The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-12-24
MORSE KNEW YELLOW STRIPES.
Submitted to the cavalryman's Mount, but
Kicked at White Stripes

Kicked at White Stripes
A horse recognizes the master In the
man quicker, If anything, than the
man feels himself master Of the horse.
You will see it dozens of times II you
win take the trouble to look. Any
cavalry officer will vouch for the truth
of the statement that horse is I'M
pressed by the individuality OF man
as easily as one human being Is I'M
pressed by the individuality OF an
other. Only horses cannot talk, sad
to say, for il they could how much
better and more Interesting compan-
ions they would be than some people
we all could mention.
The other day, relates the st. Paul
Dispatch, Quartermaster Coe tried to
mount his brand new horse, and had
some difficulty in doing so because of
the restless and nervous temperament
Of the animal. Then along came
Colonel Howard of the Third United
States cavalry. The lieutenant looked
interested when he saw the horse, for
what interests a cavalryman more
than fine equine?
II am having a hard time trying to
teach this horse to stand still when |
mount" remarked the new infantry
lieufqant to the skilled cavalry lieu
tenant.
Lets see you try it" replied Lieu
tenant Howard of the cavalry.
Then Lieutenant Coe lifted a pom
derous neither limb and stuck his toes
out toward the stirrup. The horse
stepped aside. The lieutenant tried
again, but the horse continued very
pretty military side step until he had
completed the full arc Of circle. The
jovial quartermaster was a long time
In getting into the saddle, and after
he finally landed the horse was of at
a clip.
"Hum," said Lieutenant Howard.
"Good horse, but wants training. Let
me try him minute, will you?"
The cavairyman walked up to the
horse and before touching him stood
a few minutes quietly at his side. The
horse looked Interested. and peeked
around in something like surprise
Then the lieutenant lifted his foot and
directed it toward the stirrup. The
horse moved quickly aside, but the
lieutenant was quicker. His foot
reached the stirrup and stuck there.
With a nervous jump the animal re-
sumed his side stepping. Lieutenant
Howard, however, stuck like a barn.
acle, with one hand on the pommea and
the other on the bride. In this man.
ner the horse completed the circle
several times, the lieutenant with one
foot sliding along the ground and the
other foot in the stirrup. Finding he
could not shake the officer of, the
horse finally stood still. Then Lieu
tenant Howard lightly mounted. dis
mounted and mounted again, continu-
ing the operation a dozen times with
out stopping. The horse stood still as
statue. The whole science of it was
that the horse understood thoroughly
that the man with the yellow stripes
ON his trousers knew more about
equine temperaments than the man
with the white stripes. Lieutenant
Howard made his will felt by intut
ton rather than by force.
"Now you try it, Mr.. Coe," said
Lieutenant Howard.
The horse resumed his old tactics
with the quartermaster and would
not change for long time. The only
trouble was that Lieutenant Coe had
started wrongly, and did not impress
the horse at the very outset. The ami
NAL thoroughly remembered Lieuten-
ant Howard the day after, and was
wholly submissive to the latter's quiet
and unspoken determination.
"Of course a horse thinks" he said.