The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-15
Marsh Pauqh and His Horse.


There's good deal OF horse talk al the
Union StociOyards Stocknen nearly all
Ike good horse and they generally con-
slider that the man who does not like TO
own a good horse has some deficiency
in his mental arrangement The ship
pers OF i've stock generally have some
very decided opinions about the man
agement OF horses and they point out
that many OF The drivers OF good teams
in this city are not fit to drive oxen.
One of the brutal customs that they
particularly object 10 is the custom in
this city Of drivers OF teams TO transfer
wagons frightening the inside checks
to their lines until the team is obliged 20
pull at an angle which ruins the shoulder
of horse. Why a driver of a team should
want TO have his horses heads eight feet
apart when the distance from center TO
center OF the single trees is only about
i've feet, is something they cannot IN
derstand. They have come to the con-
cfusion that men who drive horses in that
position fail to use their reasoning faeuI-
ties If they have any.
Marsh Paugh was explaining to some
of the stock men the other day that in
breaking horses some people break their
spirits and that ever thereafter the horse
would lack ambition and become, almost
worthless. He says the breaking OF the
horse ought to be a gradual system OF
education. He thinks those horsemen who
rope horses anG throw them and use the
whip numerically break the spirits OF
the horse.
He said he bought a very finely appear
ing horse once. but after using him he
found that the horses spirits had been
broken In the training and he was almost
absolutely worthless He would get his
tail over his back in the pasture field
and run like the wind just as soon as
he was caught and bit put in his mouth
he would let so all holds and absolutely
collapse. He was the LATEST horse he
ever saw. He would fall down on
smooth road.
Mr.. Paugh said he tried 10 rouse the
horse and he plated wire in the whip
lash and used that until he laid the hide
OF the horse open and II had no more
effect on him that smoothing him over
with a soft brush. He had been absolute
~ conquered and his spirits broken and
he would take it patiently while you
would cut his throat.
Mr.. Paugh said he lived at Sedgwick
when he owned that horse and one day
one OF his neishbors who had just bought
new carriage came 10 borrow that
horse. He had tongue in his new rig
and he wanted two horses. Marsh told
him that he could never drive that horse
that he would not travel ten miles in that
many hours. HIS neighbor laughed at
him and said he only wanted chance
to try that horse. He got him and rugged
him up IN new harness and hitched him
to the brand new carriage by the side
of another horse.
The man got his family into his new
carriage and started down the streets
of the little old city on a slow walk for
that horse could not be induced to go
out OF a snail trot however much he was
urged. Mr.. Paugh said he watched the
moe AMI ter he had gone a out n e
blocks a fiy 1t IN the horse shool5er.
He stopped and gave his head a swi &
TO swiDe IL of and down ne fen and
rollsd over ths ton.ue OF the new car
riage and broke II square of. That neigh
Dor was so hot that be just famed the air
with his arms but Mr.. Paugh was too far
away 10 get the gist Of his remarks.
Mr.. Paugh finally sid thu horse for
very low price and the man who bought
him said he was ing oyfr 10 Douglas.
That was about I n yelrs ago ard Mr.
Paugh said he supposed the man had not
yet returned FOR he had never seen him
since.