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“Resourcefulness in a lawyer m
the actual trial of a case is as neces
sary as the same quality in a gener
al on a battlefield," said Representa
tive Champ Clark to a Washington
Evening Star reporter, “X saw ray
old law partner, ex-Lieutenant Gov
David A. Ball, gain a* slander case
once under difficult circumstances—
as it were, snatch viotory frot^ the
jaws of defeat—by a happy exercise
of that wondrous common sense with
which he is so lavishly endowed, and
without which in any man all other
gifts are only vanity and vexation of
“Ball had for a client a wizen-
faced, shambling, wild-eyed old tie
ohopper named Sara Barnes, slim as
a racer and short of stature. A fgt,
stocky 200 pounder, named Zach
Boothe had accused Barnes of steal
ing his bacon,and hud forced Barnes
Tn his owh cabin, in the presence of
his wife and children, to hold out
his foot for measurement to see if it
would fit oertaiu suspicions tracks.
“Barnes was poor as Job’s turkey;
but Ball is a sort of heaven-appoint
ed attorney general for the poor.
They are always with him> both in
court and at the polls. Consequent
ly, Barnes went to Ball with his
bleeding heart and shattered repu
tation straight as a bird could fly.
Suit was promptly instituted against
Boothe. The case oarne up for trial
and poor Barnes began to b . wl up
as usual. Ball unceremoniously jail
ed him in his back office for three
days, leading him to court by the
ear ns a policeman would a prisoner
—but he kept him sober until vioto
ry perched upon thaj|r banner.
“On the witness* stand Boothe
swore that the reason he knew that
Barnes stole the meat was that the
thief entered the smoke house
through a window sixteen by ten
inches, where two 8x10 panes had
been broken out, and that Barnes
was tne only man in the neighbor
hood small enough to get through
that hole.
“The jury scowled on Barnes and
smiled on Boothe,and Boothe beam
ed oleaginously on everybody. He
metaphorically patted himself on
the back ns a sure winner. But a
change came over the spirit of his
dream very suddenly. Ball had
Xieard that ho was going to swear
that way, was loaded for him and
was laying for him.
“While Boothe was in the midst
of his self-oongratulatory grinning,
Ball yanked a window sash 10x16
frdrn under the table, and before
Boothe, the court or anybody else
knew what he was up to, he had
S ed that sash over Boothe’s
, and it dropped over his broad
shoulders and rotund ‘abdomen with
fat oapon lined’ to the floor,
(“Then he asked a juryman, who
wa9 G feet 4 inches high, to stand
up, and he passed him through that
sash: The demonstration was com
plete and his triumph assured. He
had furnished the jury what Othello
demanded of Iago—‘the ocular
proof.’ The jury caught on and
transferred their smiles to Barnes
and their boo wls to B oo the. All the
sheriffs ever oommisBined couldn’t
have kept that crowd from oheering,
and Barnes was awarded substantial
damages.”
The Power of Thought.
The west shore of the Hudson
river, just above the Highlands,
seems to have been a favorite re
sort for mastddons. Three skele
tons were dug up from the swamps
of Orange county several years ago,
and another has just, been discov
ered hear Newburgh. The bones of
the latter were scattered over an
area of 1,000 square feet, at depths
varying from two to eight feet,
whereas the others were found close
together where the gigantio animals
had perished.
February Wornanjs Homo Companion.
Beware of what you think, for
what you think, quite as much as
what you do, raoldd your character.
Wrong acts persisted in will wreck
your life, but wrong thoughts have
just as sure an effect, it not infre
quently happens that people who
live fairly good lives, so far as their
actions go, do not feel it necessary
to set so close a guard on their
thoughts, These are hidden, and of
wbat harm is it to occasionally cher
ish a vulgar thought if one does not
ailow it tojjesoape [into action? Of
what harm to hate if one does not
show it? To imagine one’s self
committing wrong acts if one doeB
not actually commit them? But the
laws of life Bay that every thought
affects the whole being, As a man’s
heart is, so will he be.
Evil thoughts gradually under
mine the character, and some day
these thoughts will burst into action
which is irremediable. Therefore,
look w611 to your thoughts; keep
your mind swept and garnished.
And more than that, make the fnr-
niture of it beautiful and true; for if
bad thoughts persisted in ruin a
character, so the best of characteris
tics may bo cultivated by keeping
the mind constantly on good things.
Very often one is called upon to
aot in an emergency, and then one
aots along the line of one’s previous
thought. No act is spontaneous;
the seeds of it have been for a long
time taking root in the brain. Of
two men who have lived praottaally
the same liveB outwardly, and are
suddenly called upon to face a dan
ger, one may play JJthe coward and
the other rise to heroic effort. The
cause of this difference is no matter
of chance. Little by little the mo
tor- traots of the brain of one have
been weakened by wrong thinking;
little by little the brain of the other
has been strengthened because he
thought bravely. WJjen tlje strain
comes, one unconsciously aots along
the line of least resistance. Ii is
then that the hidden thoughts tell.
