| Show 1 A MISTAKEN FEAR The rue editor of the thc North American Review gets a wise streak on him occasionally In the current he says sas There arc are abundant signs on every vel hand that if we do not manage somehow to check cheek and restrain the overleaping ambition of our fier fiery youths we shall ac accumulate within the next score of years e elS lS some tens of th thousands thousands' of broken down athletes who are arc of little use nse to themselves and Hid a n detriment to humanity We Ve do 10 not believe that We Ye do 10 not believe that the w world is going back much in the way of exercise x ici c. c There will be a a. a good many broken down men no doubt for there always has lIas been hut but the thc athletics ot or today arc are not half as hard as was gas the farmer boys boy's work s sixty years cars ago Take the thc best runner and jumper the champion at the baseball game and the football game and make him do what the tho the farmers' farmers boys bos did of old for a week and he would swear it was killing him To get up at daylight to work until after affer dark lark was a common thing and it was real work When a bo boy of 16 raked and bound and kept keIt ept 1 up with a that cradler-that that was work Wh When n he lie hauled stones on an old-fashioned old gunboat and lifted with all the thc strength he had a hundred times h. h a day when he had to tp plow Illow with an old fashioned plow plo and if ir the thc point struck a rock he got the plow plo handle on one side wh when n he had to mow and pi pitch eh hay har all da day and if there was a threat of ofa a n thunder storm continue his lila work after night and haul wheat until 1 0 o'clock clock rin m ii the morning Then Thell for recreation he would tr try to shoulder two ho bushels or three b bushels or four bushels of or wheat st n standing ins if in iii a half half b bushel measure all t the There was vas no no one d afra in those da days s that tha the he would be hurt A good man many of them w were re but it did not matt matter r there was always the survival survival survival sur sur- vival of the fittest And then there is a class or ot young joung men in our country who have w wealth alth which thc they never earn earned d who ho want to distinguish themselves some way war The lie good God did not fix it in their brains and ana I- I they hc have hac nothing loU ng to fall fallback b ck on except pt on mus mus- cle dc le Thus lu we wc see sec one of the heir to millions millions' exhausting hi his hig strength in driving a coni- coni mon mon coach from London to Brighton and he lie shows off well at that and that thai is probably the only thing at which h he could sh show w off oft well T We e se see a great many coll college ge boys bos rowing rosing playing playing playing play play- ing ball and running miming races to the limit of their hc r I strength but that docs not hurt because all they went to college for was to get a degree and a a certificate et lt that that they spent so man many many years ears within H s sacred cd circle Bo Boys s m are arc a good d deal al me like colts it docs hoes not hurt hUlf th them m to run rail a race And And again nd again like lika colts is only about one in ill fifty that will vill ever eyer be beI I hearl h rd from in the thc great race of or life They are not i the ones to be troubled about but it is the chill chi of the slums who do not eer every p day have haye enough to cat eat or enough clothes to wear wear or any r rt t ti school hoo who arc only a few re years cars a away ay from being rs citizens with Yot votes s votes that count for just as much u as does President Taft Tafts s They arc are the on ones onesto ones ones' s' s sr r. r to Tic c troubled about There is a feeling in the cast east that iu in order to get first class horses we must resort to first prin- prin rin- rin and get gel ct Arabian s stock ock That Arabian stockis stock stock It is s' s good gOOl first class but it t does docs not compare with English or 01 American thoroughbreds Those who believe in the theory that all the best that is in inthe the thc horse lorse is in the Arabian will win admit that the blood Mood horse of the hc modern world can any Arabian n but hut that b by some peculiar infusion of stock the thoroughbred lacks the stamina of or the Arabian horse Our belief helie is that it is because the c s- s thoroughbred horse is never worked except when a colt coU he is put up Uj aud trained for three or f four ur weeks eclis and runs a v fc races The rue best wa way p to get jail lU there is out of or an nn animal is to l keep cp that animal 1 at work until his muscles and joints are arc set until his x-his i lun lungs s. s are arc perfectly expanded that is the 1 c the Arab horse has 7 j One of the greatest race raci horses horse of of California Thid Thad Stevens His owners owner's wife drove him for l i two twos or three years cars in a buggy u gr and he had no j especial cial characteristic except that he lie had a liar Ijar elastic clastic way of picking up his feet an and he W was 1 ri irk laz lazy bl beyond ond description f So o the owner gave him hini to a celebrated training training training train train- ing horse man told him about his wa ways s 's of moving moving 1110 ing audio 0 f take takO l him to tl the Oakland track trink and t tr 3 him hima few and ana tl if he could not make muke I a a days a K see sec i n a trotting totting lore of him This trainer trainel began begun work worl 2 and aud after two or three days aYK he lie gave the horse a aI I flogging with the thc result that old Thud rhu got ot nn angry r j and l l h he r ran n away avny with his trainer and und rau ran for au an hour oi or two an and when he tie was finally pled in it tile the trailer 1 got bot off the sulk sulky and ruh rubbing in his arms said I HI will never drive him for a trotting horse any more but he lie can outrun any horse on earth So he lie was put in training for running with the result that for three or four years earB he beat all comers corners But Rut he lie had a brother brothel that grew up among n a band jand of mustangs and an passed for a mustang But the brother brothel was just as ns good as old old Thud That an and so when he lic hea was a broken braken a man got on him hini one day lay and nd struck him him with a whip or 01 a n spur with ith the tim result that he ran with him about loin Join hours b before before be be- fore he could control him at ail all Then he was trained for fOI a race face and amid he lie won it w with lilt l h such ease case that the crowd in their enthusiasm cheered him so loudly loathly that he lie became frightened as he lie came caine camen in n jumped the fence threw the ri rider er and aud run rumi home honi ionic eight miles when the woman of the house honse came caine out put a blanket on him him and put him in ill inthe time the stable stahle and when he was 10 years CarR old there was not a horse in California that could commIt begin begino n nto to o travel with him bun either for a mile or 01 for all day 11 So we do du not miot think there is an anything wron about the stock o oC time the American thoroughbred horse lorse except that he lie is not exercised when he lie is grow growing ng His lungs do not expand his muscles ire are flabby he lie i is daintily f fl d. d and so when he reaches mature matur age a mustang will sill beat him on ona ona ona a six days days' journey It i is a good deal so w with th boys They ought to o exercise that j is the they ought to work and when the they hey do to not flOt work unless their brains arc are fine and there here is some someway way for them to live by br their brains the they get to be he no flO account the they arc very liable to o become blowhards and tell when they won wona a a boat i ace or a football game And a as we said above not all of them arc worth raising |
