Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — A Standing Cavalry Order. CHALLENGED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Standing Cavalry Order.

CHALLENGED

i sat alone in the jury box, A “provisional juror,” too; And I had been badgered and lashed and probed To find out how much I knew. A gentleman took me in hand at first, And praised my intelligence, But afterwards held me up to scorn As a man without common sense. Another gentleman proved me a fool And a liar—conclusively— Bnt afterwards said that the jury box

An old cavalryman says that a horse will never step on a man Intentionally. It is> a standing order in the English cavalry that, should a naan become dismounted, he must lie down and keep perfectly still. If he does so the entire troop will pass over him without his being Injured. A horse notices where he is going, and Is on the lookout for a firm foundation to put bis feet on. It Is an instinct with him, therefore, to step over a prostrate man. The Injuries caused to human beings by a runaway horse are nearly always Inflicted by the animal knocking them down, and not by his stepping on them.—Boston Herald.

Was exactly the place for me. The Judge gave a long, hypothetical charge In a brilliantly positive style. • i > It sounded Tike '‘Alice in Wonderland,” And Browning and Thomas Carlyle! - But in spite of these troubles I took my seat, Serene, quite happy and cool; I knew that my chair would be wanted sooa For another and bigger fool —New York World.