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Show Why all this abuse of the meek arl lowly mule? ihe mule is a laiihM worker, aud no one can gainsay that e slugs contralto with fervor and linked sweetness, long drawn out!" rvlug was a man who could appro-iata mule, aud In - description of the beautiful and si ..ish Sleepy Hil-lowe firmly believe mention of the mule was omitted merely through over-ight- ! His mulesliip would have ouked well against a background of tall foliage in the heart of the Hullow. galloping like mad aiung the highway where the unfortunate lehaliod met Ills unseemly fate, or serenely poking his nose over the barnyard fence at he Van Tassel homestead! Somehow we love a mule. CuiiMili ring the sii of his ears, his foot arc so fanciful an.! trim, his coat is so sleek and he walilnr on a monument' for something to kick at! But we can't blame the mule for kicking. The ity man kicks at the janitor, tin country man kicks at the calves in the cabbage patih and if your ears weic as long as a mule's you would kick also or anyone else you got a chains TRADE o Charles Dana Knotlngton, the itinwag weary, hungry and footsore but not discouraged. llo was a man of many towns, a peregrinating bum printer, known from Kalamazoo, Mira., to liulte, Mont. He was not only known of men but his acquaintance was wide, varied and reminiscent. He knew a man who worked with Horace Greeley and once he had held cases 'longside o Lazarus on the Butte Miner. With the "perfesh" he was a man of many In ties, typographical and railroad. fact his knowledge of great editors and association with swifts," was as endless as the railroad ties over which, during a nomadic career, be bad passed on the bumpeis. Tims It was, In the course of events, he lind lauded in Iudunk and sought the usual employment. But, alas! the deadly machine had shown Ub head in the 'beautiful liu!o city on the Squirt-le- t and Charles Dana Knotlngtun had been turned down. The ullcy wherein once was heard the silent messengers of the gang as they clicked, clicked In the sticks, was no more the invention of man, with ruthless clank and clang, had usurped the bread and butter or hundreds like Charles Dana K. Having been refused work he asked for a but the cruel heart of the editor was petrifying fast and Kuotlngton turned from the office of the l'udunk Pumpkin" with sorrow In Ills very soul. Iiut he was nut discouraged. Ilad he not successfully combated the stern realities of life Innumerable times, and exultant, rose Joyously almre the sordid obstacles that barred his prlnturlal way? Aye! aye! la need! It la to think, said Charlie, who was a faithful subscriber to the col- erant "type sticker, I WAY. IN SMALL April a Lucky Month American People Have Settled Many People Do Business In Wall Street Whose Names Are Not Household Words Various Wares That Are Offered For Sale. M-- L 111 I "1- well-turne- d lari April 1:), l lsjl. Hostili- 1 hlt-lcr- j i n if ties actually i lie in or line. sideor success traders of The these Oh, 1 believe in living, not merely A mule will do a hard day's work, milIn she s.ii.i. "Some days I bo chummy all day anil calm as a cu- - walk merchants In the street of The for. accounted can lions he big feel like dent working. Then 1 don't to cumber Just to get a chance put 1 Tor tho not work. man will street have "'all shop my cMra busy times, out the glim of the lantern when the! civilized life width imikc up for days of idleuess. of necessaries smaller fo" round his man last makes hired sort I choose my wares mid don't go into the night! At climbing mountains outside of business hours. That to him business liiiphiuai'd, like si me of the and passing dangerous defiles, the of nLuutiai must he brought others. Wlien tin- - violets are in, for tnule is safety itself. His step Is sure InstuiKP, I can make more iu a few and Ms delivery certain. Beware of hums than 1 could some days by sella make A would mule the delivery! knii'I.Uu'.H'l.s 'inis and odds ur.