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has not investigated the donkey ques-
ton 1t will also surprise the novice to
know how general the use of a mule has
become in this country. There are but
two states in the union where there are
practically no mules to speak of, New
York and Michigan, for even in New
England there are many in use. Texas
ranks first as a state where dOnkeys are
common, and it is closely followed by
Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, ndian
South Carolina, California, Kansas, Ar
kansas Pennsylvania.
Even in Minnesota, which Is by no
means a mule country, there We're nearly
5000 in use when the last count was
taken, and from present indications the
next census will show that the donkey
has taken even greater strides in it's
work of s~upplanting the horse.
To one who is intimately acquainted
with the mule all this is but another il
Illustration to prove the existence of the
great law of the survival of the fittest.
His position in life has been a humble
one and it has taken mar years for mar
to show proper appreciation of his USE
fulness to civilization, which is second
only to the pioneers of the humon race
whose labors he has shared. and during
all these years he has ived his life pa
tiently, doing his duty, taking all kinds of
iltreatment and rebuffs, and requiring
little r~ecOmpense for his service. At the
same time the mule is by no means the
stupid animal he is often represented to
be. There is a great deal of human ma
ture in the beast and while he is some
times a hypocrite and is often very much
d~epraved there is practically no limit to
the service he will perform under fairly
respectable treatenent. Where he came
from no one seems to know. His origin
is one of the secrets that have never been
solved. He was on earth When man
made his earliest records M today he
is still very much alive. In all proba-
bility he will be the burden bearer of
mankind long years after the more grace
full horse shall have ceased to inhabit the
earth.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Second Judicial District of the State nf

oecOHu JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF the State Of
Montana, County Of Silver Bow.
In the matter of the estate of Samuel
H. Stuart, deceased. Order appointine
time for probate of will, and directing
publication of notice of same,
It is hereby ordered, that Saturday. the
23d day of September, 1899, at 2 o'clock D.
m. of said day, at the court room of said
court at the court house in the county
of Silver Bow, be. and the same is. here
by appointed for the time for proving the
last will and testament of Samuel Fl. Stu
art, deceased, and hearing the appl;ca-
ton of Lucena $. Wadsworth for letters
testamentary. and any person Interested
may appea and contest the said will. and
may file objections in writing to ,h.,
granting of letters te%stamentary to said
petitioner.
1t is further ordered, that notice. he
given thereof by the clerk of said court.
by publication not less than ten DAYS
before said 23d day of September. 1899.
in the Daily Inter Mountain, a newspan;r
printed and published in said county.
Dated Sept. 9. 1899. y
WILLIAM CLANCY, !
Judge.
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OF food demanded by the horse, and upon
these rations he will carry burdens under
when the more generous animal would
break down, over places in which the
other could not keep his footing.
The donkey possesses the sobriety, pa
thence, endurance and surefootedness of
the ass combined with the vigor. strength
and courage of the horse and is more gem
orally used than his larger cousin. The
burro, which is the smallest member of
the asinine family, is used chiefly in the
mines and in the mountainous districts
where a small animal is required to draw
or carry a very heavy load. He, too, is
s~urefooted and patient and is more do
cile than the larger animals. Moreover
the characteristics of the various breeds
of donkey-kind may differ in one particu-
lar they all agree, and that is in their
ability to carry heavy weight for great
distances. Large or small it makes no
difference, II the smallest burro would
carry a load that would stagger the
strongest man.
THAI the mule is rapidly obtaining a
new position in the world is shown con-
clusively by government statistics. On
January l, 1898, there We're 16, 200, 900
horses in the United States, and these
represented a total value of more than
a billion dollars, or, to be exact, 81 ,007,-
593, 1886. At the same time the number
of mules was 2.315. 00O, representing a
total value of $175. 900, 600.
1t was at about this time that the horse
began to lose standing. The discovery
that the mule was in many aspects a
better animal tended to bring about this
result, while the coming of the bicycle,
the electric and cabl car, the auto-motor
and the improved farming machinery all
played an important part in equine I'M
doing. AS the result on January l last,
there We're but about $4,000. 900 horses in
the country and the total value had de-
preciated to about $500, 600, 600, or a de-
crease of more than one-half in six years,
whereas the mules had increased in num-
Der TO more than 1000. GOO, with a relative
INCREASE in valuation. Today. taking the
entire country. the average value of a
horse is $40, while the average value of a
mule is S42. SO the patient. l~ong-suffer-
ing mule is at last avenged for he is now
OF considerable more value than a horse.
Strange as all this may seem TO one who
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THE ODOR OF RAIN,

