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Show The WAR UOQSEf . FIOJTING UEART Bronco of the West Is Found to Be "Warrior SfP of Royal Blood that Made Arabs Consider Steeds , of the Deserts Almost Objects of Worship. horses. Not one mulo was bought Iti this same market, France purchased during tho year 1910, 10,036 horses and 14,370 mules. The mules were bought only In the last year. The total number of horses purchased by France St th3 National Stockyards since the beginning of the war Is 86.710 The average price paid was mo. Italy, In this market, bought 10,704 horses in 191C and 10,380 mules. The total number of horses bought by Italy at tho National Stockyards Stock-yards since tho beginning of the war Is 66,440. The average price paid for tho horses was J1&0. ( According to the army ofllccrs, the mules are j used chiefly for transporting supplies. Tho horse aro used for the cavalry, mostly. Many L heavy, solid horses alto are bought to haul the big army wagons and guns. Lighter animals, but never mules, are purchased for the cavalry. Belgium, at this market, bought 7467 horses In 19J6. the total since the war began being 9.782. The average price was $136. ,1 The dealers refuse to give out the prices paid j 0r the mules, but it Is estimated at from $100 fighting In a section of it , . , i, u , where motor cars can be used to better advantage. A Hereditary Warrior. PERHAPS tho foreign military agents do not know tho history of the bronco, do not know or care, that the mustang Is an hereditary warrior All they caro about and realize, probably, prob-ably, is that the bronco Is enduring, a mean animal to "break," but when onco mastered will go anywhere and do anything the one who mastered him desires. If the muster so wills and commands, tho bronco will travel uncomplainingly uncom-plainingly until he drops dead, or If thnt doe? not occur, he will rest up without food or water and do it over again It is the fighting heart bloori of a royal ancestry, like that of ilif-gentlemanly ilif-gentlemanly steed of England-tho thoroughbred, thorough-bred, or like the little gentleman of a fox torrlor dog that has been purely bred, tho dog that will resent forever an unfair chastisement or like the thoroughbred boy. who, sensltlvs to Insult will run away from home If scolded by his father, then fight any one who criticises his pnrent. To one who knows the history of the bronco It Is easily understood why the half-wild horses from tho plains of the United States are In demand de-mand for the European battlefields. The bronco Is descended from the historically famous war horses of tho Arabian deserts. His Immediate forebears wore tho "Barbs" brought to America by proud Spanish knights. These "Barbs" were taken Into Spain by th Moorish conquerors and were In turn descended directly from the Bedouin war horses of ttu deserts Ono authority for the statement that the American mustang must be a descendant of the Arabian desert warrior Is J. Husacll Manning. T fl V B an nnthnr o.-. ,!.. 1 t-. nlng says: "This horse was brought as a domestic animal to tho Now World by tho early adventurers No trace of a horso If wo except a kind of cloven-footed cloven-footed species has been found upon this continent. conti-nent. We can account for the herds of wild horses known to have long existed Ir. different parts of North and South America upon no other supposition than that they are the descendants de-scendants of certain Andaluslan mares and Steeds brought over by tho Spaniards and abandoned aban-doned by them when they no longer could render ren-der them K. rvlco. or left free, to escape to the forests on the death of their master n battle with Indians There is one Btory that all thesu Immense herds, In both North and South America, Amer-ica, are sprung from one stallion and two mares that escaped from tho expedition of De Soto through Florida, Georgia and elsewhere. Th re is now a single herd In South America that sometimes numbers many thousands " The Western cowboy considers it worth the price of ono of these wild plains animals to capture cap-ture him Occasionally there will appear near civilization a beautiful stallion that is worth thousands of dollars for breeding purposes Cowboys Cow-boys aro gathered and the long chase to drive the animal into a corral Is unaerUltou. Occa- """y HE great European war has 1 turned back tho pages of his- 1 tory in many things. The generals, time and again, I I L mm have employed ancient I maneuvers. The soldiers V' have found that implements V"" of warfare, discarded as out of date, have uses Cavalry', little considered In the present conflict because of the terrltlc bombardment of giant guns, never the less has played an important part. And the cavalry of eil nations engaged has found that tho wiry lltflo Western America bronco Is the best animal ani-mal for tho work of killing the enemy. Tho tough Irullan pony has taken up his ancient heritage as a war horse. The Importance of the cavalry' in tho war is hewn by the first two months of fighting, when Germany was rushing Its right flank across Flanders to tho channel. There were battles between the British, Belgian and French horsemen horse-men on the one side, and tho kaiser's uhlans on ti e other. Mounted troop3 havo been used almost continuously on tho east front, where the allies have preferred the American mustang. Tht- tales in tho Middle Western war horse enter, National Stockyards, East fct. Louis, Dl., speak for themselves. Great Britain pur-j pur-j ggC naeed from January 1 to December 20, 1016, 12,1 l'j horses at an nveragc price of $100 per head. Since the beginning of tho war Great Britain nurehaccd at this ono m:rtt-t on (in Slonalty these attempts succeed. More often they fall, and sometimes the Btalllon Is bo wild ho Is useless Also thero have been found on tho Western plains In hlddf-n places