Till! mm APOLLO. wn.vr Dons tiik i, :u.:sk! Type rind nenulles of the AriiM.in- linritctcrlstics ir tin? Ilnriinh brcil, Trot lei- mid Draught Horse -The anions itiol. ' rn.Vf 14 ill on u i hp ehu or mi equine Apollo like V Comparatively little at- tniit i m m jfiveu til tile fdiysical proportions oC ikf tiitrsv from cither an artistic or a scieiithV point of view. The animal, which, next to inau, is the noblest aork of creation, in worthy of nttent ion on other line than those of records, f mri won, of progeny begotten, of pedigrees that determine the quality of Mood nod of methods of breeding best calculated to result in new recordsoti tin race track. These ami related topics are the texts of the columns ,f turf gossip Oml daily assail nil eyes ami seem to prove that the equine in next to Ihu hnuiau population of the world in its import utice. Tho iilenl lions nml the phvsicitl characteristics of different types of lionet are suhjeets that invite inter etod study, not only on tli- part of in telligent horsemen, lint from many Dot informed about horse lineage. The ideal borse has ueier been fashioned in -risible ami generally accepted a.s ' rot-R an ideal. The world cau agree on but few ideals, and no sculptor or painter ever portrayed iu a masterpiece a borse that would not be severely criticised as an ideal. The quest iou of the ideal may read ily extend from the type of a horse to the proportion of a type. A draught horse and a raoe horse may each be handsome and perfect in his way. It may be said that the ideal horse' is the one that produced the moat agreeable impreasions, and this rule may both upply to the type of horse and to the proportions of any type. As far ns proportions go, a horse should ia a general way be well and handsomely formed and have correct and beautiful lines. There is a wide range for the application of this rule, and many horsemen will nee beanty in adaptii tiou to needs whiou other will not consider. A noted Freuch writer on the horse Rays: "What, theu, are the qualities which impress the laity that is to say, the mans. of the people. l'.legimee of form, gracefulness of attitude and V T rr YY HTNOI., AS iriKATi THOKOrGRIIRKD TROTTRR. movement, rounding of the lines, indi cating an easy, graceful action aud im plying the absence of effort in the movements ; vivacity, mobility, cer tain gentle look of distinction ia the physiognomy, wUiuh admits the pre dominance of moral perfection over (he purely physical instincts. A round croup, flattened haunches, a sway back, thick withers, au arched neck, slim cannons, small feet and a slender baad will give more pleasure to the majority of inexperienced eyes tliau long, pro jecting lines, even a Utile rouglily so, well-marked muscles, strong members. spacious cheat, broad articulations, larger nostril, rU'. All eye do not see in the name way, nor even appre ciate forcibly what i simply agreeable, ''he horsemen are rare who are capa ble of appreciating the useful beauty, which should be understood as synotiy mom with Htucss, and which consists essentially in the mlaptatioti of the organ to their functions. This beauty, to lie appreciated, demand a certain intuition, uiiich culture, study, acute o jservatiou and judgment." In thin the diflicnlty of agreeing on an ideal ia illustrated. No man may nay what the measurement or propor tions of a horse may be and be be lieved. Many famous veterinary aur genua ami tnrf authorities have tried it. only to be disputed by other au thorities equally great. Ahoii-Bckr, early in the fourteenth century, in eluded measurement)! and proportions in a work on tha science of the Arabiau horse, and was the first one to do so. Others tried it and in more recent times Kourgelat, a Frenchman, worked out an elaborate system and a theoreti cal type. St. Bel. mint her noted au thority, took that famous and extraor dinary horse IXipse as the best type of the beautiful horse, and a number of others have added to the clashing tables. But little attention to meas urement is given by breeder in Cali fornia and elsewhere. Young men and womeu are