Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-12-02

Judge; although as to him-well, | may
he borrowing trouble"
"Why, what's the matter with him p"
And the match which he had lighted was
allowed Ia burn Ncil's fingers in his
surprise. Il thought Duval was all
right"
We'll, so he is, probably" returned
the lawyer, with some embarrassment.
'0nly-well, | accidentally discovered
the other day that he had been mixed
UP with the colonel in some mining
deals down in Mexico. / don't know
what il amounts to; don't know that
he would dare go too far anyway;
but"
Cant we get a change of venueP'
demanded ncil, looking worn and sick.
"Oh, 1 don't think it. would do TO go
as far as that. II would prejudice him
against the ease; and if he were pre-
disposed against rs of course he would
oppose the motion, and oh. no; it
would hardly pay Us TO make such a
break as that, all things considered.
But was thinking, if he could be APP.
proached gust right
again the check-book might prove
mightier than pen or sword" eN-
claimed Neil, bitterly, as he bent 10
scratch a 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
RADIO"
1T is life; not much worse in Colo
RADIO than in the rest of these United
States, | fancy. As Senator Ingalls,
/ uts il, Purity in politics is an rides
cent dream lie might have gone
further and said that purity in any
thing is a dream little likely to he real
lied before the millennium. But don't
take il all too seriously, Neil. AS said
before, I doubt if Duval would dare go
too far in any case. lie 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 l should he lifting my
eyes in thanks TO heaven and deyoting
myself TO burnt offerings and sacrifices,
] suppose" rejoincd Neil, holly. by
JoNe, Bartels, look at it! Can you
| imagine greater outrage? Here give
up some of the best years of my life 10
toiling and melting in that mine, labor
| ing like a convict. until at last make a
strike. 4 rich strike; but what has il
cost me? Nobody knows who has not
tried il. 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 lifc-blood; he has
burned out that much of his candle of
| life, and il is gone, never TO he regained.
( lie is old and all the wealth of the
world will never give him back his
squandered youth. Itwouid seem, con-
sidering all things, that he should he
entitled 10 his paltry wages; but far
from that, every highwayman in the
land is at liberty to harass and 'lespoil
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; | call upon the courts for re-
dress, and justice, in beautiful Impair
TALLY, grants Col. Meredith as well as
myself an injunction, shutting me out
of my own ore body until an addle-
pated jury can decide TO whom it really
belongs. IL a tramp should come along
and steal my coat, could have him sent
up for sixty days, with hardly the de-
lay of am hour; but this high-toued
thief can rob me of thousands, ana my
only redress seems TO he 10 allow judge
and jury and witnesses 10 rob me of
thousands more. II is enough TO make
a man swear"
We'll, swear. then. 1t may do you
good" laughed the lawyer, but his