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Show Like the Germans. Apropos of the murderous German air raids on open towns, Mayor Edwin W. Fiske of the Mount Vernon exemption exemp-tion board said: "Why, the Germans have no more regard for women's and children's lives than the old California justice had for the Chinaman. "This Chinaman had been killed by a drunken rancher, and the proof against the murderer seemed irrefutable. irrefut-able. The justice, however, wound up the case in short order. " 'There hain't no use of this here case goln' to the jury,' he said, looking look-ing up darkly over his spectacles from a law bool;. 'I've studied all through my Law Cyclopedy, and there ain't no law nowhere ag'in' a man's killin' a Chink. Turn the prisoner loose, sheriff. But, say, young feller, don't you go doin' It ag'in'. Some justices is more ignorant than me.' " Buffalo Express. |