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 The Editor’s Bag The graduate has about decided to remain in the East. The practice of law in the Northwest seems rather complicated somehow. IS IT A CASE OF MAYHEM? N THE capital city of one of our Western states, which is justly noted for the ability and culture of its bar, a lawyer of considerable eminence

tempt” to knock an “i" out of 219 the Court? — to say nothing of the ethical insinuation involved in a lawyer's be coming “a Friend of Care?”

ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM HE following is a current Ger man ancedote, source unknown:— Lawyer (to old Jew whose son has be come a Christian) -— “And now, my

has recently ﬁled in the State Supreme Court a brief as amicus curiae. The amusing thing about it is that, wherever

friend, when you are called up before the great Judge at the last day, and He

the phrase occurs in the brief, he refers

to leave the ways of his fathers and be baptized?’ what can you answer?” “I can say: ‘But, Lord, did not Thy son do the same?’"

to himself as "amicus curae." Quaere: —- Who is responsible —— proof reader or lawyer?— and is it not "con

asks you: ‘Why did you allow your son

T/u Edi/or will be glad to reed-u:for this department anything likely to entertain the reader: of the Gran Bag in the way of legal antiqum'nJae-lﬁc, and anacdorn.

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING A Scottish nobleman one day visited a lawyer at his ofﬁce, in which at the time there was a blazing ﬁre, which led him to exclaim, "Mr.

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your oﬂice is as hot as an oven." "So it should be, my lord," replied the lawyer, "as it is here I make my bread." The following will was filed about forty years ago in the Surrogate's oﬂice in New York: "Unto my beloved wife
 * All my worldly

goods I have in store, I give my beloved wife and hers for evermore. I give all truly; I no limit ﬁx. This is my will, she my executrix." The following verdict was rendered in Cal houn county, Illinois: —

"Kurners Verdict—We, the jurys, ﬁnd the deceased dead man l-rum to his deth from the bans of some unbeknown purson, with an un lauful iron weeping —named a axwith a hick ory handel; which unlauful weeping wos used with deadly inant to kill the killed Ded Man. "P. S. We, the forsed and undercigned jurys, hopefully believe that the Ded Man was be headed by the Sed Ax."

The late Justice Brewer was noted for his tolerant and broad-minded views. A Wash ington diplomat recalled the other day a story told by Justice Brewer in illustration of the need for tolerance. "We should respect the views of others" — so the story ran —- "for morality itself is but a matter of environment. "A missionary in the South Seas was dis tressed because her dusky parishioners were nude. She decided to try delicately to get them to wear at least a little clothing, and to this end she left a great many pieces of scarlet and green and yellow calico lying about the hut. "An elderly dame called one afternoon for spiritual advice. The missionary noted how enviously her eyes rested on the calico, and she took up a two-yard piece of the yellow, saying: — “ ‘I'll give you this if you'll wear it.’ "The female draped the calico about her like a skirt and departed in great glee. "But the next day, nude as before, she re turned with the fabric under her arm. Handing it sadly to the missionary, she said: — “ ‘Me no can wear it, missy. Me too shy.’" —- New York Tribune.