Show HORSES FOR THE PHILIPPINES I According to the Bee of Omaha the Department or the Missouri Is advertising adver-tising for short stock ponies and for cavalry horses The ponies are for mountainclimbing InLuzonl and a soldier who has been there says the I advertisements exactly fit the Philippine Philip-pine pony that he Is n short stock built wiry little animal hardy lazy and easily keptNo amount of Illuse seems to affect Trim The cavalry horses wanted some 423 head must bound b-ound well bred and of superior quality quali-ty free from vicious habits gentle under un-der the saddle with free and prompt action at the walk trot or gallop without with-out blemish or defect of a kind disposition dispo-sition with easy mouth and gait No horse except an especially fine one will I bo accepted under fve years of age I and It is especially demanded that all epeclalydemanded t I horsea bo roans light sorrels or bays Black horses are objected to and white ono will npt be accepted under any condition con-dition The official objection to white horses Is that white Is not considered 0 healthy color but the real objection Is said to be that they make too good a mark for the enemys fire Another trouble with black and white horses is that they are difficult to keep clean That ought to be changed because It Is just as easy to keep one color horse clean as another and the statement ought to be that they show dirt more than the others This officer who has been In Manila says that our horses dowel do-wel In that climate He adds I have seen Government mules that were actually ac-tually skin and bones when they landed get fat as butter withinthree months Tho Philippines will bo a pretty good I place to go to after a while only Americans Amer-icans will have to adopt tho Spanish plan and only stay there about two I years at n time |