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LINES ON COLD STORAGE "The representative of several egg concerns expressed the opinion that eggs were even more nutritious after being in cold storage a year than the ﬁrst day after they were laid."—— News paper report of hearing on cold storage bill at

compounded, one hundred and twenty

years having elapsed.

MORE IOWA STORIES B. KEELER in his lifetime was a

Albany.

HIS bill is bad and will deprive The people of their rights. On fresh-laid eggs we do not thrive; Give us, for pure delights,

The egg which has a year been stored Till it is rich in ﬂavor. For such our pennies we will hoard And reckon it a favor. But lest too long we have to wait For our supply of hen fruit, Why not, by order of the state,

0 brainy lawyer, and in a law suit very nervous, to such an extent that his hair would stand up nearly straight.

One day as he was walking back and forth in front of the bench engaged in deep meditation, ready for another en counter, the opposing counsel said, “Keeler, if you would only put a feather in your hair you would make an ideal Mephistopheles without any further make-up.” One of the old judges in practice and on the bench in Iowa for many years

In storage the old hen put? Then we can have nutritious food, Rich, strong and certiﬁed.

With such laws for the people's good All should be satisﬁed. Suuus Smmcus. THE LONGEST SUIT ITH our strong national tendency to “get it over with” and to "end it one way or another,” law suits, like

other matters, are generally disposed of with a speed that strikes the average European, even the Englishman, as head long. In England, a suit is not worthy of mention as an old one before it has been in the courts at least twenty years, and in a number of instances it

has taken a half century for the mills to grind out the grist of justice. The longest suit on record, however, is one which existed between the heirs of Sir Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle,

and the heirs of a Lord Berkeley, re specting some property in the county of Gloucester.

This suit began at the end

of the reign of Edward IV, and was depending until the beginning of the reign of James I, when it was ﬁnally

was an ideal as well as an odd character. Once in a suit involving the price of certain fanning mills which were said to be of no value, the judge replied after

a heated argument that he instruct the jury in favor of the defendants; "Well, I have always found, in my long career at the bar and on the farm, that the

fanning mill never worked so well after the chickens had roosted on it all winter." The story is told of an old lawyer,

that he had a case of a person concerning some outlawed account, and when the jury was selected it was made up of those who would rather not pay a claim if they could help it. The client said, “See here, just talk to them this way,

that this dead beat business has got to stop somewhere or other." He did so, and won the case. Another lawyer happened to come into the room, and left the door of the dingy court room wide open, when the Judge called out to the bailiff, “Close that door, man, for this case will cer

tainly slip out that opening if nothing is done to prevent it.”