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"boilers" rwO-inch jet or muddy wa
ter came curving up through one of
the window openings to arch over and
fall, splash, all over us as we sat
munching our dinner. Everlastingly
ruined the dinner, put out the fire, up
set the coffee pot, and made drowned
rats of both Of US In less time than 1t
takes to tell it-much less.
So much for that. OF course, we ran
and ducked and lodged, like the
drowned rats l speak of hunting for
a hole. But now Bullerton's devilish
engineering ingenuity came into play.
By some means as yet unknown to us,
he had contriyed movable nozzle to
his squirt-gun, and in another minute
there wasn't single dry spot left In
that shafthouse. venture to say that
Daddy and l and the dog ran full
mile trying to get out Of range of that
demoniacal sozzle-machine, but there
wasnma corner of the place that it
couldn't, and didn't, reach.
During the night the scoundrels had
laid pipe line from the pump in the
boiler shed alongside Of our prison
fortress; this with an upright extern
sion on the business end of 1t. At the
top Of the sandpipe stem there was an
elbow with a short joint of pipe
screwed into it to point our way; and
on the end of this nozzle there was
piece of rubber hose. Under the jerky
impulses of the pump strokes this f1ex-.
ible extension Of the nozzle Topped.
up and down and around and side
wise, like the nose Of a patent lawn
sprinkler and there you are-or there
we were.
'Gosh-to- Solomon! Daddy splut-
tered, 1--WE amt on the water wagon.
we're spank inside Of It! Are you re-
memberin', Stannie, that they can keep
this gosh-dum thing up f'rever? All In
the world they've got to do is to put
stick O. wood on the fire now and
then! Say, son; they got us goin' and
comm; we can't eat, and we can't
!. sleep no more whateyer"
tBy heavens, own those boilers,
and if l could get stick of dynamite
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-12-31
CHAPTER XIV.
Applied Hydraulics.

They've skipped" l reported to
Daddy, as I climbed down from the
earth sacks land that shows us the
quality Of the humanity stuff we have
to deal with Fullerton will never get
that bunch to rush us in the OPEN
"That's something gained, anyway"
said the old man; land ever lfF bit
helps But If they amt goin' to take
it standin' up, we got to look out for
Injin doin's; the snake-in-the-grass
kind. Charley Fullerton amt goin' to
quit none so easy"
Nevertheless, for an hour or more,
1t looked as If the jumpers had quit.
In due time the cooking fire in the lit
he glade burned out, and no one
came to rekindle it. Around and about
the solemn silence Of the mountain
wilderness ringed us In, and it was
hard to realize that the siege had not
been Observation-Disclosures we knew we'll
enough it hadn't.
We put in the time as best we could,
tinkering up our defenses and trying
to provide for all the contingencies.
For one thing, Daddy found big
anger and used 1t to bore loopholes at
various places through the wall, by
means Of which we could command the
approaches to the shaft-house on two
Of the three exposed sides. Eastward
ly, the blacksmith sLop interviewed be-
tween us and the boiler shed-it was
built as lean-to against that side OF
the shaft-house-and In that direction
we were necessarily blind. The fourth
side, as have said, faced an abrupt
cliff Of the mountain, rocky wall
rising to maybe twice the height of
the buildings and almost overhang-
ing them. At Its summit this cliff
tapered off into steep upward slope,
bare of timber; hence we were COM
paratively secure from attack in that
quarter.
AS to provisioning we were not SO
bauly off. Daddy Hiram, well used in
his long experience as a prospector to
figuring upon the longevity of grub
stakes" estimated that, what with the
canned stuff, part of a sack Of -four,
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what-all's goin' to happen. When I
say the word, you stick your match to
the fuse"
Heavens maybe didu't enjoy a de-
hghtful little spasm as got a fash
light mental picture Of that old man
fumbling around with a lighted cart
ridge at the muzzle of his gun, trying
to poke cartridge and gun-barrel
through a hole in the door that couldn't
possibly have been over two and d
half inches in diameter-and in the
dark, at that! What if he shouldn't be
able to find the hole in time? Or if he
should succeed in finding it and the
rifle bullet should jam on the wire?
