Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-22
HORSES IN HISTORY.
SOME OF THE NOBLE SPEEDS THAT
 HAVE ACHIEVED FAME.

Kenown Amid the Carnage of War.
 1t IS hard to say with any near ap- proach to accuracy how long the horse has been domesticated animal We can only say that he has been so from time lmmemorial-that is, from the earliest times of which we have any records The Assyrian sculptures-and they are about the most ancient of which we know anything, for some of them are estimated to date from 4200 B. O. contain more representations of eapari. soned horses than even men. Still we do lot get any examples of favorite horses until long time after this.
 Even the first examples, indeed, are only legendary, for, though there is no doabt that Hector of Troy existed, it is not improbable that Homer invented the names of his three favorite horses, Poderge, the cream colored Galathe and the fiery Ethon. But the horse of Alex ander the Great, Bueephalus, is an indi yldual as historically real as his master This famous horse was, says Plutareh, offered to Philip for B talents tabout 42,5lS), but he displayed so much vi. ciousness that Alexander's father was about to send him away when the young prince offered to tame hlm He agreed, in the event of failure to for felt the price of the horse and began by turning his head to the sun, as he ob- served thu the horse was frightened at his own shadow. In the end ha com pletely tanned hifa-so completely, in deed, that Bucephalus, though he would permit nobody except Alexander to mount him, always knelt down for that purpose to his master. He died at the age of 30, and his master built as his mausoleum the city of Bucephala
 Readers of Macaulay will remember { the famous black Auster the horse of Merminius. and the dark gray charger of Mamilius, whose sudden appearance in the city of Tusculum without his master brought the news of the defeat of the allies at Lake Regillus Connect ed with that battle, toe, were the horses of the great twin brethren, ' Castor and Pollux, coal black, with white legs and tails But those are legendary. Not so however, the well known horse of Calignla, Incitatus. This animal had stable of marble; his stall was of ivory his clothing of purple and his halters stiff with gems He had set of golden plates and was presented with palace furniture and slaves complete, in order that guests invited i'll his name should be properly entertained. His diet was the most costly that could be imagined, the filfest grapes that Asia could provide being reserved for him. Verus, another Roman emperor about century later, treated his horse almost as extravagant. ly He fed him with raisins and almonds with his own hands, and when ke died -erected 2 statue of geld to him, while all the dignitaries of the empire attend ed the funeral.
 As we come to later times, so we get more examples of favorite horses. Will liam the Conqueror had one which he rode at the battle of Hastings about which almost everything seems to be known except his name. He was of huge size and was present from King Alfonso of Spain-asuch a gift as a prince might give and a prince receive. - This gallant horse, however, did not survive the battle, for Gyrth, Harold butcher, .'clove him with bill, and ho died Richard Is horse was called Maleck, and was jet black He bore his master through the holy war and ar rived in England before him. In fact, he survived the king several years. The second Richard, too, had favorite hovse, called Roan Barbary, which was supposed to be the finest horse in Europe at that time, and it was on Roan Bar bary that the young king was mounted when the Incident wherein Wat Tyler was stabbed by the mayor of WaIworth took place
 About century later we get the Wars of tho Roses, and in the many battles of that civil disturbance a cou- pie of horses played important parts. These belonged to the great Earl of Warwick, the kingmaker. His first was MaleclS, beautiful gray, which he rode at tue battle of Towton. It was this horse whose death turned the for tunes of the battle, for Warwick, seeing that his men Were giving ground, de- liberately sprang from his favorite horse nnd killed him. Then his men knew that the kingmaker was prepared to conquer, but not to fly. They rallied aud finally won the battle
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