The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14
Misarranged.


The mule which plods a'ong the
streets has no resent u pri to awaken,
and does not seem to feel the indi9nitv
OF blow from the VIII p. He starts
forward at the pain but sub>ides in a
moment, indifferent and foryetfuL The
same treatment of spir ted horse rould
make him unmanageable end nseless.-
TO sensi le man wou d risk q fine horse
in the hands of q mule-dri er. The
mule is q stolid b ute, and his DIR yer. as
a rule, is the same, SO they are W III
adapted to each other: but in the hap
penings of life these prophet es OF =
lation are o ten reversed. The gentle
man of good heart and ue instincts
may find himself driving mules. hut he
W II, even in that capacity. ev nee the
princi les and instincts of a gentlemen;
and the brute may find b mself in pos
sess on of the power 10 drive gen ieman
and he win, in that cap city, e'ince The
habits and instincts OF the brute 1t
was once usual to set up the plan alton
and inhumanity-but human nature is
al ke everywhere. When the relative
sensitive-ess OF tie African field
hand and that of an or woman,
free born. and educated to senti-
ments of honor and self-respe t. Is
taken into account, the planta ion
overseers, as q class, need ha no
occasion t, evade com arison
w tn the overseers of white free horn
men and women amongpeoplr who pos
sess civil liberty. etters of iron are
strong, but fe ters of love and duly to
wife and chill rem are stronger. What
is meant by this can best be explained
to those who. ortunate'y, hive no
knowledge of it from experience or OBJ
servation. by an illustrat on or two A
lady was max ng some purchases in q
large dry-goods store, paid tle money
to q young lady who was waiting on
her. and it was sent by a cash bo' to the
cashier. The money d not check
right. an ! she was sent for. Re,urn NJ,
I" oor-walker'' demanded why she
was not at her place. ''I was sent for
by the cashier. SIR" g 'Yo business
is to stay at your counter" he said. with
a rough tone ndmanner. Tears sprang
10 the young girl s eyes In a moment
more another o erseer addressed her:
Where is that miss ng money" he
said. al put it with the check in my
sales-book and gave tito the cash b y"
she replied. 'No you did not" was
the reply. Ply this time the lady pur-
chasers blood was boiling. and she de-
man ed: "How do YOU know, sir that
she did notp 1 pad her the bills and
saw her put them in her sales-book and
deliver them to tn. cash boy"
"t b, ahr' said the fell W, who in
stantlv on erted himself into a
smirking spaniel. as such creatur al
wa do. 81 bey your pa don. madam;
there must be some mistake" Now he g
was a clear case of misarrar cement
The two supposed-to-be-menw were not
much TO blame. They were only acting
up to the best light of nature or grace
that was in them. II instead of Civ ng
them positi ons to which thev were not
Il dap pted. they had been hifched to a coal
cart an driven bv a mule driver, their
relat' ons to each other and to society
would have been harmonious and lovel /.
IL space would permit, and it were nee
essary for the illustration of such mis-
arrangements, we could gi' e score OF
such instances. and witnesses would rise
up to give thousands Of them. We are
not intending to teach that it is not nee
essary for mule-drivers to drive mules,
or even or Chr stian gentlemen to drive
mules; nor that it is not necessary to
use the appliances which are reeuis te
in mule-striving. A creature that is SO
stolid as to require d living, whether il
be man or woman, brute or human, is
not hurt by reasonable driving the
purpose of the driver not being tc
wound them but to urge them to q
proper pace. We are on y calling t
tent ON to a kind of misarrangement ir
human relation which is productive ol
much evil every way.-Ihe Interior.