Nuttall has determined that the smelI
OF freshly turned earth is due to the
growth of a bacterium, the c%lathodrix
odorfera, which multiplies in deconl-
posing vegetable matter. and more rap
idly bacterium is arrested, but it is imme-
Hence the odor is especially marked at
ter a shower, or when moist earth is dis
turbed. In dry soil the development Of
the bacterium i sarrested, but it is imme-
dlately resumed with vigor as soon as
moisture is restored.
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TELEGRAMS BY POST CARD.

London Standards: The Vienna Cham.
Der of has petitioned for the
introduction of telegram post cards and
telegram letter cards, the invention, like
the ordinary post card, of Prof. DR.. Her.
mann. They would be posted in the
usual way. and the message written on
tnem would at once be t~elegraphed or
%telephoned from the postoffice to the re-
ceiving office, and there transferred with
the ordinary letters,
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STALE BREAD,

A loaf of stale bread may be made to
taste like newly baked bread if it is
dipped in cold water for a moment or two
and then put in a pan and rebaked for
~three-quarters of an hour.
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! !
NEXT ECLIPSE.

The next solar eclipse will take n,aco
on May 20, 1900. In order tina the obser-
Vatlons may be made in as useful and
systematic a manner as possible, astron-
omers are already considering plans for
observing the phenomenon.
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shilling and half crowns, though these at.
present are only in the experimental
| stage.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16

$50 sets OF teeth SO. DR.. Wiz.
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To Patrick W. Murray and The estate ~
Nicholas Ayers, your heirs, executors
administrators and assigns:
The times., 1899-09-12
JUDGE TARvIN's POSITION.
He Will work for Democracy, But
Not for GoebeI.

CONVICTION, KY, Sept u--Judge
James p Taryin, President of the Ohio
Valley Bimetallic League. who has been
talked of as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Vice President, says he is
sick over the Kentucky situation i in
tend 10 speak" said Judge Tarvin this
evening, for the platform of the Louisville
convention, because | wrote it and II en-
bodies the principles of Democracy 90
not see how / can do otherwise. l will
not mention the name OF Goebel nor OF
Brown. | will call no one bolter. | will
not defend the Louisville convention, nor
will l condemn it.
THE nomination is a great calamity, and
/ regret it, but ii never would have hap
pensd if Hardin or Stone had the political
sense of a chicken. But even if there was
fraud at the Louisville convention, is that
any reason Bryan and free silver should
be injured? Goebel is not my style Of man.
I am not going TO speak for him, but for
the Democratic platform, and IL the feeling
against Goebei is as strong in other parts
of Kentucky as it is in CoYington he win
not poll % 900 votes. / believe Bryan will
come 10 Kentucky and speak for Goebel,
but If he does Altgeld will also come and
speak against Goehel. 1 received num-
Der of letters asking me to come home
and speak for Goebel. but for every one
of that nature l received two letters ad-
vfsing me not to come. but did come,
because of Bryan and the platform.
The times., 1899-09-12
AFFAIRS AT HAVANA.
The Labor Situation Causing Some
Approximations.