-ing good billiard player; he never missis er pajH'i'i! nil duv lung. 1 (hi., I. Unit what he shoots at! When a niuie all tho liu w er ('iris make fair crooks his red; aroui'd, looks at you mt of those great, solemn eyes of his. The parter ror-.i-) is among the neile shifts his tail slightly to one tide as a a familiar flpiite down town. vendors, woman does her skirt when she You ail know him. I hi has mi artificial a to newspaper, buy changes hands s.'iiietiiiud ibms log for a sl:;:i, m-.begin to awaken yonr confidence. km.' bioirh-- end U bis own When you see the mule throw his calves for exhibition purposes. s mua.-all hit weight on one leg and lie m IIs m:m;. luc- ru;iHirteis in the t siring-lmla movement, for strength course of a year and makes a good Inloss confidence to the winds and come. dodge that is, if you have lime. If Am thcr r.jvire !r the uiako won't time it any you havent liiid.ii i !; man, faded and shabawful g difference an hour later, as a mule by, who luviies sympathy and small always gets what he goes after, aud coins by standing on Hie sidewalks com the handles on your coffin won't and gently w av in;; a handful of cl. cap any more now than they will in the pencils, nr shoe laces, or anything future when you fall into a tui.ncl-c- r This operator lias easy to carry. plosion hole! ciium-imore execration and probably But for all that, wc love the male. the shedding of more baud language Sells Newspapers. We love him, not for his kicking qualIlian any six ordinary old men. Tlita lVom or the is will he It without. a go When alone. ities, but for himself is owing to the nature and quality of -' butcollar little trader that he buys mere lioy we heard a mule sing for his pencils. The purchaser should the first time! Yes, we mean that. tons, bachelor buttons, sleeve links never forget that the pencil Is made Wall In shoe and Indeed, strings. If he had ever sung before he could to not And no one use. and sell to la on earth have done better that time. But some- street every commodity should have tlic heart to berate such cold a with a lunch from hot sold, to how that, vocal solo endeared us a miserable looking old man who on a dyspepsia thrown In to pencils, writthe singer, and wc prefer when his poor, skinny paper, and hat and hairpins for drizzling day, any day to a phonograph. Some time, ing hands are red and raw, stands shiverthe typewriters. ored supplement when we hccumo opulent and gouty, The sum of money earned by all the ing in the wet. It Is ten miles to Bumperville and we arc going to have a beautiful home Of the little traders In Wall street no freight train bofore midnight Ere in the suburbs beside the rippling little traders in the course of a year many deal in fruit, horrifying lozenges considerable. must Their be margin the starry stars burst through the lake. There will he flowers and other of Is Is of much than wider that profit like starve to would of canopy night he glad things In the front yard, hut a common hobo who chalked gate the rear will he located a welner-wurs- t the small storekeeper or the man who smoke-hous- e and an army mule is popularly said to be in a minor" posts and begged for dookles" of the he- la Nay! that can reach extra uftper C! If of business, which means that kitchen mechanics. Nay! meet. Tho street Pauline, he would not let the gnaw the fish don't bite then it wont be our Just making ends merchant frequently can land a small of hunger eat at the vitals of his fault fortune on crazes, fads or absurdiInner seK like a rat chewing an old 5 5 5 ties that would accumulate the dust of hoe In tbe garret absent-minde- d war This the cruel ages if carried in stock in an ordinary Knot-Ingtoagainst Philosophically Charles Cana married who are forgetting to store. One day almost every man on with forehead the bis tapped children bids fair to decrease the the street may be seen carrying home Index finger of his right hand and have pug dog imputation as well as reduce an absurd patent dancing doll. Anof ashes a beside down pile sinking of the old bachelors' other day the air will be filled with In the back lot of the Pumpkin office the waiting list and the fiendish shrieks of toy bagpipes or union. forgetfulness Celibacy pulled from bis pocket the Morning no longer to ho popular. Stul-with the fearsome raucousness of mepromise read. to and Cow Bell began who have buxom dames chanical frogs, warranted to hop fifand benedicts this! Mt, Horrible! Wliats