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Language has been stained in description of his "bucking" propensi ties and the height and frequency of the ascents into ether's space of the uninitiated who unluckily ventures on the back of the broncho. Nooneac quainted with his family ever, in his wildest imagtaiugs, pictured the bron cho as being brought east of the cow boy reservations. Sitting Hull might be civilized into a dime raust-uiu In dian exhibit; "Buffalo Bill" and "Tex as Jack" were admitted not. dangerous if showing iu a fifty-acre open field theatre,and the buffalo and cayote wolf have been taken Into Eastern zoological gardens. Hut the broucho to "buck" his way into city life I Never. And yet that same has the bioncho done. The street railroad companies of St. Louis, with a temerity worthy of cowboys,having harnessed him to their cars—in fact, one hundred of them. The cobble stones of the street being rougher than the sod of his native heath, the animal needs must te 9hod, and a reporter of thi "Globe Demo crat" describes the incident of that un dertaking. After giving a pen portrait of the broncho, the reporter proceeds lo say that there are some remarkably strong objections to him, one of the most important of these berng his re fusal to make friends with those who ought to be nearest and dearest to him. The men working around the car stables he seems to absolutely detest, and the drivers of cars he has no use for. Io a short time after getting him into harness he will learn to stop when a car bell is rung, but he starts again only at his own sweet pleasure, aud he is just as liable to break away into his little tick-tack trot while a fat woman is getting off at the bac% of the car as he is to stay at the crossing and refuse to budge for a whale hour. This is his quality of stubbornness, and it is men • tioned in connection with his selfish and unfriendly nature merely as oue of its embellishing features. He never al lows himself to lose caste, and will not mingle with anybody but Texas mules, no matter what the rewards or induce ments are that are offered him. He is never curried, because he won't allow anybody to approach near enough to do the currying, and the only attentiou hew gets besides his rations is a rubbing off ol his back, which is accomplisned with a long-handled brush, such as they use in washing windows. He will kick just for amusement,and never waits for any provocation. And when he does kick he sends both hind legs quivering in the air like the strik ing hammer of the small gong bell which you hear when a friend rings you up for the telephone. He can give more kicks in rapid succession than a lightning calculator can count, and he is such an adept in the business that he can follow a man a mile, and catch up with him, wheel suddenly and plant a succession of kicks between the buttons ou his coat tails, before the man can gather his thoughts sufficiently to tell his own name. The car companies had tried to shoe the mules at their own shops, but tbey found it impossible to shoe more than two of them a day. The mules kicked too hard for their street corporation's farriers ; they bit too promiscuously ; tbey wouldn't stand still, and when knocked down, wouldn't stay down, even though a ton weight was placed on top of them. One ot the mules con tinued his recalcitrant giddiness until be kicked his own leg off,and the other broke his own neck with a kick. Then the board of directors held a meeting and offered the work to Ed. Butler. Ed. Butler took the job at $2 per mule, and the directors chuckled glee fully as they signed the contract. When the mules were driven into the rear of Butler's shop the next morning the fun began. The force selected one of the meekest looking of the mules for their first victim. The excitement started when an attempt was made to throw a rope around this mule. He resisted every effort to coax him, and finally succumbed on'y to strategy ; he was lassoed and dragged to the bar .where horses And mules are tied while being shod. Now this mule, just like the 49 others which were regarding his treatment from afar, have been accus tomed to going barefooted in Texas, and as the cactus didn't hurt his feet any, he thought the streets of St. Louis couldn't do him any damage. Instinct seemed to prompt him to acknowledge of the fact that he was going to be torn from his barefootedness, and he made a preliminary kick against putting on the iron slippers. He kicked with all four feet at once,and the men scattered hurridly to every corner of the shop. MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18., 188 G. After a moment or two they c intlously