Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Just for the Principle. [ARTICLE]

Just for the Principle.

A man in Copiah County, Miss., came out of bis cotton-fi,eld one day at noon and turned his plow-mule in the yard and threw her a bundle of fodder and then entered the house to eat his own dinner. -A mangy, half-starved calf, that was grazing in the yard, wandered over to the miile and fodder and began eating. The mule backed her ears and heels find kicked the calf so severely that it fell to the ground and died. The children called to their father: “Oh, papa.! Old Bet’s done killed Billy.” The father immediately seized his gun and rushed out into the yard, and seeing what the mule had done, in his rage discharged both barrels of the gun at the mule, killing her almost instantly. A neighbor passing along about that time inquired: “Jones, don’t you think it mightry poor business to kill a liundred-dollar mule all about a two-dollar calf?” “Hundred-dollar mule! Thunder, it’s not a money matter with me. It is the principle of the thing.”— Detroit Free Press.