Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-20

may be ruined by some tritiing eX-
posture. Sheridan said that he priced
his famous Winchester because of his
powers of strength and endurance.
Winchester carried his master in
twenty battles and was many times
wounded. and Sheridan said that the
horse was ''aS cool and calm under
fire as one of my soldiers Sergeant
Joel Wilson, of the First Maine Cav
airy, while riding in Il charge at
Brandy Station, Va, in 1868, noticed
duh thud as though some missile
had struck the animal upon which he
rode After the fight he noticed that
the horse would not drink, but he at
tributed it to nervousness. because
even the horses felt the excitement of
that fierce saber charge. The COM
mand forded Il river and Immediately
went into bivouac Then, and not till
then. Sergeant Wilson's Steed lay
down. and ii was discovered that
bullet had entered its flank, and had
passed diagonalIy through his BODY
and out under the girths. This
wound the horse must have carried
| for two hours and had he succumbed
there would have been one soldier less
i'll the ranks. The horse which bears
an officer through Il fight may do as
much good as Il battalion of men. Dur
! ing an action on the Weldon Road
near Peterborough. in 1864, Col. Her
ring of the One Hundred and Eigh-
teenth Pennsylvania, was hit in the
leg below the knee, but continued rid
ing about. giving orders, unconscious
that he was severely hurt until an
other officer showed him that his boot
leg was dripping blood. He soon be-
came faint turned over the command
to the officer next in rank. and had
his horse led toward the rear. After
| bearing his master Il good distance
| from the field the faithful animal
dropped dead. He had been mortally
wounded by the bullet which passed
through the leg of his rider some time
before
Then what of the suffering of the
wounded horse before death ends his
misery? Since he is chiefly Il pas
s've agent in inf1icting harm in battle
it is misleading of justice that he
should he made to endure more of it.
as he almost always does, than the ac-
tive combatantS. He is n much bolder
| target than the man he bears, and Of
ten shields him from the enemy's ere;
but he has no means of striking back,
no training in self-defense, and is sell
dom allowed to follow his natural in
| stinct. The saddle horse may save
himself by running away. but the poor
| speak, to Il rentless doom, and the
| shooting of horses in order to cripple
the enemyS power of locomotion is an
important feature of the iron game. If
painless death were the certain fate
of the innocent victims. it would not
| be so bad: but the wounded horse is
left to SufferingS that are pitiful ~
think about and that touch the hearts
of those who witness them. Human
ity takes COMPASSION on him so far as
it can. but wounded men naturally
and properly receive aid before dumb
animals. and angels of mercy are not
as Legion. cor the battlefield.
When weaA Legins to exceed repair
in your body W. are going 70 fcll sick.
The signs Of it~are: Loss OF flesh
p7IeneSs. weakness. nervousness. etc.
The repair needed is food. You think
you eat enough. and yet you feel that
YOU wear oct more tissue, energy.
nerve-force. than your food makes for
you. The difficulty is that you do not
digest enough And this is so serious
/ it is worth sitting down seriously to
! think about. If you can't digest what
| You eat. take i few doses of Shaker
! Digestive Cordial The effect of it will
| be to increase your flesh and make
you feel stronger You won't fall sick
I Proof that it is in control of your re-
pair apparatus. Its easy enough to
test this for yourself Take Il few bot
| ties of Shaker Digestive Cordial
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