Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-08

Associate
Court of the United States realizes how a
man l. overshadowed by having had for MS
father a man of worldwide fame. When
ever people go to the Supreme Court room
as they do by the hundreds each day during
periods when a large number of visitors are
In the city they always want TO have the
Justices on the bench pointed out by name
oh, that's the son Of DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes author of The Autocrat or the
Breakfast Table, Is what is told them IN
nearly every instance by the guides ana
others.
Then they crane their heads and pass
the word along to the effect that the justice
IN the gown on the extreme end to the risht
OF the chief justice is the son OF onVer
Wendell Holmes. For that reason MT. JUS
tlce Holmes probably receives more atten-
ton from visitors to the court room than
any other judge on the bench II doesn
matter that some of the Judges themselves
have done things that will cause their sons
to be pointed out because of their relation
ship to them. They are overshadoWed Tor
the time by the presence on the bench OF
son of that distinguished man OF letters
who has been read and Is beloved by every
one.
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There is a goat In the Presidential stables
that browses about among the thorough
BREEDS in homelike way. He has free en-
try to every part of the stable. He KNOWS
the horses and they know him. He Is not
there as a playfeIlow and beast of burden
for the Roosevelt children, although the
children take a deep interest In him. he
is there to help train the horses IN true
western style.
AWAY out west, where the cowboys have
high-spirited animals that have had Ittie
training. there is special need lot meth
DDS of bringing the steeds INTO supJecliuh.
1t is customary to simply put a goat IN the
roam wherever it pleases. 1t browses ABOUT
and butts its head against everything IL
comes in contact with. 1t goes among me
horses and they get accustomed 10 nave
their sides and legs punched with PAIR Oh
horns The high-mettled steeds at f1rst go
pretty nearly wild when they feel their
sides being punched with a pair OF sharp
horns They prance under the discipline
But the bllly-goat keeps busy. de WORKS
his way around them and they get to know
him. After horses have become accustomed
to having a goat amble around them ana
under them it is said they are disciplined
for almost anything.
BY that same method the Roosevelt horses
are disciplined. 1t is said they are as we'll
trained as any horses of the country, ana
with the discipline given them by the ON
cious goat, they are regarded as beyond be-
ing scared in any ordinary manner
* x
There is a venerable Washington printer
who can occasionally be induced to tell how
he once bought horse for fifty cents and
then had to pay $50 to get rid of the ami
NAL He attended the old original horse
bazaar here one day several years ago, and
among the animals offered for sale was a
feeble old horse that could scarcely stand
on its feet The auctioneer tried hard to
get bid on the skeletonic beast, but could
not. Finally he sang out:
Wont somebody make me a bid? All
this horse needs is food and a little care
and attention and he will develop into
noble animal Won't somebody start him
at fifty cents?'
1t was clear that the auctioneer's great de-
sire was to get the lean animal out of his
establishment lest it should die there His
words made an impression on the printer,
who was unacquainted with horsefesh, but
who believed the auctioneer's words about
the animal. being developed into a fine
steed.
He bought the horse and had it led to his
home on 11th street near G. street He ush-
cred it into his back shed through a narrow
little foot alley, and bought a bale of hay
and barrel of corn to begin the fattening
and remaking process.
When he went away from home the fol-
lowing morning to his business he instruct
ed his wife to feed the animal at noon, but
did not tell her how much corn to give it.
The wife rolled the entire barrelful in
front OF the horse, because, as she said af-
forwards:
Il knew horses We're the most intelligent
animals. and | believed our horse. Tom.
would do as human beings do-eat as much
as was necessary, and then stop"
The horse of course, gorged itself with
corn. and when the printer came home that
evening 1t was lying on its back. with all
four feet up. and its groans could be heard
two blocks away. like concert of deep
bass violins. with few baritone horns add
ed. The animal swelled to enormous pro-
portions and died, of course
And" said the printer in explanation. at
cost me cool $50 to have the shed and al
ley fence torn away and my fiftycent horse
taken out and removed to horse heaven,
then at Glesboro point"
* X
Where's the man who has charge Of this
Officer" demanded a we'll dressed lady, who
had every appearance of being perturbed.
as she rushed up to the counter in a local
express office the other afternoon. The
clerk at the far end of the counter heard
the query. as did also every other occupant
OF the room. The agent of the company
made quick getaway to the upper story
and the patient clerk arose from the box
which he had been sitting. laid his Gig
arctic on the edge of the counter, and APP
preached the irate customer.
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