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 The Editor's Bag and was wasting valuable time by sitting as a juror at an inquest. Judge Fuller, turning to the clerk, said: "Mr. Simpson, kindly hand me ‘Jervis,’ the authority on juries." After consulting the book a moment. he turned to the unwilling juror:~— “Upon reference to ‘Jervis’ I find, sir, that no persons are exempt from service as jurors except idiots, imbeciles and lunatics. Now under which heading do you claim exemp tion?" DID NOT KNOW THE AUTHORITY N Kennebec county, Maine, a man was arrested recently and charged with an attempt at murder, the injured man having been a close friend of the culpiit's. Further more the prisoner was a man of very high standing in the immediate community and had been respected and revered all his life. Just before the time set for trial a new state's attorney was elected, and he felt somewhat at a loss to overcome the feeling that he was sure would exist in the minds of the jury in favor of the prisoner, and was apprehensive of a disagreement. He sought out the former state's attorney and said :— "Here, X, you know these folks better than I do; how am I going to impress them with the fact that this man's former upright life only makes his act worse and more de serving of punishment?" "Well," said X———, “why don't you quote the case of Judas Iscariot, who was on intimate terms with a family for a long time and a man of high character and yet who betrayed his best friend for thirty silver dollars?"

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AN ABSENT-MINDED MAGISTRATE UDGE GAYNOR related a little anecdote while lying at the hospital, after the dastardly attempt on his life, which proved that the Mayor was cognizant of certain evils and not at all adverse to giving them pub licity. "I knew a man over my way," said the Judge with a smile, “who had formerly been a bartender. Going into politits he was elected a police justice. With some dread he heard his ﬁrst case. Mary McMannis was up before him for drunkenness. The ex bartender looked at her for a moment, and then said, sternly:— “Well, what are you here for?" "If yer please, yer Honor," said Mary, "the copper beyant pulled me in, sayin’ I was drunk. An' I doan't drink, yer Honor; I doan't drink." "All right," said the justice, absent mindedly, "all right; have a cigar."

IOWA ARGUMENT AND TEXAS JUSTICE

RECENTLY a case of much importance was tried in Texas, involving certain points involved under the Constitution, and

this was pleaded and argued by the Texas parties. The Iowa attorney who represented the plaintiﬁ in the land case arose to reply as follows:-— "We have been accused justly I believe of many things in Iowa of late. We are led to believe that the progressive wing of our party has strayed far away from the old fold and is no longer a part of that old party. But far

as we have gone on many issues, crazy as we “Capital!" said the new attorney, "That's

great! Say, where did you ﬁnd that illus tration anyway? I'd like to read up the case." NOT UNUSUAL JUDGE in the district court situated in a country district was much annoyed by the noise in the court room, where the lockers-on were gossiping freely as each case came up. Finally he hammered on his desk and roared loudly: "Oﬂicer, you must keep silence in this court! It is a strange thing that this noise can not be stopped; why, I have decided I don't know how many cases without having heard a word of them!"

have been about many questions which have arisen, we have never yet forgotten that we live under the Constitution of the United States." HE DID NOT LIVE ANYWHERE

A WITNESS of foreign birth was asked by the lawyer where he lived and he replied :— "I don't live no place, I haven't got no land yet. I expect to get land and then I will live some place, too." Although he lived as a renter for a number of years on one place, his idea of a home was to the effect that he must own it.

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