Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-11

as an Office boy, and who up to that
time had worked without cessation be-
gan to ail in health. Tie could not
sleep and bis meals dil not agree with
him. one day BITS family physician came
into hs office and aid, Robert ] want
your check .lr s57N'
"Wuit iHfF said Bonner.
% have got horse Tor YOU" replied
the physician, "Hud I want you 20 drive
him. You are making o lot of money
but % will b. of no good ip you % YOU
can't Uye and enjoy %, and your only
salvation istO get into the open air for q
part of every Uly' Well Bonner gave
ths mn the check ami got the horse.
10. BEGAN 90 speed him aud tried ln ms
drives Co pass sucH men ls John Harper
ui U.fpHf Brothers and Commodore
Wand rbilt. VINO were taking the same
medilnc Ue soon became Interested
300 horse h..u and bought a team iJr
Eg.oo1 when tf1ued mile Zoo 1.58 THIS
was considered very last 900 those days,
but Bonner went 1n buying from year to
gear until one day he pad 10000 for
ile mare pocalUuils. when vas tie
highest price up t1 that time ever paid
for horse. IgUahlutas went boz 2.t7,
aud wear later Bonner gave $1,000
more for Dexter lie altcrN5td paid
tive same amount To- Vanderbilt for
Maud S., and itIs said that the price he
paid stanford for auuol was more than
o hundred thousand dollars. AL t1.
goihgr Doe has spent BOO the uggh1ufhDud
of half % million of dollars tor horses
aud his chief pleasure To his old age s
said 20 Doe driving. John Rockefeller
gets much Ui u.s rest from hi8 horses.
He keeps a good stud aud bee used to
get up ul o. m and speed bis team for
ZOO hour before hrclkiast The late
mINlnir Congressman Scott 90 Penn
sy',aHn eascd hs brain with horse
breeding and Don Cameron woos the
god of health ny taking long horseback
rides into the country,
prst FROM CARD PLAYING.
a number Of our statesmen get their
rest from cards Secretary Carlisle
plays poker nearly every evening and
tut financial problems OF the treasury
/ ily away before the excitement which
comes from game Of penny ante.
/ John Sherman eases bis mind with a
game OF whist and Garfield, when he
was troubled with insomnia, used 10 get
/ up aud play solitaire in his night shirt.
Carlisle. avn told, plays solitaire dur.
iug some Of his hardest work Wolcot.
Don Cameron and Secretary Gresham
los, themselves IN poker, and nearly al
/ Ut the southern statesmen are addicted
| TO this game. Henry Clay Is said 20
/ have been the best scycn.up player In
/ the state OF Kentucky, aud when he was
/ making the treaty Of Client he relieved
| his mind by winning all sorts OF bets
| from Albert Gallatin. Powell Clayton
/ Of Arkansas is very fond OF poker, and
the good Deacon Smith OF the Cincin.
/ natl Commercial Gazette Is said 10 take
| bis rest through cards President
| Cleveland, during bis stay in Buffalo,
was an expert a. pinochle, and ] ven
turc 10 say that he and Postmaster
| General B.ssell have % quiet game after
| cabinet affairs are over. Nearly 40 Ul
| the Supreme Court Justices play whist
/ aud Gray OF Massachusetts is said TO De
the ablcst whist player 10 Washington.
| Harrison was % good whist player and
Secretary Foster could play almost any
sort Of cards and play them well.
BILLIARDS AND DRAINS.
Billiards Is one Of the best games tot
boiled brains. John Quincy Adams
/ found this cut years ago, and he bought
the first billiard table that ever went into
the White House. There Is a billiard
table in the Executive Mansion today