Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — His Own Experience. [ARTICLE]

His Own Experience.

There was an amusing scene in the Austin District Court a few days ago. A>young lawyer was defending a horsethief, against whom the evidence was rather strong. He said: “Gentlemen of the . jury, you must not be severe with my client. It is customary among stockmen to gather up stock promiscuously and drive them off, without thinking much about it.” The foreman of the jury arose in his place and said: “Your Honor, may I ask the attorney for the prisoner a question ?” “Certainly. ” “Then I would like to ask him if he was not engaged in stock-raising before he began the practice of law ? It seems to me he is giving Us some! of his own personal expedience.” The prisoner only got ten years, which was all the jury could give him. —Texas Siftings. So Bandy-Legged Individual on Sunday. Mrs. Judge Peterby, of Austin, employs a colored cook named Matilda Snowball, who is a great favorite with the sterner sex, but who is very hightoned, nevertheless. “Who was that horrid-looking negro I saw prowling about the back yard ?” asked Mrs. Peterby, indignantly. “Dat’s a feller I keep company wid on week days.” “On week days ?” “Yes, mum; yer don’t s’ppose I’d be seen wid sich a bandy-legged, goggleeyed moke like him on Sundays, does yer ? Yer order see the cullud gemmen I keeps company wid on Sundays. You’d be s’-priaed, yer would. ” —Teasm Siftings. We have always had a bulky belief that woman would some day be emancipated. P aper dishes have been invented. Some folks can swear without saying a word.

“I would not live alway.” No: not if disease is to make my life a dally burden, but it need not, good friend, and will not if you will be wise in time. How many of our loved ones are moldering in the dust who might have been spared for years. Theslight cough was unheeded, the many symptoms of disease that lurked within were slighted and death camd. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” cannot recall the dead, though it has snatched numbers from the verge of the grave, and will cure consumption in its earlier stages. The fact that parents are wooed may account for there being so many block-heads among the children. Of sill win* knowledge, only a littli has come to us through our senses. Nearly all that wo know we accept on the testimony es others. If those who have n-ver triqd that unrivaled vegetable preparation, Dit. Walker's California Vinegar Hitters, and are suffering from dyspepsia, bilious, or other fevers, or any disorder of the skin, k dneys, or liver, or from impure blood, will receive the testimony of the thousands who'have tried the Hitters, and been cured, they will be actifig wiseiy. What’s in a name; About the hottest country on the globe Is Chili.— San Francium Post.