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Mr. Magner is about thirty years of age, is rather below the ordinary 

 height, has a stout, muscular body, a sprightly piercing eye, and speaks 

 with a clear voice and convincing manner, and in deportment and ap- 

 pearance is altogether a gentleman; and it is only just to say in his 

 behalf, that in Portland, as well as in several towns which he has 

 visited, he has won for himself and his method of managing horses 

 great favor, and many are now carrying out successfuly the instructions 

 which they have received from him. 



Portland ( Me.) Advertiser— 1864. 



Rarey Nowhere. — Mr. Magner, whose equestrian feats have excited 

 the wonder of our citizens, has left the city in order to fulfill numerous 

 engagements in the country. It is yery fortunate for him that this is 

 not an age when men are executed for witchcraft. Had he lived in 

 Salem in 1692, and exhibited, as he has here, his power over refractory 

 horses, he would have been hung, as sure as fate, for a wizard. In- 

 deed, we are not certain that he does not practice some sort of witchery 

 in his management of horses. No one can form an idea of his won- 

 derful power over them until he witnesses proof of it. To see a horse 

 furious, stubborn, defiant, with a very devil in his eye, in a few 

 moments, by some mysterious power, calmed down, rendered docile, 

 patiently submissive, and allowing every liberty to be taken with him — 

 in a word, the evil spirit which had possessed the animal, completely 

 exorcised — you can hardly credit, although the marvelous transforma- 

 tion takes place under your naked eye. A knowledge of Mr. Magner's 

 theory of subduing the horse must be invaluable to all owners of the 

 animal. The horse has been the gentleman's special study. He has 

 made himself acquainted with all his characteristics. He has but to 

 look upon the animal to discover his faults, and straightAvay, by a 

 miracle, as it were, he corrects them. It seems almost too much to 

 believe, and people will not believe it until they see for themselves 

 proof of the gentleman's success. 



I WOULD MOST RESPECTFULLY REMIND, that whatever my 

 success a few years ago, I have since then introduced new 

 principles, and made improvements which enable me to 

 produce results now in the education and reformation of 

 horses, in many instances in a few minutes, which it would 

 have been most difficult, if not wholly impossible for me to 

 have done a year or two ago, the proper application of 

 which will enable results in the reformation of vicious hor- 

 ses, that is even now wonderful and almost beyond belief. 

 I have, during the past summer and fall, taken horses in 

 hand, in Ohio and Michigan, that had resisted all efforts of 

 the best horsemen, who practiced the treatment of all oth- 

 ers who have traveled in the business, as well as that I used 



