Daily Republican., 1883-06-14
A Star Route JurnF's Dream.

A Star Route JurnF's Dream.
Mr.. John II. Crane, the foreman OF
the Star Route jury, wrote out and
handed to reporter yesterday the fol.
lowing account of an alleged dream
which he had, with regard TO the pro-
ceedings of the jury after its retirement
to deliberate upon the evidence in The
pending case. The so-called " dream"
Is generally understood here as sort OF
allegorical expression of the foreman $
belief that an agreement upon verdict
will not soon he reached
Last night dreamed | saw II men
locked upin room together. They were
venerable locking men, their heads
being white with the frost of age. 1t
seemed long, long way off in the
future--way down near the sunset of
time. dreamed | was one Of them,
and that we were engaged in consider
ing the evidence in the second Star
Route trial. The evidence seemed to lay
in stratas, and we were engaged, with
pick-axes and shovels, trying to ex-
hume it from beneath the mountains of
arguments, exceptions and prayers un-
ucT WulCl ~ lhy DuIlou.
We were very conscientious jury
so conscientious that we were not will
ling to take a vote until we had examin-
ed all the evidence. One of our mum.
her had his heart set on " Agate, and
declared he would never consent to take
a vote until we found it. We found
Greenhorn' without much trouble,
b 1t poor little agate" was buried so
deep it never came to the surface. AT
ter we had been out long time, it SEEM
ed All age, I heard the Judge say to the
Marshal in a loud and somewhat impa-
tient tone of voice.
"Put that jury on the old common
law diet. " This threw CONSERVATION
amoug us, for we had been dining on
the best that Walsh could afford, 50 we
hurried up things. But just as we
were proceeding to take q vote, there
suddenly appeared over all the ghost OF
John Calvin, who comforted our weary
souls with something like the follow
ing:
"You can and you can't
You will and you won't,
You'll be damned if you do,
And be damned If you don't.
"Just then | awoke, glad to know
that was only dreaming. am sorry
to say that AIN unable to give any in
formation as to how that jury stood. .
Love Of Play.
So far from forbidding children tt
play they should be encouraged in theil
sports, since love of play is most i'm
portant means Of education.
Anything which makes them run tc
and fro, chasing and being chased, is in
tensely amusing to them and SO it de-
velops their muscular power, alertness
quickness of eye, skill in balancing, in
turning round and round, watchfulness
patience, and many other faculties.
Out of the four hundred muscles Oft the
human body large majority are prob
ably exercised in these violent games
while regular work only exercises 6
limited number; hence, the love of active
play is instructive.
1t is great mistake to make children
sit still long, except sometimes, tina
they may learn to sit still.
II is, no doubt, inconvenient to theil
elders, this perpetual prying activity
this Unsuitable curiosity, this asking o
innumerable questions but If they az
not do all this how shall they learn ~
They have been made SO for good rea'
sous.
The child does not need much for hi!
amusement expensive toys are usually
wasted on him.
Give him bit of string to tie knot
in something to roll, to push, to set W
and take down, to take apart and pu
together, heap of sand, bunch Q
sticks, paper to tear or cut, water to sal i
his boat, sand to dig-and he is full!
satisfied.
How suggestive is the story of tn
young prince. for whom box OF costl!.
playthings had been brought from Pari
who soon grew tired Of them, and gOin
to the window, said :.
Mamma, may | 60 out and play II
that beautiful mud ?'