The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-22
HIS HORSE GOT TOO TAT.
Mr.. Ellis Sad Experience With
Patent Equine Food.
He Gave the Animal Dose That Broke the
Harness and Caused Something
to Explode.

If there is one man who has no faith In
pate mt horse food it is Dan Ellis, the popu-
lar foreman of the sawmll at Tenth and
Mission streets.
Daniel Is, or rather was, the possessor of
a valuable PAGER that, besides having good
pedigree, proved useful TO bis owner in
everyday life by hauling him over the cob
bles at rapid gait. / was a good animal.
gentle, kind and aft eetionaie, that its proud
owner drove out of his stab lie in the Petraro
yesterday morning, but alas ! It faded AWAY.
10 the latter's grief, like snow under a sum.
mer sun.
THOSE GLAZING PLACARDS
.Glaring placards, printed in attractive
eolors and pasted on every vacant fence in
the vicinity of his stable, infor med Mr..
Ellis that certain kind Of cake would cure
any and all diseases common 10 horses
from SPAWN to the CHAMBERS, and not ex.
cepting lameness from various causes. and
was also guaranteed TO make the lean fat
and the fat lean II used according TO direc-
tons.
There was nothing the matter with Mr..
Ellis horse. but be thought IL would he a
good idea to tone up his system after the
not spell. 90 he purchased a bag of the
patent f0od, but instead OF administering
The stuff In doses. as per directions, he fed
the horse tine bagful at one sitting. At the
lime MIR. Ellis was not familiar with the
formula of the food. but he is now con-
Vinced that 1t was composed of yeast of the
most irrepressible type.
IL was early yesterday morning that Ellie
undertook 10 IMPROVE his horse Shorttv
afterward be hitehed up the animal and
started for South San Francisco, where he
IS building house at Sixteenth avenue and
n street. All went well until he reached
Seventh avenue, when the horse gradnalIy
began TO grow fieshy. Mr.. Ellis first noticed
The symptoms when the horse turne1 and
looked reproachfully at him with eyes that
bulged out In most alarming manner.
GROWING TOO FAT
In few minutes the PAGER grew too fat
lot the shafts. ana one OF them snapped off
at the whippletree. Ellis saw at once that
something was wrong. and thought perhaps
that violent exercise might be benefciaI
he piled the whip. and the horse. which
had now assumed the proportions of a BAL
iooD,, leaped forward. AT the first lump
the Dellyband broke, and the buckle end
new round and hit the bloated horse on the
back with a thuuip that sounded like bass
drum.
With an agonized snort of pain and terror
inc poor brute stopped still, but continued
10 swell with frightful rapidjty. He songht
relief by switching his tail. but his hide w az
now so tight that that member became a
MIXTURE. Ellis leaped from the bupgv inst n,
time to escape flying buckle as the bar
ness let go in half dozen places. Relieved
OF all restraint the PAGER swelled until he
crowded himself completely out of the ar
ness and buggy.
Ihsn something inside OF him exploded
ana Ellis knew that the end had come.
oadIy he gathered up the ruins of the bar-
ness, threw them into the rig. hitehed him
sell to the remaining shaft and hauled the
oulnt TO neighboring stable, where he sat
on bale OF hay and rnmnated on the nm.
certainty OF life. He admits that he made a
mlstake In giving the horse an allopathic
dose, but thinks that il the animals yitals
haa been little more elastic he might have
pulled through.