently, that we have no
great horse show out here?'
"Oh," was his reply. I'VE haven't got at it
yet" Very well, then. let us get at it, by
all means.
In connection with the New York horse
show we have been hearing a good deal
about hackneyS. and writer in the Breeder
and Sportsman has uttered strong protest
against the introduction of this highly arti-
hcial creature into America. The writer is
wrong In calling the hackney new Eng
fish fad" The hackney or hack, as he is
usually called, is a very old institution
with the English. Before the days of steam
railways and ships the hack was the Eng
llshman's inevitable companion in travel.
Unless he rode in his own carriage, with an
extensive retinue of attendants, John Bull
made his Journeys on the back of his trusty,
Well-trained hack, who was then, rs now, a
highly devsloned and serviceabIe animal.
The road hack is becoming rare beast,
however, as there is now so little demand
for him. This is a great pity. for a good
road hack of the Olden time was a grand
type Of horse. He usually stood fifteen
hands to fifteen hands two or three inches
He was trained to walk ersily five miles an
hour and TO trot from eight to twelve or
even fourteen miles in the same time. He
was chosen for his conformation and his
action, and the high action which so many
deem desirable nowadays would have
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

caused any horse to be rejected by an ex-
perienced hOrseman in search of road
hack. The high action is extremely dam
aging TO legs and shoulders on Journey,
and the feet of high-actioned horses are
peculiarly liable to laminitis and corns, the
results of conclusion. Here is a descrip-
tion OF what was bred for and what was re-
CURED Ia the typical road hack
The head should be small and fine, broad
between the eyes and between the branches
OF the lower jaw at their angles; also the
distance from the eye to the angle of the
lower jaw should be great. The nostrils
should be large, wide, clean and we'll
defined; the mouth small, with the lips thin
and firm. The ears should be small,
fine and pointed, being carried firmly,
with their tips inclning slightly in
ward toward each other, while the
eyes should be large, full and prom
inent. with ,welldeveoped eyebrows.
The neck must be long, somewhat thin and
fit well into the space formed between the
branches of the lower jaw. being longer
on ITS under surface, as well as
being concave on its SUPERIOR Dor
der. The head should be we'll set in
to the neck. The withers must be neither
too fine, thick or low. we'll covered with
muscle; the name should be fine, silky and
not too abundant; the shoulder-blade must
be long and oblique, not vertical; neither
must 1t be coarse and prominent; the chest
should be deep and moderately wide the
forearm long in proportion to the leg, the
elbow long. prominent and clear of the
chest, the kree broad and fiat, the bone pro-
jeeting 10 point behind; the cannon bone
should be as short and strong as possible
aud perfectly straight. the back tendon
standing we'll away from it; the tetlock
joint should be large and fat, later
ally, the back part being clean
end prominent. the pastern neither long
enough to be weak nor so Short
as to make the horse rough
and unpleasant rider; the feet should be
well shaped, not too small and we'll set on,
the back rather short and straight, the ribs
Tong aud oval, the space between the last rib
and the point of the hip not being greater
than hands breadth. The headquarters
should be long, Deep full and broad, as
we'll as straight from the back to the tail;
the distance from the point of the haunch
to the hook should be great. the STILES prom
inent. and from there to the hooks large
and full. The hooks themselves should be
large and fine without being coarse and
puffy. the point Of the hook prominent and
with the leg below it ncllnng very slightly
under the body; the tail should pass in q
straight line from the Group and then droop
in graceful curve.
Such an animal has the railroad train
superseded. He was perfect roads ter and
worth tidy sum, when found. AS [ said
before, he is growing unfortunately rare
and hard to find. There remain, however,
the covert hack. smaller animal, and
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querors and the coaquered-before them he
must play role; rigid in his uniform he
must stand before his disheartened troops.
His ewes must have no tears. his shoulders
must not be bowed with the weight OF sor-
row; he must endure, without finching, the
pain that tortures him. All that, with his
determination, was easy. but there remains
his pale, cadaverous face that betrays all he
is trying 10 hide. Is it not natural that the
broken hearted Emperor thinks OF the rouge
that will cover his livid features and allow
historians of the future to say. He did
not seem i'll and his features betrayed no
emotion"
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
Paris, Nov. IL.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
Philadelphia Times.

