The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-03-15
GENERAL PURPOSE HORSES

Horses have been domestlcated, and
employed in the service of mankind
both n peace, and war, from the
earliest period of which we have
any account. There were horse
men and chariots in the army of Pha-
raoh when he pursued the Israelites
into til" Red sea and was overwhelmed
in its waters. The horse is a noble ami
NAL and was esteemed us highly in
ancient times as at the present.
JOB wrote the following beautiful
eulogy on the horse
"lIastthou given the horse strength ?
Hast thou clothed his neck with thun-
der?
"Canst thou make hun afraid as a
grasshopper? The glory of his nos
trils are terrible.
ole paweth the ground in the val
ley, and rejoiceth in his strength he
gocth on to meet the armed men.
"IIc mocketh at fear, and Is not
afflicted neither is he turned back bv
The sword.
"Thc quver rattleth against him .
the glitterlng spear and the shield.
"He sw;loweth the ground with
ticrceness and rage neither belieye;b
he that 1t lsthe sound of the trumpet.
tie saith among the trumpets, ha, ha !
and he smcleth the battle afar off. the
thunder of he captains, and the shout
ing" JobB9th chapter, 10Th to 25th.
Jc~rcmlabsays GAS the horse rush
eth into battle"
Some pople at the present day are
laughed a'tor "talking horse' but il
appears tlit some of the prophets in
ancient tines were as cnthu ,iastic adj
mircrs of the horse us G. n. Grant.
Robert Boncr, or anybody to be found.
Much LIS been written in times past
abolt Socral purpose horses. and
much NICE will no doubt be written
Tor ccntuies to comes. | once owned
a gcnerapurpose mare, and If | could
always &C her l would never have anv
other. bought her of a man who
was goll, TO California. lie said she
was thEbest animal he ever owned
and warcd to stipulate that if he re-
turned ! three years he should have
the privege of buying her back at the
same pre- he sold her for. OF course
l would not agree to that. She was
not hadsome. She had a homcly
head, al an uncomely build behind.
Her rmp sloped too much forward
from IL tai! to the hips. She was
deep cested, of moderate width be-
tween he fore lcgs-an evidence of
large Tugs. Her legs were not )aroc
for heplze, but finely SHAPED and 40.
parent composed of nothing but skin,
bone al sinews. Her eyes were in
tclligci, with a friendly, cheerful cX-
pressi'. Her color was bay and her
w,ighibout 200 pounds.
Shead no pedigree that could be
tlaccdback to any famous ancestry.
she night have been called a "scrub,j
but 81 had an excellent constitution
and cat strength for her size. She
was N beautiful, but she was an angel
disgu,d as a horse. If she under
stood hat you wanted her to do, she
woulGtrlvc TO do it with all her might.
Wheltcamlng in the woods, she was
as sady and patient in travelling
throm bush, and wading through
mud lies as an OK but when on the
road arnesscd to a buggy, she would
dart { with 1T spirit of q race horse,
and common horse could trot bv
her. When she discovered the gait |
desire for Ter to travel on the road.
she uuld keep that gait, trotting up
hill, 81 down, and on the level with
out ing touched by the whip. The
fact she needed no whip. | often
drovhcr TO town, n distance of Is
milesHlth two persons in the buggy,
in tic hours, and often remaining
therCwO hours to do business, drove
her me again in the same time, and
she 'uld go to eating soon rs put in
the able, without showing much
signof fatigue. AS the road was
veryilly, and never smooth aud hard,
this 5as an excellent performance,
cvelfor n horse with a long line of
trotig ancestors. She would draw
cvCIouncc she was capable Of draw
ing.nd draw every time she was told,
whder the load started or not. With
hcrInd her mate, after they had be-
con seasoned to drawing heavy loads,
| he drawn 1000 pour Dis day after
day without strainin {, or stlilcning
hem the least.
may be sad that such n horse was
toWaluablc to keep on a farm for