HAVANA, Sept. 1.-THE labor situation
here continues unsettled and is giving rise
to some apprehension Since The American
occupation the workingmen have been more
aggressively disposed than ever before.
During the Spanish regime strikes were
settled by military force whenever they
reached large proportions and the strikers
became disorderly, but thereSis nothing
of the kind now and strike follows strike,
the men usually winning. The masons who
returned TO work few days ago after
gaining an increase in their wages Of p
per cent, are about to strike again for a re-
duction of their hours of labor from nine
to eight the year around. The various
trades viii hold meetings tomorrow night
to consider the advisability of striking
out of sympathy with the masons. The
carpenters have a grievance of their own
and are talking of an independent strike.
1t is feared that business may be seriously
hampered, though Governor Rivera, in his
private capacity is doing his best TO ef-
feet compromises.
In an interview Gen Maxine Gomez ex-
presses regret that the Cubans initiate the
defects in the American system Of govern
ment rather than the virtues He refers
to the recent attempts at iynching, which
he strongly deprecates-
The police have been instructed to watch
the American concert hall here and TO pre-
vent sparring exhibitions which have re-
Gently been introduced. Cubans, seeing the
bloody noses and black eyes Of the SPARE S,
| have been shocked. They complain that
the Americans viii not allow bull fights
or cock Knights, yet they permit men TO
fight. The police will close the concert hall
if the sparring exhibitions are continued.
Loynaz del Castillo, formerly secretary
| to the chief of police of Havana, who re-
signed the position TO go to Santo Do
mingo as a follower OF General Jiminez
and who, with forty others. was arrest ID
at Baracoa, has written letter to thu
Discussion" complaining that he IS still
in jail and is badly treated. He demands
his Immediate release.
Forty Spanish laboEers visited the Span
| ish Consul General today and complained
that they had been discharged by the
street cleaning department because the
had registered as Spaniards. They re-
quested the Consul General to protest dip
| lomatically, but he refused to do SO. He
advised them to apply TO the Americans
not as Spaniards, but as poor men need
| ing work. They Will see Governor General
! Brooke tomorrow.
| Secretary of State Capote has ordered
! all the municipalities to have ready b.
October 10 local eensuses of the various
cities. The municipalities will assist the
general census. takers. The work OF di-
viding the province of Havana into census
| districts began today.
General Brooke has instructed Seno,
| Desvernine, Minister of Finance. TO study
| the railroad tariff question with the view
| to a possible reduction of rates. An Eng
| lish syndicate has practical mo1oPo y
! of all the roads and the rates are very
| high in fact they are just within the pro-
hibitive line. Doubt is expressed fers that
there is any legal way to conIel the roads
| to reduce their rates
The times., 1899-09-12
STONE IN KENTUCKY.
He Begins "a speech-MaEtng Tour for
Goebel Today.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Sept. 11--wfliam J.
Stone. of st. Louis. acting chairman of
the National Democratic Committee and
former Governor OF Missouri, arrived in
Louisville this morning to speak for Goe-
bel. He win make five speeches in Ken
lucky for the regular Democratic ticket
beginning tomorrow at Richmond. AT the
Gait House former Governor Stone talked
about the political situation in Kentucky
and throughout the country. He said the
eyes of national Democracy were on this
State. and emphasized the supreme import
ance Of a victory for Goebel and the ticket.
Commenting on the Kentucky situation,
former Governor Stone said:
1T is of supreme Importance to Demo-
Gratis everywhere that Kentucky should go
Democratic this year. The effect of de-
feat here would be to discourage the party
and to encourage the opposition. Wherever
| have been Democrats are watching the
result in Kentucky with solicitude and the
keenest interest. IL is a matter OF vital
interest to the national party
When asked for an expression of the
bolters' movement. Governor Stone said:
'It is a great mistake and the only pos
sible effect that I can see is the defeat OF
the regular Democratic ticket.
Regarding the national situation, the
chairman said: THE chances OF the party
are improving rapidly and substantially
We have a meeting of the national sub
committees on Monday" When asked
about the rumor that ne would succeed
Chairman ]. K. Jones, former Governor
Stone said that he could not accept the
place and that Chairman Jones would take
charge upon his return from abroad.
Former Governor Stone viii leave for
Richmond tonight. He viii be accom-
panied on the Kentucky tour by National
Committeeman Urey Woodson.
The times., 1899-09-12
More rhi1ippine compromise:

