Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 21

HICKENS and hot weather cause more family rows than any Other causes temperance advo- cates to the contrary, notwith- standing,” sald a lawyer who spent a good part of his lite in the whirl and dush of justice court lti- #atlon. *The colder and stormier the | Weather the less are the fights. When its | & question or not whether the family will freese or starve to death the trouble ; microbe ls out of a Job. But with the coming | of spring onlons, radishes and other gre hings are planted in the gardens. Also are | the chickens turned out to scratch by the | nelghbor who cares littie for his garden, but dotes on his henhouse. Chicken flies over fence. Wife of man who gardens sples | ehicken digging up the seeds warranted to | 8§ or new ones given in exchange. Wifa [rushes at chicken and with ald of skirt |oaptures the brute. With a muscular twist ! of the wrist the pirate's life Is ended and | the carcass thrown back over the fence. {What follows can be imegined. The next 'day it usually pours in the justice court. ‘This is the way the thing is generally carrled out: The wife of the man who owns the dead chicken comes to the police court first, because it is understood that action in the police court costs nothing—no charges or fees. The lady desires to make & com- plaint, but diligent Inquiry discovers the fact that all she can or cares to complain about is that the other lady made threats to kill, burn or destroy. She does not care to sue to recover the value of the fowl and the case is not strong enough to warrant taking befors the maglistrate. Hence lady 1s directed to justice court where peace warrants are issued and much trouble caused for bolstrous persons who bark bet- ter than they smite. Lady is informed in Justice court that the process will cost her $5—about balf for the court and. the re- nder for the constable who serves the summons. As she usually has come straight away from the scene of hot words $5 Is THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6, OOR"MAN'S COURT. §WHERE JUSTICE #” EQUIT Y/ ARE ADMINISTERED B JUSTICES rHE nothing to her, compared with sity for satisfying her senso of outraged justice. She lays down the &, for any Justice of the peace knows that if the com- plainant gets a night's sleep on the matter outraged justice won't be worth 5 cents, and he makes it a point to have the money posted in advance. “These preliminaries attended to the constable 1s despatched with the sufnmons. Lady, who did the toreador business with chicken is haled fnto court. Sometimes she, weeps; often she Is accompanied by soven-eighths or nine-tenths of the nelg- borhood, and if she fsn't the latter is sure to arrive later in various degrees of des- habllle and sympathy. Lady who was haled in as @ rule makes it a point to plead the defenceiess woman at the meroy of the mob and begs for her husband. That modern annihilator of time and la- bor, the telepbone, is used to call hubby oft his job. He comes with dirty hands and in his perspiration and - overalls. ‘When he discovers what's wrong he has to press his utmost fortitude into use to prevent his giving his wife a sound spank- ing right there, Later both sides get to telling thelr story. Domestic: and nelgh- borly patriotism comes to the front llke the prima donna In comic opera. The court rooms seethe. Lawyers are neces- sarily—imperatively necessary. Lawyers are obtalned. Each charges from $5 (o $15 and more If the clfents have the coin. It's then up to the justice. Ho makes a few passes and elther binds one party to the district court to glve peace bonds or says not guilty. Either way it comes out each side stands to pay from §2 to $0. Nothing Is gained. It's back to the hen- house and garden spot again and in & day the nceas- PEACE~ S _— - n\n\\\unl\‘ Y=/ /) \WANNWSSS Ofrice oF WILLIAM ALTSTADT, *LITTLE Bisrrarex * or two Mrs. Spinach calls Mrs. Leghorn a bad name and the row is on again. No- body ever sues under a peace bond. This time the litigants have learned it costs money to go to law. Therefore they fight it out In peace and comfort and with fi- nanclal economy, “Cases like this take up about haif the time In justice shops. Most of the other cases concern sults for debt, replevin and attachment proceedings, usually based on the same grounds and ejectments. Mar- rlages don’t amount to much in Omaha anymore. The system in the county judge's office is too fine. If a magistfate Is to marry the vearning couple,~it might as well be the one who jssues the license, from the standpoint of the county judge's office, and few who don't care who mar- ries them so it's done quick escape to the mere justices. Somehow in the old days the justices used to do better at it, but there are ministers nowadays who keep the sharp lookout. “The law allows the justice to charge $3 for his servicts in adjusting the holy bonds. But If he is waked up in the middle of the night, as often happens, or jerked away from his Sunday dinner, he looks mighty sour if he don't get a five. Once there was a benevolent old justice of the peace in Omaha who was called up at 1 o'clock of an exceedingly frosty morning, by a well