es = < Repl fas Hla Top, Oxi “THE ‘BIG VALUE BOX Oxblood and Brown Shoes hay Pore in a sen for White Shoes . HAMILTON, CAN. * = oy As time passed, w as well as the chain, e antidote for sharply~ serv Iron, Whether th itely is uncertain. We used Old Iron a8 a driving horse for only about a year, Then we’ set him to drawing lumiber in a four-horse team. He never tried to “‘sit’’ when OEE RS with other horses, OLD IRON. | (By C. A. Stephens.) foolesfoodonfofecfonforlentoodoefoo]ooforlonforioolonfo siento, festerionie - % + HOW BIG ARE YOU? “He + * . + j (Christian Guardian) ~Pérhaps you weight two hundred pounds-or perhaps you weigh only ninety; perhaps you are eix feet four Some time after Addison, Halstead and Theodora had left the old home| farm, the old.squire sent me off one) morning to buy a horse, wagon and, harness that we had heard were for: sale at a farm in -Waterford. The’ farmer-was moving away. “You may as well begin to learn, about such things, my son,”’ the old! gentleman sald to’me. “If you are’ going to live here on the old farm, ' you will have to buy a horse once in a while, or sell one. When it comes to trading horses, there is nothing like experience. cularly in horseflesh, is something we. generally have to pay for." As he handed me a hundred dollars he added, “I'm not going to give you any advice. Look the horse over and buy him if you think best. We don't! need the wagon, but since the man ts Belling out we'll take it along with’ the horse, if he doesn't ask too much."’| It was a walk of more than eleven miles to Waterford, but the cool Oct- ober air was fresh and exhilarating, and I walked on at a good pace, going over in my mind meanwhile all I had ever heard of the ins and outs of horses—spavins, ringbones, heaves, cribbing, blindness, kicking. balking. I reached the place about noon,, and the farmer and his wife seemed) unusually glad to see me. They in-) sisted on my sitting down to dinner; with them. During the meal neither) the man nor his wife said anything | about the horse. After dinner the farmer took me out to the barn to see, the animal. I liked his looks at once, | Experience, partl-- | tall, as well have pulled at one of the tree stumps beside the road Presently, as I fussed about him, a horse and wagon driven rapidly ap- | preached from behind, and the man | shouted, ‘“‘What's the matter there? | Turn out, can't ye? I want to get by." The road was narrow, and there was a | large stone on one side and a clump of birch trees quite close on the other. I replied that my horse was down, and that I feared he was ill. “Well, I'm in a hurry!” the man exclaimed impatiently. “Put the whip to him. Make him get up!” I should not have lashed him even if I had had a whip. But the man jumped out, fuming, and came along, whip in hand. “That horse doesn't look sick,” he said, and, before I could remonstrate,} he gave the horse three or four hard cuts. My new purchase never s0 ‘much as moved an eyelash. I'm in great haste!" the man re- peated angrily. ‘“‘You must get your team out of the road." “I'm not here for the fun of it," I retorted. The man laid hold of the horse's and I pulled sidewise at the off wheels of my wagon, and at last we got the wagon a !ittle to one side of the road. The man got into his rig and managed to scrape past us. He then drove on without so much as a backward nce. ® It was little-traveled road, and no one else came along. I did not tike to leave my horse and wagon alone He was a handsome bay roadster with there while | went in search of a vet- @ good eye, and so far as I could see} he was sound in legs, feet and wind. | “Seven years ‘old.": the man said. a 4 know his age, for I raised him from, a colt. We will hitch up. I want, you to drive him yourself.” While we were putting the animal, into the shafts the farmer said, "I; warrant him to you as sound and| kind. I never knew him to kick bite; my wife has driven him tor| three years. I shouldn't think of | parting with him if I weren't ser away this fall." We drove out on the road, and the| man banded methereins, There wag: no whip in the socket; the farmer | remarked that he had got out of the! habit of carrying one, because the | horse never needed it. In the bottom} of the wagon body on the side where! 