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How Old English Juries
Were Made to Agree.
Not always enviable was the
lot of the old time juryman, for
there w T as always the prospect of
trouble if the verdict did not
gratify the higher powers. Thus
the failure of a jury to convict
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton made
Queen Mary “ill for three days,”
and she came out of her sick;
chamber to fine the disobliging
jury (meanwhile confined in pris
on) the su m of SIO,OOO a head.
Elizabeth followed the same
plan, and the practice of fining
English juries did not cease until
1670, when a fine inflicted by the
notorious Jeffreys was rescinded
on appeal.
In some old time “courts of
quarter sessions” the injunction
to lay their heads together had
to be carried out by jurymen in
literal fashion. When they be
gan to consider the verdict they
were supposed to dive beneath
the level of the jury box and re
main in that cramped position un
til a decision was reached.
Meanwhile the court usher
stood near the box armed with a
long wand of willow. If any
juryman ventured to emerge
above the surface before the
twelve minds were agreed down
came the w r and on the head of
the offender.—Chicago News.
Banana Eaters.
Americans used to be called a
nation of pie eaters. Today a
more appropriate term would be
a nation of banana eaters. The
United States takes more than
two-thirds of the bananas ship
ped to the handlers in the world.
Part of this pre-eminence in
banana consumption is due to
geography; the source of supply
on the Caribbean is almost at our
doors. Part is due to accident; a
Boston skipper introduced the
American public to this tropical
fruit while it was still unknown
in Europe. Whatever reason one
may choose to give, the United
States is the world’s chief ba
nana market, and though the
use of this fruit is increasing
abroad, the American boy re
mains the Jamaica grower’s best
friend.
A Problem in Identity.
A fishwife entered a tram-car,
says the Scottish American,' and
thought she recognized another
passenger as an acquaintance.
Accordingly, she bent forward,
and with an ingratiating smile,
said, “That’s you, isn’t it? I
hardly kent ye.”
“Aye, that’s me,” replied the
other, “and that’s you, isn’t it?
How are ye?
“Oh, A’m nae that bad,” was
the reply.
After this, silence ensued, and
the first speaker on furthur scru
tiny, became convinced that the
woman opposite was not an ac
quaintance, after all. Again she
bent forward with an apologetic
gmirk, and remarked, “But that’s
nae you at a’ 1”
“Nae,” replied the other. “It’s
nae nane o’ us!”
That Paper Mill.
Now all of you who said, “I
told you so, the paper mill will
never be a go,” take a rideout
to the old car factory site and
ask Mr. Logan to show you the
process of making paper, the
Waycross way of making it from
banana plant pulu. You will
certainly have to take a back
seat. We are actually making
paper in Waycross.
This is a real enterprise and it
is worth seeing. The machinery
is all set and being tested out.
Some paper has been made al
ready, but the plant will not be
running full blast for thirty days
yet.
However, it would tickle us to
see the “knockers” go out to
gether. We would enjoy watch*
ing them fade away.
It’s there all right. Go see for
yourself. —Waycross Herald.
We Place Flowers Only
After They Are Dead.
A few weeks ago Herr Bebel,
the dean of German Socialists,
died, after a long period of par
tial disability. The statesmen
and journalists of the empire,
without distinction of party,
agreed in paying tribute to his
fine qualities. During his life
time his political opponents fought
him bitterly and without quarter,
but after he was dead they found
much good to say of him.
The incident is not unusual.
It has happened a hundred times
in our own experience, and will
happen hundreds of other times.
When Mr. Reed was Speaker,
nothing was too bad for his polit
cal enemies to say of him. He
was called “Tsar,” and denounc
ed in the most opprobrious terms
as an embodiment of political ar
rogance. But when he died, his
party foes were as emphatic, and
doubtless as sincere, in praising
him as were his lifelong party as
sociates. President Cleveland
was cruelly attacked by his polit
ical opponents; but when he came
to die, even those who disagreed
with his policies had only respect
and admiration for his character.
These examples have been
chosen merely because they are
recent; they might be duplicated
in every decade of the country’s
history. They ought to teach us
the need of tolerance and dis
cernment in forming opinions,
and temperance in expressing
them. There are public men liv
ing today who have at times been
the objects of violent censure
and depreciation. What will
their present opponents say of
them when they die? In our
hearts and in our words we ought
to anticipate the verdict that
hereafter we shall surely pro
nounce upon such public men as
Theodore Rossevelt, William Jen
nings Bryan and William H. Taft.
—Youth’s Companion.
It Will Pay to Pick the Peas.
A reader wishes to know
whether it will pay better to
gather peas at a cost of 75 cents
to $1 a bushel and plow the
vines under or plow under both
peas and vines, peas selling for
about $2 a bushel in the spring.
Estimating the cost of picking
and marketing the peas at $1 a
bushel, the question simply re
solves itself into whether one
bushel or 60 pounds of peas is
worth tl as a fertilizer. Accord
ing to Van Slyke, “Fertilizers
and Crops,” there is 1.86 pounds
of nitrogen, .6 pound of phos
phoric acid and .72 pounds of
potash in a bushel of peas, and
these amounts of plant foods may
be purchased on the market at
from 40 cents to 45 cents.
It is plain, therefore, if a pro
fit of $1 a bushel can be made by
picking the peas, this will pay
better than to plow them under
for fertilizer.
Looking at the proposition from
another viewpoint, ic may be
stated that 30 pounds of cotton
seed meal contains a little more
nitrogen and phosphoric acid and
nearly as much potash as 60
pounds of cowpeas, and since 30
pounds of cottonseed meal may
be purchased for about 40 cents,
it will pay better to pick the
peas, and sell them at a profit of
$1 per bushel and buy cottonseed
meal to replace the plant foods
removed.—Progressive Farmer.
A Worthy Immigrant.
When you think of the dangers
of immigration, think also of the
pluck, the thrift, and the loyal,
loving hearts of some of the im
migrants. Six years ago a Rus
sian girl, Ida Alper, then sixteen
years old, came here, unable to
speak a word of English, She
got work in a Massachusetts shoe
factory. The pay was small, but
she attended to business, fit-ed
herself to earn more, and saved,
Last month her father, her moth
er, her brothers, and her sisters
came over, all on money that Ida
! had sent them. There is room
in this country for a lot of girls
like that. —Youth’s Companion.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1918.
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