Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — Satisfying the Majesty of the Law. [ARTICLE]

Satisfying the Majesty of the Law.

A Justice of the Peace out in Crosby county found a man guilty of shooting a bull that did not belong to him, and fined him 875. “ Why, Jedge,” said the doomed man, “ I haven’t got no 875 ; I can’t pay no sich fine.” “ The State of Texas puts me in this office to find out a way to make men pay their fines. You will cut cedar poles until you have cut enough to satisfy the majesty of the law,” replied the Justice. “But, Jedge, what use has the State of Texas got for cedar poles ?” “ The State of Texas hasn’t got no use for cedar poles. It’s this court who needs them cedar poles to build a fence. I’ll take the poles and settle with the State of Texas for them. ” And the poor devil is cutting cedar poles for the State of Texas.— Texas Siftings. In a couple of hundred years from this, if the Bible is again revised to suit the times, the passage in the parable of the ten virgins, which reads thus: “ Give us your oil, for our lamps have gone out,” will be changed to, “ Give us of your electric light, for our circuit is temporarily broken.” The name and fame of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup are known throughout the land and everywhere it is relied upon as the specific for Wughs and colds.