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Don'ts on Naming the Baby.
^ Parents so often inflict upon babies
names that are a bore to them all their
lives. The Portland "Telegram" speaks
of a few "dont's" that might be helpful to
some people:
Don't name a baby after a hero unless
the hero has been dead for several years.
Don't hamper a boy with a name that
will prove a heavy handicap in life.
Don't name a girl after a flower. Think
of an old woman called "Pansy" or
"Daisy."
Don't name a girl Yiolet, when her
disDosition may be that of a tiger-lily.
Don't tack a fancy name on a kid. It
makes him a target for his companions.
Don't name a child after a relative
from whom you have "expectations."
The relative may yet marry.
Don't forget that the man with the
common name of William is more likely
to write checks than one labeled Percy.
> If you want a higher grade buggv
than you can find elsewhere, call at u.
Frank Bamberg's.
Placing the Blame.
John Philip Soosa was condemning
t the voice of a comic opera comedian,
\ says the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"It is such a voice," he said, smiling,
?. v. , "as belonged to a young man whom I
knew in my boyhood days in Washington.
b. "One night at a young men's party, this
i: young man sang a solo. It was execrable.
In the midst of the hideous racket,
bluff old Squire Baer entered.
"Squire Baer sat down and folded his
hands on the knob of his stout stick. He
waited patiently till the young man
v - J ^s-s?u?j Than Vio oairl tft him
iuau UU1BUCU. M. ucu uv .w
" 'Well, boy, I don't blame you. You
did your best. But if I knew the man
who asked you to sing I'd crack him over
j;; "\ the head with thfe club.'"
MAN'S UNREASONABLENESS
is often as great as woman's. But Thos.
8. Austin, Mgr. of the "Republican," of
Leavenworth, Ind., was not unreasonable
when he refnsed to allow doctors to operate
on his wife, for female trouble. "Instead,"
he says, "we concluded to try
Electric Bitters. My wife was then so
sick she could hardly leave her bed, and
five [5] physicians had failed to relieve
her. After taking Electric Bitters, she
was perfectly cured, afid can now perform
V---' all her household duties." Guaranteed by
&: - all druggists; Felder & Matthews. Price
50 cents.
His Patriotic Appetite.
Adolph was devouring something if not
with relish, at least with earnestness.
From time to time he would saw away
f,' with a knife at something under the bar,
and convey a small particle to his mouth.
7- "Try It," he said to the customer who
entered, holding forth what appeared to
be a slice of smoked beef. It was ham.
Furthermore it was tougn nam, ana was
: salty enongh to take the skin off the
tongue. It was not particularly palatable,
either, as the customer was compelled
to remark after an ineffectual attempt
to masticate it.
"Dot's from my own town in Germany,"
said Adolph, proudly. "You
can't buy it here. Au old lady just from
dere brought; it to me today."
"It doesn't taste particularly nice," said
f. the customer.
"Nice? Nice? Sure it ain'd nice. But
it comes from my own town, und I eat
it."
SON LOST MOTHER.
? "Consumption runs in our family, and
through it I lost my mother," writes E B
Reid, of Harmony, Me. "For the past 5
years, however, on the slightest sign of a
cough or cold, I have taken Dr. King's
New Discovery for consumption, which
has saved me from serious lung trouble."
His mother's death was a sad loss for Mr.
Reid, but he learned that lung trouble is
not to be neglected, and how to cure it.
Quickest relief and cure for coughs and
colds. Price 50c and $1:00; guaranteed at
all druggists; Felder & Matthews. Trial
bottles free.
A Pretty Incident.
A pretty incident took place in Spartanburg
recently on the arrival of the
' officials of the Southern railway.
After the railroad officials alighted in
' fi the Southern yards and were introduced
to Spartanburg's leading citizens, a little
girl 'with long black hair, black eyes,
daintily clad, and leading with ribbons a
pretty poodle dog walked np to the president
of the Southern railway and introduced
herself as Alice Bembert. She
,.v stated that several years ago her pet dog,
a poodle, was ran over and killed by a
train of the Southern, and after reconciling
herself to the death of the dog on
whomjshe lavished much affection sat
down and wrote to Mr. Samuel Spencer,
president of the road, that one of his
trains had killed her darling pet. A few
weeks afterwards she received by express
a beautiful specimen of the poodle dog,
which she named "Dandy," which was
the gift from Mr. Spencer. She had the
childish pride and satisfaction this afternoon
of exhibiting this gift to Mr. Spen'
cer, and graciously bestowed on the railroad
magnate a large bouquet of chrysanthemums.
