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 Rh Why don't you ask the rule in Smith's case, or Brown's case, or Jones's case, or Robinson's case? Why take one poor little insignificant case, and ask my boy about that? " And the father, thinking he had justified his son, sat down.

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NORTH DAKOTA has a new law which provides tor the establishment of courts of conciliation. At the election in town, city, or village, of a justice of the peace, four commissioners of conciliation are also to be elected, and for the same term of office. The commissioners are to serve, two at a time, with the justice of the peace in hearing pleadings and testimony in civil cases before the action is brought into court in the usual manner. The hearings are to be conducted entirely without attorneys, and the statement of the principals in the action will be the chief testimony. After hear ing both sides, the justice and commissioners are bound to try to bring about an understanding between the two parties on the basis of justice, and to remove the necessity of a more formal legal action. None of the proceedings in the court of conciliation are to be used as testimony in any action which may follow. The object is, of course, to decrease litigation, and facilitate ad justments of misunderstandings growing out of small matters.

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' what do you propose to do with that cloth?' 'I will have a knapsack made of it, sir,' modestly replied the youth. ' Do you propose to walk home?' 'Yes, sir," said the youth. 'Well,' said the farmer, ' such pluck as yours will be apt to get along. I have a good riding-horse and saddle at my home, which shall be yours as a gift.' The youth hesitated. 'Then,' said the farmer, 'if you want to buy it, send me one hundred dollars in four years without interest — or whenever you are able to do so — out of money you may earn yourself.' The bargain was struck. The young man mounted his horse next morning, and went on his way rejoicing; and in less than three years the fine old granger received a grateful letter covering a draft for one hundred dollars, the first professional earnings, over and above a frugal liv ing, of the late Chief Justice of Tennessee." Memphis Appeal.

THE district judges down in Texas are elected by the people, and some of them, at least, seem to be fond of a practical joke. Judge King, of San Antonio, was making a brief visit to Austin, the capital city, on business with the Legislature, and there met his friends, Judge Tucker, of Dallas, and Colonel Fulton, the cattle king of Aransas Bay. After transacting his business, while waiting for the evening train to return to his home, Judge King strolled into Colonel Fulton's room at the Driscoll Hotel, and concluded to take a nap. In the mean time Fulton came in, and packed his valise pre IN the course of an admirable address delivered paratory to leaving on the same train. After a to the law class of the Vanderbilt University, while the slumbering judge awoke, and proceeded to dress himself, but could nowhere find his socks; Judge John L. T. Sneed told the following anec dote, which we think worthy of preservation and so he completed his toilet without them, and went perpetuation. " After the commencement. June, downstairs " to round up " the cattle king He 1827, of the University of North Carolina, a single coralled him in the barber- shop. An explanation graduate remained in the village of Chapel Hill, ensued, and it was determined that Fulton had the rest having returned to their homes. He had packed up the judge's half-hose in his valise. not money enough to carry him by public convey While Fulton was gone up to his room to get the ance to his distant home. He was a graduate and missing articles, King seated himself in the barber's was waiting for a remittance from home, which a chair to get a shave and shampoo. Colonel Fulton, meeting Judge Tucker in the corridor, explained fond father, struggling with poverty, was endeavor ing to earn for him. The remittance came, but it the situation; and together they collected a crowd did not come in time. The youth grew impatient, of Senators and members of the House, and walked and determined to walk to his home in Tennessee. into the barber- shop to interview Judge King While in a store one day, buying some coarse Judge Tucker, taking his stand by the side of his fabric to make him a knapsack, there was an old astonished judicial friend, addressed the assembly Orange County farmer sitting on the counter watch l as follows : " Gentlemen, you all know the perils ing his movements. ' Young man,' said he, | that environ an elective judiciary. During the late