Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — A Compromise. [ARTICLE]

A Compromise.

In a jury trial In a small town not many miles from civilisation the rural gentlemen into whose hand* ths fate

or me plalntiir was placed were so stubbornly divided that they were some twenty odd hours in reaching a verdict. As they left the court, after returning their verdict, one of them was asked by a friend what the trouble was. “Waal,” he said, “six of ’em wanted to give the plaintiff $4,000, and six of ’em wanted to give him $3,000. so we split the difference and gate him $500.” —Woman’s Home Companion.