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THE HORSE.
Why That Animal Whs Orlven Before It
Was Hidden.
Canon Taylor, in that most interest
ing book, '"The Origin of the Aryans, "
has raised once more a question which
has often attracted the attention of
scholars, especially those interested in
the Homeric poems, says the Academy.
Why is it that in the earliest records of
the Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians,
Indians, and Celts we find the horse
used for drawing chariots, but not yet
for riding?
Canon Taylor remarks: "It is curious
to notice at how late a period men first
ventured to mount 'the swift one;' " and
he goes on to say that there is nothing
in the "Kijj Veda" to show that the art
of riding was practiced, and that our
first notice of it is in the "Zend Avesta."
The Homeric Greeks employed the
horse almost exclusively for the
chariot, riding being only alluded to in
some two or three isolated passages, as
when Odysseus and Dioinedes rode to
the ships the horses of Rhesus which
they had captured. This, however,
shows that it was hardly from fear
that the Greeks did not habitually ride
instead of drive their steeds. The
same remark applies to tho ancient
Britons, who, according to the ancient
accounts, performed wonderful feats of
agility in runningout and standing upon
the pole of the chariot.
The true solution may probably be
this: The primitive horse that ranged
over the plains of Europe and Asia was
too small when he was first domesti
cated to carry a man for any great
time or distance on his back. This, of
course, would render him practically
useless for warfare. There is ample
evidence to prove that the primitive
wild horse was of very diminutive size.
Probably of all his descendants the
Shetland pony is his best represent
ative. Canon Taylor says (speaking ol
the enormous deposit of their bones
found at Solutre, near Maeon, which
contains from twenty thousand to forty
thousand skeletons) :
"This primitive horse was a diminu
tive animal, not much larger than an
ass, standing about thirteen hands
high, the largest specimens not exceed
ing fourteen hands. (ut the head was
of disproportionate size, and the teeth
were very powerful. lie resembled the
tarpan or wild horse of the Caspian
eteppes."
Even long; after he had been domesti
cated he remained very small, as is
proved by the bits made of bronze and
staghorn which have been found at Mo
ringen and Auvernier, which belong to
the latest bronze age. "These bits are
only three and one half inches wide,
and could now be hardly used for a
child's pony."
Let us now turn to Herodotus, where,
speaking of the unknown regions to tho
north of the Danube, he sayN that the
only people he can learn of ns inhab
iting the region arc called Nijjyannae,
who wear the costume of tbe .Modes,
and whose horses are sliajro-y all over
the body, being covered with hair to a
depth of five lingers, and are small and
flat nosed and incapable of. carrying
men, but when yoked under chariots
they are very swift, and that the na
tives accordingly drive, chariots. This
description of the external appearance
of the little horses of the Sigyannae of
central Europe agrees very well with
that of the' (sketches found near Ma
con. The sinions sh'ipe of the head
tallies well with the ugly shaped skull
and powerful jaws of the bone de
posits. We can . hardly doubt that we have
here primitive horses such as those
whose diminutive bits have been found
in the later lake dwellings of Switzer
land. It seems to me then that the
reason Herodotus here assigns for the
fact that this tribe of central Europe
drove their horses instead of riding
them is the true explanation why all
early peoples alike employed the horse
for driving long before they ever habit
ually practiced riding. It was only
after generation ,f domestication that,
under careful feeding und breeding, the
horse became of f.uiik'ient ize to carry
a man on his back with ease. That
size was held to be ( f great importance
by the Homeric ln-eks is proved by
Iliad x.'-;"it.
A I'letured Com.
One of the strangest lnpirjarinn freaks
that has ever come within the knowl
edge of diamor.d experts is now on view
at the Hums Hotel, ia Kimberly, South
Africa. The :.t ine, says the Jeweler's
Weekly, is in shape and size like a
pigeon's egg. of a dark brown color ex
ternally, mid at first i.ight opaque. If
viewed in a dark place, with a candle
pr other light m placed that the rays
passthrr.-r-'h the :,Vme before fallingon
the retina, however, one sees distinctly
the image of a man from the waist up
ward. Turning the pebble, he sees at
another point a woman's face, partly
concealed by lionvy tresses, and yet,
again, on iMiother pnrtionof the surface
being applied to tin: 03-0, a moonlit
cloud sk'-l::li is dearly dilineated.
The stone was found in a debris
wash up, and 10 10s have been refused
for it. A Mr. liergsmu, a debris
washer, was the finder of the remark
able Stop".