Little Miss Alice Bembert is
the daughter of Prof. A. G. Bembert of
the chair of Greek in Wofford College.
No household is free from danger of
accidents, therefore no household should
be without SHAW'S PUBE MALT. For
sale at the dispensary.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. '
State News Boiled Down For Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The Central hotel at Marion was destroyed
by fire last Monday morning
about one o'clock. The loss is about
$7,000.
It Is said that a section of swamp land
fthnnt RftVHn miles below Aiken has been
burning for the past eight years. The
burning ground covers about an acre.
Several cases of small pox have developed
in Manning. One prominent merchant
of the town is down with it. Several
negroes have the disease, and it is
hard to enforce a quarantine.
Fire destroyed the dry kilns of the
Gardner & Lacy Lumber Company at
Georgetown Tuesday night. None of the
machinery was damaged, but the loss, in
lumber chiefly, is about $25,000.
Chief Justice Pope last week granted
a temporary injunction against closing
the dispensaries in Greenville county.
The case is to be heard by the State
supreme court on next Monday, December
4th.
The Comptroller General is not yet
prepared to make an estimate on the
amount received from the tax on dogs,
but the State Superintendent of Education
thinks that it will run up at least
$50,000 this year.
L. Reibling, beer dispenser, was convicted
on Monday in the circuit court of
Spartanburg on the charge of violating
the dispensary law in maintaining a nuisance
in running a beer privilege house.
He will appeal to the supreme court.
Governor Hey ward has decided to send
the dispensary constables back to Dar
lington county, ana tney win not ue wuudrawn
from Greenville and Spartanburg.
Hereafter the constables will be retained
in all counties voting out the dispensary.
W. A. Holman, of Charleston, has
been appointed special judge for an extra
term of court to be held In Hampton
county. Mr. Holman was appointed a
special judge for a term of court in Camden,
but the members of the bar canceled
the call.
The case of the State against the architect
and contractor of the State house was
commenced in Columbia last week, and
is being continued this week. Some sensational
testimony has been introduced,
and it seems clear that the work was
poorly done.
John Abercrombie was found dead in
the woods near his home in Laurens
county last Monday. He left home with
a shot gun, and it is supposed that he
committed suicide. He was a desperate
character, and at times had terrorized his
neighborhood.
A sufficient number of voters have
signed a petition for an election in Laurens
county on the question of dispensary
or no dispensary, and the supervisor will
order the election soon?to take place,
the Advertiser says, probably the second
Tuesday in January.
Great excitement was caused in Greenville
late Monday night by the discovery
of a baby, a few hours old, in a house
in a questionable part of that city. The
child was expensively clothed and had
money in its clothes; and more money
was assured for its support by the man
who left it at the house.
Charleston is to have a union passenger
station at last. On Wednesday the contract
for the new depot was let to Mr.
Grant Wilkins, a prominent contractor
of Atlanta. The bid was $152,000, being
the lowest among nine competitors. This
union passenger station will fill a long
felt need in Charleston and we hope to
see it completed soon.
The dispensary election in Williamsburg
county has been contested on account
of irregularities. The dispensary
people employed a lawyer who appeared
before the board of election commissioners
when they met to declare the result of
the election. The canvassing of the returns
was postponed until Tuesday,
December 12th, when the case will be
fully argued on both sides.
Governor Heyward has been asked to
pardon P. W. Hutto, a white man from
Orangeburg. On December 20 Hutto was
sent up for manslaughter and about fifteen
months ago went to Columbia and
gave himself up voluntarily after the
supreme court had decided against him
on an appeal. There were no commitment
papers, however, and Hutto presented
the unusual spectacle of a man
seeking admission to the State prison
and being refused for 24 hours.
No wonder the North is rich and the
South hard up. The yankee knows the
value of what he wants and buys under
that. The Southerner rarely thinks ahead.
Some time ago Judge Watts sold the timber
on the Cash lands, 10,000 acres, for
$28,000. Within three months the buyers
refused, an offer of $90,000., and now
hold it "at $120,000. That reminds us of
a remark of the late Governor Johnson
Hagood to us about 15 years ago: "The
time will come before very long when
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every gooa pine tree 01 mm size m rmru
well county will be worth five dollars."
