Insurance against Cholera. For the trifling sum of a quarter of a dollar the life of a young pig can be insured against cholera in Kansas. Even at this low rate the insurance companies are taking practically no risks. The state of Kansas is manufacturing a cholera serum on a large scale. This enables every farmer to vaccinate his pigs and to immunize them against disease.-Chicago Tribune.

Tilts of Long Ago. "I recall a brief but spirited encounter of words," said Mr. Tarkington, concluding his reminiscences of lawyers of fifty years ago, "between Judge James Morrison, the dignified Nestor of the Marion county (Ind.) bar, who enjoyed privileges granted to no other lawyer, even being allowed to smoke in the court room, and Simon Yandes. The latter was turning to take his seat after an earnest argument with Mr. Morrison, and said something in a low tone. Mr. Morrison belligerently faced Mr. Yandes and in an excited tone said:

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""What! What's that you say? don't allow any man to call me a rascally old Scotchman!'

"Mr. Yandes, straightening up to his 6 feet 2, resentfully exclaimed:

"I did not say you were a rascally old Scotchman. I said you are a raspy old Scotchman.'

""Very well, sir,' responded Mr. Morrison, calming down. 'I accept your apology, but please do not repeat it, sir.'

"Judge Livingston Howland, who was judge of the Marion common pleas (succeeding Solomon Blair, promoted to the

superior court in 1870), and who succeeded me as judge of the seventh circuit after the election of 1872, was listening to the argument of George K. Perrin, when he interrupted the attorney, saying: 'Mr. Perrin, you have repeated that statement of the law now three times. If you have any other point to discuss I will hear it, but no more of that, if you please.'

"To which Mr. Perrin replied: 'Why, if it pleases the court, I have repeated the Lord's Prayer, I suppose, a thousand times, and the Lord has never rebuked

me.'

Caught at Last. A newly elected sheriff was inducted into office in Florida on January 1, 1913, and appointed as his deputy a man who was unfamiliar with legal phrases. He handed to the deputy a writ of fieri facias, and asked him if he knew that man. The Deputy said: "Why, certainly I know him," and the sheriff told the deputy to bring him in. The deputy left and was back in about an hour with a struggling, disordered, and almost disrobed Cuban, and he threw him on the floor and exclaimed: "There he is; he denies that is his name, but I have known him for years."

A Suicidal Act. Can a cow commit suicide? A farmer in Farnham, in Surrey, brought suit against Cody, the aviator, who renounced his American citizen

ship in order to accept a position in the British military aviation corps, to find out about this. He asserted that Captain Cody in one of his aviation flights came down on top of his good cow. The cow was killed, and the farmer demanded $100.

Captain Cody asserted that the cow committed suicide. She rushed at his monoplane as he descended, and thereby lost her life.

The judge did not quite see Captain Cody's argument. He held that an aeroplane was a dangerous machine, and while the captain himself was not guilty of negligence, in the case of the unfortunate cow he must pay $90 damages for her lamented end.

Constructively Present. Having a little fun with the justices of the supreme court at a recent dinner, Counselor Wilson C. Tipple told a story of how some decisions are rendered. He related the case of a North Carolina justice who had just been elected to the bench.

This justice, said Mr. Tipple, had the partition between the two front rooms of his home removed, and here he was to hold court. His first case was before him and the evidence was all in. The attorney for the prosecution announced that he was ready to sum up and that it would take him about one hour. The attorney for the defense said that it would require an hour and fifteen minutes for him to properly present his side of the case.

"His Worship"-Mr. Tipple said they called a judge "Your Worship" down in that neck of the woods-scratched his head in thought for a moment, and then wrote a few lines on a slip of paper, which he carefully placed under a book on his desk. He then addressed the attorneys:

"You gentlemen can have this room. to talk in as long as you like, and when you are all through you can look at this piece of paper under this book; there you will find my decision all written out. I'm going out in the fields and get in some hay."-Brooklyn Eagle.

Would Catch Murderer by Frown. view of the fact that there were

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murders in New York city during 1909 and 1910, for which only forty-nine persons were convicted, Sheriff Julius Harburger was puzzled as well as amused by the receipt yesterday of the following letter from a justice of the peace in Alabama:

Dear Sir: I am informed that there is a man wanted in New York for murder committed two or three years ago, and there is $2,000 reward for same. Information is that he is a foreigner about 5 feet or 5 feet, 6 inches, and wears a frown on his face. If this be true, please inform me on inclosed postal card.

Wanted to See It. Several prominent attorneys were discussing the peculiar and rather humorous questions put to witnesses by young attorneys entering upon their legal work, and one of the number vouched for the authenticity of this incident:

"I went up to the superior civil court one day to hear a young friend of mine try his first case. All his relatives and friends were there, and the novice wore a most serious expression as he started to question a witness. He did nicely until he asked the man:

"Did you have a contract with the plaintiff ?'

"'Yes,' replied witness.

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'What kind of a contract was it?' "'An oral one,' replied the witness. "Will you please produce it?'

"The witness stood still staring at the attorney, and then looked at the judge, inquiringly. There was a ripple of laughter throughout the court room, but still the young attorney did not 'catch on,' and, looking toward the judge, remarked:

"'Your Honor, I ask you to give the witness until 2 o'clock to produce that contract.'