of teen minutes with one winding. in the been gallop reveling Fresh Banan." claltery Pelcc swallowed up a thousand lives! reof been of most Some have the bridle the enterprising path society and hideous nut randies. The mesout in Life is hut as candles suulTed in that beauthe minor Wail street merchants beminded there Is are tin dr principal cussenger boys the twinkling of an eye! The entire tiful sentiment: nothing What is home withlong to the gentler sex. They ratrh tomers. Most of theso venders are Island buried in a storm of ashes! out a mother." if there is no nursing all the trade they can attend to. News- Italians, and they have great battles ASHES! bottle in the dumicile aud no yowl in papers, bouquets and gimcracks are with the messenger boys who make The recumbent form of Charles the nursery. We can't have mothers their favorite wares. For some rea- dally raids upon their storks. Next Dana arose vigorously to a rectangu without babies, although we can have son they do not often deal in freaks to the small boy the vender hates a lar figure! of theso mothers after the first or oddities. The babies without At the first panic in tbe "street. Ashes! he gasped, Ashes!" Thus it is barely women ought to he proverbial. of They symptoms of It he picks up his traps throes parentage. In a moment be was gone, hut in possible that the society woman may hold their own against all competition. and hies himself to do business on the the dusky shadows of eventide a dark yet weep for Jealousy of the mother Indeed, they will drive male competiBowery, where the surroundings are form might havo been seen diligently of nine children and a haughty stare, tors from the field. less but where people do not in the alley and engaged at the ash pile One woman sells newspapers exclu- go "glided." begin to recruit our army ere it is When the panic Is over the crazy. back of where the Podunk Pumpkin yet too late. Yesterday we were sively. Another has mercantile ambi- vender returns to the Rtrret. and once bad its abstract being! shouting, On with the dance!" To- tions that are somewhat aesthetic. She more his sleepy voice mingles with And In the next Issue of the Pumpdeals by preference In flowers and at- the chimes of day we are wondering how a hobbyTrinity as he announces kin appeared this notice: tractive knickknacks. but wont stick that his banan" would look in the front parlor! horse are fresh fruit and A DASTARD'S WORK." From careless, childless tyrants of candies are newly made. that his of the miserable A tramp printer New York Press. pleasure we have been snatched like name of Charlie Knotlngton filled brands from the burning pyre of ashes with hundred envelopes several oblivion and sanctified in the considOne of Trade's Superstitions. and clinkers from some Podunk ash' eration of the propagation of a numerto the strike of bookbinders Owing and sold last evening Tuesday heap ous progeny! It is well! What we season was practically autumn the cents ten them to our Inhabitants for need In this country Is a liberal ratio cut In two. The lull which followed Pelee. Mt. of Hangsouvenirs as each of one hoy to the tail of every pug dog the activity of the early part of the ing la too good for such hoboes. in the land and two girls to each pair season threatens in its turn to give But many miles away, like Sheri' of curling tongs in the department place to a flood of belated books. was dan, Charles Dana Knotlngton stores. The ratio may not be truly Yet it la possible that now many sauer kraut a clear smoking of the calmly commensurate with the needs will he held over until tlie early of office of rear the In the leaf cigar ladies, but it assures us of the masspring season. the Strawberry Point Sweet Corn culine gender more taffeta from which The persistence with which the anfull him high, rose, and beside troubles! to pick our matrimonial two publishing seasons are kept is other pile of ash and clinkers, or ML Down with the thoughtless, shame sometimes, not only to aggravating the Pelee after eruption! upon the fecundlous who would poputhe but to the public. There reviewer, late this country with old maids cats Is no Insurmountable reason why tbe d us curly-tailecanines! Let Issue