The Alaska citizen., 1913-11-24
BY THE WAY
BY ZOZ.

Lately saw announced in a daily paper that the police had can tured all the culprits in robbery cases rei ortcd to them But what abou- the robber es not reported to hem for one cause or another \ riend of mine on Fourth avenue. n returning home from the woods a few days ago, found his door broken open and his grub gone He then hired a man to put on q uew lock purchased some more grub and. after being absent ne short hour. found the window pulled from its frame resting on woodpile and his new purchase all zone. This could scarce Y happen or Front street in ,hc broad daylight when parrolled k there more police Heeded2
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 Recently outside the postofice q man who was read ng a letter no- ieed man CT ignorant fellow. Ahtil{i ! iPbAAIlS oNfl Ills SituIutT. scanning his epistIe and slapped the fellows face. The reading of c. her peoples letters over the shoulder is of common occurrence as is also putting i'll, or listening To private conversati ns. If there were more men courageous enough to adopt the skipping face remedy these vulgar md dissust ng habits would soon be cured
 There are numerous methods adop,ed by our numerous never swcats 10 raise money to keep them up-and some them live in good -yle too One class. white-collarcI and fur-colted, have women 10 keep the bail rolling. and the women have. in some cases. to get q good l 1eat ag before they come thru. T is said that me of these women actually relish good drubbng
 This is dchatable question from l physiol gical poing of view But are these women-bclters one whit worse than the ihlers wha scent ous hard working women nho have money and with oily words
 ay some sehemine. sho suing pro position before them and succeed iE swindling them out of their hard armed wages?
 In the last issue Of the Social st organ q writer sevcily crlticizes our system of selecting good men and true for juries. If public pin ion is o be taken into consideration as a guide We must conclude he Mas right. He quotes the grea anl good old Blaekst ne's bas c reasons for selecting juries in the interest yt justice, deeency and fairllay, but Blackstone Is long time dead and so are a good many of his principles i The Socialist writer, ,ho caresul t0 avoid find ng fault with the drawing of the ball Is. is apparently pug tZled over the Nn0le matter and asks very Foirted'g how 1he devil can you pull out Of the billot box i a name thaa isn't put into il? | give it up. But it reminds me of a story about traveller who halted outside lanyard to examine the old sign of the industry--a c-W's tail nailed to the ou.er door, just ! where there happened 10 be wide crack. After brief examination he turneI to a passerby and solemn ly eXclaimed: "l have trod the burning decks when the lightning shivered the masts; l have walked Mount Nesuvius when the burn ng lava spread desola,ion on the plains ] below; have travelled the wide world over and have seen queer and i in iricate things but I'm d-d i f can make cut how that COW went in thru that slit and let her l tail behind" But le1 ls5 deal se- riously with a serious question. When the Magma Chartl was grant ed away back in the time of King John it was based on the principles of the good old Brehon laws that every person charged with a crime should be tred by jury of his peers. and according 10 the Brehon system, too, when man was tried for murder butcher mas prohibited from serving on his jury. By peer was meant person of standing, responsibility and intelligence. IL was never meant that lawbreakers such as pimPs, macques and co. habiters should be tried by their equals-'pimps, macques and co-hab- ters. The district attorney is big enough. fair enough and square en ugh to see 10 that, so that the writer in the Socialist need not Try about it.
 A fair and square operator, O. good Lepule after his seasons work. came into Fairbanks to settle up matters-collecting moneys, paying bills, regulating representation work, purchasing outfits, etc, and he told me he was aston shed and thunder.