The age-herald., 1900-10-25
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

An assault was made on the city jail the other day that, from it's suddenness and unexpectedness, might have succeeded had the garrison of the fortress been less alert. As it was, he was wide awake, for the assault occurred in the noisy hours of noon day.
 The garrison had just cried out the hour twelve o'clock, and my lunch not come" when there was rattling OCT the shaky door-lateh, the door was flung open, and in bounded a buxom negress.
 ''Whars dat man what sont fur me?' she exclaimed in strdent tones. 70 Nobody sent for you, that l know of," said the garrison.
 Look heah. white man, Ise gwine in dat jail to see dat nigger."
 We'll" said the garrison If you talk that way, you're gwine out in the street" "Ah! then and there was hurrying to and
 fro,
 And gathering tears, and tremblings of
 distress.
 And when it was all over the jail was captured-at least part of it. for in a cell was the attacking party, monarch of six square feet-not anatomical but geometri- cal.
 Country preachers notoriously have hard work to collect their salaries. They 4fave to hunt for them because they are so small. You have to search diligently to find a needle in a haystack, and the country par son has literally to labor in the vineyard to find his salary. Often the man who owes him a tithe takes to the barnyard when he sees him coming up the Vslk. The country parsons salary is the original pay y-on- the installment-plan
 One of them recently was willing to preach for $6 a week. It may have been poor pay, poor preach, for even the $6 d week dwindled to occasional potatoes and cord wood. When he spoke of laying up treasures, the congregation crowded to- wards the back of the church. So the pas tor, that his words might not be lost, moved his pulpit half way down the aisle. The only effect this had was to drive the con gregation outside the door. And now there is one congregation the less and one preacher the more.
 
 During the campaign of 1896 good deal was said about government by injunction.
  nounced for issuing injunctions prohibiting strikers from interfering with the property of their employees and the men who had gone to work in their stead. The injunc- ton business proved unpopular and has since been abandoned. To strike Is an in- alienable right of an American citizen that is, when done collectively. When done singy or by married men, the right is not so clear. A new precedent of government by injunction has recently been made by judge in enjoining a from striking his wife. If he strikes her he will be in con tempt of court with all it's resultant pen alties His wife had sued him for divorce on the ground that he had threatened to beal her and kill her, and gone to get his gun for that purpose. This new idea of domestic government by injunction may prove as popular as the other was unpopu- lar. Under the old common law man could beat his wife with a stick provided it was larger than his thumb and the idea still exists among the negroes that they have this common law right. It is only when they are hauled up in the police court for wife-beating that they learn that this common law right is no longer right, the custom is growing less common. An enterprising lawyer can still find many cases of this sort and by resorting to do- mestic government by injunction can anne liorate the condition of the negro woman and add another to the negro mans bur dens.
 While the Boers are undoubtedly brave. .. they are most too hairy and slovenly to ever figure in light opera or poetry. Imagine the curtain rising on a scene in Boerdom, and groups of Boersr in the foreground. Nothing could convince an American audi thee that it was not Populist convention. Then 1t would be difficult to write poetry about the Boers. The only word that rhymes with Boer Is bore, and something woud have to be said about Dom Paul. There is no poetry of motion about his flight from Pretoria; it was rather a dis creditable procedure and highly inartistic. How he ever hoisted those anchor-like feet and got away is a mystery
 But as the Geisha proved, the dear title Jappy-Jap-Jappy from the west of the mappy- -map-mappy was as ideal a light opera man as he was heavy dragoon.
 MISS WILKINS IS TOO BUSY TO MARY. From the Chicago Chronicle.