Show from tuesdays daily april an insulted mule for several days past a devise for raising water from the foundation of the new coop co op building has been worked by hand power and though lifting considerable aqua was not deemed sufficiently efficacious and ft bright idea struck como ono I instead of two men turning a crank it was determined that horsepower horse power treadmill tread mill should be brought to the spot and accordingly it was done the marchine mer chine was set in place a belt passed from the bargo wheel thereof to tho pully to which the handle of the pump was attached and all was ready an ancient but astute looking white mule was led up lo 10 the treadmill and after considerable sid erable moral suasion was induced to ascend the affair A man held on to the handle to prevent the slats from moving and the anfor dunate animal was fastened in to describe the unutterable look of anguish and dispain with which the mule surveyed the assembled multitude would be impossible and when a youthful hoodlum suggested that he take a text and proceed with his lecture on a la a recent predecessor the scalding tears fell thick and fast lie was awakened from his bitter reverie by an exclamation from his owner tempered with a smart whack from three feet of two inch plank applied by an individual who arrived for that pur pose at the rear end of the machine just as the head had reached the front the animal with a look weihe plainly said Coward you dare not perpetrate that outrage when im in my stable mido a frantic jump and the machine started there can be no doubt the mule bad climbed hills before but from the look of surprise on his countenance at this juncture it became self evident that he bad never encountered a hill that came dmn with every step he up the insult offered was a deadly cne and he determined to resent it he stopped so did the machine the man at the handle frantically turned the same with the evident intention of throwing the mule out among the orchestra but in vain old whitey stood his groaned after trying several other expedients it was resolved that somebody had an animal that was used to the work and whitey was backed out of the machine a happier if not wiser mule and as he bended wended his way back to his mate it was evident that his cogitations were anything but pleasant LATER indications point to the fact that if that mule cant bein deuced to work on the treadmill the idea of using ihnot the mule alone but both will bo abandoned |