| Show r From The TLe Battleground of Thought J Jubilee Six months ago a Il deputy Is clerk of ono ono of the tho At Times courts In Montana was convicted on two charges of forging or certificates for j rees Ho U had Is Issued Issued sued tho warrants in tho names of fic fictitious persons person Ho had confederates who obtained the tho cash cn h from tho county count treasurer on these warrants The amount of ot his peculation n ns something like He Ho was Wn sen sentenced on the two charges to several years imprisonment His attorney went to tho Supreme Court on tho ils IS ISsue sue that tho copies of tIO warrants or certificates s as set the mens failed to show that the thc seal of tho clerk clork of or the courts was attached to them and lInd that In the absence absen o of such seal sea which was required by law the tho warrants or certificates were yoW void and no crime was wan committed The Tho Court C rt sustained this conten conton contention lion tion and the deputy clerk is now a 11 freeman although ono of his confederates e weighed down by hy the sense of his own guilt and the tho disclosure of or It died as an all indirect result Yet no lawyer laVer educated under the present system will question tho correctness of this decision if judicial precedents havo any force at nt all In III another case a case caso of eold murder the th prosecuting attorney n orlo neglected by ono of or those unavoidable mental lapses to which wo are arc all subject and which no ono one seemed seem cd to have havo dis discovered discovered covered until too loo late to lo set out In tho body of ot the tho Indictment the name namo of tho county where the murder was committed though the name namo ap appeared in the caption There Thoro were any number of Instances which ad advised the defendant of or the crime All through tho trial tria reference was WILS made to tho exact locality It was proved provell beyond bey nd cavil The defendant himself hm took the tho stand described the tho place and ancl named the county Jn In tho telling tell I n of his story stoy He did not know that he had not been legally charged with a crime In that particular county In filet fact he supposed ho had But Dut after his conviction of murder In tho first degree Ills lawyers discovered tho flaw They raised the tho question and ami the tho Supreme Court of course re reversed e versed the tho case cabe Had the tho defendant ant been acquitted his hll acquittal would have havo been legal HaYing Having been con convicted convicted his conviction was Illegal Colliers Fiction Dumber Trials of or Frank X Meyer c wont out Scientific to China with a sort sOIl Explorers commission slon from the United States government Here Herc was as tho proposition the explorer The practically pr Includes every ever variety varl t of oC climate and soil the Antl s Yet great sections of the United d Stafe Ho fallow fallo marked urN barren a and China and Russia have hav areas areas with tho same climate and the same soil but those areas are not marked barren They are aro cultivated so they the population prolific as rats fa j Meyer lIfe was 8 sent to see Reo what gr jw in those thOO regions to see sec how it Jt grow grew to examine gardens and farms to learn the tho failures and to learn the hc successes su s of ot those fo r r liri peoples who ho have havo en soil moro centuries than the United States tales yoa to dp do nil all this and to send back specimens of plant growth and an of f eda edl that gave promise o of de dc development ent In tho United States Very simple it t s It at all simple In reality In fuel fact It take t a book to lo give ors ers experiences es The Th quest led him to tho far Interior whore Chinese soldiers dare daro not go tio It led Jed him to regions known as haunts like the Bor der Marches of England Englund in tho l days da a bt of the tho and Scots Coolies do de sorted him In panic terror Horses could neither bo ought bought nor hired Bas Bag gage g ge had to be carried forward on rafts mets and wheelbarrows Night after night weeks and mouths months at a I stretch tho ex cx explorer had to sleep In village inns on earthen floors where the thc hou und and filth flUh of or ten years oara stank slant In l a 0 veritable able ablo cesspool The water was Wn not only bad but It Jt was sheer poison a vilo concoction of f rain and sewage Vermin Infested over inch of or such abodes and HIllS flips in n clouds clo ds corrupted fast fasl as It was exposed expo cd Meyers food was canned meat meal biscuits and tea What Whal with tho th smell and the vermin restful sloop was out of ot tho question Of Or course tho mans health went utterly to pieces s I It a case calle of an illness with a 0 beginning and an end It was a II caso ca e ot of never being well and the tho scientist was surrounded by ruffians ruman who had never before seen a lJ foreign devil and ana treated him to such Huch as ono may guess staring in at a t every evor crevice revl o and crack day and night in mobs examining ex him from tho hair of his head to tho solo of his hiM feet lying Iring to him and jeering J at him it If he asked questions through I his hlf Interpreter accusing him of tho ovll aye eyo if he examined their gardens demanding extortionate prices when ho attempted to lo buy needs and specimens sl In fact treating hm exactly as Our bur own criminal population might treat a n Chi Chinese nese explorer If wo hud had no police and tho Chinese police had forewarned Meyer they could eoula not protect him In these regions Did Meyer turn back Not Nol much Ho HI wr a n good gool revolver and protected himself From People Who ho Stand for fOt Plus in tho Outing Magazine for October Strenuous We c had Irad been talking a 0 group at It the Aero AclO club in Of lIln York about Mr 11 Ry R thrilling ride on Oil the frame of a dirigible balloon across York a Ib thousand feet above tho pavements We 0 had hl d Just agreed Il reed enthusiastically that the tho all had been conquered as Captain T 1 S Baldwin came In the veteran of ot hun of or ascensions who always gets back to his starting point with dirigible balloons and who later delivered to tho government t the biggest airship over ever seen in America Wo rJ asked d him how ho 0 felt about conquest cst ot oC the all air What are my sensations when hoh I get up thero he replied I dont ber hel that I ever eel had any I 1 to too l O bus bu y watching tho motor motol run nm ning buck and Id forth Corth On on the tho frame to swinging against its Its motion to lo keep ke p from pitChing g lIle hal bal loons Joons head Into Inlo the ho wind when 1 could c all the keeping tight hold on ithe ro n Jort Frederick Todd JOdd In the O s |
