The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-05
BILL NYE ON ANIMALS.
Very Few Horses Have Proper
Educational Facilities.
HOW THE DETECTIVE OPERATES.
Uesless Recipe for Curing . oklttisA
6oroo-How 60 Mako the Cow
Come Home at Night.
tCopyrisht, 1898. BY Edgar W. Nyel


Last week We met an educator of the
horse and the author of work on "Pre-
paratory Education of the Horse" He
gave me one for review. He claims that
very few horses, especially in America,
have proper educational facilities, and
many that they do have remain unim-
proved. 1T il common experience to
ind. says he, "horses Of great intellec-
tual capacity. yet middle-aeed and disap-
pointed. Too many have left the country
cities, especially New York, which has
given more work for horses in street car
and Fifth avenue stage line circles than
anywhere else, because she has been tho
last to adopt mechanical methods for pull
ing street rolling stock. All the country
villages have had electric cars for years
and years, and SO the country horses, with
swelling bosoms and swollen heads. have
gone to New York, where they have suf-
fered on in silence, but too proud to re-
turn.
Sometimes an American horse 10 able
to 60 abroad to finish his education, but
very rarely. To travel and see America 10
the privilege also of but few. There are
horses that have seen all Of life in Aus
tralia and Europe. crossing the continent
Of America afterward."
The doctor regrets that tho education Of
the horse has been 20 sadly neglected, and
that the self-made or self-cducated horse
10 the rule rather than the exception.
For some years the doctor. who is .
veterinary surgeon. has occupied q chair
in the Horse College for Diseases of the
Eye and Ear. He is a Welshman by birth
and has imported many Shetland ponies
to this country. He has also brought over
many beautiful, sleek, contralto jacks to
this country from Spain. They are held
in high esteem by the people of Spain and
are called ministers. This Is no joke, but
living fact and not intended to reflect
upon the clergy. ITO the editor: Prob
ably this is too true for publication.]
The doctor says that he attended . royal
bull fight at the capital, and. though &C
customed to sights of great suffering, and
having been through all the slaughter
houses of Chicago and the abattoirs Of
Paris. he was still unprepared for the sad
and sickening sight. He had come pre-
they are. knocked about by the bull to the
lively music of the band. and had hoped
that one or two might be fatally injured,
but they were not. Eighteen horses torn
and mortality gored showed, however, that
the fight had been success. How differ
ent people are in respect to their pleas
ures and their methods of relaxation!
I think We all have something of the
brute in us, but not in the same way.
Some OF us are sly and secretive like the
fox-for instance. ike the detective.
met one the other day whom had seen .
year ago for q moment. We met on the
corner of the main street, in front of the
postofice, and he told me why he vas
there. He was on the trail of q man who
had wrongfully taken $1,000 in govern
ment bonds. I've found him" he said.
land now I am looking for the bonds.''
"Why don't you ask some of these
people who are coming for their mail ?"
said. with q sneeT. Then l asked HIM if
the man was yet at large.
ION, yes" he said; I'VE are watching
him TO see where the bonds are. Oh, yes ;
you have to shadow a man sometimes for
years. l went around the world shadow
ing man last year. Saw everything and
kept him in sight also. The bank paid the
expenses without . murmur, except where
had charged the expenses of an engage
ment ring worth 500 kreutzers to the con-
Germ because had to make love to the girl
in order to pump the victim through his
valet. who was the girls brother. They
said 400 kreutzers was oil they could allow
on that. Hist!" he said, "here comes my
bird now down the street, with no more
idea that he's my.huckieberry than a man
In the moon. Glance at him as he goes by,
and will look the other way"
did 30. He was q fair-haired young
man. and Is he went by he gave me q loud
and merry wink of the other eve.
Reports say that he has once moro
eluded the vigilance of the detectives. and
a. the bonds are not registered it is feared
that they may not be recovered till next
year and possibly not at that time.
The doctor says many good things about
the horse and how to break him OF bad
tricks. Take, for instance. the one of
kicking and running away when the tail
gets over the lime. This is quite common,
and many horses must have their tails
epitomized on this account. The mate has
to go through the same operation in order
to match.
All this trouble may be saved by putting
. surcingle on the horse, and after placing
. broomhande or other round stick under
the tail tie it by both ends forward to the
surcingle. placing the stick horizontally.
In one night he is cured.
had once q very fine horse but he had
this fatal gift of kicking when some one
dropped the line under his tail. He would
hug that line with his massive tail and
kick everything into chaos and run like a
frightened comet with its tail over the
dashboard.
got hold Of this recipe and had faith in
it. have yet, but it Is too much expense
70 takn ~ore IF the mana family after