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“ ‘A man's reputation may be sacriﬁced

in a; moment of ill-considered action.

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people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor. when success is with us, may be the ﬁrst to throw the stone of malice, when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. “ ‘The one absolutely unselﬁsh friend that man can have in this selﬁsh world,-—the one that never deserts him,—the one that never

proves ungrateful or treacherous is the dog. "‘Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty. in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives ﬁercely, if only he may

be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, and he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. “ ‘He guards the sleep of his pauper master, as if he were a prince. Whenever all other

friends desert, he remains. “ ‘When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant, in his love, as the sun in its journey through the heavens. “ ‘If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast, in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to ﬁght against his enemies, and, when the last scene of all comes, and death

takes the master in its embrace, and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there, by the grave side will be found the noble dog,

his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open, in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.‘" PROHIBITION IN KANSAS

A KANSAS City lawyer sends in the following anecdote in order to show how thoroughly the prohibition law is enforced in Kansas:— The train was ﬂying rapidly through prohi bition Kansas. It had passed Dodge City, when a man came rushing into the Pullman car and shouted, “Has any gentleman in this car got any whisky? A lady in the chair-car

has fainted." Seventeen men bent over, opened their grips and raised the substance in sight. The man grabbed the nearest ﬂask out of the hand of the nearest passenger, raised it to his lips and drank rapidly. As he quit, he said,

"It's just terrible. It breaks me all up to see a woman faint." Thereupon the other sixteen fellows leaned back, took a drink, and said, “What a shock

this is to a man's nervous system i" ONE ON THE DECEASED

ONE George Wilson, a lawyer who had much litigation, nearly all in which he was personally interested as a party or as trustee. ﬁnally passed away, and a short funeral sermon was delivered by a member of the bar in the presence of a few old personal friends. The lawyer told how the old man had been abused and maligned often, and

that in fact he had helped the poor and un fortunate frequently and was not a bad man.

On returning from the services an old lawyer was asked about the services and what was said. The old lawyer replied, "For once old George could not ﬁle a demurrer or motion to any of the proceedings which had taken place." The old person who made the inquiry replied, "Well this must be the ﬁrst time George did not move for arrest of judgment."

HANDCUFFS

IN Virgil is to be found the ﬁrst recorded instance of the use of handcuffs, for the poet tells us that Proteus was thus fettered and rendered powerless by Aristius, who apparently knew that even the gods them selves were not proof against this form of

persuasion. In the fourth century B. C. an army of victorious Greeks found several chariots full of handcuffs among the baggage of the defeated Carthaginians, and it is highly probable that the ancient Egyptians had some contrivance of the kind. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “handoop," whence comes evidently the slang term

“oopper." In earliest Saxon days “hand cops" were used for nobles, and "foot cops" for kings, but in the 14th and 15th centuries the words were supplanted by the terms "shack bolt" and “swivel manacle," and the instruments were as cumbersome as the names by which they were known. Up to the middle of the last century there were two kinds of handcuff in general use.

One, known as the "ﬂexible," was very like those which are still used;

the other kind,