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the most highly specialized of animals In
its adaptation 10 its peculiar environment.
AT the end OF the age Of mammals the
horse became cosmopolitan and inhabited
the plains of all the great continents, e4-
cepting Australia,
1t is regarded as a very curious fact. sup
ported by scientific Investigation. that there
Is no record, geological or otherwise OF
horses existing in North America from the
close Of the pleistocene period up TO the
time of Columbus discovery of America In
l492 When the Spaniards first explored
the new world they found no horses on
either the North American or South Amer
lean continent. The Indians We're quite IN
familiar with them, and at first regarded
the strange animals which the white man
rode with wonder and terror.
There Is every evidence that there was an
abundance of horses during the pIelstocene
period ana before that time but the man.
her of their extinction Is unknown. 1t Is
also considered singular that when the
Spaniards and other early white settlers
brought horses to the new world they
. propagated with great rapidity, and in
comparatively short space of time the west
ern plains Were overrun with herds Of tie
so-called wild horses. Ii IS an Interesting
question how the vast herds OF ancient
horses were totally exterminated in a re-
gfon in which years later they were ahls to
thrive so abuudanuy.
The vast herds of camels which inhabited
North America contemporary with the an
cestors of the horse were exterminated al
about the same time as the ancient horse
disappeared. However, these animals, the
camels. have never resumed their habitat
in North America, as did the horse. after
their ancient determination, and in fact
conditions today are not conducive 10 their
thriving in this country.
1t may have been that the extinction or
the ancestors OF the horse was due to their
inability 10 stand the cold OF the winters.
which were probably longer and more Sc
we're during the fee age than now. 1t is
also conjectured that probably man-the
early tribes of prehistoric hunters-played
a largo part N eXterminating the race.
Then, again, the competition with the bison
and the antelope, which had then recently
migrated to America, may have made IL
more difficult than formerly for the Amer
can horse to obtain food, It IS possible
that some unknown disease or prolonged
season of drought may have been RESPONSE
BILE for the extinction OF the horses an
cestors.
Whatever the cause the horse had disap-
peared from the new world when the white
man invaded 1t and the buffalo had spread
over the prairfes of the north where the
various genera and species Of the horse
family had once been so numerous. There
are to be found today IN Asia two species OF
the true wild horse-the Asiatio wild ass
and the little known Przewelsky's horse,
while in Africa there are the African wild
ass and the several species OF zebra.
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passing statement. Yet acute alcoholism,
including delirium tremens, appears among
LOCO admissions of mean strength in the
American army at the rate of $3.50; IN the
Prussian army at the rate of 90; in the
Bavarian army at the rate of 0.19 and in
the Austrian army no cases of acute alco-
holism appeared at all.
In other words, in the American army, SO
tenderly and carefully protected against the
imaginary horrible results Of beer, acute
alcoholism prevails $50 times as much as
in the Bavarian army. The figures should
be shocking to the moral sense Of those
responsible for the welfare of the American
soldier. l think it is pretty safe to say
that the exceedingly rare cases Of alcohol
ism among the German soldiers are caused
not by beer, but by stronger drinks. Just as
the comparatively numerous cases among
the American soldiers are. In other and
still yiler diseases which have more or less
connection with the use of strong drink
and the visiting of vile resorts, the proper
lions similar.
AS alcoholism Is impossible without
the use of alcohol. and as none of 1t can
be had at the post exchange, the SOL.
der must, of course, get it somewhere
else. He gets 1t in the saloons and vile
resorts in the neighborhood of the ex-
change. There, among vicious surround
irgs, in the company of immoral men and
1ewd women, he drinks whisky mostly
the worst kind; there his physical and
moral health Is destroyed. and the pro-
htbition of the sale of beer at the post
exchange has had apparently no other
effect but that of driving the soldier
from the clean atmosphere of the can
teen into the miserable dives surround
ing forts and garrisons and of making
whisky drinkers out of beer drinkers
OF course. 1t is true, as the prohibltionists
contend. that such dives existed IN the
neighborhood Of the post exchanges before
the prohibition of beer, but they have, ac-
cording to the table contained in the afore-
mentioned doeument-House 252-increased
within two years from 800 TO 1.s96, ana,
secondly, such as there We're were not fire.
quented nearly as much by the soldiers as
they are now.
The prohibitionists charge the army Of
fcers with making false statements. In
lengthy communication of prohibitlonist
published recently in Richmond tYa.)
paper. / noticed the following statements
Our army officers have not co-operatea
In giving the measure enacted by Congress
Our army needs an investigation that VIII
rid It OF officers that are a curse IN tSlf
influence to their boys. Many OF our army
officers by their drunken sprees, Their I'M
moral influence, their high life and their
interest in booze. prove that the army
needs an investigation. the state
meuts OF army officers are proven false
Such wholesale abuse of American army
-ofI1cers. who, in respect to honor, dignity.
credfbility and responsibility compare Wen
with the army officers or men OF any pro-
fession IN any other nation in the world, ts
unworthy o. any decent man or woman ana
also unworthy of REPUTATION. am sure
that IN question of truthfulness and cred
Utility bstween the ofdeeEs q the Amerac4n
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The museums latest discovery is consid-
cred of the greatest Importance. not only
because tt Will make the records more COM
plete, but also because 1t may lead to the
veriffcation of the theory that the horse
originated in this country
The domestic horse is one of the most
cosmopolitan of animals. Wherever man
can iive-from torrid to arctic climates in
ell continents and in remote islands of
the ocean-there the horse is to be found
But the true wild horse is found only in
the desert plains of Central Asia and Africa
The so-called wild horses of the wes.Hrn
prairies and of South America are declared
by scientists TO be domesticated animals run
wild, descendants of the horses brought to
the western hemisphere by the early white
settlers from Europe.
The horse is distinguished from all other
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It would be hardly necessary to explain
that discomfort must Inevitably result In
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for pride the horse, probably the most
useful and doclle of all domestic anil
q, mails, should be the proudest creature
in existence, His family tree has
many branches and his ancestry can be
traced back, not merely for centuries. as is
the case with the most naughty families of
Aumou beings. but through several geologi-
cal perlods-three million years at least. a
ascent discovery made by the American
aEzseum OF Natural History, New York, is
said to complete the chain OF equine evolu-
ton from the early days of the eocene
period, estimated at 100000 years ago,
down 20 the preFeut time.
After many years search, and when hope
of success had been almost abandoned, the
New York Museum Of Natural History has
been rewarded by The discovery of the re-
mains Of the mountain horse" or Orohip-
pus. This find, Il IS declared fills in the
gap in the record Of the horses existence
which science has long endelvored to make
perfect
The locality around Fort Brldger. Wyo.,
was carefully searched for fossils, but par
tIculaIly for the mountain horse" frag-
ments Of which had been found and named
by Prof Marsh In 1872. Parties sent out by
the American Museum visited this region
in 1898 and 1888. and from 1903 to 1905, but
IN spite OF the most interchangeable efforts
the Orohippus eluded the searchers. 1t had
begun to look as though the attempt to To-
cate hiS-skoIetOn would have to be given
up as hopeless, when on the very last day
Of the final expedition of 1905. just when
the party was about to return. the long
Iooked-for remains were unearthed These
consisted of the skull. backbone, limbs and
other parts of the skeleton of the very stage
wanted. The find has not been publicly an
nounced heretofore.
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HE army is an institution for GER
tain practical purposes It is
composed Of men with the aver
~ age virtues and defects, needs
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
JAPS AS ExCLUSIoNISTs.
Though a COEnate Race, the Chinese
Arc Kept Ont of Japan,
L.. ~. ~. Z .1-l.s, p.


