Page:The Green Bag (1889–1914), Volume 11.pdf/472

 Rh

439

days. The horse was guaranteed sound. Later, CURRENT EVENTS. Thomas returned the horse and wanted his Women sailors are employed in Denmark, Nor $50 back, saying the horse was not as repre way and Finland, and they are often found to be sented; that the animal " knuckled." German most excellent and delightful mariners. denied this and refused to give back the money. Thomas then brought suit. The case came up before Judge Albright. Thomas took the stand, Norweg1an paper currency is printed on cinna took the oath, and before answering the first mon-brown paper, and the bills are about the size of the " shinplasters'• used in the United States in the question as to where he lived, turned to the learned time of the Civil war. These bills are rarely seen in judge and asked whether he could offer prayer. "Certainly," said Judge Albright, with a quiet this country, for they circulate little among the com nod, and wh1le on the witness stand, Thomas mon people, from whom emigrants to America are drawn. prayed aloud. "O Lord, Thou who rulest over all, and art It is a distinguishing feature of most African willing that all shall have justice, we appeal to Thee, in this our trouble, to lend ear and give rivers that they contain no water for at least eight Thy presence. Guide us and all of us to tell the months of the year. It is true that water can almost truth to this honorable court and to this jury; always be found by digging for it, but in outward that I bought that dark bay horse from German appearance a river is. usually a broad belt of sand for S80; that German said he was solid and lying between high and precipitous banks. Many sound; that I paid $50 on him; that the horse and many a coach has been upset in one of these was not solid and sound, as represented, and that drifts as they are called. The descent is always by right and justice this court and jury should steep, frequently so steep that the brakes cannot compel German to give me my money back and hold the coaches. receive his horse back again, as the horse is now just as I bought him. O Lord, we hold no grudge against German, and we don't want him to have LITERARY NOTES. any enmity against us; but we want our money The leading article in Affleton's Popular back because we are entitled to it. Thou hast Sc1ence Monthly for August is a reply to Comp said that brethen should dwell together in unity, and it is our desire so to do, but we can't do it if troller Coler by Franklin H. Giddings, Professor of German don't take his horse back and return my Sociology in Columbia University. Appleton Mor $50. Soften his heart toward us; forgive our gan is the author of an article discussing " Recent enemies; give me a safe deliverance in this trial, Legislation againstthe Drink Evil." His statistics seem and bless this good Democratic judge who has to show that legislative attempts to diminish liquor just been indorsed by the solid Republican party drinking almost uniformly have the reverse effect. "The Teachers School of Science " is described, of Lehigh county." Thomas went on in his prayer for ten minutes, with a number of its organizers and officers, in an in and at its conclusion the trial gravely proceeded. teresting article by Frances Zirngiebel. Prof. Ed ward Orton contributes an important artiele, discuss The jury patiently listened to all the evidence. ing the true function of the association. •• Race The parties were farmers near Slatington, but Ger Questions in the Philippine Islands" is the title of an man deals in horses. The jury brought in a ver interesting article by Ferdinand Blumentritte. The dict for the defendant, and apparently Thomas's much-discussed question as to the reasoning power prayer had not been answered as he desired, of animals is discussed by Edward Thornd1ke. A German, the defendant, having shown that the number of ingenious and instructive experiments, de horse was not " knuckled," but was big-boned vised for the purpose of testing their ability to reason, are described. and sound, as represented.

Scrcxxss, Chief Justice : " As anger does not become a judge, so neither doth pity; for one is the mark of a foolish woman, as the other is of a passionate man." (The King v. Johnson, 2 Show. 4.)

"Fortune's Vassals," by Sarah Barnwell Elliott, the complete novel in L1hp1ncott's New Magaz1ne for August, is undoubtedly the strongest novel she has yet written. In conception it is original, and in execution it is romantic and realistic. The life is that of to-day in a small American town anywhere