The astonishing statement is made that
Mr. Mckinley insists upon keeping Otis in
nominal command at Manila, while author
izing the Secretary OF War to conduct the
campaign against Aguinaldo, through Cen
erals Macarthur and Lawton.
The country understands too well what
the influence is that prevents the Presi-
dent from hearkening to the voice of the
people and the Army. and sending COM
p1tent commander to take charge of our
stand is the reason why the Commander
in-Chief allows himself TO be made the
tool of that influence
He is treading on dangerous ground!
The times., 1899-09-12
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
The Jones Movement Causing Stir
All Over the State.

CLEVELAND. Sept. 11.-When Senator
Hanna reaches home the actual campaign
in Ohio win begin. Both parties are pre-
pairing for an aggressive contest and the
uncertain factor known as the Jones vote
will make the result problematical. al
though there is no serious fear as to the
outcome by conservative Republicans. The
Republicans. while frequently torn by fac
tional fights. are reunited today and have
joined in the explanation that President
Mckinley must be endorsed and that the
only substantial endorsement that Ohio can
give this time is a Republican victory.
Party leaders on both sides quietly admit
that the Golden Rule movement by
Jones is causing a stir in all parts of the
State. In the iron district in the Mahon-
ing Valley the ironworkers are organizing
clubs to help Jones, and it is said the
Amalgamated Association Of Ironworkers
in that district will make an aggressive can
vass in behalf OF ToIedo's mayor. From
other sections similar reports are received
here. and the old-time Democratic and Re
publican majorities viii certainly be dis
turbed. Storekeepers and small business
men and many of the leading politicians
| in the different counties are enthusiastic
Jones workers, as well as the labOring elsf
/ ment
The times., 1899-09-12
France and Dreyfus.


The honor OF frances army may be saved
but the honor of the French people viii not pass
unchallenged it Dreyfus' second conviction The
proceedings at Reunes may prove TO be the be-
ginning rather than the end of upheaval that
will not be calmed until there has been new
birth for degenerate France. Temporarily the
strength OF the military power may be suf-
Gent to suppress the Paris mobs, glutted
as they are now by the triumph of anti-Semtie
passion. Nor is there likely to result immediate
international complications. Germany would
have saved Dreyfus if the solemn testimony OF
German officials that German agent had ever
communicated with the convicted officer had been
given any weight by the judges. Emperor VIII
liam can at least view the verdict calmly, for
it may be that the hereditary foe OF his Empire
has dug for itself pit that even second Sedan
would not parallel.
The times., 1899-09-12
vice rre.IasntlaI paltttcs.

Every few days We are psined 10 hear
Enew that Vice President Hobsrt's health
Sc too delicate 10 stand the strain of an
other such fTightful campaign as that Of
'96, and that, even II be were sure his bril-
liant record as the man who eyicted AIeer.
and the judicious use Of his personal pat
ronags. would land him a sure winner. Il
IS saia that the disTobusuousness Of his
diathesis would warn him that the game
was hardly worth the candle.
This probably is a convenient prospect
for the Administration. which, While much
attached 70 Mr. Hobart, would dearly Iik
10 enrich the blood Of its contemplate
Presidential ticket with something in the
Roosevelt line.
There are excellent reasons Tor the ex-
istence Of such an aspiration The Roagh
Rider Governor Is regarded by Republican
manipulstOTs as posses ing dement's viii b
would make him 4 unique figure IN toe
party band wagon He has patriotism
courage. and backbone II be could have
his way. be would run Otis and Denby out
Of Manila Immediately II not sooner. ana
put a man in their place. He would do
ether things Of the same sort. and there
is disposition 10 think that the massal
have some confidence in him. The goo.
politics involved in giving him seconl
place on q ticket with Mckinley would
therefore, seem 10 be obvious In IL,
opinion Of eminent Administration ncn, 4
would be the very thing 10 keep The pres.
ent regime on its legs for another term
Just as the tail Of General Jackson's aero
batic horse in Lafayette Square keeps tha
animal from breaking its neck on the cir,
eumjacent British cannon.
People who desplse the policy that mean
failure in the Philippines thus could Fotl
Tor one who quite agrees with them, an,
swallow Mckinley on the side. Others VIII,
oppose our success in the Far East an,
would like TO sec Otis and DENLY continue,
The times., 1899-09-12
APPRAISER wAKEMAN ILL.,
His Health Affected by the Charges
Recently Investigated.

