At the Mixed Court on Thursday morning (8th instant) before Mr. Chay (Magistrate) and Mr. S. Th. von Goi (Swedish Assessor), two men appeared to answer a charge of assault and robbery of a box containing $300. They were arrested on a Mixed Coust warrant, and another man, a compradore ut Messrs. Schiller & C, was also concerned, and was mentioned in' the warrant. Dr. Barclet, whose ordinary day it was, made way for this one case to be tried by the Swedish Assessor. The defendants were represented by Mr. C. R. Holcomb, who desived, ar A WONDERFUL MACHINE, the opening of the case, to know how the The second most delicate machine in the Municipal authorities acted in the case of world is one in the physical laboratory of the one man against another who was said to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. With have committed an assault. He said that, its diamond point this machine can rule from a Chinese in foreign employ could not be 15,00 to 125,000 lines to the square inch, arrested without the consent of the Consul and is used as an aid in dividing up a ray of the employer. The police had complain-of. sunlight into its component parts, So ed that the man (the compradore) had delicate is the machine that the heat of a resi-ted arrest, but that was because he was human body will throw it out of gear. in the employ of Messrs. Schiller & Ca.
'The first' most. intricate and delicate piece and the warrant had not been signed by of mechanism in the world completely eclipses the Swedish Consul. The. Assessor re-this. It can carry a heavy weight, and yet marked that the warrant was signed by the a few tiny grains might cause it to break Swedish Consul, but was after the down. It controls every muscle in the world, Senior Consul had signed it, Mr. Holcomb and all that wondering grey and white stance that is known as brain, continuing, said a man in this settlement had certain rights, and he must get It encompasses your existence from the these rights. 'The way the police had day when first, "mewling in the' nurse's arms," you enter life to your last proximate been acting must be put a" stop to, indrawn breath.
The police were as-urning kingly functions, "The'stonmach," says Health" of this and it was time that was stopped. That "makes gastric juice, the liver bile, was why he was in Court. If the police and the brain thought. The brain works in had tried, they could easily have found out response to the senses of heating, sight, Messrs. Schiller & Co.'s nationality. The smell, teste, and touch, A well-ordered, police had tried to arrest the compradore well-nourished brain will respond in a w in the Court just before the case began. that will best serve the individual's interests, They wanted to drag him out and make "The stomach receives food, digests it, him lose ice, because they were provoked and makes blood; the brain receives imxt not being able to arrest him the pre-pressions, digests them, and makes thought. An exhausted, worn-out, or diseased stomach vious day. Such conduct was, in cannot make good blood, neither can an opinion, outrageous i exhausted, worn-out, or diseased brain make the warrant was obtained from the Court good thought. at the instance of the complainants, It The confirmed dyspep has a worn-out had been stamped by the Senior Consul, digestive machine that unable to make and then taken t" the Swedish Consul.
hey were told at the latter place that it good blood, and, therefore, an, exhausted brain that cannot think, and a body that is a should have been brought there firs. The physical wreck. He can't work.
Assessor rema: ked that it should not have But his case is not hopeless while liv has deen stamped by the Senior Consul frst. the money to pay for a bottle of Seigel's, Tuspector Aiers replied that was the usual Let us quote.an example. procedure, to take the warrant to the Senior "Four or five years ago I had a dangerous Vonsul first. Mr. Holcomb said that if attack of rheumatic fever, which left me ina very feeble state of health. The rheumatism he police had done wrong a hundred times had gone, it is true, but nervous debility and it was time to put a stop to it. the indigestion set in and seized me in their very Assessor maintained that it was wrong worst form, not to have taken it to the Swedish Con-"The pain in my chest and back after sul first. Inspector Aiers, continuing, vid cating was such that, after a while, 1 did not the warrant was not brought to the Police dare to look at anything soli ud eventually Station until it had been signed by the amy appetite compl: rely' variis Senior Consul, ier lice knew nothing "Once or twice, from sheer necessity, of the case; they had only aced on the tried to swallow a little meat, but the way it warrant. The case, a purely civil one, punished me soon made me repent of my was gone into, after this, at much length rashness. I got no sleep that night, and the inthe vernacular. Mr. Holeomb questioned tortures I suffered defy description.
"In wldition to the trouble in the chest the witness for the prosecution through his interpreter, and the Assessor finally and back I hed sharp shooting pain in the side of my stomach. It was so severe that I said that the Court was unanimous that could hardly draw my breath, rud I got that the case was the outcome of an old feud nervous and timid that I was positive which had suddenly broken oat in fighting, frightened to be left alone- Often I got up and, as there was insufficient proof, the with my husband between five and six in the case was dismissed.—On Monday morning morning, afraid to stay in bed by myself, (12th instant) before Mr. Chang (Mani: and to be left alone in the house would trate) and Mr. 8. F. Maye: s (British almost drive me mad."
Assessor), a house-boy was charged (This story of a deranged digestion is told with stealing money and several articles by Mrs. Neale, 97, Penistone Road, Sheffield, from his employer, Mr. ES, Little, and dated November 30th, 1900.) at 18, Chaoufoong Road.—Mr. Little, "In this terrible state one of my married daughters found me. She had come on a who appeared, ssid he was taking it, and seeing me look so very ill, said. care of the house for his brother who "Why don't you try Mother Seigel's Syrup?? [was away. On the night of the 6th "Thad often read of the wonrfal outen inst. a coolie asked hi if he had missed in the papers, but it never struck me that it any money, as the houseboy had been seen might do me good. I resolved to try it, and in possession of $10. As it was late in T goto bottle, the evening he did not question the boy The effect it had upon me was marked, until the next morning, when he accused A young fellow we had living with us said he him of taking money and told him he ha shall never seen such a change in his life, and witnesses to prove it. Mr. Little, on he was right. I took about a dozen bottles searching, found $16.80 missing. The boy in all, butt long. before the twelfth bottle the admitted the theft and paid back $10 first. prin in my side and chest had gone and I could eat as well as ever. life and energy and $6 afterwards, lewing a balance of soon returned to me, and a load was lifted oft 80 cents, and he agreed to forgive him, my chest. taking into recount his youth. But on "Tam getting on in years now, and in the jing to his room shortly after, he found Spring and fall of the year I suffer somewhat 1.80 missing from the money which had with the old enemy rheumatism, but Seigel's [been returned: This, he thought, was Syrup never fails to set me right, and I would most barefaced thieving and he con-not be without it for anything you could sequently gave the lad in charge. He did give me, net wish to be too hard on him he was j "If you think others would benefit like only a youngster. Detective Brown stated myself, I have no objection to your publish-th: quantity of stamps in envelopes ing this letter, because if it Were not for and some shirts were found in accused's boxes, Both envelopes xnd shirts bore asylum.—Yours truly (Mrs.) C. Neale." Seigel's I should to-day be in my grave or an Disused brains and worn-out stomachs are Mr. Little's name. The Court sentenced accused to receive 200 blows. like so much serap iron, fit only for Carlyle's rubbish heap,
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