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Peter and the Doctor. pEAi>! Where is Mrs. Beaziey r s
| man, Sam? Go ask the worms in
Published by Bequest.' , , r
! the graveyard where he lies. Mr.
A doctor named Royston had j^efl^e’s woman, Sarah, wasiWte^d-
suea Peter Bennett for hig bill,! gq tsy him, and her funeral fras ap-
long over-due, for attendihjg the j pointed, and be had the corpse
wife of the latter. A, H. Stephens ready Where is that likely Bill,
was on the Bennett: side,. aed L ‘
Robert Toombs, then ..Senator- of
the United States, was for Dr.
as belonged to Mr. Mitchell? Now
in glory, a’ expressin’ his opinion
of Royston’s doctorin'. Where is
that baby gal of Harry Stephen’?
jtShe is where doctors: 'cease from
Royston.
The doctqp.prdVed bis number
P‘HPlSBr%. according ^;Troublin’^ and the infants are at
local custom, and hi3 own author!
ty to do medical . practice. Mr
Stephens told his- client that the
^physician had made out his case,
[.and as there was nothing where-
■with to rebut or offset his claim,
the only thing left to do was to
pay-it.- *
“No, sir,” said Peter, “[ hired
you to speak in my case, and now
speak.” .....
Mr. Stephans told him there
was nothing to say;, he had looked
on. fo -se^'th^t it was made out, and
it was. Petal 1 wffs obstinate, : aind
at last Mr. Stephens told; him to
make a speech himself* if he
thought one could be made. I
“] willj” said Peter; ,Bennett. “if
Bobby Yoonibs won’t be too hard
on me.” , .
Senator Toombs promised, and
Peter began: ....
“Gentlemen of the jury: You
and I is plain-farmers, and ;d.f we
don’t stick together these doctors
and lawyers will git. the advantage
of us. I ain’t no lawyer nor doc
tor, and I ain’t no objections to
them ip. their proper places; but
they ain’t fanners. gentlemen- 65
the jury. Now, this man Royston
was a new doctor, and I went for
him to come and to doctor my
wife’s sore leg. Ap'd be come and
put some salve truck on it, and
some rags, but never done, . it no
good. . Gentlemen of the. jury, I
don’t Believe he is na doctor, no
way. . There is doctor^ as is doc
tors, sure enough, but this man
don’t earn his money, and if you
send jjop him, as Mrs. Sarah At-
kinsoh did for a negro boy as was
wqhtk §1,000, he just kills him,
and wants you to pay for it”
I don’t,” thundered the doctor.
Did you cure him?” asked Pe
ter, with the slow accents of a j udge
with the black cap on.., .
The doctor was silent, and Peter
proceeded:
As I was a sayin’, gentlemen of
the jury, we farmers; frhen we sell
our cotton, has got |6 give rally for
the money * fre ask, and doctors
ain’t none too good to be put to the
samA.rule. And I don’t believe
this Sam Royston is no doctor, no
how.”
do
rest. Gentlemen of the jury, he
has et chicken enough at my house
to pay for his salve, and I furnish
ed the,rags, and 5 don’t suppose
he charges for inakin’ her worse,
hud even he don’t pretend to charge
for curin’ of her, and lam fiftmbly
thankful that he never give her
nothin’ for her innards, as he did
.his.other patients, .for somethin’
made ’em all die mighty sudden.”:
Here the applause made the
speaker sit down in great confu
sion, and in spite of a logical
statement, pf : tlpe case by Senator
Toombs, the doctor lost, and Peter
Bennett won.
Accidentally Made a Prisoner,
fA; cquple of St. Louis lawyers
recshtly/frertrisitp, ope.of .thS;,sub
terranean vaults cf the court house
iu that city, to look over, so die old
court records. On6' of-; -them was
compelled to leave before the pa
per desired t^ar found, and going
out slammed the door . without
thinking of the consequences. The
automatic lock performed its duty,
and his friend \yas a prisoner, The
Mend discovered .thi's,disagreeable
fact only when hp had. unearthed
“he paper he desired and turned to
go. The lock could not be work
ed, and he could not attract atten
tion by calling. Finally, under
the dirt and cobwebs ; that had
Been gathering for years, fie fdftnd
a narrow grating through which
he could just peep out on the
street. Calling through this ,he
attracted (lip attention jjf a passers
I'jj %ho rushed into the sheriff’s
office and announced that a prison
er was trying.to escape. Investir
gation disclosed the pent-up attor
ney.
