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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1902)
Young Millionaires and Their Ponies r f . i-i -.'I. J 3 (A1 LITTLE MISS WILIIL.i. b w JjJ 1 WILLIAM A. HAZARD'S CHILDREN. MASTER HARRISON OK PHILADELPHIA. I I I li 1 1 1 1)1 III!' (II1IUICII, me'ir nr- I I rows and their pleasure's, pre-Bent in in'? ri'iiuiT a i utMiiu ui uwvei - ending Interest and a subject In which sympathy Is at once en listed. Ono of I ho most entrancing sides of child life will lie found In n study of lis amuse ments. To say that pony riding and pony drlvhiK enter largely into the amusements of the children of the well-to-do would In to understate the facts. The pony Is, per haps, the chief center of the child's In erest In his thoughts of vacation and summer holidays. Kor every family owns a pony; at least, everyone In which the papa can spare the money to buy the lltilo animal, and the number of papas of this kind Is considerable. Indeed, it Is frequently the ease, where there are two or more children In the family, that each one owns his own pony. Or, perhaps, If ho is a good child. he may own two, which ho drives double team In a little cart lilted out with a pole and double harness. Just like his pupi's car riage. Itut at least there is one pony there must bo ono for what Is summer without a pony? Ask little Miss Wilbur, who, In I lie picture, Is sitting on her beau tiful Shetland pony, a prize winner in the Hryn Mawr pony show. She will tell you that a summer without a pony Is well, It isn't anything. Unllko the horses driven by the older folk, the pony Is so fortunate as not to I A : -J f V i f- s O I I - f i. MAHJOUIE COULD IN HER TONY CART. SONS OK E. H. HARRIMAN. have his tall cut bhurt. It is left long ami flowing, and the longer it Is tho better it is liked, for Shetland ponies have beau tiful curly tails. The ma no Is alto long and curly and Is a matter of much pride to Its owner. The Shetland ponies are sometimes beautifully colored In white and dark browns and black. Often they are solid black or mahogany. A good point about the ponies is thai usually you can use them either to ride or to drive. The black and white pony that is being driven by young Master Har rimun Is a first prize harness pony, hav ing carried off the honors In both Goshen, N. Y., and Tuxedo horse shows. Master Harrlman may therefore consider himself u successful whip, and surely he has reason to be fond of the pony that has done so well for him. Like most Shetlands, this pony does not trot very fast, but he Is strong and can pull a heavy load, and ho can go a long lime. He Just seems to slide his feet along the ground in an easy way "daisy cutttrs," the horsemen call them and gets there without much trouble. The picture of the little girl driving In tho cart is of Marjorie Gould, the little daughter of Mr. George Jay Gould. It was taken at Mr. Gould's place, Georgian Court, at Iakewood. Her father has just bought for Marjorie a new pony cart which ho has brought all the way from I'aris. When it came Marjorie was delighttil and had the men bitch to it ono of the polo ponies, and 'round and 'round the yard she drove, while her papa stood nearby, watching, and her mamma smiled down approvingly from a window in the house. That Marjorie is a thorough little horsewoman can bo readily told from a glance at the way in which she handles her lines. Sometimes the pot of the family happens not to bo a Shetland, but Is a western pony a polo pony. This is the case with young Master Harrison, the eon of Mr. Mitchell Harrison of l'hiladelphia. As can be seen from the beautiful picture of his pony, the mount which Master Harrison rides is longer limbed, of slenderer body and of much thinner and slighter build in all lines than the Shetland. It is an Indian pony, from a ranch on th plains, and the brand with which all western ponies are marked can be plainly seen on its shoulder. Th.se trim little ponies are great favorites in the east at prese'nt, as they are extensively used In playing polo. They are not as strong as Shetland ponies and cannot go so long, but they are fleet and they can etop quickly or start at full run accomplish ments of much value In the game of polo. While thoy are Intelligent animals, they are not nearly so even tempered as the Shet land and they never take an Interest In the doings of their masters, as do their sturdier tiinl more amiable brothers. Why Mark Twain Gave Up the Life of a River Pilot "ZTTIllAT Causi'd Mark Twain to Leave the River, e,r Why a Grout Hu meirist Did Not ltei iiino a Se'e'ond Jim llludso," Is eine of tho books "J' tli.,1 Ikiu llitWI luw.tl U'flltOll llV Samuel L. Clemens or uny eine else. So far as known, the steiry has never even appeared in print, although It Is vouched for by Hoverul eif tho edd rlvi r men who have tho yarn-spinning habit. According to those aul liotll les, redatrs the St. Leiuls Globo-Demociat. Mark Twain never boeame a full-Hedged pilot and ne'Vi't Bteiod u night watch alone. In other words, while ho had u pilot's license, his mastery of the great rlveT craft on which ho rode was always limited by th.