beiug uicnMired by thou sands these days thnt scientific gener alizations may be made and composite tlgurea drawn and modeled, but they are yet doing everything else for the S' fawoi's nonana TTJ.nsTftATTvn tvhttnct speedy horse but comparing him with au average. In the absence of standard measure ments and proportions the character istica of the most important types of horses invite discussion. It is not knowu to everybody outside of horse circles that the Arabian horse, which has been kept so pure of blood that pedigrees may be traced into centuries before Christ, has given to the thoroughbred, or running horse, of the modem turf, hi chief physical characteristics, his nature, powers of endurance, energy and tendency to speed. The Arabian horse is the greyhound of the raoe. He is slender and graceful. His most noticeable characteristics are a long, small neck, delicate head, with rather pointed nose, depth from withers to chest, giving lung power; powerful hauuehes and comparative smallnessof growth around the loins. Ho is built for speed. His head is small and bony and his muzzle delicate. His joint are large, clean ami l-ony. His bones are rather small iu sie ou the whole, but they are very dense, aud hence strong aud heavy. It is calculated by Roger B. Uptou that the bones of au Arabiau horse 14 bauds high will weigh as much as those of an Kugliah thoroughbred tifteu bauds high. The fore ribs of the Arabiau are long aud the hiMOar uk.A(. . The paunch is hollow. Uks, r-vaw ;.uuded, the upper part al few Wg, with powerful so'"! 'aKio'.oa. The hoofs are black, i lie ikiu delicate, the hair Hue aud abnudanv, tne nostrils wide. He is wide between the eyes, showiug Intel ligeuoe. His ears are small aud ac tive. Be has great power of endur auoe. Hi eye are full, black aud i sparkling. In h.s disposition he has great energy, courage and yet gentle ness. The Arabs have the rule of pro portion in constant Use. They measure the li umber of hands from the root of the mane, at the middle, of tho withers backward to the end of the dock, or tail hones, and then forward between the ears to the upper lip. If the latter distance is greater he has great qualities, if it is less be iau ordinary beast. Hnch ia the horse which for an many centuriea the Arab has cheriHhed while subjecting him to wonderful feats of effort and endurance, and such ia the horse which, through aires imported into Mil rope during the last two cen turies, has transmitted to the thorough bred of to-day the qualities that dis tinguish him. The Barb, a native of Barbary, Morocco, and Tripoli and the Turk or Turkish horse, both of which resemble, the Arabian iu all im portant characteristics, have joined with tho Arabian in producing the thoroughbred, which to be of un doubted quality, must have a lineage traced back to the Oodolphin Arabian, the Byerly Turk or some other sire of pure blood and great qualities that made him famous. Two famous sires brought to England, the Darley Arabian and the l.eede Arabian, are asserted to have had undoubted pedi grees extending back 4001) years, and it has been contended that these two were the only Arabian stallions of un doubted pure Arabiau Id-niii ever tttfs. brought to England. The thoroughbreds of to-day have thiu a stain of the royal blood of the Arabian, Barb and Turk, mixed with the blcod of the English, charger, horses of all degrees of common blood, horses with pedigrees and without, and horses that have been fast and slow. The pedigree of a horse thus becomes of great significance, for "blood will tell" iu horses as well as men, and the study of pedigreea iu which the majority of horsemen are fairly well advanced, hi one that many revel in for years, and in which no one ever graduates. As a result of the mixture descrilied. the modern thoroughbreds possess the characteristics of the Arabiau horse in greatly varying de gree. Hal vat or, shown iu an accom panying cut, has these characteristics iu a marked degree. The "C'haban" Arabiau shown was a celebrated stallion imported for the stud of the King of Wiirtemburg, aud fairly shows