The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-14
CHARACTER OF THE MULE ATTACKED AGAIN

A Kansas City court of appeals has decided against
the mule in a recent wherein employe of a con-
structon company sued for damages for injuries sus
hands rather the legs of that animal
The ordered by the superintendent to go
wagon which pair of mules were harnessed
and while there the hind legs the mules tcked
by some and they away. dragging the wagon
the workman. He received verdict allowing him
damages and the court in its opinion took away what
little character the mule has left The mule is do
animal" says this court whose treacherous and
vicious nature so generally that courts
may of it. The company cannot be heard to
claim that not of treacherous and
liable qualities of this animal 1t to that the
defendant guilty of the grossest negligence"
Thus is the mule condemned in the land where honor
should be his partion-od Missouri which mulss
by the and much of its wealth to the gen
Grafton of that useful animal Another in the in
dictment against the mule may not matter but why
should of record the mule to be wholly
bad? perfect that the hybrid offspring of the
mare and the ass is always the wrong? We assert
that shades temperament exist
In the mule in man, his We shall admit that
the male mule is often rufhan, but the other hand
the female mule not infrequenty is lady, tractable
patient, sweet temperatures winsome.
But for the truculent he mule who has char
acter to lose and is pessimst among beasts, is
something to be said in extenuaton? He has than
the intelligence of the horse than his strength and
frequently all his courage. He is better workman,
worries along with less sleep and frugal provender and
is good for thirty years of unremitting oilyet the
horse snubs him. him dead, To the good quail
ties of the horse and the sobrety industry and endur
of the ass inherit thews and have spindle
shanks; to be the color of mouse and emit bray
that excies the laughter ass his father and the
of the his mother sport pair of ears
that carcature the baser part of his orign-surey
this is enough the temper of the most angelic
mule.
One forget the military qualities of the
mule, in which he excels the horse-infnitey will
ing and faithful practical accomplishing
enjoying the rudest health in the vlest glor
campaigner is the army mule Was not the quar-
termaster general said close of the civil war
in official report THE experience of this war has con-
WINGED all officers this department that for the army
trains mules much superior horses and of late
the horses have almost entirely disappeared from the
trains being transferred cavalry or artillery and
replaced by mules
Who can forget the mertorious services of the mule
in the Santiago campaign? He the boys the firing
line he saved the day-yes he made the of Shat
ter Night and day under furnace tropic deuge
and through of mud he atered his scanper
for the front And there bugle or roll of drum
band music TO spre him. prods. kicks profanity
that split the air like shell too often his only re-
ward Lots Of brevets and medals were bestowed on
human heroes in that mule deserved as we'll
Of his country any of them. He should have been
made brigadier general Did not Caligula make his
horse consul?
Gods in his heaven. all is right with the world
the Kansas City defendant will appeal the court of
last and redeem the good name CT them ule