Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-05-13

The Cosmopolitan theatre was crowd
ed last night with people anxious to see
Prof. o. r. Gleason, the horse trainer,
handle the vicious Canadian stallion
that killed his groom q week ago.
When people entered the house they |
saw big brown horse standing inside |
an Enclosure or board fence. painted
green. Prof. Gleason appeared few
minutes after eight and spoke briefly to
the audience. He intimated that most
horses had more intelligence than their
drivers, and after q few encouraging
remarks, entered the pen with the stall
lion, carrying whip and cooked re-
volver loaded with blank cartridges.
He spoke to the animal in loud tone,
and then walked toward him. The
stallion moved into corner of the pen
and turned his heels toward the profess
sor. Instantly he received several sting
ing blows around the hind legs. Then
he turned his head toward the profess
sor, who cautiously. reached out his
hand and patted the beast on the shoul-
der. Two or three times this was re-
peated, each time the trainer going
closer to the horse.
Suddenly there was a cry from the
audience. Like flash the stallion had
turned and seized the professor by the
right forearm with his cleaning white
teeth. The instructor dropped his whip
and with violent effort wrenched his
arm free. Then he fired the revolver
several times in front of the brute's
nose. The animal sprang wildly around
the ring and nearly knocked down the
fence. In few moments he ran into a
corner again. Then the professor re-
sumed his former tactics. He made
the horse stop at the word "whoa" O
number Of times. Then he began tC
pat him on the near shoulder again
Once more the angry beast whirled and
snapped at the professors breast, HIT
4 ing him apowerful blow with his strong
teeth. The revolver came into play
again. Then the animals hind leg!
were lashed. Once more the professor
patted him. The animals coat wa,
wet and he was blowing like racer
He made no more attempts to bite.
In just 25 minutes after entering the
pen Prof. Gleason put a halter on thu
stallion, and had the fence taken down
Then he called for small rope, and
put double Buonaparte on the horse
He passed the rope around his neck
through his mouth, over the top of bis
head, under his upper lip, and through
the circle around his neck. He made
the stallion follow him wherever he
went. Then he put a bride on him
and took ofFthe Buonaparte. Next he
lput on big surcingle with ring
underneath. Two straps were put
around the animals forefetlocks. A
rope was fastened to the near one, pass
ed through the ring in the sursingle,
down through the ring in the other fet-
lock strap, and back through the sur
cingle ring. Then pair of reins were
put on and the professor drove the
animal around the ring, using the rope
to hoist the near fore foot whenever the
brute tried to kick. In short time he
put harness on him, hitched him to q
buggy, jumped in and drove him, final.
/ ly starting him and stopping him by
verbal command. Then he had a big
bass drum hammered near his head
and tin pans and sleigh bells ratified
The stallion went straight up to them
and was not annoyed by them after 8
few trials, The professor laid down the
lines, put his feet on the dashboard
and fired the revolver. The stallion
stood like statue. A, horse afraid o
paper was next brought in. The pro
. fessor soon had paper all around hi
head, threw it at him, and made hin
walk over it and act as if there wa
nothing in the world he liked bette
than paper. A kicker was put init
double harness with this horse, ant
, both acted beautifully. Tonight thu
professor will take hold Of mustan,
, that has the reputation of being des
perate kicker.-N Y Times.