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of court, for throwing a pitcher of water at a judge who overruled her motion." But he told his audience a lot of the things which women can do and escaped their vengeance.

case for King Leopold at that time. He has now the right to be addressed as "chevalier," an honor which has been received by only one other American.

Penonal— The Bar Neville H. Castle, an attorney at Nome, Alaska, formerly practising in California, has been appointed assistant United States Attorney for the second judicial district of Alaska. He was graduated from Yale in 1894.

John B. McClymon, said to be the oldest lawyer in the country, celebrated his one hundred and first birthday on October 7 at Pleasant Ridge, Ohio. When he was forty odd years old he married a girl of eighteen and did all he could to conceal his exact age, and it is possible that he is even older. He was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., and as a young man lived in Poughkeepsie, where he taught school. He went to Cincinnati in 1840.

There are perhaps more lawyers in Boston who have been in active practice fifty years or more than in any other city of the United States. Robert M. Morse, the leader of the Boston bar, heads the list. Edgar Allan Poe, City Solicitor of Balti more, says it is impossible for him to attend to his public duties and at the same time bear his share of the work with the law firm of John P. Poe & Sons, and so he has decided to practice alone. William R. Begg, who for the past six years has been the general solicitor of the Great Northern Railway Company, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn., has resigned and will open an office in St. Paul for the general practice of law, about January 1. The interest of the late Ernest B. Kruttschnitt in the prominent New Orleans legal firm of Farrar, Jonas, Kruttschnitt and Goldberg having been liquidated, the firm has taken in Mr. Richard F. Goldsborough and Mr. Edgar H. Farrar, Jr., and will here after be styled Farrar, Jonas, Goldsborough and Goldberg. Eli F. Cunningham, a St. Louis attorney, arose at a revival tent meeting at Clayton, the first of October, and declared his intention to quit his profession and become a farmer and religious worker. He said attorneys had to lie when following their profession, and they often knew oaths to be violated and witnesses to be perjuring themselves. Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, who defended the Oregon ten-hour day law for women before the Supreme Court of the United States, has been invited by State's Attorney Wayman of Chicago to defend a similar measure before the Supreme Court of Illinois. Mr. Brandeis's brief in the Oregon Laundry case won him a place among the ablest attorneys in the country. E. S. Mansfield of Boston, a Harvard graduate, and Belgian consul to New England for the past fifteen years, has been decorated by. King Leopold of Belgium. He acted as counsel to the Belgian government before his service as Belgian consul, and won a

Among the qualities required of those who choose the law as a career were the following, as defined by Charles N. Barney of Lynn, Mass., speaking at Tufts College October 25: "Absolute trustworthiness, the ability to reason logically and to write and speak accu rate and forceful English, and a sufficient initiative to overcome the natural professional tendency to procrastinate." Mr. Barney also recommended that the college man who is to follow the law should take up the study of the sciences by the laboratory method and of advanced subjects in mathematics. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, who had been offered the portfolio of minister to China, was forced by the Department of State to resign that post in consequence of some indiscreet widely published remarks to the effect that the United States was preparing to protest against some features of the Chinese-Japanese agreements in relation to Manchuria. President Taft upheld Secretary Knox's request for his resignation. Mr. Crane discounted the statement that his friends in Congress would make a fight for his vindication. Mr. Crane has defended himself by saying that he confined himself carefully to the lines laid down by Mr. Taft in his vigorous speech at Shanghai, and that he had been told by the President to "let them have it hot" in his public speeches. A fountain has just been erected in Indian apolis in memory of the late Nathan Morris, the Indianapolis lawyer who lost his life on Easter Sunday, 1903, in attempting to save his nephew and others from death in a burning house. The fountain is the gift of several donors in various parts of the United States, and is notable as one of the few in the country commemorating men not distinguished for military or political service. The presentation was made at exercises held October 16 at which the speakers testified to the rare uprightness, charity and self-sacrifice which had marked Mr. Morris's whole life. Mr. Henry Wollman, of the New York City bar, had charge of the erection of the monument and made the pre sentation address, in which he said: "Nathan Morris was a lawyer whose greatest victories were in quieting the din and roar of the angry strife of quarrel. He was the best type of