of books should not go on at a St Valentine's day, 1903, has pass- and awake to our duty! The day of reed another Rubicon. The two little fairly even pace throughout tbe year. is at hand when we can defy Indeed, some publishers have already doves contrsltolng to each other on a venge owner of the apartment house and found that it Is wisest to publish a d twig have been put away the autocrat of the flat building! dead season. book In the In Mamies escritoire with the arrow' the Do you not hear the children weeping, want not books only in Vender. Flower do and the Ths hearts passionate People pierced O my brother!? It is a mere and autumn. to verse of yesteryear, and once more be if spring at theres money gingerbread to effect! words that or we are wobbling along with only our superstition of the trade. Loudon The day of atonement Is coming made. Dan married. us Mail. to An elderly woman who sells newsget help courage when eleven children, a hopeful wife Cupid is recovering from bis dissipa- and a mooly cow with a liberal flow of papers Is one of the most familiar and recuperating tion of Calling Down an Orator. lacteal fluid, will constitute the aver- figures in tho street." She begins Whenever ti ppn-- orator begins to for the time when the redder iris age family, around which a proud with the nu ridiig issues of the papers tiildy IiIh comes upon the breast of robin, when father throws his protecting arms and anil handles all tho afternoon edit Ions bore tlie Missouri Mule have an i.rlglmil the young man's fancy lightly turns smiles in the assurance of having as well. She i.i Inill on a generous brother iim iiii-- r to thoughts or love, and when pa is done nun1 thing for his country. Lis scale massive, robn.--t and wide. Shes method of ii"hirii.i: him to cml his em Ii ib'Mk i a rnt-iro- n Will side to lake cine of h'Tsclf. Rpi'i'cll. I!e-ii- i'' holier rained because ho doesn't flag and the census c'liinierator! o i!.:(i'i! that It may "I make n living." she said, "lint I Kpittoii'i have to buy more coal and more gas! a Mine toe. Wiieii am rot rolling up a back a"cmiit. I easily be ratM'il 5 5 5 Apollo and Hymen and Venus and iu chorus they make a The editor of the Hit I. field (Utah) suppose I luiil.c as much a- - if I kept thus diMtirbi-:Cupid have all done their worst with and once again Re;..-- r is so I'll'lcl'S these (lays In- a small More, ami I l av" mt the re. eiji'i'l' Mid it is ilitpoisiiili) the pnptr Tie " are 112 the detect to and end rent erm cf ''in:nilce a the cold, spoiedldliiy we are up aninst jun. ps Winn the I:it t;.po drops hill.-sall members utl'i when a Tevv score tees nml liig wl.o!e-a- e and over- i i.i ii-- t m quad or the our Lis oiiti of m lir'p Pining f.' iiii.g prohh f ihe small tret to inovit:--- ' the oraL r r f ih ona-tioi- i is tlim kind c, thin coat o"t oi pawn. It is lik pi'cri nt e iirgD i'ior, in !. Tl.e ro;i.-ui t! :i:i er.liriury deternee York. New of f sti They y a:s. WO)'!,rckeepors Utopia, to go to the woodshed to split his son. lived seven and w '.i.i dill's in mination t ke"P him on his legs. laivll.i'd fi,c m nt by u loving at ipe so is arrow nm! bow a practical life has kindling. . times it makes us grow pessimist leal aunt. As a reui!! tl," liiap'T f'irriy tho week. I work f r inys-1fMember of Lincoln Family. mifib-iidi".My (dd man lie runs the l.miso. and . members are ail liid'.iiii and the '!iy and long for a false and Af'i'Hbam male Idncidi!. the old'-t-I soil ihe an town come down g rewho M'li'.i-papers. in mud a z"nbiii.-!y 1'iose them Is stimulant. It is only of the family from which dd Th lees survivor llo nan everything. to mi, iuh iluir sculps, lie is ceive comic valet. tires who are not Is living at T- II m !:et makes the 1mm! . w.vkcs the dishes, desccnd'-i- l Hi' plunged Troiii l.iaven to a stranded also practief::;; the William rout-Yu. serves m.d tho and I.tcy .f.priur-of an eye. on bis sisti r. Iity the poor editor! prexarosi cable car in tin i exl.