The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-03-10
tv masters award TO their fellowmen, and

ty masters award TO their felowmen, and
will express their iov in seeing them III the
most touching manner. In fighting they
sympa.hize SO strongly with their riders
that they bite and trample upon the enc.
ny with perfect ferocity. The Persians
pride themselves so much upon their
horsemanship that when an English ma
val officer rode awkwardly, native jsai-
Gus of his reputation, assured the bystand-
ers that he was drunk, esleeming il much
less GisgraceiuI than bad horsemanshp
We may iuter that Chinese horses are DOT
regarded il aD es:hetic light, since they
are ptised most when fat euoggh TO be
eaten. With the usual stupidity the Chi
nesc ale up their horses. then build an i'm
mense wall to keep out the varike horse
men OBJ their borders failing in this bril-
| liant device they now MAINTAIN a pumer
Gus army of Tartar cavalry. Ia soma
Chinese provinces horses are go plenty
that the ladies disdaln 10 put their little
| cramped feet TO The ground. No horses
were found in New Holland, If they had
been, trus 10 the abnormal fauna of that
remnant OF a submerged continent, they
would either have been winged, web-ioot
ed, or spoon-biled. Horses are first men
TONED in Europe history in Greece.
Scuiptured monuments show that In the
Greclan chariot races neither the horse
shoe, or strrup, or saddle was used.
Great dexterity and address must have
been needed, on account Of the narrow
space IN which thelr numerous turnlngs
aud windings were executed. They ilu-
ported their horses from Asia Minor
The Romans were contemplate horsemen
julius Cesar. was ignorant of the RICH,
use of cavalry. Tie Roman horse was
heavy and muscular; during the more
luxurious times Of the eDplre lighter and
more beautiful animals weEs Imported
from Ba'bary for the circus.
During the chivarlc ages large, mus
cular horses were necessarily 10 vogue; a
! light limbed Arabian would sink under
the ponderous trapping and armor of an
| ancient knight. Henry the oih was fool
i,h enough 10 resist all attempts TO iutro>
Guce the smaller and more graceful ami
mas into Eng land; TO proven, it he enact
ed that all the pc ales and mobiles whose
| wives wore velvet bonneis should keep
horses for the saddle at least fifteen hands
high. / he Spanish derived fine horses
from the Moors those fierce but graceful
hoisemen who swept Ike swarm Of 10.
Gusts over such a vast territory. The
Spaniards intI oduced the horse INFO Amer
lea, and we see the du.ky Aztec warriors,
gazing with simple, suyersttious rever,
ence at the dark eyed, golden-haired chill
dren OF the sun, and fancyjng as the an
cient Greeks had done that the fearless
rider and his steed were one. From these
imported horses all the wild horses O..
America have sprung. About the year
1885, when the city If Bueuas Ayres was
suddenly abandoned, about a dozen horses
were left to seek pasiuIage upon the plains
around; from these have sprung the
myriad herds that now roam the southel n
pampas. They are 9Iite unlike tie gen
uine wild horse. should don ,tica,e ed
horse approach a held Of Tartar horses,
they would kill him instantly +; the South
American horses on the contrary show
an instructive feeling Of compassion for a
! foiIow>crea,ure that approaches them I'M
der bit and spur, and ale sklliful in get
/ ting up division in his favor, often charg-
I ing upon company OF travellers, and
creating such a confusion that the domes
tic horses escape and Join them. he
| fair haired Briions, spuriug their horses
ont into the tea 10 meet and repel the
Roman invaders, proved no contemplate
! Zoe. Our Saxon ances, ors were not dis
tinguisbed as horsemen The Norma.s
were bold and sklIfo riders, arden,ly de-
voted to the horse. The modern Bnton
seems to merit Tennyson's sarcasm. In
! telec,ual culture is sacrificed to kind OF
5enleeI jockeyiam which can never be eIe-
waiting either as business or diversion.
I One meets 10 American society men whe
can "tak nothing but horse" A love OF
power is one of the first passions which
{ the boy GeveIopes thst love OF power Is
chiefly gratitied when he Is old enough to
exercise it on an animal as noble as the
horse, but woe to him if he stops here
all further progress is hopeless, he can
not long remain superior 20 his horse
even, for higher nature will become more
: deeply debased than that OF the animal
with whom he associates.