?Barnwell People.
Q. Frank Bamberg handles the best
buggies and wagons, yet the prices
are reasonable.
Two Great Methodist Lights.
The Rev. A. J. Kynett, presiding elder
of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of
the South district of Philadelphia, tells a
story at his own expense. He was asked
one day to help the colored brethren raise
some money for a church. When he came
to preach the pastor of the church, in order
to impress the congregation with the
Rev. Mr. Kynett's importance, said:
"Brethren and sisters, it is now my
great pleasure and delight to introduce
the Rev. Dr. Kynett, the sounding brass
and the tinkling cymbal of the Methodist
Church." When Dr. Graeff addressed
the same congregation some months
later he was introduced as "the great obstacle
of the Methodist church."
LORD OF A LITTLE ISLE.
Lieut Horton, of the Marine Corps, Sent to the
Hawaiian Islands.
Washington, Nov. 28.?Second Lieut.
Je er Horton, United States marine corps,
of Greenville, has just been commissioned
with the title of "Governor" by the navy
department and ordered to sail early in
December from New York for Honolulu
in command of a division of 40 marines.
The little island to which Lieut Horton
will take his band of braves is as yet unsettled,
and lies a few miles from Honolulu.
It is practically without inhabitants
and will be until Lieut. Horton reaches
there. With the 40 marines the island
will be settled and the flag floated over it
in the name of the United States. While
the area of this island could probably be
measured by running a line a mile each
way, it will nevertheless assume all of
the dignity of any other possessions belonging
to the United States, and all ships
passing will, in accordance with navy
regulations, salute the flag and Lieut.
! Horton's marines by fi ig the big guns.
A coaling station will evidently be established
there.
As stated Lieut. Horton will sail from
New York early in December for his
far away home.
Lieut. Victor Blue, United States navy,
of Marion, has been commissioned lieutenant
commander, the date of his commission
to be June 28,1906. The South
Carolina friends of Lieut. Blue will be
glad to read of his promotion.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Allan Stuart,
of Beaufort, has been detached from the
Pensacola, at the naval training station,
San Francisco, and has been ordered to
command the naval hospital at Sitka,
Alaska.
I Think I Thank a Lie.
I used to think when I was young,
And my heart was free from guile,
That there was grief in every tear
And joy in every smile;
And friendship wras not a cheat
And love could never die;
But thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
I used to think about myself
And think that I would be
A governor or a president,
Or a general like Lee.
But I have waited long in vain,
While years rolled slowly by,
And thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thank a lie.
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I used to think the ladies were
All sweetness combined,
That they were all God's last and best
Of perfectness refined;
That they were not half pads and paint,
But angels from on high,
But thinking now of what J thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
The preachers, too, I used to think,
Were not like other men,
And were not tempted of the flesh,
And could not therefore sin,
But since I've traveled round a bit,
I've watched them on the sly,
And thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
The honest tiller of the soil,
When marketing his crop,
Takes pains to put the ripe and best
Always upon the top.
I used to think those honest men
Would never cheat or try, ,
But thinking now of whiat I thqnk,
I think I thunk a lie.
i The editors, a lordly set,
Who live on milk and honey,
They've nothing else on earth to do
But write and rake in money,
Leastwise that way I used to think,
And now it makes me cry
i To think about the way I thunk,
And how I thunk a lie.
What noble men the doctors are,
I used to think they came
From heaven or some heavenly land
And worked for love and fame,
That thev could cure all human ills
And never let ns die,
But thinking now of what I thank,
I think I thank a lie. *
The lawyers, too, I used to think?
Oh! God forgive the thought?
That their convictions of the right
Could not by knaves be bought;
That they would not a client rob
Or "sell" him on the sly;
But thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
; The dry goods men are honest, too,
They swear they sell at cost;
I used to think they told the truth,
And all their profits lost.
I thought a yard was full three feet?
Don't ask my reason why?
But thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
The niggers, too, I used to think,
If once they were set free
Would make good honest citizens
Like white folks used to be,
But they have wandered far from grace, i
The chickens still roost high
And thinking now of what I thunk,
I think I thunk a lie.
"You seem quite fond of soup," said
the landlady to a boarder who had had
t.hrep. nlates.
"Not necessarily," was the reply. "My
physician recommended the hot-water
cure."
