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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-1, Page 3a II ZETAS THE LAWYER. REV. DR. TALMAGE PAYS A HIGH TRIBUTE TO THE BAR. He Treats the Profession of Law From a. Moral it ad Religious Standpoint—Duties of the Christian Lawyer-.11Iany Tempta- tions. Washington, June 27.—Dr. Talmage's semen to -day has a special interest for lawyers, and all who expect to be " law- yers,, and all who are the friends of lawyers, His text is Titus iii, 13, "Bring •Zenas the lawyer,'-;• The profession of the law is here intro- duced; and within two days in the Capi- tal City 303 young menjoined it, and at this season in various parts of the land Ther hundreds are taking their di- plomas for that. •illustrious profession, and is it not appropriate that I address such young men from a moral and re- ligious standpoint, as upon them are now rolling the responsibilities of that calling represeuted in the text by Zenas the lawyer? We all admire the heroin and rigous side of. Paul's nature, as when he stands coolly deliberate on the deok of the corn - ship while the jack tars of the Mediter- ranean aro cowering in the cyclone; as when he stands undauned amid the mar-. blos of the palace before think necked Nero, surrounded with his 12 cruel lio- tors; as when wo .find him earning his livelihood with his own needle, sowing hairoloth and preaching tho gospel in the interstices; as when we find hila able to take the 39 lashes, every stroke of which fetched the blood, yet ebutinuing in his missionary work; as when we find him, regardless of the consequence to himself, delivering a temperance lecture to Felix, the govornnient inebriate. But some- times we catch a glimpse of the mild and genial side of Paul's nature. It seems that he had a friend who was a barrister by profession. His name was Zenas, : and he wanted to see him. Perhaps he had formed the acquaintance of this lawyer in the courtroom. Perhaps sometimes when he wanted to ask some question In regard to Roman law he went to this Zenas the lawyer. At any rate he had a warns attachment for the man,and he provides for his comfortable escort and entertainment as he writes to Titus, "Bring Zenas the lawyer." This manof my text belonged to a profession in whioh are many ardent sup- porters of Christ and the gospel, among them Blackstone, the great commentator on English law, and Wilberforce, the emancipator, and the late Benjamin F. Butler, attorney -general of New York, and tbe late Charles. Chauncey, the lead- er of the Philadelphia bar, and Chief Justices Marshall and Tenterden and Campbell and Sir Thomas More, who died for the truth on the scaffold, saying to his aghast executioner: "Pluck up courage, man, and do your duty. My neck is very short. Bo careful therefore, and do not strike awry." .A. Mighty Plea. Among the mightiest pleas that ever have been made by tongue of barrister have been pleas in behalf of the Bible and Christianity, as when Daniel Web- ster stonel in the supreme court at Wash- ington pleading in the fatuous Girard will ease, denounoing any attempt to educate the people without giving them at the same time moral sentiment as "low, *aid and vulgar deism aud. fidelity' ; e when Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey, the leader of the forum in is �_t+ Say; til,'fipci'mu Cee1,.,.�Lorzn at Prince- ton college commencement advocating the literary excellency of the Scriptures; as when Edmund Burke, in the famous trial of Warren Hastings, not only in be- half of the English government, but In behalf of elevated morals, closed his. speech in the midst' of the most august assemblage ever gathered in Westminster hall by saying: "I impeach Warren Hast- ings in the name of the House of Com- nions, whose national character he has dishonored; I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights and liberties he has subverted: I impeach him in the name of human nature, which he has disgraced. In the name of both sexes, 'and of every rank, and of every station, and of every situation in. the world, I impeach Warren Hastings." Yet, notwithstanding all the pleas which that profession has made in be- balf of God, and the church, and the gospel, and the rights of man, there has come down through the generations among inany people an absurd and wicked prejudice against it. So long ago as in the time of Oliver Cromwell it was decided that lawyers might not enter the parliament house as -members, and they were palled "sons of Zeruiah." The learned Dr. Johnson wrote an epitaph for one of them in these words:— God works wonders now and then. Here lies a lawyer, an honest matt! Two hundred years ago a treatise was issued with the title, "Doomsday Ap- proaching -With Thunder and Lightning For Lawyers." A prominent clergyman of the last century wrote in regard to that profession these words: "There is a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving, accord- ing as they are paid, by words multi- plied for the purpose that white is black and. black is white. 