A Noble Horse Dead

Many will be pained to learn of the sudden death, after a violent sickness, last Sunday of "Arabell", the beautiful gray mare owned for years in the Getty family.

She was a very valuable animal, registered No. 2,809 in the American Trotting Association and was undoubtedly one of the finest bred horses in Northern Michigan, having been selected sixteen years ago from a large number of standard colts on the Bidwell Stock Farm by William J. Getty, who was an excellent judge of horse flesh and a lover of good stock.

He purchased her and brother her north to train for the track, but owing to lack of facilities for training, decided to keep her for a family driving horse. She was the only animal he ever owned, that in spite of many alluring offers, could not be bought from him.

He became so attached to her that he many times expressed the wish that she remain in the family all her life and a year or two before his death he transferred her to his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Getty, who, like her father, is a lover of fine stock, and to whom Arabell was thoroughly devoted.

Although nearly seventeen years old, she possessed the spirited activity of a colt and the endurance of a horse in the prime of life. Her loss is one that cannot be viewed from a property standpoint alone, but because of the almost human relations existing between horse and owner, it is a deep personal loss as well. She was a direct descendant of the famous Hamiltonian ten, and her pedigree goes back to many famous ancestors.