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Show SUBDUIiNG A BRONCHO WATER CURE PROVED EFFECTIVE EFFECT-IVE IN THIS CASE. Major Pershing Easily Breaks In Bucking Buck-ing Steed That Had Been Given Up as Hopeless American Cavalry Officers Of-ficers Can Ride. "Major John J. Pershing won famo r'len he captured tho Insurgent stronghold In Mindanao after a desperate des-perate engagement," said an army officer tho other day. "Pershing Is a remarkable fellow and a splendid officer, of-ficer, but I doubt It tho best story on him has reached this country. Ho Is a former cavalry officer and could give pointers to a Comancho on how to rldo a horse. "Tho South African war nearly exhausted ex-hausted our stock of cavalry horses, and tho British agents wcro paying such big prices that wo had to tako what wo could get In tho Philippines. Consequently wo received tho scum of tho Wyoming nnd Montana ranges, and a worso set of bronchos you nevor saw. "Ono day Pershing's command got a drovo of tho beasts that had como over on a transport, and It was discovered discov-ered that they had to bo broken bo-foro bo-foro tho stock of mounts could bo replenished. re-plenished. Our men wero good riders, who had been put through tho monkoy drill until they could ride llko Cossacks, Cos-sacks, but thcro was ono flea-bltton roan that no ono could 'stick' to for moro than two minutes. Ho was pronounced pro-nounced an 'outlaw' or broncho that couldn't bo ridden. Tho sorgeant told Major Pershing that tho animal was of no valuo and ought to be shot. " 'I don't bollovo you know how to ride him,' said Porshlng. " 'Our best men havo tried him for threo days and ho has thrown thorn all,' said tho sergeant. 'Ho just dumped me.' " 'I think I'll try him,' said Pershing, as ho walked out to where the roan stood with saddlo and brldlo still on, waiting for his soxt victim. "Then the men gathered to seo tho fun. But tho mlnuto Pershing vaulted Into the saddlo tho men began to feel sorry for that broncho. Ho waB a big beast Ho jumped Into tho air and camo down, stllf-legged, in regular broncho fashion. But Pershing kept his head up and gavo him tho spure until you could hear tho brute squeal between lunges. Then the offlcor headed his mount for the river. When tho horso struck tho water up to his knees ho didn't Jump so much. He couldn't. Ho tried to lie down, but Pershing was off llko a flash, and was In tho saddlo again na soon as tho horse got on his feot. This went on for fifteen minutes, and then the roan gavo up. Pershing rodo him back as meek as a street car horso. " 'I don't think you will have any moro trouble with that horse,' ho said as ho wont Into got somo dry clothes. "And they didn't. Tho water euro was effectivo." |
