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 ±HE LIGHTER SIDE It is needless to say the injunction was re fused and plaintiff enjoined from interfering with his enjoyment of his home pending trial.

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to ancer to a charge of taKing the sume of a Bout 24 Bushels of coin from Mr. H. C. reaves on the 24 of last Mo i and My Broth Hav give a good Bound and are read-y. for tryel at eney day Dear Sir i cand prove Whear Wee Wear and that Wee Hav a bout 45 Head of Hougs and 5 Head of Haurses. and that Wee Hav Bouit Couirn from Ever mand that had it to sell a round us. We Hav bouit coirn from Mr. H. C. Reaves to fead with and Hav Keep out the best years to plat so Whend the Charge Wear made otrit We had a bout 3 PKs. of the H: C. Reaves Coirn and Hav got it untell yet Mr. County (Att) i cand prove Buy my Nabers that i am a worker and not a loafer of Course i Hav Ben told What was the Mater Buiy i of My Nabers, that if wear not eney thing But Presddgeuess a gain Mee. But Mr. County Atturney I Will ask You for are Eariley trylc i want to show to this county and my Community Just Who i am a worker and not a corn thief. Now i will Close My Lanthey Letter. Hopeing to heare from you at Wounce. • Your Writers Harry Wall and Lee Wall At Whome.

Idem Sonans. — When Judge Lemuel LeB. Holmes was district attorney he told this story on himself: About the time that the law was passed providing for the trusteeing of wages, he had a case given him by a client, and he trusteed the wages of one Manuel Sylvia, an operative in the Potomska mill, New Bedford. Now, the Manuel Sylvias in the New Bedford directory fill pages, like unto the John Smiths and Joseph Johnsons in other communities, requiring some other description if identity is aimed at. Shortly after the writ had been served, Hiram Kilburn, the agent of the mill, stopped Mr. Holmes on the street and began emptying the vials of his wrath. Mr. Holmes demanded to know what the trouble was. "Why, you trusteed the wages of Manuel Sylvia in our mill, " exploded Mr. Kilburn. "What of it?" asked Mr. Holmes, with dignity. "What of it?" repeated Mr. Kilburn, excit edly; "there are twenty-seven Manuel Sylvias in the Potomska mill. We have had to hold up the pay of every one of them, and when I A BOOK of delightful interest to one familiar left things looked like a riot. " — Boston Her with the English law reports, though not as ald. well known as it deserves to be, is the anony mous collection of anecdotes regarding famous Advice. — Abe Hummel, the New York Englishmen of the last century, entitled "Per lawyer, who is known as a master of repartee, sonalia," by "Sigma" (Copyright, 1903, by is to be credited with a new, pithy, and very- Doubleday, Page & Co.). much-to-the-point retort. The other morning, From its chapter on lawyers we reprint by accompanying a client to court, the case at permission the following extracts. issue being a breach of promise suit for dam ages, based on letters written by the defendant, THE Baron was trying a case which turned the counsellor had been giving a lesson on on what constituted "necessaries" for a minor, morals to his client, when the latter dejectedly the leader on one side being a rather decrepid remarked: "Oh! I know all about it, Abe; and eldery Queen Councillor, whose marriage the same old song, 'Do right and fear noth to the somewhat mature daughter of a patrician ing.'" house had occasioned a certain amount of "No! no! That's not it at all," answered ironical comment on the part of his learned Abe; "don't write, and fear nothing." — Ar friends, while the opposing party was cap gonaut. tained by a "silk" who, although younger than his antagonist, had decidedly the advantage An Oklahoma Letter. — (Mr County At- of him in the matter of olive branches. The turna.) — Dear Sir on the 28 of Last Mo i question for decision was whether a piano con wear vean,' Much taKen biuy a surprise When stituted a "necessary," the childless old bene i wear Call to Bee pressen at Judge falice Coart. dict arguing that it was, and his opponent, the