The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-09

list, including almost trivial complaints, now numbers 190, and the one hundred cases of pneumonia have been reduced to thirty. Out of all these only i've horses have died, one as the result or injuries in transportation and four from lung fever It is the eastern animals | that have pneumonia, but they are all | coming out of it.
 Just as men are critically examined physically before they are accepted for the army, and especially for tropical | service, so are the horses. The regula- tions specify what the standard animal shall be. They say:
 "The cavalry horse must be sound and well bred, gentle under the saddle l free from vicious habits, with free ana prompt action at the walk, trot and gallop, without blemish or defect, of kind disposition, with easy mouth and l gait, and otherwise to conform to the l following descriptions:
 "A gelding if uniform and hardy l color, in good condition, from fifteen l and one-half to sixteen hands hlgh, wweight not less than 950 nor more than 1,150 pounds, from four to eight years | old, head and ears small, foreheau broad eyes large and prominent, Vlsioh | perfect in every respect, shoulders long and sloping well back, chest full, proad and deep forelegs straight and stand ing well under, barrel long and ln- creasing from grth towards flank, With CTS elevated, back short and straight, Joins and haunches broad and muscular, hooks well bent and under the horse, pasterns slanting, and feet small ana sound
 Each horse will be subjected to a rigid inspection, and any animal that does not meet the foregoing require ments in every respect must be reject ed. A horse under five years old should not be accepted unless a specially me, well developed animal
 Uncle Sam modified this rule for ms new Filipino campaigners. A horse might weigh between $50 and LULU pounds and stand about fourteen hands or fourteen hands two inches high' Those that were accepted at the dltfef- ent recruiting stations were immediate ly branded with "U &" on the left shoulder, and a number Tn small figures placed conspicuously on the left hoot
 They were then government property.
 Many of them came half across the | continent in boX-cars, and hundreds or them to-day are covered with scars that show what rough trip they had. The
 Texas horses are in better condition, as
 they were shipped in palace cars, and
 had their tails bound with sacking to keep the hair from being rubbed off in
 contact with the walls of the snort stalls
 eI,a aJc ot hn Gi-
 dio are almost a second soldier bar
 racks. There are restive young animaIs
 eager to be off. There are sick ones
 kept apart that have pneumonia, ana
 badly inaamed and swollen limbs and
 heads and others that have cuts ana
 bruises and strains, due to close quar-
 ters in the cars. A veterinary surgeon
 and a corps of washers and handlers
 are busy with the invalids and are
 steadily bringing them around. A few
 days ago all the herd was Vacc1nated
 the Malline test being applied to gNaro against fatal glanders that has proved the greatest danger horses have to en- counter in Manila
 A hundred men are employed about
 the stables of these horses that are ir transit to the islands.
 As they are sent to Manila in trans
 ports. one man will be assigned to ac- company each fifteen animals, ano care for them on the voyage. . One notable difference distinguishes
 the Kentucky horses from others. It i' the smallness and trimness of theil
 lower legs and ankles. Otherwise the , animals. like the men of Uncle sam
 army. are pretty much of one genera | American type, with the same Varla | tons to be found in all the sections O I country from which they come.
 Tons and tons of hay and grain ar'
 consumed daily in feeding these horses and California producers reap all tha |, profit. even if their breeders do not sel . all the horses that the government + . buying for the Philippines.-San Fran a cisco Chronicle.