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men whose spirit will keep young even if the body that holds it should pass the cen tury mark. Colonel Cornick was a man of learning and travel, an interesting talker and good lawyer, but prone to follow off on a side trail suggested by any interesting question which might arise. The two gentlemen were on opposing sides in the famous Haynes-Swan case in the Supreme Court, one of the points in which was that Haynes had been for a time insane. As proof of insanity testimony had been taken showing that he had claimed property that did not belong to him. Cor nick conceived the idea that the evidence was intended to establish ownership, and proceeded to combat the idea that the claim was any evidence of title. "Why, if your Honors please," he said, "Mr. Henderson says Mr. Haynes claimed this property. What if he did? I remember many years ago, if the Court please, I was passing through your city, (and, by the way, it was not a city then, it was a small town), and I went out into the forks of the river to the home of my friend Captain Boyd (the Trus tee of your County, a relative of mine), and, if your Honors please, the captain was not at home, but his negro man, Remus, proposed to show me what he called his farm, and his horses, and his cows, as he called them, this negro man Remus, if your Honors please, him self the property of my friend. Captain Boyd. And he took me down to the pen to show me what he called his hogs. And, by the way, they were really very fine hogs in deed, and this, if your Honors please, was before this new fangled disease had got among the hogs, 'trichmiae' or 'trichnnae', Т don't know how they pronounce it; I be lieve Mr. Cocke is not present." (Mr. Cocke posed as the Admirable Crichton of the Bar, infallible alike in law or literature.) "Most remarkable disease, if your Honors

please, this trichinae, baffles all the skill of the most scientific men of the nineteenth century. Worms in 'em! Worms in 'em! It gets into the flesh of the hog, and it gets into the flesh of the man that eats the hog. The brightest minds of Europe and America are unable to unravel the mystery, and,—if your Honors please,—as I was about to re mark,'' here he ran his hand through his hair and paused, "if the Court will indulge me a moment, as I was about to say if your Honors please, the precise point that I was about to illustrate has escaped me, but every statement I have made is true, on the honor of a man! '' Despite this losing the trail Colonel Cornick's side was victorious in this case. But the result was otherwise on an occasion when he and Henderson were opposed, and Cornick, having a hopeless case, was vehe mently eloquent. Citing Freeman's author ity he closed his argument by shouting at the Court, "If your Honors please, if Mr. Henderson is correct, Freeman 's a fool, Freeman's a fool!" The judges, including Judge Thomas J. Freeman, put their heads together consulting whether they should render a decision at once or, from courtesy to Colonel Cornick, take the case out. Be ing a little hard of hearing, Cornick asked Henderson what the judges were saying. The Court heard the question, also Hender son's reply, which was, "They want to know which Freeman you allude to." Instantly Cornick was on his feet and convulsed the Court by shouting, "If your Honors please, I meant the California Freeman." Colonel Cornick, who though a secession ist did not relish criticism of the country b a foreigner, was travelling over a Swiss mountain in a diligence with an English lord, who told him that his country had all gone to pieces. "And," said the colonel. "I had a great mind to slap him in the face, but thunder! he weighed two hundred and