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Show FROM ANOTHER DAY. It was long a custom it may be stillof some tribes of Indians, on the death of a chief, to kill and bury beside the body of the brave his favorite pony. It requires a long time to breed out a barbarous bar-barous habit of the race. In June last Baron George Von Bleichroder, a Berlin banker, was killed in an automobile accident. Now the Baron's family have buried the man-killing automobile beside the grave of the deceased Baron. The shock of the Baron's death revived to life an ancient instinct that had slumbered in those stubborn German souls for perhaps per-haps forty generations. A thousand people have asked how it is that the mustang when first ridden rid-den invariably tries to throw its rider by bulking. The mustang is the lineal descendant of the barbs that the cavalry of Cortez rode in Mexico. They were thoroughbreds originally but becau.se of hardships and inbreeding degenerated- into mustangs. mus-tangs. But they came honestly by the bucking propensity. AsHand was a California colt, as pure bred as Diomed, but he had to be ridden by a vaquero every morning until he got through bucking, buck-ing, so that the jockey could exercise him. The mustang got his bucking proclivities honestly. |