The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-05-16
Admittance to the Bar.


lowing account of an attempt of lady
to gain admission to the bar in Wash
ington. The story is told in that wicked
paper, the Capital, which all Washing
tenians blaspheme against and then
1t proceedeth thusly:
Last Monday Mrs. Belva Lockwood
put III an appearance at the Court of
Claims. She had in her hand that alb
struse authority called every Man
His Own Lawyer" and was leaning
confidingly on the arm of Col. A. A.
Hosmer, who moved her admission to
the bar. Chief Justice Drake remarked
that she was duck of a lawyer, but
that the rule of the court required the
applicant for admission to be +: First, a
man second, of good moral character,
and from personal observation of prac-
titioners about him, he had found that
attention had chiefly been directed to
securing a compliance with the first
requisite of the rule; that, although
Mr.. Lockwood was then at home wash
ing the children, it being wash day,
was to the court priDla facia proof that
she was the better man of the two, yet
it would not establish for her even mas
cullne equality outside of the domestic
circle. Mrs. Lockwood had recourse
to her pocket and brought forth bot
tie of salts and a paper, being 4 certiti
cate of character. Whereupon the
Chief Justice, with characteristic gal
lantry, said, "Belva, dear, the lovely
face which l behold. refulgent with the
sunshine of intelligence, blended SO
Ialicota1x, with tho hoautif,,1 cboJao Of
blushing modesty, is an estoppel to any
inquiry on that point" Then grutfiy
to the clerk, who had taken the liberty
of smiling, which every American citi-
zen, except government clerk, can do
with impunity at all times and every
where except at his own funeral, eve
will decide this tomorrow" On the
morrow Mrs. Lockwood appeared, look
ing very much like skirmish line with
feeble support on her right being Pro-
fessor j. Hamilton Knox Wilcox; on
her left Mr.. Lockwood, who had just
finished rinsing out the children and
hanging them up on the clothes line in
the back yard TO dry Suspense hung
like IA threatening cloud over the court
room until the Chief Justice announced
that the Court wanted further time to
consider. Mrs. Lockwood retired ma
iestically. Mr.. Lockwood followed as
meekly as prince oonsort.
How Teacher Stopped Train.
The Albany Argus says there was an
occurrence on the Harlem extension
railroad recently that is worth recount
ing. About nine in the morning of
the day serious collision-a collision
between a girl and train of cars-was
avoided in a very singular and daring
way. The girl is a school teacher, and
she was on her way to school The
train was from Chatham, on its way to
| Rutland. Both met on the trestle-
work near Brainard Station. The girl
stood still, while the alarmed engineer
whistled down brakes, and managed to
| stop the train only when his engine was
within ten feet of the obstruction. The
trestle-work is thirty-six feet high, and
bears only one course of ties and only
one track:
" What do you mean-do you want
to be killed ? inquired the engineer.
" No" said the girl, 81 am going to
school.
"Well, go back until the train crosses
the trestle, said the engineer.
-" can't, " said the girl, I'm late. .
Step aside, then"
She stepped aside, outside the track
and on the edge of the ties. But the
space was too narrow the engine's
wheels could not clear her expanded
skirts. Her next plan was to sit down,
with her legs dangling beneath the
ties, but thus the hoops spread all the
wider Provoking delay for the engi-
neer, humiliating posture and failure
for the school ma am
Hold on, said she, "I'll fix it; !"
and then, gathering up her legs and her
skirts, she stretched herself at full
length upon the outer edge of the ties,
seized underneath with one hand the
string piece to which the rail is spiked,
and coolly babe the train pass on. In
a minute the train passed over the
prostate form without a jar or jolt, and
the next instant the girl was on her
feet, Fastening toward her expect
ant pupils, before whom she was de
termined to be con time" though she
disarranged a dozen railroad time
! fables