Evening star., 1898-10-29

gracefully. All the same, the most i'm
pressive sight 1 remember on the lane was
Bonner driving Peerless over it's whole
Ter 9Th one day with Henry Ward Beecher
on the seat beside him. Peerless was in
mighty fit condition that day, and he got
ever the ground in rscord-breaking time.
Bonner was clearly intoxicated with de-
light the splendid horse came down the
road at whirlwind speed. Beecher's face
fairly glowed with excitement. His eyes
were like stars and his long gray hair
fioated out in the breeze like the pennant
of a crack man-of-war going at full speed
in a gale of wind
'Beecher was writing for the Independ-
ent at that time, and the next weeks issue
had an article from his pen defe nding the
speeding of horses. 1t was really deScrip-
ton of that drive down the lane behind
Peerless, and it was such a beautiful piece
of writing that / cut it out and preserved
it. Once in while l hunt it up and read
it over, and when / do / see mental pic
ture in which Peerless and Bonner and
Beecher are the central figures
To Stop a Runaway Team.
Mr.. Fuller has been driving over the
roads of Manhattan Island for more than
forty-five years, and computes that in that
time he has driven 475,OOO miles. In the
forty-five years he has suffered six runa-
ways, not counting such incidents as his
collision with Commodore Vanderbilt. The
best way to stop a runaway team, Mr..
Fuller says, is to throw the horses.
Il learned that trick he explained.
when a boy. / was champion wrestler
IN the county of Franklin, Vermont, where
L hail from. Collar and elbow was my IA
vorite hold, and constant practice at that
made me strong in my arms and shoulders.
You know how man is thrown in collar
and-elbow wrestling. All you have to dc
5 to pull. pretty steady for a while to the
right. and then give a sudden jerk as hard
as you can to the left If you know how to
10 1t you can down your man nine times
n ten without tripping him.
Il never thought of trying collar-and-
elbow tactics on q runaway team till one
lay 1 got in a pretty tight place with a
Dair of horses that took the bit in their
.eeth. not many blocks away from where
| had beaten the commodore. At first /
-hought / could hold them, but | couldn't,
md | began to wonder what | should do.
Fhen / remembered how easy 1t used to be
o yank a husky chap off his feet at collar
lnd-eibow. There was no reason why the
scheme wouldn't work with horses as well
rs men, so | pulled them steadily to the
light, though gently at first. I wanted to
!oWn them where there was a soft place
o light, and presently, when ] neared such
1 spot, [ let go of the off rein, grasped the
nigh one with both hands, and brought the
horses heads around with a sharp jerk.
If the rein had broken I'd have been a
yOner, sure, but it stood the strain all
light. Just as | had expected down went
he team in a heap, the off horse on top.
Was l hurt? Well, L went flying about
swenty feet and L lit on my shoulders, but
struck the soft spot I'd been looking for,
and was only shaken up mite
After that | knew how best to stop a
runaway team. 1t makes a horse feel
Sheepish to be thrown, and he is sure to
t is that once thrown he will never try to
run away again.