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The horses for this work arrived in Salt Lake April 7 and were allowed time to recover from the effects of a long train trip from Nebraska before being put on regular duty. To the casual reader the term "classes in equitation" Is a dry, .meaningless-phraseeven If, perchance, it--" recalls his early struggles with Lit in and ha remembers that equitation is associated with the word horse and doubtless signifies horsemanship. To the freshman who decided last September to become a member of the R. O. T. C., the phrase psoba-bl- y conveyed a vague idea that he would be required to. ride a horse. v ON 4s J r ik' r kr 4 , "V & v V- ;,w A r ' U-- !r yi -- 71 1 , Spill. wi j fi :--v3 xr" ty ' Jv doubts and misconceptions were quickly removed from his mind the mornYl ing a hen he, nith fellow classmates, assembled at the picket line Just beyond ths Kt university stables for an initial tryout in equitation. Forty dappled gray steeds ot 'i--' the most approved military conformation pulled at their halters, pawed ths ground, the air, or anything else convenient, and otherwise expressed the one desire that surged in the beings o'f the entire forty, that feeling known among horses and folks addicted to ths use of slang as rarin to go." i After the Intricacies and difficulties of bridling and saddling had been mastered, the next thing in order was to effect a landing on the back of the horse and preferably in the saddle. It sounds easy and does not look Impossible, even to a boy who has never climbed onto anything more' lively than a moving street car, or who has been accustned to taking his some jockeying he managed to coax landing him dhee mors on terra flrma, but not always In an upright position dally exercise in the front seat of an "Quadrant into a reasonable frame of mind end they were off with ths rest of One such spill, ths camera man caught. automobile. While it looks disastrous, the rider got the troop. a to his feet Immediately, retrieved his Mounts Also Green. horse and finally succeeded in performing Branded. Horse Each success of which the Any hopes tbs' feat without accident, j Right here it might be Interesting to and there was a goodly number used t of horses the know each Tests Given. Practical that forty of this brand among the riding recruits this unit of ths R. O, T. C. has a advanced in military sciMen may have entertained with regarding to by - burned-i- n on ths front of ths ence and"tacttca are given practical ths mounting operation were quickly dis- numberhoof on the left forefoot, that he carries problems to solve. They are assigned to pelled at the first trial. Their mounts, initials branded on hl left g certain area, designated as area D," Uncle Sams like themselves, were green. They had U tors shoulder, with ths addition of for example. Then they are instructed been handled only three weeks previous or an A underneath, depending on to advance into the enemy's country end to their trip to Salt Lake from Nebraska. he belongs to ths cavalry or select suitable sites for the whether placement As a matter of fact, the horses had al in and of branch ths service, of guns, to arrange for telephone commost as many lessons to learn as the men. artillery to he has a regular name. munication that addition between observation posts, They were not properly gaited nor bal- Each horse is named for the various But parts which assembled form no car- also chosen by men detailed for this duty, anced, neither were they bridle-visfor there was one branch of horse lore In riage and equipment of field artillsry. and ths positions already selected the placing of artillery. This means the which they proved sdepts. that of avoid- Thus Smoke Ball may pranoe along with or out of theoretical with Cylinder practical working ing the efforts of their riders to mount. Lanyard. Howttser mastered In the classroom. Someone has said that horseback riding Quadrant with Caisson, or Apron with knowledge The R. O. T., C. work includes three develops muscular control, courage and Fu setter. sucwork a week and two hours was of class hours of the feat After mounting men and of that It keeps its devoths physical training, which may include cessfully- accomplished, tees In the open air and subjects the horses The men are allowed two before in review horsemanship. Major muscles to a light but constant exercise passed orders to ths credits for the class work and one for that is in the highest degree beneficial Randol, who Jeeued general men. First the phvsical training. At the end of to health. Freshmen of the university two captains riding with the the first two years work, the president discovered that this particular kind of they went single file st a walk, then at and the professor of outdoor sport does ell this for ths pa- -. a trot, close attention being paid to of the university proper the of men, military sciencemenand tactics make a seposition tlent and mors, too. but that the act of correct of whom they deem best method holding the reins and other lection toof the mounting is not always In the highest details. continue the work and they are fitted Then following the suppling exdegree beneficial to health. allowed , to complete the four