The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-10-16
"JOSHED'T BRITISHER
EXPERIENCE or A TOURIST At
WHITE HERON LAKE.

Ground and the Sioux Out on the
War Path, So All Hands Went snlpe
Hunting.
American law courts are yet In an
exceedingly crude and embryonic con-
dition. Judges and juries are not only
accepted In the most unblushing man.
ner, but are openly solicited, and
verdicts are as salable commodities
In an American court as are camphor
or Quinine at a chemists IN London.
The British people can have no APP
probation Of the scandalous manner
In which justice e? IS dispensed in
America. We have actually seen an
American jury send down TO the de-
PENDANT In a lawsuit and demand
brides, and judge who was trying a
case in our presence offered to Quash
an indictment for 50, or s shillings Of
our money.
Ignorant Of American game laws,
We shot at some snlpe out Of season.
The jury lem2Hdel that we buy it
beer aud the judge entered nonsuit
whom we gave him the pound which
he had asked us for in the presence Of
the attorney for the crown, or states
attorney, as he is called in the United
States. The next day this same Judge
went hunting with us, and not only
showed us where snipe were to be
found, but shot four or five of these
birds himself.
THE law courts Of a nation are its
foundations, and when they are so
rotten as they are in America, it is
certain that the structure which they
support is bound to fall"
The foregoing are extracts from
notes made in this country by an Eng
fish tourist, who may soon print a
book on Impressions of an English
man Among His American Cousins"
The English tourist had his expert
ence of American courts up at White
Heron lake. He went there a month
ago to kill a few buffaloes and see
some wild Sioux Indians who had just
returned from the war trail with
plenty of scalps.
The Englishman was much disap-
pointed on arriving at White Heron
lake, to be told that the buffaloes had
all gone away to their summer feed
ing ground in Indiana, and that the
Sioux were fighting the Apaches over
in Michigan, so he decided to put in
4 few days hunting snipe.
lie started out shooting one morn
ing and was followed by two of the
natives of the locality who had care
fully provided themselves with tin
stars as big as saucers and army rifles.
They waited until the Englishman had
shot a couple Of birds and then
pounced down upon him and arrested
him for shooting game out of season.
They took him back to White Heron
lake, where a crowd Of merely vii
layers were waiting in the rear room
of a saloon.
The proprietor Of the hotel was
seated behind a table and was pointed
out to the Englishman as the Judge.
The bartender was introduced as the
states attorney, and the livery stable
man, who was represented to the Eng
lishman as a lawyer, was engaged by
him as his counsel. A jury of viii
layers was hastily impHneled aaDd the
trial began.
The bogus game wardens were first
put on the stand and swore that the
Englishman had wantonly violated the
game ordinances OF the. state. Then
the Englishman was called He
solemnly took oath or a copy of a
Guide to Bartenders and FayuTite
Receipts for Favorite Drinks and
then began his testimony.
"Aw," he said, please your Ildship
and gentlemen really meant noharm.
Quite ignorant of your laws, you know
quite sorry it all occurred"
is it true" asked the states at
torney, with great solemnity, that
your ancestors fought the American
patriots in the war Of the RevOlu-
tion?"
1T is possible, me, ud," said the
Englishman, hesitatingly, "but really
l cawnt see, you know, what that has
to do with this case.'
At this juncture one Of the "jury-
men" came over to the Englishman
and whispered to him that the best
thing he could do would be to order a
case of beer for the jury. The English
man hastily did 50 and the beer was
brought in and opened and passed
around to the members Of the jury,
who drank the Englishman's health.
Then the defendant resumed his