Show flores Horses Heroes n Df j War and aPe p aCE E i Have Their 1 li Hall Df Fa E jf 1 L r tJi y t J I fi if i t hf 1 d 1 t 1 It rr b V w 4 sw J w wI wy y s I Y r a J Jr JI C I r i Y r a C GILD t By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ATSON UK ill dog do domay may bo be our most faithful hut but even n lie he can n never yer displace n T In thu affection of mankind that noblest of ot nil all footed tour animals the horse loser About every so BO often some II advised d prophet arises l t to declare a 1 gloomily that the motor age ago Is about Sr to 10 mark the passing for all time jot of faithful Old Dobbin But nut strangely enough Old Dobbin refuses to be doomed lIe He keeps right on plodding along ns as he tIe has hns t for r centuries cen cent tales proving himself t Indispensable In n a host of It f ways and refusing to allow ollow any man-made man contraption b by 11 Its 1 popping smoking dered salvos Us to frighten him away from his Ills place Illace b telde man mon In netting getting the Ille worlds world's work done The horse Is lx not nut losing ground to the gasoline engine lie He Is la more lnor than holding his own No less ea 80 n authority than thon Wayne Dinsmore secretary secretory of ot the Horse Ap Association ocl of ot America pointed out at nt the we annual nutting of ot that organization that at the close flose of there had been four tour outstanding accomplishments of ot the year as regards the horse borse These were an Increase In breeding of ot horses borses ODd and mules In those states having the best befit type of It found foundation tion stock on an Improvement in n the attl attl- tulle tude of city elty users toward to horse drawn vehicles a marked Improvement In th the position of toward to the use of ot horses and mules and ond u a rapid Win gain oln In la the numbers of horses for tor p polo l general riding exhibition and commercial purposes lIere Is U the opInion of f another expert expert J. J. J O. O mm Williams chief horse b for tor the lofted states Department of Agriculture He lIe says sas Many Many signs Indicate that the Iho horse as an tion ton in Is u no ion longer PP on the down grade thus this In jn count coun tr try 7 The i Le best t oue one of these signs Is the growing use of V the horse for tor riding riding not not riding to get somewhere us as In former times but for tor sheer Pleasure and pathetic and physical benefit Five Ive years I ago nn an estimate of horses maintained la 10 tills this country for tor h pleasure riding alone would have been a liberal on one on- At Present It Is conservative conserva conserva- tive e to say puy ny that r ial horses are ore kept solely for tor that M And Ana the number Is 1 ly with f Increasing rapidly rapid rapid- horH horses V the result that the breeding of good has bas been l. l In fact a 0 serious shortage short short- age horses w Ee of or Horses borses probably Impends In III n n year or two may moy be W riding a boom as striking as ns the threaten which for tor a time se seemed III almost most to the continued existence of trained horses en co a large scale Arille In ln this country countr Quite aside from the economic factors which Hi the eight i il save RaVe Te Old 11 Dobbin from extinction n. n there I. I Is Isto matter 1 of f sentiment t which undoubtedly will to tave or oft 1 Impending Impending doom for tor lo Q tit fact many ninny many years liart horse t k has mans mons f sentimental attachment nt for his as always been s second nd only to his attach attach- meat f for human uman members ot of f his family or some I other being belli and no other animal with the the- poston pos pos- e. e f on n of ot the d dog claim such stron 8 can con be ton bond nd of f n a strung DI T To th the white man tb the custom m among Hori nr f many trams of Baying a dead war war- favorite horse on his grave may tuny have lm b C a bit queer Yet the following news story indicates Went tint out Ut over the 10 wires wr only last December red man and white brothers q ender n a er the I are ure re skin where a n horse I is concerned lor The J lIo Ore The Th r friendship or W his strong of ot A man In a i lon lonely OUo lv i developed through a R score core of nf year nn ended In to n nelY i homestead In ln lh the M Moller ler hills ha hu has hi his II death for tor I Pt P. J Jl Frederickson V l and Polly died 4 n firt rM sod and in old companion anlon or I. I hl his lut Iset rt r request u t was 4 that four tour of ot hl hi his bl sable I He a dw dig cl Poll Polly the tt 1 as humanely a as pus poe hands hand no not want lh animal to tall fall Into less leu hed Ind than IU- IU Th This Por reports ot of four tour t Ht ride rIckson W the lh Mo r l and w da dai l lest lut t with had boon been AccordI Accord Accord- I I 4 It Itt 1 4 x o t it t tO o f tiL M 0 e t r. r harry art Ing to the ranchers who carried out their neighbor neighbors request FrederIckson had raised the animal from The mans man's last lut act before he died they said was vas to feed teed and bed down his hie equine partner Out In Hawaii near an on army post a 11 four footed veteran of ot more than thus thirty years rears of active service o oIs Is browsing In fn a n pleasant pasture secure perhaps hi to the knowledge that the pence peace and comfort due duean duenn an nn old soldier Is to be his until his death Ills name Is Whiskers and he was Just a troop horse borse In Uncle Sams Sam's cavalry but he Is typical of ot a 11 long list of ot these faithful mounts for tor whom the troopers themselves have lave de decreed reed a peaceful old age and for tor whom the troopers ore are willing to dig deep In their pockets to assure t It But Iut lest you OU think that It Is only the tho soldier who thus tints reward rewards the comrade of ot his battle day days rend read this Item Hem which appeared In 10 lathe the newspapers newspaper the Ula other day Pueblo Colo Coln-A Coln A A green grins grass pension has ha