years' ercises, which Included riding st esse without reins or stirrups, the off man course. Spills Occur Frequently, leading the horse of the near roan while Spills became ths order of ths day. he performed tills feat. 1 hen with the Course Covers Four Years. Even one of the captain instructors took horsemen in a line facing the commander The Ast two years of the course of the cotpmand lean back, and every his turn. Major M, a. Randol, com- - came man let the reins slip through his fin- R. O. T. C. instruction Include subjects mander of this unit of ths R. O. T. O., gers and stretched hack on his horse. fitting men, for the duties of enlisted insulted what la known as ths "honor That also la called a suppling exercise. men and noncommissioned officers. The roll. which la posted at military head-qua- rt third and fourth years are especially Evolution Attempted, era and on which are posted ths Canter planned for officers. and trot a on at first line, Working names of those who have made ths suIt Is obligatory that each man attend evolution Is one preme sacrifice in learning the art of finally at a canter. is of leaet one advance camp,-whicat onof to that the humbling which particularly appeals horsemanship, namely, their pride, along with their bodies, in looker. It teeembles the old time 'bat- six weeka duration and is held In the the dust With ths expectation that there would tle charger It was apparent-- that trot Hl are the duties of officers of artiltaught bo soma fun when ths students attemptof the men really enjoyed That canter, A student may attend one or more ed to carry out ths order to mount the as they should have, but In view of their lery. which also are held during basic camps, spectator located at a point of vantage limited the summer month and at which the experience s Ith tiorse flesh the men in the center of the field harbored the duties of enlisted men and learn the unholy hope that homes already wonder was that they stayed on without noncommissioned officers kmism as bad actors might stage some- pulling leather conspicuously. of the third year of At the In the way of spilla When the order to dismount and mount IrtStructltm.beginning men of the R O. T. C. rething spectacular Horses numbered 1, t and 17 had pre- at a walk was given. Major Randol shook ceive 16 SW per month from the governthat ment. Transportation to and from camps viously given the boys mors or less of a his head dubiously and said frankly tussle at the mount, but on this day he doubted If they could do it. Well, la defrayed by the government and in adIs mastered In more, what the class they did; and No. 17 might have qualified dition the sum of 30 per month is kind and sound, whila No. t wgs not this trick while their horses were put to men attending ths advance camp. paid to ths trot. This last order resulted .in able to create even a ripple of exclte-ment Horse No. 1. however, literally some few misunderstandings , between ONE CONVENIENCE NOT WANTEB. . rose to the occasion, objected strenuously horses end men. liotet- - Clerk With or without bath, When a man was unfortunate enough and then got right up on his hind legs of madam? who drew fo misjudge distance and land back and argued. But the lad . 1 min a mount Boy Aw, mother, get it without real name. his saddle, his wlthou.t Quadrant, which Is No. ; Exchange,- corrected his s. Yh iv: -- -- e. A s-- - it'- - I T rj Wi t44wwi X r Vu x kil. ifcsr' . r)fTv- X All , ' t i (" !: Hard Going. Horses Eager to Go. . , v. .A j- CjZz k ) a day , - Suppling Exercise. lb'1 i J 1 C in A SMALLEST REPUBLIC THAT OF SAN MARINO Tbs republic of San Marino,, tucked sway in the hills of northeastern Italy, has an area of thirty-eigsquare miles end a population of not quite 11.000 The capital city of San Marino Is perched on the mountain top, a nd is approached by only one steep, almost precipitous, road. For sixteen centuries San Marino has maintained its independence, although Italy entirely surrounds It. . The story of the founding of the republic goes back to the fourth century, when two stonecutters Marino and Leo crossed the Adriatic from Dalmatia, in order that they might bring help to the enslaved Christians whom a pagan emperor was employing to build the walla of Rimini. When ths waffs of Rimini were finished the two retired to tbs tops of the neighboring peaks, taking with them a little band of followers, and there they found sufficient to satisfy their frugal want a and practiced their religion in peace. Each built a Httle church, and the fame of the two communities, ever ready to welcome the tired and oppressed, Roman matron, spread so that a wealthy ths owner of the mountain on which Marino had set up his little colonv, when she embraced Christianity, gave It to Marino When he died Marino left Injunctions to his followers to regard ever as the two great essentials of life, peace and liberty. an Injunction they have obeyed even to the present day. was Though, officially, ban Marino neutral, she was represented in the Italher of ian army by eieveh sons, and the little people maintained a hospital at the Italian front, replacing with gallant enthusiasm the one that was wiped out in 1917. Philadelphia Enquirer. HOW THE PARSON FIGURED IT. After a sermon by sn