The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-03-24
The Young Lawyer.

The tie which bound certain Detroit
youth to q lawyers office was severed
yesterday, and bis parents were happy.
They wanted the boy to make great
lawyer, but he was getting along too
fast. He pursued his studies with an
ardor which cast q judicial shadow DER
the household and created considerable
neighborhood talk. lie got trusted for
candy and repudiated the bill on the
ground that he was a minor. lie
bought dog and went into bankruptcy.
He borrowed pair of skates aud detied
the owner to get out writ OF replevln.
lie borrowed fifty cents and then made
the lender his assignee.
But the worst OF it was i'm the family.
He had legal name for almost every
thing, and his desire was to prove to his
parents that he was just absorbing dead
loads of law. If he wanted a potato at
dinner-table he would remark:
ttFather, file my claim against that
baked potato and Pll prove the indebt-
edness tins afternoon"
If he wanted bread he said: Mother,
get me out writ Of attachment for a
piece OF bresad.''
It was expected of him that he would
build the morning fires, but no sooner
had he gained an insight into law than
he said to his father:
tsl'm going to move for change of
venue unless some other arrangement is
made.''
He moved fora stay of proceedings
when asked to go to the grocery, and if
chided for being out nights he replied !:
"File your declaration and give me a
chance for a jury trial.
When he was in goood humor he
would sit and regale his mother with
stories about how Old Chancery was
going mp town one night and met Old
Equity and asked him how Decree was
getting along. Old Pleadings and Ex-
ceptions came along just then, and there
was big fight, and the young lawyer
would slap his leg and add:
eff Indictment had only been there
he'd have whaled the whole crowd!''
The other day the long suffering
father severed the tie. He was trying
to bear up, hoping for reform, but as he
sat down to the tea-table his stn bright
ened up and remarked:
HThe defendant will now take the
stand and he sworn. Now sir, did you
or did you not come out of Griswold
street saloon at Ii o'clock this morning.
wiping your mouth on the back of your
hand? Tell the jury all about it, sir!''
1t was little too much, and the boy
doesn't study law any more. lie plays
with a wood-p pile III the back yard.
STREET.-THE SALVATION oFTHE FARM
-"Horses have ruined the farm and
sheep must save 1t, said practical and
thoughtful farmer to us recently; and
the remark has in it great deal OF wis
dom. However much we may prize
the horse tor his valuable service to man,
all sensible persons must admit that the
breeding of horses has in the few past
years assumed undue proportions, which
has not brought corresponding profitable
returns to the farmer, at least. Now,
sheep husbandry is s"profitable to direct" !"
There are no losses aud few risks TO be
met with in the business. Early lambs,
fat wethers, wool and pclts, always
bring good prices at market. Be-
sides, >heep bring up the condition of
the farm, and as the old adage has it,
turn the earth to gold wherever their
footprints are found. Nothing is so
good to counteract the effects of too
much horse, as course of sheep llus-
bandry, well-selected and judiciously
followed. We are not sure but our
practical friend was not more than halt
right when he said sheep were to be
the salvation of our farms and the res
toration of our farming to safe basis !;
and if more could realize and follow it,
we verify believe larger share OF pros
perity in farming would be the result.