Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18

tackled by frost bites. which actually
deprived him OF his hands and feet.
Fearing to jeopardize his companions.
| who would not leave him. he STAGGERED
out into the blizzard and persisted.
Still the little party was none the
better off, for the blizzard that ar
rested Its progress remained 1mpene,
trable for nine consecutive days. ana
| so Capt Robert Falcon Scott, r. n.
&c v. O.: DR.. Edward Adrian Wilson.
chief of the scientific staff, and Lieut..
Henry r. Bowers commissariat offi-
Ger. succumbed to the unconquerable
| hand of fate when they were within
only eleven miles of food and fuel
that would have lasted them three
months.
The supporting party, which remained
in winter quarters to pursue the study
of scientific phenomena, included the
cinematographer, who was required to
record every important detail of ZOO
logical life, photographic wonders,
chemical formation, geological freaks
and. in fact. everything considered
worthy of record for the enlightenment
of science and the edihcation of those
at home. The animated pictures of
about $4,000 feet of film. together with
some 1000 Photographic plates. were
brought back and developed about
year ago. From that remarkable as
sortment, Mr.. Pointing selected 5000
feet of the films and a number of the
most striking plates for exhibition pur
poses.
AS fitting climax Capt. Scott sent
back from his tomb in that awful
kodak picture of himself and his COM
.panions standing on the very axis of
the earth. which was made shortly be-
| fore their death. This picture was
the shutter of the camera and is shown
at the conclusion of the cfnematograph
entertainment
RTDErpc ~, rvrrun u0pIn w. d,s
ferent methods of riding by the diff
illustrated in the congress of rough
riders with Buffalo Bills Wild West and
Pawnee Bits Far East shows
| The widely different mounts could not
/ be more fully compared than in the two
| almost extreme seats of the cowboy and
! the foxhunter, shown in this seasons
program. The cowboy has to be astride
| his pony from dozen hours upward
| every day. He ropes steers and drags
| out mired cows, and Is compelled to stick
| to his saddle under the most abnormal
conditions. and, II need be. must have
both his hands at liberty. The foxhunter.
however. has nothing to do but sit
| tight, with no other occupations for his
the very best performance possible out
| OF his horse, a delicate enough operation.
| He uses a saddle in which he can sit
safely over different obstacles, but which
comes down. A huntsman rides the fiat
test thing known except pad.
Every saddle must be as closely adapt
ed to the needs of thes rider as can be
made. The home of tfef short seat and
long stirrup is the occidant. that of the
long seat and short stiraup the orient
These are varied in every locality to suit
its own peculiarities, inherited or ac-
quired.
The eastern rider clingsato his extreme
ly short feathers. to placeShim the higher
above his horse in the charge. and there
fore make him the more imposing when
he stands up In his stirrups, to brandish
scimitar or matchbox He early learns
to throw his horse and use him for a
rampant from behind which he can fire
and then remOunt rapidly and attack
with a saber. using it in any position, at
any gait. The eastern riders throw their
horses even at gallOp, pick up wound
ed men, and. going at full speed, they
leap from horse to horse.
In matters equine however, it is con-
coded America is pre-eminent, for Ameri-
cans are a many sided pepole and their
equestriantsm partakes of their many
sidedness. The greatest variety of riders
which any one people has produced has
thriven on the continent. of North
America.
There can be counted within the boun-
daries of the Union almost every type of
rider from those who subdued the steed
in the era of. the frieze OF the Parthenon
to the faithful family 'sDobbin"' Of today.