way it seems to you, but that of course you may be mistaken about it; which causes your listener to receive what you say, and, as like as not, turn about and try to convince you of it, since you are in doubt; but if you go at him with a tone of positiveness and arrogance you only make an opponent of him. If you wish to be a teacher, just read the passage I have mentioned from Franklin, and cool off a whole lot."

To a convict in Sing Sing he wrote this:

"I am well aware that many of you are not really bad men, but unfortunate men, and that God so sees you. There are many of us who would be the same as you are if we had met the same troubles and obstacles in our lives. So do not be discouraged. I shall not speak of my trouble, in view of the greater troubles of all of you. Let us all be patient and content.'

About political ambition he wrote this to a correspondent:

"It does not matter much whether we get elected to some office. We all have to die in a few years, and we will die just as happy if we have never held an office. And meanwhile I have a notion. that we may do as much good for our fellow men as those who do hold office. Those who have done most for humanity did not care to hold office."

His conception of the duties and powers of his office was expressed to a conplaining person as follows:

"But will you be so good as to remember that this is a government of laws, and not of men? Will you please get that well into your head? I am not able to do as I like as mayor. I must take the law just as it is, and you may be absolutely certain that I shall not take the law into my own hands. You say you are glad to see that the mayors of many cities have 'ordered' that these pictures (the Jeffries-Johnson prizefight films) shall not be exhibited. Indeed? Who sent them up as autocrats? If there be some valid law giving any mayor such power, then he can exercise it; otherwise not. The growing exercise of arbitrary power in this country by those put in office would be far more dangerous, and is far more to be dreaded, than

certain other vices that we all wish to minimize or to be rid of. People little know what they are doing when they try to encourage officials to resort to arbitrary power."

This insistence on government by law and by law alone was one of William J. Gaynor's great characteristics. It marked his career as a justice of the supreme court and it emphasized his great work as mayor.

Death of Judge Rose.

After an illness of several weeks duration Judge Uriah M. Rose of Little Rock, Ark., died on August 12th, at the age of 79 years.

He was representative of the United States to the Second International Hague Peace Conference, former president of the American Bar Association, and one of the most prominent lawyers in the Southwest.

After graduating from the Transylvania Law School at Lexington, Ky., he moved to Arkansas and settled in Batesville. Arkansas at that time was new, and Judge Rose quickly made friends. and built himself a handsome following. Before he had become of age he was one of the leading lawyers of the section in which he resided. He rapidly. accumulated a library, and by constant study of the books he accumulated used the knowledge gained with telling effect, as in those days law books

were scarce.

In 1860 he was appointed chancellor, with jurisdiction in many matters. In 1865 he removed to Little Rock, where he has since been in constant practice, and he has been recognized as one of the leading figures of the bar. He was head of the firm of Rose, Hemingway and Rose at the time of his death.

Judge Rose was a great orator, and on many occasions he has addressed the bar associations of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Colorado and Missouri, and many other States.

Throughout his life Judge Rose favored legal reformation and practical! the codification of the unweildly ma. of common law.

Unnecessary Alarm. An old German farmer entered the office of a wellknown law firm one morning and addressed the senior partner :

"I haf der schmall pox"

"Merciful heavens, Mr. Schmidt," exclaimed the lawyer, as the office force scrambled over each other in their hurry to get out, "don't come any nearer."

"Vot's der matter mit you fellers, anyhow?" quietly replied Schmidt. "I say I haf der schmall pox of putter oud in mien vagon vot der Mrs. ordered las' veek already."

Putting It Clearly. "Rastus, what's a alibi?"

"Dat's provin' dat yoh was at a prayer meetin' whar yoh wasn't in order to show dat yoh wasn't at de crap game whar you was."-Life.

Legal Definition. "What does you understan' by 'circumstantial evidence'?" asked Miss Miami Brown. "As near as I kin splain it, f'um de way it has been splained to me," answered Mr. Erasmus Pinkley, "circumstantial evidence is de feathers dat you leaves lyin' around after you has done et de chicken."-Washington Star.

Abating the Nuisance. To make sure the youngster was not disobeying the bass fishing law, the game warden took his string of fish out of the water and found only catfish, perch, and suckers on the line. A few feet further down the stream he found a large black bass wiggling on a string weighed down with a stone, and asked the boy what he was Hoing with the fish.