Women very generally neglect powerful
weapon Of offense and defense placed at
their command by nature. A woman's
laugh. II intelligently and skillfully used,
can wither man in his tracks or elevate
him to tie seventh heaven of happiness.
Several causes have contributed To the
decadence OF woman's laughter. The chief
one, perhaps. is the modern habit of dress
ing. Full, free laughter depends upon a
perfect development and exercise Of the
respiratory muscles. Confined as these are
by steel and whalebone laughter becomes an
impossibility.
With a loss of the art OF laughing comes
a loss of sense and humor. When the
expression of any OF the senses becomes
difficult tho sense itself dwindles. DO not
mistake gigglng for laughter.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

into the harbor, and as soon as she was
notified Of the impending attack her search
light was hauled out and leveled on the
hills where the enemy were encamped.
This fairly paraiyzed the poor natives,
and they made haste TO send down mes
sage that all warlike intentions had flown
at the first sight of that ali-revealing search
light, and promising TO be all sorts OF good
children providing the white man would
not send out his Ere after them.
ibid i ever tell YOU how they eaten
fyiDg-fsh at Tahiti? They do it at night
with a net and torch. Four canoes stretch
out a huge net a few inches below the sur
face OF the lagoon. The torch is fastened
in the center OF the net, and then the natives
just sit still and wait
Pretty soon the f1ying-fish come topping
around that torch, attracted to il just as a
moth is to the lamp. And like the moth,
too, the fiying-fish keeps encircling the light
TILL he gets his wings scorchcd or is burned.
Then he falls into the net
And then they spear other FISH at night.
They fasten q torch on the bows Of the
canoe and 60 sailing along. The fish ls
sure 10 be attracted by the light. and when
he gets near enough to the surface TO satisfy
his piscatorial curiosity the Kanaka very
deity runs him through with a wooden
spear.
II was at Tahiti when the King died. All
The vessels In The harbor were employed in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
The Palmetto of the South.


The graceful palmetto. that grows so pro-
fuseiy in the lower tier OF the Southern
States, has recently become factor in the
industries of the South, for its wood is hard
enough to carve and its fiber is strong
enough to make excellent ccrdage and a
useful substitute for sp0uges. In Jackson
vile factory has been started for the pur
pose OF making brushes and brooms of the
hber. and elsewhere sink brushes are
being made of the wood. half of whose
thickness is being converted into bristling
points. The young leaves of the tree make
a salad that The people are beginning to ap-
preciate, and the taste Of 1t Is likened TO
that OF chestnuts. Bears knew about it
long before the people did, and it Is a IA
vorite article of diet among them, the black
bears climbing the trees and browsing on
the fresh shoots as eagerly as they browse
on watermelon
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

way. FROM none oil
these Inventions did Mrs Gaillard reap a
return worthy of the name. She was
not discouraged. however and has
been busy perfectipg other inven-
tions. Among her recent patents are
folding BASIN for travellers, a folding fat
iron, novel bird-cage chain and a musical
fountain. which renders exquisite music
while throwing a stream of water from
beautiful statuette with such precision that
ret drop escapes TO spoil the carpet. Her
most Important ard valuable inventions
are sure 10 win the blessings of her own
sex. and also Of tho males. They are
dress shield and a Sweat band" for hats,
both far superior TO anything now known,
and e carriage telephone. Mrs Galllard has
also invented lock and key and musical
Dsper-weight. The lock and key invention
enables any one, by simply looking at the
KEY. TO determine whether the door is
safely locked or not. the locking being regis
tered on the KEY. The musical paper
weight has a calendar ttachment, aud Is in
the form of a stem-winding watch. The
face of the weight indicates the day. month
and year
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
HE Is A HERO.

