The rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-30

themselves In this var. and have done
e~reditabie wo% Lieut. 4 G Rob-rt-
80 of the FIRST PlunTeH has hen
through thc mill q The foreign hor.r
ShoolA and Ak knowledr- doe nos
eour amizS
There arr three things that a good
cavalry oflcrr must know. lie must
ride well himself. which i the least II
AL these thing aud he almost ~univer-
sally dnez he should ~ able "a train
any houe b. the full extent Of the
hor-ss ahsAhv. either In the high school
or abe jumping. and that n not = very
difficult thing for an active. patient and
Intelligent man 20 do Lastly. he should
know what comparatively few Of them
do. and that h. ell aboat = hor.e: in
short that knowledge one finds In the
racing stahle-horsey knowledge
about the physical construction. the
temperament the intelligence Of the
brutes, and how this one should b. bit
ted, and this n be worked \ great
deal In ooe way, while another horse i
schooled In another. One horse nav
e a vast amount Of exercise. while
another may get along with very little:
one horse may be ridden By n recruit at
the risk Of spelling his gaits. while
some other horse may have 80 good a
gait that the recruit cannot spoil L.
These eases are only n few out Of the
three or four million which are a mart
Of the makeup Of horse knowledge.
some cavalry officers do not care about
all these things but they are simply a
Disgrace 20 their profession, aud 80 not
TO be considered except with seorn.
The most remarkable case Of this
knowledge and Judgment regarding
horses In n cavalryman was that OF
Capt Montgomery. OF the Fifth caval-
~. as told by Capt Charles King. in his
Campaigning with Crook" which |
quote: I'm horsefiesh and equipments
the gaps were appalling. Some COM
panies of the Fifth were very much re-
dueed, and, of course, when the horse
dropped exhausted on the trail there
was no transportation for the kit II
often happened that for DAYS the sol
der led his horse along the flank
Of the column OF Ia the rear of the reg
iment striving hard 10 nurse his falling
strength, hunting eagerly for every
little bunch Of grass that might exc out
his meager subsistence. In all the
array of company losses there was one.
and only one, shining contrast-Mont-
gomery, of company B-the Gray cav
airy submitted n clear bill OF hcalth.'
he had not lost a single horse. The
fact that Capt Montgomery paraded
every horse with which he started is
due TO the unerring Judgment and
ceaseless vigilance with which he noted
every symptom of weakness In ms
and every animal In his troop. and
cared for II accordingly"
From n purely professional stand
point think this feat was probably as
noted an achievement as any cavalry
n could well ask for. II towers over
the man who can pick Il cracker of tho
ground at a gallop Off n sixteen
hand horse, and the passage aud
pirouette are as nothing compared; but
II Capt Montgomery can pick up the
cracker and the passage, he should
have n marble monument at West
Point and every cadet should be made
to go out twice a day and sing a peau
before H.
The United States trooper knows
enough by the time he has served one
enlistment, but his horse, which has as
great n capacity for wal rs the recruit,
comes out with little 10 his credit. Why
should he not be educatedp Well. let
us hope he may be. Frederic Reming-
ton, in Harper's Weekly,