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C0unsels' Fees In England.

Let us suppose that Queens Coun-
sci, in the front rank of his profession,
is retained in o case where his powers
of advocacy are. in all likelihood, err
roneously regarded as essential. He
has 100 guineas on his brief; but he is
somewhere else when the case comes
on, and his place is supplied by his ju-
nior. The question, on which Boswell
and DIR. johnson would have disputed
for hours, is whether the absent leader
is bound to give back his retainer. The
Attorney General says that he should
only keep such part OF the brief-fee as
he would have charged for an opinion
on the case, deducting whatever he
regarded as payment for coming into
court. "barrister of sixteen years
standing" whose tone may be best de-
scribed by Mr.. Carlyle's favorite cpl.
tibet of "high-sniffing," lays down very
peculiar criterion. Never so runs
his maxim for barristers, never retain
fee which, in the opinion of your
client, has not been earned This, il
taken illegally, would carry one very
far, and he who adopted the rule
might truly be called counsel of per-
lection. 1t is to be feared that no
counsel who lost verdict would then
be paid anything at all-but that is
detail. What is gain to the conscious
ness of rectitude, or the desire OF
guineas to the love of virtue? Per-
haps, however, the solicitors, like the
assassins, might be asked to begin.
They, too. in their turn, have clients
who sometimes object or omit to pay.
If man thinks that solicitor has not
done his case justice, why should the
solicitor retain what in the opinion oil
the client he has not earned? We dc
not advise any dissatisfied litigant to
try the experiment of Withholding pay
ment. He would find that, where their
own interests are touched, solicitors
have more eflicac;ous remedies than
writing to the Times.
As for the evil complained of, the
remedy, as in so many other instances,
is in the hands of the public. If the
rate-payers of this metropolis object to
the extravaganza of the London School
Board, they must, as Mr.. Stanhope
tells them, elect more economical rep
resentatives. If suitors wish their
counsel to be on the spot when he is
wanted, they must not insist on having
counsel employed who have too much
to do already.-London Saturday Re
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

o 6or sn hour q yoathful 1oyi
"a Sy 49, Ssa 'ss @S :Tsas1ssi BOY
Thar rPtgn agrsy-esard king
on With Tho spots a wrinkIed seei
Away y,se le ...1.,. c,Swn! nan.
And dash its trophies down.
One moment lct my life bloom stream
Prom bOyh0od's f0uut OF fiamo:
Give me- oue giddy. Keeling dream
OF life. al love and fame.
WHITENING angel heard the prayer.
And calmly smiling. said:
II but touch thy silvered hair.
Thy hasty wish has sped.
But Ia there nothing in thy track
To bid thee f0ndly stay.
While the swift seasons hurry back
To lind the wishod-for dayf-
-Ah. truest soul of woman kindi
Without thee what were life2
One bliss cannot leave behind:
I'll my-precious-wifet-
The angel took sapphire pen
And wrote IN rainbow dew:
The man would be boy again.
And be husband. too.
And Is there nothing yet unsaid
Before the change appears
Remember all their gifts have fed
With those dissolvng years"
why. yes for memory would recall
My fond parental joys<
Il could not bear to leave them all
HI take my girls and boys.
The smiling angel dropped his pen.
why, this will never do;
The mansw0uld be boy again
And be q father. too"
And 80 I laughed: my laughter woke
The household with its NOISE;
4 wrote my dream when morning broke
To please the gray-haired boys.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

Papa, how do nations get into war
with each other ?" asked Tommy Sea-
sonby.
Sometimes one way, sometimes an
other" said the father. @Now, there
are Germany and Spain. They came
near getting INTO war because q Span
ish mob took down the German flag"
"No, my dear" put in Mrs. Season
by, "that wasn't the reason"
But. my darling said Mr.. s.,
don't you suppose 1 know? You are
mistaken. That was the reason"
"No, dearis. you are mistaken. 1t
was because the Germans"
Mrs. Seasouby, 1 say it was be-
cause"
"Peleg, you know better. You are
only trying To-
Madame, 1 don't understand that
your opinion was asked in this matter,
anyway"
well, I don't want my boy instruct
ed by an old ignoramus.T
"See here, you impudent-"
"Put down your cane, you old brute.
Don't you dare bristle up at me, or I'll
send this rolling-pin at your head, you
old"
@Never mind" interrupted Tommy,
"I guess / know how wars begin. ~
Chicago Neaos.
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They Are All Chestnuis.

