Baron Alexander Von Humboldt. Who signally honored Mr. Rarey when he visited Berlin.

Mr. Rarey's visit to Stockholm was characterized by an unusually warm reception by the Prince Regent, afterwards King, who took occasion to say, on Mr. Rarey's presentation, that he had been attentively reading the different accounts of his performances and that he had already selected a subject for reformation-a remarkably spirited animal of Arabian and English thoroughbred stock, which though four years old, had never been broken, except to be led, if gently treated, by the halter. The time was set for the test, and the royal riding school was especially prepared by the addition of splendid carpets and sofas to the already magnificent furniture. The issue was the same as it had been so often before. The animal was subdued, and the Prince Regent and his guests had an exciting experience that brought them to their feet in approval. When it was all over, the Prince Regent summoned Mr. Rarey, put many questions regarding the treatment of horses and finally presented to him a medal as a token of special regard. It was a medal bearing the motto, "Illis quorum meruere labores" - a social distinction, conferring upon the wearer special privileges in visiting the royal palaces and arsenals, commanding everywhere regard from the servants of the King. In Berlin, Mr. Rarey had a similarly cordial reception by the Prince Regent, later King of Prussia, who alluded to the exhibition he had witnessed in London on the evening before the marriage of the Princess Royal. He gave exhibitions in the royal riding school before members of the Court. In the audience was Baron Alexander von Humboldt, distinguished scientist, who later, on being invited by the American minister to dine with Mr. Rarey, expressed the hope that he would be "polite enough to live to be present." That desire was gratified and, in responding to a toast, the venerable scholar declared with much feeling his admiration for America, adding that he had always considered himself at least half American.

A most pressing invitation to visit Russia came to Mr. Rarey, from Colonel Baron de Wercinski, who told of the vast number of the Czar's cavalry and the great difficulty of breaking the horses from the steppes as well as of many noblemen who, being fond of horses, maintained stables, in recruiting for which both men and animals were killed. Mr. Rarey, he was sure, could be a great benefactor of the horse empire, if he would come and introduce his system. In response to this, Mr. Rarey went to St. Petersburg, hearing so many credentials that he was brought at once to the notice of men most likely to further his project. He went immediately to the residence of Baron Meyendorf, equerry of the Czar, whom he found on the point of going to the Neva to witness some national sports. Without ceremony, Mr. Rarey was invited to take a seat in the sleigh which proceeded to the river as fast as three spirited horses abreast could draw it. There he saw thousands of the nobility and common people at play. On the solid surface of the ice were erected large buildings which seemed intended to last for centuries rather than to serve the temporary purpose of a winter season. Thousands of gay turnouts, filled with ladies, half-buried in costly furs, showed the presence of the wealthy classes, while the prominent stands designated the nobility. The race-track was a circle marked on the ice by green boughs and around the entire ring congregated the peasantry on foot or in sleighs. Here Mr. Rarey observed that trotting was the national pastime and he saw many horses whose speed would have made them notable anywhere. The style was three abreast, the center horse ornamented with a towering yoke, decorated with gay streamers and a tinkling bell. After the more formal races had been run, there were scrub races which offered some unexpected amusement, the hilarity reaching a climax when three half-tamed horses from the steppes, entered by an obscure peasant, beat the record of the best horses of the Neva. The crowd went wild over the achievement, and the young sprigs of nobility, crowding around the owner of the winning horses, carried him about on their shoulders and at last took him off in triumph to the Czar. Then came the Laplanders, with reindeer drawing rude sleighs, who offered for a small sum to give anybody a turn around the circle. Many crowded in, and away the loaded sleighs went at high speed. The deer were perfectly trained and seemed to enter into the sport with all the spirit of the jolly throng and their happy masters. A few days after this pleasant introduction to Russian life, Mr. Rarey received from the Czar an order to go to one of the imperial preserves and bring in a wild horse of the steppes that the Cossacks had designed for the imperial stables ---an animal so wild that he had been left to roam in a deer park. Accompanied by Colonel Lefler, the head of the horse department, and two other officers, Mr. Rarey proceeded to the park.. Servants drove the horse into an enclosure that served as a shelter in inclement weather, and Mr. Rarey entered alone and barricaded the door. The contest, marked by the usual screaming and biting, lasted for two hours, but the man was victor and rode the animal to St. Petersburg.

The astonished Czar congratulated him and arranged for a private exhibition. At the appointed time and place, two peasants brought into the presence of the Czar and his court another animal, the wildest the steppes could produce. He came rearing, plunging, kicking and biting, and Mr. Rarey went quietly to meet him, laying his hand on the animal's neck, passing it gently over his ears and directly ordering the peasants to loose their hold on the ropes.

As the horse lost his fierceness, the Czar looked on in amazement and asked the peasants, half sternly, half humorously, why they could not thus handle the horse. To this they could only reply that Mr. Rarey must be in league with the devil.