returned to the attacK, and between jerky, spismodic Kicks, got a ropo a round three of the mule's legs, ran the ropj over the neck string, and made it fast t< the crowbar in front. Then one man got the nose twister and put it on the mule, and another man took the little fellow by the tail. A third man took the mule's united leg and be gan the lbst part of the shoeing act. lie had not got very far before the mule interposed a vigorous objection ; it came in the shape of a wild, tremul ous and thrilling all around kick that tore the rope from its fastenings and left the mule standing there free and unfettered. The man who had hold of the animal's leg grabbed up his tool box bun idly and hastened to join the other fugitives. He was somewhat slow, and the mule saw him. lie not only ssw him,he followed him and took aftei him as hard as he could, hiving at the Hying end of his apron and giving au occasionable nibble at his hip pock et. Everybody in the shop cheered ex cept the man who was running. Near the front door the mule thought he was close enough for operations, so he wheeled quickly and let both feet ily into the small of the blacksmith's back. The smith yelled and weut on, but the mule stopped, wheeled around again, and let his lips break into a wide smile, while his ears stood up in triumph and the other occupants of the shop roared. It took more than an hour to shoe that mule. In the meantime work was be gun on other mules, and when three or four were in the hands of the furriers at a time the fun was tremendous. Ropes seemed powerless to bold them. Every five minutes one was loose chasing somebody around the shop and always overtaking them in the manner in which the first mule o vertook his man, and dealing a double kick at the basement of the party's pantaloons. The mule never made a mistake in selecting fits man w Hi ways chooses out the person who was doing the shoeing, and often reached around and took a mouthful of the smith's shiit or a turf of his hair. A crowd gathered at the blacksmith shop door early in the morning, and there was an audience there all day long that would hardly fit in the Stand ard Theatre. It was late at night when the show was over, and then the men were all broken up. Ech one of the 50 mules had d6alt the eleven men about fifty kicks apiece, and, though their kick was not h.ird, it was disa greeable. Before noon the men learn ed that the mules could not do much harm with their tiny heels and short legs, and so to satisfy the rectlcitrant little brutes after they broke the ropes would stop after running a short dis tance and turu tho backs of their trousers for the mule to kick at. A few kicks made the brute happy and tract able for awhile, and be was led back to the post and got a new installment of shoe'iig. Oue man named Vaughn, who is an athlete and ex circus man, let a mule chase him a bit aud then waited for the little fellow to kick ; when be did so, Vaughn caught him by the heels aad turned him over on his back as easily as if be bad been a poodle dog. At night, when tho work was at an end, Ed. Butler, Jr., had 18 kicks to his credit, and the other men were equally well up in their records. Nobody was badly hurt, but the men were so worn out with exercise and their lungs were so sore from laughter that tbey couldn't do any work for several days, and Ed. Butler says that from this out his price for shoeing a Texas mule is $5. Jock was all Right. A canny Lowland farmer, of a miser ly disposition, went to a fair to hire a farm seryant; and, peering about him, be obseryed a tall, well-grown lad, with a vacant expression of countenance, iiim be accosted, and found that "Jock," as he called himself, was an "innocent" —halt wilted. The farmer, thinking that this was a good opportu nity for picking up a strong fellow,who would take low wages and not quarrel with the yery plain fare of his kitchen, questioned him, and, finding that he was used to farm work, engaged him. Then, remembering that he knew noth ing of the youth's character, he added : "But I maun hae your character, ye ken, Jock. I engage no man without a character. Can ye bring me nne frae yer last maister ?" "Ou, ay."returned Jock ; ai d it was agreed that he was to bring the required document to the Sun Inn, where the farmer intended to dine at one o'clock. At one o'clock, punctually, Jock arrived at the Sun, and with some difficulty made his way into the room where the farmers' or dinary was being held. "Wheel, ma laud, have you got your character V" asked the farmer. "Na! but I've got yours ; and I'm no comin' I'' cried Jock, as he bolted from the room, amid the roars of the assembled JJcom pany. A PAPER FOR THE MOME CIRCLE THE LITTLE SOHOOLMA AM A STORY OF PLUCK AND ADVKNUUKR. 