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN YARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, November 27.?There are
rumors that there will be three or four
more marriages in town soon.
Mr. I. D. Copeland and wife were in
town Sunday.
Mr. J. D. Jenny visited his wife's
parents Sunday.
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Mrs. uora vy eimer is suii connneu iu
her bed.
The children are talking about Santa
Claus, and some are writing letters to
him. Their way of posting them, is in
the fire place, so the smoke goes up the
chimney.
It is rumored that a darkey was killed
at a hot supper over between Lemon and
Little Saltkatchie swamps. Did not hear
the particulars.
The farmers are hauling cotton seed
meal for another year'a farm. Three or
four cars have been shipped here for them.
Not much cotton seed sold here this
year, the price does not suit our farmers.
Some say they had rather have the cotton
seed, others that there is not enough
difference to pay for the hauling, still
others that the putting out in the spring
of the year is so much easier and cheaper,
that they would haul the seed ten miles
to get meal for them; so it goes, and one
can't get an idea as to which is the best.
Some of our best farmers will not sell a
seed.
Our building committee will decide on
Tuesday as to the building of the bank
and prepare for letting the contract.
Mr. D. M. Smith is rushing his house
to completion. When will it be, Dave ?
A party from this section went down
the country fishing last week. They say
the snakes were so bad that they had
to take too much "snake bite" medicine,
consequently could not do much fishing.
Mr. A. W. Brabham was in town last
week. Says he will make enough top
cotton to pay all he owes, and will have
plenty money this year.
C. Ehrhardt & Sons worked over the
old Jenny & Loadholt engine that was
burnt recently, and it is now giving Mr.
F. M. Jenny good service, driving his saw
mill.
Mr. J. H. Fender has his engine in C.
Ehrhardt & Sons' shops to be overhauled
for another year's work.
New buggies and horses are plentiful
in this section.
Farmers are bnsv imorovine their farm
houses, some building new ones to acI
comodate more laborers, if they can get
them. This speaks well for the prosperity
of our country.
Court convened, in Walterboro today.
An extra was sent up to take the "courting"
people to Walterboro. Jee.
Country Correspondence.
Mr. J. W. Hill, who has been quite sick
of lagrippe, we are glhd to report is much
better. ; *
Miss Pearle Sandifer is visiting her
aunt Mrs. M. C. Sandifer, in Bamberg,
this week.
Mrs. W. M. Hughes, of our midst, spent
a few days with relatives at Clear Pond,
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie McMillan,, of Colston,
visited their sister, Mrs. J. W. Hill,
Sunday.
Mesdaraes S. H. Counts and D. F.
Hooton, of Bamberg, were in our community
one morning last week, soliciting
all sorts of material for the fair that is to
be held in Bamberg from the 13th,
through the 16th, for the benefit of the
Bamberg Baptist parsonage fund. They
requested the writer to "beg" a turkey, a
pumpkin and anything else that will help
in this noble work. Mrs. Hooton is
president of the Ladies' Baptist Mission
ary Society there and this fair is being
gotten np by the members of this society.
Mr. Emmet McMillan and family visited
relatives in Orangeburg Sunday.
There was a hot supper at a darkey
house on Mrs. Fishburne's place, near the
home of Mr. Willie Bishop, last Saturday
night and a darkey, Ben Harvey, was
shot and killed by George Toomer. An
inquest was held Sunday morning over
the body. The old saying of "a hot sup*
per means a cold nigger" proves to be a
true one in this instance, as it usually
does among the black population.
Farmers are about through gathering
in this vicinity, and there is a little of
the cotton being held for the 15 cents that
President Harvie Jordan promises.
"Jee" in Ehrhardt letter tells of the
merchant inquiring for a good market
for his four quarts of pease. There is a
gentleman in our midst who was wishing
for some reliable business to invest his
money in, and when asked his capital, he
replied "five cents." He had found that, j
The Lucas-Milliken contest over the
Laurens Cotton mill has done much good.
Already commissions have been reduced
and some of the mills are selling goods
without the aid of commissiommen. The
charge of 4 per cent was exorbitant and
unjust. The selling agent who charged
4 per cent got about twice as much as the
stockholders received in the way of divi-1
That trae Tint orptiprallv knnwn.
UVUUtf. AMMV fVWW MW? " ?
A house that controlled the sale of the
products of a half dozen Southern mills
had a better thing than an insurance company.
