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Show ecended .from! the horse that grows up. with th children in the Bedouin ' teat, goes on long marches, it often without any sufficient food, often without water, but his bone is developed and his muscle and his lungs are-developed, and he is the finest horse in the world.' The English thoroughbred ought to be finer than his Arab grandfather, and would be if the Englishmen only understood the horse as well as the Arab does. TREATMENT OF HORSES. A New Vork paper says that in England the horsemen are greatly distressed, believing-that their finest horses"are deteriorating; they have abandoned aban-doned the very long race and are not aatisfied with the performance of shorter races. The fault i the wen, Bot ihs- borae. Unl ther -baa been too much close inbreeding the horses are a good a ever. The same cry has been raised in the United States, that the thoroughbred horse is falling fall-ing behind. Tba secret of it all ia that the horse have been treated like the boys and girl of rich men ; they have been nursed and petted and fed ' everything 'done except giving them honest, steady work. A full brother of Thad Stevena waa brought up in a band of mustangs and pastured with them ; ' be had to hunt his living with the rest ; he had to ' sleep but of door, but it. wa noticed that when anything. frightened the mustangs and there wa a race among them to get out of the way, this partieu- ' lar mustan. always led. Finally when he waa about 4 yeses old a man saw him in the band and reeognized him at once aa a colt that had strayed , when but a baby and they never could find him. He 1 was caught and subdued and kindly treated until he got to understand that man was not hi especial - ... enemy, and be grew affectionate and became pet of the family. - He was named Rafe. But member ) of the family went out riding on him one day and . was imprudent enough to strike him with the whip, whereupon he went into a run and ran two honra, ,, despite all the man on his back could do, and when he finally got over his anger and grew a little tired the man dismounted utterly exhsusted. ' ' , j A. race was made. 1 He distanced hia competitor, but was frightened at the cheering as be ame in. jumpetj fence; threw, hia rider, and ran home1,' eight miles away. 'The) wife of his owner went out, . . , piit.him in the stable and covered him with blan-' blan-' ..kets."', - '' "' ; ' . '" " '' " ' j When the great race between, "Wella-Fergo'a :-; pioneer express from Plscerville to Virginia City 'was made against the Pacific Express company that went by Ponner lake, the agent of the Dpn- ner Lake cotnpany went along the road and' engaged en-gaged horses to be ridden each eight miles,' as , nearly aa eould be done by the stations. The owner . . of this particular hone told one of his men to take . the horse down to Anderson's (since Governor . .'.Sparks' place), and let him carry the express rider and exnreaa ta the foot at the fleiffa ffrade. Tha ' horse hsd a local reputation, because when he came there first there were a good many boys in the Tslley that had first, elass mustangs and regular' ' race days. But one of them, aiding hia pet horse, - t ' came upon this horse and hia rider, and looking at ' Rafe, said: "Why, you have a pretty good look-' look-' ing horse there. Looks as though he might run. Lets try him for a quarter of a mile." When the ; word was given they started, and when the quar-, quar-, ter of a mile was reached by the real race horse the other one was struggling along far ip the rear, ' . and the owner of Rafe could never get any pursjs on Truckee Meadows. But on this day it waa noised about that JSafe was to carry the' express from Anderson's station. The way those express 'riders did waa to have the mail atrapped around 'them, and they 'would spring from one horse onto another and have no delay. When the rider from the west got to Anderson's and jumped from hia ' panting horse, the man in charge of the blood horse held him by the bit until the rider mounted and then let go. Half the men in the valley were there and they said the difference between the motion of the two horses waa the difference between a mustang and a thoroughbred. One result waa that the express by Donner lake beat the one by Placer- Tille by two hours and aeven minutes. All of which amounta to nothing except as a hint to men who have race horse that horses are like men. Bring a college athlete west, one who haa taken all the prizes, and give him a ten-mile race with an ordinary Shoshone Indian and Mr. Injun will beat him out of sight. But let that athlete ath-lete go over the eourae onee a dsy for s month snd then renew the race and the athlete will leave Mr. Injun out of eight The owners of blood horses in England aa a rule have but one horse, and he j nursed and petted and fed and only gently ex- - ereised; bis bone is not developed, hia muscle' ia not developed, and while he can be trained to make 'a good mile and a half race, that doea not make clear. one-half what is in the horse. If the horse waa used to running in s paddock, if the boys .' would ride him after the cows or in hunting that is. if he eould be kept exercising enough as he grew up to develop hia bone and his muscle, then ' when put in condition for a rsce 4nd the surplus - flesh was durd of, be would run ths two-mil?; ' raee.igive s couple of puffs, snd be ready, fo two mi-s more- The thoroughbred of England is de- J ' |