'Spekin ? of tho rural regions,' s.ml an old chap at the end of a bar. who had trouble iu raising a glass of beer lo his mouth with his right arm, 'I might be indooced to relate a little adventure which happened to me in Ljiany last summer : 4 Well, I bad been hangup around Indiannapolis for several weeks, and finally the Police Judge advised me to leave town. 1 £never argv with a Po lice Judge. When they come right down to fatherly advice I accept it and [ git. I left the town inside of two hours, and it didn't take mo over three hours to reach a mile post ten miles away. About 4 o'clock in the after noon, as I was rest in' beside the high way, a schoolma'am passed. She was a clipper leelle body, weighin' about ninety pounds, and white-faced, and when I sort o' riz up to ax her if she didn't have a bit to eat in her basket, site uttered a womanish velp and start ed off on a dead run. I didn't have on my swaller tail coat and standin collar on that day, and I guess she took me fur a tramp. 'Now, gents, when a feller is ragged, hungry, and out o' rhino, what does he do ? tie makes a break, in course. 1 walks about fur about a mile,and when I comes to a farm house with a look of oomfort about it I stops in and asks if a poor man who has lost his hull fami ly in the great Chicago (i r e can git a bite to eat,to brace him up as he journ eys toward the setlin' sun. The moth erly old soui of a farmer's wife would have set out a square meal fur me, but that little schoolma'am was there to prevent. I heard 'em whisperin' to gether iu the next room, and by aud by the old lady came back aud give me the bounce. A tramp as lias belonged to the prufesh fur fifteen years hadn't orter fire up over sich a trifle as that. Lul. ii. Lit mu like bl'iw LWoW ll tt* belt, and I determined on revenge. 'I wont into the orchard and stole some apples, and than laid around to watch. 1 found out afoie dark that the farmer was an old man, and that there was only three of 'em in the house. Iong 'null 'foie the lights were out I had arranged with myself to break in. There was a chance of plunder, and I intended to scare that little schoo'ma'am out of a year's growth. I don't say as I would hev laid hands on her, hut that very thing might have happened, you know. 'Well, about half an hour afore mid night I begins operations by creepin ' up to the back door. It was shut, but not locked, and I crept in, struck a light, and fou :d my way to the pantry. There was cold meat, pumpkin pie,and Dread and butter, and it took me a good half hour to till up. I might hev gone out then, but 1 wanted suthin' else. There was nobody sleepin down stairs, and after pocketin' a watch I crept up stairs into the old folks' bed room. They was sleepin' as sound as you please, and the moon shiuin' in furnished all the light needed. I went through a bureau and got a wallet, and was svarchin' the old man's pants, when I heard a step at the door and a voice cried out : 'Surrender or I'll shoot !' 'lt was that leetle schoolma'am. Siie stood in the door in her night dress, a revolver pointed full at me, and I could see her eyes blaze. I made a rush to seize her, when 'crack ! crack !' went the revolver, and one bullet struck me in the right sholdier and another in t! e side. I went down as if shot through the head, and up jumps the old man and piles on to me like a ton of brick. The little schoolma'am went down stair 3 after a rope, and then helped tie me hand and foot. Moro'n that, sire kept guard ever me while the old man rode off for an olfi jer, and every time I fetched a groan she had that revolver ready to shoot. 'ln conclusi in, gents, permit me to remark that the Court give me live years fur that little affiir, while the plucky leetle schoolma'am received a public purse of S2O ). Sometimes I've felt as if it was my dooty to hunt her up and marry her.' Wanted an Emblem. Uncle Abraham, over on Cathan St., was speaking to an acquaintance the other day about putting an emblem o ver the door of his store. "1M put a bee-hive," suggested the man." "Vot does pee-liife shtand for ?" '•For industry." ' Oil, dot vnas all nonsense. Dot doan't show people dot I sell a sl4 suit for SB." "I know, but the bee is a worker." "Yes, but dot doan't do. Every body vlias a worker. Industry vlias all right, but if somebody comes back mit a pair of pants dot shrink oop eighteen inches, dot pee-iiife doan' oxplain dot d is vlias a singular climate on pants." How to Run a Universe Why Somo Things Should not bo sa Woil as Othars. Mr. Burdctte remarks : 41 My son, t here are just two things in