The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-02
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How a Pack Mule Turned Mine Into
 Geyser.

How Pack Mule Turned Mine Into
 a Geyser.
 The pack mule is quite as much all institution as the team, and is asso- lutely indispensable in the mountains Mule packing is a fine art, and with well trained animal and a skilful pack CT vou can safely transport anything from a piano to bag of oats. when the packer has finished his job III an ar tistic manner the animal may DUCK oi hack kick or rear or roll, but he cannot rid himself of his burden, and he tnal- ly gives 1t up in despair After two oi three experiences he will submit 10 HIS destiny and fall into line with the rest of the train every morning 10 fecelVe his load from the packer. A well broken pack mule is always proud ol his load, and if by any means II gets loose he will step quietly out Of line ana wait until the packmaster comes along to tighten it.
 The most serious objection to the mule. which you sometimes find in hu- man beings also. is the delusion that he can sing. One who has never hearo mule solo cannot appreciate the eA- tent of his mistake; but, like every thing else about q mule, ms song IS strictly original. It belongs to no oth- CT animal. No one can descripe anu no one can initiate it.
 .Sneakin' O mules," said an old santa Fe teamster, as he tipped back In ms chair. reminds me of strordinary eX- perience I had once with a crltter. Me and Mexican Mose~-mebbe you Knew him? They called him so because ne was minin' in Mexico for quite spell me and Mexican Nose was prospeclih LID in the Bill Williams mountains one winter when our mule ct up all our dy- namite cartridges. There we was one hundred miles from nowhere, and no way of gettin' more.' T reckon I know how ye felt sald an old Californian, who sat Ill the coi ner smoking. i've been fixed that way when the Ticker gave out It's d | distressin situation"
 | "We dassent try to ride the mule to l the nearest settlement,' continued lhS teamster, without noticing the interrup' l tfon "fer neither of us wa nt qulte ready for kingdom come~-nelther me nor Nose. But Nose he was the most ingenius cuss that ever handled DICK He was alters inventin' some sort O la | bor-savin contraption, but was terrible unIuckv. Nose set a-thinking fer while over the sitooation, and then llf looked up at me kind O pleased Wltf himself an observed as solemn as l preacher:
 | "Jake. do you happen to know any thing O dynamics%
 No says I; not durn thlng' ~ "'Wal, says he, it's the science O explodin' and I low it'll work here That miserable critter has had the ful O satin them ca tridges, and now be got to do the blastn'.' So he tied up rassle O stones in the oats and fed 'en
 into the mule His idee was that Whe the dieestin' machinery got to Workln it would fetch the stones into contac
 with the fulminatin end of the ca
 ridges, and they'd be hoistin' of ar
 so we backed the mule down into tf shaft and crept behin a DIE TOOK wait for thinks to begin to commence
 Well. I swar. In about fifteen minute
 there was the biggest kind of Fourt
 of July celebration you ever heefd tel on. It was bout noon when the pro ceedin's opened, and when the first ca
 ridge went off the air was full Of dlr and mule meat fer miles round, an