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Lawyer. — "Those will do very nicely. Now, let's see; what do they accuse you of stealing?" Rastus. — "Oh, a mule and a few chickens and a hog or two." — Life.

"Yes," was the reply, "the very looks of that man makes me think he is guilty." "Why, man," exclaimed the judge, "that's the prosecuting attorney!" — Ladies' Home Journal.

The court was having trouble getting a satisfactory jury. "Is there any reason why you could not pass impartially on the evidence for and against the prisoner?" asked the judge of a prospective juror.

Magistrate (about to commit for trial). — "You certainly effected the robbery in a re markably ingenious way; in fact, with quite exceptional cunning —" Prisoner. — "Now, yer Honor, no flattery, please; no flattery, I begs yer." — Sketch.

Study BY COL. MILTON H. ANDERSON "THE IOWA POET" I HAVE studied physics, philosophy and law, I find them hard and dry, But by hard persevering study You can master them if you try. All are votaries to the God of Wisdom If we would enter his temple door, We must study patiently for years, Then patiently study some more. Hancock, Iowa.

The Legal World JXConthly Analysis of Leading Legal Events A popular movement such as that for the recall of judges does not spring from theories of the nature of popular government, but gathers its strength from special incidents which furnish a text for inflammatory utterances that would not be called forth if con crete examples were not available to bear out the contention. There had

been little, recently, to indicate that the demand for the judicial recall was growing. There may, on the contrary, have been some ground for a belief that it was approaching a low ebb, even though such a temporary subsid ence would have been unlikely long to continue. Then came the Hanford and Archbald cases, which necessarily have had their effects. Of these cases