Show A confession an to honest n tone one we clip tile the following from tile january hygienist Hy glenist which was sent by a friend of its editor and ex pa tient ilent it was accompanied by his picture which was taken kitic a tine fine specimen of 0 the animal which built our colorado scenic railroads we believe he is right ia very punctilious lady friend of 0 mine says bays that I 1 should be ashamed to have my picture taken with a jackass I 1 dont know why he may be interior inferior to me in many things but I 1 am inferior to him in many others it Is true that I 1 am his master and can lead him about but I 1 am also led about and am a slave to my appetite and passions ile he was born a jackass and can cant I 1 t help it while I 1 have deliberately made bojdo a jackass of myself times without number neither 0 of us were consulted when we were brought into this world and we are hustled out of it willy nilly his clay may yet mix with mine and stop the cracks to keep the cold away he is not able ta experience some of 0 the pleasures I 1 know but lie he is immune to my disappointments he Is uncomplaining about what is and what he be gets while I 1 am continually harrowed by desires and longings which lure me hither and thither wills wills o th ewi in a forest 0 of ideals he invariably knows when nhen lie he has enough I 1 seldom do he Is not annoyed by the mackassy jac kassy acts 0 of other jackasses jac kasses I 1 am ho he has always known how to keep well I 1 he will not eat beyond his capacity to digest and never yet has lie he put into his mouth an enemy to steal away his brains he has never never been vaccinated vaccina ted with serum antl anti eri alcum maggot juice more commonly known as typhoid vaccine or pure pus from the bodies of 0 diseased kine his appendix and ton sils are all intact he has had nothing cut out clipped oft off or squirted in he has never taken a dose of medicine and strange as it may seem he has never been sick a day in his life he is satisfied to live today he does not worry himself trying to solve the riddle ot of his hia origin and existence nor does he exhaust his strength in futile attempts to lift the veil of 0 isis I 1 T could prove by dozens of anthropological rop traits ot of his and hundreds of asinine acts ot of mine that he la Is my brother but why prove it when I 1 admit it I 1 love him I 1 admire the which is his I 1 take oft off my hat to his innocent unconscious ranh frank ness arid and his shameless unblushing naturalness |