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appellee’s train, for, in that event, there would have been no injury, but, his road was at right angles, and he had to cross the track, and it so happened that said train was in the neighborhood at the time. As

Solomon

has

previously

remarked,

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter." 1.4 We hereby make profert of this artiﬁcial creation of commerce in all of its absolute and peculiar entirety, as the self-advertised ne plus ultra of human conception, in that it claims that its right of way gives it the right to run over anything in its way, and the only protection that a citizen is entitled to is an accident policy. So far as civility is concerned, it does not even concede that of the com monest kind. The plain unvarnished fact is that these a prion’ negations, which egotism has daubed with the paint brush of fancy as "suggestions of error," always remind us of the turtle that _continued to kick after its head was cut off,

to the amazement and disgust of a passing Irishman, who remarked "You darned

old

fool, you ain't got sense enough to know when you are dead!" We offer the case of this poor African with all conﬁdence that it will not require a white wash brush or a bottle of kink extractorto properly present him to a Court whose head is the seat of learning and heart the home of Justice. Candor compels us to assert that the "sug gestion" aforesaid (which, though by four said, had better been unsaid) is at best but a simple invitation to the court to make out a schedule of its mental and faith assets and retire into voluntary bankruptcy. This certiﬁes that I have mailed McWillie & Thompson a copy of the above and will let Orr & Harris read it, but appellee has so many free pass representatives that it will be impossible to give a copy to all, unless I had a printing press, the expense of which this case is too small to justify. I do not desire to discuss the case are tenus.

JAMES T. HARRISON, Counsel for Appellant.

The Juvenile Offender at the Bar of Justice WO types ‘of children's courts seem to prevail in this country. In one the child is brought into a court room which may be crowded with spectators and arraigned before a begowned and frowning magistrate in the same manner as any hardened criminal. In the other, the judge and the boy sit in a plainly furnished room, with no spectators present, except, perhaps, the child's parents and a probation ofﬁcer. The Children's Court of Manhattan, New

York City, is an example of the former type, while those at Brooklyn, N. Y., and Boston, Mass, illustrate the opposite one. Judge

Lindsey of Denver and others describe the progressive aims of the juvenile court in a recent number of the Survey. In Denver Judge Lindsey hears most of his cases in the open courtroom; in the Boston Juvenile Court Judge Harvey H. Baker hears all his in the judge's private chambers, rigorously excluding reporters and the general public, often having the youthful oﬁender entirely alone.

"The officials of the court," says Judge Baker, "believe it is helpful to think of them

selves as physicians in a dispensary," a ﬁgure which is helped out by the placing of the juvenile court's quarters in the quietest part of the courthouse. "There is no regular dock or detention en closure connected with the general outside waiting room," he goes on, "and the children generally sit with their parents in chairs placed along the sides of the room. Occa sionally a boy who is under arrest and likely to yield to the temptation to leave without permission is placed behind the railing. There are no uniformed oﬂicials." The stage-setting is carefully thought out, too, with the utmost quiet, the utmost privacy, the utmost bareness in the hearing room, that the child may be neither frightened nor in attentive. The judge is on a platform only six inches high. and there is no more formality of arrangement or attendance than there is in a physician's examination room.