Lynch Law Among Kmte.
In the neighborhood of Hurley the
other day, says the Leeds (Eng.) Post,
a gentleman looking over a wall saw a
dead hen in the field. Presently a ;at
ran up, snuffed at the defunct fowl
with much satisfaction and went away
in some haste. The onlooker, who is a
student of natural history, knew what
that meant, and removed the hen from
the spot. In a minute or two the rat came
back with half a dozen friends, with the
evident intention of removing the car
cass for future use. Arriving at the
spot where the fowl had Iain, the rat
raised a loud squeak of astonishment at
its absence. In a trice the other rats
fell upon him so savagely that they left
him dead on the field as a warning not
to play practical jokes with his friends
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I have heard it said a thousand times
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one who really wants work need go idle
long; but in the best season, when work
and wages are most plentiful, that is
only half true, says Jacob A. lliis in the
Forum. The work may be there, aud
at the same time thousands may be go
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fail to find it. They do not know where
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Perhaps they do not know enough of
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Some agency is needed to bring the
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the West side I think it was in West
Thirty-seventh street where a painter
had that day cut his throat. Standing
there by the eo e I learned from the
sobbing widow t..at the man was des
perate for want of work. He had been
on the street for weeks and his children
were starving. It happened that 1 had
been for just the same length of time
looking for a man to paint my
house out in the country, where
painters were scarce and very busy.
Iliad just made up my mind to adver
tise t'lat day. There lay this painter
dead because lie could find no one tc
give him work, while I would have
been glad to pay him more than the
wages of his trade to get him to work
fur me. Had there been any means of
bringing us together to which we would
both naturally have resorted, he would
have been alive aud his family self-supporting.
Now it seemed certain to be
come a burden upon the public.
It was not the ouly instance of that
sort by very many I had come across. I
thought then, and I think now, that
some great central labor bureau con
ducted by a thoroughly responsible or
ganization that could appeal to the
community with the certainty, not only
of enlisting tho aid of employers,
but also of reaching the unemployed,
would be one of the greatest boons that
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HOW TO ROLL AN UMBRELLA.
Almost Everybody loes It Wrone;, Al
though tho lilKlit Way Is Simple.
"No, not that wayl I never knew
one man in a hundred to do it right,"
said the clerk in the umbrella store.
His remarks were directed at a cus
tomer who had proceeded to roll up a
recently purchased umbrella to return
it to its case, says the New York Sun.
He had done what .. ninety-nine per
cent, of persons who handle umbrellas
do when they attempt to gather the
folds of cloth in a neat roll around the
stick. He had grasped the handle with
his right hand and was twisting the
silk through with his left hand.
"That will spoil that umbrella when
you have repeated the operation half a
dozen times," the clerk continued, "and
then you will be coming here and com
plaining that that six dollar umbrella
wasn't worth fifty aents.
"Now, see what you were doing! You
were making a pretty roll, but did you
notice tliat you were twisting the ribs
and braces in a spiral around that stick
as well as the cloth? You may have
noticed that your umbrella sticks and
catches when you try to raise it.
"That's because you don't know how
to roll it. Y'ou twist the joints of the
ribs and braces all out of shape. There,
you see, you havo twisted the ends of
those ribs all around in a bunch on one
side of the handle. Now, let me show
you how an umbrella should bo rolled."
The clerk took the maltreated article,
shook out the folds of silk and worked
the spiral out of tho ribs and proceeded
to demonstrate the proper methods of
umbrella rolling. Grasping the handle
iu his right hand, he encircled the silk
at the tip with his left, which he slipped
down about half-way of theeloth, press,
ing tho ribs and braces firmly against
the stick.
The right hand was then shifted to
the tips of the ribs, which were held
firmly against the stick, while the left
hand adjusted the roll of cloth around
them. liy this method the ribs were
kept straight along the stick and not
partly twisted around it, as the custo
mer's roll.
By Pigeon Poat.
Englishmen enjoy in France a curl
ous privilege which is rigidly withheld
from Germans and Belgians. It is that
of flying carrier-pigeons, on the strict
condition, however, that both birds and
Benders are of lirilish nationality. In
iielgium alone there are at the present
moment six hundred thousand racing
birds, which, in ease of a war, would
be placed at the disposal of the govern
ment. Every bird of this number is ad-1
mirably trained. In days gone by theii
training used to take place in the south
of France, but tliat is now interdicted,
and no bird from Iielgium or Germany
is allowed in France. The French gov
ernment, of course, fears that in the
event of a war, trained pigeons would
be smuggled into the interior, thus ena
bling information tf) be carried to th
belligerent country.