The japanese journalists who met at
Tokyo yesterday 20 protest against the
exclusion IN san Francisco Of japanese
children" most Of them grcwu-up men)
show praiseworthy restraint in the mu-
tual agreement to advocate no extreme
measures. but also lack Of memory as
70 the position OF japanese upon the same
subject
Japan IS but a short voyage across a
narrow stretch OF water from China
japanese art and the literature OF Japan,
its moral code. and most Of its earlier
institutions are built upon Chinese
models. While Japan is to-day far su-
perior to China, it is from China that
Japan obtained the foundations OF its
civilization
Iet Japan feels so strongly the neces-
sity Of racial separation that Chinese i'm
migration IS excluded from Japan. both
by treaty aad by law. The educated Chi
nose. the merchant, the man Of affairs
and Of business Is allowed 10 enter Japan.
just as similar visitors from China are
permitted 20 enter this country. But the
acod Of Chinese Immigration which would
pass from China into Japan is sternly
Tepressed.
II Japan fees that this policy is neces-
sary in regard to q neighboring country
of cOgaate race. whose Iitera ture and art.
whose morals and civilIzaAon have so
powerfully affected Japan, Japan cannot
he surprised il this country does draw
the line as to race sharply and directly
so far as Asiatic immigrants are con
cerued
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
WOMEN AS JEWEL MAKERS.
Much OF Their WorI. Done i'm POpu-
lar Scmi-preciOus stones.
From the New Yoss Sun.

