The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-02

They Had Accomplishments which
We're Mystery to Their Owner.


From the Detroit Free Press.
Horses IN the artillery are required to
know just three things. When they know
these three pieces of Information they are
called battery, broke" and they are reliev-
Cd from all Obligations to know another
thing during Their careers. The first item
in The education of The artillery horse is
tNat when he is standing st.l he Is TO
stand sull. regardless Of everything, untH
he gets the next order. The next point
Is that when he 3 ordered TO go then so
he shall for all there is in him. The third
pclnr Is that when halted he shall swing
around In the direction from which be has
come and stand stock still, and that is the
prethtSt of all, for IL goes to the tune Of
battery front INTO action" When a horse
IN the artillery knows those three things
he's battery broke" and he never needs
TO Know any more. If there Is need of a
few other bits of miscellaneous informa-
ton The horse looks to the artilleryman to
know them.
The simplicity Of oil this is what raised
mob on the farm. The commanding officer
OF the farm had bought a pair of con-
dtnhed horses at any army sale. Fine.
big, heavy beasts they were and there is
seldom too much che matter with the
horse when the army comes to sell him,
50 ther" is many a good bargain to be
mad M mat way so long as one doesn't
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on his mt OF stock THIS farmer maybe
dldnt know the difference, or perhaps he
forgot TO make sure, and there was nobody
az the sale to tell him that these were
battery broke horses that knew only
three things and would never know more
nor less.
The farmer had out his pair in biz
held, where he was busy about some OF
the tasks which keep farmers busy at this
hme or year They were hitched up to "a
good BIS farm wagon. which took up about
as much room as the calsson and timber
dld IN the light battery in which these
hclsrS had served, but it didn't begin to
weigh anything like as much and was
JUST easy for those two horses All went
wen 50 long as II was a question of using
the t1rst idea those horses had The field
was q pi6 one, aud they were stopped at
one end Of It, There they stood The
farmer chifruped az them to follow him
along the row he was setting out When
that was without result he yelled Get
ap. with trimmings. The order was not
military but the trimmings seemed natu-
roli they reminded The horses OF the ar
| uilery. sim the order for the forward
mafch mad not come, aud the horses were
too well trained to bulge. At last the
FARMER came running up with a whole lot
or almost genuine artillery language and
! grabbed the whip and dashed the horses
ne dld npt hurt them-they were too tough
Tor thAb-but he did convey the impression
thal inc time had come to bring their
second idea into play They started for
the other end of the field full tilt, as they
h4d been taught to 90 under an circum-
Stances, and with the fine scorn of wbaL
may be in the way which characterizes
the artillery Along toward the other
end OF the field II seemed to strike
them that things were not altogether as
they used to be in the Old battery; there
were no drivers TO keep the pace up and