The Doctor Won All Bets

Dr. Miller, a liorso from Idao, 1M up the sport of this city in ■eat shape yesterday, and is some 510,000 ñd a farm richer to-day. he doctor arrived last week with a ring of Iadian poniea for sale, among lem being au insignifieant looking east that was nut even looked at v purchjaeers, it was such an ordiary, iil-favored .shajïgy, little runt. One day the doctor casually rémark1 that it was queer no one eaw the ood pointe of the little tscrub, that 't iwae the best in the lot and he would het it coukl move a Miree hundred ound bag oí send hitched to a rope alf i mile long. He aid he had seen t do it, and he would bet it could Sain. A well-to-do eitizen of this ity said he had 160 acres of land in owa, and added that the pony could ot do what was olairaed for it, and -lien the doctor offered to vager fty ponies against tlue land the other uinped at át. Wher sports made bets running trom 50 to $250, and, the story spread5, others came in to get a good lins, nntil nearly $10,000 had been taked, the doctor covering all bets. he waiicr was that that the pony ould not pull the sacie of Band ten et, and 2,500 teet of rope to interine bet ween the pony and the sack. Yesterday evening the trial took lace in the outskirts of the city, and uindreds of people went out to see ie nowl sport. A large wagon, iled high, carried a huge coil of opC'OUt, and tlie little pony was near out of sight by the time the i-ope vas stretchfd taut. He moved very owly from the start, Blower as the ope gi-cw taut, and then the bag of ind mo.ved twenty-five feet instead of ten. The veturnhig crowd was the most sgnfited lot of sports on earth, but ie doctor -vore the game bland smile e brought -vith liim. The secret is ot in the pony's wonderful strength, ut im his training. The gradual uiting and steady pull is what doos ie business and wins lots of boodle or his shrewd owiier.- I'hiladelphia hnes.