Mayor Beuregard, of Montreal,
has sued La Minerve, the organ of
the dominion government, for libel
for, having asserted that lie has no
right to the dgaoratipfi of the
Legion of Hcnor which he received
wheii Gen. Boulanger was the
French Minister-y olj.AYm?;; -- The
chief justice .of; the province, Sir
E. ll. fiorion, has been asked to
issue a peremptory order that
Gen Boulanger come to Montreal
at once to testity. that Beaure?
gard’s decoration is legitimate, and
j was given by President Grevy, of’
France. As -Boulanger is now on
The physician again put iu his
oar with, “Look at my -diploma, if
you think I am no doctor,”
“His diploma j”..;hsblairned the
new-fledged orator, -frith great con
tempt, “His diploma! Gentle- ,, T , j - r .. . , ,.,
me D , a big word tor printed *' e Isl * n!lpf Jelsej '' 1113 heldtl,at
sheepskin; and it didn’t make no,
doctor- of the sheep as first wor& it,
nor.'dr^B it of the man ; ^|io-di6w
carries it. A good newspaper has
he fiinst answer a
courts;.
summons from
William Wentworth, of Minne
sota, is a disappointed office-seeker
more in it, and I pints out; to you who has becopie-the::-victim “bfe a
that he ain’t no doctor at all.” strange Hallucination. From 9 d.
The man of medit^ee was now m. to 4 o’clock p. m. he is as sa
in.a fury, and serjearaed out, “Ask tional as anybodyj but at Other
my patients if.I am not a doctor/’ times he imagines that lie is Pres-
“I askecLmy wife,” retorted Pe- i^ent Harrison, and that he is
toTi-“*n 5 abe said as how she - making Federal appointments. No
thdught you wasn't.”
“Ask my other patients,
Dr.-R^yaloh.
This' seemed . the straw that
broke the camel’s back, for Peter
replied withua.look and tone of un
utterable, sadness:
•/‘That re aj hard sayin’,
men of the jury, and one
doubt in his imagination he has
said supplied his Relatives with choice
offices,
—
Farmers- in the yrbimty of An
derson, Indiaria; are excited over
N©M-©E7
the - appeafance of a gang of young
, wolves in their wood lots, A malt-:
gentle- j Eer of sheep and chickens have
re * j been killed, A big. huMting party
quires me to die, or to have power , has been organized to kid off : the
.as I’ve^-hearn tell ceased to be; ex-1" prowlers. . * * '
ercised since the Aposiles. Does * ' : 't^T.
he expectlme to Lrijig the Angtl' . _ >vilie iist bii.the Bills of. fare
Gabriel down to ioot h'is horn be-ffi^ing cars bn rujlroads
fore his »time,, -’and erv aloud; j 9 rC55i “S J° wa bas this ^ictice at
Awake, ye deadl.and.tell this court j the ^pttomi MNo. liquors sold iu
and jury yojtrfl^Moffdf-Roygtoh’s'r^ 10 state ; ^ • . G. ,
practice!’ Am 3-to goto tMsnelyj Thbnffik^ia^rv.-of 5e^ York,
chui’chyard and rap on dhe silent ; aged 17 yelirfj jc as died - froui au
tomb, and say to some as is at last
at rest from: .pLysici and doctor’s
Git up here, you
Delays in the Law.
Monroe Adrertisor.
In some way the Relays in the
admibintiation of the law have fb-
hbm% fiucBj that it .getting to be
a tedious job to adminisler the
law at all in cases of crimes of
grave import. This difficulty is
not local nor limited to one state,
but is almost universal. Petty
criminals are usually : tried and
punished .•’with dispatch. But
criminals guilty, of crime involv
ing liberty ,or life, especially
the latter, are kept out of trial
through legal technicalities and
tardiness of law until in many in
stances the ,patience of the law
^biding citizens [becomes . thread
bare. Indeed, in eases of murder,
it is getting to be somewhat diffi
cult even to secure a jury to in
quire into the facts touching the
'saflto.:; Lawdslmadeiito protect so
ciety against criminals, ybt- the
more heinous the crime the great
er the effort upon the part' of 4he
counsel to stay the penalty that
attaches *tfe.. the criminal; }t Every
legal technicality and subterfuge
is resorted to, to st&y the prosecu
tion of the party charged with a
heinous crime. And not infre
quently, when a criminal has been
tried and found guilty, the chances
of delay .afforded by the law are
taken advantage of to the fullest
extent to keep off as Jong as possi
ble the the infliction of the pun
ishment. On this point the Ma
con Telegraph.aptly says:
“A petty 1 thief may be promptly
sent to prison; it takes; weeks pr
months of uiAemi-tMhgE effort to
convict a murderer, and convict-
may only mean that : the first of
many chances have gbne . against
the criminal. Even if all’ the
chances go against him and he has
finally to pay the penalty of his
crime many montliSj. or perhaps
years, will have elapsed, and his
experience serves to illustrate the
faults of our judicial system rather
than the consequences of wrong
doing. Under such circumstanced
the. greater part of the moral- ef
fect df, capital punishment is lost,
and it is the moral effect only on
bad men that justifies society in
deliberately taking the life of one
of its members guilty of crimed”
"Such prcBeedings . largely, in
crease the cost of executing the
criminal laws and thus piles up a
burden upon the law abiding citi
zens. Further, they seem to cul- ,
tiVate thatitemBlg spirit among the
people that drive's them in some
instances to a resort to lynch
law.
