Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

happening in the train of i'll luck that
pursued him. cit seems to me that the
average jury is simply pack of
asses.''
TOO true. But asses may sometimes
be led by the nose, you know"
''And sometimes they are up for sale
to the highest bidder"
'Oh, as to that, you know the sheriff,
and if you think that Meredith is going
to touch him with any ordinary fig
Cres-"
I'm the case of Brigham we seem to
have evidence that the colonel is ca
pable of extraordinary figures upon oc-
casion.''
We'll, he can afford to pay a pretty
liberal percentage to win, for fact"
Bartels imperturbably rejoined. "But
you carry a check-book as vel! as he
To tell the truth, though, the jury is
not troubling me; l am a good deal
more disposed to be doubtful about the
Judge; although as to him-well, may
be borrowing trouble"
"Why, what's the matter with him ?''
And the match which he had lighted was
allowed to burn NeiI's fingers in his
surprise. 81 thought Duval was all
right"
well, so he is, probably" returned
the lawyer, with some mbarrassment
"Only-we1l, 1 accidentally discovered
the other day that he had been mixed
up with the colonel in some mining
deals down in Mexico. I don't know
what it amounts to; I don't know that
he would dare go too far anyway;
but"
n oh of
demanded Neil. looking worn and sick.
ooh, I don't think it would do to go
! as far as that. 1t would prejudice him
against the case; and if he were pre-
disposed against us of course he would
oppose the motion, and Oh, no; it
would hardly pay us to make such n
break as that. all things considered
But [ was thinking, if he could be ap-
preached just right"
again the check-book might prove
mightier than pen or sword" ex-
claimed Neil, bitterly, as he bent to
scratch new match against his boot
| sole. He relighted his cigar, smoking
for moment in gloomy silence before
he added: 'And this is justice in Colo
| rado!"
at is life; not much worse in Colo
RADIO than in the rest of these United
States. 1 fancy. AS Senator ingalls,
1.uts it, Purity in politics is an rides
cent dream He might have gone
further and said that purity in any-
thing is dream little likely to be real
| lied before the millennium. But don't
take it all too seriously, Neil. AS I said
| before, l doubt if Duval would dare go
| too far in any case. He is working for
reelection. And our main reliance is
on the jury, anyway, and with them
you certainly have an equal chance with
| the other side
For which I should be lifting my
eyes in thanks to heaven and devoting
myself to burnt offerings and sacrifices,
J suppose rejoined Neil, ,hotly. by
Jove, Bartels, look at itr Can you
| imagine greater outrage? Here give
up some Of the best years of my life to
toiling and moiling in that mine, Ia bor-
ing like convict, until at last I make q
strike. \ rich strike; but what has it
cost me? Nobody knows Who has not
tried it, what it takes out of a man to
| live and work for years like that He
pays the price of success out of his
very arteries; he is just so much the
poorer in actual life-blood; he has
| burned out that much of his candle of
| life, and it is gene, never to be regained.
| lie is old and all the wealth of the
world will never give him back his
! squandered youth. It would seem, con-
| sidering all things, that he should be
entitled TO his paltry wages; but far
from that, every highwayman in the
land is at liberty to harass and t1espoil
him, provided only the methods are
| chosen with reference to the accommo-
| dating blindness of the law. Col
| Meredith walks into my mine and steals
| my ore; l call upon the courts for re-
dress, and justice, in beautiful impair
TALLY, grants Col. Meredith as we'll as
myself an injunction, shutting me out
| of my own ore body until an addle-
pated jury can decide to whom it really
belongs. If a tramp should come along
and steal my coat. 1 could have him sent
up for sixty days, with hardly the de-
lay of an hour; but this heightened
thief can rob me of thousands, and my
only redress seems to be to allow judge
and jury and witnesses to rob me of
| thousands more. 1t is enough to make
n man swear"
well, swear, then. It may do you
Soou, iduSHeu t1e laWyer, OuC MS
| glance was sympathetic. ut is tough,
| for fact. Neil. But you've gone a lit
tie too far over to the pessimistic side
now. 1t might be worse
That is such consolation" ejacu-
lated the young man, savagely. They
smoked on in silence for few moments,
when in q milder tone he went oil to
say: And, by the way-of course it
might be worse
You don't mean that there is another
| item of troubled" calculated the lawyer,
with a laugh of joking dismay. "Wel:,
I don't wonder you are down."
Il should say not. And in this in