The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-04-14

of the National Geographic society.
1.-THE ox-cart still, serves the South
ern dairy in North Carolina, Geor
gia, and Alabama as well as in othe1
portions of the South, as his coacl
and four for the Sunday 'go-to-meet
in. During the week the stolid beasi
plows tobacco and cotton fields. II
India bullocks hitched to a Wagon
with an ornate beehive shaped OF
elongated covering, not unlike the
picturesque tobacco schooner, convey
the Burmese mar and his family
along the road to Mandalay. MOI
does this animal cease being a means
of transportation upon his death. The
natives blow up his skin and use it
as a float or raft on which they cross
the rivers.
"In Arctic regions and in Alaska
particularly the dog has rendered
mankind inestimable assistance. To
day he is the means by which letters,
parcels and provisions reach the
snow-bound inhabitants of the inter
Tor. The reindeer also plays an i'm
portant part in the transportation
system of Alaska.
"The dog is the Belgian peasants
close friend, drawing the truck and
milk wagons in many towns.
Gone of the quaintest wagons of
the schooner type now in use is
drawn by camels through the streets
of certain towns in India. This coun-
try affords a variety of conveyances
and conveyors among which even the
most blase of novelty seekers might
find something to interest him-the
bumped OK, the horse, the donkey,
the camel, the elephant, and the hui
man being carrying a long pole
his shoulders to which his bur-
den is slung.
"The back of man bears the bur-
den in China. and so the chain of
burden bearers goes around the
with the elephant of Siam that
piles the native teak, the carabao
threshes the rice of the Philip
pines, the nan who propels the pal
the jinrikisha, and, lately,
jinrikomobile' of Japan, the trotting
of Ceylon, the splendid horses of
Arabia, the saddle OK of Central At
and the camel Of the Sahara and
Central Asia, to the llama of the high
the ubiquitous automobile,
md the homely but unitarian little
ourro of Mexico, Central and South
America. Thousands Of these last
famed little animals daily tread the
leading from the lowlands to the
.ity of LaPaz, delivering in the CAPT
al of Bolivia practically everything
he city gets from the outside world.
PATIENTLY, too, the burro has trailed
is way through history, from a per-
cd in the Holy Land older than in
which Joseph and Mary fed from
Ierod's slaughter of the innocents,
hence to Northern Spain and across
America with the Spanish explor-
rs and colonizers.
'"The section Of France known as
andes discloses one method of ira
ersing her many square miles of
at, sandy marshes that is probably
mployed by few except the Ameri-
boy in play. The sheperds in this
rea tend their focks on high stills.
"There is one city at least in which
ne horse has no prestige-Venice.
t has often been called the horse
,ss city, If traffic policemen are
ecessary on her liquid highways,
1ey occupy their minds with the
roblem of keeping the freight boats
submerging the amorous and
blivious gondolier.
"The Mother Goose rhyme about
he butcher, the baker and the can
maker who went to sea in a
Id may have had it's inspiration in
ne of the curious circular wicker
ork boats, covered with skins, which
re in daily use on the Tigris and
uphrates rivers for hauling both
eight and passengers.