People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Expensive Benevolence. [ARTICLE]

Expensive Benevolence.

There is a venerable and benevolent jndge in Paris who at the moment of passing sentence on a prisoner consults his assessors on each side of him as to the proper penalty to be inflicted. “What ought we to give this rascal, brother?” he says, bending over to the assessor on the right. “I should say three years. ’' “What is your opinion, brother?" to the assessor on the left. “I should give him about four years. ” The judge, *pth benevolence: “Pris-

oner, nos desiring to glveyqn a Tong and severe term of ixnpnsonment, as I should have done if left to myself, I have consulted my learned brethren and shall take their advice. Seven years.” —London Telegraph.