Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-08-02
ALL WE'RE sELF-coNvIcTED.
Georgia Lawyers Handed Over Their
Guns With singular Unani,oitv.

Guns With Singular Unanimitv.
Georgia has stringent law forbid
ding its citizens to carry pistols on
pain of FORGETTING the weapons and
paying a fine of $50 or being impris-
oned for thirty days. Shortly after
the passage of this enactment Judge
Lester was holding court in a little
town, when suddenly he suspended the
trial of case by ordering the sheriff
to lock the doors of the courthouse
Gentlemen," said the judge when the
doors were closed, Il have just seen
pistol on a man in this room, and
cannot reconcile it to my sense of duty
to let such violation of this law pass
1fnnoticed. / ought perhaps to go be-
f9re the grand jury and indict him.
but if that man will walk up to this
stand and lay his pistol and fine of
81 down here | will let him off this
time" The judge paused, and law
yer sitting just before him got up,
slipped his hand into a hip pocket,
drew out a neat ivory-ha1tiled six
shooter, and laid it with dollar down
upon the stand. s4This is all right"
said the Judge, "but you are not the
man I saw with the pistol" Upon this
another lawyer arose and laid down
a Colts revolver and a dollar bill be-
fore the judge, who repeated his for
mer observation. The process went on
until nineteen pistols of all kinds and
sizes and shapes lay upon the stand,
her writ Nil nj a hU
side. The judge laughed as he COM
plimented the nineteen delinquents
upon being men of business, but add
ed that the man whom he had seen
with the pistol had not come up, and,
glancing at the far side of the court,
he continued: 81 will give him one
minute to accept my proposition, and
If he fails I will hand him over to the
eSheriff'' Immediately two men from
the back of the court rose and began
to move toward the judges stand.
Once they stopped to look at each
other, and then, coming slowly for
ward. laid down their pistols and their
dollars. AS they turned their backs
the judge said: This man with the
black whiskers is the one that ]
originally saw. New York Press.
HEAVY GUNS DESTROY EARS.
Why So Many Artillerymen Suffer From
Defective Hearing.
The stunning report of each gun as
It is fired is something that stranger
on the deck of ship of war will long
remer.ber. There Is an old saying,
deaf as post" Now in the English
navy this is changed to deaf as
post captain" No man can go through
log series of gunnery practices
witfc,'t having his hearing seriously
Affect. Some men put cotton in their
ears, but even this precaution does lit
tie to deaden the terrible shock. And
II the firing of one Or two guns has
such a SCATTERING power, what would
be the effect If the whole armament
were in action together? 1t is i'm
possible to conceive the strain on nerve
and senses of the rending conclusion.
Va visitor watches the firing of one
of the monster nine-inch guns and then
places himself beside enc of the small
CT PIT ~, lHe report mdde by the one
will not appear much louder than that
of the other The extra distance to the
muzzle Of the big pieces discounts the
sound. The only apparent difference
betws en- the two appears to be that
the small pieces have sharper, high
er-pitvl,ed L1,e, and that the six and
nine-inch guns speak with more of a
20 n MI of adu viz
may be given to any one who finds
himself in the neighbour BOD of a gun
in action The noise will not have
nearly the same effect if you are
Watching the gun as if the crash comes
unexpectedly. Unconsciously nature
prepares you to resist a shock which
is known to be impeding