The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-07-26
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Sam Jones Regiets Some ~ tho ReSll,
OF Modern Invention.

As We progress and time with its
inventions come on, we are leaving fur
behind us many things that were once
cherished and held dear by the people.
We ore now reading of the horselcss
age--the age when horses will be cx-
tinct and the donkey will cease 10 ex-
list. Electricity, the bicycle, the inoto-
cycle and the aerial machines we are
told nre to take tho field and occupy
the ground. ! am glad have lived in
the day OF horses und buggies, mules
and wagons, the old wooden plow stock,
tho old oalcn bucket, the old tallow
candle. To those of us who have
crossed the meridian line of life there
are many sacred and precious memories
clustered around the things that are
passing away. Tho buffalo with his
companions of the west have given
way before the tread Of civilization,
and it seems now that the horse, che
noblest animal God ever made to serve
man, that his days are also numbered
God made the horse and man invented
the mule, for the mule is human in
vention, and had il not been TINT God
made negroes, man never would have
invented the mule. Art and nature with
their countcrparts meet in the negro
and the mule. We often quote from
the Scriptures that "a horse is vain
thing for safety" but the faithful.
docile. honest horse serves his day and
generation with n fidelity that puts to
blush the majority of the human race.
10,
companions and friends us good as man
ever had. The Arabian loved his horse
and made q companion of him, and all
truo men are Arabians in thnt sense.
A man who does not love good horses
and pure women is devoid of the holier
instincts with which God crowns all
the better part of the human race. The
self-sacrificc OF the dog. the disintercst-
ed friendship and kindness which he
has shown leads one sometimes to be
licve that there is u dog Heaven, for
Mr.. Wesley taught there was horse
Heaven. I never go down to my lot
and look at faithful old Henry and
Dave. who have been the faithful scrv-
ants of my wife and children for more
than eight years, never hurting or
one of the loved ones of my |
home, and think of the happy hours
they have spent riding behind these |
faithful horses. but what / wonderful |
there is not horse Heaven,
with its Elysian fields and ripping |
rills and sunny plains and shady groves,
where they will live forever. free from |
the unkind. cruel deeds of man and |
smiled upon by tho great Creator who
made them Us well as man.
i have dog. faithful and tried and |
true. that would like to know TINT |
he would have place in the great |
beyond where he could enjoy uninter-
rupted cnnine happiness, because he
has been faithful in his time and place.
The faithful horse, when you mount
his back TO ride him or pull the lines
over him to drive him. knows his duty
and delights in doing it. Horses have
been ten thousand times more kind
10 man than man has been to them.
Men have killed thousand horses
where horses have killed one man. /
expect the horses think man sis n vain
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