tht- dead victim of some other stallion's hoofs and teeth, fur there always al-ways Is ono king of tho herd, and i ,.n uroth-ers, uroth-ers, fathers and cousins and all their kind aro not tolerated a second if the rule of tho king Is disputed provided the king can win his tights. Free from Disease. IN THIS wild state ho Is free from disease and disorders of very kind. This ia true, to tho extent that unless ho Is killed by accident he will live to bo 60 years old. It Is on tho deserts and among tho Arabs (unless (un-less It bo with the Indians) that this breed of horso attains his greatest perfections as a domestic do-mestic anlmaL Tho Arabs preserve the boat breeds in their purity. Among the more civilized people the war horso soon frets himself to death or becomes too fat and sluggish to bo of much aluc, unless ho Is allowed to llvo In a sumlwlld state. In becoming the companion of man and his servant the Arabian scions partake In some measure of both man's spirit and physical frail ties. It is in battle that the blood of many centuries cen-turies responds to the old call of tho Arabs, and the bronco adds to tho torrors of the conflict by his fierceness as well as by his strength and swiftness. Survivors of eafltem front battles In Europe tell many stories of tho American horse's fighting fight-ing heart how they plungo on Into battle, Into the flare of gunllro, even after the rider has i sen shot from tho saddle. Pome of thom have 1 1 come attached to their soldier-masters to the extent that they will stand by tho Bldo of the l lien men as they do In tho West for tho cow- . If proporlygtralncd and handled. George Washington and Gen. Putnam each had Arab horses. Washington rode his gray Steed throughout the revolutionary war. Gen. i' itnam escaped from the British by riding at a headlong gallop down a steep Might of 100 steps. Most of the daro-devll horses of tho circus are of tho same stock. This fighting streak has been reeognlted by motlon-plcturo companies. The accompanying photo shows Mack Sennett Jumping his Western bronco, named Jasper, from a roof 26 feet high into a tank of water. Just before this Jump Bennett rode his horso into a frontier saloon and dance hall. The horeo took tho gambling tables ta-bles in groat leaps aa Sennet t stooped down and ft--- . 3. .1. ; v - ; vr;. spue I swept up the money. While this was going on soventy-flvo persons rushed around the room shouting and firing revolvers. An ordinary horso would have gone into spasms of excitement. But Jasper's Arab stock is cool of head. Sennett, playing the part of a bandit, tore up a flight of stairs, riding Jasper at full speed Ho gained the roof as tho actors behind continued shooting. Sennett spoke one word, ' Jump!" The little wiry bronco plunged through the railing on the roof and down Into the swimming pool below. The horse was not scared Into the lap He acted coolly throughout. Both rider and horss disappeared beneath the surface of the water, then came up. The horse swam out with Smntt holding to a stlrrrup The horso shook himself, and quietly began nibbling grass. I I Mule Is a "Good" Fighter. THOROUGHBRED might havo been goaded f into the performance, unless he had been thoroughly trained, and even then high diving hones usuall;, havo to be coaxed, whipped and pushed. The bronco, however, understood that his master was going along in the dizzy leap, and plunged In at tho word of command. If ihoso horses onco become a friend or man, they will go as far as he will. Ono llrst tries to buck his head off. A mule Is a good fighter for himself and safety first. He will trust no man, no living thing himself included. Put a hungry mule into a field of green corn and he will eat Just what Is good for himself. Most any horse will founder. If a mule bocoincs frightened and runs away in a forty-acre field, he will probably keep on running when he comes to a barbed wire fence, but ho will turn around first A horse, once frightened enough to run away usually cuts himself to pieces at the first fence. A mule would die before he would Jump oft of roof He probably would consider tho chance of getting shot. If he ever got as far as the fJ roof In tho first place, then tear bock down the i-tairs a step at a tlmo. The fighting hearts are still beating In the ons of thousands of grand sires, whoso dames, having gone foT days without water, turned from an oasl3 to battle again for their Arab j masters at tho sound of tho trumpet call. Tho shades of tho old Arab steeds havo notn-Ing notn-Ing to be ashamed of In the tales of loyalty and bravery shown by the Western horses on the fields of battle In Europe. They wero created to fight, the Arabs believe be-lieve and have lost none of their spirit In the long centuries their blood has endured. Tho traditions as to tho origin of this Arab stock are numerous. According to John Gilmer Speed, the author, one tradition was expressed by the Emir Abd-El-Kader In 1854, in a letter address- od to Gen. Daumas, a division communder who i served long In Arabia and who was later a renator of Franco. He said that God created the horso before man, and then this domestic animal was handed down, "first, from Adam j to Tshmael; second, from Ishmael to Solomon; H third, from Solomon to Mohammed; fourth, from Mohammed to our own times." This tradition of th rnns has a very significant meaning, as they claim that Ishmael was not only one of themselves, but their founder, for "Is It not written In tho Bible that ffH when Hagar. Abraham's woman, fled Into ths H wl'derness, an angel appeared to her and said: H " 'I will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Behold, J thou art with child, and shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ishmael, and ho will be a H Wild man. his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall H dwell in the prcsenge of. all his brethren," |