EXTREMES AND MODIFICATIONS OF CHARACTER. 15 



In the winter of '70 and '71 I went to Cleveland, Ohio. 

 I was received by the citizens with so much prejudice, that 

 I could not do any thing. There was owned in the city a 

 well-bred rangy, gray gelding, called the MALONE HORSE, 

 which was known to be the most desperate, kicking runaway 

 ever known in the West. Being a promising trotter, every 

 effort by the best trainers to break him had failed. To drive 

 this horse gently would be a great card ; but I could not get 

 him for the experiment without purchasing. I got him 

 by paying a large price, knowing I could break him, and sell 

 him when gentle at what I paid, which I did ; and not only 

 made this horse entirely gentle in less than an hour, but I 

 trained him in a few hours to drive without reins, and did 

 drive him the next day on the square at 12 o'clock, M.: 

 showing this hitherto desperate horse to be one of the 

 gentlest in the city ; creating thereby so great a sensation 

 that I made a class of over two hundred that afternoon, and 

 was the sensation of the city for several weeks, as seen by 

 the following extracts from the press of the city of that 

 date : 



From the Cleveland (O.) Leader, February, 1870. 



" But the great sensation of the evening was yet to come, for which 

 all were anxious, as many present knew the vicious nature of the beast 

 to be subdued : in fact, there were one or two present who had had 

 good cause to ever remember the great runaway and kicker known as 

 the 'Malone Horse.' He is a gray gelding, perhaps sixteen hands 

 high, of great beauty and strength, and a will and determination rarely 

 found in a purely American breed of horses. His owner hesitated at 

 the last moment to give his consent to the application of the system. 

 Mr. Magner was determined to break down all opposition by a feat of 

 skill, and at once resolved to buy this horse for a subject. He deter- 

 mined to have a subject, asked the price of the horse, which was 

 announced to be $500. ' I'll take him,' said the professor, and at once 

 handed over the amount. 



" At this stage of the proceedings the excitement was intense, and 

 many speculations were indulged in as to who would prove the victor, 

 the man or the horse. In less than twenty minutes from the time that 

 Prof. Magner laid his hands upon his subject, the horse was as 

 gentle as a lamb, and as easily controlled as the most reliable family 

 horse." 



From Cleveland Leader. 



"A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. While Prof. Magner was driving along 

 the street, following after the 'Arlington' band-wagon, people would 

 call out to him, 'I say, Mister, yer holdback straps are gone ! yer'll 

 have a runaway if yef don't look out.' And while crossing the rail- 



