Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
SlRCUS HORSES REVEAL
STRANGE "SIxTH SENSE
Los Angeles Shriners Have Odd DEM
onstration of Animal Psychic In
teIIigence When Arabian Stall
lion Charges on Them

Believers in thought transference,
psychic phenomena and reincarnation
may have their belief strengthened II
they go to the Sells-Floto winter quar-
ters at Venice and interview Barney,
the beautiful Arabian stallion with the
wide forehead and intelligent eyes.
Some subtle sense must have con-
yeyed to Barney that his services
would soon be needed in the call for
charity ,and what greater charity could
there be than the Shriners' projected
gift of an endowment fund of $4,000
to the Childrens hospital. through the
me dium of u weeks circus festival?
Ii has been proved on more than one
occasion that circus horses know when
the season ends. Their harness Is re-
moved for the last time. their shoes
are taken off and they are turned loose
in the pasture for a wild, free revel
for the winter months during which
the show is laid up for repairs.
The -Floto ranch is about Zen
miles from Venice, located between the
mountains and the sea. Mr.. Tammen
We sterday piloted a party of Shriners
OF AL Malaikah temple for a tour OF
insrection, the object being to select
buildings for the proper rehearsing OF
the various comedy and athletic
| stunts" which the Shriners will prac-
tice prior to their public appearance
at Prayer park the week of April ..
Barney Makes Debut
The guests were leisurely discussing
mems riding, clown stunts, intricate
aerial feats, etc, when they were dis
turbed by the clatter of laundering
hoofs in a whirling, swlrling cloud or
dust and there burst upon their as
tonished vision band of wild looking
horses unaccompanied by driver, lead
er or groom.
why, it's Barney and his crowd!
exclaimed Frank Tammen. How the
deuce did he get in from the ranch
it's ten miles, and they have only been
over the trail once!'
The Shriners, who, after last sea-
sens experience with the ''sircus. are
not astonished at anything, exclaimed
in q breath: "Why, / believe Barney
! has come to volunteer his services for
oui charity 'sircus.'"
lii a few moments Superintendent
Sanders came galloping in and breath
Iessly told of the wild ride from the
rarch. He said that Barney gathered
his companions about him, calmly sur
veyed them and then leisurely started
! for the mountains. Sanders tried to
|
th, faster they ran.
| When he arrived at the top Of the
mountain over which they must de-
scend on the road to Venice he beheld
strange sight. Slipping, sliding and
falling was Barney, still valiantly lead
| INK his flock in a wild scramble that
nearly precipitated them into the sea.
! AT the feet of the steep declivity
they got on their feet, apparently re-
gained their bearings and again dashed
! for Venice, where they arrived BREATH
| less.
Now, it may only be a coincidence
that the Shriners' party happened to
| be there, but what the gentlemen would
| ike to know is, how did the stock find
| it's way? Why should the horses VOL
UNFAIRLY break away from the pleasures
| of ranch life and at such time? Why
did
But what's the use of speculating? =?
The horses are here and the Shriners
won't have it any way but that the
recent newspaper articles announcing
the coming "sircus' event was con-
veyed in some mysterious sixth sense
to the circus horses and they nohly
came the ten miles over the trail and
mountains to volunteer their services
in the good cause.
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