Or any one of dozen ''ifs" that might
fail to rid us Of the deadly thing be-
fore 1t should go off and blow US to
kingdom come?
But there was no time to haggle
about it, and the whang of another
high-powered bullet on the iron roof
over our heads speeded things up.
''Do your do Daddy muttered; and
l struck a match, sheltered the tiny
flame in my followed hands until 1t
got going good, and then, with silent
prayer that Daddy might not miss the
hole, stuck the blaze to the frayed end
of the powder string.
Coming all three together as 1t
seemed to me, there were spittings like
those Of an angry cat, puff of chok-
ing powder smoke, and the crack of
the rifle. For just about three seconds
nothing further happened; butsat the
fourth second or thereabouts-oh boy !!
The cabin was stoutly and solidly
built of logs. as may have mentioned
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Stared Across az Oaody HirAm.
prospect of marrying her, to be sure,
but with no thought Of marrying any
body else.
And now =. looked around at
the shadowy walls Of the grim old Gin
nabar shaft-house, looming darkly and
still dripping, tick, tack, from their
early AFTERNOON mud bath; felt my sog-
gy clothes; stared across at Daddy
Hiram sitting backed up against the
hoist with his legs jackknifed and his
hands locked over his knees; 1t was a
grotesque pipe-dream; there was no
ether name for. 1t. I broke out In a
taugii that was a below.
"sssplit 1t up, stannie." urged the old
man dryly. II allow you amt goin'
to be close-fsted enough to keep good
joke all to yourself in no such hoe
down as this"
"I'll try" l said, and did it the best
knew how, giving him some idea OF
the life I had lived and Its earth
wide, abysmal difference from the Ell.
perience o. the past six weeks.
Silence for q time and then:
"Book-learnin' and good clothes and
eatin' with a fiat fork r. all right,
Stannie but they don't make the man
mr. the woman; there's got to be some
thin inside; somethin' heap bigger
than any O. them things"
"Quite So" admitted.
Another silence and at the end Of
it the old philosopher again:
"You been sort o. sore about my
Jeanne, since yesterday -. She's
been eatin' your gran-paw's bread, like
me, and you thought, and thought,
that she might at least we waited q
little spell afore she run of with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we'Ya~ been
jumpin' at things too sudden, Stannie.
What made her ride way up yonder
to Greaser sidin' to catch that train?
And how come Charley Fullerton to
marry her one day and be up here
with his bunch O. gunner by daybreak
the mex mornin'?'
"Has JEANNE friends in Angels with
whom she could be staying?" asked.
mot a single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her at the Chink's hotel; and
that amt no place for woman, mar
ried r t'otherWise."
"But supposing they didn't go to
AngelsT
"Thare amt no other place they
could go and let him get back, as you
might say, In the same day."
"say it all. Daddy" I prompted.
"There amt much to say, Stannie,
boy, 'ceptin' what said afore, that
maybe we'd been jumpin' at things
sort O. blind-like. Jeannie's got heap
o. sense-if do say 1t as shouldn't
and the whole gee-ripittin' thing. as we
been putin it up, amt no more like
her than winters like dog-days."
Having run the subject into cor
ner we were both speechless for lit
tie time and l think 1t was almost with
sense Of relief that we sprang alert
when the dog, hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, jumped up and ran to hold
his nose at the threshold OF the door
opening upon the dump head.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-12-31
NOTICE.

The temporary culverts on the
vington-Hammond road have been
washed out and the road is closed
to public travel until permanent cuE-
verts are put in between Turnpike
and Tangipahoa line.
HOULTON CONSTRUCTION co.
