Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-31
A BAIKY MULE.

One day last spring, while coming
up Fulton street IN this city, my at
tention was attracted to a large crowd
a little way up the street. Upon
reaching it. I elbowed my way through
and found it was a case of balky
mule. The mules were small, the
load of brick large, and in the steep
est part of the hill one mule conclud-
ed to retire from business.
The driver was big brute, and
fiourished savage black-snake whip.
One fellow in the crowd cried out,
'Cut him under the belly"
Another cried, "Hit his ears.
That'll fetch him."
And still another, Build fire
under him. Here's some straw !!
Build a fire under him. That'Il fetch
him sure"
The driver was meantime busy with
his black-snake. I cried,
''Don't, for mercy's sake, don't !!
That won't do any good.''
s'Who are you? Mind Your own
business, and I'll tend to my mule p
and the crowd hooted, ''Out with
him out with him? Give him the
whip"
Just then big negro stepped for
ward, and said,
"Boss, if you'll stop lickin' i'm,
I've got some medson It'll cure i'm"
"You shet up, or I'll give it to
you,' was the drivers reply.
With a broad grin the negro re-
peated,
"Boss, if you'll stop lickin' i'm,
I've got some medson TIL cure i'm" :"
As the teams were accommodating
above and below, and as the crowd
was rapidly augmenting, and two OF
three policemen were trying to clear
the street, and as the driver saw that
his whip did no good, he cried out,
''Here, you niger, what is your
medicine?'
Il want to talk to the little fool,
want to whisper to i'm
With a nine-jointed oath the driver
consigned the black man to the in
fernal regions; but the negro per-
sisted,
"Look a heah, boss. I was born
among the mules, and brought up
among the mules, and I know all
about mules
swell, try yer medicine, quick"
The negro put his cheek against
the mules nose, and began with his
hand to pat his neck, rub his ears,
and repeat in a low, soft voice,
"Poor fellow! poor fellow! poor
fellow ~
After a few moments the negro
said,
Snow, boss, if you'll tech up
t'other one, this one'll go, l reckon. .
The driver touched the other mule,
which had been willing to 60 all the
time-not anxious, but rather willing
and when that one started, and the
negro said to his mule, in a pleasant,
coaXing voice, 'Come, old feller.
don't be a-foolin','' off he went.
leaping and tearing up the hill as
hard as he could go.
I looked round upon the crowd,
and saw scarcely face that did not
show disappointment. They evident
ly felt that they had been cheated out
of feast. They were eager to have
the poor creature beaten and tortured
into submission.
This is the spirit in which drunk
ards were treated until the Washing
tonian days. They were solemnly
assured that the drukard's grave was
the only place on earth for them, and
that the gates of heaven were shut
against them.
A few drunkards in Baltimore, in
their despair, looked up to God. In
His love he pitied and helped them.
He taught them that love was all
sufficient. The good work began,
Brotherly love triumphed everywhere.
No more scowls, no more curses fol-
the drunkard; but everywhere men
went down to him IN his darkness and
weakness, put the arms of their fra
ternal love about him, and led hin
up into the light.
In a bitter spirit we cursed the
rum-seller until the women of Ohio,
filled with the Christ-spirit, went
about pleading and Praying with rum
sellers. That wonderful movement,
known as the "Woman's Crusade, %
will never be fully comprehended
The results in the way of closing
rum-shops were astonishing. And
what is most important, under the
Crusade the dealers, in great part.
stopped willingly, and then heartily
co-operated with the women in then
good work. One such abandonment
of the business is worth more to the
cause of temperance than hundred
closures by the constable.-D. l..
''THE DEAD LINE.'-AIany old soldiers remem
Der ssthe dead line'' at Andersonville. 1t was
mighty dangerous neighborhood. Dyspepsia, bill
iousness, and liver and kidney diseases full o
perils for the sick, but Burdock Bitters Ger
tain rerneflv Sold everxyVhere