Show M ra MF ito atwine heraas elf L beaul 0 have their own nia offia F N q 4 g yz i lill it 1 Z qc N 4 1 11 sk J na 11 q aixa 4 X A t 1 na I 1 I 1 Z T ej t CI C r EA r by ELMO SCOTT WATSON TIE E dog may be our most faithful friend but even he can never displace in fit the affect affection lon of mankind that noblest of all four footed animals the horse about every so often some ill III advised prophet arises to declare gloomily that the motor age Is about to mark the passing for all time of faithful old dobbin but strangely enough old dobbin refuses to be doomed lie ile keeps right on plodding along as he be has bas for centuries en pr pricing tIng himself indispensable in ID a host of ways euid refusing to allow any man made contraption by its popping smoking dered salos to frighten liim him away from ills his place beside man in getting the worlds work done the horse Is riot nut losing ground to the gasoline len engine gIne lie ile Is more inore holding ills his own no less an authority than wayne dimsmore DIh smore of of the horse association of america pointed out at the annual meeting of that organization that at the close of there had been four outstanding accomplishments of the year as regards tile horse these were an increase lu in breeding of horses and mules in those states having the best tape 51 of foundation stock an improvement in the attl tude of city users toward horse drawn dran a marked improvement in the position of farmers toward the use of horses und and mules mule anil and a rapid gain in the numbers of horses borses for polo general riding exhibition and commercial purposes here Is the opinion of another expert J 0 williams Wn ilams chief horse for the united states department of agriculture lie ile says many signs indicate that tile lie horse as tin an Ins titu tion Is no longer on the down grade in tills this country the best one of these signs Is the growing use of the horse for riding not riding to get somewhere as in former times but for sheer pleasure ji leasure and esthetic and physical benefit ire years ago an estimate of horses maintained in tills this country tor for pleasure riding alone would have been 1 n I one at present it Is conservative alv to say that horses honses tire are kept solely for that pur purpose linse and the lie number Is increasing rapid ly with the result that the breedl breeding ng of good torsos horses has lieen been stimulated in fuatai fact arge of horses horse probably impends Im 4 in III it year or two horses s may inay be riding a boom as striking us its the rec recession eslon which for a time seemed almost in 1 threaten tile continued existence of trained horses on a large scale in this country I 1 quite aside from tile the economic factors which might save old dobbin from extinction there Is the malter mailer of sentiment which undoubtedly will tave oft off impending doom for many many years in fatt fat mant mans senti mentill cital attachment for ills his horse has always been second only to ills his attachment for members of ills his family or some other fiuman being and no other animal with the lie possible exception of tile the do dog can calalin such a strong bond of to tile the white asan the custom among many indian it tribes abes of slaying a dond dead warriors favorite horse on his grave brave may have deemed a bit queer yet the following news story stop which went out over the wires wf lost indicates that red man and ile ore arc brothers rs under the heln where a horse hoite Is concerned the dalles ore the strong irons friendship of a mn tor for his doroe developed through hi ma rc rort rt yesra in a lonely homestead in the 31 cater bills li llla ha ended in death for P J frederickson and poll polly A lila bin twenty two year old companion oil frederickson di alid alint a and d hla hiji delit wn was that four of his hl arlen nr len polly as aa humanely as pos poa elble it hi oid dl not want trant the tha animal to rail fall into less kindly ti rid enli than chiv hiv til th r p portas or of four our rifles h r 0 i d iliria lh ih ibi mu cpr little friday it and nd drederick Pre derick in n s last wish had been fulfilled accord A rd k 4 ca I r z 4 f 10 DJ duarry ajr arry 1 ing ine to the ranchers who carried out their neighbors request frederickson had raised the animal from the mans last act before he died they said was to feed and bed down his equine partner out in hawaii near an army rest post a four footed veteran of more than thirty years of active ser sen ice fee Is browsing in a pleasant pasture secure perhaps tit in the knowledge that the pence peace and comfort due an old soldier Is to be his until his death ills 1119 name Is whiskers and he was just a troop horse in uncle sams cavalry but lie Is typical of a long ion lat of f them these faithful mounts for whom the troopers the incel ves have decreed a peaceful old age and for whom the troopers are willing to dig deep in their pockets to assure it hut but lest 1011 oil think that it Is only the lie soldier who thus reword rewards the comrade of ills battle days read this item wandi appeared in the hie newspapers I 1 tile lie other glicr day pueblo colu colo A green grass crass pension has been awarded to 13 horses which have drawn laundry wagons here for many years they were retired in favor fa vor of motorized equipment the owners decided the be steeds hd bad served d noir time in