this world that 1 don't know about, and you have just keri me about one of them. I don't know why there is trouble and sorrow and toil and poverty and sick ness and death in this beautiful world. I used to know when I was much younger, but 1 Hud that as I grow old er 1 don't know a great deal more than I used to know. I don't know why the best people seem to have all the suffering and the great sinuers have all the fun. I don't know why innocent men sutler for the wickedness of guilty men. 1 don't know why the man who cast the faulty column in Pemberton Mills wasn't crushed when the mills want down. I can't see why my neck should be broken in a railway accident because a train dispatcher sends out a wrong order or a signal man gi>es to sleep. I don't see why my neighbor should be cursed with ill health and suffering just because his grandfather was a rollicking, hard drinking old profligate. I don't see why I should have neuralgia just when I want to feel at ny best. I don't know the reason why some people starve while worse people feast. Well, you say, wouldn't it be pleas inter if all these crooked things were straightened out V Yes, oh. yes! And wouldn't I run things a little better if I had the run ning of them? Ye— e hold on a min ute—ye—l don't] know, really, that I want to try. There are several things to consider, when you sit down to run a universe. True, if I managed things I could make several improvements at once. I would never again have the neuralgia, for one thing ; my boots would not run oyer heels like]an italic d\ my pantaloons would not woik up. nor bag at the knees, and my col lars would not climb ttie back of my neck, and my mustache wouldn't keep waxed like a bristle at one end and out like a satin ribon at the other, and— but there are some things to look after. The little matter of day and night I think 1 might manage for a week, may be, but there would be an eclipse to look after, with occasional rain, some snow, a late spring or an early autumn or a capricious harvest time to manage; there are certain movements of the sun and other planets that have rather deli cate relations with the earth—come to think of it, my boy. I have never yet been able to control my own personal neuralgia. Now, you are very kind, but 1 will most respectfully decline the appointment. I find on looking into the varied and trying duties onnected with the otlice that my bodily and men tal strength would not stand the great tax that would be laid upon them. While I am in the heartiest accord with the Administration, and wish to give it, and to the extent of my poor a bility do give it my most earnest sup port and encouragement, yet I much prefer to do this in my capacity as a private citizen." Stories of Governor Seymour. The Utica Observer says .- Though possessed of a grave turn of mind, the late Gov. Horatio Seymour had at times a keen sense of humor, and said many droll things. Ilis allusion to Grant at the meeting of the Army of the Cumberland, in Utica, when he declared that he was a better soldier than his old antagonist, because in 1808 he (Grant) had run farther and faster, was incomparably happy. Some years ago an incident occurred which at once illustrated Seymour's goodness of heart and his sense of the hnmerous. Driving along the Deer field road oneday he came upon a farm er in distress. The latter's wagon had broken down under a heavy pile of wood, his harness was out of keltcr and his position was one of abject misery. He had in vain appealed to passers-by to help him. But Sey mour was a friend in need. He help ed the fanner to repair his wagon and reload the wood thereupon and loaned the farmer a part of his own harness. The Governor then went his way. Afterwards, when the farmer was tell ing his story, he startled his hearers by saying ; "I never felt so mean in my life. The wood was stolen from the Governor 's wood pile. The joke of it all was that during the whole transaction Governor Seymour knew that the wood was his own, but after giving his side of tfce story, with a merry twinkle in his eye, he was wont to add : "The poor fellow need ed the wood more than I did." It is unnecessary to say that Governor Sey mour's wood-pile was never again dis turbed by that particular neighbor. Terms, SIOO per Year, in Advance. A Pretty Vanderbilt Story In a Fourth avenue horse-car going up town one day a plainly dressed wo man was riding, accompanied by a bright-eyed child just old enough to be asking a good many questions. The pert young miss of 3or 4 years was in tent on being on familiar terms with everybody within reach, and one of the passengers within reach was Mr. Van. derbilt. lie had a