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under 'em, I'd fix the fellow that's FIR
ing 'eml" I shivered; and then the
bright idea was born. "Say, Daddy,
we can stop it," l yelled; and just
then the water devil outside made an
other fiendish flop and got me square
~ in the face.
But it didn't drown the bright idea.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-13
e Jurisprudence Observed by Maine Bar Association

power. In this space only a glance is
possible. But if there is anything in
this address to inspire the Maine Bar
with a desire to be better acquainted
with the history of the earliest Maine
lawyers and judges. especially in the
Federal Courts, 1 shall be content"
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lg luD'l ncv Industrial and social con-
resent social md material advance
mont requires the best service which
nc mind trained in the law can give.
81 ne future as IN the past the statute
itN nf Cur state and nation must and
y III br shaped i'll n great measure by
.Ir ncmicrS Of our profession. If or
I!cllN goVernmcnt is to endure, we
':>ust nave the assistance of those who
ho .JuSc of their Fundamental knowledge
i the IaW and experience in the law.
::rc parti, ularly able to guide opinion
INTO proper channels Of Legislative en-
4ctmCnt and capable Of framing those
Jaws thar embody the demands OF
modern society and that are called
for by the changes now taking place.
Has not q constant drifting from the
Fundamental principles Of our govern
W"nt the ready adoption of untried
experiments in popular government,
together With the ease with which
constitutions may and have been
hanged, caused us to forget in part,
at least, that the trainers of the con-
Stituton sought to avoid the evils of
autocracy on the one hand and of pure
democracy on the other, by establish
ing a Republic based ON the principle
OF representative government.
The members OF our profession have
been the leaders of the past because
they have been in close touch with the
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which was built in 1861. the next
year after Lincoln County was or.
ganiZed, some authorities say b.
the Proprietors of the kennebec
Purchase and others by Major
Samuel Goodwin. 1t was used as q
COlrt House until 1884, when tie
ancient town of Pownalborough was
! dismembcred, Dresden being carved
out on the west, next the river. and
Alma in the center. leaving thu
Sheepscot Precinct at WiscasSet
Point to still bear the name of Pow
Marlborough, until 1902 when this
name was changed to Wiscasset and
Pownalborough disappeared When
this town division of 1874 took place
the Court was moved to Wiscasset
Point and has been held there ever
since. The old Court House at Pownal.
borough has been used as n private
residence at least since that time.
We come now to the third period,
already referred to, caused by the
adoption of the Massachusetts Con.
stitution and the erection of the
mother commonwealth of which the
District of Maine remained q part
until 1920. This constitution changed
the name of the highest Court from
Superior TO Supreme Judicial but il
was composed as before, of five JUS
ticeS.
For twenty years, from 1850 to 1867,
this single tribunal held cour. IL
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The turmoil in the Province ~
Maine between Royalist and Puritan
ceased when in 1917 the Massacbu.
sets Bay Colony obtained from
Gorges a release of all his interest,"
in the Province for the sum Of 12so
pounds sterling, or $3.50, the price
of small Aroostook farm TODAY
This ushered in the second Or
Provincial period. extending from
1917 to 1850. during which time We
We're a Province of Massachusetts
but a child by adoption rather than
by birth, by purchase rather than
by descent. In 1851 the new chartnr
was granted by the mother Country
uniting the Plymouth and Massachp.
sets Bay Colonies, the Province of
Maine and Nova Scotia under tho
name of the Province of Massa.
chusetts Bay in New England. In
der this Province charter the higbes.
tribunal was the Superior Court oe
Judicature, composed Of a CHEZ
Justice and four Associate Justices
and SO continued until the ReyoIu-
ton. Maine constituted one COUNTY
the County of York, until 1860 when,
Cumberland County with Falmouth
now Portland, as its shire town. and
Lincoln County with Pownalhoro
os the county seat, were established
But no term of court was hold uHdrr
this Province charter in Maine. until
1899. Then a term was granted.
which was held in kittery until l,:}
and then removed to York.
