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A toast to the Old-Time Lawyer? Each
day diminishes his numbers and adds to
the brightness of his laurels. He blazed
the /way for legal precedents, established
the landmarks for common law principles,
and, besides making the rich legal literature
which illumines the progress of this nation,
laid broad and deep the foundations upon
which civil liberty and the growth of our
civilization rests.
The old-time lawver was A MAN OF
THE PEOPLE, A GOOD STUDENT OF
A FEW BOOKS AND A BETTER STU
DENT OF MANY MEN. He dealt with
_ first principles, digested them until they
became a part of his being and applied them to the con
ditions with which he was confronted. He had his Blackstone,
his Chitty, his Ferns and his Preston. Often he could carry his whole
library in his saddle bags as he rode the circuit. Slut he mixed with
the people and knew their political, social and physical conditions, re
alized that it was his province to apply to these conditions the princi
ples of the old common law of England—and to make the logical ex
ception where they would not apply. PRINCIPLES RATHER
THAN PRECEDENTS WERE HIS CONCERN. He did not
grope among almost 200 volumes of “reports” of his own common
wealth for a formidable array of precedents with which to get a ready
made nt tor ms case; he did not have an omce corps ot inuex nuniers
and witness chasers, and his standing at the bar was not measured
by his ability to consolidate commercial enterprises into combines and
trusts.
His life was thoughtful, unsordid, courteous and tempered by the
relaxation which came from familiar contact with the common peo
ple. He lived well, loved and dignified Ins profession, and GENER
ALLY DIED PUUK.
Not least among the things which made the Old-Time Lawyer a
man of thought and of judicial repose was his ability to drop care
under the genial spell of comradeship with his peers. As a lad I have
listened to the stories of Lincoln as he traveled the circuit and know
the charm of that influence!
Then, too, these informal gatherings of the men who pioneered
our jurisprudence were the best law schools ever conducted. Such dis
cussions reached down into the very heart of the law.
The law was looked at by its old-time expounders from a different
^yjqwrreint than that taken to-day. They studied the law historically,
reading in its principles the crystallization of the highest thought of
the period.
Opportunity will not make one great. It needs the assistance of
push, energy and ability, and it is these qualitioe that make opportuni
ties.
A FAMOUS RACE HORSE.
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Was Sold for Eight Dollars Through a
Stable Boy's Mistake.
A famous race horse, for which an
offer of $900 had been refused at the
recent Benning meeting, was sold for
eight dollars the other day at a
local auction house and then
sold by the purchaser for five dollars,
says the Baltimore American. The
horse in question belonged to a young
society man of Baltimore, who en
tered the animal at the Benning races.
The horse proved valuable as a fast
rur x.er by winning several races. The
owner was offered $900 for the horse,
which he refused, saying that he
would not take less than $1,000. He
then decided to bring the animal to
Baltimore and sell it at public action
at a leading auction stable. After no
tifying his friends who wished to buy
the horse of his intentions, the young
man brought the racer to Baltimore
and left him with his stable boy, in
structing him to take the horse to the
auction house.
The young man then repaired to
the place of auction, where his friends
were congregated. In the rain they
waited for the appearance of the boy
with the steed, but hedid not show up
until the party had had a wait of about
two hours or more. "\V hen he did,he
did not. have the horse with
him, but in its place a check
for six dollars and a bill of
sale. It appears that the boy made a
mistake in the name of the auction
house and took the horse to the wrong
stable, where it was offered for sale,
bringing eight dollars, with a deduc
tion of two dollars for the auctioneers,
leaving six dollars for the former own
er of the horse. The horse’s first own
er went to the auction house where
the valuable horse had been sold at
f uch a ridiculously low price. When
he arrived he could do no more than
obtain the name and address of the
man to whom the horse had been sold.
This young man did not succeed in
finding the buyer of his horse until
the next day, and when he did it was
only to find that the horse had been
sold by the buyer for a lower price
than be paid for it. The horse had
never been in harness, and when the
gentleman who bought it harnessed
it it kicked up a good deal, but did not
become unmanageable until the man
had driven it about five miles from
town; them the floor was kicked out of
the runabout and the harness broken.
The purchaser, of course, did not
know that the horse had racing quali
ties', and thought that hehad been buni
koed into buying a horse that looked
fully five years old, but had not been
broken.
