THE LITTLE EAT MULE.
tMSAPPEATHING FROM THE STREET
RAILWAY SERVICE.
Whet He Comes from swd Whence He
bVolnf What Ho Costs, Broken and
Unbroken A Hardy Mttle llrat Ills
Work and Years of Service. '
- How often one hears - the remark,
"Just look at those wales drawing that
oar; they look like rats." They have
thus become known very generally as
little rat mules, and the description is a
good one certainly. Many of them don't
look much larger than a good sized billy
goat, being ao small that they are hidden-
from the people in the car by the dash
board in -front.' It certainly does look
cruel to nake them pull a ear loaded
down with people, a load' that would
strain powerful horses on an up grade.
It is like a great many other things,
howevor. ':
It is cruel only in appearance. The
littlA tvnnlA ia . Annul tsh t.rita and innrJl
more. If the car would hold mor peo
plebeand his mate would pull it ady
place, and on a level would take It skip
ping along so fast that you would almost
begin to think no other motive power
was reauired to realize rapid transit. He
has endurance, speed and strength, -and
' thrives where an animal more hardy and
stronger in appearance would soon die.
In rapid motion he goes by jumps and
jerks, but he .accomplishes the desired
result, and is one of the most servicea
ble 'animals to be had in the -street rail
way business.
He is, however, rapidly disappearing,
giving way to mechanical motors. As
the old darky said when he saw the elec
tric cars, "The Yankees is great peo
ple; they want satisfied ter free de
aigga, and now they've done gone and
freed de mules.'" That is about the case.
In St. Louis, for instance, tho little rat
mules and, for that matter, the larger
mule and the horse are few in number,
not one m thirty for xnose employed as
recently as three years ago. With our
increase in population, new industries,
etc, this is a somewhat remarkable
statement, but it is correct.
The little rat mule is .a peculiar a'ni-
mal. Born and raised m the southwest,
Texas and Mexico, ho is sow going to
the south and southeast for service on
the plantations. In the very recent past,
when all the street cars were drawn by
horses and mules, the demand for them
was very great for that purpose, but as
things generally equalize themselves, so
has the demand for horses and mules.
The street railway companies which
have changed to able or electric motor
power have generally disposed of their
live stock to very fair advantage, though
there are still on hand .some-of the little
rat mules that are unused.
. This little animal is one of some value,
though he does not look it. Twenty dol
lars would be a very fair valuation, but
ia fixing that estimate you would be
away off the mark. Unbroken he com
mands considerable more than that.
The cheapest lot that ever came to St.
Louis, probably, was one of ' 200, 'the
price paid for them. being a few cents
less than twenty-six dollars per head,
out mey were unuroKen. xxe is a btod
born little brute, and there is considera
. ble labor ia breaking -him so he can be
"put ahead of a bobtail and trusted to
the average 'driver.. Thus broken he
has a value of sixty to -seventy-five dol
lars. ,. One would naturally suppose that his
raiser would break .him, and get his en
. hanced price, but, .as a rule, he has come
to the St. Ijonis railroads as wild as
oould be, and also as stubborn, but the
employees of the .companies have had a
great deal of fun In 'breaking them in.
and reducing tbetn to.tractability. They
have also hud some exciting experiences,
too, as the little fellow'has heels quite as
serviceable as his larger . relative, and he
knows how to se them too. ' You have
got to look out for rthem,,and you havo
got to put so roe" -muscle into use when
' you think yon have an easy task to. hold
them with the lines. This is not at all
easy sometimes, as he has -strength and
frequently a very hard month hard
enough to pull a bobtail. car .by it with
the traces slackened.
- It has been said that, it-seems cVuel to
run these little -fellows to -a street car'
loaded -down with passengers. To the
, contrary, there are few animals which
have an easier life. . The pulling of the
car is nothing to them.' They-can laugh
' at that and grow fat. Twenty -five to
; thirty miles a day for them is nothing at
" all, and that is about what they cov
. er, with rests between 1 trips. Through
with their day's work, they are turned
into a big yard, where they run and roll
as they please. They never die, or at
least the employees af the street rail
ways never hear of their dying. When
they approach that period of life they
are sold or sent off to the farm, where
they may still be of some use. ' ,
They are aged before that time comes,
however. There are, for instance, little
rat mules as much as 20 or 25 years old
still in service here, and some which
have been' in the service, twelve and
fifteen years. And still they are, to all
appearances, good for several years yet.