-tiiii1-,," which gan when Fort Sumpter 'vir fire-- upon April 12, iKtil. "The Ute exp.iliiiun in Colorado "From the way 1 look at the events began April 3. HTS. it is a rather involved April Is the most iu: port ant e'iviinis coincidence ti.ut tin? lab? war or ull the iiinu'.l.s and I have ofien with Spain In gan April 21, iu the wuiiilcri'il why the Ar.iei lean people same mouth ami but two days later, how su iniic.i indifference to the with ri: pi.i t to tho day of tbe month, fact. Why, when you nunc to think than tlio war of t.io rebellion, which of it. iho Kou nli of July, wlilie, of began April lhtli. Tins Spai is yet course, lm port art cioiigh, war began April 21. lid- a. d eml-.n- e not quite so momentous, in the anmils t,. April 11 lv.i'.i. Ties a of of as some oilier fi,p . h have iiopoti uq tlii- days one inig it mention. April l.u-- taLczi place in tie m i ' ef April bet "i the ore month of the year nml mai y i r ,ho ev, e been of which Las really the great, deep import from tlie w point of problems wit i which the American ' Aiuerii aus. an you Wbal ror.-people have had to deal. Suppose wo assign for tl.c cor.spiciii.us part April glance ut the record for n nioinei t. has plnyed In tbe history of America? The war of the revolution began Ho men fill more like fighting In April Hi. ?:7;. nml ended April 11, April than iu the ot u r months of tho 1782. t'omipg on down we fil'd the ) car is the spirit if war nml disturbance. the liilion inlluenrc.l by the firing of the Involving Minlli western frontier, Louisiana. Ai nap? I do rot know, but there must aiisiiri m.d Texas, and which began bo some pood reason for ihe happen-- i ii April, ISSii. niiMiing to lug of these great tl.iugs, wars, through of thi next year. The Mexican plorutloi.s, adveuiiiris nml events of war began April 24. IMS. The Yuma Ibis sort In Ue mouth of April. At expedition into ('iiliiernia ended in tu.y rale ihi y have huppei.r, lr. April audit would be mi'i nsoi'iiide and altoApril. 1..2. having .irpm iu that thi-sthe year previous. The Gila gether absurd tii iiki-.iiiint.i Ni .v Mexico was launch- tilings are due to haphazard, teat they ed April III. 1,x.,7. The (.dm'.'ido river are mere colncidci.ci s. April cannot expedition in Cidiioruia April lie cxp'uii'cd out of its rightful inherit- 28, IS.Vj. The lVoos expedition Into mice iinini'g the mere Important Texas wan ljumd.o.l April IS, lS.'d). inonlhs In American history." ' Ami-ri.-H- less. at! There was the war of the rebellion, Did you know thnl the month i f April has plnyul a mure conspicuous pan in American history than any other mouth of tin year?" asked a man who is fund of things historical. little traders of meals, and all the rest of It. He's an , yZ street have no rat- - invalid. I bits of life. Auv number of at Bradstreet's. do not know any- - pi'iqde know me. I uni quite sme there thing about stocks or are many millionaires among my cusshares or bond issues tomers. Will -- their millions don't or percentages or dlvl-tj- f Worry me. Wbon I see them scrambdends or inflations or ling ami rushing to work the morndepreeiations or the cur- ing anil rushing and scimiibiiug lumie rency or corners or at night, all lired and pule, mid with or anything that per- tin !r Inn;' full of hud air and their or trusts pools stoniurks empty and their bruins tains directly to the kaleidoscopic with worry, 1 think, 'Oil. ye existence of the slaves that mark time by Trinity's chimes. poor laves!' " A woman who dues nut believe in But they are a permanent feature of the New World money mart, neverthe- long hums lia built up a trade iu tin! HE Wall ing They Great Problems During Momentous in the Annals oi Our National History. Its Thirty Days revo-Said- iii 1 ex-Ju- , i' e - Burled In Old Cathedral con.-plc.ioi- Famous Prelates That Have Been Laid to Rest Within the Walls oi the Famous Structure oi Canterbury. I I self-relianc- e tub-taile- d love-makir- a.-.- -n ! kivi-tokc- ns, 1 d.-v- s R 1 cr.c-ba.