2 "Well, you see," answered the boy,

"he's been taking my bait all morning and so I just tied him up there until I get through fishing."-National Food Magazine.

Unneighborly. "About the meanest man I ever knew," said Farmer Corntossel, "lived way out West, where the cyclones blow."

"Did you have personal experience with him?"

. "Sure. A windstorm picked up my house and blew the whole family over on to his farm."

"Wouldn't he come to your assistance?"

"No. He rushed off and got a lawyer to bring action against us for trespass." -Washington Star.

To Suppo't Prop'ty. "Whether you believe or don't believe in the tariff, you'll admit that we'd have fewer multimillionaires if we'd never had high protection. Even Carnegie admits he wouldn't have entered the steel trade if he hadn't first been able to get a prohibition steel tariff put on the statute books."

The speaker, Representative Abercrombie, lighted a cigar and resumed: "This sort of thing reminds me, just a little bit, of old Calhoun Clay.

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'Is this your first theft, Cal?' the old man's mistress asked, after she had caught him walking off with a bottle of beer.

'Why, yas'm, mebbe I did take jes' one chicken,' Cal agreed. 'But dat wa'n't no stealin,' mum. Dat wus jes' prop❜ty takin' prop'ty to suppo't prop'ty."

A Trade Courtesy. A certain mayor of a well-known city was walking down the street a few weeks since when he perceived just ahead of him an acquaintance whose handkerchief was sticking out of his pocket, says the Cleveland PlainDealer. Seized with a brilliant idea, the mayor quickened his pace and stepping up just behind his friend withdrew the handkerchief altogether without the owner being in the least aware of what had taken place.

He was just about to address him and call his attention to what he had done when he felt a tap on his arm and, half turning, confronted a quiet, gentlemanly person, who returned the mayor his own purse, handkerchief, and keys, saying:

"I beg your pardon, I didn't know you were one of us."

More Like It. There is an ordinance There is an ordinance in New York which compels the street piano folk to silence their musical instruments after a certain hour. A hurdygurdy man was haled into the night court for violating the ordinance, and complained that the resulting fine was more than he could pay.

"How much do you make in a week?" asked the judge.

"About $10," replied the man.

"What!" exclaimed the judge, "do you collect as much as $10 for playing such wretched music?"

"No, sir," responded the man promptly, "not for grind-for shut up and go away."

The Lump's Identity. The whizzing motor car struck a stump, and one of the occupants of the back seat, a lady possessed of considerable embonpoint, executed a neat but not gaudy parabola in the atmosphere and alighted by the

roadside like a polypus falling from a shot tower.

"I don't believe I have broken any bones," she stated, in reply to the inquiry of the omnipresent bystander, "but there is a lump on this bank that"

"Lump nothin'!" snarled a smothered voice. "I'm the constable that's goin' to arrest you gosh-dinged joy riders, if I live!"-Judge.

Taking a Mean Advantage. A man owned a piece of land of 120 acres hilly, rocky, and rough. He said he could work one side as well as the other, that it hung up like a slate. He met a man in the road with a yoke of steers, and he said, "I will give you 60 acres of land for your steers." He replied, "Good." They went to a justice of the peace to make the deed to the land, and the man who owned the land had forgotten the name of the fellow who owned the steers, and the justice did not know it, so when they reached the place in the deed where it says, "I bargain, sell, and convey," he said to the fellow, "Write your name here." He answered, "I cannot write." Then the land man whispered to the justice and stood back behind the door and laughed. He went his way rejoicing, and when he reached his home he was still laughing, and his sister said, "What is the matter?" He said, "I gave a fellow 60 acres of land for these steers, and when I went to make the deed I found that he could not read and write, and I put the whole 120 acres off on him."

Had Enough. After a recent railway collision in the Midlands a Scotsman was extricated from the wreckage by a companion who had escaped unhurt.

"Never mind, Sandy," his rescuer remarked; "it's nothing serious, and you'll get damages for it."

"Damages!" roared Sandy. "Have I no had enough o' them? It's repairs I'm seeking the noo!"

Frieze Decoration by Robert Blum in the Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York.