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THE LIGHTER SIDE With Apologies. — In our April number we published in this department a story which had previously appeared in the Boston Heraid of events purporting to have occurred in a suburb of Boston called Brookline. We were later called up by the clerk of the Brookline Police Court and asked to insert in this issue the following correction. For the benefit of any others who may have hereto fore taken this department seriously we are glad to publish it. Hereafter the scenes of all comedies will be laid in Chelsea. "CORRECTION' IN the last issue of the GREEN BAG, under department "Lighter Side," on page 258, there appeared a story referring to the Brookline Court. This story was copied from the Boston Herald of February u, 1906. The editor has since learned that this story is without foundation and that the Herald has recently published the following: The story referring to the Brookline Court sent by me to The Boston Herald and published among the prize stories in the magazine sec tion of its issue of February n, 1906, and since that time copied in other papers, I have since learned has no foundation. The story was told of another court or justice and oc curred many years ago, and I misunderstood it as applying to the Brookline Court. I desire to acknowledge the mistake innocently made and to correct the error. (Signed) HELEN M. CANNING." Select Objections. — We have from an anonymous source a pamphlet which is too good to keep. After trying in vain to find the author and get permission to share it with our readers we will take a chance without author ity. "Select Objections as Applied to the Trial of Civil Causes in Courts of Record," by Ben. Johnson, L.L. D., of the Tennessee Bar Notes by Chancellor O'Toole: Preface. — The author of this little pam phlet has for several years devoted a great deal of time and study to the principles in volved in the subject of Objections, and real izing that no treatise has been prepared for

the legal fraternity upon tfifet subject, it has given him much pleasure to be able at this time to present to his brother attorneys at the bar for their consideration this little treatise on objections with notes. While it will be seen at a glance that within the few pages contained in this little pamphlet a great many of the minor objections have been omitted, the object of the author being to bring out the principal ones which are ordi narily applied to the -rules and practice of pleading and the conduct of trials in courts of record, we hope that it will be especially helpful to the younger members of the bar. The interposition of an objection for the purpose of raising a proposition before the court and the strict observance of the rule, can no more be dispensed with than any other important rule of law or practice; whatever may be imagined to the contrary, it will be generally conceded that a disregard of the objec tion ordinarily will bring disaster to the one that fails to observe this important matter. — O'Toole. The following are a few of the more im portant objections and the manner of inter posing the same which the author desires to place before the legal fraternity of the State of New York: Fir.st. — An objection should always be interposed whether the party desires to raise any question or not, the object being to con vey to the client the idea that something is being done in the cause. [Note.]— This is universally true unless the contrary appears. — O'Toole. Second. — Never state the grounds of the objection unless you are compelled to do so, for the reason that it may be of advantage to the other side in disclosing your position. [Note.] — Obscurity is a trait which should be closely adhered to. — 0' Toole. Third. — If the court should be unkind enough to compel you to state the grounds of your objection, do so with the greatest care and in language that is so meaningless that no one will be able to ascertain what you are trying to get at. [Note.] — To be able to do this scientifically you should use terms and expressions that