The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
THE HORSE AND THE MAN.

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 The horse, unlike most other crea-- lures. never reached the perfection of his physical development until he be- came associated with man. Similarly man never became truly great, truly free. until he called the horse into ser vice. The nearest approach to a hu- man condition which Is one of essen. tiaI nobility without the horse is found in certain tribes of the North American Indians before the white men came; and these very Indians had brought the frame of the horse himself than | any other race of men on the globe. And when at last the horse came, the Indian greeted him as friend, as a long-lost brother
 | Scientists seem to be pretty well agreed that the orohippus, a small anil nal with toes instead of hoofs, was one of the remote ancestors of the horse of the present day. The remains of this creature are found in the rocks and shales where they were deposited some millions of years ago, more or less, for when it comes to fixing the date of these deposits a few thousands or millions of years are not in the way. This Orohippus was among the first of what they believe and claim to be the progenitors of our horse. It had four toes on Its front foot and size of a fox. or small dog. It was followed by other species with hard names, and the drawings given of these ancient fossils show the gradual in- crease in size, the gradual change of habits. and also the absorption of the toes until in the course of untold and unknown ages the little fox-like anil nal with the big name developed into the horse as we now see him.
 But "all this was in the olden time. long ago." as the poet says, and Is of interest now as showing what the men of science deduce from the remains which are found in several places in the United States, as we'll as in other parts of the world. It shows how they go back through an almost infinite lapse of time to find the beginning of things, and to trace the development of an animal from the embryo to what we are accustomed to consider a com plete specimen. It is done in the case of most varieties of animal life, but in this case we speak only of the horse, and of its evolution, as the writer in The Mail says. from the five-toed crea- ture discovered some years ago out in Wyoming to the Arabian barb"
 But there are two points connected with this horse discussion that bother the lay mind. Why is 1t. to begin with. that so far as is known, there has been no change in the horse during the his extends the horse of Genesis was the horse of today. so far as his size and shape are concerned, but we suppose the scientists would get rid of that ob- jection by saying that a small matter of six thousand years Is not to be taken finished ages and ages before history begins. Maybe so for we can't dis prove 1t.
 But there is another point which appears to be of some force, and that Is the fact, as we are assured, that no
 
 American continent when first visited by white men. Not only are remains of the Orohippus and his immediate successors found. but we are assured by the cyclopedias that fossil remains of true horses, differing but little from some of the smaller animals now in use, have been found from the Arctic re- | South. yet 1t seems certain that the Indians found here by the Spaniards and other first explorers, knew noth- ing of horses, and the evidence is pret- ty sound that they did not exist on the American continent. In the old world the development apparently went on through all the ages without a break, for explorations and excava- tions furnish evidence that they existed before man came onto the scene and that they were always present after the earth had human inhabitants. Just why they became extinct on this con- tinent and survived elsewhere is a mys- tery.
 That the horses left here by the first European visitors should have multi piled and thriven so wonderfully is proof that this continent was favorable to their development, and Is also proof that when left to themselves they soon became accustomed to new conditions and thrive and multiply without human care. And 1t is not surprising that the Indians soon learned their value and took advantage of that knowledge. The wild horse of the plains appealed to the equally wild savage, and the latter soon found that he could travel much easier and faster on a horses back than he could on his own feet And so, although possibly millions of years may have elapsed since the horse dis appeared from the American continent, his return was gladly welcomed by his brother, the Man.
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 The New Bedford Standard is a Re- publican newspaper and generally comes to the defence of the President when such thing is possible, but that recess performance was too much for its stomach. It uses this plain Ian- guage about 1t:
 Nobody would ever have propounded