We should see to it that we think
heroioly, think purely, think charit
ably. Then in action we will find
ourselves doing the brave thing; we
will aot cleanly and sanely; we will
be kind and helpful.
Butler and the Butcher.
of
of
Massachusetts
the late. Gen.
butcher, who
Dislocated Her Shoulder.
Mrs. Johanna Soderholru, of
^Fergus Falls, Minn., fell and dis
located her shoulder. She had a
surgeon get it baok in place as
soon as possible, but it was quite
sore and pained her very muoh.
Her son mentioned; that he had
seen Chamberlain’s Pain Balm ad
vertised for sprains and soreness,
and she asked him to buy her a
bottle of it, which he did. It
quickly relieved her and enabled
her to sleep which she had not
done for several days. The son
was so much pleased with the re
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Judge Powers
tells an aneodote
Ben Butler and a
thought he was Bhrewd'enough to
get ahead of that shrewd lawyer,
says the Washington Post.
“General,” inquired this butcher,
“if my dog should snatch a piece of
meat from the stall of another
butcher, would I be liable for the
damage?”
“Certainly,” answered the great
legal light.
* ! But if that butcher had put the
meat down at the doorstep of my
neighbor’s house, and my dog
snatched it from there, would I still
be liable for damages?”
“Certainly,” replied the general
again.
“Then you will please pay me $5
for the meat which your dog has
just snatched from the doorstep of
one of your neighbors, where I had
left it.”
“Wait a minute,” rejoined Gen.
Butler. “I owe you $5 for the meat
my dog has snatohed away. But you
have just had legal a<|vice from me,
for which I charge ypu $10. The
balance due from you is, therefore,
exactly $6.”
Miss Roosevelt, daughter of the
President, recently had made for
herself in New York an “exclusive
model” gown of white cloth trim
med with Russiaiflaoe. The other
afternoon she attended a tea in
Washington and wore the costume.
There she met 5 other young women
eash of whom had on a gown the
exact duplicate of her own, and each
of which had ;been guaranteed an
“exclusive model.”—-Ex.
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Questions Never Answered,
Hair of the head grows faster in
summer than in winter.
Macon Telegraph.
\Some of our northern exchanges
of an independent turn of mind are
asking the administration some very
troublesome questions. Negroes are
insisting that they are entitled to
commissions in the army and, ac
cording to the Washington Post, in
pursuance of their fight for recogni
tion in this direction, “are now at
tacking the president, the secretary
of war, the adjutant-general, Mr.
Hull, the chairman of the house
military committee, and heaven
knows how many more besides.”
And under the circumstances who
can, wonder? If they are fit to be
collectors at such important ports as
Charleston, “why,” asks the Post,
“should they not ' be officers in the
army, or, for that matter, in the na
vy also?”
President Roosevelt, according to
the Philadelphia Record, “cannot
break through the thick wall of race
prejudice that surrounds the array.
It is the same with the navy. The
president cannot appoint a colored
youth a cadet at the Annapolis Na
val Academy, and thus ^afford him
the opportunity to rise to the rank
of admiral without giving deadly
offense to the spirit of caste. . . .
While trampling on the race preju
dices of the south lot President
Roosevelt conquer his own,or at least
have sufficient courage of his opin
ions to ride his colored hobby the
full length. He and his republican
supporters in congress have the ap
pointment of numerous officers in
the army and navy, and in the se
lection of these officers they can
signalize their superiority to the
narrow prejudice of race which they
affect so much to despise in other
people. Have not the negroes the
same political and social right to
share in the offices of rank and dis
tinction in the military and naval
pfmee that they have to share the
collectorBhips and the postraaster-
shipH in the south?”
Such questions no doubt greatly
interest tlie administration officials,
aud particularly the highest one of
all, but, being most inoonvenient
and annoying, they are passed over
in discreet silence by those who ride
the “colored hobby” in the south
with such a brave show of single-
heartedness and righteous zeal.
A snowflake, like a hailstone, is
formed on a particle of dust in the
upper atmosphere. It begins its ca
reer at the top of a cloud, many
miles above the earth, and passes in
its downward course through many
atmospheric strata, differing in their
temperature and the quantity of
moisture they contain. In a strat
um of warmer air it catcheB mois
ture and when it enters a colder
stratum below the moisture is fro
zen, and so the flake grows until it
reaches the earth. In a thawing air
many flakes come together, forming
larger ones.
JJThe New York World says: “What
could Mr.JHanna have meant by say
ing that ‘Ohio is an incubator of
Presidents and the industry still
thrives?’ Mr. Hanna will himself be
71 years old in 1908, and there are
many possibilities between now and
then. Is a dark horse being groom
ed for the Presidential sweepstakes,
or is the entry list for 1904, in Mr.
Hanna’s opinion, still open?”
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To economize time in memorizing
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that is, entirely through each time.
Tests made in psychological labora
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longer.
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