THE LADY--"Well, your honor, if you will only give me a chance, I think I can convince the eleven other jurors that he's guilty."
A tailor who had been wrongfully accused of murder, and who had an excellent defense, seemed very dejected when brought up for trial.
"What's the trouble?" whispered the counsel, observing his client's distress as he surveyed the jurymen.
"It looks very bad for me," said the defendant, "unless some steps are taken to dismiss that jury and get in a new lot. There isn't a man among them but owes me money for clothes."
There is no virtue so truly great and Godlike as justice.--_Addison_.
A Sunday-school teacher had been telling her class of little boys about crowns of glory and heavenly rewards for good people.
"Now, tell me," she said, at the close of the lesson, "who will get the biggest crown?"
There was silence for a minute or two, then a bright little chap piped out:
I think I know what kindness is tonight. It is a woman standing by a light.
It is a smile when life seems mostly grim. It is a hope when hope has grown quite slim.
It is a hand that's gentle, firm and cool. It is calm sense when you think like a fool.
It is a word of cheer when cheer is gone. It is a lowered blind at garish dawn.
It is a steady presence all the day That pushes lagging, dragging hours away.
I think I know what kindness is tonight. It is a woman standing by a light.
The Red-Cross idea that children should be encouraged to breed white mice in order that they might be handed over to doctors for the purpose of medical research, and which recommended these white mice, particularly, on the grounds that they so endeared themselves to the children, can only be paralleled by a story General Baden-Powell once told at a Boy Scout meeting. There was a boy, he related, who went to bed one night without having done his "kind act." Just as he was beginning to feel rather miserable about it, he heard a mouse in a trap in the room.
"What do you think he did?" asked the General, and the audience promptly replied:
"Not at all," replied the General; "he hadn't done his kind act: he thought of the cat."
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Beauty lives with kindness.--_Shakespeare_.