Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-04-15
1AE ARABS HORSE.



fhs or..rt.ln for tho Noble Animal.
the East the horse Is a far more
.soious possession than it Is with us. |
P.s, mot speaking, however, Of its money
sp ~ -" hit Of the love the Eastern peo-
's'a AMSTERDAM for the animal. The praises
P' s,oh an Arab lavishes on his horse are
wn whine and from the heart, contrast
s' asary way to the perfunctory eulo-
Inn .,aa,s which homo lover OF the horse
s' horse dealer pronounces on his
y Proof Of this will be found in
w. Val "Romance Of Auar," with reference
~ ,,rwet. Shedad's mare. paragon,
w ~. oould not be matched, a horse that
~ nriceess even to the bid OF Kings.
W. sSaeE not to purchase Jirwet," said
cssJad "for Jirwet will never be sold;
=, not to borrow her, for Jirwet can
~ he lent-no, not il were offered
strjngs Of camels in return and on their
s sa loads of merchandise. Jirwet can
a. u;thout wings, and she tears UP the
ns'ods Of the desert; in her bound along
, ,h earth she is living glory, and she
a.rries me on her back as If ] were a
o Growth of her own flesh" Other still
s s,ore romantic stories and sayings are
astont of the love Of the Arab for his
sorse Some who have sold q favorite
steed for great sum have given even
more money to get it back again. A
writer of "a Summer Ramble in the
rost,'-I think that is the title of the
Nook but | am not quite sure-describes
the fondness of the Arab for his horse
IN the following words: "a great
ruaian was mounted on white mare
# great beauty. Having asked her
nrice I offered the sum. The Arab said
be loved his mare better than his own
life, that money was of no use to him,
Init that mounted on her he felt as
apasha Shoes and stockings he had
none. and the net value Of the accoutre-
ments and dress might be calculated at
something less than seventeen pence
sterling" In the East the horse is even
more beloved and protected-he is, in a
sense, an object of worship as well; at
all events, in the A :sioan deserts the
animal has been even regarded with
both political and religious reverence
Mohammcd helped, from policy, to
make the horse OF the East what he has
always been up to the present day, an
object of alteration and love. 1t was
Mohammed who instilled in the people
that love for fine women and fast going
horses that still exists. The long-headed
Prophet of Mecca decreed the future of
the horse. As Abd-el-Kader observes:
1.-THE Prophet was so adroit as to con-
triye that horses and houris should be-
come potent instruments Of religion, as
we'll as of political ambition. In the
days of paganism they loved the animal
from motives of interest, but when
Mohammed praised it SO warmly their
instructive love became also religious
duty"
The Arabs, as is well known, =
tain extravaganza ideas as to the a
Of their horses, tracing their genealo-
gies back to the days of Solomon, a
King Of the grand old stamp, who kept
a stud of 10000 horses and employed
l2OOOhorsemen. That King Solomon
horses would be well looked after is
certain, becanle, among many other
fine precepts to which he gave utterance,
we find one which tells us that ga
righteous man careth much for his
beast and Solomon doubtless was one
Of the few wise persons who practice
what they preach. There is no proof
however, of the descent of the steeds Of
the desert from any of the horses which
had stalls in the stable of the author o.
the proverbs and were fed on barley. L
was Abd-el-Kader, think, who wrote
an essay to demonstrate that horses
were created before mankind, and tina
Allah first made the horse and then tn,
mare, "the Divine power always Great
ing the noblest first" 1t was doubles
from Egypt that the Arabs first of al
got their horses; it was from Egypt tina
solomon filled his stalls: "And the,
fetched up and brought forth out o
Egypt chariot for 600 shekels of silve
and horse for $50; and so brough
lhey out horses for all the Kings of tn
Utilities and for the Kings of Syri
BY their means" The Arabs them
selves believe their chestnuts to be tn
neetest, the bay the most enduring
While the black they know to be tn
most splrted. A piebald horse no Ara1
Will look at, and an animal with whit
marks on his legs was denounced by tn
Prophet, who ordered it to be held il
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