Methodist (inference.
The approaching session of the South
Carolina Methodist Conference will bean
important gathering, as the following
excerpt from The Spartanburg Journal
tells: More than four hundred Methodist
ministers will attend the South Carolina
Conference which will be held in
this city next month. The conference
this year promises to be the largest ever
held. Every Methodist preacher in South
Carolina who can do so will visit Spartanburg
during conference week. In addition
to the large number of ministers
that will be present, there will be many
lay delegates from the various churches
in the State. It has been sixteen years
since the conference met in Spartanburg
and a big Methodist reunion is now being
planned by the preachers of the State.
The Stingy Woman.
A Duluth woman who has a horror
of sting people believes that she recently
became acquainted with the meanest one
in the city says the Duluth News-Tribune.
"Why," she said, in relating to a friend
the incident upon which her belief is
founded, "she called at the house before
breakfast and said:
" 'Madam, I see by the paper that you
have advertised for a cook.'
"'Yes, I have,' I replied. 'But surely
you are not after the place?'
" 'No,' answered the stranger, for I had
never seen her before. 'But I only live
two blocks from here, and since I need a
cook myself I thought you might send
me all the applicants you reject.'"
Stricken Blind in Pulpit.
Rev. John T. Morrison, a prominent
Baptist minister of Hampton, S. C., was
brought to Savannah yesterday. and
placed in St. Joseph's hospital lor treatment
for organic troubles.
Several months ago Mr. Morrison was
stricken blind while delivering a sermon,
and was forced to dismiss the congregation
and be carried to his home. Since
that time he has been on a general decline,
although his sight has gradually returned,and
his eyesjare now in fairly good
condition. v
Mr. Morrison was accompanied to Savannah
by his brother, Capt. I. V. Morrison,
and was met at the depot by his
nephew, Dr. A. A. Morrison, of Savannah,
who will attend the patient.
The dramatic incident of Mr. Morrison
losing his sight while delivering a sermon
attracted considerable attention. The
minister was taken to his home and an
examination made. It was found that
kidney troubles bad been the direct cause
of the loss of sight, and he was treated for
this. As he improved his sight was restored,
but recently he has suffered much
from indigestion and after a consultation
his physicians thought it best for him to
be brought to Savannah, where he could
be placed in a hospital and placed on diet.
Dr. A. A. Morrison, who is attending
his uncle, stated last night that the patient
was in a serious, condition, but that it
was hoped that after some time' of diet
treatment he would begin to grow better.
He has led an unusually studious life,
and in his declining days seemed to grow
even fonder of Biblical research.
Mr. Morrison is 68 vears of aire and UD
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to the time that his sight failed him in
the pulpit, he was an active minister of
the gospel. He suffered considerally with
his eyes, but his symptoms were not such
as to give any premonition of collapse.
Since he was stricken he has not been
able to actively engage in his work.?
Savannah News.
Wofford Boy Disappears.
Spartanburg, November 27.?Hugh
Creighton,a student of Wofford College,
disappeared from this city Saturday night.
The young man's father, the Rev. C. W.
Creighton, of Greenwood, editbr of the
Christian Appeal, is here today, making
inquiries, but has found nothing to indicate
where the young man is likely to
have gone.
The boy is 17, has light hair, delicate
features, is tall, slightly stooped, and was
last seen wearing a gray suit.
The police are requested to look out for
him, and if found to notify the father at
Greenwood. The young man understands
type-setting.
If you want a higher grade buggy
than you can find elsewhere, callatG.
Frank Bamberg's.
Death of Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaom.
Mrs. Sallie Langford Quattlebaum,
wife of Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum, died at
her home in Prosperity on Saturday.
She has been in feeble health for some
time. The past summer and fall she
spent in Asheville, and her life was thus
prolonged for a time. She leaves a bus
band and two children. Mrs. Quattlebaum
was a daughter of the late Dr. Asa
Langford. She was a woman of many
graces of character and leaves a large
circle of friends to mourn her departure.
She was buried on Sunday afternoon in
Prosperity ' cemetery.?Newberry Observer,
Nov. 28th.
"I THANK THE LORD!"
cried Hannah Plant, of Little Rock, Ark.,
"for the relief I got from Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. It cured my fearful running
sores, which nothing else would heal.and
from which I had suffered for 5 years."