They are as strong avnd active as ever,
apparently, and will likely a year from
now start in for a second life on a south
ern Plantation. : This is a lornr time for
an animal to tramp over granite and
other kinds of paying, through mnd and
in .all kinds of weather, but the limit
has -seemingly never been, reached with
this hardy little fellow. He might be
i subjected to twice as much, possibly, and
i still not fall under it. : ""' "
In ' addition to performing service
-equal to that of the horse or the large
mule, the little rat mule is one- of the
.easiest animals .'known' ; in the care re
quired. It might, in fact, be said that
he really does not require any care. He
flourishes beet when allowed to rongh it.
He ia, of course, fed grain and bay, but
he is not in the least fastidious about his
food, as is the horse, and in the absence
of anything else would probably manage
to live on old boot legs. He likes noth
ing better than to run to fodder and
ihenp food.. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Things Honey Cssuot J.
- How much the happiness of individual
lives is made up of priceless things, un
salable in the coin of the land, yet found
quickly when the heart of the searcher
honestly desires theml ' Many of these
real treasures, are -qualities that simply
diffuse themselves through the moral
and mental atmosphere, and are some
times' little valued, because they seem
too vaporous and too illusive to be prac
tically grasped; but they . are genuine
possessior-3 and won by heart service.
Who does not rejoice to have an. hon
orable name not necessarily a .distin
guished name, but a clean one? Truly,
pride in such an inheritance, which can-'
not be bought, is justifiable If with it
yiere arejningled a feeling of humility
and . a desire to- do one's own part to
transmit the name as unsullied as it has
been bestowed. What makes home love
dearer 'and sweeter 'than all else, and
treasured while life lasts? Notthe tables
and chairs, not the delicacy of porcelain
or tho aestnetac beauty wMcn tne loom
achieves.
These minister to the comfort, taste
and artistic nature; but beyond these
there is' something which ministers to
the heart and soul, glorifying plain sur
roundings and' homely details some-'
thing illusive 'to measure or weight, yet
potent to guide, to comfort and to help.
What is this but5 the sympathy, the
trust, the spirit of sacrifice, the- gentle
ness, the faith, the readiness to do and
to bear, which, blended together, make
the chain that binds us to our homes?
Harper's Bazar. ' .
Where Steel Is Blade.
The general aspect of the interior of a
converting house at night is at once
startling and grandly impressive. Here
heat, flame and liquid metal are ever
present; locomotives- whistle and puff,
dragging with ' clatter and clang huge
ladles of molten iron; the lurid light,
flashing : and flaming, that illuminates
the scene, throws shadows so intensely
black that they suggest' the "black fire"
of Milton, for in such a place it is im-'
possible for a shadow to be cool; half
naked, muscular men, begrimed with
sweat and dust, flit about; clouds of
steam arise from attempts to cool in
some degree the roasting earth of the
floor; converters roar, vibrate and vomit
flames mingled with splashes of. metal
from their white hot throats; at inter
vals the scorching air is filled with, a
rain of coruscating burning iron.
Ingot molds lift mouths parched with
a thirst that can only be appeased for a
short time by streams of liquid steel that
run gurgling into them; the stalwart
cranes rise, swing and fall, loading scores
of tons of red hot steel upon cars of iron;
all these conditions and circumstances
combine to make an igneous total more
suggestiva, of the realms of Pluto than
any .other in the whole range of metal
lurgy arts. W. F. Durfee in Popular
Science Monthly.
When Animals Are .".Charmed."
. Kalm mentions having seen a rattle
snake "lying at the bottom of a tree on
which a squirrel was seated, fixing its
eyes on the little animal, which from
that moment cannot move or escape, but
begins a doleful outcry, comes toward
the snake, runs a little bit away, comes
nearer, and finally is swallowed." But,
as if to show that this result of bewil
derment is not all to be put down to
the eye alone. Dr. Andrew Smith savs:
I nave heard of cases in which ante
lopes and other quadrupeds have, been
so bewildered by the sudden appearance
of crocodiles, by the grimaces and con
tortions they practiced, a to' be unable
to fly or move from the spot . toward
which the 'crocodiles were approaching
to seize them." . . . .
