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Show Mlscellanij Hew the Horse Came to Be. WASHINGTON. D. L". N'i kin? nf the r:iim. no m;.Ucr how p'in'1" be Ir.s rn-,al raiment, nor io met any oiV-r '.'jn-.m i e-insr. e-insr. -'an truce i:;s ;'.ii'je rry as far 'vok V.iit of tiro horse. This ar.nral. well k:ioT"n t;,e v.-crH out. i:;ts t;.-lou'esi. t;.-lou'esi. r.'flisr'-'o on ro'-or-.l; on proh:iHv ov, r r " mum ;,f;i'P !. ,1'i'MIC b.-tr If what Is known as the Eocene age. thousands thou-sands of years beiore the coming of man. "his eenea logical tree is shown in the National Museum at Washington, where a series of feet and skulls depict some of his more important ancestors. The horse of the Eocene, or his fore-hear fore-hear rather, was known as Eohippus, or Dawn Horse. He was about the size of a fox. stanling a little more than one foot high. Eohippus lived in North America, where he ran light-footedly over tlie Tertlarv rocks on his well-developed four-toed from feet and three-toed bind fH His teeth were not like those of a" mod pr n horse, either, but were short-crowned. short-crowned. While scientists are unaole to tell us iust how long his mane was. ti he had nnv. or the color of his hide, they do know the facts mentioned above, for his fossil remains hae been found in the rock si rata known as the Lower Eocene, which is supposed to dattS ba-:k about. 3.000.000 years. It is a foruinare thins that little Eohippus experienced the development that he did. or became specialized, the scientists sav, for in his early form ?ueh an animal would have been of but li'.lle service to us donejstically . He developed remarkably, and it is claimed thai, whiie he is not on the" same plane with man menjallv, of course, he is more highly specialized a: atomleally. His physique developed as his needs require:!. He could not fight much, so had to run nway; his speed developed until today he is seen to be fleet footed, strong, both for hearing packs and pulling loads, and to this end his size, feet, teeth and other pans developed de-veloped with his advance down the aes. At h:s arly ace. when he was called Eohipmis, I he horse was a mosi insiir-mfieanr insiir-mfieanr cveaMre a.s compared to Ids eoii-(pinnmri-js. the, !re8 1 hulking brutes i-alleu the T'intatheres and Coryi'ho:!o:itf. Rut. strange it mav seen-:, his pos terity has ou'hved them all a fine ex-a ex-a in nie of the survival of he fittest. The horse is one of the best known examples of the survival of prehistoric animal--. An exir'""ot- ilhiyt ratine the development of the hov.ie is Miov.n in the United States National Museum at Washington. ; D. in the ha'.is of the division of j vertebrate rnlecntologv. '.v;i,..h inei'i-ies all the fossil animals having iu-'-kones. T-iost j of the specimens are LOmulee hones, ! partlv turned to f ione jH': foun J im-be im-be lded in ick in scrul lc a Utk-s In this country. The e.irliesl known f--Tin. the Eohippus. comes first, sim-vinc his four- toed fron feel and his three-toed hind : iV-et. as weil as his teeth and kai! ol that time. True horses occurred in the Pleistocene period, .-ome forms verv -lo:v?Iy r-'rT-v':in? the horse of inhty, the averaCi- of them a little j-mnller in stunre. M "'"-" ci :i horses ave:-;:s f-'rvter-n hrsudr hli-h. or aNnit fov.r !er (- .-m inches, showing i h-:h' ,1'i.vio. j I:, a crepfriil w.v f'e horse's pvz re-" I enisle. I of i"-To;ise io size. ..to--en- j Id : -mi -,i"!t the otnn-jl toe. ;t i'1 . -jupn , 1 hv" the g!:sdu;i! -a .liierinn or r-hrir.king ami I'iral lo-:; of the Side tnrs; the d.-e;-or.oeot ol tlie single hoof on en eh foot. -,,,.- i'.ft j-; -.-.nc,. jM -,n,1 'MTI-ifv:lv of the teeth, particularly the cheek teeth. Sufficient finds of petrified skeletons or fossils h.a"c been nrtde in this country and Alaska to prove that the early horse nas here in great numbers in ihe Pleistocene time, ,ius:vas hi was in Europe, Eu-rope, but soon thereafter he been me extinct ex-tinct here, or nearly so, clue to the great ' ice sheet of the glacial age -which swept i the northern part of tho new world clean! of nearly all animal life. Some scientists admit mat the Pleistocene horse might i have Humored in Texas or some south- em part of North America until the com- ; ing of the white man, but there is no i proof of it, and others hold that the j early .Spaniards brought the horse along! and thus re-established the horse on its native heath. That part is a puzzle, but we do know that from North America, the early horses journeyed l northern Europe across tlie once-existinrr land bridge of i he f;:r nor'h. stocking that continent well before his kind became pvtim-t here. Who knows bij: tiiat he. or his progeny, following the ie- j eeiiing of the great ice sheot, may not i -uve returned at an enrly date by thu j jvay he earne. and thus have "beaten t'ne ' wbiTe men ic ii." so to peak'.' .Smith-J onian Ins1 itetion Eulle;in. I . t |