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advocates. General John, when occasion required, closed his argument to the jury bathed in tears himself, with most of the jury and audience weeping too. One day he and Judge James were trying a case, James prosecuting and John defend ing. James made his speech, a strong one for his side of the case, and ended with tell ing the jury, — "Gentlemen, my brother John will next address you on the other side of the case; and I want to caution you, he will cry and try to make you cry. He does it in all his cases." General John then spoke to the jury, maleing one of the very best of his pathetic ap peals, causing jury and audience to forget James's admonition; and as tears were freely flowing, John, with great drops rolling down his cheeks, said to the jury, — "My brother Jim told you I would cry; I am crying; and, gentlemen of the jury, if you had such a d cl mean brother as Jim, you would cry too." John's client was acquitted. During the early part of Judge B 's first term as circuit judge in North Missouri he was one day hearing a case in which a man named Cobb was a party. Some of the witnesses called him " Cobb " and others "Cobbs." The judge asked the client which was the correct name. Old Dr. M, who was very fat, and always in a state of semidrunkenness, rose up in his seat and said, — "It's C-o-bb, Judge." "All right, Doctor," said the Judge; " I am obliged to you." Another witness gave the name wrong; and the old doctor got up and said, " Judge, it 's C-o-bb." The court replied, " I understand, Doctor; take your seat." As a drunken man will, the doctor became offended at this, and shouted at the court, "I tell you it's C-o-bb, Cobb!" "Mr. Sheriff." said the court, " remove this man to jail."

A deputy started out with the doctor, who, when he reached the door of the court-room turned and yelled back to the judge, — "It 's a d d shame to have a fool court that can't spell, and it's a d d outrage when a friend tries to learn him, to go and send him to jail." The court ordered the sheriff to take him from the room and release him. A Ray County lawyer, noted for getting warmed up and "bull-dozing," and some times abusing courts, especially justices of the peace, was recently trying a case before a Kansas City justice. The court made a ruling displeasing to the attorney, when the latter jumped to his feet and began to abuse the justice. The court ordered him to stop, telling him, — "Mr. B, I allow no attorney to criti cise or talk about this court during a trial." B was nonplussed for a moment only and responded, — "Well, will your honor allow me to talk about our old justice over at Richmond?" "Oh, I don't care what you say about him," answered the court. "Well, your honor," said B, " if our old justice were to make such a ruling as your honor has just made, we would tell him he was a d d fool." The court's anger was drowned in amuse ment. In the early days of interior Missouri, the late Judge E cut cord-wood, cleared up his homestead farm, and was employed upon one side of nearly every case that came up, being for some years the only lawyer in the county. He had no books' except an old leather-covered Bible and an old volume or two of history similarly bound, but had read law a short time in Kentucky in his youth. He was very small and insignificant in ap pearance, but became before his death a splendid lawyer and an honored judge. A young attorney from the East settled in the little country town, with his library of