The judges quick to understand the loss of trade after vainly
trying to induce the litigants to new efforts, would gently and
suggestively push under their hands a pair of dice boxes or a pack of
cards and the dispute would sometimes end upon the throw of a die or
the turn of a card.
The reason that these court cafes have not long remained in vogue, was
that all actual litigants soon became so sophisticated as they
realized the enormity of the position and how unreasonable their
conduct seemed to the average man. Public sentiment was naturally
against such a waste of time and real performers became scarce.
Several of the courts were detected in hiring false litigants as
actors so as to draw the crowds. The performance not being genuine
soon lost its interest. The patrons left them and many courts became
bankrupt. So like their predecessors, those light-minded courts have
practically ended.
THE END
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Justice to All
The Story of the Pennsylvania State Police
By
Katharine Mayo
Introduction by
Theodore Roosevelt
8th. Illustrated. $2.50
Theodore Roosevelt says: "It is a book so interesting and so valuable
that it should be in every public library and every school library in
the land.
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