PROFESSOR SAMPLE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1706, 12 June 1883, Page 3

PROFESSOR SAMPLE AT CAMBRIDGE.

On Friday evening last Professor Sample lectured to a full audience in the Public Hall» Cambridge. In introducing his subject the lecturer remarked that he felt pleased to again address a Cambridge audience, as he was aware that many of those present knew him in such a way as to make their future meetings pleasant. He had been asked to return to the district, to satisfy the neighbours of those who had attended his class, and was in a position to speak in a positno manner as he had his soldiers round him to drive the nail home when he had pointed it. The professor went on to explain the difference between the knowledge inBtinctively pos&esscd by the hoise, and that acquired through education by hnman beings, and gave many forcible illustrations of the fact. Some men said they taught themselves, they had a bad teacher, and though mankind may invent and improve on teaching, as a mle we learn one from another. A horse in its wild state needs no education, and knows what is good for it, while the education and habits of men often lead them to do things the brute would not do. It would appear that we were left in this woild without any guide, except that we learned' from others, and that the Supremo Maker of the Universe in guiding all things, left man a responsible being. Jie (the professor) was not theie, however, to lecture people on these matters, but to show them something that was entirely different from anything they had fever heard or dreamed of in the way of handling horses. The old theories seemed to be perfect, scores of books had bpen written, but very few know the horse as he is. The horse is, as it were, ft machine in the hands of man, who can make him do anything he likes, if he knows how, If the horse were intelligent he would not do so. If the hoiso had half the intelligence that some people give him credit for, he'd kick the heads of nine-tenths of the men who attempt to manage him. Suppose yon should be in a country where it was the custom to work men as horses, why you would rear and fight, and resist all you knew. The horse must be taught stef by step, and he will obey, not because he is intelligent, but because he docs not know liom to resist. In the hands of a man who knows how, the hoi he is like a locomotive, and like a locomotive you must ■have every tiling necessary about him readiness, when you want to use him. Give a man a thorough knowledge of his business and he'll handle that business better. He, the lecturer, did not claim to be smart, but he'd been willing to learn. He had known men better than himself at mounting nnd sticking to horses, but he never saw a man take a hoise and make him do what he wanted, quicker and easier than he could, and he didn't believe that man lived— outside his system it couldn't be. The professor emphatically disclaimed the use of any drugs, or magnetic influence, characterising such rumours as absurd. The days of witchcraft, too. were gone by. Wc'ie human, and we can't get beyond it. We liav-o degrees in the same knowledge, and km wledge is transferable ; his experience was no gift, but the result of haul study and dctet initiation to act the be&t of the horse. He had a method that perhaps a very wise and intelligent man would never have thought of. There v ere no di ugs used ; it was simply knowing what to do and how to do it, and there was a great deal in this knowing how. People were only now commencing to know how to handle horses, and if he lived to be an old man he expected some one to tell him something he had never thought of on the subject, though he'd got the thing down pietty fine. His. hearers could do the same things that he could, though perhaps not so pci fectly at first. The pi ofes^or illustiatcd the subject by biinging foi ward a few facts not generally known, and showed his audience by means of a tumbler and a book, how the top of a buggy-wheel travels faster than tho bottom. With reference to his s.\ stem the lecturer said he could not eonveit men who would not be converted, but if any man put £2 on the cud of his thoughts and handed it to him, he would comeit him. Mr John Biown addic&sed the audience, and g.ve his expeiience as a pupil of the piofessor's and claimed that lie could now break any horse by his s) stem. Mr A. Connolly, of Hamilton, came forward, and stated he had been an unbeliever in the professor's system, and had spoken his mind freely, and accused him of using chemicals, but he now took back all lie had formeily said, as he found to his satisfaction that he h«id been decidedly wrong. All knew that the horse had got cruel treatment in breaking, and this system did away with the cruelty. The speaker had broken horses in Ireland, Scotland, India, Arabia and the colonies, and spoke from experience. From twelve years of age he had bpen able to conquer a hot&p, but he had only been able to conquer the horse, but not to conquer his vice, for the horse would kick, bite, aye, eat him if possible, when he dismounted. The professor's system conquered the vice. Mr Connolly concluded by saying that he would not lose for £20 tho knowledge he had gained from Professor Sample. The lecturer said he was proud of such remarks from an old hoiso-trainer like Mr Connolly, as bethought more pf them than recommendations from younger men. Some very useful hints about the foot of the horse were then given, and attention was drawn to the book which pupils receive. The piofessor broadly stated that "all your hoiscs want breaking over again," which remaik elicited an unanimous " yes" from the old scholais present. When he had a horse in hand for a little time, the animal found it was best to do as Sample wanted him, and it was not take this or that away— the horse don't like 'em ; but bang your drums, sound your trumpets, blow your tin whistles, tie your tin cans to his tail, explode your fire crackers, and then show him you're his boss. Mr W. H. Grace said he, had attended Professor Sample's class, and considered he had good value for hia money, the pook itself was well worth the money charged. He would recommend everyone who could to take lessons. Professor Sample concluded by saying names would now be taken for the class. This was notja free gospel ; it cost £2 to belong to this church. Fourteen names were put down.

met hia new pupils and a number of old at Messrs Hunter's saleyards, HjTffiice they proceeded to Mr J. Brown's W stable, as the use of the saleyards could not be obtained. About thirty gentlemen were present, fourteen being new scholars. A chestnut horse, afraid of umbrellas, etc., was first experimented tipqn. and gpeedijy cured., the professor swinging the umbrella, closed or open, in all directions about the animal's head, and opening it or snapping it with perfect impunity. A black horse, rising five, owned by Mr S. S. Graham, was then taken in hand. This animal had been partially broken, and bore a very bad character, es.ppcial}y fqr k}pking, but ftfter "the usual oaurse of treatment by the professor, he was completely subdued, although the lesson took a little more time than usual j and whs driven with the pole between his legs, and the tin can to his tail, as quiet as a sheep. The class separated well satisfied that tneir money had been profitably invested.

Impounding notice from the Cambridge t poundkeeper appears in another column. » Mr T. Jft. Sandes, engineer to the Tamahere Road Board, invites tenders up to the 16th inst., for making a drain along Covylpy's lence to drain the lake. {SquLNDjifq before q, ejergyn^an who was him, a rustic was asked : , t=-"WUt tihou have this woman," &c. ! The man stared in surprise, and replied : surely I Whoy, I kummed a-