Show I THE FIRE HORSE S i. i A A. New York paper speaks complainingly o of the thC I plan on foot to pc pension s on- on the old and fire horses that thatis is to provide comfortable quarters and good food for them as long as they live Jive It admits that they ther are arc fine flue animals that they're carefully trained properly housed an and care carefully ully fr atc but that they do comparatively little littie hardS hard har S w work rk i d the paper sees no reason tn why they should be ten tenderly cared cred for in their old age while the in m the street cleaning department which york ork s so much rl cli harder g go out without a regret x That editor JacJ Jacks the finer attributes utes A gen gen- Kline fire ho ho- ho that knows his business and is ala always al al- ways a s e cager g to td perform his lila duties is something more than a hani He very frequently teaches his driver new he is part of the department part of ofte the the te so soul soil l of r the department and when a a a. team of them sta start t. t out to hunt a fire the they're re an example to t tt men of the excellence and nd the splendor of g i to p perform ff a a dirty dufy fy The horses in the cleaning clean clean- 1 ing department have no 1 right Fight ht to he l compared to the horses in in the fire department horses that are selected l because of f the their r merits and those merits include i not only perfect forms but perfect lungs and that high blood which insures absolute courage ami and th that thil t a 1 which makes certain that not a moment mo- mo ment will bo be lost before the peril t they ey go to fight gets under way The difference is as mu much h in mind as it is in fl form The horses in the street cleaning department have no use for their intellect all tile they know is to to pull when they aro are ordered to go ahead Jand and to back when they are ordered to back There is as much diff difference rence between them and the fire department J ent hors horses s as there is between an eagle and anda andi i a crow I is the same with horses c as with with men If a selects which requires s no special brains and he toils hard all his da days s nobody except his immediate famil family cares mueL when he goes goes' out If a man chooses a higher field and shows by every act of his life that he lie is fit to fill that field S fl no matter what the call may be whether of a sacrifice sacrifice fice flee or danger or what not if he is eager ever every hour to do his duty why by the very force of his employment he be expands his mind and so when age comes and with it the infirmities o of age he suffers S. S more mole than titan a common man Let any anyone one read Jobs Job's description o of the war horse how c lie he he the thee i e i battle battIe afar off the thunder of the captains an and the shouting how he among the trumpets S. S Ha HIla Ha Ja Ia 1 how he be the ground in his hisa fierceness and rage then let him hint jo go up to the fire a j department and he will see a dozen horses any anyone one of which would be gla glad to do that same sam thing Then let him go to th the cleaning department and andS andI S I look ok at tile the horses and he will se see sc-c that if that call should come eom to them instead of running to the battle bat bat- tic tle the chances are they would take to their heels S t and bring up tip at Woods Cross Cro- Theres There's a dif difference renee Horses arc are like m men irn u there thel ar some of them that ought to be taken care of th there rc are arc a good man many of them that it doesn't matter |