We have one reminder of the Court
in this Provincial period also Tn,
traveller on the Maine Central Rail
road between South Gardner and
Richmond. may observe on the cas-,
bank Of the KennC bee a thrcr-Story
building of the colonial type, PAL
TALLY obscured by trees This ia
the old PownalborouGh Court House
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lives of the people and have under
stood their needs and ASPIRATIONS.
What then. shall be the part the Bar
shall play in the great work now be-
lore US? Shall we live and be content
to devote our learning and experience
20 the service of clients and the ac-
QUESTION of individual gain? Or shall
we, guided by those WHO have helped
in directing the course Of affairs in
every crisis in the past, give OF our
counsel and assist in making public
sentiment ring true to the highest ideals
Ut Americanism. Let US, as we enter
the uncharted sea OF the future mark
our course by the most reliable chart
ever devised by man, the Federal Con-
stitution, the supreme law of the land.
Gy so doing. We shall be able to- with
stand the on-rush OF public sentiment
which too often led. by the demagogue,
sweeps to victory over cold reason
and sound judgement.
The lawyer who refuses 70 consider
The condition of his country. the per-
las without and the dangers within,
who is unwilling to serve with thought,
speech and act falls short. of living
up 10 the odth which he takes when
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every County for both jury triais
and law matters, by full bench u
three. Questions OF law arising
during Il trial were decided then
and there and there was no appeal
Pure questions OF law might be cor
tinued to another term and decide
later.
This mode of procedure, however
proved unsatisfactory, especially Is
II was often the custom for AL the
Judges to charge the jury and this
led at times to absolute contradic-
tory instructions. Various improve
ments We're attempted and finally IN
1905 the nisi prius system was
adopted, single Justices holding jury
terms and not less than three hold
ing the law terms, and this practice
continued as long as Maine remained
a part Of Massachusetts,.
With this change began the publ
cation of the Massachusetts Reports
volume 1 being issued in 1905. For
forty years, 1880 to 1920, the Massa-
chnsetts Supreme Court was ours
ana the first sixteen volumes of Their
reports are our first sixteen volumes
also. the Jaw cases from Maine APP
peaflng as from the Eastern District
During these forty years the num-
Der of our counties had increased to
nine, York. Cumberland, and Lincoln
being supplemented by Hspcock ana
tContinued on Page 9-NCoI. u
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Continued from Page One)

promptly at 10 o'clock and delivered
a short and inspiring address.
ADDRESS OF PRES. BLANCHARD
Gentlemen OF the Maine State Bar
Association:
We commemorate today one hundred
cars of the history of the Bench and
Bar of Maine. 1t is nor my province
TO dwell upon that history. for its vast
fund of material will be presented to
you by those whose keen and percep-
live minds shall make it 4 part of the
enduring history of our State. 1t is
my task to lift the thin veil that sep
;1rates the past from the future. We
enter the dawning OF the second CEN
Jury at a period when the very atmos-
phere is charged with grave uncer-
tainties both as to business and pub
liz welfare growing out of period of
reconstruction following the world war
The members of the legal profession
AS well as every sovereign citizen have
greater responsibilities resting upon
themselves than ever before. Ours is
a Government Of public opinion, de-
signed to be so from its very begin
ing. 1t cannot exist except il is sup
ported and sustained by well Informed
puDlic sentiment which comes from
mature delibcration and conservatism
not that conservatism which holds
only 10 the past-but that which is
slow in grasping the teachings of the
GcmaSoguc, who posing as the friend
uj the people. appeals to popular preju-
dice and passion and thus weakens
public faith in the principles of our
Government. Our present established
principles and policies must be changed
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ABSTRACT OF JUDGE HALE'S
ADDRESS. "A CENTURY OF
THE FEDERAL COURTS IN
MAINE"

Mr.. President and Brethren of the
Maine Bar Association:
I thank you for asking me TO tell
YOU an old story. 1t is Book of
BEGINNINGS" and the beginnings of
things have an appeal to thought ul
men. These beginnings are not SO
very long ago. \ century is but a
span. even when measured by human
lives Men whom many of us have
known and loved were in the con-
vention that made our constitution
and launched our State upon the sea
of service and achievement. And
then. only q little beyond the State
horizon, the new National Govern
ment comes in view; and the Federal
Constitution fixes the starting point
of our subject
Judge Hale then quoted Article
Three of the Constitution of the
United States fixing the judicial
power of the United States in the
Supreme Court, and in such other
courts as Congress should ordain and
establish. He then cited the Act of
1889 which provides for the District
Court for the Maine District. The
same Act divides the Districts of the
United States into three Circuits. the
Eastern, the Middle and the South
ern. In Maine. although made a
separate District, no Circuit Court
was to be held.
