The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14

speaks Of tire maltrcatment Of the
horse as practical b.asphemy: do
not believe in the transmigration Of
souls. but can bot very severely de-
ilounce the idea, for. when
see men who cut and bruise
and whack and welt and strike
and NATL and eattafe and ihsult
the horse, that beautiful servant OF
the human race, who carries our bur-
,ens and pulls our plows. and turns
our thfeshefs and 6;if itiills, End tufss
for our doctors-when I see men thus
beating and abusing and outrag-
ing that creature, it seems to me that
it would city ts fair tllat the dostripe
oi TRANSPORTATION of souls should prove
true, and that for their punishment
they should pass over into some poor
miserable brute and be beaten and
whaclxed and cruelty treated. and
frozen and heated and ovefdriveni iste
an everlasting stsse nafse, ah eternal
tsaseler on towpath, or tied to
an eternal post, in an eternal winter.
smittch with eternal epizootics! oh;
is it hot shame th2t The bfute crea-
tioii, which had the first possession of
our world. should be SO maltreated by
the race that came in last-the fowl
and the fish created ID the 9th day,
tt. horse aid the cattle created on the
morning of the sixth day, and the hu-
| man race not created until the even
! ing Of the sixth day? 1t ought to be
that il any man overdrives horse,
or feeds him when he is hot, or
recklessly drives nail into The
! quick of his hoof; 6f rowels him to see
him prance, or SO shoes him that his
fetloeks drop blood. of pitts collar DID
| a raw Heck. Or unnecessary clutches
his tongue with twisted bit, or cuts
off his hair until he has no defense
against the cold: OF hhrnefcifully alb;
bfeviates the natural defense against
insectile annoyance-that such man
as that himself ought to be made to
pull and let his horse ride!
| But not only do our humanity and
our Christian principle and the die
tates Of God demand that we kindls
tTeat the brute creation, and especial
ly the horse. but go further and say
that whatever can be done for the de-
yelopment of his fectness, and his
strength, and his majesty, ought to be
done. We need to study his anatomy
and his adaptations. / am glac
that large books have been writ
ten to show how he can bt
best managed; and how his ailmeht!
can be cured, and what his usefulties.
Ia, and what his capabilities arei i
Wouid DE a shame il in this age of The
world, when the florist has turned the
thin flower of the wood into gorgeou!
rose. and the poinologist has changed
the acrid aud gnarled frnit OF the an
clients into the very poetry OF pear, ant
peach, and plum, and grape, and apple
and the snarling cur of the oriep
has become the great mastiff. and tb'
miserable creature OF the olden time:
BARNARD has beeolne the 1jevonshire
aid the Attorney, and the shorthorn
, that the horse, grander than them all
should get no advantage from our sci
!. ence, or our civilization, or our Chris
tianity. Groomed to the last point o
soft brilliauce, his flowing name bill
low of beauty, his arched neck in ut
most rhythm of curve, let him be har
messed in graceful trappings and thel
.. driven to the furthest goal of excel
lence, and then fed at 1uxurian
oat bias, aud tianketed Id com
fortabie stall. The iong-ttied an
,, faithful servant of the human race dc
serves all kindness, and care. all re
ward, all succulent forage and so.
!. litter and paradisiacal pasture felt
!. Those farms in kentucky and in di
ferent parts of the north, where tn
. horse is trained to perfection in flee
!, ness and in beauty and In majesty
;. src TIL * sYyssts There is no NOR
|, virtue in driving sisv cser in drivin
fast, any more than freight .rHin gt
. ing ten miles an houf is better ttMn a
; express train going fifty.
There is a delusion abroad in til
J world that thing must be necessaril
r good and Christian if it is slow an
dull and plodding. There are yer
G few good people who seem to imagin
!, it is humbly pious to drive spawned
e CALLED. glandered, spring-halted. blint
|, staggered jade. There is not so Inuc
|, virtue In a Rosinante as in a Buc
!. phulus. We want swifter tnel
E and swifter enterprises, and tt
3 Church Of God needs to get o
!. its jog trot. Quick tempest
: quick lightnings, quick steams; VIII
n not quick horses? In the time of WI
h the cavalry service does the most ex
: cution, and as the battles of IL
n world are probably not all pas
d our Christian patriotism demand
o that we be interested in equinal velo
!. ity. We might as we'll have poor
n gums in our arsenals and clumsi
2 ships In our navy yards than other N
/. tious, as to have under our cavall
Y saddles and before our par
n of artillery slower horses. Fro
& the battle of Granicus, whe
g the Persian horses drove Il
e Macedonian infantry into the rive
e clear down to the horses on whi'
e Philip Sheridan and Stonewall JAG
l. son rode into the fray, this arm OF t
l. military service has been recognize
n Hamilcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adj
20 plus, Marshal Ney were cavalryme
v In this arm of the service Charl
o Martel, at the battle of Poitiers. be
IS back the Arab invasion. The Garth
le genian cavalry, with the loss of on
& seven hundred men, overthew the
( man army with a loss of seventy tho
s. sand. In the same way the Spa
=. :.l o1.;v,lr, drovo baclx tho Moori