dressed young man and an equally well dressed young woman who had a de- sire to be wedded In haste. quitted a dance and wanted to splice that night so as to overcome parental opposi- tion. The justice shiveringly got iuto some clothes, called his wife and daughter for witnesses, and, with chattering tseth, pro- nounced them man and wife. “How much do T owe you?' demanded the young man. “Oh,” replied the justice In decpest satire and with as much of a drawl as the tem- perature would permit. “The law allows me §2." It was a fatal mistake. “If that's the case,’ replled the groom, ‘take this cigar on me to remember me by, and the couple departed before the justice got his braath, “A couple appeared In another justice fourt & year or @0 ago and were marrled. There Was quite & party of guests. After the ceremony the groom invited the party, to a cafe for a lunch and bottle of beer. Ehe ‘judge went along, tco. The party was a merry one and none happler than the groom. At the restaurant the bride excused herself, left the room and never came back. The wedding guests dispersed in horror and a few hours later the groom in a state of frenzy, rushed back In the Justice court looking under tables, chairs and In closets for his wife. It was learned later that the lady had about $300 of his money. The groom recovered. “Did you ever know that justices of the peace In Nebraska are expressly designatod the officers to prevent dueling. It is even OMAHA'S FAMoUS JusTice of THE PEACE.. They had just so as recourss to the annotated statutes will show. If any duel is pulled off in a jus- tice's jurisdiction I suppose he is to blame for it. This is not so bad, though as It would be In other states. Besides being responsible for dueling the justice of the peace has a lot of other unusual duties to perform. For instance in the country dis- tricts he i a ‘fence-viewer that is to see that fences demamded by law are properly built as per prescription; again, In places he 18 an overseer of the poor, and in other sections It is his duty to impound dis- eased cattle, know If sheep have any- thing wrong with them and the llke. You oan’t tell me that a justice does not have to be a versatile and accomplished per- 'here is no diplomat like a justice eourt canstable. He 'Is indeed a veritable Chestertield. The other day a woman of forelgn birth came into a court and an- nounced that she had been presented with an ‘invitation’ by a gentleman to come to the place on a certain hour on & certaln day. It was not discovered what alled the g00d dame untll she produced her ‘in- vitation,' which was found to be a sum- mons arresting heron a serious charge, As she had & husky looking husband and several other athletic-looking relatives around the house when the constable called it will be agreed that he handled the case most discreetly, ‘Forelgners are more prone to get Into trouble than American-born people, they are better in paying their debts. The people that come to this country from other nations as a rule are the most honest people in ‘the community. I should say that the great proportion of them are nearly perfectly honest as human belings attain, “Real criminal cases are comparatively rarities in the justice courts, coming oc- casionally from outside the city. Install- ment houses do not have difference with thriftless creditors as much as might be supposed. Single women and widows are seldom sued. As justice courts have nothing to do regarding real estate possession and tittes. of women, children and widows may get the worst of it some times, but this is not evident in the justice courts. Single women who are self-supporting live within thelr means in this city. They seem to know their own ability to make money better than the men, married and unmar- ried, and are not so prone to assume liabili- tles they can't swing. “A justice of the peace has great op- portunities to become the arbitrator of difficulties involving both bad feeling and property considerations. If both sides are convinced that he s disposed to throw aside his officlal guise and simply declde thelr case on Its matter of fact merits, with kindly advice to each, they often get together right away and patch up their differences. It means dollars and cents to the justices, however, not to do this. They are pald from the fees and every day a case hangs on and the more complicated it grows thelr emoluments in- crease. But If litigants can get m dif- ference settled without subjecting 1t to the rigld application of law they are us- dut ually better satisfied to let it go that way, provided there is no trickery or knavery behind one side. “The most pitiful cases that come to the justice courts are the defendants in | ejectment proceedings. Landlords and | agents seek to put a tenant out for the non-payment of rent or other reason, It Hs surprising how many poor people think that a tenant cannot be evicted in the | winter time. This hallucination seems to | have taken a firm hold. Many & time I have had to dispel it and the looks of | hopelessness and misery I saw on thelr faces made me never want to do it again, Others think the time in which they may retaln possession is greatly over what the