5 the man was sitting there was a small | chain, guch as teamsters call a trace, chain, which, I supposed, had been, accidentally left in the wagon. | I drove for as much as two miles, | first slowly, then at a round trot.) Once or twice, at forks in the road. the horse paused in what seemed to. me a rather odd way, and each time. I noticed that the man, in moving his} feet, rattled the chaln. The farmer! remarked that his horse was accus-| tomed to take the other fork of the road, which seemed so likely that I thought no more of the circumstance. The price ‘of the horse and wagon, was, as we had heard, a hundred dol-, lars. For all I could: see, it was a fair bargain, and after dickering, as usual, by offering him ninety at first,: I closed the trade and paid the money. ——~"Rather well pleased with myself. | I set off for home with my new outfit. ; The horse trotted on at a good clip for four or five miles, but when we came to a.woodland where a long as- rent in the road began he suddenly slowed up, stopped and, glancing at Ta, sat down. An old pussycat wash- ing™wer face could not have taken a sittingwosture more naturally. ¢ My first\jought was that the horse had been tao ill, and 1 was much chagrined. Tat Scott!’ I said to mayselt. “He's partwsed in his hind legs!” ~l hopped’ out and went \e his head. He Bid not look il!, but sat im- pagans and apparently helpltme 1 by the bit and tried to his up on his hind feet, but I might reat et tek ciseoms. ‘Oat saat Saget ros wan ake ‘o Cure is Satarre ne. It Since in ery rere nat le he, Best Wales combined with the ae Fao St = the =~ a met Sonetontn. ftir re aD yara T erinarian; so I stayed with my “para- lyzed" horse for two hours or more, during whirh he moved only wien“! pulled him by his tail. Toward sunset I set off in desper- ' ation to go to a farmhouse that I had ' passed a mile or two back. But | when I had gone fifty yards, perhaps [ heard a sudden rattling of the wag- on and, turning, saw that the horse had got to his feet and was walking on. | made haste to overtake him and then drove home by starlight at a fair pace. The horse gave no further signs of his paralysis. At the Bupper table I rather shamefacedly gave the old squire an, account of my trading and of what had happened on the road. “I've been badly taken in, sir,” I said. ‘The horse looked all right, but there's no doubt he is subject to paralysis of his hind legs. He went | down like a stone and was perfectly helpless there in the road for more than two hours.” The old gentleman sald nothing, except to remark that he bad never | heard of paralysis coming and going 80 rapidly as that. After supper he Nghted a lantern and went out with me to look the horse over. “His legs look and feel all right," the old squire said at last. “I don’t be lieve there's anything the matter with them. I guess, my son, that what you bave here is a ‘sitter.’ " “A ‘sitter’ What's that?" I asked. “Well, it is a peculiar kind of balki- ness, Which is liable to be destructive to wagon shafts. T’ve heard that it’s hard to break a horse of‘it.” The next day we drove the horse to the post office and the following day to a grange. meeting without his balking; but two days afterwards, while the old squire was out alone on the road with him, he “sat” again for two or three hours. He had been warranted to me as sound and kind, and the question arose whether ‘sitting’ violated the warrant. The old squire thought that we might find it hard.to compel the man from whom I bought him to take him back. None the less, I wrote him a letter charging that he had grossly deceived me and hinting at legal pro- ceedings. A week or so later we re- ceived a reply, sent from an adjoin- ing state to. which the farmer had to gop) Move “IT am eorty you are having trouble with that horse,’. he wrote. “I war- ranted him sound and kind, is both. You didn't ask me anything about his sitting down-in’ the road. But as you seam to be having trouble with-your horse} I’1) teH you how I Managed him whit he ‘sat.’ There was a-trace obain in tin" wagon, and if you haven't taken it Gu€ it’s there ‘now. I thought like as not Your, might jwant it. .Now,-if that horte® stops and goes to sit down; you just that trace chain with your foot at hold on to your reins, The horse will ‘go on and go fast, too. “That's about the best I can do for you,”* the letter ended. “You will ‘take notice that [I made no 1 ge Sint thought ‘that ty vl “Beata an Sa, or perhaps you are only-four féet six; but ‘this does not make so very much difference. erhaps you are a uni- versity graduate or perhaps you cai barely write your name; perhaps you have an intelligence which would shame a Darwin or perhaps you have & mentality that would not even fit you for membership in the Legisla= ture; but even this is not what we ~wigsh to talk about. There are other -| measures of size and we would like to appy them. Are you big enough to give another credit for the good work he does? This is surely a simple thing, and yet there are men who seem to think that prale ofs any other man is a reflection upon themselves, and they can never bear to admit that a fellow-worker can do anything better than, nor even as well, as they. There are natures to whom a possible rival seems’ nec- essarily to be an enemy to be fought at sight. But these natures are small, almost contemptibly small. A’ big man ig generous to all, and even if a man is his-.greatest rival it doesnot prevent the big man from appreelat- ing fully that rival's excellencies. Can you hanestly praise the man who is your competitor? If you can't, you are not yet big enough. Better grow a little; there's lots of room, i. Are you big enough to overlook a slight and to forgive an injury Most of us have met men (and’woren) who seemed evermore to be looking. out for slights, and always finding them. If the- minister called on’a neighbor and not on them they attended his church no more. Ir you'failed to nee them on the street or in the crowded hall, you did itintentionally. Whi world of trouble these anaes if Tot a sign of intelligence, buy father the reverse. And not only so, but we should ‘be big enough to forgive a real injury. The man-who cherishes the memory of a wrong for twenty years arid Who can neither forget nor forgive may be big enough to be_a Teader of men, but he_is not big enough to be an ideal member of the Church of Jesus Chrtst. And a man should be big éndOugh to do little things. He should imve intelligence enough to see that the so-called little things are not really small, and ifthey have to be done neither pride nor dignity should Stand in the way. Many a man |jias no grip upon his people because he feela too big for his pulpit. Thous- ands of men are hanging around wait- ing for a job big enough for them, while all the while the work God gave them is being grievously neglected. A big job never makes a big man; but the big man makes the big job. Gnub- riel would still be an archangel if he were cobbling shoes or shoveling coal. And in these days especially a min should be big enough to change his mind if necessary. What does it matter if a year ago or two years ago we said a certain thing if to-day we are convinced that we were mis- taken? We think-ft is Emerson who says, “‘Conajstency is the hobgablin of little minds.” We are all human and.at times make bad mistakes. Why should we not be big enough to ad- mit the fact? And yet there.are thousands of men who seem to think credit them forever, and no matter what they may believe they never by any chance publicly admit that they ever blundered, It takem a bigger man to make a mistake and ackfiow- ledge {t than not to make a Taistake. And we ought to be big eno 4 get a broad, far-reaching view of Ants may be pardoned if they san't see over their own ant-hill, but man’s eyes should.sweep both heaven and earth. f all men this far vision. ‘His theme. sweeps backward info boundless eternities and forward .in- to limitless futures; he d subjects that affect all ages, and;.all| nations; his-range of vision takes in between, and it is his privilege to lead his people to table-lands where vision shall be so enlarged as to transferm the life and help to transform the life and help to transform the world? and it is # thousand pities when the spirit- ual leaders of men are ‘themssives short-sighted and of natrowest* vis- ion: Big ‘men are needed fn, thepul- pit; men whose eyes God has ed to see vistas that may be as yet hit den lrom'thé multitude, God méans me to Bee and to nee a long way. Theolargest farni in the world is managed harles » at ford, ey. i, 8 “te It hag, more than . . ider eultivatio iO, anda return. en is expect: ret heartily | on. it sae jos ese bed Reus os piéces of old iron “ar an , Se ting’ would have answered TP idon It is p that the colt should be chopped or rolled before the process of weaning com- mences, otherwise he will surely suf- young. ger of digestive diseases in the young, | and trouble glands, and possibly digestive trou- ble also, in the dam, we should exer- clase good