Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — WAN’S EVER-FAITHFUL FRIEND [ARTICLE]

WAN’S EVER-FAITHFUL FRIEND

Evangeline Booth Eulogizes the Services Which the Horse Hat at All Times Rendered. Evangeline Booth, the gifted comirtniiiler of the Salvation army, in Kilter and Driver, pays a beautiful tribute to the horse. The horseless age which was predicted when the motor calm’, site says, has not arrived, ami never will. She continues: “From the very beginning of all things, through the march of ihe centuries in every sphere of life, the horse has occupied a significant place. In sport. In ail. in literature, in «ur, in peace, in commerce,in romance, in tragedy, sh drudgery, in love, in religion, In life jiml in death, this relit able, courageous, ever-raady-for-com-mand servant of man has proved himself a most potent factor. His fleet hoofs have flashed light from the pebbled path of every his arched neck and tossing mane have taxed the skill of the ablest sculptor’s chisel; his attractive figure has made realistic tlie story of every class of literature — historic, fiction, fact and biblical; the delight of childhood, the willing slave of man. tlie sure trust of old age, this faithful ally'through all time has plowed the fields and hauled the loads and penetrated the wilderness and waded the rivers and with boodstalnefl flanks has carried the warriors in battle, and tossing snowy inane has borne the victor home through triumphal arch and a thousand times ten thousand when worn by toils and lack of food to a mere skeleton, has pressed on with his task with a patience, perseverance and a sweetness of temper that one could almost cal) divine."