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 THE GREEN BAG I was kicking at the bray. Gentlemen, I wish the old man to understand I was simply kicking at the bray.' "I won my case." GOSHALL — As far .as I can see, Mrs. Chadwick's whole trouble results from one mistake. HEMLOCK — What is that? GOSHALL — She neglected to get incorpo rated under the laws of New Jersey. — Cleve land Leader. "MR. ATTORNEY," said the judge, after sending the defendant to jail for six months, "how does it happen that this man was only fined in the court below?" "Your honor," he replied, with dignity, "I was not his counsel in the lower court." And, somehow, the other lawyers present seemed to feel that he had explained it. AMUSING stories are still told of the late Judge Bond of Baltimore. Once when re turning from yachting with the famous Ben jamin Butler, the general suggested that an eye opener would be appropriate before they landed. The judge didn't mind — he never did. So a bottle of Scotch was soon forth coming. "Good whiskey," remarked the judge. "Yes," replied the general, "and the bet ter that it never paid a duty." "Oh, that's all right, General, it is going to be landed in Bond." THE judge in the years when he ornamented a Circuit Bench in South Carolina is said to have bonded more of the mountain dew. One day after dinner he had evident difficulty in concentrating attention upon an argument by counsel who at length in desperation sug gested that the case ought to be heard by the full court. "I think you would have difficulty in find ing a fuller court," beamed the justice. GUILT EDGED

CHISTER. — " That case will prove a giltedged proposition." ECKITTY. — Of course with "u" in it.

YEARS ago when the manufacture of lumber was the most important industry in western Wisconsin, one of the chief vexations of the lumberman was the log thief. The passage of statutes providing severe penalties for this species of theft and the strict enforcement of such laws soon put an end to the wholesale thefts which characterized the early years of the business, but petty thievery continued for many years. Farmers or villagers along the river would select fine, thoroughly-seas oned pine logs and haul them home for use in the construction of some outbuilding or for kindling wood. The lumbermen through their associations and the employment of special agents waged constant war against these depredators and many were the encounters between them both on the river and in the courts. A well-known attorney of L. had at one time an experience which well illustrates the difficulties with which prosecutors of the log thieves sometimes had to contend. A spe cial agent of one of his clients had caught a resident of a neighboring village red-handed, and the attorney went out to prosecute the wrongdoer before the village justice. The case was called and the witnesses for the prose cution established a clear case of theft against the defendant. He put in no defense except his own denial. The court, however, after a brief deliberation found the defendant not guilty and discharged him. The attorney and complaining witness were completely non plussed and withdrew from the justice's office to relieve their feelings in the open air and to figure out if possible what had gone wrong. They sat down in the justice's yard and dis cussed the matter, but could reach no satis factory conclusion until the special agent happened to glance at the end of the log on which they were sitting, and his eye fell upon a familiar mark. " Great Scott," he exclaimed, as he sprang to his feet, "we are sitting on one of our logs." THE late Henry W. Paine was considered the best authority on all questions of law in New England in his day. At one time, when he was arguing a case in the Supreme Court before the late Judge Horace Gray, he was interrupted by Judge Gray, who said, with