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Are Blinkers Hurlful?
Wien a horse is used for the
saddle none thinks of meddling
with his eyes, and wo allow the an
inil t use them freoly, as nature
has directed. But no sooner do we
put the same animal into harness
than we think ourselves bound to
fasten a black leather llap over the
eyes, so as to prevent him from
seeing objects at his tides, and to
limit his vow to those which are
in his immediate front. This is
and me wifh Ihe very best intentions,
the object being to save him from
being 'lightened by startling and
unwonted sights, and only to leave
a sufficiency @f vision wherewith
to guide his tteps. Herein, as in
feeding and stabling the horse,
man judges the animal by himself,
forgetting, or rather having failed
to notico, that the eyes f the horse
are exceedingly unlike our own.
Our eyes are set in the front of our
heads, so Ihst if blinkers were fast
ened to our temples, our range of
vision would be but slightly limit
ed. But (be eyes of the horse are
placed on the sides of the head
and are rather prominent, so that
the animal can net only sec on
either side, but by rolling his eyes
backwards, as we see in a vicious
horse, can see objects almost in his
immediate rear. The effect of the
blinker is both physically and men
tally injurious to the horse. In
the first place, especially when
large and brenght near the eyes, it
lui the effect of healing them and
hindering the free passage of air
ever them. In the next place, it
causes the eyes to be always di
rected forward, nd thus produces
a most injurious struia en the deli
cate muscles. We kn >ir how pain
ful a sensation is felt when w# are
obliged to strain our eyes either
backward or upward any length of
time and 1 lia horse suffers no less
inconvenience when it is forced to
keep its eyes continually strained
torward.
The worst example of the blink
ers that I have ever seen were in
the United States, where the blin
kers (er “blinders” as they are
there named) are often brought so
closely together in front by means
of a strap and a buckle that a mere
narrow strip barely half an inch in
widih is left for vision. This again
is done with the best intentions,
the object being to save the am
mal from being afflicted with snow
blindness. Now the horses eyes
are in many respects different fr*m
our own, and are net affected, as is
the case With ©urs, by the vastex
pansesof dazzling which are ren
dered even more dazzling by the
dear atmosphere and brilliant sun
shine of America. One ©fits safe
guards lies in the remarkable
iructure which is properly term
ed the “haw,” and scieulifically the
‘•nictitating membrane.” This is
a sort ct a third eyelid set beneath
the true eyelids, and capable of be
mg drawn at will over the eyeball,
thus performing the double duty of
shielding the oya from the direct
glare ©f light and clearing the sur
face frern lust and any other for
eign substance. This membrane ig
seVu in p' rfcc'ion in the birds of
j prey, so thit', the proverbial state
ment that, the eagle (rains iUlft
gaze at the midday sun has some
foundation ni fact.
Dri v i ng i\* ennui see n ees,
A talkative driver is almost in
vtnVoly a bad on*. He may be
all there over a diffieu't bit of a
road, or determined enough with a
restive hoist*, but in a long drive is
almost certain to become careless,
and the result is frequently broken
knees. Accidents seem generally
t happen in unlikely spots. .1
have been in a good many and
never saw a horse fall 01 a stesp
hill, and only once a collision, and
that a slight one, eccurr at a dan
girons corner. A gentle slope
down which a horse tints with al
most aalack rein, is generally the
place where he falls.
Horses are very clever at avoid
ing collisions on dark nights, and
their sight is, I fancy, much keener
than man's. More than one a have
I, when unexpectedly benighted,
been indebted to my pony’s quick
ness for my safe arrival. One day
the train I had been to meet was
very late; the evening was dull
and heavy clouds were gathering
in the westward, and we were still
two miles from home when twilight
had disappeared completely. There
was one very bad piece overhung
by trees, with a steep bank on ©ne
side and a narrow, but rafher deep
stream on the oilier. The dark
ness was intense under the trees.
