Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-10-01
Horse Lovers Will Read
This With Much Interest
coMPANIoNsHIP OF HORSES
BRINGS OUT HIGHER QUAIL
TIES OF MANKIND


Among the comments of our staff
writer Raymond" on the great fair
at Hamburg N. Y, printed in the Re-
view, is one that will strike a respon
sive chord in many breasts among the
REVIEWS readers.
Western New York was for all but
the last few years the home of our
contributor and he pays full tribute
to its attractions, especially it's scenic
beauties at this season of the year.
But as he bowls homeward through
the scented dusk from the fair in a
motor car that devours the miles as
it flies, he Eliminates upon the fact
that in 1.-THE good old days" while it
took horse several hours to traverse
the distance which the auto now
covers in a comparatively few mo-
ments, the modern method of trans.
portation does not bring the joy of
the old fashioned one. And this, he
Eliminates, is because no mere ma,
chine, whether TIN Lizzie or Rolls
Royce, can produce the, sense of com
partnership that the road-horse never
failed to.
In the words of the Bard "Tis true
It's pity; and pity tbs it's true
With the universally of the automo-
bile and the disappearance, in vast
numbers, of the road horse, something
has been lost out of American life
that was one of it's most precious as
sets-the sense of comradeship be
tween horse and man and the spirit
which their mutual dependency inspir
ed. The men of the future may be just
as clever as progressive and go ahead
as their forefathers, they may 'get
there" great deal quicker, but along
their rapid way they are missing
something of which they will never be
aware but that has made their lives
much poorer in values, both material
and spiritual, than those of the elder
generations which nowadays it is con
sidered the proper thing to regard
with mixture of federation and con
tempt.
Here is little pen picture which
will help to convey our meaning, lift
ed from the pages of Henry d. Thor
eau, greatest of American nature
writer's, whose name is one of the
most famous on our literary SCROLL It
is passage from his diary, not writ
ten for publication, meant merely as
a transcript of experience interesting
to him but too commonplace for per
manent preservation. But since his
great fame, every scrap of Thoreau's
writings has been printed and reprint
ed many times and will continue ia
be as long as man continues to take
any interest iii nature and outdoor life
and has not become mere appendage
Of industrialism and it's mechanisms
1t is dated October 2, 1856:
am amused to see four little Irish
boys, only five or sir years old, getting
a horse in a pasture, for their father,
apparently who is ut work in neigh
boring field. They nave, all in row,
got hold of very long halter and
are leading him. All wish to have a
hand in it. 1t is surprising that he
obeys such small specimens of human
itys bat he seems to be very docile, a
real family horse. At length, by dint
of pulling and shouting, they get him
into rum down hill, and though he
moves very deliberately, scarcely fast
er than walk, all but the one at the
end of the line soon run to right and
left, without having looked around, as
if expecting him to be right upon
them. They stop at last at the bars
which are down, and then the family
puppy, brown pointer, about two
thirds grown, comes bounding to as
sist them. He is youthful and about
as knowing as any of them. The horse
marches gravely behind, obeying the
AdAAAl kuS at LnC IlullCly VI nOuGSIlJ
stands still from time to time, as Il
not aware that they are pulling at all
though they are all together straininf
every nerve to start him. 1t is inter
esting to behold the faithful beast, the
oldest and wisest of the company
thus implicitly obeying the lead o
the youngest and weakest
Few of the older readers, at least
Of the REVIEW, but can evoke from
memory some such picture as this
Iftenest one in which they we're then
ielves among the actors in the scene
was just such a beginning as thii
intimacy and companionship will