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The Editor's Bag predominated. If the good actions were in the majority, he was acquitted —or, more properly, forgiven——if the ill or criminal actions outweighed the good, he was condemned.

of these county courts a lawyer was arguing, and after he had exhausted his eloquence n behalf of his client on trial for stealing, he wound up wfth: —& "Gentlemen of the jury, after what this man has oﬁered in evidence and what I have stated to you, is this man

PREDETERMINED N the local courts out West there is generally a friendly, sociable, talka tive atmosphere to be found among judge, jury, lawyers and client. In one

guilty? Can he be guilty? Is he guilty?” Imagine his chagrin when the foreman of the jury replied: “You just wait a little while ole hoss ’n’ we'll tell you. ’I

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USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING "You are charged with stealing nine of Colonel Henry's hens last night. Have you any wit nesses?" asked the 'ustice sternly. "Nussah!" said rother Jones humbly. “I ‘specks I'se sawtuh

uliar dat-uh-way, but it

ain't never been ma

custom to take witnesses

along when I goes out chicken-stealin', suh."

——-Centml Law Journal. Sir Henry Hawkins was once presiding over a long, tedious and uninteresting trial, and was listening apparently with great attention to a very long-winded speech from a learned counsel. After a while he made a pencil memorandum,

manly manner, "and we sympathize with you and your family in your loss. But, Mr. Olsen, ou must remember this: Your cow had no usiness being upon our tracks. Those tracks are our private property and when she invaded them she became a trespasseni Technically speaking you, as her owner, became a trespasser, also. But we have no desire to carry the issue into court and possibly give you trouble. Now then, what wou d you regard as a fair settlement between you and the railroad compan?" "Vall,’ said Mr. Olsen slowly, " y bane poor Swede farmer, but Ay shall give you two dollars." —Everybady’s. i

folded it, and sent it by the master to the queen's

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counsel in question, who, unfolding the paper, found these words: "Patience competition. Gold medal, Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable mention, Job." — Argument. ‘1;;

One of the officials of our Embassy at London tells of an incident that occurred in a train ro ceeding through the north of Scotland. T ere was another enger in the compartment at the time the merican entered. At the next station three Scots came in. They were all big, burly men and completely filled up the seat on the side of the compartment where the ﬁrst mentioned passenger was seated. At the next station the carriage door opened to admit a tall, cadaverous individual, whose girth was about that of a lamp-post. He tried to wedge himself in between two of the passengers already there, and said to one of them:—— "Here, you must move up a bit. Each seat is intended to accommodate ﬁve persons, and according to act of Parliament you are entitled only to eighteen inches of space." ‘Aye, aye, my friend," replied one of the Scots; "that's a’ very guid for you that's been built that way; but ye canna blame me if I ha' na' been construckit according to act of

The late Chief Justice Chase was noted for his gallantry. While on a visit to the South, shortly after the war, he was introduced to a very beautiful woman who prided herself upon her devotion to the "lost cause." Anxious that the Chief Justice should know her senti ments, she remarked, as she gave him her hand, "Mr. Chase, you see before you a rebel who has not been reconstructed." “Madame," he replied with a profound bow, "reconstruction in your case would be blas phemous." -—Eve1ybody's. Up in Minnesota Mr. Olsen had a cow killed by a railroad train. In due season the claim agent for the railroad called. "We understand, of course, that the deceased was a very docile and valuable animal," said the claim agent in his most persuasive claim-agentle

Parliament."

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