The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-20
HAVE STRANGE GIFT
QUEER POWER exERcIsED BY
"HoRsE WhisPERERs."
Authentic Cases on Record Where
the Most Unruly Beasts Have
Been Made TraetabIe by
Few Words.

The horse whisperers might be an
unknown quantity in England and Ire.
land to-day, but there are not few
men who exercise wonderful control
with their voices over horses which,
when the dominating influence is alb.
sent are apt to literally kick over the
traces, says a writer in. the Londen
Stock Journal. In tie thoroughbred
stables of England and Ireland TO-DAY
jockeys who succeed In holding in
check the vice in horses which In
demonstrative manner show that they
cannot tolerate, the presence of the
grooms or attendants.
The horse whisperer of to-day
avoids all gesticulation, and trusts en-
tirely to a combination of sounds or
words. There is no bullying done, and
the whisperer can face q mad horse
with his hands behind his back and
apparently at the mercy of the beast
that has to come under the charm
One means of keeping remount horses
quiet In stations during the South
African war was that employed by the
yeomen, who sat in ring of head-to.
head horses singing as loudly as pos.
sible and riveting the ears and atten-
ton of the otherwise sprawling and
hungry animals.
One of the first whisperers to ac.
quire the power was Con Sullivan,
who migrated In his youth from
killmallock, where he could trace his
genealogy through long line of snaf-
hers and become almost exclusively
employed by Lord Doneraile.
SO unaccountable and SO magical
was the power Sullivan instantly
acquired over the most savage brute
tnat his parish priest who had ex-
cellent grounds for not believing him
a saint, denounced him as sorcerer.
The whisper of this man made an in
delible impression upon any horse,
bringing the pupil to a degree of docil.
fty unattainable in the ordinary course
of discipline
The race horse King Pepin, a IA
nous racer, vicious, and reputed to
have killed two grooms at the Cur.
raugh, once came under his charge
He was wanted to win a race at Nal.
low, but when saddling time came It
found him In one of his unmanagable
moods. He reared. plunged and flung
out fore and aft until he completely
cowed groom and jockey 1t was at
this crisis that some one recommend
ed that he should be whispered" AS
ha -,
Ing him In time for the start, his own
er gladly availed himself of it, though
warned that horses were sometimes
thrown into a state of stupor by the
process.
Sullivan was soon found, and he
was delighted with the opportunity of
"fwhuishperin before so much 'quol-
fty' from all parts Show us the wild
baste," he said, land wen soon tache
him Manners
When he got within the circle--and
a wide one u was-in which King
Pepin was playing his antics, he
walked up to him, approaching the
horse from behind. He mumbled some
words as he walked. which, though not
quite audible. were as unintelligible as
q sermon in the unknown tongue, but
they had most magical effect on the
morse. FOR he stood stock still. Sulli-
van then patted him on the neck.
while he whispered word or two in
his ear, whereupon King Pepin went
on his knees and incontinently lay
down.
The whisperer then stretched him.
self on him at full length, took out
a pouch containing pipe and to-
bacco. flint and steel. struck light
and blew cloud as he lounged on
the stomach of this high melted colt
with as much composurc as II he were
seated on a bench in his favorite tap
room. After two or three puffs he got
up. beckoned the nag to his legs,
saddled him and walked OF to the
starting post. the horse following and
fawning upon him like a dog He won