The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18
Bah TALKS ABOUT HORSES.
PECULIARITIES OF THE DIFFER
ENT BREEDS.

ENT BREEDS.
A Word AbOut Quakers and Their
Love of CIeanIiness-Some PecuIf-
arities Of Extreme Christians-The
Men Who Prays LOudest show the
Greatest VigOr In the kissing
Games-Other Matters of Interest.
New York, Sept III have always had
a weakness for horses. The kind l like
best is commonly and vulgarly known as
the "skate." He belongs to the breed
that can be driven by women children or
the new cook of Polish origin. He has
few little weaknesses of his own, but
you admire him Notwithstanding what
might be called his nerviness. He never
passes a fruit store without making a
stop The finest brandy in the world
would not tempt him, but a particularly
nice apple, blushing on one side, or a
tender peach, looking most too good for
this world, charms him, so that he has
been known to really enter the shop and
demand, in a horses way, the fruit that
he loves best.
This particular skate" which I have
months.
fortunately got what was called by the
gentleman who owned him "a noddity in
his foreleg." During this time we drove
to our sorrow, a horse, or, rather, a mare
titan of color, good of shape, but with
a temper like all the tempers that were
ever made and then consolidated in one
horse. l never drove her but once, and
that once was quite enough for me. She
SHE'D at ragman, ran down the road
dumped me in the grass, sent my slippers
flying through the air, while my compan-
ions We're scratched and bruised and ac-
cused me of trying to kill them, while, be-
tween you and me, l think they were glad.
after the first ache was better, to describe
themselves as heroines and to tell of the
adventure after the fashion of a detective
story.
After this 1 was content with the
skate" and ! drove him with a loose
rein and feeling that my heart was
true to him even if he did wheeze and
had a queer fashion of going into the
barnyards of people who were entirely I'M
/ known to me. He was a sociable horse
At least that's the way we have worked
out his idea. He longed to get acquaint-
ed with the neighbors. One afternoon the
skate" whose name was Prince and who
had good blood in his veins-at least we
were told so-agreed with me that it
would be pleasant TO give all the children
/ drive So off we went little and big
wearing hats from a linen tam to a large
Leghorn laden with white plumes. Prince
went along very well for a short time
but at the foot of a certain hill he took
has stand ard refused to bulge
Prince was determined to go IN thar
hill, and l concluded il was just as well
to let him go, and so learn what object
he had in view He piled up the hin,
J., rT,s H.. II
nuts and fired chewing gum at the dogs,
and at the very top Prince stood quite
still and looked round at US ALL as much
az TO say who among you poor mis-
cradle two-legged creatures is worthy of a
monument like that? You can get hold
Of a scoundrel any day, you can get hold
of some respectable man any day, but il
is only once in century that a Handle
tOnian appears" And then the smallest
boy who was in the Second reader read
[ out the inscription on the obelisk of plain
granite. He was pretty slow about it,
hut he succeeded in making even ME I'M
derstand. The inscription read:
HAMBLEToNIAN.
The Great Progenitor of Trotters.
Born May g. 1913.
Died March o. 1876.
so, you see, after all, a good trotter,
like the small child in a Sunday school
book has a monument raised to his men,
DRY, but it's a Disgrace, with capital D,
that some of the numerous bodies who
contributed to Hambletonian and who had
gained ducats by him do not have the
grounds kept in order and the fence paint
ed. Having been born Quaker / can't
bear to see things not quite tidy, .but for
once in my life, and that's this summer,
l had so much tidiness that 1 turned and
fed.
Things were arranged this way: There
| was an oyster shell on every mantel shelf
to hold dead matches BY dead matches
| mean those that have had the breath of
life burned out of them. In the corner of
the room was tiny tea chest intended to
hold scraps of paper, and if by chance
you dropped your dead match in your tea
chest or your piece of paper in your shell
the ladies of the family, usually spoken
of as girls" though it's been many a
day since they clapped their hands for
| mamma, came down upon you with a
wrath that only a boarding house keeper
can exhibit They were the cleanest PEG
pie ever saw. Cleanliness to them meant