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Show UNCLE SAM'S HORSES. WJIHHE Hi: lBrS TIIBJ1 AND WHO UMM THE CVt0. "Wlwre does the United SUWs buy the hor.'M for its anuy aud otlit-r purpose?" The question was atkeJ at IluHV Head yesterday, aui John Uiy-lmond,oneof Uiy-lmond,oneof thu bost-xuown liorw dealers in this eectiou of the coun. try, was unable to answer it; yet at that very mooieut there was a youug lieuteiiaut of the Uuited Statev cavalry 011 the Mreet, Mitlilu twenty feet of Mr. ItajmoiiJ, iir-cluteiu iir-cluteiu lionet fur ilie giveniin-'il "I will tell you all a'it ll," rahi tbe young olllctr. "Tiie UulUd States lus In Kuverumeut tUbkc throuirhuut theeuuiitryat Ilie .rt-i-ent tioie, bv-oVeei. leu aud twelv, tbousaud horse. That is the nuni ber rnjulml fur Uie cavalry, Uie Urdinaun: I.'arUuuut and uCi.-r branches of thu array. Tlieyare carefully Miletted auimil-, will nrtil for and !! gnx.nied, auu themorulity aaioi.ic tlie-u is am n ally not moie than fire percenruiu. This small -trootitij- is rem n k- some of tiie fr e-tefn r-rriC'-r.e the work reju rcu fru.u iii- .1 .f is Tory exacting iixk-ed. In Ari zuuj, lirexuut :.-. mon-iO" im .v-emaieut .v-emaieut uurse di in : r rittm their number t.iju lu u -f 1 1 section of flu: country, jiM 11 Is i curiour. fact that many of llic rH.fe-there rH.fe-there grow Iriind, MhU thus unuie useless Sons brfu: liitj Uir. Iliat is one of hs effL-cbr A Ui. alili iilaius ou the auiui il. Ileri In, the p.r ceutum which uie, .tbjul In per ceutum of fie rpmaiudvr are annually i-ul-1 b. the govermueut uocaute tf Ibeir iiaving Iwccnii: umt-Its umt-Its for tin. Hrtvici lor tthlth Uiei are required. riiw makes it necessary f-r Uie authorities to pun-haw aiiuualiy about -a hur; and Ciugnts provides for this Xh-n-btufw In ap-propriaUu-r about SH.Oivi fuf the purjo-c i-f Jiijius t'-r tiie liorHa IMirtliiJed. rheauioutit isdiviled among the various niilitaty departments depart-ments by th secretary uf war and, as Uie western dlvMons of tl.earmy need more horrs than w e ilu here on the Athintic coast, thi o-j,k o: the niooey goes nut iet,uiid most of the IrarxM fur the government jre purcliaed in st. I.uL-. St. Paul and San Francbca. "Not every bursa will do for gov ernment fervlce," oouUnueil the lieutenant, "for the War Department Depart-ment makes Specific rules to govern th jnirdiase of tbuanimil. They are required to lie geldimt', Mlid color throughout, from 13 to IT bauds high, lietween fo'ar and eight yean of age, and must weigh, for artillery liorMS, bitweeU lxO'i and 1SW pound, aud fur cavalry , between 9J0 auj 1-AM IKtundk. A government horse u-u-allj- lasts alMt teven yeans au.l at the end of that time is i-kl at auction, if he lls that long." "Da the iiorw Ueakrs know that you arc purchasing auim ilj fur the goveruraentT' "Indeed they do not," Mb the lieutenant smilingly. "It they diJ they would run U10 prior up on me far beyond what Uiey do imw, when 1 am buying ajjeirnlly a a private indi;hlual. -. l'.Siar. |