The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-03-03
FAMOUS WAR HORSES.
Six Battle steeds Of the Century cel-
etrated in Song and Story.

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ebrated in Song and Story.
Chief among the most celebrated
war horses of our nearly completed.
nineteenth century may be mem
toned Marengo, Copenhagen, Cin-
cinuati, Traveller, Lexington and.
Winchester, the favorite chargers OF
Napoleon, Wellington, Grant, Lee,
Sherman and Sheridan. The Amer
lean battle steeds saw during or
after the war Of ls61-65. Winches-
ter, the most widely celebrated of
the four In song and story, enjoyed
the unique distinction of having his
gallant master as q biographer.
After his death, In 1873, he was
slkilIfulIy mounted by taxidermist,
and Is to be seen among the many
relics of the Mexican and civil wars
included In the most interesting COL
lections Of the museum of the Mill
tary Service institution ON Gov
ernor's island New York harbor. 1
may perhaps be permitted to re-
member that ] have conversed with
two important personages who had
ridden Napoleon,s and Wellington's
favorIte war horses, and have seen
many memorials Of those celebrated
chargers, such as their painted por-
traits, their hoofs now transformed
into silver-mounted snuffboxes and
inlstands; bracelets and breastpins
made from their hair, and Maren-
po's skeleton, treasured relic OF
the United Service institution at
Whitehall, London. Cincinnati, Co
penhagen, Lexington and Traveller
all received honorable burial, after
having enjoyed an Hold age Of Dig
;nified leisure, while over the grave
of the il1ustrious English soldiers
charger stands q marble tombstone
with brief and beautiful inscrip-
tion, written by his eldest son, the
second duke, who erected It soon
after Yelling tons death at Walmer
castle. Gen. James Grant Wilson,
ID. O. Il. In Our Animal Friends.
PROFESSIONAL ct4Ess PROFITS.
Fho PScuniary Rewards Small In View OF
Dasnands on the 1ntellset.
Professional chess players, consider
ing the laborions nature Of their work,
the character of mind, and the long pre-.
paratory study required are probably as
III paid as any kind of intellectual
workers The profs sional chess player
who earns by his play more than de-
cent modest living is a highly successful
man. An expert may be hired to run
chess automaton and play with all
eomers at a salary less than some type
writers earn. There are In all the world
probably less than half a hundred high
| 1y skilled professional chess players.
The Hastings convention Brought to-
gether %, and the number was notable
A few professional chess players are
men of means, hut for the most part the
passion for the game leads the profess
sional player TO put aside material COM
siderations IN order to follow hie bent
Some of the best known players dress
shabbily and live plainly. he ablest
md most suecessfu NJ usually eke ont their
incomes made directly from the game
by writing ON chess, discussing prob
/ lems. aud the like. Books ON chess suc-
ceed one another rapid y. but none has.
! q large sale. They are costly to produces.
and the stereotype plates are Of small
value. The aggregate # cs9;.stslcrable
| prizes offered in chess coIltest9 though
out the world amounts IN any one year
TO only few thousand dollars, and q
stake Of 81 600 IS a largo one Amateurs
who far outnnmber the professionals
/ provide fl1e purses and meet the expenses
of the match games st. Petersburg IS an
i important chess center, and there the
travelling expenses Of the professionals
nrs made MP BY the local clubs
ional chess play ers are rarely:
/ men of liberal education and usually
men of one idea Chess has been the di-
version of great and broad minded men,
hut it il commonly the business Of men
i devoted 10 one IDEA. The protest. onal
chess player seems tireless IN the pursuit
Of the game. One whose duty It was to