law specifies “Recently hired girls have had a lot of litigation in the justice courts. It is & mark of ever increasing ‘independence’ of hired girls. They sue for wages, not be- cause they will not be pald but because they were dismissed fn a hurry and told to wait till the regular pay daw for the cash. The mistress and the domestio has trouble. Mistress gots in a huff and or- ders the girl to leave. Girl demands her pay. Mistress, who knows she has the worst of the bargain at the best in thesa:| days of limited domestics, says she will pay at the right time. Girl comes to jus- tice court and sues. Mistress is haled in and caused great annoyance and trouble, Girl feels as though she has evened things up. Her payday is then due or past due and she finally gets her money. This act was put on the other day in one ef the local justice courts and the girl hasn't called for her money yet. There are usually costs for the mistress to pay. “But day In and day out a justice court 1s the dullest, most prosaic of places and it is rarely that a gleam of humor, human Interest or savagery is seen. Vindiotlve- ness and misfortune are the principal chare acteristics revealed. How Ames Prepares Its Trophy-Winning Teams in Stock Judging HEN a stock judging team from Ames won the $800 Spoor trophy at the International Live Stock show at Chicago in 191, some people were unkind enough to say that it was luck, and couldn’t be done again. During the two Succeeding years Ames won the Spoor trophy for the second and third time, and annexed it permanently. The next year two trophles were offered, one for the best work Judging horses, and the other for cattle, sheep and swine. Ames promptly annexed the horse trophy. The following year It made a flying trip to Ohlo and then the Ames men buckled down to business and it came to Ames in 190§ and 1%07, thus making it the permanent property of the Towa State college. In 1908 another trophy, shown In the sccompanying cut, was put up to become the permanent property of the school win- ning it three times. The Ames team brought it to Jowa. Last year they re- peated the performance. Already the tllchl’lu animal husbandry professors are L. Missouri Valley Debaters | HE Missour! Valley High school took the championship banner of the Sputhwestern lowa De- bating league. The team, com- posed of Stough McGavren, Gus Helman and Tom Tormey, hav- ing won on both sides of the questifn, “Re- solved, That American cities shold adopt & commission form of government.” The boys will meet KFort Dodge, the winners ©Of the Northwestern district, within a few Weeks, and hope to reverse the decision that Missourl Vallev got there two years ago in the womi-finals, v STOUGH M'GOVERN, TOM GUS HEIMAN, MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS. TOOMEY, VALLEY spotting material for next year's team. If all goes well, by the time the 1910 Interna- tlonal is history this beautiful §760 trophy will have gone to swell the permanent col- lection in the trophy room of the new agricultural hall at Ames, Soon after the results of the 1900 contest were announced, a prominent live stock breeder sald to & man who had been on the Ames team a year previous, “Now just be- tween you and me, how do you fellows do it?" It took & half hour's talk to convince him that there wasn't somo secret in the process of making stock judges at Ames. The only secret In the process is hard work and constant training. “To make the team” Is the goal of the student's ambi- tion from the time he pays nrs first janitor fee until the proud day when he sees his name among the upper five, or sadly tucks his sheepskin under his arm and trudges away without having \attained the coveted honor. The “prep” in the animal husbandry course is set to work judging stock the first day of the term. Twice a week, for two hours each time, he practices in the stock judging pavillon. At first he is given & score card and told to mark the points in which the animal he is working on fails to come up to his ideal. This is to teach him the polnts of an animal, and thelr relative importance. He learns to tell a spavin from a sidebone. He is taught to tell the age of a horse by looking at its teeth, and to estimats the amount of porter- house steak in a steer by feeling of his back. After awhile two animals are brought into the ring at once, and then three or four. The student, who is becoming more proficient by this time, places them In order of merit. He is required to get up before the class and explain his phacings, comparing the good and bad points of each animal, giving to each one its due. Often his ideas conflict with those of the fn- structor, and he 18 shown the error of his ways.By continued practice his judgment fmproves, and he daily becomes more pro- ticlent. When he comes back at the beginning of his zophomore year, with a reef in the bottom of his trousers and a microscopic cap on one corner of his head, he s again set to work judging stock. This year's work deals more with breeding stock and the types of the different breeds. By the time he has completed his sophomore year he has learned the fine points of all the breeds and classes of stock. During the fall