The Newtown bee., 1900-02-02

spin," yet all of King Solomon's glory could not surpass them in interest or in loveliness. Did you, dear Editor, ever call your readers' attention to the many merits of the mule, who both tolls and spins along the street when goaded on by the whip and spur of his merciless mas ter? UncomplainiDgly he goes, perhaps
 musing on his home life and infant days on the mountain slopes of Montana, or of feeding on baled hay and barley, as he iourneyed down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico, where he was hustled and huddled on the boat that bore him from the continent over it's pillows, to the green hills and fields of perennial Verdure on the isle of mingled happiness and misery-where he may nibble the tender grass and eat the luscious fruits and the fragrant flowers, if not beyond
 his reach, or he may nder as he wan ders along the rugged pathway whence
 the next mouthful will come to fl l his hungry maw. And yet this patient brute,
 without 8 murmur, without snaile' with
 malice towards none, and charity for al, bearing his own, as well as "the white
 mans burden" along the whole length
 of his spinal column, with three or more
 juveniles, age and sex disregarded, from
 the bottom of his neck to the top of his
 tail,-and yet this creature's pedigree
 reaches backward farther than that of
 any living earthly monarch, be it King
 or kaiser or Emperor, for on his fathers
 side his origin is Llder than the famous left foot of the prophet Balaam for cud-
 gelipg and cursing him signing for a
 sword to cut his throat-when suddenly the conversation between man and mule (which had been carried on in the old
 Hebrew tongue as spoken in that neigh
 borhood at that time) ceased at the ap-
 pearance of the angel bringing flaming
 or flashing sword, which the prophet
 did not use, or even offer to take-and SC the life of our mules ancestor on the paternal side was spared, as shown 1T
 sacred story.
 Or the maternal side his pedigree per , colates through the ages from the time when little Joseph of the many coloret
 coat euchred Mrs Capt Potiphsr at ont of her siestas, when the Juvenile Joseph
 after leaving his card with her, prompt ed, probably by impulse, possibly bl
 inspiration, but prompted he certainl! was for he went out from her presenc searching for bigger game in the stable of the famous Pharaoh, and he toe board and lodging for himself and famil. while the famine lasted. He left hi E mark in Egypt-covered it with mort gsges to the monarch-aDd built bric U and mortar structures, with or withou u straw-and left them still standing an o visible to the naked eye of the wandere II on the banks of their big river.
 " The scene of the prophet and the al 10 gel and the ass occurred in Mesapotamis t. in Asia Minor, between the rivers of tn 10 Scriptures, on the oriental banks of th le Mediterranean sea, before Palestina ha m been parceled out among the dozen Jew le ish tribes of sacred history.
 10 So much for our subjects patern 7' pedigree--his maternal antedates the p 1e riod of the Pyramids of Egypt-beir lS the oldest structures ever erected by ms 'a on this planet-and yet the mode st Enul Ill with pedigree 80 perfect and SO prolon 'o ed, remains with us to this day, both OL model and monument-without pride t" ancestry-without hope in posterity y' while he sometime brays, he upbrai 'rU no man for his lot. If we cannot imits 'r- his example, let us sometimes marvel eo the mule-wonder begets admiratic Sn Sincerely yours,-[sigma, Puerto Pr Ve cipe, Cuba, January 15, 1900.