This power is in the human .animal
often developed to a very great extent.
and the part that the eye plays in fasci
Dating a fellow creature by mesmerism
thus opening the way to almost in
finite psychical results and unveilingun
known depths of possibility is decidedly
great in proportion to the magnetic force
of the Bystem, or. rather the mind,, for
which it acts. Chambers' Journal.
- -Why a. Mosquito Bite Hurts.
Humboldt, who was a firm believer in
the poisonous nature of the mosquito
bite, considered the sucking out of the
poison to be the explanation of the pain
lessness of some wounds.'. He affirmed
that if the insect were allowed to suck
to satiety no swelling took place, and
no pain -was left behind, and considered
that when pain was produced it resulted
from the hasty interruption of the proc
ess of sucking, since , then the last in
fused poison would not be able to be
withdrawn. - He experimented with one
of the most virulent species, allowing it
gently to settle on the back of his hand,
and reports of it: . ."
"I observed that the pain, though vio
lent in the beginning, diminishes in pro
portion as theneect continues to suck,
and ceases altogether when it volunta
rily .flies .away." Knowledge.
. '
' Shocking. . "-
A prominent New York theatrical
man, who is quite homely but very con
ceited, -went into a photograph gallery
to get some photographs he had had
taken. The photographer produced them,
and the man declared them elegant.
aid he: ."It is an excellent picture. It
is me all over. It ia life itself."' .
i .,- "That is ' so," responded the candid
artist, with a dismal expression of coun
tenance, ""they are so lifelike that I
can't afford to put one t them in the
show window, as I intended to. I ean't
afford to shock the public that way."
Texas Bif tings. . -.
-. -Hla & Saved HU XJCe.
A story is related of the celebrated
grammarian, TJrbain -Domergue, who
had an abscess on his throat, which
: broke in a fit of passion with which he
fell on his physician for committing a
solecism in grammar. American Notes
and Queries. . - .
At tke Cemetery.
She Dear, what do' you think of all
the stuff that is carved on tombstones?
. He I think it is all epitaffy. Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
Bad Blood.
Impure or vitiated blood is nlns
times oat of ten caused by soma
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clogs up the system,
when the blood naturally be
comes impregnated with the ef
fete matter. TheoldSarsaparillas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking the blood with tho
drastic mineral" potash.." Tho potash theory is
old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla Is
modern. It, goes to tiio scat of the trouble. It
arouses tho liver, kidneys aud bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and
the impurities are quickly Tarried off through
tho natural channels.
-, Try it and note its delightful
action. Chas. Lee, at Boamish's
Third and Market Streets, S.' F.,
writes: " 1 took it for vitiated
blood abd -ivhiio on tho first bot
tle became convinced of Its mer
its, for 1 could feel It was work-,
tng a change, i It cleansed, puri
fied and braced me up generally, .
aud everything is now working full and regular."
Vegetable
SarSQparUla
For Sale Wy SNIPES' & K1NERSLY
: . THE DALLES. OREGON. .'..
Health is Wealth !
Dr. E. C. Wjibt's Nbbvb ikb Era1J" Tbkai
kent. a tmnranteed sneciflc for Hysteria. Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache. Nervous Prostration caused bv the use
oi aiconoi or lODacco, v aseiuinesa, mental im
pression, softening ot toe Drain, resulting in in
enflnty aud leadinar to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Powei
in eimer sex, involuntary jjosbes ana spermat
orrhoea caused bv over exertion of the brain, self
abuser over indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment. 1 .00 a box, or six boxes
for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid cn receipt of price.
' WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
i cure any case. With each order received b
us for six boxes, accompanied by $5.00, we wiii
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not effec
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
BLAKBLEY & HOUGHTOS,
Prescription Druggists, '
'S Second St. Tne Dalles. Or.
KEAI MERIT
PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Couch Cure is the best
thing they ever,' saw. We are not
flattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask is an honest tiial., .
, For sale by all druggists. . . ;
. S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
-.' ' Dufur, Oregon.
A Revelation.
' Few people krfbw that the
bright bluish-green color of
ths ordinary teas exposed in
the windows ia not the nat-;
oral' color. , Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it Is nevertheless
artificial:' mineral coloring
' matter being used for this
purpose. The effect is two-'
fold. It not only makes the .
' tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
ase of " off-color '' and worthless teas, which, .
one under the green cloak, are 'readily
-worked off as a good quality of tes-
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'flner appearance, is carried on exten- '
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, arc produced to meet the
demand by coloring cboa- or b'acx Vtnds by
glasing or facing with Prnimlun blue, tumeric, ,
gypsum, and indigo. Tltit method it so gen-,
eral thaUvery little genuine Hnroiorcd green tea
it offered for tale." ;
' Jt was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the ploc i-g of Beech's
Tea before the public It is atkolun-iy pnre
and without color. Did you evtr see any
genuine uncolored Ja; an tea? A.-t your !
giocer to open a package of Beech's, "jad yea '
will see it. and probably for the very first'
time. It will be found in eoior to be jost be
tween the artificial green tea that yo-i have
been accustomed to and the black tea. .
It drawsadelUjhtfbl canary color, and is so '
fragrant that it will be a ierela:':ba to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it a!.' more
economical than the artificial tcafe, lor lest
of It is required per cup. Sold on', r 1 a pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEEC
?ure As -GHTdhood:
II yoax gneer dos not hire It, he will
tttotjem. MmMO p poand. For ssj at
THK DAILH8, OREGON.. ;
1 f ;
$500 Reward!
We will tAV thft bove Tewnrrf fnr'jinc MUnf
ww vtNiiiiuuub, m-Bnnma, nu'M. neaaacne, ill
mpli
she, In-
iS?S?i
aifresuon. constana
Jon or Costiveness we c
cure with West's Vegetable Uvef Pills, when the
direotionn are strictly compiled with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give satigfae-
non. buHrJoated. lJirpe boxes containing 80
Mils, 25 cents.- Beware of counterfeits ana 1ml-
tiitinn. The grennine msnufnctnred only, by'i
THK JOHN V. WF8T X)MPANV. CHICAGO,
J.l-li-VlI?.. ....
BtAKElET HOUGHTON.
Jrscrtpt!on Tras;sata,
joys
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The Dalles. Or. I
THE
Dalles Portland & Astoria
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S v
, "''. '. '.' Elegant Steamer ' - ,
REGUIiATOK
Will leave the foot of Court Street
, .every morning at 7 A, M;
. - .. for. '..T-..-,;-
Portland and Way Points
: Connections- Will be Made; with the ;
'Fast Steamer'. -' ' '-. '-'-:
DMIiES GUY,
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks.
For Passenger 6r Freight Rates, Apply
- - to .agent, or jrurser on .rjoara. . . : .
Office northeast corner of Court and Main street
V. , t : ' ' 1 . - ' .
R. B. HOOD,
Livery, Feed and
Sale
Horses Bought arid Sold on
jomrmssvoiv anajvLoney
Advanced on Horses
Left for Sale. '
OFFICE OF
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line.
Stage Leaves The Dalles Every Morning
. at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7:30. All
freight must be left at R: B.
Hood's once the eve- '
ning before.
R. B. HOOD,
Proprietor.
Opposite old Stand.
The Dalles, Or.
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Hot and-:- Cold-:-Baths.
HO SECOND STREET.
ANEW
MertaMpg
i ; . V Mi1-" ;0DFAUKKS IN j'::'-'
Furniture ; and Carpets
We have added to our business
complete Undertaking . Establishment,
and as we are in no wav connected with
the Undertakers' - Trust our prices will
be low accordingly. -. ' ' :-
Kemember oar place on Second street,
next to Moody's bank.
D. BTjlSLEUli,
Pipe Work, Tin Repair
ing and Roofing.
Leave orders at L. Butler's
Grocery Store.
JOHN PASHEK,
Hext door to Wasco Sun.
Madison's Latest SyStem used in cutting
- garments, ana a nt guaranteed
. . each time.. ..
impairing and Cleaning
' Neatly and Quickly Done.
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lvXi.-K.O manufactured, and
orders from all parts of the country filled
on tne snortest notice.
The reputation of THE DALLES CI
GAR has become firmly established, and
the demand for the. home manufactured
article is increasing every day. ;
5 A. ULR1CH & SON.
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city; and adjacent country, to assist ii
developing our industries, in extendin?
and opening up new channels for ouj
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