"The court could not longer withhold, and joined in the laughter. Then the young lawyer saw his mistake, and with reddened face also had a good laugh."

License to Steal. "My first case," said a well-known attorney to a San Francisco Call reporter, "was the defense of a negro preacher in Missouri, who had been arrested for stealing wood from a

railroad company. A great deal of fuel had been lost from time to time, so when the culprit was arrested the company was so anxious to make an example of him that it employed special counsel and prosecuted the case vigorously. The evidence against the old man was convincing. He had been sneaking around the wood pile and was arrested while carrying off a load.

"I had subpœnæd about twenty wellknown business men to testify to the previous good character of the defendant. When the prosecution's case was closed I put one on the stand and asked:

"Do you know the defendant's reputation for honesty and integrity?' "Yes,' was the answer. "What is it-good or bad?' "Bad. He will steal anything he can get his hands on.'

"A titter ran through the court room. It wasn't the answer I had expected, but it was too late, so I put on a bold front and called another. He testified as the other witnesses had, and the prosecuting attorney rubbed his hands with satisfaction. Before I got through with my witnesses I proved that my client was a notorious thief, who had never been known to neglect an opportunity to steal something, no matter how trifling it might be. Then I called a couple of physicians, proved the existence of a mental disorder known as kleptomania, read some authorities to show that it was a good defense if proven, and submitted The old preacher was my case. quitted and thereafter stole with impunity, for he considered his acquittal in the face of the facts equivalent to a license to steal."

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Why Lawyers Are Called Attorneys. In the time of our Saxon ancestors, the free men in every shire met twice a year, under the presidency of the shire-reeve, or sheriff, and this meeting was called. the "sheriff's torn." By degrees, the freemen declined giving their personal attendance, and a freeman who did attend carried with him the proxies of such of his friends as could not appear. He who actually went to the sheriff's torn was said, according to the old Saxon, to

go "at the torn," and thence came the word "attorney," which signified one that went to the torn for others, carrying with him a power to act or vote for those who employed him. The distinction between attorney and solicitor arises from the latter practising in a court of equity, and the former only in a court of law.

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Giving Himself Away. William Burns, congratulated on his success in capturing the Musica family of defaulters, said to a New York reporter:

"It is all a matter of observation and analysis. To the good detective every slightest action speaks volumes.

"I, for example, was once looking for a widower. But the man I had under surveillance stoutly declared himself to be a bachelor. One morning, however, I saw him pay a bill-and in doing so he turned his back to everybody in the room before taking out his pocketbook.

"Instantly I laid my hand on his shoul

der.

"Come with me,' I said. 'You are no bachelor. You are a widower or a married man.'

Frontier Justice Vagaries. The frontier town depicted by Bernard Shaw in "Blanco Posnet" is as mad and unplausible as one can well imagine, but it is matched in madness by the Biggar district in western Saskatchewan, where recently a hanging sentence for "piracy on the high seas" was changed to a sentence of $2 and costs. The Regina Leader gives the story.

A man took his neighbor's boat, rowed out in a small lake, and shot some wild ducks, then he returned to the landing place and moored the boat as before. The owner had him arrested, and the justice of the peace, after long study of the Criminal Code, made the charge "piracy on the high seas."

This was satisfactory to everybody until it was disclosed that the punishment was hanging. The J. P. stood pat, and was about to pass sentence when the mounted police persuaded him to change. the charge to theft and impose the penalty of $2 and costs.

Principal and Agent.

"Frauds of Agents."-34 Australian Law Times, 61.

Psychology.

See also Criminal Law; Evidence; Insanity; Witnesses.

"The Value of Psychology to the Lawyer." -19 Case and Comment, 795.

"Psychology and the Law."-19 Case and Comment, 817.

"Application of Psychology to Law"-19 Case and Comment, 835.

"Form Blindness, or Psychology of Sight in Relation to Legal Procedure."-19 Case and Comment, 800.

"A Psycho-Legal Discovery."-19 Case and Comment, 808.

"Sufficient Motives in Human Behavior and a Corollary."-19 Case and Comment, 813. Sale.

"Sales of Goods Statutes in New York."13 Columbia Law Review, 389. Statutes.

ation of the able and beloved Archbishop Blenck, Charles I. Denechaud has always stood firm against the obtrusion of indecency and vice, whether it be in the censorship of objectionable moving pictures, the suppression of indecent literature, or the enforcement of the laws restricting the liquor traffic. His influence has been all the more potential because of his prominence in Catholic societies. He was district deputy of the Knights of Columbus from 1904 to 1907 and president of the Federation of Catholic Societies of Louisiana from 1908 to 1912, the Louisiana Society having a membership of 14,000. In 1912 he was elected president of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, which secular statistical works, such as the World Almanac for 1913, accord a membership of over three million. Mr.

of the Crescent City. As an active member of the Progressive Union and other commercial bodies he has always been in the front rank in promoting the commercial progress of his native city.

It is as a distinguished layman of the Catholic church that Mr. Denechaud's influence has been most important in New Orleans. With the powerful co-oper