'For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, ho hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must hire another lawyer to defend my right, it being against ct1l rules of law that a man should speak for himself. In pleading they do not dwell upon the merits of the cause, but upon circumstances foreign thereto. For instance, they do not take the shortest method to know what title my adversary has to my cow, but whether th e, ecosy be red or black, her fl 1Yi55 len; or short, or the like. After that they adjourn the cause from time to time and in 20 years they come to an. issue. This society likewise has a peculiar cant or jargon of their own, in which all their laws are written, aocl those they take especial care to multiply, whereby they have so confounded truth and falsehood that it will take 12 years to decide whether the field left to me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to mo or to one 800 -miles off." I say these things to show you that there has been a prejudice going on down against that profession from generation to generation. I account for it on the ground that they compel men to pay debts ,that they do not want .to pay, and that they arraign criminals who want to escape the consequences of their crime, and as long as that is •so, and it always will be so, just so long there will be classes of nen who will affect at any rate to despise the legal profession. I know not how it is in other countries, but I have had long and wide acquaint- ance with men of that profession—I have found them in all my parishes, I tarried in one of their offices for three years, where there came real estate lawyers, insurance lawyers, criminal lawyers, marine law- yere—and I have yet to find a class of men more gonial ormore straightfor- ward. There are in that occupation, as in all our occupations, men utterly ob- noxious to God and man. But if I were on trial for my integrity or my life, and I wanted eon handed justice adminis- tered to me, I would rather have my case submitted to a jury of 12 lawyers than to a jury of 12 clergymen. The legal profession, I believe, has less vio- lence of prejudice than is to be found in the sacred calling. Temptations.. There is, however, no man who has more temptations or graver responsibili- ties than the barrister, and he who at- tempts to discharge the duties of his position with only earthly resources is making a very great mistake. Witness the scores of men who have in that pro- fession made eternal shipwreck. Witness the man who, • with the law of the land under their arm, have violated every statute of the eternal God. Witness the men who have argued placidly before earthly tribunals, who shall shiver in dismay before the Judge of quick and dead. Witness Lord Thurlow announc- ing his loyalty to earthly government in the sentence, "If I forget my earthly sovereign, may God forget me," and yet stooping to unaccountable • meannesses. Witness Lord Coko, the learned and the reckless. Witness Sir George McKenzie, the execrated of all Scotch Covenanters, so that until this clay, in Gray Friars' ohurobyard, Edinburgh, the children whistle through the bars of tho tomb. crying:— Bloody Mackenzie, come outif you deur. Lift the sneak and draw the bar. No other profession more needs the grace of God to deliver them in their trials, to sustain them in the disoharge of their duty. While I would have you briag the merchant to Christ, and while I would have you bring the farmer to Christ, and while I would have you bring the mechanic to Christ,I address you now in the words of Paul to Titus, "Bring Zenas the lawyer." By so much as his duties are delicate and great, by, so much does he need Christian stimulus and safeguard. We all become clients, I do not suppose there is a man 50 years of age who has been in active life who has not been afflicted with a lawsuit. Your name is assaulted, and you must have legal protection. Your boundary line is invaded, and the courts must re- establish it. Your patent is infringed upon, and you must make the offending (Manufacturer pay the penalty. Your treasures are taken, and the thief must he apprehended. You want to make your will and you do not want to follow the example of those who, for the sake of saving 8100 from an attorney, imperil 8250,000, and keep the generation for 20 years quarrelingabout the estate, until it is all exhausted. You aro struck at by an assassin, and you must invoke for him the penitentiary. All classes of persons in course of time become clients, and therefore they aro all interested in the morality and the Christian integrity of the legal profssion. "Bring Zenas the lawyer," Treatment of Clients. But how is an attorney to decide as to what are the principles by which he should conduct himself in regard to his clients? On one extreme Lord Brougham will appear, saying: "The innocence or. guilt of your client is nothing to you. You are to save your client regardless of the torment, the suffering, the destruc- tion of all others. You aro to know but one man in the world—your client. You are to save him though you should bring your country into confusion. At all haz- ards