Arizona republican., 1910-08-22
BEING KIND.
It Can Be Easily Run Into the
 Ground, Says Trainer.

| Kindness to animals IS good | thing remarked the old liveryman. | after hanging a blacksnake whip on | the wall. put it's something that can | be easily run into the ground. l was | just warming the hide of that buck | skin pony with this whip. when a woman came up and said I ought to be in jail.
 She took a lump of sugar from
 her pocket and stepped up to give it | to the buckskin, just to show what kindness will de. and that pony's off
 hind foot missed her head by about | half an inch. She was so scared that
 she had to lean against a tree to keep | from fainting.
 Kindness IS like anything else.' commented the horse trader. It's q good thing if you use it at the right time and in the right place. but
 you've simply got to use judgment or you'll make a mess of every thing.
 Il used to have a handsome bay horse that was naturally too lazy for any use. Whenever l led that horse out of the stable to hitch him up took a buggy whip and whaled him over the legs a few times. l never touched him on the back or sides. | where he was used to it; l just pol ! isEed his legs. where the hide was thin.
 After two or three treatments of that sort he didn't need Any more whipping from me If I just reached for the whip when l was in the bug gy he'd nearly jump out of the har- ness and when he was on the read he was always up against the bit and everybody thought he was the most ambitious and industrious nag in the country. He didn't know that I couldn't reach his legs when l was in the buggy So you see that little judgment and diplomacy made good horse out of a poor one.
 "Afterward I sold that horse for fat price to a doctor, and in three weeks that doctor was at my office
 roaring in three languages. He said the horse was so lazy that you could I not pry him along the road with | crowbar. So I bought the horse back at half price I sold him for and I l have been buying and selling him at intervals ever since"
 | Horses are a good deal like Chil- dren," said the old liveryman. When went to school. about a hundred years ago, l had a teacher who was | a wonder He made a study of the ! kids and knew the disposition of each 1 one good many teachers take it | for granted that all kids are as much alike as wooden soldiers. This par | ticular teacher was different. Some
 of the young ones he never said a cross word to. and others he larruper
 until you could hear them yell all
 over the township.
 People used to say that he show
 ed partiality. but it wasn't so. If a boy was ugly and stubborn that teacher would take it out of him; | if another boy was shy and sensi- l tive the teacher loaded him with | kindness and got his confidence. l was one of the ugly and stubborn 1 lads, and I used to think the teacher was monster. but I realize now | that the lickings he gave me were ] the best tonic ever had. l If man is going to handle horses | successfully he should be like that | teacher Horses differ just as much as children, and so do dogs and ! other animals. Thet gray horse by | the door is the best horse in this barn, but one of the kindness cranks would ruin him in a week. Just leave 1 him alone and attend to your own knitting and you'll never have any trouble with him; but if you go to stroking his neck and cooing into his ear he'll get mad and give you a short-leg jolt.
 "The buckskin that I was dressing down a while ago when that woman broke into the game is natural
 born insurgent. You have to keep him
 humble and mindful of death or he'd
 tear the barn down 1 give him
 whaling at S:15 every morning and
 he remains in a cheerful frame of
 mind for twenty-four hours.
 That sorrel there has never been
 touched with whip in eight years,
 for the simple reason that he never
 needed a whipping. He gets enough
 betting and Jumps of sugar to please
 the grand worthy matron of the So-
 ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
 to Animals, but if that treatment was
 used indiscriminately in the livery
 business a barn like this would need
 padded cells and straight -jackets.-
 Chicago News.