- t 1 - I dral Is so carefully preserved that it gives one tlie Impression of extreme Yet tlie whole choir and ikw'iu'nh. east end of the cathedral, as it now stands. Is mainly tbe work of William of Sens nml William tlie Englishman, who nourished towurd the end cf T'.ia But tlie cathedral twelfth century. and the many Imildlnys lr. its rr ciiicts are a perfect museum cf Although since llic Reformation, says the London ('livonirlr, no Protestant Archbishop of I'uutcrhiiry was buried in hi mctrop'i'iitaii catliedial until have was nlituii.cil fur the Interment of Ai'cl.liislilp lb i son In MJj, the dust of many fameii prelates lies within these ancient precincts, the eleventh ArcMiis'.iip of Canterbury, powerfully unvoted I lie fortunes of the cathedral by obtaining nearly permission from Pope twelve centuries ago, that henceforth all the Archbishops might be burled within the walls of their own cBthe-diaAccordingly, from Cut h hert to Cardinal Pole, in 35r9, the early remains of all tho Bishops lie there at rest. Including those of St. (Mo, HL Dunslan, St. Alphege, St. Atislem, St. Thomas a Bechet, Hubert Walter, Stephen I.angton, Archbishops i t'.iilh-ber- t, ms-dicv- Next t.) the architecture. transitional style, which is represented in tlie choir, comes the Erst pointed or early English stylo, which came about half a century later. To this period belongs the far famed ''Archbishops' chair," iiHiuilly called the chair of St. August ire, on which ths archtiishops aro enthroned, and of which was naturally the object much interest at Ihe funeral of recent duie. It !s elaborately carved, and Is Wlttelielsey, l!radwanlii:o, lslip, made of tit roe pious of Purieek marSimon do Sudbury, Cmiiii'iiay, Aruu-del- , ble. From the style of Its decoration Morton, it Is believed to have been first placed Clilcheley, liaiiclilcr, Varii am and other saints and states- la t'to catliedial in 122. at the superb s men, famous in history for their lilgli rei'i'iuouy of tho translation of remains from the crypt to his services to church and commonwealth. The Interior of Canterbury cathe priceless s brine. (ire-gor- l. IVrU-liai- Bcrk-cL'- Iron a Valuable Metal its Importance Is Far Greater Than That oi Both Silver and Gold Precious Things From Mother Earth's Treasure House. What are the preelous 19,000,000 more yellow metal. metals? Gold and silver," you answer. That depends. If by preclnusncss Is meant the ue of the product in dollars and cents our golden rule of measurement then gold and silver are not the precious metals, according to the recently issued report of the United States geological survey, which gives the money value of the products wrested by man from the earth's dark laboratory in 1901. The gold, the precious yellow metal, poured from natures crucible in this land last year, Is valued at $78,00u,-00and If to this we add the metal value of the sliver we have 1111,000,-000- . val- Even the base b ad that waa mined the value of the gold. When we go a little deeper and measure structural purposes gold and silver aro again distanced, for the building stone, clay and cements that were launched by us Into the channels of commerce In 1901 are valued is at But what is that compared with tho pig iron product of the same time, which Is valued at 241, 000,000? The iron produced is more precious than the gold and silver combined by 1130,000,000. Modest copper, Indian romptaxloned copper, can put the oriental hued engold to the blush, for last year it of JS7.000.00U, sum In the us riched Army of d J1S2.000.0UU. province have for centuries been more adventurous ar.d founder of traveling i! in t!:i' r. rt of t udr follow eourtrj-ni- i ti an I t' tv arc always ready to f.e ? dattecr if tb' re U a good chance of ?!. i.il)ly. LM CHINAMEN IN THE STATES. a Considerable one-tliir- Tbe gold and silver produced in the same time was J71.0UO,(:00 short of being enough to purchase this output When we go a little deeper and measure the value of coal, petroleum and natural gas that we purloined from beneath the fruitful breast ot Mother Earth wo find Its value four times that of all the gold and silver taken from the same treasure-hous- e in the same time. Gold and silver may dazzle up with their brightness and charm us witu their iiiinblencss, lmt in preciousness measured by worth of production and real usefulness they sink by their own gravity to the bottom of the list of minerals. 0, There Is than tho value of the Alm- Celestials in ond-Eyed cKtiii'iitcd that tl" re are about It in l!" Iuilo'i Inu.iiii) t'biiii'u'-An-eric- a. 1 j j Many Mil's of Fez Railroad, Li'..'ttc. :vi: - to t'o st- am t.t.Itu.--i fi.d'.'ii ri i ' s (f i)".v s dji;. were ..iiii it. the 1't 'i i 1 I Si-ir- i |