Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-21
HORSES IN HISTORY.
SOME or TaE NOBLE SPEEDS THAT
 HAVE ACHIEVED FAME.
The Four Footed Friend For Whom $ City Was saznsd-Romsn Horses That Lived Like Prinees-ehArgers Who Won Rssewn Amid ths earnage of War.

Lived LIKE fTlnees-I 1zrEers w ho VI on
 Renown Amid the Carnage of War.
 It Is hard to say with any near ap- preach TO accuracy how long the horse has been q domssticated animal. We can Cnly say thar be has teen 90 from time IumemoEi2l-fhat is. from the earliest times of which yye have any records Ihe AssFTlan zlpsures-and they are about tae most ancient of which we know anything. far s9ms of them are estimated te 1zEs from 400 B C. contain more represantatioEs 0f capari- sonad horses thaa eTaa men. Still, we do not get any examples If favorite horsss until long time after this.
 Even the frss examples. indeed. are Cnly legendary. for. though there is no doubt thae Hector et TraF existed, 1t Is mt improbable tAae Homer invented the names of Als three favc-ite horses. Po6erga. the cream eaIaFea Galatae and the fiery Eth8a- BgF she horse Of Alex anGer the Great. B1eer.katus. is an judi- yi1ual az historically r5al as his master This famous horse was. says Platarch. offered to Philip far . talents fabC1t E2.51o}, bu- hs displayed % much vi- cicusness t1a- Aiazandarss father was about t9 send him away when the young prince eEsrs1 . tame him. He agreed, in t1s event = failure, to for. feit the price = she horse and began by turning his head = s1s s1n, as he ob- served that tle horse was frightened a. his own shadow In rke end he com plsrelv taus1 kiu-so completely, in deed. that Bucaphallss though he would permit noboaE except Alexander 10 mount him. always kneit down for that purpose to hls master. He died at the age Of So and hls master b1ilt Us his uausoleum the eItY . BaeeEhala-
 Readers q Macaulav VII remember the famous black aEszar. tae horse cf Msrminius. and zHa aazk gray charger c- Aarzlllas= 5Aasa sudden appeaEanee iE ELe cl5E = ZaseaIzu without his master br1EEHz Eha usEFs = Eas defear Ct tne allies q Lake ReEiltus- Connect e3 with rhat tattlss f5a. vsrs the horses of the great twin brethren, Castor and Pollux. cal black. with white legs and tails But t1asa are legendary. Not so, however. the well known horse of CaliEUla. Iaeieasas This animal had a stable q marble his sal was of ivory. his clothing of purple and his haIters sTiE with gems Hs had ses q golden plates and was presantad with a palace, furniture and slaves complete, in order that guests invited in his name should he properly entertained His 6iet was the most costly t1lar could be imagined, the frest grapes thar Asia could provide being reserved fer lin. ' YErus. another Roman emperor about 8 century later, treated his kcrse almost as extrava glnt- y. He fed him with raIsins and almonds with his own hands. and when he died erected a statue CT geld t0 him, whils al the 6ig1zsazies = tae empire attend ed the funeral
 As we cone t8 later tines. go we get more examples q fayerise horses Will liam the CoaqReror had one which he rois at th4 hartla ot Hastings. about which alIss5 every zaing seems r0 be known except his naua He was 0t huge size and was 2 present from King Alfonso af SraiH-s. such a gift as $ prince might give and q prince receive. r This gallant horse. however. did not survive tbe battle. for Gyrtl. Harold s butcher, "clave h5M with a bill, and ka dlei Richard Is horse was called Maleck, and was 5es black He bore his master through che holy war and ar rived in England before him h faes. ba survived tae king several years The second Richard. roo. lad fav0rirs horse, called Roan Barhary. which was supposed 70 ba t5e finest horse ia Europe at that time, and t was cn Roan Bar bary that taa young Hing was mounted when the incident wherein Wat Tyler was stabbed by the mayor Of Walworrh took place.
 About 8 century later we get ths Wars of tke Ross. and In the many battles of that civil disturbance con- pie of horses played important parts These belonged te the great Earl of Warwick, the kingmaker. His first was Malee1z, 8 beautiful gray, which he rode at the battla ef Towton. It was this horse whose death turned the for tunes Of the batrIe. for Warwick. seeing that his men were giving ground. de- hberately sprang from his fayorite horse and killed him. Then his men knew that the kingmaker was prepared to conquer, bus not to fy. They rallied and finally wen the battle.
 There were two horses belonging to highwaymen which were famous in their time. One ef them heiQpCad 70