Show VETERAN OF THE FIELD TO HIS ETERNAL SLEEP Old Dun Dnn After l Faithful Life Ilc Sinks Sink on iii 01 lied of Straw to 10 No More Ic Missoula Mont AprIl Apri 21 21 Old Old Dan Dami a hor without a racing pedigree gree re iee nut not born hOln to 0 time the purple n or 01 petted by devotees of tho lie race track hut but just jus justIS i IS plain 01 11 1 Unary ca cayuse ue peaceful ii passed ed into horse tolla today anc and thereby hangs hanss a tale that will wil I appeal to 0 all ul lovers loven If of the noble animal and amid specially to lu the tho largo hand band of ChrisIan ChrisS Chris Chris- Ian S Ian men Ien and amid women thu the who ate are socking seeking to lo Instill Into Inlo he Jie minds of f thc lie multitude a n gi of affection Co for I nil all ni dumb animals ani au- mals mals 1 Foi loi the he Ila t ei twenty eight ht years e OlDan Olt Old Ol Dan was the properly of Gaspard Deschamps whoso hoso home Is in Gla Grass valley but hul who whoso whose o business Is In Ihl this et city Mr Ei I Dc Deschamps is wealthy now hut but he was not alwa always s 's in pro circumstances and anti tho tIme ola hOI hot horse e hint tha died liel led today olay In man luau many of the lie earl early struggles of Its Hs owner It I was the tho first good hol horse c to come conic Into his JO possession pos pos- session moro o than a tem of a cen cen- tiny ago when ho lie was struggling to tu a livelihood J in hl his new western westeri home Up lo to three or four years CarM ago the faithful brute possessed the lie tee ice oi l of having ha been in iii active service for fO more 1010 than Ihan twenty years year without having been Jeen sick once Old Oll Ago AI Conquer Tin co or four years a ago o old age ao began be began be- be c- c gan lo to tell tel on the he animal and amI he hc became became be be- came caine decrepit and feeble Most own ers CIS of an aim animal In this con condition lUon would woul have hu turned the brute out outto to todie todie die le or 01 ended ende his hiI existence with wih a bul huh let But not so 0 with wih Mr Ir Deschamps He lie gave Ja e orders to provide n a line stall stal for fOl Dan Van nn and In Instructed ll his men muon to see se that the thc horse hurse was fed feil regularly So Ho decrepit ibid did the lie brute become th thai lint l I Iwas it I tho the Holds and amI was to to hi In lel s am 11 Mr Deschamps ordered d his men to lo cu cut cul grass an and feed it in the thc stable Toda Today the old horse seemed to feel fee that the thc end was near He walked front from th the stable to a straw heap In the barnyard and sank down to II no hO mOC more When hen the Iho stable attendant went to take tal him hUn In for tho ho nl night ht Old Olt Dan Dami was ns dead kni To Fo 11 Mr Deschamp tho he of the thc old animal seems eem hike Iko a pcr personal onal bereavement |