New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1916, Page 10

LRY BIGGE 'hotos by American Press Assoclation. 3 praise that has come from the corre- avalrymen carrying the st less line of mounted. troops. cing his mount. and stripes across the border. 2.—An end- 3.—Crossing plains in single file. 4.—Prac- 5—Machine gun ready for action. 6.—Practice charge at full speed. 7.—Crossing the Mexican deserts. 8.—Food for the cavalry horses. 9.—Group of cavalrymen, showing equipment they carry. 10— Teaching their horses to jump. 11.—Practice charge on Mexican border. sterling qualities of the cavalrymen who so relentlessly sought every out- law connected with Villa. The ho suffered much from the heat and some instances lack of water, and some of them perished from exhaustion. They had been urged on and on, day and night, through desert sands mountain passes, always gaining the fleeing pre) The United S HILE automobiles and mo- torcycles have in a measure replaced the | there search for the hiding outlaws as have our mounted troops. Of course the automobile has been most useful in horse in time of war, (he‘ transporting supplies to the men, but ted States cavalry has found since| when it comes to real fighting and real ersing the deserts and mountains | pursuit it has been the duty of the| Mexico that its faithful dumb| mounted trooper to do this. nds are absolutely necessary to| While there are not many cavalry| An officer who completed an elemen- out the search for the bandits.|regiments in the United States army,|tary course in the French method motorcar or motorcycle could in- | the standard of them is not surpassed | smiled at the bare possibility of e the fastness of the ravines and'anywhere in Europe. The highest! scribing in a sentence a system of rid- on ates army several years ago adopted what is known as the French system of training cavalrymen. de- STFA spondents in Mexico has been of the|study in | and | instantly CTOR IN ing which has been evolved from the | and experience of 200 years and combines the training of the horse equally with that of the rider. Summi the main points as briefly as possible, however, he stated: “The tem cons of a setting up drill for the horse, for the rider a body in position to apply aids and indications and intelligently and a per- | fect adjustment of equilibrium of both horse and rider. As a result you have a perfectly developed horse and a rider | in sympathy with him. You might al- most define the French system as one of training and riding. It really is a method by which the horse is always ‘in hand,’ and every indication can be | antly communicated to him.” Tt takes a connoisseur to tell at a glance the man who rides according to the French system of equitation, but ated into its salient features e no mistaking them afterward. The most pronounced indication of the | cavalryman of the French school is | “toes out.” Then one notices that !he‘ rider does not grip his mount with the knees, but the legs, swung lightly be- | hind the girth, are in contact with the | horse from the calf up. While the type saddle used in our army closely resembles the English flat | saddle, the stirrups hang noticeably | farther to the back; and the seat dips | to throw the weight of the rider di- rectly in the center of the horse's back. | Jumping is another successful feature ' which makes a fair jumper out of any mount, but is especially advantageous | in producing expert steeplech s The horse is taught to take a fence | only after having been taught to esti mate the jump and the effort required | to clear it, by being led up to it, around it and over it, until he is perfectly able to approximate quickly heights and distances. Drilled in this way, it is re- markable how keen and clever a horse becomes in observing obstacles and how cool in taking them. One Phila- delphia Iryman, indeed, found hi horse entirely too clever after a course of training. After a period of partial activity the horse was a bit sluggish Recognizing this, his master put him at a reasonably low barrier as a start- er. The animal coolly and knowingly measured it as he cantered down the field, slowed up perceptibly as he reached the jumping point, then scorn- fully hopped over the low fence like a poodle, to the amazement and amuse~ ment of the onlookers, but intense in- dignation of his rider. In the United States each cavalry regiment in the army sends an officer each year to take this course at the mounted service school at Fort Riley, Kan., with the idea of disseminating knowledge gained there as rapidly as possible throughout the service. Cav- alrymen believe it will be only the question of a short time until the French seat is universal in the regular army and the national guard. ow Villa First Met the Girl He Married NE of the most interesting per- sons in Mexico today is Se- nora Villa, wife of the bandit chief, who brought about the Hing of United States troops into| ico. Although her husband is one| he most talked of men in the coun- | today, little is ever heard of his She is a woman of medlum| ht and build, with quantities of black hair bound around her head the blue gray eyes of the Mexican rt. telling the story of her life to an brican newspaper correspondent e time ago, she described her early and the events leading to the in- uction which was shortly followed jher marriage to the man who at time loomed large as the most pable selection for the presidency of co. However, events have chang- nsiderably since she was married. he, together with her mother, lived pnstant fear of the various bands of aws who roamed around the coun- and looted various ranches and s. The leader of these bands was The country rang with stories is boldness and daring. One even- after hearing reports that the ban- were near, the entire village was or stricken. Finally a commander red the small store conducted by little Mexican girl and her mother. bought out the entire stock and on ing was told it was well, because outlaws were in that vicinity, and e had not purchased the stock they 1d have taken it at the points of 5. 1e commander then stated that he his men had planned a dance that | ing and asked the little girl ympany him. She was of cour sed and flattered that a commander 11d ask her to accompany him. Her ner was one of the gayest persons e. From the first he paid marked ntion to this little country girl. e asked her what would she do if bandit, Villa, entered the room at moment and she replied that she ld die of fright. Then her escort to | in the | forgotten. rmed her that he was Villa him- Such is the story of the meeting illa and his wife. jtter they were married her quiet was transformed into the whirl- f of axcitement caused by the raids Photo by American Press Assoclation. FRANCISCO VILLA AND HIS WIFE. of Villa and his band. She was then|was intensified when the United States | transferred into a life of anxiety, which! sent troops to take Villa. & FASTER SEASON IN BETHLEHEM. PA. ROBABLY nowhere in the east- ern hemisphere is the Easter 150n observed with as much | implicity and reverence as at Bethlehem, Pa., by the Moravians, and | it I for more than a century and a | half attracted the attention of the Christian world. Beginning with the evening meetings during the week previous, which con- st mainly of RBiblical history of the time which is commemorated, inter- spersed with appropriate hymn follow the impressive Good Fridz ernoon service and the love feast afternoon, ending with ter Sunday service The most notable service, however, is on Easter morning. Long before day- break, by the light of torches, the trom- bone choir awakes the populace by ren- | dering at prominent places throughout | the town the old “karols” to which the | earlier churches were so attached, and tillness of the night, the beauty and solemnity of the music being undis- turbed, the impression made is never Quickly the lights appear in the homes, and ere long from all directions the worshipers throng to the old church, where shortly before sunrise a short preliminary service is held. Then the congresation, led by the clergy, the trombone and v 11 choir, slowly wends its way to the old burying ground near by, where, forming a large square about the resting places of scores of historic forefathers and aborigines, with the clergy and choirs in the center, the service of proclaiming the resurrection is continued as the sun breaks over the The old burying ground dates back to the founding of the town, more than 0 years ago. It is unique in itself. memorials placed on the graves i lat—n one exception in the many thousand -the walks are laid out in equal squares, and each grave has| but an equal plot of ground. The en- tire acreage is thickly covered by the protecting branches of stately trees, which have from year to year, from the time when small saplings until the end of their vinted time, been si- re laid I lent participants in the Easter morning service. i