- understanding that an older and more- experieni'od head was within easy cull. This was no dUtoredlt to the young pilot. On the occasion in iiuostieiu. It matters not what tin- year eir boat, the steamer to which young Clemens was attached us cub pilot was bound up stream with a heavy e'argo of cotton. At the officers' table tho first day out from Natchez, Miss., I lie talk tiirne-d upon what to do in Btidde-n emerg I'licles and espe-clally in ease e,f fire tin a steamer loaded with cottein. Tho matter was discussed in all Its bearing, each of those present giving his Ideas upon the subject. Mark Twain, like most eif the others, he-Id to tho notion that it was the pilot's duty in such an omoigeiicy to emu late the now famous Jim llludso and "hold her nozzle to the bank till tho last galoot's ashore." Immediately after dinneT CleincUB wont to the pilot house to stand hU watch. Among those at the- table was tho as tdslaut fliginoe-r, u young man wlrso ex perience of lift- hud taught him to doubt the ability of human nature t.i early out tho projects eif lis more boastful moments. Ho went below at the same time Mark Twain went aloft, but tho two continued to think of the eouve rsat Km Just tlo.-,.d. The more the engineer thought about it the less credit be was disposed to give to the cub pilot's scheme, however nice it might ap pear in poetry or the newspapers. As every one knows, the pilot houso and engine room of a steamboat are connoe teil, but not only with bells for sig naling, but with a speaking tube, through which the Important funct binaries who operate above and below ean discuss tho weather and polities in their spare mo ments. The me uth tf the tube at the upper end is but lilt It- larger than the human mouth, but in tho engine room it has tho shape tf a funned as big as a half-bushel moasure. Whilo the assistant engineer was p.-iulering the emergency question ho wus als.i wiping off a portion tf tho machinery with a bum h of cotton .waste, and as he reached tho mcuth of the spi'iiking lubo it was the work of but a mi me lit to te ui h a mate h to th.- inflam mable material in his hand ami thrust It far into Hie tube. No one saw the act, but everybt dy on beard heard from it in about a minute. Mark Twain, alone In the pilot houso ami still pondering tho dire things he had hoard from the older hands about the hor rors of burning Bteamboats, especially when they happened to be loaded with cotton, was horrified to see the smoke pouring from his end of the speaking tube. The-re was but one thought in his mind. The boat was em fire. Dropping the wheel, which spun around and areiund as it left his hand, he gasped tho rope, by which the big bi'U was sounded and began pulling like a sexton, at the same time raising his voice in a cry of "Kire! Fire!" "The boat's afire!" Here the officers of tho boat and tho passengers are said to have found him. after hurriedly ascertaining that the alarm as false, still valorously determined to "save the ship." The boat, relieved t;f the rudder's guidance, had In tho mean- w title swung around in the current and dashed full speed on a sand bar, from which It required half a day to drag her. And Mark Twain, having lost bis nerve, left the river. The Irascible Volcano Baltimore American: Once the-re was an Eminent Scientist who took his Instru ment and made some observations on n Volcano that had just ceased Erupting. He looked Into tho Crate-r and poked around in tho Lava for a few Days, and then Announced that the Volcano would net Erupt again for Two Centuries. The-n he sat Down to Write a Report of Ms Observations for a Saffron Peril dlcal. But while he was Putting In tho Long Words the Volcano came to Life again and Blew him Clear through the Milky Way. Moral: It is not Always Wise tr have thi Courage of your Guesses. Two Hits of Iowa Rural Landscape Which Show the Vernal Heauty of the Hawkeye State x 1 it 3fe TIT J 1 V -r- 11 i i . . "m; i .SCENE ON THE REDHEAD STOCK FARM NEAR DES MOINES-Photo by a Staff Artist. i:xi: NEAR THE STATE FARM AT 10 ,;:.,., ;,-. A;,KS-Photo by a Staff Artist. V A