the Arabian type. The Arabian type has undoubtedly beeu conserved iu tho thoroughbred by the training and work he has been given through each generation and which would tend toward the very characteristics by which nature adapted the Arabiau to its conditions 1 and environment. The characteristics of the typical modem thoroughbred which not everybody cau tell on sight like the greyhound and is in perfect physical condition. He is tall, slim, loug coupled, has a small panuch, a loug, slim neck, depth from shoulders to chest, small muz zle, large nostrils and wide forehead. His muscles stand out iu bold relief, hi coat is silky aud bis skin Hue. He is intelligent, nervous in disposition aud has great eudurauce. He is short lived, as a rule, partly, perhaps, because he is worked hard early iu life. He is at his prime at four years aud at six is generally ready to be retired. 'The trottiug horse ia shorter coupled, is heavier through, tha flsnk aud has a heavier paunch and wider chest. The neck is heavier and shorter, the limbs aro heavier and the pasteru shorter. He needs aud receives twice as much care as the thoroughbred. His conformation is necessarily different, for he uses a different set of muscles. Trottiug is au unnatural and cultivated gait for a borse at high speed, and he needs a slroug frame to stand the shock of tha 10,000-pouod blows which his feet give every time they strike the ground." Ho the draught horse has still dif ferent characteristics, and other types might be discussed. Mir MoJred," the $10,000 stallion imported from Aus tralia by J. B. Haggis, i a thorough bred with far less of the Arabian ta his form than Halvator, as may be seen form the picture of Salvator taken from a painting for Outing. He in a beauty though, anil la by many horse men said to bp the hundsomest horse iu the Htutc. Stmuboiil ninv be taken as a fine illustration of the trotting type. The proportions of tho famous flunol are interesting because she ia a trotter with very marked thoroughbred char acteristics and is the most notable il lustration of Senator Htsn ford's orig inal plan of breediug thoroughbred to trotters to give the latter the en durance, energy, "gamey" spirt of the former, a theory not yet generally ac cepted by breeders. Huiiol's very strong strain of the thoroughbred is marked iu nearly every point. The thoroughbred, as a result of long and careful breeding aud train ing, is undoubtedly to-day the Hnest horse the world has seen, and in hint the best qualities of his oriental ances tors have len developed far beyond those of the Arabinu, Barb or Turk, though the beauty of the type may have suffered. Han l-'raucisco Chron icle. f.lxnrri. Lizards drink by lappiug, like dog and cats. Home of them have very long tongues, which they can dart out very quickly to catch insects, their chief food. Some lizards live mostly in the water, some wholly on land, aud some ou tree. Laud lizards are gen erally nearly of the color of the soil, tree lizard are bright colored, mostly greeu, and those which live among rocks are gray. Most of them are shaped much like crocodile, and nave four feet. Others have only two feet, and others again have feet so short and so cov ered up with skiu that they look like sunk cm. They vary in length from a few iuches to three or four feet. Most of them lay eggs. One genu brings forth the young alive. Their tails are as brittle as glass, and their loss is freqneut from various accidents, but they are very soon replaced. The forked tail, which is often observed iu lizards, comes from the tail being cracked a little, instead of broken off, and the new tail growing out of the crack. Harrison' Family Mngaiue. Afraid lo Travel Save ou Foot. The ticket agent and telegraph ope rator at oua of the stntions ou the Adirondack Kailway has an unquench able horror of travel in auy waj save ou foot. He fears that horse will holt and that engines will jump the track, aud the perils of navigation uothiug would induce him to encounter. When business calls him to Saratoga so far the limit of hi journeying since birth be bids his