NEW YORK, Sept n--ApPraiser Wake
man stayed in his Office at TIE Appraiser !.
Stores this morning long enough only to
read his mail His health, under strain OF
the attack upon him and virtual trial by the
committee Of special agents. has not been
good and now that the affair is over, has
suffered a collapse. The appraiser does not
know exactly in what way to spend two
or three days vacation, though il is prob
able that he viii take water trip.
Concerning the report and the Secretary 5
letter. Mr. Wakeman says that he is well
pleased and that he viii carry out the
recommend including that contained
in these words: Il agree with the Commis
sion's report in thinking il desirable that he
separate himself from official relation TO
the Tariff League. and l am quite confident
that suggestion TO this effect will be
kindly received and acted upon by hiIn. -
Until he has restored his health, the ap-
praiser will not make any changes in the
stores. The removal Of Assistant Appraiser
Sherwood. recommended by the Commission
and by the Secretary, depends entirely upon
the action Of President Mckinley at Wash
ineton
The times., 1899-09-12
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER y, 1899.
The Acute Crisis in France.

A Cabinet council is called by the French
Government for this morning. II viii de-
eide whether or not to summon the two
Chambers. Petitions are pouring in upon
President Loubet, begging him to right the
wrong which has made France the kissing
and byEord Of civilization. The danger
OF a revolutionary outbreak is keenly felt
by all elements of French society. and all
factions seem to be preparing for such an
evsntuality.
Captain Dreyfus has moved to secure an
appeal II granted it win take weary weeks
again 10 bring it 10 decision His friends
are being urged to abandon that line of
procedure and adhere 10 the plan Of ex-
ecutive clemency. No doubt, if we could
fancy that Loubet and Nsldeck- Rousseau
would be in power for the next three OF four
months. the prospects for a pardon would
be good. Bur their lease of Office may be
terminated in blood in q few weeks. perhaps
in few days. In any event, while liberty
and truth-Ioving people al over the world
might bring themselves TO advocate a par
don as q means OF restoring an innocent
victim to his family, they are entitled 10
hope for and expect something better at
the hands Of the French Government. The
Republic viii not purge itself of disgrace
by pardoning q man for what he never did
for what il knows he never did, and al
lowing the wretehes who committed the
crimes for which he is suffering to exploit
themselves at The head Of corps d'armee and
divisions in the honorable regalia Of general
officers.
We are pleased 10 note that a strong
boycott movement against the Paris Ex-
position is taking form in Europe
Great Britain, and the United States. Citi-
zens OF States wherein there is some little
regard for public honor and decency. could
not with self-respect lend their presence or
property 10 promote fair designed TO
illustrate and glorify the advancement and
civilization OF France.
1t Is humiliating to observe that. already.
the Republican Administration of our own
land IS Using its organs to explain that 1t
could nOt now back ont from participation
ia the Paris project 1t is even more SO TO
be told that il Congress should dare 10 de-
nounce the Exposition and call upon the
Executive to Withhold the national exhibit,
President Mckinley would veto any reso-
lution having such action in view. The
question is. Would the Administration dcre
40 defy the enrsged sentiment Of the coun-
1ry2 We think not
Unless The Freach Government is able to
wipe cut the foul crime perpetrated at
Rennes, no decent American. officially or
unoaicially, should consent to have the
least thing to do with the affair.