The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Manager Bellemont Mills, Graham, NC.
ward the gentler sex. l do not know
how to account for that, unless it is
that there is q fine, high-bred quality
in a horse that is not unlike the best
of the fair sex,
Did you ever think about the high
tribute you pay horse when you say
of sensible and discreet man. E'He has
horse sense, You hear it every day.
This man is wise because he has horse
sense. The other man is a failure
because he lacks horse sense. That
is all the difference. No man would
question that Banks Holt has horse
sense, and head full of sense
ABOUT horses. But to return to
the estimate, men place upon the three
prettiest things iii the world. Mr..
Holt would agree with Judge billiard
about a woman being the prettiest
thing in the world if you would let
him select the woman. While he is
chivalrous and all that sort of thing
Mr.. Holt thinks it takes a mighty good
looking woman to be as pretty as one
on has fine horses on Alamance farm,
and she has got to be a queen indeed
to surpass John r. Gentry. And
while agreeing with Judge billiard,
with certain reservations, Mr.. Holt
would agree with him unreservedly
upon his next proposition that pretty
horses are the next prettiest things in
the world to a lovely woman. And he
would grow enthusiastic in this con-
cord. He would tell you how the horses
surpassed all other animals, and how
LII l.
ing when they are most like a blooded
horse. A horse is a noble animals
a great fighter, seeming the battle
with a true soldiers love of conflict.
No great General ever lived who did
not have a horse as brave and dashing
as he, and no great-hearted soldier has
failed TO have an affection for his
charger that a man never has for any
other being except those of his own
order.
The third prettiest thing, in Judge
billiards. summing up is equity. While
Mr.. Holt thinks that he who would have
equity must do equity; and carries out
this principle in his dealings with his
fellow-men, he has no such love for eq-
uity in the abstract as the great Judge
referred to. He couldn't be induced to
take book on Equity" to study
it for its beauties. He sees it in its
beauty as a man does Justice to man;
but if YOU speak to Mr.. Holt about
"equerry" about fine horses, how to
develop them, and such matters, he
does not desire 10 read a book. He
has already mastered that knowledge.
But TO come back to the starting point:
Mr.. Holt would count Il cotton mill,
equipped with new and improved ma
chinery as the third prettiest thing in
the world of loneliness. lie has shown
his belief i'm cotton mills by building
great factories and equipping them
with the best machinery. Some men
do that as an investment who can
not bear to hear the music of the
Spndles. There is no inauimate mu-
sic so sweet to his ears, and nothing
that does not live and move with the
breath of God, that he thinks prettier
than cotton mill machinery. No won
der Mr. Holt loves these three things.
His wife and seven lovely daughters
make him the happiest of family men.
His Alamance farm, stocked with high
bred beauties that are the admiration
of the State, constantly make him re-
ioice in the unfolding beauties of the
horse kingdom.
And his cotton mills busy. success
full and giving employment TO many,
is an every day reminder OF how man
has turned the forces Of nature into
obedient servants to do his bidding.
One among the most useful of the
Eyate's sons, he is also one OF the most
blessed; and, unlike many an one who
ls greatly blessed, he recognizes all
the Blessings and comforts of life as
agenaies to make ham happy and so
contribute to the happiness of others.