trCin ti3 NeW f"sE SUM-
Women goldsmiths and jewelers. are
having considerable success both in Eu-
rope and America. The abiest Of them
are regularly instructed ia schools Of de-
sign and ga The shops OF working jewel
ers ard goIdsmiths.
Much OF their work is in the scmi-pre-
cious stones now popular. These owe
their charm TO the tasteful fashion in
which they are mounted and arranged.
Tho women jewellers have been especial
" successful in designing chains collars,
necklaces. sud the Ike IN which semi
precious stones are mounted in gold Of
pleasing decorative des. .gn. An eye for
color q sure taste in matters II form.
and deftness and manual skill arc the
necessary equipment for this kind Of
work
Some Of the women Jewellers are skilled
IN other departments Of the trade They
are apt at enauIeling. an art TO which
women have only o. recent years given
attention.
Il takes a very short tine for q clever
girl 60 learn the art OF euameliug On cop
per. and many small copper vessels
euameled within. and batpins, watch fohs
and the like are made 10y women. s
school Tn Boston teaches copper enamel
iug TO "a small class OF women annually,
ard within the yesr most Of them acquire
considerable skill in the art.
Rings elabOrate!y chased and set with
precious stones are made by women Jew
eleTs. though they do less OF such work
than work in enamel and In ssTli-precious
stones. Most Of the work IN precious
stones IS still IN the hands of men, and
there are few women diamond cutters.
The advantage that the women find IN
this kind OF work Is that it may be done
at their own rooms or wherever they can
set up a wise, small forge and crucibIes
Some OF the women jewel5rs work for
the trade. and Il is q good zeal easier Tor
them 10 obtain from the employing jew
eieTs work In semi-DTsCiOus stones th1u
in more expensive jewels.
A good deal OF the work of the women
jewellers Is done upon private orders. and
some OF the most successful among them
owe their reputation and trade TO the
quiet advertising that they obtain from
patrons who have been pleased with
their work. The young woman who man
ages to attract the interest Of q few rich
women IS pretty well assured Of profit
able employment
The fashion In Jewels Is constantly
changing, and there is q growing demand
among the wealthy for specially designed
Jewels. Many wealthy women are easily
interested IL new materials ana methods
IN Jewels and IL Is 90 such patrons that
some OF the women jewelers. look for an
ploymenr
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

ssIez-Reg-,lsr ca1 Z O'Clock u,.
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washington Gas. Z At 3. o at ya CBuysr CO...
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81 8 "a g. = a. 57st l5syCr 3D., = 40 0't toller
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Sie-gcnt.sler Laotpe, 10 ~ ei's-
Lansioa tIoaoUpe. $50 r. IA.
Nirclsu Mining 10 az So 90 at o., 100 at Jt.
American Security GHd Trust. 20 -
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After caII-Washington Gas. at S'ls,
Union Trust ripits. ! Gt 8.
The following s7c the c.gsils nd quotations On
ygsterdly's local exchange.
Gas hruds-Nasbirz.0u Gas Company a. lo5
Washington Ges Company certificates q indebted
ness 8. Ill
Railroad i0n5s-Capi-si Tract.on Railroad &c
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Suburban raj road S. lJ2. Columbia 81, lGi- Co
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Lieht certificate e. 10 Potomac Electro Liga.
g. los Nof5lE and Washington Steamboat O.
joc Chesp-l.s and Potomac Telephone s., l1-.-.
Washington Market 6s. l1-
P,blic at.lity st5els-. s-si-al Trscti-a. lEgl
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and Potomac Telephone 8.
Type machine stocks -sis-seathsior Linovp1. -0i
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saving bsuz rtocu-H0mc SaIinEs Bank. 97i
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Fire insurance st0e-s-Ariington. g. Columbia,
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The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
HEWED A WAY 400 MILES.
The Long March of Forty Soldiers
Through Untrodden wilderness.


