The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-14

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spesd and health in his tWlnKling teet,
and happiness IN the JOY Of his game
ness and long life in his companion
ship. Let the gamblers have the
English horse. but let the American
gentleman control the destIn OF the
American horse
The Mint Julip.
why gentIemeh. with such blood
as thar, you could breed q two minute
JUMP out Of a cabbage plant. Did you
ever breed one as they breed them IN
i Tennessee. where the Tennessee Jullp
| like the Tennessee PAGER holds all the
world recordsr II was told OF an OLD
| fellow down here in my boyhood Gays
| that an old circuit rider rode up to his
house one day and learned from his
sOrrowing widow that the old man had
passed away. He got along all right.
| she said, till horse trader FROM Ten
nessee came along last spring and
staid over night and tort I'm how TO
mix green III his licKer, an he Jes
drunk hisselt TO death.
| And | don't blame him; for only a
month ago | rode over Ewell farm
looking at John K. Gentry and the
colts ana the brood mares. There was
a hundred acre pasture carpeted with
blue grass in bright figures of black
eyed susans and purple climbing lark
spurs; overhead lowered the trees and
from their lofty limbs fioated that
moist delIcately sweet perfume that
! God ever gave to mortals-the odOr OF
the Wild grape bloom. A pretty brook
wandered through the growing valley
pouring out some distance from under
huge oak. Here the cold spring
bubbleu up and after running down an
! old trough lined with sweet moss ana
cool with soggy wood it darted away
over the hill amid the daisies ana lark-
spurs. In a moist place where tue
spring idled moment l caught the
mint grazing. With a silk handker
chief for a halter, | thrust his nose
under the cola spring sprout TILL the
ice cold drops stood all over ITS veivet
muzzel ike frozen snow beads IN holly
in December. and then right there |
proceeded to hitch up. | suspected l
should catch this Julip before / started
out and so | had with me the cup and
the loaf sugar Now right there had
nIpped the speed of that youthful Jullp
in the bud had used a spoon, crush
ing all the delicate aroma out with
TOO precipitate mixture. Julips must
be logged before they are asked to go
ana it took me ten minutes to warm
him up by twirling the glass till the
sugar was dissolved. Properly rugged
with the mint and little speed sus-
tanning elixir to nerve him in the
homestretch, he stood up before me,
deep mahogany bay, with star IN
his forehead and two white feet. and
he w ent at the word and the record
was broken.
But let me caution you about drly-
ing a JUMP to the record The mint Juhp
with a careful driver can &c plumber
of heats, but wise man goes only one
and against time, for any other is apt
i, to produce the impression that you are
driving for the team record. ana l
have known some old fellows to swear
| it was even four in hand.
The Horse.
HE came with our forefathers
across the mountains of Virginia and
Carolina, and he carried the hardy
settlers from the Appalachian to the
Pacific. In the old North State he
stood out in the rain all day hitched to
q RACK around the courthouse, with a
bit in his mouth as big as grubblug
hoe, and a saddle on his back like unto
| a caravansary, while our sturdy sires
went in at the Mecklen burg meeting
and passed the first declaration OF
independence that ever came from a
free born people. On his back they
settled up all this virgin land, drove
the red murderers out from Fort
Mimms to the Tennessee, and when
they took the war harness off ana put
the pillow gear on, 10. the land bios
somed into cotton blooms and was bill
lowed on the emerald waves of the
corn field Later, in those trying
times when southern men thought so
strongly they were willing to die
for their convictions, on him they LED
the barb wings of Wheeler's matchless
raids ana Forests stubborn charges
Skin and bones, staggering along
with sore back and unshod feet,
starved and hook marked with federal
bullets there was never time when
the cannon roar was not the organ OF
mis- faithful ear, the rebel yell the
music of his soul. At last, when his
war worn master was honorably dis
charged the great and magnanlmous
leader of the northern army, recognlz
ing his worth especially inserted IN
the articles of capitulation that he
should be permitted to bring that
master home and drag down the fur.
row the sword that had been turned
into the pillow.
The Old Pacing Horse.
1.-The old pacing horse. 1t almost
brings a sob to my throat when l see
to what heights of fame he has
climbed. Holding every record on
earth ever held by hOrse-the fastest
mile, the fastest two miles, three
miles, four miles, five miles, six miles,
seven miles in a race the only horse
who has ever annIhilated time and
space by striding forty four feet at
each click OF the watch and drawing
man and cart a mile In less than
two minutes the old horse that came
over the mountains, that plowed the
earth and planted new civilization
that carried old fashioned religion to
the primitive meeting house, and was
t1a nioneer of the gOspel with the