Judge Hale then described the do
ings of the first term of the Maine
District Court, and some of the cele-
brated trials in that court. among
which was the first capital Federal
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promptly at 10 o'clock and delivered
a short and inspiring address.
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mus needing change was largely
diminished. But important subjects
have been since 1901 taken M by tho
Association.
Blils making uniform the laws re-
iating 10 Negotiable Instruments
/ Divorce, Sales. and Warehouse Re-
celpts have been approved bv tho
Association. In 1917. by Chapter IS.
; uniform law of negotiable irstru.
ihents was enacted by the Legisla-
ture ''''
expert evidence has been warmly
| ceoated. First, the bill was drawn in
1871 by Chief Justice Emery and pre-
! sented to the Legislature but not
ADOPTED, on which the opinion of tho
-AsSoclatlon was closely divided, and
"saih IN 1909 on a second and
amended bill also drawn by the CHIEF
1ustlce at the request of the Maine
MEDICAL Association and presented "a
the Legislature. This matter vas
,ehefreo 10 our Committee on Law
i'eLoim. The Bill was not enacted
Inc establishment of q system NJ
superior Courts came before the
ASSOCIATION in 1907, 1909 and 1911 A
system was not adopted but as n re.
suit OF discussion and of clearer. nm
derstanding of need, Superior Courts
nave been established in two conn
tles, IN Androscoggin in 1917 tChapte,
26o'. ana in Penobscot in 1919 (Chap-
ter 81.
In 1911 four matters recommended
by President Orville D. Baker were
taken up.
First. Giving the right Of excep-
tions to the refusal of the Court to
| direct n verdict in favor of tho de
PENDANT at the end of the PLAINTIFF
| testimony, or. on the motion of ei-
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By Chief Justice Leslie C, Cornish,

commonwealth and known in law as
the Eastern District.
The first period saw the establish
ment of the Commissioners Court at
Saco on March 81, 1886. composed of
q deputy commissioner and six as
sociates, under the Gorges Patent,
which covered the territory from the
Piscataqua to the kennebec River.
Not one of these commissioners was
a lawyer. This in turn gave way in
1889. under a confirma ton of the
Patent, to a Council composed Of a
deputy governor and six councillors.
with legislative. executive and Judi
cial powers. Then in 1852 came in
the Colony of Massachusetts Ray,
claiming a portion of Maine under a
forced construction of it's charter and
for many years. coincident with the
Puritan struggles in England, rival
claims were set up, the Province of
Maine being Royalist and Episcopal
in it's sentiments, while in Massa-
chusetts Bay the Roundheads and
the Puritans prevailed.
We have one monument of this
early colonial period still extant
within our borders, the old Jail at
York Village, which was built in
1858. and until the counties of Cum.
berland and Lincoln were established
in 1850. served as prison for the
entire province of Maine From 17so
TO 1902 it was the Jail for York
County and continued somewhat in
use thereafter until August 1860. n
total period of over two hundred
years.