SPOKANE Dispatch 70 The CaIcago Chrorice
Members Of Company X. Third Infantry.
who have reached Fort Wright, say that
the ie5-miie march that they made over
land in Alaska has quite reconciled them
TO civilized life. On September ] the com
pany received orders 20 march from the
Delta River to Fort Liscum. distance OF
40 miles across q country unbroken and
trackiCss. There were two officers, thirty
nine men. and two Signal Corps men in
the company. and il was found impossible
10 procure any saddle animals. Every
I body. even the officers, had 10 walk every
foot OF the way. hewing their way through
forests. struggling through reeking b0gs,
and fording rivers whose waters were Zee
cold Nineteen serviceabie pack animals
We're taken along, as well as siz which
proved 70 be Of 30 benefit and four died
during the twenty days march.
Eations and suppl es were so short -
the De}la River that only bread. canned
meats. beans. and coffee could be carried
along stoves were out Of the question
and IL was found impossible 10 procure
even field ranges. Day after day the eS-
petition struggled on with the lightesJ
camp equipment possible starting cut re-
freshed each morning after a few hours
sleep on the hard ground, aud reaching
camp ar night almost too tired 70 satHe.
hrewood Tor fuel The tired animals we're
slippn ng into bogs at every turn of the
tail and had 20 be unsaddied and pull
"a out by the men.
On one day alone 6fty-twC such mis-
maps were recorded. For ten successive
days the men were chilled and wet
through by driving rains and by having
% ford countless streams and rivers. but
they kept ganeiy on their way without
complaint. end when Fort Liscum was
reached. although every man Of the com
pa8y was p siGvely iG rags, their health
was good and they looked robust enough
to 60 over the journey again
Boots. clothes. hats. every article Cf
clothing that they wore was reduced 10
ags and tatters. and a complete change ot
equipment was necessary before they were
able 60 go aboard the steamer tLEt U1s
20 take them to Seattle
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
WOULD TAKE NO RISK.
Dream that Altered a Chicago Girls
Views of Matrimonial Life.
From the Chicago Ncr,

From the Chicago NcTs.
YES" sighed the giTl in the pony
Jacket. languidly; I'm going TO be mar
ried"
Anybody would think from your dis
interested air that you were merely 60
lng 70 be manlcured or shampooed. or
90 have your teeth examined replied the
girl from the South spirltedly.
You forget" rebuked the prospective
bride with dignity, that I am giving VI
. career.'
"Oh. tra-la for your career. The only
career worth living is a good husband
and you know it,"
y know nothing Of the kind" was the
sharp answer. and, besides, how do you
know you are getting q good one-just
S.caUse It's a husband
"WeH. why on earth are you getting
married. then?" asked the girl from the
South. impatlentiy.
I'll tell you, if you want TO know,
ard the girl IN the pony jacket leaned
oveF mysteriously. 4 was warned in q
dream! You see, Tom has been bother
ing mo 10 marry him for a year or two,
but I had bTavely stuck right to my
purpose. You know, Marion, that do
look Ike Maxine EliiOtt-a Hrtle-and
that I've got q voice that reminds every
body Of Mrs Leslie Carter, ana that the
way I Go the potion scene
"Oh. do stop advertising yourself and
gct to the dream
I'm coming to that" with reproachful
dignity. Well. just after I had told
Tom finally and forever that ! vvouldn' Z
and couldn't bs his wife or anything but
an actress-I met him on the street with
that Clement girl. Say. Marion. the way
she does her hair gives me ths creeps.
Yes, I'm going on That night I went
home and had the most horrible dream.
I thought ] was 81 big company and
a big theater, and that instead OF be-
ing star ! was chorus girl and stood
way. way back IN the very last row.
i looked out into the audience. but
at first I couldn't see eny Of the faces
Gradually they began TO come out plainly,
anG MariOn-eveTy man I ever knew was
there! And beside each OF them was &
nice. happy-looking little woman. and
somehow ] understood that they were
the wives Of the men might have mar
ried. ana I shrauk back IN the corner
for fear they would recognize me. But
they 81 saw NE. and / could hear them
whispering about ne 90 those women.
Ugh. Say. when I woke UP. 1 couIdn' I
md pen and ink quick enough to SEND
for Tom. OF course, being married ism 1
very ailuring when you have your heart
set on being a great star--but It's a little
more certain-and-and--I Just couldn't
take the chance.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
CANARD AFFECTED MARKET.
stocks Drop Temporarily on Report
Hughes Is AssuSsinRted

