The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-03-30

| oCI NhHt. AS He WdlkS WITH STEADY
tread between the burrows, helping his
master to produce the cotton and the
corn which clothes and feeds the
world; as through the days and years
he draws his burden in towns and
cities, patiently performing the druid
gerry of commerce; on the field of bat
tie where, with flashing eyes and
foaming sides, he bears his martial
rider to victory or death; and on the
race course where, with nostril dis
tended and quivering nerve, he strug-
giles with his kind for the supremacy
in stamina and speed: at all times
and in all places the horse is the no.
blest of Gods dumb creatures"
Mr.. Tom Randolph, of the National
Bank of Commerce, st. Louis, tells of
an incident connected with Bailey's
lively political tussel with Governor
Hogg in Texas. 1t was at a stock
show at Fort Worth where hogs were
conspicuously in evidence. Senator
Bailey, on being fairly dragged up to
the platform, says Mr. Randolph,
opened the speech that was expected
of him by saying: "I do not like
hogs, but l do like horses" and
launched out in a flood of rhetorical
praise of the animal to whom he
claimed man owed his most grateful
affection, in terms that captivated the
great gathering of farmers.
Hon. w. R. Webb, who before he sat
in the United States Senate, founded
the noted preparatory school at Bell
Buckle, Tennessee, loves on public oc-
casions to tell of Joe Bailey, the Mis-
sissippi boy, the brightest in school
and leader of his classes, whose wild
owed mother had invested her little
all in his education at Webb's noted
factory for converting raw boys into
the finished product of manly men
with the result that the investment
paid, after he had become a lawyer
in Texas, in one fee, alone, as attor-
ney for the Federal government,
more than ten thousand per cent.
If any doubt remains that "the
proper study of mankind, with due re-
spect to Alexander Pope, is horse
kind" just happen on the public
square of any Southern county seat
on "frst Monday" There will be
seen under critical examination every
| degree and condition of equine perfec-
tion and imperfection, from the fiery
Bucephalos to the -quartered Ro-
sinante-but always with blooded ami
mails predominating. For not only
is the blue grass of Kentucky "full Of
Colonels and fine race horses" as the
editor of the Chicago Herald puts it,
but the paddocks of every State south
of the Line boast racers, hunters and
gated stock bred by men who won
titles on Confederate fields or inherit
ed them from those who did.
Their great captain, Robert E. Lee,
cherished the fondness of a friend for
his war horse, Traveller, Of whom he
wrote to one who wished to paint his
picture, as follows:
"If l was an artist like you I would
draw true picture of Traveller, rep
resenting his fine proportions, muscu-
lar figure, deep chest, short back,
strong launches, fiat legs, small head,
broad forehead, delicate ears, quick
eyes, small feet and black name and
tail Such a picture would inspire
poet who could then depict his
worth and describe his endurance of
toll, thirst, heat and cold, the dan
gers and sufferings through which he
has passed. He could dilate upon his
sagacity and affection and his invaria-
BILE response to any wish of his rider.
He might even imagine his thoughts
through his long night marches and
days of battle through which he has
passed. But l am no artist and can,
therefore, only say he was a Confed-
crate gray. He carried me through
the Seven Days battle around Rich
mond, the second Manassas, at Sharps-
burg, Fredericksburg, the last day of
Charlottesville, to Pennsylvania, at
Gettysburg and back to the Kappa
hammock. From the commencement of
he campaign in 1864, at Orange, till
its close around Petersburg, the sad
die was scarcely off his back as he
passed through the fire of the Wild
erness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor
md across the James River. He was
in almost daily requisition in the win
toy of 1964-65 on the long line of de-
fenses from the Chckahominy, north
Of Richmond, to Hatcher's Run, south
# the Arpomattox. In the campaign
If 1865 he hore me from Petersburg
TO the final day at Appomattox Court
house. You know the comfort he is
TO me in my present retirement. He
is we'll supplied with eouipments.
Two sets have been sent to him from
Tncland and one from the ladies of
Raltimore. and one from the City of
Richmond. but think his favorite is
he American saddle from st. Louis.
Nf all his companions in toil-Rich-
r,ond Brown. Roam. Ajax and quiet
Tucv Lonr-he is the onlv one that
"ptaired his vigor to the last. You
"ar. ! an sure, from what I have
aid, paint his portrait"