Suddenly my cob, which was going
very freely, swerved 1© one side,
drew the cart close to the bank on
the left, and stood still. I then
heard the rattle of a wagon and
shouted. A voice answered and an
empty wagon with t wo horse ■ came
past at full trot, se close that 1
thought we must have been mash
ed.—[Chambers’ Journal.
Browning’s Striking Personality.
The society of London oilers no
more striking or interesting figure
than that of Robert Browning. It
may safely be alleged that no one
meeting him ter the first time, and
unfurnished with a clew, would
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coverer or a man of science. But
whatever wers his callings, we
must be essentially practical. Of
the disordered appearance, the yn
conventieual demeanor, the rapt
aud mysfie air, which we assume to
be characteristic o t the poet, he
has absolutely none. And his csn
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course ©t man ©f the world, who is
comparably better informed, than
tine mass of his congeners,
Mr. Browning is the readiest, the
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talkers. Like the monsignore in “Lo
thair,” be C*a “eparklo with anecdote
and blaze with repartee,” and when he
deals in criticism the edge of bis sword
is mercilessly whetted against pretoa
siou and vanity. The inflection of
♦he voice, the flash of the eye, the pose 1
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ami doctors, would do well to have a
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Ge<rtfia, Bants County.—Will he
sold on tli* l* f . TueMtay in December
i"Xt, at the conn lioiifip in said eonn'y
vithin the legal hour* ot sals, to the
'ngheet bilcfft lor cash, the following
property to-wit: One tract of land
Mi>jc in said county, on WoUb’s C e‘k
adjoining land- of P F M Furr on
he north, lands of pauper’s home oo
'he east, lands of Tims. He.jden on the
sooth, lands of Wirnberlv McMillian
u the wear, the pUoe whereon the (le
cndaut now containing ]<>()
seres, more or less; said land levied on
an the preportv William Holland to
satin y a fi fa isi>n;l from the superior
court of said county iu favor of P. F.
M Furr againet the said William Hol
land. Written no'ine given William
Holland in terms ot the law.
Also at the sime time and plaGe, 1
bay mare mule, about ten years uid,
known as the Pertv mule; two hales of
hut cotton, good middling, put up in
hugging and ties, cent lining 400 lbs.
each, more or less, levied on as the
property ot Julia A. Dunnahoo, to sat
isfy a mortgage ti la, issued from the
upeiior court of said county in faTor
P. F. M Furr, against the said Julia
A. Dunnahoo, property pointed out oy
plaintiff in fi fa. Oct. 30th, 1880
W. A. Scoggins, Sheriff B. C.
uit For Divorce!
Polly Dodd vs- ) Libel foi Divorce in
JLa Fayette Dodd) Banks Supeiior
Court, Sept, Term 18S9.
it appearing to Ihe court by the re
t.urn of the sheriff io the above stated
case that the defendant John not reside
in said county, and it fnither appear
ing that he dees not reside in this
state, It is therefeie ordered by the
court that ee r vice bo perinc'ed on the
defendant by the publication of this
order once a month for four months
before the next term of this court in
The Weekly Journal, a newspaper
published iu the county of Banks.
Granted; Fletcher Johnson, libel
lant attorney. M.-L Hutchins, judge.
A true extract from the minutes o f
Banks Superior Court. This Oct. 21,
1889. L. N. Turk, 0. S. C.
of the head, the action of the band, all
lend their special emphasis to the con
demaation. “I like religion to be
treated seriously,” be exclaimed with
reference to a recent novel of great re
nown, “and I don’t want te know
what this curate or that curate thinks
about it. No, I don’t.’’ Surely the
secret thoughts of many hearts found
uttoraneo in that emphatio cry.
When an unduly fervent admirer
had button-holed him throughout a
long eveniog, plying him throughout
with questions al&ut what he meant
by this line, or whom ho intended by
that chareeter, tbero was exquisite
giace a* well as just rebuke in tbs
stress on the words, ‘ But I am monop
olizing yon,” with which the master
at last extricated himself frota the
rasp of the disciple.—[New Review. ‘
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