Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — A Mitigating Circumstance. [ARTICLE]

A Mitigating Circumstance.

Texas Siftings. Judge Duffy—Why did you assault Dr. Goodman on the street? Prisoner —I struck him in self-de-fence. I own four saloons and he forbids his patients to. drink any stimulants whatever. If that ain f t sufficient provocation . I’d like to know what is. Ambition is a balloon which carries no parachute.