The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-12

that kye Rodgers shouldn't turn nary Of
the hosses." Surely it must have been
Old kye who, upon taking his official seat
for the first time, said +: IF this court
know her duty, and she thinks she do,
Justice will walk over this track with her
her head and tail up
Prone as be might be to discuIsiveness,
we fancy the Louisiana Judge would have
laid down the law little more luciilv than
the California Sheriff did after being iIl-
;erviewed 10y self-confesSed murderer,
who desired to lie sent to New York TO an
swer for the crime he had committed III
that CITY.
80 your conscience amt easy, and you
want TO be hanged ?'' said the Sheriff.
We'll my friend, the county treasury
Amt well fixed at present, and | don't
want TO take any risks, in case YOU re not
the man, and are just fishing foT free
ride. Besides, those New \ olk courts
can be trusted to hang man. As you
say, you deserve - be killed, aud your
conscience wont be easy until you are kill
ed, and as it can't make any difference to
you or to society how you are killed,
guess I'll do the job myselGr' and his
hand moved to his pocket, but before lac
couid pull out the revolver and level ii ut
the murderer, that conscience stricken in
dividaal was down the road and out of
killing distance.
When lawyers behave I'm such free and
easy way, it is not surprising hat a prison
or presCmes to enter into familiar conveT-
saton with the bench. An old tippler.
when asked by Judge McGrew. of Coiora-
do, whether lac was rightly ur wrongly
charged with being intoxicated, pleaded,
Not guilty, Your Honor. Sunstrokei ~
"Sunstroke p queried the Judge.
''1 es, sin the regular New Yuik vari-
ety."
You've had sunstroke a good deal in
your time. | believe2 -
"1es. Your Honor; but this last attack
was most severe.''
'Does sunstroke make you rush through
the streets offering t. fight the town?''
That's the effect precisely
And makes you throw brick bats at peo.
ple?'
That's it Judge. l see you understand
the symp omS and agree with the best
recognized authorities, who hold it in
flames the organs of combatitiveness.
When man of my temperament gets a
good square sunstIoke he's Liable to do
most anything"
"Ges you aIe quite richt-liable to 90
to jail for fifteen days, You'll go down
with the policeman at once" With that
observation the conversation naturally
closed, and the victim of so-called sun
stroke went down.
The bench does not ALWAYS come off SO
VIGOROUSLY. r prisoner before the Court
of kcariugvilie, Montana. neglecting to re-
move his bat, the Sheriff WAS directed TO
DO il for him, and o5eyed the Instructions
10y knocking the offenders head gear off
with his rife. The owner picked it M.
and as he clapped il on his head again
shouted, Il am bald, Judge.'' A repetition
of the performance followed at which,
waxing indignant, His Honor rose and
said !: Il fine you s. fo3 contempt of court
to be committed until the fine is paid.''
The offender walked mp to the Judge,
and laying down i half q dollar, liked.
''l our sentence. judge. is most uneeptIe-
manly, but the law Is imperative. and T
will have To stand it SO here is half dol
lar, and the four aud half you owed me
when We stopped playing poker This morn
ing makes Us square !
The card PLAYING administrator of ius.
tice must have felt as small as hls brntuer
Judge when lIe priced the COW. Beine ar
Little Rock, Arkansas. un business, that
judge stlolled into the market. and seeing
farmer with cow, stepped up to HIM
and asked what he wanted rII her. ssThir-
ty dollars" said the farmer Shell give
you five quarts of milk if you feed her
WE'LL
why" quntb the Judge, 81 have cows
on my farm. not much more than half as
big as yours, which give twenty quarts a
day
The COW owner eyed his new acarafnt-
ance very hard. a. if Il yiug to remember if
he had seen before, aud then inquired
where lac lived
My horne is in Iowa, " as the reply.
y es. stranger,' said the farmer. ~
cont dispute it. There were heaps OF
soldiers from Iowa down here during the
war, and they were the worst liars in the
whole Yankee army, May be yen may
have been an officer IN some of them repi-
ments -
Without satisfying his irterlocutni's Gu
Iloslty ON that p1inJ, the judge slid for
the cUuIt-hUuse."