old colored preaeherr one of the brethren said to him' "Br'sr Jenkins, how fur off, you reckon hell Is?" "How old Is you. Br er Thomas f" asked the preacher. "Well, suh, ef I don't miss my I Is stxty-f"Well," said the preacher, w"n you wrus born Inter dis wort, hell wua jes' slxty-fyears off. sn' all I got ter say is, ef you ain t In sight er it now. It ain't yo' fault!" Atlanta Constitution. i - ht X S' V A o VjS vgfiH XCuX.'tSbu' - ' Correct Position, Without Reins or Stirrups - (Tribune staff Photographs.) H.G. Wells Discusses Future of Mankind as tion and salvage. They may have the bold and revolutionary adaptations vigor to abandon their age-lon- g attempt these, in ths mental and political Ilfs to live In separate sovereign states and of today? to grapple with and master the now "How far are we. reader and writer, quite destructive force that traditional for example, working for these large new hostility has become, and bring their af- securities? Do we even keep them steadfairs together under one law and one fastly in our minds "How is It with the people around us? peace. "These- - new vast powers over nature Are not we and they and. all tbs racs retrogression seems possible, and that la the conscious, systematic reconstructwhich have been - given to them, and stiff just as much adrift In the current which will certainly be their destruction of circumstances as wa were before 1914? ion of human society to avert it. The world has been brought Into one If their purposes remain divergent and Without a great effort on our part (or will then be the means bv someone s part) that current which conflicting, community and the human nund will and which they may set up s new order of swirled our kind into a sunshine of hops may be able to recognise and adapt itas yet scarcely Imaginable Interest and and opportunity for a while will carry self to this fact In rime. our race on surely and inexorably to Men, as a race, may succeed in turnhappiness 'and achievement. "But Is our race capable of 'such an fresh wars, to shortages, hunger, miseries ing their backs upon ths method of war"Ths victor In the next great war will be bombed from the sir, starved and depleted almost as much as the loser. His victory will be no easy one. It will be a triumph of the exhausted and dying over the dead," writes H. G. W ells. Only one alternative to some such fare and the methods of conflict and In effort, such a complete reversal of its and social debacles st last either to instinctive and traditional impulses? complete extinction or to a degradation embarking upon an Immense world-wid- e Can we find premonitions of any such bevond dur present understanding" effort of cooperation and mutual tolera finely-equipp- ed but the old fellow had on a ragged seersucker coat and seersucker trousers you could see his black skin through the bolea " 'Ephraim.' 1 said, whv did you spend money for those magnificent hams! Youd have done better to buy an over- - Whereupon the bashful suitor s color outdid the carnation In briUinncv, but ths exchange was effected. Then ths young man grabbd his hat and started to leave the room "Where are vou . going"! demanded Mbeh surprised. "To ths florists for mors carnations' "Old Bph rolled his eyes at me and said he called out as ha shot through ths solemnly: " Marse Henry when Ah axes mah doorway Los Angeles Times. back (o credit Ah gets It, but when Ah HER OBJECT. speaks to dis and he gave his stomach three or four whacks with a ham it calls "Maud wouldn't say a word to the refo do cash.' " Washington Btar. porter about her case "unless he d promise to print her picture yVON AT LAST. "Vanity. I suppose " Mabel was telling Isabel of ths shy "No. business. She says that in her young man that had for some months previous divorce csss her photograph got bean "gone" on her. but whose suit bad her a new husband almost lmjnedlately. Boston Transcript languished because he slmplv hadn't ths THE CASH CALL. courage to speak out. Finally, Mabel ' "Marse Henry" Watterson said st s said, she decided that It was "up to her OH, YE MEN! to take decisive measures. Accordingly, Louisville dinner: There are some things that a woman One day I met sn old negro toting a ths next time hehlacalled, ehe pointed to finds hard to forgive In her Urge lord buttonhole and said, rme ham under each arm It Was a gray, the carnatton in and master, and thl s is one-- . Recently for that carnation colil - o' o' - s' in this city, whose record life thirty years of married cams one and only wife, with his home, and, after looking at her Intent-tlBlue." was heard to murmur, What did you say?" inquired ths e: a husband showed y, above-me- n tronsd-wif- he re"Oh, nothing in particular." plied, "but I saw an old friend todavf you never met him, he stopped off between trains; hnd he wanted to know how you looked, even all about you: it it ths color of your eyes, and blamed I could remember. I told him brown.-DetroFree Press YOU BET! "Just what ts an efficiency expert eny-wasked ths Old Fogy, as he looked up rom the newspaper he was reading. "An efficiency expert is a man who, when he sees ths an employee la do. Ing his best, tells him that hs lsn t doing very well." replied the Grouch. Cin- clnnati Enquirer. ev ! |