The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-12
HEARD ON THE TRAIN.
Stories Told by an Old Lawyer
to Lecturer Bill Nye.
HOW TO ResEAL A eALloT oAo.


tCopyright lssA By Edgar ". NyAI
In the past week We have been travel
ing through frost and snow and tears aud
cold sheets up to our armpita Let those
who like this style Of business help them
selves to it. do not wonder that English
lecturers like Dr.. Joseph Parker after .
few fawn-like leaps from Minneapolis to
Memphis adjourn and 20 back to England,
where You can lecture in London one even
ing and take breakfast In Paris the next
morning if you wish.
Hero one tears himself away from an
audience that has just learned to love him,
and changing his evening dress in the cab
ON his way to the 1910 train rides till $50
. M, gets out at . junction where there il
. well and liberty pole and waits two
hours for way freight on which he rides
all day, eating what the engineer doesn't
want. and At o'clock he drops fainting
into the arms Of an old acquaintance who
wants to take him out to his country home
In . cutter. The thermometer 10 20 odd,
or at least it would Be 20 odd If it had not
been that way for three weeks and ceased
to be odd.
The manager advertises 800 laughs In
two hours" and below 10 given . picture
Of the two men who are to produce them.
1t is made on the spot just before the cur
tain goes up.
Yesterday met lawyer on his way to
catch tarpon in Florida. He goes down
there every winter after Christmas and
lets the warm breezes blow the tobacco
smoke and courtly air and the odor of the
jury room out of his clothes.
He was telling about fighting an election
return few years ago in his state. He
Was sent for by the county attorney to get
hold Of the matter, for he was sure the
count was fraudulent, yet did not see how.
The lawyer went up to the county seat
and asked to SEQ the returns. Tho count
had been close. Box had been defeated
by majority Of So votes. and this maiority
was in ono precinct. The lawyer, Mr..
Chase, asked to SEQ the return from that
precinct. It was East Jasperyille. The
figures were o. K. ~ made by the county
board, though . great error had been
made tho other way BY the precinct in it
count.
Then the lawyer asked for the bag con-
tanning the ballots. It was brought to
him with the ballots still in It. The
county board had only cut open the bot
tom. leaving the seal on top undisturbed.
The ballots had been recounted BY the
board and found correct With enough o..
tra ballots to defeat Box.
But the seal Was evidently intact. The
mouth Of the bag was closed and ridge
Of dark green sealing wax run over il
along the fold or lep Of the envelope.
1t was pretty clear that, whether there
was fraud or not, it was past tho detection
Of the human eye.
In the evening. however. the lawyer
asked the local attorney some questions.
and had the express agent come over 70
the house for awhile.
Next day the trial began. The usual
business had been gone through with.
Each lawyer had said II object" . num-
Der of times to make time, the court had
overruled the objection. and the attorney
had asked that the objection be noted, to-
gether with the ruling of the court.
Finally, after all the questions had been
asked and the lawyer was about to rest, he
called An express agent and had the ballot
bag and its seal examined. Then the
lawyer cleared his throat and said:
"Mr. Garnaw. state your business"
II am an express agent in this town."
Estate, if you please, if you have had
any experience In sealing and unsealing
express packages.
eyes. sir. I have done that sort of work
for twenty years. more or less"
"And you sometimes have to unoeal =