A Terns Woman's Ureal Itanrh.
Richard Harding Davis thus writes ol
lady who runs a Texas ranch: "When
ladies go to call on Mrs. Richard King,
after they have reached tho front gate
they have to drive ten miles up the
walk to the front door. Hut the baker,
when he wants to get at the kitchen,
must drive thirty miles from the back
gate. Mrs. King lives on her ranch,
forty-five miles south of Corpus Christi.
Over her acres roam one hundred thou
sand heail of cuttle. These are attend
ed by three hundred cowboys and
twelve hundred ponies. When there
crimes an order from a Chicago butcher
for one thousand head of cattle, it is
but short work to round them up and.
send them on their way. Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob would find this life
Weal ly patriarchal. And none tho less
so by reason of the modem improve
ments of the home and house parties of
this lady of large acres and many cattle."
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A GREAT RABBIT HUNT.
Otsc a Thousand Iluniiles Killed In One
Day.
Many of have engaged in coon
hunts, fox hunts and wolf hunts; others
have hunted bear, deer, chickens, quail,
etc., and every one of us have, when
there was a good heavy snow on the
grdund, bundled up warm, taken the
family guns from the corner, and with
old "Spot" or old "Tige" sallied forth
some sold winter morning to take ad
vantage of any and every rabbit which
might sally forth from its burrow in
quest of food. Hut very few persons,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, have ever
engaged in such a hunt for rabbits as a
party of young men living near Homer,
111., participated in one day lately. In
the absence of all large game and the
prohibition as to shooting chickens and
quails, the young farmers pass away
the monotony of the winter days by or
ganizing hunting parties, which enter
into competition as to which party will
bring in the mast game by a given time.
Usually these competition hunts are be
tween the young men of different neigh
borhoods, and neighborhood "honor" is
a big thing in this country. One day a
very exciting hunt was made by two
parties of farmers living near Homer,
which on account of the number of men
engaged and the amount of game
bagged will be household lore in the
neighborhood for many winters. There
was one company of twenty-five men,
and another of twenty-four men. All
had to have their game in by seven
o'clock in the evening and most of the
men started in quest of "Brer Rabbit"
before daylight. "And they gathered
them in from highways and hedges,"
for when the count wns made in the
evening one party had secured Olllt rab
bits, while the other had slain 525, mak
ing a total of 1,158. A sumptuous sup
per was spread that night, for which
tho defeated party had to pay Then
the rabbits were sold and the money di
vided into three purses which were pre
sented to the men who killed the most
rabbits. Probably so large a number
of rabbits were never before killed by
one party in Illinois in one day.
. A CRAB-CATCHING DOG.
The Queer Sport ludulujori hi by a Down
Kttsl Canine.
I have seen mention in the Forest
and Stream, says a correspondent of
that paper, of one dog that eauglitsuck
ers and another with a preference lor
catfish. I do not for a moment doubt
either of these dog-fishing stories, for I
once knew a dog that took great de
light in catching crabs; not soft crabs',
but histy, hard ones, capable of making
a good fight. When about twelve years
of age I used to spend my vacation at a
large farm on a tributary of the Chesa
peake bay. Besides myself there was
another small boy and two dogs at his
house. One of the dogs was a large
Newfoundland and the other was one of
those medium-sized, puzzling combina
tions of short-hair and 1 j particular
color probably an all-around dog, as
concerned his breeding. Oik; day i no
ticed the large dog wading about in tl.o
shallow water at the foot of the yard
and evidently searching for something.
I found that ho was looking for crabs.
When a crab was discovered hu would
prance around it and, after making sev
eral attempts, seize it iu his nioulh and
bring it up on the beach and then play
with it, much as a cat does with a
mouse, until the poor crab was either
dead or helplessly exhausted. lie
seemed to do tins for the mere sport of
the thing, barking all the time in a tone
that denoted excitement rather than
anger. He never ate the crabs after
killing them. The crabs fought back
to the best of their ability, and it was
often diilicult to say which had the
tightest grip, dog or crab, for the crab
would fasten on to some portion of the
dog's mouth with both of his powerful
pinchers, and it would require much
shaking before he would drop oil.
