" CLAYRABIA," AND " CLAYBEALE GRANT." 2Cj 



latent natures, with noble impulses, who, having concentrated their 

 energies upon the getting of wealth, and finding in their latter days 

 that "all this was but vanity and vexation of spirit," and realizing their 

 deficiencies as men, have tried to, in a measure, atone for previous 

 neglects through legacies of large sums of money or property from 

 their accumulations to educational or charitable institutions. Now, the 

 simple commission upon distribution of such donations would, if given 

 during their lifetime, have conduced greatly to their pleasure and credit, 

 even to insuring the completion of some great enterprise which had 

 failed for want of means at the very moment when prompt, liberal 

 assistance would have caused a triumphant success, benefiting their 

 country. 



Courage was planted in man's nature to enable him to accomplish. 

 It is essential to success ; but with courage must be enthusiasm, which 

 latter is to courage what fire is to water for steam, — the direct motive- 

 power. 



My main reason for breeding to General Grant's Arabs was the 

 hope that something should grow into a national value from the Arabian 

 blood. To give other reasons in detail necessarily involves reflections 

 covering a lifetime, hence my writings will be tiresome to uninterested 

 persons. 



My prominence through sporting journals for many years has caused 

 some to call me visionary ; these men, however, were hardly students 

 of animal life, but were intent listeners at the battery which clicked the 

 changes in the money or stock values, in which their life was absorbed. 

 This class have called me enthusiastic, forgetting that but for their own 

 enthusiasm with concentrated thought they would not be so devoted to 

 the one idea of money-getting, to the sacrifice of all else, even to their 

 better natures. 



My worst enemy has been the public executioner, prejudice, who 

 can have no reason why he should or should not kill, but to kill ! 



The people ask, Why did you breed to General Grant's Arabs ? 



Permit me to say, first of all, that I am a firm believer in Bible his- 

 tory, as the oldest authentic records known to man. This history dates 

 in Arabia, where all created life was first named ; and here the horse 

 known to man has been called, for all time, the Arabian horse, and, as 

 such, the one uniformly perfect horse. All things by God were made 

 perfect. Nothing made by Him had to be made over. Of all types 

 of horses, the Arabian is the only one so plastic and mollient in its 

 nature, mental and physical, as to be successfully used by man for the 