tho he harn elks and placed them in a large va pasture sture oo go down into Kent kentucky lickY and visit some of tita lie farms farius in fit like isaim gross crass country famous for its thoroughbred where you can see lie hie ease and luxury to which sonic of the kings and queens queen of the turf have been retired when their racing days dipre ire oner oer visit faraway form farm in III fayette county owned by rl riia izabeth belh Iain daingerfield gerfield and see the royal flate it in which linn 01 war called by experts the greatest eren test race horse of IIII all time lives or visit the great Il hamburg arnburg place farm on th the winchester pike near lexington the property of johnl john bohu L madden where they will bilow you tile resting nesting peace jf f celebrities where hei he anney honks hanks w worlds chi champion riplon trotter horn hom 1802 1892 to 1891 Ik lmar belle 2014 and silk silicon oil there al alto also to lie tile ida pickwick known us the queen on of the west 0 aden aden plaudit stor star shoot for five 1 consecutive beala the hie running worlds lending sire the allach illach whirlwind imp credited with having ivon 00 60 races thus earning the title queen of the dinst and lady sterling famous ns as the dant dam of sit SirI barton arton and sir tims thus does man inan lionor honor i aal an d ito ills friend the horse even en in death in III filet fact tile hie honor roll of tin ses who deserve to lie be remembered by roan man Is a hill long one and many of them are world famous there was Ducep halus the famous charger and companion of the great alexander who con conquers quero the world and then lien sighed for more worlds to conquer there was 21 marengo farengo the white horse which napoleon rode fit at the battle of waterloo and copenhagen the handsome chestnut steed which bore upon its back on that momentous day the victor duke of wellington gods humbler instrument though meaner c lay clay should share the glory of that glorious day america too has its roll of honor of horses who have played a distinguished part in making history although history has not preserved the name of the steed flying fearless and fleet one night some huni hundred Ired and fifty years ago no one ever thinks of paul revere without thinking of the horse which bore him when the fate of a nation was riding that night then there was the horse hero of another famous ride remember hurrah hurrah for sheridan hurrah hurrah for horse and man and when their statues are arc placed on high under the dome of 0 the union sky the american soldiers temple of fame there with the glorious Klor lous generals name be it said in letters both bold and bright here Is the steed that saved the day by carrying carryl nt sheridan into the fight from winchester twenty miles away unfortunately the poets words were not prophetic for it Is doubtful if one american out of ten en can tell you the name of Sheri dans mount on that historic day in october 1804 incidentally the lie writer of this article had to search through half a dozen volumes before discovering it the steed as block black as the steeds of night hore bore the name nallie of kienzl lie had been presented to sheridan by captain campbell Cam rbell of the second michigan caudry ca eni ulry had carried the lio general through nearly all the he battles from the lie rapidan to petersburg and had several times been wounded lie he was a powerful animal so nimble of foot that it was sold said lie could walk live five miles in an hour not only has name boon been forgotten hut but after lie he died lie wa was sadly neglected the stuffed body of the black harger several years ago wits found abandoned in a shed at governors Goer nors island new york 11 in a rather delapi dilapidated dated condition but it ling lias since lieen licen restored and hearing bearing I 1 alic lie original saddle and bridle which illenyi wore that historic day it now stands in it the national museum in washington A lall war charger that Is even more famous ihan was G general lees traveler the cocky little gray which bore its master safely through III all tile bloody conflict from isca to the end of the war and alen became hn hl daily dirtily companion until death finally claimed the great leader at his mos masters lers the horse was wan i phlevel close cloge to the hearse and it Is sold said that when the coffin was carried out nut from the church 1 traveler put ills nose oil it and whinnied inquiringly traveler survived general lee two years ila 1114 skeleton Is now preserved in lexington va in tit alie dyche Mus museum eull of the university alty of kansas Is preserved tile mounted skin of another fanous famous horse borse lie ile Is co comanche minalie min clie the clai hank sorrel riddell by bv capt miles keogh in the fatal battle of tile little big horn where general custers Ou seventh Sevont li cavalry was r really early wiped out hy by the I 1 sioux and ble bleeding ling from seven wound i and barely able abe to sta girer about was the only living thins thin found on that awful field a few days after the hattle battle when gen general ral terrys relief column approached lie ile was tenderly ailred for find and wherever the seventh cavalry went thereafter comancho went with it but no na man ever sot sat on oil ills his bock bad ag benin tin aled at a ripe ope old age while the regiment was bailon A at fori W |