family a solemn farewtill, and rejoices greatly on a safe return. He is a well read, thoroughly sensible man, but try as he will he cannot over come his dread of all forms of rapid transit. The Richest Indian. A little remnant tribe of Delaware, descendant of the old Leni I.euape of the Middle States, now residing amoug the Kiowa aud Comauches in Okla homa, and numbering only ninety five souls iu all, have to their credit ill the United States Treasury the sum of 874,1H0, which iatnaO'J in cold cah for every inau, woman and pafuose of them, besides eighty acre per capita of laud, together with horses, stock, houses and other property. They are probably the richest per capita ii all the Indiaus, their wealth iu trust funds and laud uloue, being (Jll.'JO'i per capita. Com pared with theirs the per capita wealth of tho richest Nations of the world is insignificant. The in habitant of the British Island are the most opulent civilized race ou the earth, anil their per capita wealth ia only Sl'iHl!. Next to the British are the Freuch, the richest people ou the continent of Europe, whose per capita wealth is only $1102. Close after the French are the Hollauders, or Dutch, with a per capita wealth of $10Hrt, aud next to them are our owu people iu the United States, whose wealth per capita is set down at l0a. The per capita wealth of Germany is but $052, and that of Kussiaonlv$i'J5. Washington Star. " A Question ill Precedence. Very Polite Gentleiuau (to bull) "You First." "After jou, air." Life. " MODRRW TVTITAX HOMR. KEYSTONE STATE CIILLIK rotia mi.i.tn n wbfck lUamsiunm Seven roal in on In search ol work liourdi'il a train of coal and oil u.irs nl Market street the other mailt and nt IVirk street tha car on which tliev were ridiiiii Jumped aawltch wrecking several cars of a westbound train, r'our of Hie unfortunates were crushed lo death under the grindiim mass. They were John Wallace and a man named Sullivan, both ssvitilinien from rjttalmrg;.foseili Hen-on of Yoiuicstown.o. and John lleynolils residence unknown. Th bodies were horribly maiiRlerl; all Hie men were from I lie western part of the State I'tank Ward, of Hurlin-rtmi, la., the only man who escaped, sues Frederick Mimiulll was one of tlia men killed - - - rot a HMi sn.n vahtim. .foHNsioax ihers was a siriei of deaths byacciilent ou the I'enn-ylvauia rallro.id the past few daya. At Lilly, Charles .storm, a well-known young man was run OTer by a train aud killed. At Bens ( reek. Charles Dtoskey attempted to cross Hie track and was killed by a work train. At Cresson. a brakeruati named Miller lust his lite In Hit same manner while au unknown man was killed at Portage while sleeping on Hie trak. fiivax Tf vita roa si'rmmi a i hi'si h. Srasvror Peter llumbniigli, who set Hr to anddestroyed the Kim Park Methodist church last winter, because of a belief that It was built upon laud belonging to relatives of hi and of which they had been illegally deprived, was convicted of arson and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Ks-tern penitentiary. The penally imposed on Hie prisoner Is t he maximum, . Tiik oldest old maid of whom Philadel phia has ever boaled. MissSstlv Wheeler. died at her late residence, t'Ml Kiwt Ontario street, in the luird year or her age. the de ceased was born In fliriiiinghnm. ICnulaml. on Uecember III. 17!HI. She was a member of His Kplscnpal church, tlei fattier. John Wheeler, died In isitland Imr mother in Is.,;. Miss Wheeler at the time of her ilet h was III osiou of all her facul ties. Thk house of (ieorce Ktoup, near Mark leysburg. Fayette county. w burned Mon day night, the tire wna of Incendiary origin. This is tbe family thai was noisoned bv drinking water from a spring into which inurei leaves nau laiien, .Mrs. stoup tty ing. Tin Hoard of Pardons ineseciitirees-iioii at ilarrisburg. refused to ncnuinienri Hugh 1'. Uempsey and llohert Healty, of I'itts burg, convicted of poisoning workmen in i lie iiomes'esil mills, lor pardon Ciiahi.ks .Ioiisson, alias Sandy I'lank, ami .lunn I'reemnn, alias Steve I.oder. two no torious crooks. -coped from the