sma'l package in his hands, and the child insisted oil iug him of it. The mother though wholly unaware of her se.itmite's iden tity, did her utmost to protect him from the young mischief-maker's dep redations, but her efforts were futile. And Mr. Vanderbilt, as the car lolled on, seemed really to have got to enjoy ing the wee bit of a thing's (ilirtatiou. She went through his'oyercoat pockets, clambered over bis knees, and couldn't have been a wliit more familiar had she been of the house of Vanderbilt itself. At the T'lirty-second street stables there was a change of conductors, and a bearded young fellow came upon the rear platform, rang cho signal hell, and started the car onward through the tunnel. "Papa, papa !" shouted the little one excitedly and off from the knee of the millionaire owner of the railroad she clambered to hold out her arm? toward that bearded young fellow,the new con ductor. The conductor recognized his distinguished passenger, and naturally lie was amazed —his own child in the magnate's arras. He hastened "to cor rect things, and, with what was not an unnatutal earnestness, apologized for the baby's rudeness. "Tut, tut I" interrupted Mr. Vander bilt "I've enjoyed my ride with her. Young man, I wish she were mj own. She must he taken good care of." And then, as the car turned out of the tun nel to the Grand Central Station, he patted the little one allectiouately upon the head, and said go;>d-by. Within a month that street-car conductor was holding a responsible position upon one of the big Vanderbilt railroads, a post that he holds to this day. That very night Mr. Vanderbilt had the young man's antecedents looked up, and find ing his recoid clean, and .assured that he was a man ot energy and capacity , he made place for him at once. Why Gan. Hancock Died Poor. A New York letter says : Surprise is expressed that Gen. Hancock did not leave a larger estate behind him, but he was generous to a fault, and he had manv calls upon his charity. It was the heavy cross of his life that his twin brother, for thirty years re sident of a distant Western city, had disappointed his expectations, lost his ambition and sunk into a living death His brother was a lawyer, one of the most brilliant in the Northwest, clear ing from $15,000 to 20.000 a year by his practice when he fell a victim to his love for good company and good cheer. He went down from his high position like a rocket, and for the last fifteeen years has been entirely sup ported by his brother, the General. There is a touching little bit of ro mance connected with this sad story. The lawyer was in his prime, a mag nificent-looking man, and became en gaged to the beautiful daughter of a lady in whose house he boarded. The engagement began twenty years ago. But the lady saw danger a head, and she refused to marry her ar dent and handsome wooer until he would for-swear the flowing bowl and show himself a thoroughly reformed man. He still lives in the same house and the lady is there, too, and still unwedded. She is true to her love, but is equally true to her promise, and while she tenderly cares for The man she loves ana mourns, she knows that her life is wrecked, and that there is no hope now ou this side of the grave. The world is full of such unnoticed heroines. A recent traveller in Spain tells how the Children in Germany play at bull lighting. One boy, holding a pair of wooden horns on his head, represents the bull. Other boys, mounted on each other's backs, were picadors,while others again, with their jackets in their hands, were supposed to be maradors and chulos. The bull would stamp his feet and roar, then make a rush at one of tne chulos, whose jacket was'thrown up by the wooden horns, but whose body was never touched. Then the bull would charge one of the picadors, whereupon the boy playing horse would throw himself to the ground, and allow himself to be properly gored. The woman who made a pound of butter out of the cream of a joke, and cheese from the milk of human kind ness, has since washed the close of a year aud hung them out to dry on the line storm. NO. 11- NEWSPAPER LAWS If subscribers order the discontinuation of newspapers, the puollslms majt is on H " 7 (*> 10 (XI lA(Xi .-WOO 40 0.1 1 " 10 00 lit (XI I 2.