you must save your client." So says Lord Brougham. But no right minded lawyer could adopt that sentiment. On the other extreme Cicero will come to you and say, "You must never plead the cause of a bad man," forgetful of the fade that the greatest villain on earth ought to have a fair trial and that an attorney cannot be judge and advocate at the same time. It was grand when Lord Erskine sacrificed his attorney gen- eralship for the sake of defending Thomas Paine in his publication of his book called "The Rights of Man," while at the same time he, the advocate, ab- horred Thomas Paine's irreligious senti- ments. Between those two opposite theories of what is right, what shall the attorney do? God alone can direct hien. To that chancery he must be appellant, and he will get an answer in an hour. Blessed is that attorney between whose office and the throne of God there is per- petual, reverential and prayerful com- munication. That attorney will never make an irreparable mistake. True to the habits of your profession you say "Cite us some authority on the subject." Well, I quote to you the decision of the supreme court of heaven, "If any lack wisdom, let bins ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." What a scene is the office of a busy at- torney! In addition to the anon who come to you from right motives, bad men will come to you. They will offer you a large fee for counsel in the wrong direction. They want to know from you how they can escape from solemn martial obliga- tion. They Gonne to you wanting to know how they can make the insurance com- pany pay for a destroyed house which they burned down with their own hands, or they come to you on the simple errand of wanting to escape payment of their honest debts. Now, it is no easy thing to advise set- tlement, when by urging litigation you could strike a mine of remuneration. It is not a very easy thing to dampen the ardor of an inflamed contestant, when you know through a prolonged lawsuit you could get from him whatever you asked. it is no easy thing to attempt to discourage the suit for the breaking of a will in the surrogate's court because you know the testator was of sound mind andbody when he signed the document, It requires no small heroism to do as I' once heard an attorney do in an office in a western city. I overheard the con- versation when he said, "John, you can go on with this lawsuit, and I will see you through as well as I can, but I want to tell you before you start that a law- suit is equal to a fire." Under the tree• mendous temptations that comp upon the legal profession there aro scores of men who have gone clown, and some of them from being the pride of the highest tri- bunal of the state have become a disgrace to.the 'Tombs courtroom. Every attorney, in addition to the innate sense of right, wants the sustaining power of the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. "Bring. Zenas the lawyer." skepticism. There are two or three forms of temp- tation P tation to which the legal profession is especially subject: The first of all is skep- aa. arat"'"—AISINE ticism. Controversy is the lifetime busi- ness .of that occupation. Controversy may be inoidental or aooidental with us, but with you it is perpetual. You get soused to pushing the sharp question "Why? and making unaided reason superior to the emotions, that the religion of Jesus Christ, which is a siinple xnatter of faith and above human reason, although not contrary to it, has but little chance with some of you. A brilliant orator wrote a book on the first page of whioh he an- nounced this sentiment, "An honest God is the noblest work of man!" Skeptic- ism is the mightiest temptation of the legal profession, and that man who can stand in that profession, resisting all solicitations to infidelity, and can be as brave as George Briggs of Massachusetts, who stepped from the gubernatorial chair to the missionary convention, to plead the cause of a dying race;then on his way home from the convention, on a .cold day, took off his warm cloak and threw it over ' the shoulders of a thinly clad missionary,. saying, "Take that and wear it; it will do you more good than it will me," or, like Judge John MoLean„ who can step from the supreme court room of the United States on to the anniversary platform of the American Sunday School union, its most powerful orator, deserves congratulation and en- comium. Oh, men of the legal profession, let me beg of you to quit asking ques- tions in regard to religion and 'begin be !loving i The mighty men of your profession, Story and Pent and Mansfield, became Christians, not through their heads, but through their hearts. "Except ye become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God." If you do not become a Christian, 0 man of the legal profession, until you :can reason this whole thing out in regard to God and Christ and the immortality of the soul you will never become a Christian at all. Only believe, "Brim Zenas the lawyer." Sabbath P.reakinc. Another mighty temptation for the legal profession is Sabbath breaking. The trial has been