The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-08
MANY TROUBLES
TakentO States Attorney Wilson
Each Day for Settlement
MANY STRANGE AND AMUSING
COMPLAINTS MADE BY PER-
SONS HAVING GRIEVANCES.


the states attorney has a position that
is good deal like drawing a pension
bur were they te spend day in his
office they would be quickly disillu
stoned of this idea and come 70 the
conclusion that his salary is far re
moved from any resemblance to
money from home without writing
for it" for he is about the busiest
man n the city during his Office hours
No, only is Mr.. Wilson busy bur
the various calls he receives during
the course OF The day are enough To
tax the patience Of an angel and that
he can survive ,twenty-four honrs is
a mystery which he alone can solve.
Hundreds of complaints of every
kind. order and description are filed
with him daily. and the number of
complainanls who never carry ,neir
troubles farther than his Office IS al
most countless. First there is the wo-
man whose husband is fooling too
much with other women and who
wants to see If there isn't some way
10 stop him. No, she doesn't want
10 swear out a warrant" but wants
him confined TO the limits of his own
home by some other means. And
then there is the man whose neighbor
| Is noisy. or who has a dog he doesn't
like, or who comes home loaded in the
middle of the night and wakes him
lup by knocking a, his door while
thinking that it is his own, and who
does various and sundry other things
not consistent with good neighborism.
He too, doesn't want to swear ont a
warrant because he wouldn't have his
neighbor think he had It in for him
for the world Then comes the man
who really has some business. whose
property has been maliciously dafaced,
who has had something stolen, or who
has really suffered, and he swears out
MS warrant and has it over with in
a hurry, departing as quickly as he
came,
And next Is the husband whose wife
has left him and who wants TO make
her come back. or who wants to find
a way to punish her without having
his troubles aired in court. And the
woman whose neighbor has slandered
her, whose husband drinks and abuses
her, whose neighbors have chickens
that scratch up her flower beds
whose boy viii never stay at home
nights and whose other troubles are
too numerous even to attempt &c
count Sometimes she IL badly ais
tressed and then she will resort to tho
fearsome warrant, bur as q genera
. rule she desires that the matter be
J quietly mended and. learning that Il
, cannot be repaired without being ia
ken To court she passes II up ana re
signs herself to fate and hope thai
things win come ont all right in this
end, a hope which seldom material
, ICES.
} And 50 they come, with one com
! Iplaint or another, a continuous stream
every hour IN the day, every day il
the week and every week in the year
always seeking some sort Of redress
! for real or supposed injuries and man,
/ times being almost fendish in TIL,
! plans they devise for punishment.
The big majority Of the people whc
call on States Attorney Wilson wan
thar difficulties settled out of cour
: and no amount Of persuasion can in
0 luce them TO believe that such thin.
y IL impossible What u the usl
!: of a warrant and an arrest for sucl
little thing?" they ask, and whel
told that the law must take its cours
they leave in lisguest. diselaiming an,
belief in the law, what is can accom-
plish those to whom its execution
: intrusted and all things connecte
with it in its various branches.