*) (XI 43 (XI 73 00 One Inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices #2.30. Transient advej tlsements and locals 10 cents per line for first Insertion and 5 cents per line for each addition al Insertion DR. TALMAGE ON DRESS. (Extract from-Sorraon, Sunday. Fob. 14th.) Show tne the fashion plates of any age between this and the time of Louis XVI of France, and Ilenry VIII. of England, and I will tell you the type of morals or immorals ot that age or that year. No exception lo it. Modest ap parel means a righteous people. Im modest apparel always means a contam inated and depraved society. It is not only such boldness that is to be repre hended, but extravagance of costume. This latter is the causa of fraud unlim* itable and ghastly. It was an effort to support too expensive establishments that sent prominent business men to the watering of stocks, and life insur ance presidents to )>erjured statements about their assets and some of them to the penitentiary, and lias completely upset our American finances. But why should I go to these famous default ings to show what men will do in order to keep up great home style and expen sive wardrobe, when you and I know scores of men who are put to their wit's end and are lushed January to Decem ber in the attempt ? Our Washington politicians may theorize until the ration of their terms of ollice as to the best way of improving our monetary condition in this country. It will be of no use, and things will be no belter uu til we learn to put on our heads and backs and feet and hands no more than we can pay for. There are clerks in stores and banks ou limited salaries, who in the vain attempt, to keep the wardrolte of their family as showy us other folks' ward robes, are dyiug of muffs, diamonds, catnel's-hair shawls, and high hats, and they'have nothing left except what they giye to cigars and wine suppers, and they die before their time, and they will expect us min isters to preach about them as though they were the victims of early piety ; and after a high-class funeral, with sil ver handles at the side of their coffins of extraordiney brightness, it will be found out that the undertaker is cheat ed out of his legitimate expenses ! Do not send to me to .'preach the funera sermon of a man who dies like that. 1 will blurt out tire whole truth and tell that he was strangled to death by his wife's ribbons ! You are not surprised to find that the putting up of one pub lic building in New York costs millions of dollars more than it ought to have cost, when you find that the man who gaye out the contract paid more than $5,000 for his daughter's wedding dressy Cashmeres of SI,OOO each have not been rare on Broadway. It is estimated that there are 8 00u womeu in these two cities who have expended on their per sonal array $2,000 a year. TIIE TRAGEDY OF HUMAN CLOTHES. 4 *Whal are the men to do in order to keep up such home wardrobes ? Stea 1. Tint is the only respectable thing they can do ! During the last fifteen; years there have been innumerable fine busi ness men shipwrecked ou the wardrobe. The temptation comes iu this way : A man thinks more of his family than all the world outside.and if they spend the evening in describing to him the super ior wardrobe of the family across the street that they cannot bear the sight of. the man is thrown upon his gallan try and his pride of family, and with out translating his feelings into plain language he goes into extortion and is suing of false stock aud skillful pen manship in writing somebody else's name at the foot of a promissory note, and they all go down together—the hus band to the prison, the wife to the sew ing machine, the children to be taken care of by those who were called poor relations. Oh, for some new Shakes peare to arise and write the tragedy ot humau clothes ! 4 -Act the First of the Tragedy—A plain but beautiful home. Enter the newly married pair. Eater simplicity of manner and behayior. Enter as much happiness as is ever found in one home. 44 Act the Second—Discontent with the humble home. Enter enyy. En ter jealously. Enter desire of display. Act lhe third—Enlargement of ex penses. Enter the queenly dressmak ers. Enter the French milliners. 4 'Act the Fourth—The tip top of so ciety. Enter princes and princesses of New York life. Euter magnificent plate and equipage. Enter everything splendid. 44 Act the Fifth and Last. Winding up the Scene—Enter the assignee. En ter the sheriff. Enter the creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter the wrath of God. Enter the contempt of society. Euter death. Now let the silk curtain drop on the stage. The farce is ended and the lights are out. 44 Will you forgive me if I say in ter sest shape possible that someof the men in this country have to forge and to perjure and to swindle to pay for their wives' dresses ? I will say it whether you forgive me or not." THE GOTWALD MEMORIAL TRACT, published by the Womeu'a Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Synod of Central Pennsylvania, is now for sale at the Journal Store. Price 6. cents.