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his brother Bacon, referring to the Vice-Chan cellor of that name, then sitting in an adjoining court. The guests at a dinner given by Jowett, the celebrated master of Balliol College, Oxford, were discussing the careers of two Balliol men, one of whom had just been made a judge and the other a bishop. " Oh," said Henry Smith, " I think the bishop is the greatest man. A judge, at the most, can only say ' You be hanged,' but the bishop can say ' You be damned.' " "Yes," said Jowett, " but if the judge says ' You be hanged,' you are hanged." A Duluth, Minn., attorney recently underwent the experience of having a well-conceived point in his address to a jury come to a most unex pected conclusion. He had introduced half a dozen witnesses to prove his client's claims, while his opponent had contented himself with but one witness, the defendant himself, who did not create an especially favorable impression by his conduct on the stand. After the evidence was all in the attorney arose to make his address to the jury. He dwelt upon the evidence, and es pecially upon the preponderance of witnesses upon his side. In the meantime the defendant had walked to the back of the room and had taken a seat near a window, behind the attorney. "My client's claim," said the attorney in clos ing his plea, " has been supported by six trust worthy witnesses, who have told straightforward stories that cannot be doubted. On the other hand, what has the defendant to show? He has not been able to find one man to support his flimsy defense, but has asked the twelve intelli gent citizens who make up this jury to believe his unsupported statements. To offset the evi dence offered in behalf of my client there has been placed before you only the story of one in terested man. Can you believe him after observ ing his manner upon the stand? Look upon the honest witnesses for the plaintiff, and then look upon the defendant, and there can be no question what your verdict will be. He is now cowering in the back of the room!" "Look at him," continued the attorney in a fierce crescendo, pointing to the place where he had seen the defendant seat himself. " Look at his bearing — his countenance! Look — look—

look — " the last words were in a sharp diminuendo, and the last sound was almost a gasp. The defen dant had changed his seat. The court, wearied with his long confinement to his accustomed place, had sauntered to the back of the room and for the moment occupied the place left vacant by the defendant. It was to the court that the attorney had unconsciously been point ing, and when the jury and the spectators fol lowed with their eyes the direction indicated by his dexter finger and took in the situation, there was an uncontrollable burst of laughter. The attorney won his case, but the dramatic point that he had conceived did not influence the verdict. NOTES.

Spanish Proverbs. — " He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge." "The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape." A Virginia lawyer, who evidently hopes to "set his trap so as to catch 'em coming or going," advertises in his town paper : " I shall appear for the prosecution henceforth in all cases where I am not previously retained by the defense." Not long ago Thomas H. Johnson, of New Albany, an employe' of the Illinois Central Rail road, running on a freight train between Louis ville and Central City, was killed while leaning out from the top of a car. Before the widow even knew all the particulars of his death, letters were showered in upon her by lawyers along the line of the road. In due time the coffin bearing the remains of the unfortunate man reached the mourning widow. It was opened, and to the coat sleeve of the dead man's grave clothes was pinned a note written by a lawyer near the scene of the accident offering to prosecute the road for a percentage of the damages. Although Grotius is regarded as the father of the law of nations, yet he has been preceded by other writers on this subject. Among these were Francis de Victoria of Salamanca, Suarez, Ayala and Albericus Gentilis, all of whom flourished in the sixteenth century. Of Francis de Victoria, Hall says that his writings, in 1533, mark an era in the history of international ethics. Spain