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the talk fully ﬁfteen minutes. His client was acquitted. In congratulating the freed man the lawyer held out his hand in an absent though rather Suggestive manner. The client grasped it warmly. “Dot was a ﬁne noise you make," he said,

"T'anks.

God-by."

EXAMPLE OF ECONOMY IN JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OLONEL JOSIAH H. BENTON, JR., at the Boston University Law School alumni dinner given recently, told of a

judge ﬁning the prisoner at the bar 810. The prisoner, who was a stranger in Ken tucky, glanced about the court a moment, and then turning to the judge said: "Your honor, I do not see any one I know here to borrow $10 of, Wlll you be kind enough to

lend me the money?" The judge, hesitating a moment, replied: “In that case I shall have to remit the ﬁne, as Frankfort county can better allord to lose the money than I."

NOT JUST WHAT WAS WANTED N American corporation, not so very long ago,was engaged in litigation with a South American republic over certain con cessions. One day the head office in New York received from its agent in the country a cablegram reading:— "Courts have rendered just decision." An hour later there went over the wires to the South the following: "Appeal at once to American Minister for diplomatic intervention." A NEW SLOGAN IST! let all anarchists take note

And learn this slogan here by rote. With this for war-cry they can come At once into millennium. The secret I alone discovered Through some old volume late uncovered. "The ﬁrst thing that we do" 'tis said, Is kill the lawyers-kill them dead!" HARRY R. BLYTHE.

The Editor will be glad to rccewe for this department anything likely to entertain the reader: of the Green Bag in the way of legal anLqux'tu's, facatie, and anecdotes.

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING "Why should my client be convicted of murder?" demanded counsel for the accused. "No other man has ever been convicted in this jurisdiction on such a charge.” The prosecuting attorney admitted that it hadn't occurred to him in that light, and the

prisoner was accordingl

discharged. entral Law Journal.

"Until I escaped. sir." The prosecutor turned triumphantly to the gentlemen of the jury. “So, gentlemen," he said, "we have here, as the chief witness for the defense, an ex-con

vict and fugitive from justice by his own con fession 1" He turned again to the witness. “When and where were you in prison, sir," he sneered.

The old man straightened up and spoke in a “Were you ever in prison?" demanded the prosecuting attorney insinuatingly. "Yes, sir," admitted the gray-headed wit ness for the defense. “Ahal I thought so. And what for, may I ask?" "Assault and battery with intent to kill." “And how long were you in prison?"

strong, clear voice:— “I was captured, sir, at the battle of Fort Harrison on the twenty-ninth of September, 1864. and sent to Libby Prison, Richmond. I

effected my escape while being transferred to Salisbury, North Carolina. As to—" But that was already more than the prose cutor wanted to know.—Everybody's.

NOTICE IN RE BOU/VD VOLUMES In the December issue an error was made in announcing the publication of bound volumes of the Green Bag “in full morocco at $4.00." This should have read “full buckrom." The charge for bound volumes has been fixed at $4.50 for half morocco. and at for green buckram.