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 The Editor's Bag over a wood claim, and one of them shot the other's head off. The best counsel in the state appeared for the shooter, when his case came up for trial before a Judge Adams. The judge had his own views of the case, and at the proper time gave them utterance. When the evidence was all in he waved aside the prisoner's counsel and the prosecuting attorney, and said: "Young man, seeing as this is your first offense, I shall let you off this time. But you must be very careful how you go shootin' round this way in future, for they hung a man over in Carson the other day for just doing the very same thing." Kentucky once boasted of a judge who sympathized with the Nevada justice's method of administrating af fairs. A young man, well dressed, was brought into court for trial on a charge of grand larceny. The judge, after looking at him intently, turned to the throng of spectators and said : "Gentlemen, I do not believe that any man who dresses so decently and looks so handsomely as this man does, could ever be guilty of stealing. He looks like an honest man, and, notwith standing the indictment, I believe he is one. All of you who are in favor of his going quits, hold up your hands!" The hands were lifted up, and the judge turning to the prisoner, said: "There, go now; you are unanimously discharged." INSTRUCTION TO THE ACCUSED THE recent death of old Colonel Mclntyre reminds us of the fol lowing instruction he often gave to soldiers brought up before him for trial for desertion : "Now, Marco D'Angelo, you are charged with dasartion. If you plade

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guilty, which you know you are and which the court will find you are, then you can expect the laniency of the court; but if you piade not guilty, which you know you are not, and which the court will find you are not, and which you are not, then the court will soak hell out of you. Now which way do you plade?" Invariably the prisoner would begin to tremble with fear, his hands would twitch, and in a voice quivering with emotion, he would reply: "Guilty, sir, guilty."

GENERAL BREWSTER'S REPLY HERE is an account told by Henry J. Erskine, of Philadelphia, of the only instance in which Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney-General of the United States during General Arthur's administration, was ever taunted in court of the disfigurement of his face. It occurred during the trial of an im portant suit involving certain franchise rights of the Pennsylvania Railroad ie Philadelphia. Mr. Brewster was then the chief counsel of the Pennsylvania company. The trial was a bitterly contested affair, and Brewster at every point got so much the best of the oppos ing counsel that by the time arguments commenced his leading adversary was in a white heat. In denouncing the rail road company, this lawyer, with his voice tremulous with anger, exclaimed: "This grasping corporation is as dark, devious, and scarified in its methods as is the face of its chief attorney and henchman, Benjamin Brewster!" This violent outburst of rage and cruel in vective was followed by a breathless stillness that was painful in the ciowded court room. Hundreds of pitying eyes were riveted on the poor, scarred face