llellefonte iail by tunneling through the cell wall. John I! van, of North Strabane, Wash inilon couiilv. Is the owner of an le and tallies calf, which is as playful as a Kiiteu- Mn nRi. Kkarnrv. of Philadelphia, whn sued the traction company fur damages, was sent to Moyameusiiig. prison for per Jury. I'.imicns around Sharon are panic strick en at the boldness of thieves who killaml dress on the premises cattle anil sheep tliev s'esl. John Kossu k. employed at Mount Look out Colliery. Wyoming, was instantly kill ed by an explosion ot gs-. Hirt Si RAFrrKR. of Ford City, was held up by two highwaymen while riding Mon day and II l taken. I'll a rival I'liloiitown Republican news. papers. --.sews aici me ".iiamiaru, haveu nsolinateil. Ix the Connellsville (oka region I1 0 mors vena bave been tired this week. THE LABOR WORLD. Trias needs ("ottoo picker. Tbksb are low) union female tailor. Taimirimo employs 7'i8.24 In England and Scot laud. Ai.rasv (Is, r.) unions are to build a bust, new block. New Hampshiss plumber must pas an examination. I Connecticut pay checks are liable t the ten percent, tax. Trs American Hallway I'ulon I spreading fa all part of Hi country. Asva (Col.) miner will voluntarily work for reduoeil wage during Hit) depression. NW Haths's Coal Consumers' I'ulon e pn to get coni for ft a Ion by buying at tbe mines. A wood vabd bs been established at Den ver. Col., where the unemployed mav work tor their meal. A tjoviaasr is In progress Inoking lo the uoltlaj ot all labor orders aud iiuloua under a central authority. CoNncrroKS and mntormen on the eleetrlis mail running from Newark lo Jrvlugtou, New Jersey, are nompelled to wear white aecktle. Nsw JiHsrr unions will push lbs f. legis lature for a law to prevent employers from exacting a pledge that nieu ahail not join labor uoious. Ktsi. BissAO, ef Berlin, aged elglil v-four, t reputed the oldest waiter iu Berlin. He became a waiter seventy year ago, and ha been in one place for thirty years. Ta Bessemer mill of Hie Bethlehem Iron .Company, at Houtb Bethlehem. 1'eno., re sumed operation yesterday alter an Idle, oea of two moatbs. One thousand men got mploymeor. Ht. Paci.' joint committee recommend the expenditure at XX1 at onoe to provide work for tbe unemployed, and a special tax that will yield tUO.OOO lot the Improvement f parks, eto. Bk Fbaxcisco fa seadlng its unemployed B Han Joaquin orchards and vineyards, her the Chinese aro being discharged to make room for them. The pay ranges fro in sifc-hry-utre rents to tl a day and fouud. Truly aouoraoie. The truly honorable man tries ts) remain Ignorant of thing that concern blm not Ha turns aalde from the confidential gossip, glance way from tbe open desk, shun the place where a whisper is audible, wttb just as muoh care as be would use to avoid profiting by a mistake In bis change. His curiosity does not crave the knowledge ot such mat ter. It bas tbe wnole wide world for Us area, and seeks IU satisfaction In more wholesome directions. After all, tbe information - to which we have no rights Is the smallest and poorest and least valuable to us of any that we can obtain. Let us cul tivate a worthy curiosity on subjects that shall enlarge our minds, deepen our feelings, and strengthen our pur poses, and we shall shrink from that Ignoble Inqutaltlveueas that revels lo dishonest gain, . . --- SOLDIERS' COLUMN "DON'T BV'S VB." A Hitherto Uatald xioltf a llquad of Miaaaurl Cavalrjr. THRItRi bit of history of the 8 1 Me. Cav.whicn may be of inter est to the readers cfyour most eg. rallent and inter esting soldier y "I 'jJ It is not of rec- nru in itie otllclal publication of the war of the re bellion aid not now known ex cept to the gal lant tew wbn iartlr.lnnta.1 t.. --s tli nt night's dar ing deeds: a bit ofhUtory (for obvi ou reason) not allowed to stray very far outside of Charlie Frost's squad Please consider me a competent wit nejf, for I wis. in it and my recolleo tions ofthst night are yet very vivid It was during our winter at Palmy ra. Mo.. 1901. when patriotism was at white heat, tbezenl of Co. C knew n limit, and wc