Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-06-19
AsaAJic BRseps.
rug loRsE ov Tuk ARABIAN PLAINS
AND TiiE IiiMALAIAN f'ONiEs.

America, for We are really Europeans), !,
there IL q non.uatlve strain of horse
blood which Il greatly valued. The
people who, above ell Others, during the
early part of our Christian cra, cared
for and bred the horse, 90 ~ To marked
IL Improve him, were the Arabs of the
Syrian and ilbyan deserts. On the
oases Of these sterile plains the horse
lived In close amity With man and throve
and grew In beauty, Intelligence aud
stamina Of peculiar kind. IL cannot
be said what his hrst progenitor WAS;
but Il Was this desert horsc which has
been used tn produce the Engllsh thor
oughbrc,i. The peculiar stamina this
Arabian had VAS shown In that he not
only possessed great speed, but that ne
could run at the top Of his speed Tor
great distance. The native horse OF
other countries had much less speed |;
and. while he could move all day at .
certain rate, he could not run one or
i've or twenty miles snything like 90
fast. This peculiar trait Of the Arabian
became known to the crusader. anu .
few of these hovses drifted to EnxlAnd !;
hut ,hey were far too light to carry .
knight In armor, and u Vas much 'a.e,
before they were deliberately importeu
ss .lrr.; aud when they actually pessn
to Impress their peculiar qusl'tes "u VIZ
larger native English horse, tne .no1'
oughbred came Into be,ng. NJ ,no'
oughbrrds trace hack To one OF bs.'
dozen ArsbIsn or Bsrbary sirrs. 7" v
this thoroughbred blood on which We .u
RELY In improve our stock, and u hasuu
wonderful qualities.
The Arabian IL o plains horse, ana
from his de.ert habitat he has gone as
far west ~ the Pacific coast: east ne
has not gone far. 30 soon as Ne runs NJ
.s.in.t the foothills of the illmalayAs
he disappears, for he IL not good
mountain hor.e: he IL too legev. Mount.
ain climbing calls for q good deal OF
boiler capacity. 90 To speak. IL IL not
the speed of the plains YOU require, hut
an all-day capacity 10 plod up hill: You
will notice that all mountain animals.
man included. have more body ana
shorter, stockier legs than those ot the
plsin.. when you spprosch the iiims-
i.yas from Indis, on wbose plains you
hsye seen the short bodied, long.lceged
IIlndoo, you naturally hnd broad
short. sturdy chunk of man, of MOD
gol blood. and With Q pony Tor All the
world of the same build. either of whom
can carry up hill all daya load which
would break the hack OF almost any plains
d~rller. Not only can the man carry
loads, but the woman can Guido him.
She 4. the meet extraordinary beast oi
burden the Lord has ever made, and
an. 4. far from being ground down by
po,erty or hard work; she is bright and
cheerful, with q pleasant face aud
hearty greeting, aud many of them
would pass for good looking any
where.
The prettic.t liimAlsys pony have
ever .een Was Que ridden by the King OF
N.psul, = Young potentste, at the time
.ome ten wear. old aud harmless enough
but Who on attaining his majority at
eighteen. will have the power Of life and
death over several million subjects. a
dapper little king and aroyh little pony
we'll matched they we're. 49,,
This pony IL the creature when does
all the work % the ilimslsyA water
.he,i. and down its foothills out to the
plaIn. for many hundreds of miles; aud
II 4. n YOU see In that part OF China
which Europeans usually Nislt.
IN. Tartars have another breed,
which have never seen; probably
.,rpp.. horse Of the usual bronco type.
Wherever YOU iind the iiimslaya pony,
however, he L. the best horse of bs
Kind there Ia. They run very small IN
Cochln-C china and Tonguin, bigger IN
china proler; but small or b'g, unless
they get too far away FROM their native
mo,,ntaIn., aud like salt. lose their say-
or. they are inccmparablc Tor hen
inches.
Thi. same little fellow s known IN
farther India a. the Burinah OF ie"u
pony. have named him the liimaiaya
pony because he IL the best In the great
nnge or not far from IL. You hnd him
Al uncommon attitudes. Up sixteen
thousand feet and over, where you may
look at the everlasting SHOWS ot Mount
Everest. or the superb range OF kinchin-
Iunga, he may be seen toiling up paths
steep enough for q mountain sheep, al
way. cheerful, never hagging, snd bear
ing his heavy load with sturdy patience
and good will which are pattern Tor
any ones imitation. The Enghsh nave
built mountain roads, and good once,
through nearly all the passes from India
over into the Central Asian piAteaus'
but the old country roads remain as they
we're a score of centuries ago, aud the
population which travels over them has
probably not altered much more th.n
The roads. The men carry prayer wheels
which they twirl as they pray the wom-
en- hang silver prayer boxes on heavy
chain. OF turquols and cArneli.n around
their neck.; and no doubt the hmas
ha,, ble..ed these same sacred objects
for thousand. of years after the same
fashion and been we'll paid for doing
80. a..
Very splendid is the home OF the
IIlmaiays pony. have seen tne hoek.
les, the Atlas mountains, the Alps, pu'
never had a conception of how heights
could be piled on heights and yet never
get In reach Of the peaks, until saw the
IIlmalayas. You may ride up Long
or Pixies peak; you may In days pun
20 through any Of the Alpine passes
from valley to valley, and stand on
.pots from which even Mont Blanc seems
acce..ible. hut FROM the Indian plains
YOU may toll upward Into the lilmaiayA
for two good, long days, and then you
OCT here you can see Mount Everest,
spparen,ly and actually farther OF than
Mont blanc from Chsmounix. Nnn
this splendid panorama OF unequailcu
masses Of Ice and snow that the true
IIimalaya pony and his master pan the
Theodore A. Dodge, 10 ~. LOUIS