The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-29
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Kangaroo Court in Jail.

Did you ever hear of a Kangaroo court" asked 2 prisoner who was county jail, after being custody two
 No. can't say that I have heard of such court" was the reply. %s the s,s ss!' ssa "hss when a lot of fellows get in jail; it gets mighty monotonous and time hangs heavy in their hands. So they have to get up something to pass away the monotOnous moments.
 With the approval of the jail management. we organized the KanSa- roo Court and one of its cheif objects Is to see that every prisoner conforms instance. a prisoner spits on the floor. If 1t is his first offense. he Is fined ten cents. For his second violation the fine !. twenty-five cents and th,a no attention to the rules. he gets one
 Of course. if a charge should be brought against a. prisoner, he would kangaroo court while I was In jail and the proceedings would be gone through with almost as sternly and with near ly as much dignity as regularly or ganized court of the land. The de- fendant would have attorneys and the prosecution would have its solicitors,
 nta oSr sor the par pose of buying such luxuries as we might desire. At one time. when so many United States prisoners were put in Jail. our treasury ran up as nigh as
 "The chief feature about this Kanga- roo court that makes unobjectionahls to jail authorities is that 1t co-operates with them in maintaining discipline
 When I left the iail. I understood pr. Berry was made Judge of the Court and he will probably make the boys O good one.'
 Touch of the Tropics.
 Those who live in the tropics" said of the weather situation. have an ad- vantage over the residents of so- called temperate zone, in that they are accustomed to a tropical climate and have adapted their mode of life to its requirements. In this country. where tropical weather occurs only once In a while. and often comes upon us sud denly. it finds us unprepared. and we have never learned, and apparently never will leafn that extreme heat is quite as dangerous in our latitude as near the equator
 men does the temperature often rise higher than it rose over a large section | of the country during tho week just near up to the hundred mark in the shade. With the extreme humidity. this was real tropical weather; but In | the tropics, nobody would have gone | out in it.
 Ut is not because the Spanish Amer | jeans for example. are lazy. that they | transact what business they must in the morning and evening and stay in- | they understand the peril of the heat. | They would know better than to con- | gregate upon the piazza under the noon-day sun, and 1t would never oc- | midday, any more than it would occur to an army officer m the plains to or | der his troops upon parade in such weather as that in which the Elks | asphalt at Philadelphia during their recent convention there. while un- numbered thousands crowded to look | on. It Is no wonder that the ambu-
 lances were kept busy"
 Mr. George J. Baldwin of Savannah. a prominent southern capitalist. who is president of several street railway systems in the South, is in the city. stopping at the New Exchange
 Mir. James Mullin left last night for San Antonio Texas, where he goes to accept a position in the mechanical department of the Southern Pacific | railroad
 l Messrs C. R. Werner. William 8. Jemison and Charles w. Weatherford. of Tuscaloosa, are among the late ar- rivals at the New Exchange. | Hon. Jesse F. Stallings. of Birming- ham is in the city, a guest of the New Exchange.
 MT. R. A Ashley Jr.. has gone on a trip to New York. Niagara and Canada
 MT. w. B Casteberry. of Talladega, was in the city last night. MT. D. R Copeland. of Birming ham, | is registered at the Exchange.
 MT. NJ P Jemison. of Tuscaliosa. is visiting the city.
 MT. c P. Orr. of Birmingham. is in | Montgomery.
 MT. W. N. Johnson. of Anniston Is in Montg omery.
 MT. W. P. Acker. of Anniston. Is In the city
 MT. H. aloney, of Mobile. Is in Mont | gomery.
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