Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — Justice Was Satisfied. [ARTICLE]

Justice Was Satisfied.

The chief of the Clierokeo Indians is named Mackintosh. I am told that Mackintosh’s sense of justice is unusually just, but (rule in its method of expression and execution. Once upon a time, under the rule of the gentle Mackintosh, a Cherokee Indian stole a horse. The horse disappeared about the same time as the suspected Indian. The evidence was circumstantial, and it was with grave doubts that the “Mackintosh” sentenced the accused to twenty lashes and a term of imprisonment. After the lashes, and during the imprisonment, it was found out that another Indian, who had been the principal Witness against' the man, was the real thief. lie was sentenced to execution and executed. Then it came to the consideration of the case of the Indian who had been punished for a crime he did not commit.,. Long and arduously did the chief study over the problem of recompense. At last the Indian was sent for, and the Mackintosh, with a beam of satisfaction, expressed his regret for the mistake, and said: “Now you go and steal a horse.” And justice was satisfied. A drudge Against the Minister. “Where’d you get your black eye, Jimmy?” asked one newsboy curiously of another. “That comes o’ goin’ to church, ” said Jimmy. “Last Sunday the minister kept tellin’ us in his sermon that we must help the fallen. .Well, I didn’t know any fallen. Still.. I wanted to do the square things so 1 happened to think I’d make some. It didn’t take me long, I put g cake of soap on the back stairs where the hired girl comes down. She came down pretty soo i. Then when I rushed to help the fallen, 6he up and gave me this black eye.” “You don’t say so!” sympathetically exclaimed Ibe other newsboy. . “I do, though,” said Jimmy, “and I’d tell you something on the dead quiet. I’m layin’ for that minister now!”— Somerville Journal. , “There is something inexpressibly touching ia the fallen leaves,” sighs an esteemed author. There is, there is. Its when you slip on one of the articles on a wet morning, and touch the the unsympathetic pavement, _ „ ‘ •'V St. Jacobs Oil deadens pain and makes the lame walk. Major Arnold, of the Occidental Hotel, San Francisco, Cal., was complete> cured of rheumatism by its use.