Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01

are not easily exhausted. In crises threat
ening the existence of the duchy there may
be convoked an extraordinary landtag a
deliberative organ of exceptional powers,
which is to the ordinary landtag what
the French national assembly was to the
states general Of Versailles. This august
body came together with the ceremony
betting so solemn an occasion. 1t de-
clared at once that only specialists were
worthy to treat the equine problem; and
it appointed a special commission. In
this commission for days ragged a con-
troversy big with destiny. The pro-horse
faction with undiminished confidence re-
sumed the attack.
IF the horse were granted" argued
their leader. Deputy Schlottermueller.
convincingly, "the young duke might live
more often at kallenberg. much to the
advantage of the local storekeepers. The
deputy for Kallenberg, who had been OPP
posing the horse, was promptly gained
over by this argument, and the pro-
horseites prepared prematurely to cele-
brate their victory. Their hopes We're
dashed to the ground by unexpected
Intervention. THE pro-hOrseites support
rity." said expert witness Muther. THAT
is unfounded. The gendarme really
wants the horse to ride into town and
currycomb the wachtmeister's horse"
This revelation was bomb. There en-
sued a furious debate, reproaches and in
suits flew through the hall, and passions
ran SO high that one politician challenged
another to duel. The thrift party won.
THE function of a gendarme.' voted the
commission by a large ma jority, rs to
gain the respect of the public, and not to
degrade himself into the position of
horse cleaner"
While thus the landtag buzzed with
eloauence. the press and public were not
mute. Industrious men. inspired by DR..
Won Saalefeld sought for literary and
historical precedents for mounted gen
darmes When frivolous critic laughed
at the whole controversy he got from DIR.
Rieue the dignified reply: 1.-The horse is
not unworthy Of constitutional crisis
Horses have played a great role in his
tory. Who has not heard OF Bucephalus.
horse of the great Alexander? Troy fell
to a horse of wood, and it was the phan-
tom white steed of their hero Skobeleff
which led the thrice baffied Russians over
the redoubts OF Plevna. The Peruvian
Incas regarded the horses of PiZarro as
gods In religion. mythology and litara-
ture there are-to mention only few
the White Horse of Revelation, Pegasus
and the Rosinante OF Don Quixote.' ITO
the horse" wrote a Schoolmaster named
Kneip, whose name suggests beer and
dusling students, ''Phidias and Praxiteles
reared craven images" Both pro-horse
and anti-horse party used much such
imagery, but the issue hung in doubt
and after breathing time it was re-
sumed by the landtag with redoubled
fury.
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At the next session the anti-horseites
quoted Prince Buelows encomium of "old
Prussian thrift"
yes" retorted the pro-horseites. ''but
he has deficit of s125, 100000"
.SThen let Coburg set an example to
imperial Germany" replied the anti
horseites, land not make a deficit of
$50 on a useless horse.
The extraordinary landtag wavered.
In a more progressive state the anti
horsetes would have been bullied or
bought by their foes. But though Q CO.