Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-04-09
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, APRIL O. 1879.

multiply, and hence the word mule.
You may study your arithmetic and
read through all Of Trains lectures,
but you can't discover why that is
so any more than you could why a
woman can not put on rubber with
ont leaning up against something.
The mule has one moro leg than a
milking stool and he can stand on one
and wave the other three around in as
many different directions. He has only
three senses, hearing, seeing and SMELL
ing. He has no more sense of taste
than a stone Jug, and will eat anything
that contains nutriment, and he don't
care two cents whether it be one per
cent. or ninety-nine. All he asks is to
pass him along his plate, with what
ever happens to be handy around the
pantry, and he won't 60 away and
blow how poor the steak is. He just
eats whatever is set before him and
asks no questions.
II | were to have large picture OF
innocence TO hang up in my parlor, and
i did not wish to sit for myself |
should get a correct likeness Of mule.
There is innocence enough depicted in
q mules countenance to fit out Sun
day school class. II looks as guileless
as an angle worm. d5
A mule never grows old or dies.
Once brought into existence he con-
tinues on forever. The original mule
is now alive somewhere in the South,
and is named Robert Toombs, because
he is so stubborn.
Mules are chiefly found in the South
and West. They have been more abus.
ed that Judas Iscariot. A boy who
would not throw stone at mule
when he got a chance would be con-
sidered by his parents too mean to
raise
The mule is a good worker, but he
cannot be depended on. lie is liable
to strike, and when mule strikes, hu.
man calculation fails to find out any
rule by which to reckon when he will
90 to work again. II Is useless TO
pound him, for he will stand more
beating than sitting-room carpet.
Ho has been known TO stand eleven
days in one place, apparently thinking
of something, and then start off again
as though nothing had happened.
Down South, when they have q sur
plus of small darlSies on the plantation,
they send them out into the barnyard
10 play where there is loose mule.
They always bid them good-by when
they start ont, for they are sure the
parting will be final. This is the most
economical style of funeral now in the
market. ~
To fully appreciate the mule one
should hear his voice. You can never
really know whether you like a mule
or not till you have heard him sing. |
attended mule concert at Fort Smell
ing. The programme opened with n
soprano solo, and then swung into q
duet, and then pranced off into trio,
followed up by quartet, and ending
with full chorus of one hundred and
fifty mules. didn't hear the whole
thing, for when / came to the regi-
mental surgeon was standing over me
giving me powerful restoratlves, and /
heard him say that might possibly
get cut ag,sin, though never would
bo a well man again. | have been
through the New York Stock Ex-
change and spent part Of day in a
boiler factory, and have been on one
or two Sunday school excursions for
children, but / never knew what a
noise was till heard a lot of army
mules bray.
One Of the dead certainties about a
mule is that he is sure-footed, especial.
ly with his hind feet. He never mis-
places them. If no advertises that his
his feet will be at certain spot
at certain time, with a sam
pic of mule shoes, 10 which he
would call your attention, you will al
ways find them there at the appointed
time. He is as reliable as the day Of
Judgment, and he never cancels an en-
gagement Every man now living
who drove a mule team during the
war draws a nension ~ % .
never owned a mule. came near
buving one once. He was a fine-look.
;ng animal. h;s ears stood mn like tbe
side snires on an Eniscopal church
Ills tail was trimmed down 90 that i,
, looked like o tar brush leaning UP
against him. He was striped off like
,Sa American aag. and Rapbael's
crernbs never looked moro angelic thar
Ala that mnle he looked all inno.
cence tbouob be was 40 in no sense
, Tho owner sat in The wagon. with hi,
: chin resting ON His hand and his elbow
on b;s knee Tn the other hand h,
: held n stick with brad in the end q
n Iexam;ned tho mule and asked IN,
: man n few questions and ont Of ,ner,
form manfred Il tho mule was kind. O,
;fhe kicfed. nKind ? kick Po said tbe
/ man and these were the last words b,
r ever uttered ue reached his sticl
q over tho front of ,be wagon and stucl
thu brad into the mule. Ii was awfu
B to see man snufled ont as ouiclsly a,
! he was. IL almost took my breath b,
Q went SO suddenly. | never saw th,
n tbreod of life snan 40 abruptlv as 4
AID ON that occasion. He didn't hay,
4 time 10 send a message 20 his family
!. That mule simply duoked his head
e and then A nair of heels few out be
/ hind there was crash, a flying o
Q splinters, and that was all; the mex
2 moment that mule and myself stoo,
q ment two feet deep, and his covere,
with part Of an old bride. The mex
day read an account in the tele
graphic news OF shower Of flesh il