He Is hero, who when soreIy tried,
Hath yet firm control
Ger all his passions. as they strongly rise
To battle with his soul.
The silent battle which the spirit fights,
warning against desires
Unholy and impure, If right shall win,
To higher good inspires.
The soul that crucifies an evil thought,
That keeps guarded gate
OF Christian love and brotherly good Will
Between his soul and hate,
Shall stand. in all his manliness ana worth.
As ightier than he
Who taxes city IN his strength and pride,
Or boasteth vauntingly
The shield OF purity when nobly worn,
Where faith has been confessed,
Is stronger than the cunning coat of mall
Upon y warriors breast.
He is hero who TO truth is true,
Though lOwly anc obscure.
Long after earthly honOrs fade away
his triumphs shall endure.
ANNIE WALL.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
NOT TO BE FOOLED.
How Mr.. Vanderbilt Got Ahead of the
JeweIer

cincinnati enquirer.
A good story is told of one of the Wander
bits. While abroad recently he was visited
by rich Berlin jeweler. who, without
waiting the usual formalities incident to
gaining an audience. marched in on Mr..
Vanderbilt unannuunced.
The intruder was Ell elderly man with an
intelligent face and attired in faultless
evening dress, the fashion prescribed by
European etiquette for visits TO potentates,
ambassadors and other high digntaries,
irrespective Of the hour or season.
Mr.. Vanderbilt was surprised, but not
overwhelmed by the jewelers. evident at
tempt at Continental complaisance He
listened to his tale of the greatest ruby on
EARTH" which the dealer was willing to dis
pose of at a sacrifice, with a courteous air,
and then offered him one-tenth of the price
demanded.
81 have FIVE stones OF exactly the same
dimensions and coloring," said be, land
am willing 10 complete the half-dozen at a
fair figure. You may send me your answer
within two hours. Good morning."
The answer arrived eighty minutes before
the prescribed time had elapsed. Ii was in
the affirmative
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

ordinary low-seated tricycle., and at one side
of the seat Is n lever connected with a re-
sistance-bo for controlling the motor. At
the other side of the chair is the brake
handle. which is an ordinary friction brake.
The motor IS wound for low Z. NJ. F. and
is of the slow speed design, connected To the
driving-shaft by a single reduction gearing
Captain Johnson gives the following details
of this chair: Five and a half ampere
hours 10 each pound Of weight. Speed,
eight miles an hour for five hours, though at
lower speed battery will last for fifty miles
Of travel. Total weight. $50 pounds"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
The River Nile.
Minneapolis Times

The Nile has fall Of six inches to the
thousand miles. The overflow commences
in June every year and continues until
August, attaining an elevation Of from "a to
% feet above low-water mark. and flowing
through the Valley OF Egypt" in turbulent
body twelve miles wide. During tile last
thousand years there has been but one sud-
den rise of the Nile. that Of 1920 when 3d.
600 people were drowned. After the waters
recede each year the exllalations from the
mud are simply intolerable TO all except
natives. This mud deposit adds about
inches to the soil every century and throws
2 muddy embankment from u to 16 feet
into the sea every wear
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
Model of Ocean CURRENTS.

A model of ocean currents is to be ex.
bibited at the Worlds Fair which will
possess great practical value. This model,
when Is huce scientific tank. is made to
represent the surface of the earth. spread
out on an area Of about thirty feet square,
the ocean and seas being shown by actual
water. Small streams Of water are elected
through pipes under the model, so that the
whole body of water moves exactly as the
ocean currents move. The direction of the
currents is shown distinctly By n white
powder on the surface of the water. Near
the model will be placed large map giving
the fullest details of the force, volume and
direction oil the various ocean currents.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
A Dead Soldiers Bible.

