Show Kindness to a Horse THE T HE other ether day a wagon loaded with iron pipe for a new newhouse newhouse newhouse house on the hillside came along The horse did his very best but It was with the greatest effort eUort that he could drag drab his heavy load over the level space at a t the foot of ot the hill bill The driver was determined that the horse should do the work and urged and lashed him un unmercifully unmercifully mercifully Very quickly a lady lad followed by two beautiful dogs appeared upon the scene and remonstrated with the driver upon his treatment of ot the horse pointing pain tins out the fact that the faithful animal could not instead of ot would not draw the load She sug suggested that a part of or the iron be re ro removed moved The driver was determined not to remove any an of the load be because because because cause he did not care to work in the bi broiling oiling sun and the horse was probably probably ably not his any way The woman was in no wise discouraged aged in her humane effort She told the driver to let his horse rest rent and she would see that the load reached its destination There was another team with two horses down the street and thither went the woman and my friend who happened to be a spec of this scene saw that the woman talked a n few minutes and then the man unhitched his horses and came over Oer to the other wagon wa on and an in ten minutes the heavy hean load was land ed edat at its destination The Tho ladys face tace fairly beamed with joy One would have thought that the tho men had done her some borne great per favor Now what can I 1 do for tor you she asked Oh nothing Wa W have to do little things for each euch other you ou know said the one who had given the th aid ald But the lady ran across the street to her lovely hillside cottage and came back with u n 1 u pie which she insisted upon their eating You should have seen these teamsters take tako off their hats to the woman as they started down the hill though neither of them knew that she was most famous woman writer Sarah K Bolton Cleveland Plain Dealer |