Victoria's Throne.
The English throne, used in the cor
snation ceremonies of the kings and
queens of Great Britain, is simply an
old oaken chair of curious pattern ami
great antiquity. Ages of use (it is
known to have been used in its present
capacity for more than seven hundred
years) have made the old frame as hard
and as tough as iron. The magic power
attributed to the old relic lies in the
seat, which is a large, rough sandstone,
Ages before it was trimmed in velvets
and gold for the use of the Stuarts and
the Tudors it served as a seat for the
early kings of Scotland; tradition even
asserts that it is the identical stone
upon which the patriarch Jacob rested
his head the night he had his wonder
ful dream.
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THE WESTERN rKIlAGOUUlS.
We are in receipt of the May n amber
of our state school paper. It eioeed
my of the former numbers in value.
The paper this month oontains many
new and valuable features. The illua
rated serieB on the sohools of the state
s introduced by a paper on tbe Friends
Polytechnic institute at Salem, Oregon,
these papers oannot fail to be of great
'slnebothto the sohools an! to the
public.
There are also several fine articles
y our best writers and the departments
"Current Events,""Saturday Thoughts,"
"Eduoational News" "The Oraole
Answers, Correspondents," etc, eaoh
oontuin much valuable reading for
teachers or parents. The magazine
hBs about BO pages of matter, well
printed and arranged. We pronounoe
the Western Pedagogue the best eduoa
tional monthly on the const.
Everyone of our readers should have
the paper if tbey ore at all interested
in education. No teacher school direc
tor or student can get along well with
out it. We will receive snbsoript.ona
at this office. Price only $1.00 a year.
When desired we will send the Western
Pedagogue and (luzetle one year to one
address for $3.00. Call and examine
sample oopies. Teachers, directors and
parents, nuw is tbe time tn subscribe, tf
0. A. U. NOTICE,
We take this opportunity of iuformiug
our subscribers that the new oommis
iouer of pensions has been apoointed
He iBan old soldier, and we believe
hat Boldiera and their heirs will re
wive juetioe at bis hands. We do not
anticipate that there will be any radioal '
changes in the administration of pension
..ffnirs under the new regime.
We would advise, however, that U. S,
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
steps to make application at once, if
they have not already done so, in ordor
to secure the benefit of the early filing
of their claims in cuse there should be
any future pension legislation. Suoh
legislation is seldom retroactive. Ihere
j fore it is of great importance that ap
plications be filed in tbe department at
the earliest possible date.
If tbe U, 8. soldiers, sailors, or their
vidowa, ohildren or parents desire in
irmation iu regard to pension matters,
'iey should write to the Press Claims
onipany, at Washington, D. 0., and
tiey will prepare and send the neoessary
pplication, if they find them entitled
uder the numerous laws enacted for
heir benefit. Address
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J iiin VVf.ddkuhi UN, Managing Attor
n y, Washington, D. 0., P. O. Box 8H5
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SEA CANARIES.
3uer Shellfish That Have lleen Provided
with a Temporary Name.
A peculiar kind of shellfish, the like
)f which has never been seen ou tho
iound, was fished out of two hundred
feet of water near Five-Mile point tho
ither muming by a rock cod fisherman,
lays the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The man felt a tug at his line and
began pulling in. Judging from the
weight he concluded that he must have
-aught the grandfather of all the rock
xnl in the sound. When he had taken
in all his line he was astonished to find
that he hail not only landed a splendid
Bve-and-a-half-pound cod, but also a
rock full of porforatious, to which wero
ittiu'hed six lively shellfish, each as big
is one's list, and somewhat resembling
gigantic mussels. The shells of tho
llsh were imbedded in the rock, and as
wion as the rock was taken out of the
water the fish craned their lung necks
mt of the shells, just as a turtle would.
The necks of the fish were unlike
nytling the fisherman had ever mcii;
they resembled slightly the yellow
mouth of the lamprey eel. Their
mouths wore pointed and surmounted
by a hard, brown colored beak, which
they opened and shut precisely as a
robin dues,
The fish and their abode were held
together by means of the stout roots
if a sea weed which had grown around
them, and the whole weighed eight and
1 half pounds. The fisherman took the
siriosity to the Denver market, and
there It was placed on exhibition anil
ittraotoil considerable attention. Iu
he ubsem-e of a more S"icntilU name,
uie of the men connected with the
narket named the shellfish "sea ca-
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