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jected to treatment before us not requiring more than fifteen min- 

 utes' time to make entirely gentle. 



We have no hesitation in saying that Prof. Magner has even 

 more than sustained the high position he has assumed before this 

 Club, and that he is a reformer of great merit, deserving of the en- 

 couragement and assistance of all who desire the interests of so- 

 ciety in the humane and skillful treatment of horses. 



SERENO EDWARDS TODD, Chairman. 



JOHN W. CHAMBERS, ) n ... 

 D. S. MOULTON, \Comrmttee. 



When the committee made the above report to the Club, 

 which as first made incorporated the details given by the 

 other committee, they were laughed at, it being almost 

 unanimously believed that it was impossible for me to con- 

 trol horses as claimed. In fact, it was supposed that the 

 committee were badly imposed upon and fooled. To vin- 

 dicate themselves, the chairman, Mr. Todd, called on me 

 early the following week, and made a very urgent request 

 that I would go before the Club at its next meeting and 

 sustain them. I did so, and gave such proof as convinced 

 all of the correctness of the report. In introducing me to 

 the Club, Mr. Todd made the following very compliment- 

 ary remarks : 



" We are living in an age when there is a moral sublimity in 

 our existence. Illustrious kings and sages, who have slept with 

 their fathers for centuries past, looked down the long vista of time 

 to this auspicious day with longing desires to witness what our 

 eyes behold with delight; but they died without the joyful sight. 

 We are living in the twilight of millennial glory. The triumphs 

 of mind over material things have never before been so magnifi- 

 cent and so glorious as during the latter part of the nineteenth 

 century. The galling yoke of tyranny and oppression, which has 

 rested with crushing weight on the unfortunate sons of Ham for 

 ages, has been broken off, and they are now being elevated to the 

 realm of a higher life. The cruel club law, which has maintained 

 a reign of terror throughout the peaceful domain of our dumb an- 

 imals, has been doomed to the charnel-house by the philanthropic 

 efforts of President Henry Bergh [enthusiastic cheers], whose il- 

 lustrious name will descend to prosterity with other worthies, 



