| Show CAN THE WORLD BEAT THIS editors erli Eili tors farmer in august last I 1 budded a row of seedling apple trees frees with buds of this thib seasons growth of the yellow siberian crab in two weeks the whole in blossom and today to day dec 13 I 1 have gatherer gathered a quantity of beautiful hil rosy ch as the rey rel result tilt thus in nine months from froin the time of planting the seed J have raised the stocks budded them thel them and harvested ripe apples from the trees cali can the world beat this yours truly WILSON FLINT alemeda AI emeda dec 15 1856 california farmer in one of the rural counties of virginia there lived ago a local magnate and lawyer known as gen jones who had long ruled the bar and swayed the court of that county on the strength of a little law and a good deal of pomposity on the principle embodied i in n the french proverb among t the blind the one eyed is king but at len ien length 0 rt h there came carne down to attend that court a young attorney from richmond named wilson who happened to knobil know as s he easily might a good deal more law than the cock of th the walk and was not at all disposed to knuckle to his presumptuous arrogance as others had long done even to curry favor with the beich being pitted against a ainest the great man in a an n important case the stranger coolly exposed and corrected his mis citations and unfounded dicta point by point until the profane multitude began bezan to gi giggle 9 le at seeing the oracle so unmercifully ta taken ken down olvi the judge writhed on his bench and the them defeated dethroned dethroner chagrined great mogul losing all seif self co control atrol in the agony of his mortification n burst hurst out into an adf awful ul tirade of cursing and swea swearing 11 1 1 mr Wil wll sternly thundered the representative of justice from the bench thinking it high time this f fearful earful exposure and image 0 breaking should be ari arf arrested est if you dont stop worrying gen jones and making him cur curse seand and swear so the court will be obliged to commit you for contempt |