London, Nov. 6.-The holiday in New
York vas responsible for the dullnese in
American shares on the Stock Exchange
to-day. which, after narrow fluctuations
around parity, closed irregular.
\ rum0r circulated mere during the
etternoOn that Charles Z. Hughes. the
Republican candidate for governor OF
New York. had been assassinated caused
a dr0y Of half q point il some issues. but
tie report was not generally credited,
ard, il the absence OF confirmation, the
loss -was soon recovered.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
WASHINGTON CATTLE MARKET.

Market quiet; prices not ii-tierially changed.
CATTLE-Lzt-a. 5o5 De- owt-: hufchegs. Ac0:
ordinary. 254
HOGS-Par cwt-, sgoss 625 to GO. ogdinafy $50.
sHEEP-Clipacd 401 N diam. $50 70 SO.
LAHBs-Per pound, sTTing, choice, to y; ms
diam, so 7.
CALvEs-Per pound primo. to 71s: medium.
Cis; w-ss. to s'5.
C0Ws-Esch. rrime. foo0 TO SOC; common, 900
20 sa.e3. old and dTT. 500 70 1000.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
IRON WORKFRs GET RAISE
Reading Company go Increase Wages
10 Per Cent in All Departments.

Reading. Pa., Nov. 6-FolloWing closely
on the announcement or the Reading
Railways 10 per cent wage advance, the
Reading Iron Company. which Is con
trolled by the former. issued state
ment 20 the effect that the wages VIII
shortly be advanced IN ell departments
owing TO improved market conditions.
The puddlers Of the company have been
on strike since July /. following the re-
fUsai OF the demand ny the Amalga-
mated Association OF Iron and Steel and
Tin Workers for an increase.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS,

I wCldeg II the turkey crop
Escaped III uck and sililnp
AID II they're GadinE bugs enough
To nske them nicc and plump.
And Il the trust which always gives
The purchaser the laugh
VIII Price them where well ret & whole
Or only sast a half.
! wonder f the cranbeIr.cs
are plentiful tins year.
Ans i thc grocer means 70 bold
Them reasonable OK dear.
wonder if the trusts intend
That we shah 81 and MUNICH
Til We shall know safety.
Or merely have : iunch9
--5k Louis Pest Dispatch
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
Not Like the New Orleans Case.

From the New Yo-k sun.
+ In Sun Francisco the discrimination by
which subjects Of the AIikado are re-
strained from attending white schools Is
not the result Of mob action or o. unofi-
CiaI proceedings. The legislature OF Cali
fornia has passed g statute requiring
that all pupils OF Oriental parentage shall
be educated ia special schools. The legal
school authorities Of San Francisco. in
obedience 10 this statute. established such
separate schools. There is no mob rule
10 violation OF State law IN this action
The law under which inc school authOTi-
ties acted may be impolitic. unwise. or
Unconstitutional, violating the supreme
law OF the land as defined In the second
section of Article VI Of the Constitution
Of the United States. It's constituuouauty
VIII be decided in the proceedings now IN
progress IN the Federal courts. Whatever
the outcome Of those proceedings May be,
however. the San Francisco authorities
will not be put in q position resembling
IN any way that occupied By the leaders
of the mob in New Orleans fifteen years
ago.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
LOCAL FINANCIAL GOSSIP.

The washington Stock Exchange was
yesterday the only one in the United
States which had a session and attended
to the usual routine Of business Ia tas
States election day IS legal holiday. anc
In consequence the stock exchanges at
New York and Boston were closed. ike
wise the cotton exchanges At New Yorl
and New Orleans, and the grain exchange
n Chicago
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
New Rnles nfhr.t wnrI.

From he CIeTeland Plain Dealer.
"Ies. she had a collarbone broken in .
bargain rush"
How did It happeu?"
Why she tried the new forward pass
and wss thrown for gain"
The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
Profitnh1e EmnIorment

From the Philadelphia Press.
Grover Cleveland's book on angling is
out iCst IN time to give New York Dem
ocrats a chance to spend the whole OF
election day reading it.