River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-12-20

its name, which was Be-Or-Not-To-B
Is-The-Question Jackson
'Sho. that amt the one. That's the
one that eat up an entire box Of Seidlitz
powders, and then hadn't any more
Judgment than 10 go and take a drink.
He was considered 10 be a great loss, but
/ never could see it. Well, no matter
about the names. Mrs. Brown wanted to
be reasonable, but Mrs. Jones wouldn't
let her She put her up to going to law
for damages So to law she went, and
had the face to claim seven shill;ngs and
sixpence. 1t made great stir. All the
neighbOrs went TO court. Everybody
took sides 1t got hotter and hotter, and
hotter, and broke up all the friends hips
for 500 yards around-friendships that
had lasted for generations and genera
tons.
"Well, | proved by eleven witnesses
that the cat was of a low character and
very ornery, and warnt worth a cancelled
postage-stamp, any way, taking the aver
age of cats here; but / lost the case.
What could | expectl The system is all
wrong here, and is bound to make revo-
luton and bloodshed some day You give
tatN pun AAAAAN CkaA
| salary, and then turn him loose on the
/ public 10 gouge for fees and costs to live
on. What is the natural result2 Why,
he never looks into the justice of case
never once. All he looks at is which
client has got the most money. So this
one piled the fees and costs and every
thing on to me. l could pay specie, don't
you sect and he knew mighty we'll that
1 if he put the verdict on to Mrs. Brown,
where it belonged, he'd have TO take his
swag in currency"
"Currency2 Why, has Bermuda a cur
rencyi"
YES onions. And they were 40 per
cent discennt, too, then, because the
season had been over as much as three
months So | lost my case. / had to
pay for that cat. But the general trouble
the case made was the worst thing about
it. Broke up somuch good feeling. The
neighbors don't speak to each other now.
Mrs Brown had named child after me.
But she changed its name right away.
Shs is Baptist. Well, in the course of
baptiZing it over again, it got drowned.
| was hoping We might geg 10 be friend
ly again, some time or other, but of course
this drowning the child knocked tina. all
out of the question. 1t would have saved
world of heart break and ill-blood if
she had named it dry"
! knew by the sigh that this was hon
est All this trouble and all this destrue-
ton of confidence in the purity of the
bench on account of a seven shilling law
suit about cat Somehow, ii seemed to
size" the country.
At this point we observed that an En-
glish flag had just been placed at half
mast on a building a hundred yards
away. and my friends were busy in an
instant trying to imagine whose, death,
among the Island dignitaries, could com
mand such a mark of respect as this.
Then a shudder shook them ana me at
the same moment, and / knew that we
had jumped to one and the same conclu-
sion. 1.-THE Governor has gone to
England; Il is for the British Admiral -
At this moment Mr.. Smith noticed the
flag. He said with emotion:
"That's on a boarding house. | judge
there's a boarder dead
A dozen other flags within view went
To half-mast
It's a bJarder, sure, said Smith
"But would they half-mast the flags
here for a boarder, Mr.. SMITH"
"Why, certainly they would, if he was
dead"
That seemed 10 size the country again.