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••CHILDREN," asked the school committee 'man, "what is Political Economy?" "Political Economy," answered the preco cious son of the district boss, "is getting men to vote for you as cheap as you can.'' I WAS a sagacious young attorney, just in that interesting condition when I was ready to toss up a coin to see whether I should quit in despair or "stick it out" a few days longer, when an "Auntie" called to tell me that "dee sheriff done lebel on mah mewl, Mistah Bob, 'n' %von't you please, sah, try to fotch it back." I succeeded in pacifying the old woman's creditor, and her mule was restored to her. Then I said: ''Well, Auntie, I can't work for my health; I must charge you a fee for this, you know." "Yass, sah, Mistah Bob, youse been mighty penurious, 'n' I means ter pay yer.'' Here she emptied her grimy tobacco sack on my table. It contained just forty cents in change. "Dar, Mistah Bob, dat's all dee money I'se got in dis yere worl!" And then with dra matic pathos that would have won any jury, "Fo' God's sake, tech it light!" THEY appeared in the office of the squire in a small Iowa town and wanted to get mar ried. A justice court marriage in the Hawkeye State has little more ceremony than the

securing of a divorce on the ground of deser tion. He lined the two up in front of his table and said to the would-be groom: "Do you take this woman for your lawfully wed ded wife?" The groom replied with a de cided voice, "Sure." Turning to the bride, the squire inquired, "Do you take this man for your lawfully wedded husband?" "Well, squire, I'm willing to give him a trial, but I'll tell him right now, he can't monkey with me like he did with his first wife. I'm willing for him to wear the suspenders, but I'm going to wear some of the clothing." AN indictment in a recent Georgia case (Morris r. State, decided January TO, 1903), charged that the accused "did unlawfully and with force of arms engage in the practice of dentistry for fee, without registering," etc. Justice Candler of the Supreme Court, in an opinion delivered in this case, said: "We will remark, in passing, that we have in the past had frequent occasion to doubt the pro priety and appropriateness of the indiscrimi nate and almost universal use, in indictments and accusations, of the time-worn phrase 'with force and arms.' We can not, for ex ample, see the necessity of charging force and arms in indictments and accusations for per jury, forgery, vagrancy, and similar crimes involving the employment of no physical force. Suffering humanity, however, will at test the peculiar aptness of the phrase in cases like the present; and from this we should learn well the lesson that, amid the kaleido scopic changes wrought by twentieth century progress and advancement, it behooves us to be careful lest we slip too far from the moor ings of our fathers, or desecrate with too ruthless a hand the ancient landmarks of the English law."