judgemant, and be satisfied principal diet, and, prived of it he cannot avoid fretting, and failing in condition. Then again, the secretion of milk in the mare will not cease all at once, and, unless the glands be relleved of mitis will be the result. milking the mare by hand, and, of be tied, venient, kept in a box stall, not neces- sarily far removed from her foal. fact, the writer has way each tomed to be separated from the other. The change of diet for the colt Sie ce stances, 2 | doaditions it is, well to aow"the fiare -to nurse her foal for four & ‘months of longer. If, when the foal is this age, the mare is required to do regular work, both will do better if the foal be weaned. On the other | hand, if the mare be in fair condi- tion, not required for regular work, and still yielding a reasonable qfian- tity of milk, the foal will do better if not weaned. for a month or two longer, and the dam, haying no labor to perform, will not suffer. The ordinary process 6f weaning, which consists in separating mare and foal, and allowing no further in- tercourse for several weeks,’or until the mare has ceased to secrete milk, and the foal to look for {t, is im our opinion, Irrational. wasteful and un- called for. robably unnecessary to state taught to eat oats, bran, etc,; fer and grow thin. Experience has taught all breeders and feeder of stock that sudden or violent changes of diet or usage with any class of stock is dangerous, and often expen- sive, adult animals, !t is reasonable to ex- pect it to be the When this is the case with more marked in Hence, in order to avoid dan- with the mammary to take considerable trouble. when weaning the colt. In most cases the mammary ap- Paratus is still quite active, and a considerable quantity of milk is be- ing secreted when the owner decides that it Is time to “wean the colt." The colt, in addition to the grass and grain that it has been consuming, has thus far been accustomed to milk In fact, milk has been his if suddenly de- algo. it, mMam- Instead of ‘Our itdea of method of weaning When it is decided that the colt shall be weaned, he should be placed in a comfortable-box stall, by himself, or with other colts that are being wean- ed. There should be no mangers or boxes into which he can rear or jump, and probably injure himself, and the door.jand walls should be so high that he cannot Jump over them or get his fore fest over. The dam should in a stall, or better, if con- In made a practice of haying the stalls adjoining, so that the dam and foal can see and hear each other, but cannot get to- gether. Whether or not the mare be required for work, she should be taken to the colt’s stall, or better, the colt lead to the dam's atall, allowed to remain for 16 to 20 min- utea three times daily for a week or po aa pp org the colt to the dam’s stall, is his firat lnabete in training for future usefulness, During the second © A twice daily will be sufficient to leave them together, and after this once ood system of giving him ally, gradually shortening the length of the visit until the mammal més practically inactive. In this gradually becomes accus- gradual, and he receives the bene- is D fit of the milk that otherwise would wast also largely obviates danger of mammitis in the mare, and the glands gradually become inactive, In the meantime the colt should be allowed about all the well-aaved cloy- that such an admission would. Gis-| o r, hay and chopped or rolled -oats, that he will consume, putting a little cut bay and the ra- tion of oats in a pail in the evening, ‘pouring some boiling water on it, eovering with a rubber sheet and allowing it to stand until meceins. preparfag another feed for th then evening. rapt with a ration of wheie carrot or two at moon, oats, with a in addition "te the amount of whole hay he w when this is not convenient the colt with + do very well without the prepar- ' on of food n P cao ot pr "ie -watition of e0t's ta both God and man and all thatclivs ardoell 4 r? ilk gives ent resulta, but this is often not After the colt has ceased looking for his dani, he shouldbe allowed to take daily exercise. in.a yard or pad- dock, and his feet should be trimmed easily obtainable. at least monthly. Usually under these conditions, the wear is not equal to the growth, and-if not-attended. to, the feet will.become abnormal ‘in size and shape, which may -perman rhe. injutfe him. 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