Evening star., 1928-10-14
Capital Sidelights

These Indian Summer days, when
the leaves are assuming their riot OF
coloring, prompt Representative John
D. Clarke to turn from campaign ora
tory for a few moments and to preach
a poetic sermon on reforestation:
who has seen any canvas touched
by Corot or Innes that equals in
beauty the Autumn tints OF sumac or
soft maple dressed in matchleSs reds,
or the green tints of the sugar maple
and oak or the golden yellows of she'll
bark hickory or disappearing chest
nut, with here and there some lone
some pine or hemlock. that make cur
hills the Masters masterpiece in colors?
In Gods great out of doors the old
order changeth' There are left the
rude scars on Mother Natures face to
tell their tragic story if we know
Mother Nature we'll enough to interpret
her signs. Some poet had the spirit of
the scene in mind when he wrote:
$50 he wandered away and away
With Nature the good old nurse
Who sang to him day by day
The songs of the universe;
And whenever the way seemed long
Or his heart began to fail,
She sang a more wonderful song
Or told a more marvellous tale
IAN Agassiz studies our rocks and
earth's structure to give us his legacy
in bending twigs' in the fundamentals
of geology. and Lowell says of him:
1.-The beauty of his better self lives on
In minds he touches with fire, in
many an eye
He trained to truths exact severity;
He was teacher; why he grieved
for him
Whose living word still stimulates the
In endless file shall loving scholars
The glow OF his transmitted touch to
share
"A Humboldt turns his God-given
talents to the study of Mother Nature,
and the fundamentals OF physical geog-
raphy become the inheritance OF our
daddies OF tomorrow can help incline
their twigs II they are willing to make
the effort"
Eulogizing one of Kentuckys three
most famous products. Representative
Virgil Chapman Of that State gives us
an intensely interesting word picture of
the development of the thoroughbred
strain:
The limestone formation underlying
the blue grass region Of Kentucky trans
mits to its soil an unsurpassed fertility
and Imparts to the blue grass itself sub
stance that incites physical development
in horses that feed upon Its luxuriance
and gives to them bone and muscle and
heart, speed. weight-carrying ability,
endurance, stamina and courage-quali-
ties that have brought to Kentuckys
he nf
supremacy TO the tan-bark ring and to
her fieet-footed thoroughbreds the floral
wreath Of conquerors on the turf.
THE blood of the Kentucky trotter
in the remount service will carry on In
artillery and transport horses. Gen.
Basil w. Duke and Gen. John B. Castle
man, both knightly Kentucky gentle
men who rode with the intrepid John
Hunt Morgan In the COS. have left beau
tiful tributes to the superior qualities of
the saddle-bred horse for cavalry serv-
ice, eloquently depicting his powers of
endurance. his smooth action and easy
careful treatment
Both the standatd-bred trotter and
the saddle bred horse have strong in
fusion Of the patrician blood Of the
thoroughbred. Gen. Harbord said:
This blood, above all others, carries
with it the qualities OF courage, stamina
and speed which are so essential to the
saddle horse for military purposes. 1t
will be q sad day for our country II 1t is
permitted to disappear
I'm reading the history OF the thor
oughbred and his ancestors we learn
that among the royal patrons of the
horse centuries ago were William the
Conqueror, Edward III. Henry VII,
Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth. James ].
who rode horseback TO Westminster
Hall: Charles /. Charles II, who intro.
duced Eastern blood into England;
James II and william III, during whose
reign appeared in England the first Of
three stations to one Of which every
modern English and American thor
oughbred traces ancestry In direct male
line. He was an Eastern horse, Byerly
Turk.
THE other two founders of the thor
oughbred race were Godolphin Barb and
barley Arabian. Every other male line
has disappeared. Not only does the
thoroughbred trace his ancestry to those
three sires, but the fastest trotters the
world has produced are ScionS of the
house of Hambletonian, a descendant
Of Darley Arabian, and the greatest
saddle horses that ever carried the blue
ribbon from show ring traced their
lineage through Denmark to Byerly
Turk, the frst of the triumvirate Of
founders Of the thoroughbred race"