going on for 10 or 15 days. The evidence is all in. Itis Satur- day night. The judge's gavel falls on the desk, and he says, "Crier, adjourn the court until 10 o'clock Monday morning." On Monday morning the counselor is to sum up the ease. Thousands of dollars, yea, the reputation and life of his olient may depend upon the success of his plea. How will he spend the intervening Sun- day? There is not one lawyer out of a hundred that can withstand the tempta- tion to break the Lord's day under snob circumstances, and yet if he does he, hurts his own soul. What, my brother, you cannot do before 12 o'clock Saturday night or after 12 o'clock Sunday night God does not want you to do at all. Be- sides that, you want the 24 hours of Sab- bath rest to give you that electrical and magnetic force which will be worth more to you before the jury than all the elaboration of your case on the sacred day. My intimate and lamented friend, the late .fudge Neilson. in his interesting reminiscences of Rufus Choate, says that during the last case that gentleman tried in New York the court adjourned from Friday until Monday on account of the illness of Mr.. Choate. But the chronicler says that on the intervening Sabbath he saw Mr. Choate in the old brick church listening to the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Springer. I do not know whether on the following clay Rufus Choate won his cause or lost it, but I do know that his Sabbathrest did not do him any harm. Every lawyer is entitled to one day's rest out of seven. If he surrenders that, he robs three -God, his own soul and his client. Lord. Castlereagh and Sir TJiomas Romil]y were the leaders of the bar in their day. They both died suicides. Wil- . berforce accounts for their aberration of intellect on the ground that they were unintermittent in their work and they never rested on Sunday. "Poor fellow 1" said Wilberforce in regard to Castlereagh; "poor fellow, it was nonobservance of the Sabbath." Chief Justice Hale says, "When I do not properly keep the Lord's day, all the rest of the week is unhappy and unsuccessful in my worldly employ- ment." I quote to -day from the highest statute book in the universe, "Remember` the Sabbath day to keep it holy." The legal gentleman who breaks that statute may seem for awhile to be advantaged, but in the long run the men who observe this law of God will have larger retainers, vaster influence, greater professional suc- cess than those men who break the statute. Observance of the law of God pays not only spiritually and eternally, but it pays in hard dollars or bank bills. Another powerful temptation of the legal profession is to artificial stimulus. No one except those who have addressed audiences knows about ' the nervous ex- haustion that sometimes comes afterward. The temptation of strong drink ap- proaches the legal profession at that very point. Then, a trial cooling on. Through the ill -ventilated courtroom the barris- ter's health has been depressed for days and for weeks. He wants to rally his en orgy. He is tempted to resort to artificial stimulus. It is either to get himself up or let himself down that this temptation comes upon him. The flower of the American bas, ruined in reputation and ruined in estate, said in his last mo- ments: "This is the end. I am dying on a borrowed bed, covered with a borrowed sheet, in a house built by public charity. Bury me under that tree in the middle of the field, that I may not be crowded. I always have been crowded." The Great Future. Another powerful temptation of the legal profession is to allow the absorb- ing duties of the.profossion to shut out thoughts of the great future. You know very well that you who have so often tried others will after awhile be put on trial yourselves. Death will serve on you a writ of ejectment, and you will be put off these earthly premises. On that day all the affairs of your life will be presented in a "bill of particulars." No certiorari from a higher court, for this is the high- est court. The day when Lord Exeter was tried for 'high treason; the day when the House of Commons inovod for the im- peachment of Lord Levet; the days when Charles I and Queen Caroline were put upon trial; the clay when Robert Emmet was arraigned as an insurgent; the day when Blennerhasset was brought into the courtroom because he had tried to over- throw the United States government, and all the other great trials of the world are nothing compared with the groat trial in which you and I shall appear, summoned before the Judge of quick and dead. • There will be no pleading there "the statute of limitations," no "turning state's evidence," trying to got off our- selves while others suffer, on "moving for a non•suit." The case will come on inexorably, and we shall be tried. You, niy brother, who have so often been ad vnoate for others, will then need an ad - THE FEN COLS MINING AND MILLING COMPANY, LIMITED LIABILITY. /�{ HEAD .OF'F'ICE: VANCOUVER, B.C. 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If any man sin, we have an ad vocate—Jesus Christ the righteous. It is uncertain when your case will be called on. "Be ye also ready." Lord. Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were leading barristers in their day. They died about the same time. A few months before their decease they happened to be In, the same hotel In a village, the one counsel going to Devonshire, the other going to London. They _ had both been seized upon by a disease which they knew would be fatal, and they requested that they, bo carried into the same room and laid down on sofas side by side that they might talk over old times • and talk over the future. So they were carried in, and lying there on opposite sofas they talked over their old contests at the bar, and when they talked of the future world, upon which they must soon enter. It was said to have been a very affecting and solemn interview between Mr. Wallace and Lord Ashburton. My subject to -day puts you side by side with those not in your profession who have departed this life, some of them skeptical and rebel- lious, some of them penitent, childlike and Christian. Those were wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, while these others went up from the courtroom of earth to the throne of eternal dominion. Through Christ the advocate these got glorious acquittal, In the other case it was a hopeless lawsuit --an unpardoned sinner versus the Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disastrous litigation! Behold, he comes! The Judge, the Judge, the clouds of heaven, the judicial ermine, the great white throne, the judicial bench, the arohangel's voice that shall wake the dead, the crier, "Como, ye blessed; de- part ye nursed!" the acquttial or the condemnation. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened." A Evorbloomiug Plant. The new hardy climbing rose now be- ing introduced under the name of Em- press of China seems to be a really valu- able novelty, It is readily established and grows very rapidly; its foliage is dense, graceful and of a rich green color. The plant begins to bloom the first sea- son, and continues to grow and bloom till after the coming of frosts, and what is especially commendable is the fact that it is perfectly hardy. The prairie roses are excellent climbers and produce beautiful flowers, but their season is only for a short period during midsummer. The climbing hybrid perpetual roses rarely make a satisfactory growth for a pillar or wall and bloom but sparingly during autumn. But here we have a climbing rose that grows almost as freely as a prairie rose, blooms continuously from spring until late in the autumn, and will endure the winter with perfect safety and be ready for serivice early in the spring, enlarging from year to year, and yielding a display of flowers throughout the season that elicits praise and admiration from all observers. The Empress of China, like other China roses, is of medium size, but the petals are rather broad and of good sub- stance, and when full blown the form is moderately full and the fragrance emit- ted is deliciously sweet. The buds are gracefully pointed and of a bright oar - mine rose color. As they develop, how- ever, they change to the beautiful rosy white whioh is so much admired in the lovely apple bloom. For the buttonhole the half open bud with a spray of the foliage is exquisite, and for a modest hand boquet the vigorous clusters of buds and flowers, with their accompanying foliage, are all that could be desired. "Grows like a morning glory and is as hardy as a grapevine," writes one enthu- siastic florist. His enthusiasm may have carried his description too far, but this new climbing rose is evidently one of more than passing merit, and deserves the attention of all who wish an ever blooming, hardy climbing rose.—Wo- man's. Rome Companion. Borneo Marriages. Tlie marriage ceremony practiced by the people of Borneo is short and sim- ple. Bride and groom are brought be- fore the assembled tribe with great so- lemnity and seated side by side. A betel nut -is then cut in two by the medicine woman of the tribe, and ono half is given to the bride and the other half to the groom, They begin to chew the nut, and then the old woman, after some sort of incantation, knocks their beads together, and they are . declared masa and wife. Tried to Catch Her. The,lawye was pressing a question urgently when she said, with fire flash- ing from her eyes: "You needn't think to catch me, sir. You tried that once before." "Madam," replied the learned one, "I haven't tho slightest desire to catch you,. and your husband looks as if he was sorry he did." LEB WHITE'S SON SAM HE WAS THE MOST CANTANKEROUS MORTAL THAT EVER LIVED. The Old Man's Tale of His Had Freaks and Mishaps—Once He Tried to "Whop His Pop" — Sad Details of Sam s Adven- ture With a Bull. "Speakin about cantankerous critters," said old Zeb White as we sat together one evening, "I reckon my son Sam, who died five y'ars ago, was about the roust. That boy bad a powerful good beam in him as a gineral thing, but thar was days when tbe devil seemed to hev possession of him. It wasn't no good to switch biro, and when he was outer