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you would not tell any more. Now go right to your room and ask God to forgive you for breaking your word, and for telling an un truth." Very crest-fallen and with head hanging down Bessie left the room. She soon re turned, however, with a triumphant air. "Did you do as I told you?" asked her mother. "Yes'm," answered Bessie, and God said, 'Don't mention it, child, I thought it was a lion myself when I first saw it.'" FORMER MAYOR W. H. QUICK, of Sioux City, Iowa, besides being a first-rate lawyer, is a witty one as well. Recently a lady called at Mr. Quick's office and told the lawyer that she was looking for the best lawyer in Sioux City to get her a divorce. "I am the ablest and best lawyer in this city and can get the divorce for you," replied the exmayor. "But I must have some sort of proof," retorted the client, "that you are what you claim to be." "Proof," said Mr. Quick, "you need not prove it, I admit it." Mr. Quick got the job. THE following act was passed at the last session of the Kansas legislature, and is to be found in Sessions' Acts, 1903, p. 113: Regulating the use of automobiles. An Act in relation to automobiles and mo tor vehicles, regulating their speed and oper ations on the public highways in this State, providing for their proper equipment, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas; Section I. That the term "automobile" and "motor vehicle" as used in this Act shall be construed to include all types and grades of motor vehicles propelled by electricity, steam, gasoline, or other source of energy, commonly known as auto mobiles, motor vehicles, or horseless car riages, using the public highways, and not running on rails or tracks. Nothing in this section shall be construed as in any way pre venting, obstructing, impeding, embarrass ing, or in any other manner or form infring ing upon the prerogative of any political

chauffeur to run an automobilious band wagon at any rate he sees fit, compatible with the safety of the occupants thereof; pro vided, however, that no less than ten nor more than twenty ropes be allowed at all times to trail behind this vehicle when in motion, in order to permit those who have been so fortunate as to escape with their political lives an opportunity to be dragged to death; and provided, further, that when ever' a mangled and bleeding political corpse implores for mercy the driver of the vehicle shall, in accordance with the provisions of this bill, "throw out the life-line." "AND so you were playing poker for money?" said the western judge to the pris oner at the bar. "No, sir; we were playing for chips." "Well, it's all the same. You got your chips cashed for money at the end of the game, I suppose." "No, sir." "Why, how was that?" "At the end of the game I didn't have any ch'ps, your Honor." "You're discharged." SOME years ago, when Colonel William P. Hepburn was active in the practice of law in Southwestern Iowa, Hon. Smith McPherson, now United States District Judge, was also in the same period an active practitioner. If Colonel Hepburn excelled in one particular more than another, it was that of crossexamination of a witness. On one occasion during the heated trial of a cause, which had been brought for the wrongful levy of an attachment upon a stock of nursery trees, a material question of fact in the case was, when the ground froze in the November at the time of the levy of the attachment and whether it remained frozen without thawing during the entire w;nter. That fact proven was fatal to the case of the client represented by Colonel Hepburn and Judge McPherson. To maintain that fact, opposing counsel introduced as a witness Deacon X., a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church in the community, whose reputation