Show INDIAN horsemanship great feats in wins exhibited by I 1 toune Arapah aa oes omaha herald in the indian camp of the arapah hoe chief friday hero we saw many curious scenes and learned much of indian lifo life one day friday said ea id to 1 me ho lie would liko like to show off hie his young men and let mo see how well they could ride at firs t I 1 expected some treachery as the whole herd of ponies n ere cre batill in tho ilia hands of tho the I 1 troops tho the old chief however ho was as I 1 eo so earnest and apparently honest about it I 1 told the captain nho had the herd in charge he lie might let friday have fifty ponies for hie his yo young g men in about an hour they drew up I 1 before he the tents in war w ar pal P paint n aej 2 feathers and were as fine a looking king net set of young fellows fellow s as I 1 had d eer ever I 1 seen hardly one but bula tha thay wras Rae six feet ket in height aej an beautifully proportioned twy eat gat no I 1 their horses liko like centaurs centam and were ere ease case and crace itself in t the to saddle I 1 at a signal from the chief they beg began gan I 1 their movements move mente with vi ith a yell eu that sent the blood curdling to the heart and was enough if beird beard unaware unawares or in tho the night time to make onoe ones hair I 1 standon tand on end ina in a moment they had 1 1 I disappeared over a neighboring hill to I 1 the right and I 1 thought they had gone but he jirina a mighty trampling of hot horse 0 1 io 0 to the left and there I 1 I 1 they cuie I 1 can call compare it to nothing but the wind and they swept 1 by compact that they looked like a I 1 boll vill of bolves and men splitting in two one body swept to the right and another to the left and again disappeared in about two minutes the two bodies charged each ahrin ahr in loald luios and 1 d al 4 1 I 1 r 1 1 i 1 11 MI I 1 lc I 1 lo 10 I 1 I 1 I 1 m meet 0 t breath lew s for or the aock shock but it as the h hori heads almost touched each other the f l g opener to the right and left and the orned lines ines passed I 1 through the intervals without touching wheeling wheel ing to the right about they back in an instant and again peered oer over the hilla hills it was as about fifteen minutes before they camo in alg eight and friday informed me they were blowing their hones presently Pren lly on they came and wheeled by b fours ours formed columns broke by fours and finally deployed as skirmishers fishers to it wae was now we SAW the uneit finest individual horsemanship some would approach lying so close to tho ilia back that nothing but tho the horse could be seen others stood up and rode as circus men do borne some would hanx h mi with one foot and one hand giandon on the horses and a sweep eay by their bodies bodie 8 completely protected pro tete by ill alio bodies bdie of tho ilia annn anit tink some leaped upon hie the gloumi m unil 3 holding to the inane mane of the fi orue horse nud and after running a step or two tso would swing themselves them sebe upon the b buks icks of the hordes horses arai a n as easily aa as any ay circus man could do ao it the tile positions eions s they assumed and the feats of horsemanship which they performed were incredible and I 1 doubt if any a nothing outside of a circus ring ever equal ted it they would throw objects on the ground and pick them up again v while bile passing at full speed the he warriors banging to tit the 0 sides ol 01 of tho the horses with w ith one foot and one hand thew drew bos and shot pilot arrows arrons from underneath the nek sand and eve eien n the bellies of their horses while ridi riding n 9 at a fast gallop g i our cavalry could not learn to ride as well as these indians did if each man was trained for twenty bears eare they exchanged horses while 4 hile riding and got behind each other boneman one man would fall off ins his horse home as if wounded and two others would ride up beside and taking him by the tile arm and leg swing saing him between their horses M and carry him off the exhibition or drill canniday caN ae as friday called i lasted nearly tao two hours and athe the men and hom horses esmere were cof completely an 11 exhausted hausted I 1 had never seen such magnificent feats fe its of horsemanship mar iship in my life and anti I 1 freely said eo so at this friday v as much pleased and calling up the youn oun men r repeated t to them in a loud aliat eral I 1 it had d said and added a few w words of his own complimenting them the young men were w t cry very proud of the tile manner in which they had acquitted themselves and I 1 could imagine the feelings of their parents and sweethearts the tile performers were worn out some of them being hardly able to stand after their violent exercise exercise and all the evening I 1 saw them lying in the lodges va where the indian women brought them food bathed their hands arms and limbs and combed their hair |