of his junior year the student makes his first try for the team. Score cards have long since been dispensed with, and now oven the sheet of paper on which he wrote his reasons during his sophomore year is discarded. He is given & card on which to record the number of the animals as he places them and the rest he must store in his memory. He may be called on to glve his reasons for his placings soon after the class is placed, or it may be a week later, with a dozen other classes between. That is part of the training that is to make him & successful stock judge. “Get & picture of the animal TROPHY WON BY AMES COLLEGE STOCK JUDGING TEAM. thoroughly engraved on your mind and you will never forget it,” Prof. Dinsmore tells the class over and over again. Before they have been at work s month they have thelr minds 5o full of these mental pictures that it looks like an art gallery. Only a man who has his mind card indexed can produce the required picture when it iy called for. It is men of that kind who make good stock judges. The climax comes shortly before the American Royal at Kansas City, when & trip Is taken to some good live stock show, such as St. Joseph or Kansas City, when & the entire class 1s set to work Judging the prize animals. From morning till night they worlk, class after class appearing be- fore thewm in kaleidoscoplo regularity. By the timo the two-day workout is over the student crawls into bed feeling that be could not tell a Hereford cow from a Buff Cochin pullet. He doesn't care whether he makes the team or/is run over by Armour's six-horse wagon, just so he «<an shut his eyes to that endless procession of broad-backed cattle and hogs with a Gossip and Stories Abcut Noted People “Bob” “Charlie N THE YEAR relates Cur- rent Literature, two young men stood up with the rest of their class at Bowdoin university to recelve diplomas. One was called Bob, the other was called Cnarlie. They werg Maine boys, both of them, and of about the same age. Within the last few weeks those two boys, now grown into grizzled men in the early S, have been conspicuous in the news of the day. One of them, Bob, went In for fame, and after devoting the best vears of his life to wrestling with Arctle storms, throwing dice with death, enduring the very limits of privation and hardship, more than once #lad to chew tanned leather or bite Into rancid plubber, he emerged the other day with & story of discovery that thrilled the whole world and will send his name, Robert E. Peary, sounding down the ages to the end of time. The other boy, Charlle, went in fortune. He had already developed knack of the mopey-maker, and not tie up his talent in a napkin. He sold candy. He sold ice. He sold lumber. He quired banks and trust companies and Jugsled stocks and bonds until he amassed a fortune of $22,00000. Then something happened. On the day after New Year's day of this year, his money gone, his répu- tation destroyed, his liberty lost, he (ook the 10:43 train on the Southern Limited, escorted by & United States marshal and two deputies, on the way to the federal prison at Atlants, Ga., to which he had been sentenced for a term of fifteen years. and for the he did Every legal device to save him had been tried and had failed, and Charles Wyman Morse has now become comvict No. 2814— that 1s all. Practiced No Deception. “I wish to deny,” said nelnnatt editor, “that Mr. Taft, when he was law reporter on my paper, once practiced de- ception on & train crew. “The story goes that Mr. Taft had been studying a case in Somerville and found he couldn't get back to the office that night unless he managed to stop the through express. So he wired to head- quarters a ‘Will you stop the through express at Somerville to take on a large part “The answer came back, 'Yes.' ‘The express duly stopped at mer- ville, the young law reporter got aboard with his copy, and the conductor said ‘' ‘Where's that large party take on? ‘I'm him,' was the grinning answer. “And that's the story,” the editor con- cluded, “which I desire to deny in toto." 1 was to A B Nye Story. The following anecdote appeared In the first number of the Bookman and has just been reproduced in that magazine. It con- cerns Edgar W. Nye (Bfll Nye), who made, we are informed, & short speech at an author’s dinner in London that was mueh velished by the bookmen present, fncluding the publishers, at whom 1t was indirectly aimed. “Just a year ago,” he saM, "I was walking on the principal street. of Indian- wpolis, when I met & man whose appear- ance showed that he was reduced to the very depths of poverty. His clothes were ragged, his face unshaven, his halr long and matted and his feet unshod. As I passed him a look of recognition eame into his eye. ye, old fellow, don't you know me? Don't you know Abel P. Jones, who was your classmate &t college? “ ‘What, Jones! Is it really you? well, what can 1do for you?' ** ‘For heaven's sake, help me. I am starv- ing. Lend me half a dollar.’ “I felt In my pockets. They were empty. I had no monev myself. But a bright thought flashed through my mind. Abel, 1 can't tend you the half dollar; I haven't got it. But look here, I'll tell you what I will do; X'l let you publish my next book.’ “Gentlemen, that was just a year ago; and this month Abel P. Jones sent me an invitation to go to Europe with him In his steam yacht." Well, < One on Ge During a Friday afternoon lecture on history In a Baitimore educational insti- tutlon the Instructor had geven w iengthy diquisition on the character of George Washington, inoldentally touching upon his work as the organiser of the revolu- tion, Now," asked the instructor, “if George Washington were alive today, what prac- tical part do you think he would play In present-day politics, judging from the past?” A prolonged silence puplis followed this. lad saw & way out. “Sir, he queried, “wouldn't he be too oldT'—Liupincott's Mugasine. . W, on the part of the Finally, however, one double curl in their tall. But it is all over, and the next day five men are wearing smiles that can be seen half a mile away, while the others try to grin, and register a vow to make the team next year. The American Royal is something of an unknown quantity to Ames. Three years ago they brought the trophy home with the blggest score to thelr credit that had ever been made In a student judging contest. In 1908 the Kansas team slipped one over on their compettitors and carried away the trophy, and last year Missourl headed the list. The Ames team went home grim and determined, and set such a pace at tho International that Missouri fell down to sixth place, and was lucky to get that. The students' judging contest at the 1900 Int:roational will long be remembered as one of the fiercest fought battles of the kiud ever held. The record of 4,M0 points out of a possible 6,000 made by Ames s2ts a record far in advance of anything ever Lefore made at the International, and one which probably will not be equalled again for .years. This victory has once more made good the claim of the lowa Agricul- tural college to having the best animal Kusbandry course in the country The men who composed this year's team were M. G. Thornburg of Linden, Ta.; J. I. Thompgon of Jamalca, la.; O. D. Baker of Edmund, Wis.; R. W. Cassady of Whiting, Ia, and Heward Vaughn of Marion, Ia. The team was coached by Prof. Dinsmore, with the assistance of the other members of the animal husbandry department. M. G. Thornburg is a practical live stock man. He was ralsed on a stock farm and fed cattle from the time he was old enough to handle®a scoop shovel until he came to Ames to reinforce his practical knowledgo Wwith a little scientific agriculture, and in- cldertally enter the race for the stock Judging team. In the final stake up at Chlcago he was high man on the lowa team.and third high man in the whole con- test. Thompson s another man/who has been ralsed with a: love for fine stock. He Stayed out of school for two years and followed up the show circuit in 1908 with H J. Hess' herd of Angus. He has been with 800C stock ail his life and has hud ex- tende; experience with ponies and sheep, “Tom ranked next to Thornburg the contest Cassady has a farm of his own at Whit- Ing, 1a., known as the Walnut Ridge Stock faim. He already has one of the best herds of Herefords in lowa and s a suc- cessful brecder of horses and hogs young man in Towa ranks higher in the estimation of the breeders than Cassady. Although young In years, he 1s old In ex. perience. He has been asaistant superin. tendent of the sheep department at the lTowa state fair for the last three yoars and is on the board of directors of the Interstate fair at Sloux City, He has gone back to the farm to raise some of the kind of stuff that will stand up towarq the top in the show rings. He is in the business to stay wnd will be heard from later, in No Vaughn was given a Shorthorn calf to feed when he was 6 years old, and ho has been feeding them ever slnce, except when he has been in school. Three years ago Vaughn won the scholarship glven for the best corn and stock judging at the state falr. He came to Ames and played the stock judging game so well that he made the team In his junior year. Baker {s a Wisonsin man who was reared on a farm. He recelved ‘his early ation at a normal school in Wiscon- but left off judging schoolma'ms to come to Ames and take the animal hus- bandry course. His work has been ahar- acterized by unusual abllity to remember animals and clearness in reasoning. Lectures on Civics LINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF of Philadelphia, secretary of National Civio Improvement league, will make two addresses In Omaha this week on the gen- eral tople of the “clty beautl- ful” He will urge upon the people of Omaha the necessty of a civic pride which will do wonders towards making Omaha & city with a reputation for beauty of its homes and parks and thorougfares, Mr. Woodruff -will speak on Tuesday evening to the Women's ctun at the First Congregational church and Wednesday afternoon he will address a joint meeting of the Commercial club and the Real Es- tate exchange. Mr. Woodruff is a speaker of a nation-wide reputation, who has been devoting many years of his life to the study of municipal affairs and he wiil pre- sent some practicable ideas on how to make Omaha more beautiful, ¥ ROGERS WOODRUFP, Vational Municipal League.