The Press., 1893-06-01

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 'There is nothing that horses are so fond of as being talked to-" said a club man the other day-one who Knows all about the animals he was discussing. "So we'll known is this that in the Austrian cavalry, and in several other armies, of Europe, the soldiers have strict orders never to enter the stalls without speaking a few words to the nags. l had endeav- ored to impress the fact upon my colored groom, a very bright and unusually intel ligent lad, who, whenever l told him to talk to my horses, would invariably laugh sheepishly, convinced that was making fun of him. The other evening, after talk ing one of our friends to the station, he was driving home leisurely in rather mellow mood, when suddenly my recom- mendation on the subject of talking to the horses occurred to him, and without thinking what he was doing he addressed the pony he was driving as follows :: Well, Pompey, old boy, do you remem- | Der the name of the man as used to own you in Texas ?'' do not know whether the word Texas aroused memories in the breast of the pony, but the fact remains that he stopped short, turned his head round and whinnied at Dawson-that is the lads name. Balaam was certainly; not more astonished when his donkey ad- dressed him than was Dawson, who with cry of s'Jee-rusalem, Great Scott! Hey, what's the matter with you.s Pompey, are you crazy?" jumped out of the carriage and ran to the pony's head, convinced that either he himself or the horse had become bewitched. So startled was he by the horse's utterance that it was quite two or three minutes before he could recover his uquanimity sufficiently to mount the box once more and to resume his drive home now talking all the way with the pony, who ever and again whinnied in reply. Since then my horses and this particular attendant have become infinitely better friends; and the groom is delighted to have found at least two creatures who ap- preciate his jokes.
 "While on this subject,' he went on, ''let me give you an infallible cure for a baking horse, which, moreover, ,fwilhhave the advantage of diminishing much of the beating and other kinds of cruelty to which the animals are subjected by peo- pie ignorant of the true character of this kind of equine hysteria. There is noth- ing to do save to take up handful of ashes or dustin preference ashes-and opening the horse's mouth wide, to put the ashes or dust as far back as possible down his throat. The horse will, in his endeavor to get rid, of the foreign sub stance, forget all about balkingJ and will, without thinking of it, go forward with out the slightest whipping or other meth -1 ods of forcible persuasion"
 Two farmers were not long since dis cussing their local paper. One thought it had too many advertisements in it. The other replied: ''In my opinion the ad- vertisements are far from being the least valuable part of it. I look them over carefully and save at least five times the cost of the paper each week through the business advantages 1 get from them." Said the other: '.I believe you are right -I know that they pay. me well, and rather think it is not good taste to find fault with the advertisements after all. " Those men have the right idea of the matter. It pays any man with family to take good local paper for the sake of the advertisements if nothing more. And if business men fail to give. farmers a chance to read advertisements in the To- cal papers, they are blind to their ownl interests to say the least of it. You never trade with me-" said 8 business man to 8 prosperous farmer. You have never invited me to your place of bsiness, and never 60 where am not invited < | might not be welcome" was his reply.