Among the Union soldiers killed at the
battle of Charlottesville was Jesse C. john
son, member OF the New York regiment
popularity known as Duryea's Zauaves. In
1887. twenty-four years after the battle,
there was found on the field small Bible,
With an inscription on the flyleaf showing
that 1t had been given to johnson by a dying
mother. This interesting relic is preserved
at the headquarters OF the Duryea Zouaves.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11

sold on the streets as
the "Irrepressible Con-
1ict," being the figures
OF an Irlshman and an
African engaged in a
fierce fight. She also in
vented the eyeless nee
die. which is almost
universally used by sur
geons, and is useful TO
many other people. An
other and more ambi-
tIOus effort resulted in
the musical top, which
plays a full tune while
spinning in the ordinary
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
AN ELECTRIC CHAIR.
A Novel Device Intended for the Use of
InNalidS
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Captain Alexander johnson of Washing
ton, who is now visiting his mother in Pitts
burg, has invented an electric invalid chair,
model of which is now running In Balti-
more. The chair is mounted upon a case
which contains the motor and storage cells.
The Iguding apparatus is like that OF an
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
SHADOWS SEE-SAW.
The. Latest Feat of the Samson of
Modern Times

Sandow. the strong man. is still enter
tanning Londoners with exhibitions of his
remarkable feats of strength. Some time
ago lie had bad turn, and on two occa-
sions came near being crushed; but he has
rallied and now seems as strong as ever.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-11
A WOMAN INVENTOR.
She Has Patented Number of in
geniouS Devices.
New YORK Commercial Advertise,

4NNW NVIIII1IVININt
Mrs. Ella Nelson Gallard was in her
youth n belle of the arlstoeratic eastern
shore of Maryland, but later distinguished
herself as an inventor. One OF her first in
yentions was the amusing automatic toy
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1892-07-23
Obituary.

Robt B. Mckee died at his residence, the old
Mckee homestead. five miles south of Frank.
fort, on the morning Of July 14th, 1892, In the
seventy year OF his age. He was born
on the 18th day of October 1915, at the place he
died. His education was received In the neigh
hood schools OF Franklin county, supplemented
by college course at Langollen college. Earl y
son In the western river and Harbor Improve
ment," which position he resigned to take
charge OF the Missouri penitentlary as wa den
which place he filled with credit for term Of
six years. Afterwards he returned TO Kentucky
and Immediately became identified with the educa-
ti0nal Interests OF the State, and was at one
time or another connected as a teacher with
some OF the best educational institutions of
the State. He finally began farming and had been
engaged In that business for many years at the
time of his death.
He had been twice married, his first wife was
Miss Mary HoltOn, OF Frankfort by whom he had
three children, all OF whom preceded him TO the
grave: His second wife was Miss Serena Dennis.
OF Mclean county, who survives him.
He was probably the oldest representative of
the Mckee family I'm Kentucky at the time of his
both sides of the house. His grand father on
his fathers side, RObt. Mckee, OF WoO1ford
county, KY, as we'll as his mothers father, Col.
Anthony Crockett, OF Franklin county, having
served throughout the entire period OF the
revolution. The Mckee family emigrated to this
country from the north OF Ireland and settled In
Pennsylvania and the valley Of Virginia In 1888.
Kentucky family, having served at Braddock's
defeat, and had his first wife, Jane Logan, slain
by the Indians. From these McKeees OF Penn
sylvanla and Virginia are sprung the numerous
families OF that name now living In almost every
State and Territory In the Union.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1892-07-23
NOTES OF THE GAME.

Sherley Wintersmith played beau,
tiful game at short and led the side
at the bat, securing three clean
drives.
AL Mcfarland played a fine game
at second, covering half the outfield
as we'll as a large slice of the infield.
His error was a muff of fly which
he attempted to catch with one hand
out in center field and was very ex-
cusable one.
That double play by AL. Mcfarland
and Henry Lindsey was a beauty. AL
though Douglas was not ten feet
from the base when Mcfarland
caught Phillips fly, the throw was
too quick for him.
The Lexingtons are the greatest lot
of kickers ever seen here, unless it
be the Deppens. They had no ground
for complaint when they demanded
Franklin's removal.
A. ID. Mcfarland had the visitors at
his mercy. When men were on bases
they knocked pop-up flies or struck
out.
Mcfarland, the pitcher, should join
a travelling acrobatic troupe in the
winter. He would make his fortune
as the prize contortionist.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Lexington Transcript, is respectfully
informed that game of base ball
was played in this city on Thursday,
in which the "unbeaten Lexingtons"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. we are free to
say they were mot in it" to any con-
siderable extent; and also that "the
crowd of hoodlums, who were let in at