When he found himself suddenly
sitting in the road, with a broken up
runabout for company and his horse
just disappearing in a cloud of dust
over a distant hilltop, he can hardly
be blamed for not caring whether he
ever saw the brute again. However,
while thus soliloquizing, a man came
down the road in a wagon leading the
horse that he had just caught. The
purchaser was so thoroughly disgust
ed with the animal that he sold it to
the man in the wagon for five dollars.
When asked if he knew the man to
whom he hud sold the horse he said
that he had never seen him beforeand
did not even think lie would recognize
him if lie saw him again.
The young man has been trying to
locate his horse for several days, but
lias not succeeded in doing so as yet.
Trained Ants.
Trained ants are the latest novelty
in Berlin. There is a little circus in
which these performers appear daily.
They dance, turn somersaults, draw
miniature wagons, fight sham battles,
and perform other wonders.
BREVITIES OF FUN.
Every man likes- sympathy, but ht
doesn’t like a fellow feeling for his
pocketbook.—Chicago Daily News.
Philanthropist—“1 am sorry to set
you in this place of confinement.'
Prisoner—“The sorrow is mutual.
No fault of mine that we are thrown
together.''•—Bost on Transcript.
Explained.—Mrs. Swellman — “1
dreamed last night that I was with
a box party at the opera." Mr. Swell
man—“I wondered why you were
talking so loud in your site*."—Phil
adelphia Press.
“There is a fellow with an infalli
ble system for beating the game at
the bucket shop." “lit- doesn’t look
as if he had a cent.” “He hasn't. Ik
went broke perfecting his system.”—
Indianapolis News.
European—“Faugh! YourAmeri
can girls lack grace. They don’’
know what to do with their hands.’
American—“It certainly looks that
way. when they bestow them on for
eigners."—Town Topics.
“Help! Help!" came the cry of
distress through the midnight silence.
The policeman in the neighboring
doorway stirred uneasily. “Advertise
in the want column.” he muttered,
and resumed his nap.—Philadelphia
Press.
“Do you see that bandaged individ
ual? Poor fellow, he got his injuries
at a ping-pong game!" “In that gen
tie game.'' Sure; in a spirit ot inn
he applied a lighted match to some
celludoid ping-pong balls.”—Boston
Herald.
Uptown—“There were burglars in
my house last night.” Downtown—
“Steal any jewels?” Uptown—
“Worse than that; they stole a five
pound roast of beef which we were
joing to have for dinner to-day.”—
-Ohio State Journal.
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Suests Have Funny Experiences Due to
Watchfulness of Guards.
Guests at the white house have had
some funny experiences. A man and
his wife were assigned to apartments
in the house. The man went out to
attend a dinnerand did not return un
til after midnight. The men at the
door at that hour had not seen him
and had not been informed that he
was stopping at the house. Natural
ly they stopped him when he started
to pass through the vestibule toward
the residence portion. He explained
that he and his wife were occupying
rooms upstairs, but that same thing
oould have bees said by some one
seeking to gain admission to the pri
vate rooms of the president. The
doorkeepers insisted on identifica
tion, but as every one was in bed and
no one cared to arouse the president
at that hour of the night, it looked
as if the visitor would be obliged to
go downtown for the night. Fortu
nately a night watchman who was
making a round of the building
chanced to remember that the man
had visited there once before. This,
with other evidence that the visitor
was able to produce, convinced the
doorkeepers, and he was permitted to
go upstairs to bed.
THIRTEEN BROKEN MIRRORS.
Here Is Bad Luck for Somebody with
Great Avengeance.
The fatality of the number 13 was
well exhibited yesterday in the estab
lishment of Chaudron & l’eyton, deal
ers' in plate mirrors. A large consign
ment of French plate, eight feet high
by five feet wide, had been received
from l\iris for the Crystal Maze in
the Industrial exposition, says the
Baltimore Sun. There are several
hundred of these huge mirrors in
the maze, and they have been import
ed in large boxes of 12 each.
Owing to the fact that an uneven
number are required, 13 instead of
12 were packed in one box, and the
number “13'’ in large black figures
was marked on its outside. The other
boxes were all unpacked and the con
tents found intact, but when the-luck
less “13” box was' opened every mir
ror in it was found shattered into
fragments as though it bad been sub
jected to a heavy blow.
In such a large shipment of glass
there is generally a number of plates
broken, but the fact that the entire
contents' of box 13, instead of one or
two here and there, being smashed,
caused n.ot a little comment among
the work people in the neighborhood,
Henry ©wen
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