It is a marvelous healer for cuts, burns
and wounds. Guaranteed at all druggists
Felder & Matthews. 25 cents.
ABRAIGNS BISHOP DUNCAN.
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Suspended Methodist Minister Says Bishop if
Autocratic and Imbecile.
Atlanta, Nov. 27.?Rev. W. W. Wadsworth's
statement in reference to his suspension
from the ministry for one year
by the North Georgia conference on the
charge of immoral conduct, in which he *
appeals his case to the public, contains a
severe arraignment of Bishop Duncan, of
a it. n i? j _ m M
ooutn Carolina, ana me conierence oyer
which he presided. He says in part:
"It is no wonder that justice miscarried
when a man like Bishop Duncan, irritable
and insulting and autocratic in man- %
ner, and manifestly bordering on imbecili- |
ty, holds the reins. ;
"When I think of it I am almost inclined . ^
to beliete that suspension is a happy lot , ,i
compared with being in the hands of such
a specimen of the Christian religion, and . -Jj
such a conceited autocrat in the church
of God. ~
"The body contains a considerable band
of whisperers and assassins of character; ;' ^
of self-seeking ecclesiastical political ~
j tricksters. Such a body can not brand
me with shame in the light of the record which
I have presented. I am a victim,
but without fear of these men, and with S
the conscious innocence of any wrong, i v M
Let me also say, lest I be misunderstood, . J
that there are a multitude of good and
true men in the conference, but I believe - .V
them to be unconscious slaves, driven by *?sl
the whips of itinerant taskmakers. It is
my purpose, at an early date, to4orn on
the light in many dark places, and to: ?M
open before the public some sensations . -j||
tnatwiu stir ooutnern jnemoaism irom ;:t
the Chesapeake to the Pacific." : '$m
Hunters Burned Han's Home. ^^9
Columbia, Nov. 27.?The residence and
entire contents belonging to Mr. E. C.\
Smith, about three miles from Columbia,
were destroyed by fire today. The house ; ^
was set on fire. * ^
It seems that two white men inhunting j||S
costume came into the yard thismorning '^g|
and were ordered out by Mrs. Smith, - jm
Smith himself was at work in a field some : J3
distance from the house. The men gaTe..'v|||
some insolent reply and refused to go.-":
Mrs. Smith then left the house and got a y||jB
horse to go for her husband, leaving the
two men in the piazza. They got together
some cornstalks and fodder and other \ _
light combustibles and set fire to the mass '
in the piazza. As a result the house was .
burned. There is no clue to theincen^
diaries. Smith has only been living in .
this county about three weeks*. He came->i|||
here from New York. ''^|3S1
A NonpossibUity. /)' '*
He was a large, raw-boned, .red-faced >:>|j
lawyer from Maine, lately settled in a
Southern state, and, of course, ambitious
of making a reputation in his own pro- '-Mm
fession, says the Green Bay. His mouth r : M
was so large that it was unnecessary for
him in nrtoHnff a mnr(i tn mnro tVian li.if *&
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open his month, the corners thereof being
the parts called into requisition.
He had on the inquisitorial block a \ r.;*:
backwoodsman as a witness. The wit- A|g
ness had replied to a question from the / Ip
interrogating lawyer that "It was a non- ,
possibility." 3
Quoth the lawyer, "A 'nonpossibility.' r
Now, will you tell this court and this ^#1
jury here what you mean by a non-pos- i
sibility? Give ns an example."
Witness: "Well, I think it 'u'd be a . g
nonpossibility to make your mouf enny
bigeer widout setting your ears furder ^J|jl
Of course the dignity of the court was
suspended.
Talking Against Time.
"A young limb of the law defended an j!J|S
old convict on the charge of burglary*" ./- MM
said Assistant District Attorney Stewart,: : " o
according to the Philadelphia Telegraph, y;
"The rules of the court (it was in Massa- '/M
chusetts) allowed each side an hour in
which to address the jury.
"The young lawyer, just before his '|?|H
turn came, consulted a veteran member Wk
of the bar, who was in the court room. "
'How much time do you think I should
take up in addressing the jury?' he
ashart
?'You ought to take the full hoar.'
" "The full hour 1 Why, I was only going
to take ten minutes.'
" 'You ought to take the full hour,' reiterated
the old lawyer.
, 44 4Butwhy?' *
44 'Because the longer you talk the longer "
you will keep your client out of jaiL'
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