The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1900, Page 11

valry horse, thou action on To obtaln sub- of the Our ca with nickd)- sh basins on their heads, w dyed cowtails and gayly painted angle round themselves and their chargers. Gewgaws are all very well on review and certainly look very fine in pic- tures, ‘but fifty years of continuous Indian ghting have taught our horsemen just at they need in their business, and they have that and nothing more. THE -SUNDAY CALL. HOW THE MEN AND HORSES ARE TRAINED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE. The r of all of this training and al ar for the al, has developed our cavalry in prac- to be a highly useful arm of the ac ns of English ana have been gradually to believe that the Improvement ns had made cavalry a thing aying branch of the mil- American cavalry is planned on a . from that of any other civ- emen of other armies are lineal descendants of the old knight in armor who welghted himself and his horse with sheetiron until mobllity was out of the question. Over this armor were waving ribbons and blazoned designs, so that ia a chance medley friends might know whom the visor concealed. The ribbons and the paint are still re- tained on the Continent and that was why the military writers said that the cavalry was an expiring arm of the serv! Our troopers have modeled on different lines. The Indian, mounted naked upon his bare-backed pony, round and ¥ like t 15 hawk, tire- as the wind because unfreighted and unhhmpered; that is the model which the Américan has had before him, and neces- sity has compelled that the Indian be met by a man on an equal footing. The rough riders have been assumed to b: a type more skilled in American rid- ing than the regular cavalry. But one cannot see the Pres!dlo troopers at their drill without feeling that as far as the yellow trimmed warriors go the army is not hampered by anv restraining aignity. The school of riding i use by tne troop- er is di v Mexican. The horse is in the first p! free from superfluous trappings. He is taught to be guided merely by the touch of the rein on the side of his neck. ere is but one pair of reins and these again are held in one hand. This is a strong contrast when compared with the cumbrous lines, snaffles, martin- gales, checks and other steering machin- ery from which the European has to dis- entangle himself when emerging from a hotly mixed cavalry charge. The Boers have had no military train- ing except of actual practice and their methods correspond very closely to ours. There is no doubt that when the war is ended and their true storfes come out, thera will be some of the most wonder- rul tales of endurance and execution that have ever been given the world, with the exception perhaps of the fea! PV the band under Color o power The size of the he tonishing to th much u s the leaping of the barricades that most a ilipinos, and when the t derful leaps and the eff ¢ charge of weapons are repeated fr mouth to mouth it is not long before it becomes a wonderful epic of flying mon- sters, spitting flery death upon all before them. That is why the bolo men run. So much for our troopers In the Philippines. The cavalry is a long way from the end of its work. There is now every prospect that America may yet be compelled to act on the defensive in China and there But it 11 is no doubf about the way that the Chin- ese will flee , but only* far from making omplaining dashes on the + and der of of all, happy »w made in Ger- ¢ pure cell dium chloride. water in the article, and become just as