been awarded to 13 horses which have drawn laundry wagons here for tor many Y years They were retired In favor of motorized equipment The owners decided the steeds had served carved their time Ume In the harness berates and placed them In a large v pasture ture Go Oo down Into Kentucky and visit some of the farms In the Blue Gross Grass country famous for tor Its thoroughbreds where you can call see seo the ease pase and Bod luxury to 10 which sons some of the kings and queens of ot the turf have been retired when their racing days clays were o O er Visit Faraway farm tarn In county own owned d by Elizabeth and see the royal state In which Sinn InlO O 0 V War called by experts the greatest race horse of ot all nil Urn time lives Or visit the great Gnat Hamburg form tarm on the Winchester pike near Lexington the th property of will show The John I H. H Madden where they you where lies Nancy nesting Besting of Celebrities Hanks 04 worlds world's champion trotter from ISO 1 I Hamburg Belle Delle Major to 1811 There also lie th till ties o 0 W and Silicon thoroughbreds Ida Ilia Pickwick known as ns the Queen Quern of nf the West West- Ogden Plaudit Star Shoot for tor five consecutive years tars the running worlds world's leading lending sire the Black J Whirlwind Imp mp credited d with having tho the Queen Queen of ot the tho thus earning won 00 r races tell Sterling fu famous ous as ns the lam ln of unit and Lady J bast lIst honor and Sir Martin Thus 1 hug does man Barton Parton Sir Ur l cherish his Ida friend the horse even en In dent dealt and to tobe tobe tolo roll of horses hows who deserve In fact the honor remembered by roan Is n long bog one and und many be lo world famous There was rf of t them are oro of the great companion and K the fa to the and then STr sit Iho Alexander w who o sighed X for more worl worlds s to conquer There was wn s A Marengo the white horse borse which Napoleon rode rodo at the battle battlo of ot Waterloo and Copenhagen the handsome chestnut steed which bore upon It Its II back on that momentous day the victor duke of Wellington Gods Cods humbler Instrument though meaner clay should share the glory glor of ot that glori 00 ous day America too has hns Its ItA roll of ot honor of horses hOMes who have bave played a distinguished part In making his his- tory Although history has not preserved the tho name of the steed flying fearless and fleet one ne night some hundred and fifty years ago no one ever ever t thinks of ot Paul Revere without thinking of the horSe which b bore re him when the fate tote of a nation was riding that night Then Thoo there was the horse hero bero of another fan famous ride Remember Hurrah Hurrah for tor Hurrah I Hurrah for tOl horse boree and man And when their statues are placed on high Under the dome of ot the Union sky ky The American sol soldiers soldier's ller Temple TempI of ot Fame There with the glorious generals general's name Be De It said In letters lattera both bold and bright Here Hero Is the steed that HUlt saved the he he day Dy By carrying carrying- Sheridan Into the fight From Winchester Winchester twenty twenty miles not Unfortunately the poets poet's words were prophetic for tor It Is doubtful It If one American out of ten can tell tIll you the time mime nume of ot Sher Sherman's Shermans dnn's mount on that historic day In October 1804 Incidentally Inci dentally the writer of ot this article had to search I through h half belt a n dozen volumes before discovering the steeds ds of night It The steed as 09 black as ns bore the name nome of ot lIe He hind had been eln presented to Sheridan by Captain Campbell bell of ot the Second Michigan cavalry had carried the tho general through nearly all the battles from the Rapidan to Petersburg Petersburg Petersburg Peters Peters- burg and had hod several times been leen wounded lie ne was wasa a powerful animal so nimble of ot foot toot that It was said he could walk five ve miles mUe an ho hour r. r Not Nt on only y has name been forgotten but Dut aner after ne he died he ho was WIlS sadly neglected The Tile stuffed body of the black charger several years ago was found abandoned In a n shed at island New NewYork NewYork York In a rather condition but It has since been restored and bearing hearing the original saddle t day It and bridle lie which Rienzi wore that historIc now stands In the tho National museum In WashIngton Wash Nash Ington A Civil war charger that Is even more famous was General tees Lees Traveler Tro the Rienzi than bore which Its Its' stocky little gray pray which bore Its Its- master through rough all the bloody conflict from 1802 to the end of tho the war and then became his dally daily companion com com- com com- panion until deatH finally claimed the great I I his roasters roaster's funeral the horse was leader Irader onder At placed dose lose to the hearse and It Is saId Bald that when carried out from the church the coffin was Traveler put his nose nOle on oft I It ft and whinnied survived General Lee two years years Traveler Tra In y Is now V preserved In Lexington Va Ills mi k skeleton In the Dyche museum of ot the University of ot Kansas Kan Kan- sac sas Is preserved the time mounted skin o of another fa horse horbe He ne Is 18 Comanche oman be the sorrel ridden by to Capt Mlles Miles Keogh I In the fatal battle of the Little Ilig 8 horn norn where General Casters Caster's wiped out b by the R Seventh sc cavalry was Sioux and Cheyenne ble bleeding from seven wounds and barely able to stagger about t. t the only living thing found on that awful was days after the till battle when general field fold a few Terrys Terry's relief column approached II was tenderly ten derly for tor an and wherever er the Seventh fie thereafter Comanche went with it It hut but H Hman inn innman went vent Comanche died dice man ever sat at at on his Ids ba hack k again at a n ripe old lI age e while th tM r regiment clment Willi at reel Tor Bile a |