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would be as difficult to prove who docked a horse's tail as it would be to determine who killed certain wild game in the prohibited season, and so as in the latter any person having in his possession game animals is guilty of a violation of the law, so also in the former case the Legislature of Colorado has made it a violation of the law to in any way use or trade in unregistered docked horses. The registration feature is added to protect those having horses with "docked" tails at the time of the passing of the act.

IN an able address entitled, "Hints upon Practice in Appeals," Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell of Pennsylvania gave to the stu dents of the Law Department of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania much excellent advice. Among other things the learned speaker said (we quote from The American Law Reg ister for June) : Your profession will require of you the study and use of language with accuracy. Whether in an argument on the interpreta tion of a statute, the meaning of a contract, or perhaps, most of all, the construction of a will, there will be no time in which you will not be required to make close study of the accurate use of words, and along with accu racy, hand-in-hand should go propriety and even elegance. There is no collateral ac complishment that will better repay your time and attention than the acquirement of a habit of correct and even elegant use of your native language. The men who made the reputation of the Philadelphia bar were as careful of their style as they were of their law. In fact, one of the master orators who survived to my day, David Paul Brown, car ried this feeling perhaps to excess, and I think would have been more mortified by a slip in pronunciation than by a slip in the statement of a legal proposition. It was their proud feeling that the standard of the lan guage of the bar did not yield to the standard of the stage even in the palmy days of Garrick and Kean and the Kembles. It is not uncommon to hear it said that the day of ora

tory is over, but it is a mistake. The day of mere declaration has gone by, but the day of oratory is unending. Style has changed, but the art has not perished or lost its power. Oratory, at least of the bar, no longer aims at entertainment, but confines itself to its true purpose to persuade or convince. For these ends it was never more needed than now, and never more potent. Clear, orderly, and forcible statement is the first step to victory today, as it always has been and always will be. The stage has largely degenerated into burlesque and slang, and literature tends to run into slovenly newspaper English. All the more reason is there that you, the young men of the day, to whom we look to main tain the ancient reputation of this bar, should strive to do it in your clear and correct use of language, as well as in the learned and ac curate statement of the law.

FRANCIS D. Winston, in an address recently delivered before the North Carolina Bar As sociation and printed in The American Law yer, gives the following interesting schedu'e of rates for food, drink and lodging, to be observed by ordinary keepers, established by Court of Picas and Quarter Sessions in Ber tie County, North Carolina, in 1744: West India rum, рог gallon, and so in pro portion for a greater or smaller quantity £ 4.0 New England rum, per gallon, and so in pro portion 2.S Country made brandy, per gallon, and so in proportion, 2.S New England, New York and Hughes Crab Cider per gallon, and so in proportion. . . m Other cider, country made, per gallon, and so in proportion 5 A gallon of punch with a quart of West India rum, loaf sugar, and lime juice, and so in proportion 2.O A gallon of do. with a quart of New England rum and brandy with brown sugar, and so in proportion 1.4 Maderia or Portugal wine, per quart i.a Dinner, with wheat bread, cider and small beer, 7s6d Breakfast of supper, 55 Lodging, per night for a bed and clean sheets to himself 55 Pasturage for a horse for 24 hours 2s6d Corn, or oats, per gall 45