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Hot weather affects the mule less than 

 the horse. 



A good, honest business mule is worth, 

 and will command, a good price any day in 

 the week. 



The usefulness of a mule continues 

 longer than that of a horse. 



The mule is not handsome, doesn't make 

 a good roadster, isn't stylish, doesn't "do 

 himself proud" if hitched to a fancy yellow 

 wagon or cart, but what he lacks in ap- 

 pearance he makes up in actual usefulness 

 on the farm. Tennessee Farmer. 



British from any of its ports, is a very im" 

 portant one, and if the New Orleans suit 

 results in settling that, it will go on record 

 as one of the most notable judicial proceed- 

 ings in our history. 



The Mule and the War. 



According to the terms of the injunction 

 suit filed by the Boer representative at 

 New Orleans, the success of the British in 

 South Africa depends entirely upon their 

 getting their regular supply of mules from 

 the Louisiana metropolis. The complaint 

 says that "the war can be- carried on by 

 Great Britain only through the renewal of 

 its military supplies from this port (New 

 Orleans), and when these supplies cease 

 the war must end." 



This is the most pewerful tribute to the 

 efficacy of the American mule yet recorded. 

 Old soldiers of the civil wa-r are full of 

 reminiscences of the importance of the 

 army mule in that struggle, and we know 

 that he was a great factor in Cuba, and is 

 so now in the Philippines. But no one 

 ever before asserted that the ability of a 

 great empire like that of Great Britain to 

 carry on war depended upon the limited 

 supply of mules that could be obtained 

 from a single American port. 



The indispengability of the mule in war 

 operations may be freely admitted, but 

 New Orleans is not the only port from 

 which this sturdy, long-eared animal can 

 be shipped. It may be "reckoned" that 

 so long as Johnny Bull has money he will 

 get a supply of mules somewhere. 



The question as to whether the United 

 -States violates its neutral obligations by 

 ^permitting the shipment of mules for the 



Mark Twain's Double. 



There are in this country a number of 

 clubs, situated in various cities, whose 

 mission in life is to give good dinners and 

 do amusing stunts after they are consumed. 

 The parent of these clubs is the Clover 

 Club in Philadelphia. Then there is the 

 Gridiron in Washington, the Whitechapel 

 in Chicago, the Tavern Club in Boston, 

 and a number of others. Yesterday at the 

 Murray Hill hotel, P. R. Dunne, of Bos- 

 ton, told of a recent meeting of the Tavern 

 Club. "Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)," 

 said Mr. Dunne, "was the guest of honor. 

 He had some other engagements that even- 

 ing, and so he arranged with the club to 

 come there after the dinner and make a 

 speech. No one, however knew this save 

 the managers, and, as the event proved, 

 they kept the information successfully to 

 themselves. When the dinner came off 

 Twain occupied the seat of honor next to 

 the host, and the dinner went smoothly on 

 its accustomed course from oysters to cof- 

 fee. Then came the speaking, and Twain 

 made one of his very best efforts when his 

 turn came. He had just finished when the 

 door opened, and to the uttera stonishment 

 of most preseut there entered the exact 

 counterpart of the last speaker. The two 

 men were identical in appearance, and 

 when the newcomer spoke it was noticed 

 that their facial expressions were the same, 

 as, too, were the intonations of the voices. 

 The two Dromios could not have been 

 more exactly alike, and the dumfounded 

 members stared open-mouthed from one to 

 the other, all at sea as to what it meant. 

 The president of the club relieved the sit- 

 uation by introducing the two men. 'Mr. 

 Samuel L. Clemens,' said he, suavely, re- 

 ferring to the most recent arrival, 'permit 