In a work soon to be, published
Cardinal Gibbons commenting on
this sublec says:
A crying evil is the wide inter
val that so often interposes be
tween a criminal conviction and
the execution, of tfil sentence, and
|he frequent defeat of justice by
the delay. Humaa life is indeed
sacred, but the laudable efforts to
guard it have gone beyond bounds.
Of late years the .difficulty to con-
eonvict, in ffi.urddr trials especial
ly, has greatly increased from the
widened application of the pleas
in bar, notably that of insanity.
When a conviction’ has been
reached innumerable delays gen
erally stay the execution. The
many grounds of exception yell6w> :
ed to the counsel, ^theTSippedg from
the court, to another with final ap
plication to : ' ! the governer, and the
facility with which signitures are
Obtained, have combined to throw
around culprits au extravagant
protective system and gone' far to
The Australian Ballot System.
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M&con Telegraph.
The practical tests €f tfij?. Aus-
toeUan ballot system at the S&ient
elections in Connecticut, and Mon
tana - seem to have been univer-
8^y satisfaotpry 7 and will no doubt
increase the favOV frith which this
reform is considered, in other
states. - ' ; '- :
The bill which originated this
plan of voting was passed by the
legislature of South Australia in
1858, and the ffiaiqipfdyisiQns of
that act are copied in the statutes
which have b.een adopted by sev
eral states of tke'Union to proride
for similar safeguards of the ballot.
The Australian act provides that
the government must supply a
sufficient number of polllcg places,
and must furnish them to accom
modate voters’ according-to the re
quirements of ,$he act. An ample
number of ballots containing the
name of evety candidate to be
voted for at the election must be
supplied by the government. The
law then prescribes that “the voter
shall retire alone to some. t^npecisL-;
pied compartment of the saidBootfi
(polling place), and shall there in
private and without delay, indicate
■tfie uame of each candidate for
whom he intends to Vdte by leak
ing a cross, the center of which
shall be contained within the
square opposite the name of such
candidate, and .then shall fold the
voting papefAndideliver itr' ter. .the,
presiding oflicer,.who shall With
out unfolding the* same, openly
deposit it in the ballot-box, and
'the voter shall then quit the poll
ing booth.”
It will be seen that this law im
poses an educational qualification
to the extent that no man can be
sure he*. is voting as he wants to
vbte unlfiMs can-*, read. The
main points in favor of. ^his law
fere, that it reduces the opportuni
ties for bribery and intimidation
and that -it guarantees as. far as
paapfcicable a secret ballot. It r<L
iieues the voter .from outside
pressure a&efceijr Sind more corh-
fietoly th'ah an^’ forin of 'pollihg
yet devised. The abomination of
strikers and bulldozers at the polls
is done away with by it about. iaS
completely as may be.- Tfi'ere are
so many strongreasons in favor of
this system of- voting that the rap
id growth of its popularity in the
United States is hot to be .w0ader-
ed at It has already Been adopt
ed in Massachusetts^..Connecticut,
KentucJ^frriWfeGohsin and Mon
tana; feM its advocates are confi
dent that within a few years every
popular election held in this coun
try will be under the safeguards of
the Australian system. One of its
effects at the reebfit Connecticut
elections was that the democratic
vote was largely increased in the
manufacturing, centers. .Hereto^
fore ffialiy .mnployes have had their
tickets handed to them at the polls
by bosses representing their pro
tected employers and have voted
them under dread of discharge if
they failed to do so. "V^hpn the
wage workers- of CdniiidtiCtit found
an opportunity to express their
real political preferences through
the medium of secret ballot the re^
suit was adecided democratic gain.
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The rtallest .sttioke stack in the
Uiiited States was finished Friday.
It will be connected with thp forty
boilers of the four new' inills of
the Fall River Iron Company. -- Ifi
is 850 feet in height, and cost
840,000. Two chimneys in Glas-
pa sit
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Meals at all JfotitsA .Open
Bay and YigM,
Sleej^tng:Aocomuridati jiri! in Con-
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W i gow, Scotland, are higher, ope Be-j
rob jury trial of lts^snbstance and ” . , , „ ^ l ; -
efficacy. A prompt execution of the 1D S ^ e ° u an ^ tho ether 4.5 -eev
efficacy. A prompt execution of the
lafr’s sentence after a' fair trial-id 1
that which strikes terror ’ iii evil
Merit "VVins.
Tfe desire to say to our citizens,
doers and satisfies the public con- thaiftir years we have been sell-
science. The reverse of this leg "Dr, King’s New Discovery for
among u's has brought reproach , P r ’ ^ n = s —-
upou ple^ble gmrnds lor the J*. .f S hlvl. ? “ ^
application of lynch law. : v=. 1 1
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-up some by clocfcota;’. He j
bis patients, and,.gentle*
the jury, they lrf .ail
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