Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1883-07-27
Curing naILr IIarse.

curing a BalkJ iIorse.
On Thursday man came lnio ih'
San Office with the worst hooking heaf
IN him ihai over was seen outside 0
lc0nomowOc. Ills eyes were h0ll
hlackened. there Nas cut across ih,
nose, one ear was stuck ON with courl
nlasler, one arm was In a .llng, and h,
used a pair IT crutches. lie hnhhled il
he door of the blue room, aud asked 4
he editor was h. and on being told thai
the great prckaricaior stood before him,
ia spit ON bis hands, grabbed a crmch
a. one would a club. looked wild, and
accepted an invitation 10 SCI down on
the sofa. lie sat down reluctantly as
though Il hurt, and after laying hi.
rrutehcs on the floor, and feeling Of his
ear 10 see liit was ON yet, he said
"Ahout three weeks ago you had an
item IN your paper telling about q new
scheme Tor curing halky horses twas
an electric battery 10 be- placed In the
buggy, with wires running 10 the horse 4
bit. and when horse baked The In
structions were 30 touch button with
the foot. when the electric current
sonld 90 TO the horses mouth. take his
attention from his halkiness, and he
would 20 along all right DO you re-
member such an temp
The editor Scratched the bald spot on
his head. looked wise, and said he did
remember something about il, and asked
the visitor Il he had purchased battery
and tried Il.
"Tried itr' said he, as he picked up
one Of the crutehes and liked the splints
on his spraincd arm. look at me-
Don't look as though | had tried it? !
tell you these newspapers are doing
more 10 populate our cemeteries with
their lies about scientific matters than
all the doctors. Yes, Sit, tried il, and
II is a wonder that am spared TO come
in here and maui you. live out near
Eagle, and have got an old mare that
has been balky off and on for sixteen
years. have traded her of more than
twenty times, and had to take her back
each time or have law suit, and the
first four law suits had about her got
beat. so | had concluded not to trade
her of any more. | read about that
battery, and sent TO Chicago and got
one, and rugged it up in the bottom of n
democrat wagon, and fixed the wire in
the bit just as YOU said. One morning,
about week ago. hitched up the old
mare to take few cans of milk TO the
cheese factory, and | was afraid she
wouldn't balk so could cure her. / had
more confidence in the electric cure than
anything in The world, for two reasons
First, ! have always found your paper a
truthful one, and second, electricity
cured me Of inilammatory rheumatism,
which was worse than any balky horse
YOU ever saw. Well, got almost to
the cheese factory, and the old mare
baked. She had baked there before,
and all the neighbors and the hands at
the factory came out to tell me how to
start her. | told them to all stand
back. and | would show them how to
start a balky horse. They stood back
and laughed and ! touched the button
with my foot, and could see that the
old mare got the shock because she
stuck up her ears and shook her head
just as stepped on the button again,
to give her the second dose, she switched
her tail around and caught the wire,
which was quite slack, and wound it
around her tail about four times, and
my foot was on the button. o, how she
kicked. | forgot to take my foot off
the button, in the excitement, and
kept the electric current going, and |
hope todie if the air was not full Of
heels, And pieces of wagon, and milk
cans, and me. She seemed to have the
strength of hundred horses, and it
seemed to me as though the whole con-
veyancc, horse and ALL went over the
trees as though carried by a cyclone. |
and the wagon came down first, and
then it began to nail milk cans and rain
milk, and the old mare stood there with
the copper wire wound around her tail,
kicking and paving milk cans, and tip
ping pieces of wagon on me. The boss
of the cheese-faetory got me by one leg
and pulled me out of the wreck, and
one of the neighbors got hold of the bat
terry and pulled the wire off from
around the mare tail, and she went to
nstng grass and drinking some of the
milk that had collected in hole in the
road, and they got me home, and
have been in bed ever since till this |
! came in on the train to see
what you would give to settle. don't |
want to be hard on any man that is
to build up a business, but |
,y gaul, it does seem 10 me there ought |
o be a responsibility somewhere for
,uch outrages,n
The editor looked wise some more.
md finally told the man that if he had
10. paid royalty to Edison for the use
# the electric balky horse persuader.
ie was liable to be arrested by a United
states Marshal and taken to New Jer-
ey for trial on charge of infringement
# a patent, and that it would cost him
of dollars, so he concluded 10
,e ap still about it if the editor would.
md he went off. after SAYING that he
till had faith in the battery, if they
'ould keep the wire from getting around
he tail of the horse, and as he was go
ng to take city boarders at his farm
his summer, he would get some Of them
o practice on the old mare with the
lectric current. -Pck'S Sun.
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