Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1866-07-19
THURSDAY 4 JULY ls. 1856


Z s. III hDUA1 JULY i
Il xHE ugssS&e AsssR
\ R@oftsa look win msaaes and 4 ".
upon ths maay fne spseimsns as shisao,
pig apsnal wAisA are aeaa j. ear eisiss
Wat wonid aaaa do, alsa rhas eoala hs
DE- vishaus = hasss I Ia psssssss end
fas ssrsics and the bsnsdka whluh 10 Be.
ssa~s upon aaaas seem so las alons sufi.
cssas preof ~ she sxissenoa Of asd and
] tas degree III care and protection which
D exercises toward man. A hundred an
hals, aalss - aseful and ~ sapabls Of
ting den1sieased for. the ssrvics Of
Aan, asigN easily have bssn craatsd By
khs ssms pswsr thas snads aha horse.
This - .hswsysr, sas sasasisns, and a.
ths sfsasor enly designs 10 furnisA us
|sata Fhat isasaaally nssessary fOT ear
ass, pd reasisiss fer the aavalspmsus
m esIssss, snly shis sas vass CIV
=
va eonfeas that ws have sfssa lament
Cd shs fate Of tha horse, whea We hare
sssn bin, ss hs hsfFsqasnsly does, eyiaeing
noa oHly more Of the viFsuss of useful
ness, amiability, and eiFass, but evea a
higher degree Of iutelligeues than bis
osner or driver. 0ns lis sometimes
strongly tempted 10 believe If s4is animal
could yak erect and possessed hands and
the power Of speech, be would BE- the su.
perior of man, and to wonder If ali bis
inseiligenss, docility, and usefulness il
never to reeeivs any other reward than
bis measure OF earn or oats, until the
time comes for him to end his brief but
labosious existence. We eannot resist
the thought, sometimes, that be Is high
er inteihgaase than ws suppose, perhaps
fallen spirit, degraded in iss embodi-
nsDts AID working out life Of pro5a-
tion and penaaoe, and never look at
hns, inselligsas heFss, without feeling in
seme degree an increase Of reverence
and thankialasss to she Almighty Crsa-
ter.
Ths Bible seems to decide the point
that the Grss dOmestieasion OF the horse
was in Egyps and not in Arabia, as some
havs Supposed. When the Israelitss
came inso Canaan We fnd that the Ca
nsanisss vent eut to fight against then
with many ehaFiots and horsemen. ]
Six hundssd ysars after the time Just
referred to, Arabia had no horses. Sol.
onon imported siiTsE, esld and spices
frsm Arabs, bat all the horsea for his
own cavalry and ehariots, hs procured
fran Egyps. Ia this plaos il is nsntion-
ed that horss hrsught from Egypt cost
enc huadrsd aud ftsy sheksls of silver,
which at two shillings three psncs each,
the accepted value Of aheksl of silYer,
amount 20 abeut Eli sterling, "a snor
msas cara for shUss days.
Though the hersa has long basn tbs
oonpaniou and the servant Of man, yet
hia native counsry eannot With certainty
be traced. Isssena probable that be was
frst domesticassd in Egypt, but the pre-.
else period is sot known. Abont two
thoassnd years bsfors the birth of Christ,
when Abraham was driven inta Egypt |
by she famine which ragged in Canaan, |
Pharaoh eTsred him sheep, sxen and |
samsls. Horses would doubtless have
bean aided, had shsy shsa existed, or
had they bssu dJmsslisassd in Egypt.
Fifty years afterwards, wen Abraham /
isHrneysd to AOant Aoriah, to oEsE up
ais only sen, be rods upon al ass, which
With all his WsalGh xnd pawsr he woald /
ass bsTs done had lke horse bean known.
Thirty ysara lAtar an account is given of t
he aumber Of oxsn, shssp, camsls, ggats
md assss which Jacob sent to nppsass
hs anger Of Eaau, butno horass are men
ionsd. Twenty four years after this,
shsu famine sgain devastated Canaan,
Ind Jacob ssal into Egyps 10 bay corn,
Ss frat bear Of horses. Wagons drawn
y horsss ware ssns BY Joseph into Ca
laau to bring his father ints Egypt.
srsn then, however, horses do not seem
o have been used as beasts Of burthsn.
or the corn which was to be convsyedf
oms hundreds of miiss to afford susie.
laacs for Jacobs largs household, vas
'arrIsd en- assss.-Joarndl Of Comnercs.