were contributing s- mightily to the overthrow of out wicked and deluded brethren In grsy Co- C, under ( apt. Black, wns on aa extended expedition; the precise lo cality I cannot state. I think, however, we were near Pari. Mo. Cant. Blsck cnncludod we were to larne a n com pany (the enemy w ere afraid of us), .i by hi orders we broke Into squads oi IU or more under Sergeants, ami thut went abroad seeking whom we mighl destroy. Serg't Chii. Frost's fiin1 ws or dered to niuke a tuidnijzht raid on th. cabin of a Confederate Lieutenant, who was described by t'pt. B. in hi Inimitable way a in unusually darina and desperate fellow, with a few trusty men alwty near him, not to be tken without the thed Hn of blood, tc. Inasmuch t we hid e listed to wipi -nit just sue u ic, wi, to svethecouu tiy or perish at the p..st of honor, w trotted off on our perilous mission. By he aid of a pilot we got there in good tl&pp. surroUnded tintcshin in awful silence, ud then, led by our gallant Sergeant, a few of its nioved closer to reennnoiter. There was a curtain at the window, and a very dim light along its edge A we nearcd the door we saw t!i curtain move very slightly, a if some, one expected us. To lie itilly preptr rd we pushed our navlei ahead of us, ;avea war whoop and yelled, "Surrender! Surrender!" No answer. "Open, or we will burst her!" Nary open. Tbe Sergeant cried, "My kingdom for a rail," and a moment later, with a fence-rail is a battering r.tin, ws charged the door of that clespertte man's cabin. The speed and fury with which we broke in would have put to shame an oldeu-time catapult. Much to our surprise (and, I may say, relief) up to this time wo 1 ad not heard a shot on that crisp, midnight sir. At we dashed In over the wreck ed door, a few live coal in an old fashioned fireplace dimly outlined the room, and showed m a pallet, on the floor. There were impressions of two bodies on that pallet, and putting our hands to the places we found them warm. By thii we knew of course then must be at leaat two in t'ae house. They bad evidently retreated to tbe other room, where, probably, there were more of them. Just then someone encouraged au investigation by ex claiming: 'Boyi, lookout! Somebody ia going to be hurt hen!" Some geniui.worklng for Uncle Sana for about $13 a month, had found a saucer of greece anil a piece of rag and 'urned on a Missouri electric light. A. council of war ensued and during it session everyone carefully disposed hi body to avoid the door and to ward tho minie balls from the next room.. That war council had but one ques tion to settle: Shall we roast them out or give them a good, square, stand up light in a clost; dark room! It wis agreed to fight first and, if ueed be. rout later. Down went another door. Frost and hit men were right into tbe thickeit nl the tray, up to the cannon's mouth, and mid the muffled indoor shot! and tbe hoarie about of men on human blood intent. Then cam the silence of the arrive Men coold hear their hearts beat.Tbej groped about tha fljor sacking to throttle the Confederacy, fie was not there. Our electrician came in present ly with his Miis uri dip, and then wa saw th enemy bad gone aloft.A laddei led to a scuttle hole in th ceiling. The ladder wai wet with the blood ol tbe retreatiog foe. In all that little group of desperate ly brave men, no on wai hero eoeugla to thrust his bead through that scuttle hole. So, ofeourse, preparations ware made for a holocauit. At that last horrible moment, juit before the torolt wn ipplied, bfore tbe hssveaa took on a terrible glow and tbe air grew sick ening with it smell of burning dead, the enemy surrended. Th eoeoay proved to be two innocent darky wenobe. Let fancy paint the rolling of eye belli and tbs chattering of teeth a thoai two women crept to the scuttle hole and begged u "Fo' Ood's ke don't bu'n ui!" John Wissbli ia National Tribune. Dudkleiqh Vou don't Icnovt what you are talking about when you call me a donkey." Mis Kittv Fresh "Yes, 1 do. I used to own a dou key. "Brook lyu Life. 0 3V mm
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