sorts it wasn't no good to argy with hien. He was 15 y'ars old when I cum home from the wah, and his head was swelled up big 'nuff fur a man of fo'ty. Be finally got so that he felt like rubbin up ag'in me. I was at work in the garden one day when he minis home froni the Co'ners a-spittin right and Mt, and binioby he coins out to me and sez: " 'Pop, mehbe yo' calls yo'self the best tam on this yere mounting.' " Mebbe T do,' sez I, as I looks at him outer my left eye. " `But yo' ain't, though, and I kin prove it.' " 'Then who is?' " 'He stands right yere befo' yo', and his cognomen ar' Sam White. Dad, I'm goin to whop yo' "" 'Better go inter the house, boy, and bey yo'r mother gin yo' sum bread and butter and 'losses on it.' "But that boy had the wust kind o' well head," said the old. man, "and he was airnest in thinkin he could whop his pop. He gits nigher and nigher, and biineby he sails fur me. I knowed what was corrin, and befo' he could wink twice 1 flopped him . on his back and then whopped him till he hollered fur meroy. He lived fur two y'ars arter that,but he iidn't try that game on me no inn'. One !sty ho was down to Bristol, and thar was circus in town. We went in, and as we ,vas lookin at the animals one of the lions lies down, with his tail stiekin through the bars of. the cage. I seen Sam a-grin- nin, and I sez: " 'Young man, don't yo' go and make no fool of yo'rself with that lion t' `I'm gwine to pinch that tail,' sez he. " 'What's the use?' " 'I've heard as how they were made o' leather and had no feelin in 'em, and I'm goin to see about it.' "I didn't say nothin mo', kase I knowed Sam was bound to have his way if it bust- ed him. Be gits esus to the cage and grabs that tail and gives it a pinch and a twist and then hangs on to it with all his might. The lion jumps up with a roar fit to shako the hills, ant' in about a ininit that bull menagerie was upset and the circus folks u -pilin on to Sam. One of the older lions in the cage clawed him across the hand, a dog bit hint in the leg, and them circus folks whopped him till he didn't git outer bed fur six weeks. He was in to all jest slab scrapes as that, and the wonder was that he lived as long as he did. Tho older he growed the um' cantankerous he got, and one day the ole woman CUM to me jth tears in her eyes and sez: " 'Zeb White, Sara's a-gittin wusser and wusser all the time, and I'm almost hopin the Lawd will take . him away ' " 'Tho Lawd couldn't manage him if he did git him,' sez I. " `Diebbo ho could. Mobbe he's got a pon up thar in heaven to put Sain into red keep him till he's bin made over. I'm goin to dye my shawl black and fix up a mournin bonnet, fur that boy o' ours will be .brung home dead befo' he's a month older.' "Waal, so he was—so he was," said the old man, with a touch of pathos in his voice. "Ile was down to the Co'ners one clay to blow and brag with the crowd. a-hangin out than in them days, when a man cams ridin up on a mewl to say that Bill Clark's bull had broken out o' the field and was corrin up the road. That bull was a big 'un and hooked two bosses to death. As the man was givin the alarm the bull showed up down the road. He was pawin up the airth and inakin the heavens quake with his beller, and sioh .Is had bosses tied up was mighty spry to sot 'em loose and git '0111 away. Nobody iidn't propose to git' in the way of that bull and take chances -nobody but any son Sam. It was a chance fur him to show off, and he riz up and yelled: "'This is the day I hev bin livin furl I'll go fo'th and take that bull by the borne and flop him on his back.' "The risen tried to argy with Sam, but be was sot, and, pullin off his coat and flingin down his hat, he walked out and begins to paw and bailor, same as the bull. The oritter stops to look at him and Cur a minit or two be must hev wondered what it was. Then bis eyes began to glare and his tail stand out, and the crowd bollerod to Sam to git over the fence. He clever minded 'em, but with a roar and a beller he run in on the bull." "And what happened?" I asked, as the old man nansefi. "Jest what might hev' bin looked fur," be replied. "Sam was tossed 20 feet at the fust go off, and when that bull gat through with him thar wasn't much left to bury. A man emus up to break the news tows. I wasn't home, and he sez to the ole worn- An: " 'Mrs. White, ar' yo'r son Sam home today?' " 'He ain't,' says she. " `And do yo' know why he ain't?' " 'Not exactly, but I reckon it's kase he's sumwhar else,' 'That's right, Mrs. White—perfeokiy right and proper. Yo'r son Sam ain't acme and ain't comm home, kase he's got bizness up thar in the land a' angels and golden streets which will detain him fur rum time.' " M. Quer,. Horribly Handicapped. "The Eardcash girls have relinquished ibeir ambition to be society leaders." "Tired of it already?" "No, but they couldn't get their father And mother to say 'eyther' and'neyther.' " —Chicago Times -Herald. Parental Wisdom. "Papa, how do the people in the weather bureau And out what kind of weather we Are going to have?" 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