Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Arab Maxims. [ARTICLE]

Arab Maxims.

Let your colt be domesticated and lire with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, docile, faithful and inured to hardship and fatigue. Do not beat your horses, nor speak to them in a lona tone of voice: do not get angry with them, but kindly reprove their faults ; they will do better thereafter, for they understand the language of man and its meaning. If you have a long day’s journey, spare your horse at the start; let him frequently walk to recover ms wind. Continue this until he has sweated and dried three times, and you may ask of him whatever you please, he will not leave you in difficulty. Observe your horse ,when he is drinking at a brook- If in bringing down his haul he remains square, without bending his limbs, he possesses sterling qnsliiee, and all parts of his body are built symmetrically. 7 Four tilings he must have broadfront, chest, loins and limbs; four things long—neck, chest, fore arm and croup; four tilings short—pasterns, back, eats and tail.

4ln Presque Isle County, toward Mack* inac, is a beautiful lake, bight Grand Lake, on whose shore stands a club* house owned by sundry fish-loving citizens of Adrian, Michigan. The country around is pretty much as nature made jt-rough—and the few backwoodsmen living there are much like the country. One of them, named Crawford, was lately electeo justice of the peace. A wood-chopper made complaint that a certain raftsman had beaten him, and asked for a warrant for the offender’s arrest. The justice’s entire stock of legal blanks consisted of a summons and a subpoena. After spending some time vainly in trying to make these papers fit the case, he got mad, flung down his papers, and addressed the complainant “See here, mister, this Court is bound to see justice, done in this township. You pay me two dollars and a half, costs of court, show me the man, and the Court will lick the devil out of him in two minutes.” Complainant paid the cotta end pointed out the man. The “Court,” with majesty on his brow and his sleeves rolled up, wtent for the offender, and in sixty seconds thrashed him to the full content of both parties. The Court then put on his coat, and remarked that “he was a peace officer, and wished it understood that thia Court would preaerve the peace , and any man who thought he could raise thunder in that neck of woods would have to try the case with the Court personally.” No other case has since been tried by Squire Crawford. The Londen board of trade returns for the month of September shows the value of imports into the United King dom to bo £6,800,000 in etceas of the same month last year, and dm value of exports £2,635,000 in excess) of the saute month last year.