There is nothing new under the sun.
In looking over the old Greek jokes of
Aristippus, / find that John Randolph
stole one of his best witticisms from
this old cynic and pupil of Socrates.
One day pedsntic singer was boast
ing about his voice.
"But 1t don't take any brains to have
a good voice." said Aristippus.
"How is that?" asked the singer.
why, tin horn with an idiot be-
hind il can produce better music than
any singer in Greecel"
This made the singer mad, and he
twitted Aristippus with having no chill
dren.
"The gods will not permit any more
such cynics to be born while 1 have
many children" said the singer.
Eyes. You ignoramus," said Aristip-
pus, you boast of quality in which
all slaves are your equals and every
jackass your superior. '-St. Louis Re
publican.
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which Report u it-'88 or '8lS-
asked clerk with two volumes in his
hand.
And Della, scarlet and ashamed. had
to say, II don't know-it Is Mr.. Arnold's
that I want
A man at the next desk lifted his
head curiously, but Della did not see
him. IL seemed TO her that she had
gone through great deal TO secure the
doubtful pleasure Of seeing Maurice
Arnold's book, but the sight Of his
name on the blue cover moved her a
few things had done of late years. She
took it with little eager cry, and sal
down to read il.
If Miss Churchill expected literary
treat, she did not find it. 1t would
never be in Maurice Arnold's power to
make any one GLORIOUS by his pen.
But she found what was perhaps dearel
to her-little turns of expression thai
recalled the man she had loved, and
amid the technicalities that might
have deferred less earnest reader
evidences of care for the poor
creatures he had to report on, and Q
simple intention Of fulfilling his duty
that seemed to show loyal and up.
right soul.
"How could he have lied to me sc
at Beechwood? ?" thought Della, and hei
eyes filed with tears.
Talking is not allowed in the Read
ing-room, but hand was laid on hers
and the man who had looked up when
she uttered Maurice Arnold's name
whispered:
"Miss Churchilll may 1 speak to you
outsider" OF course it was Arnold him.
self, who, by one of those providences
we call lucky chance, had been at the
next table, and to whom the tears that
had fallen on his not very moving book
had been a revelation.
Della did not refuse, and under the
cold eyes of the statues in the "Gre
clan Room" the tale was told that had
so nearly been told under the beeches
of Beechwood Chase. Maurice Arnold
was not poor man now, for Miss
Macksey was dead, and after providing
for her pugs and poodles, had left him
residuary legatee. He was not afraid
of being called fortune-hunter now
and Della could hardly rise from thai
honest, well-meaning book, aud doub,
the love its author offered her.
"But who was 'Elaine?'" she asked
when all was happily settled. Anc
then, as he only stored-"I mean the
Elaine whose name you carved on the
beech-tree at Beechwood Chase"
"That?" said Maurice, with a shout
that almost made the statues wink
"Do you really care to know, Della
1t was the pug of Miss Macksey's thai
was buried under the tree. 1 promised
to put up an inscription for it, but
never got any further than Elaine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

A water-museum consists of a glass
vessels containing fish, mollusks, lar
vac, and such other creatures as will
live in the small quantity of water these
vessels hold. The great advantage that
the water-museum has over an aquar-
ium is that while the latter is bulky
and has many dark corners IN which
you can see only with difficulty, If at
all, the jars of the museum can be
easily carried about and held to the
light, so that you can readily observe
the smallest movements of your speci-
mems. Besides, In an aquarium you
can have but one kind of water at
time, either salt or fresh, and you can
keep only those specimens that will
live together peaceably; but in water
museum one may have both sorts Of
water tin different vessels), and both
marine and fresh-water specimens.
This museum, or water-cabinet, too,
tosts very little, while an aquarium is
not only expensive but troublesome.
We must first make sure of sunny
window, where the museum will be out
pf the way, and where there is room for
b small table. Then we must forage
Tor the vessels in the glassware shops,
br at the dealers in chemical apparatus.
have often been able to pick up con-
fectionery jars which got cheaply be-
cause their tops were broken, which, OF
course, made no difference to me. I
consider these the best for our purpose.
in size from four inches diameter by
six in height to seven inches in diam
eter and nine in height. The jars must
be placed on the table in the sunny
window, so that they will all get plenty
OF light, as this is necessary to most
forms of life. One or two of the larger
jars had best be used for fish, and to
make them attractive their bottoms
should be covered with clean river
sand and pebbles. or fragments of rock
IN the shape of grottoes, as the fish
like to rest on these and to eat the al
most invisible weeds that grow upon
them. OF course, all the vessels must
be filed with water and sprigs of aqpat-
10 plants, such as water-cress, Wallis
neria or duck-weed. placed in them TO
keep the water pure. Many kinds of
water insects are carnivorous, or prey
upon the weaker species. OF course,
1t won't do 10 keep these in the same
jar with their victims. To find out
which kinds agree, we can mix them in
the clear, shallow bell-glass, where we
can easily observe the peculiarities of
CACHE. IL. Claiming, IN 81. Mich
Olds.
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MUMOR.


AwL inspiring-a shoemaker.
A MAKER of men-the tailor.
A BELArED traveler--the circus joke.
Hen words are often followed bv
low Language. - Carl Pretsers Weekly.
WHEN Ignorance knocks down
Genius the Damphool crowd laughs
Whitehall Times.
IT is surmised that folks who curse
their luck never had any to swear BY
BARRIERS Gazette.
A DENTIST does not always have fan
sailing. Sometimes he runs against
snag.-Teras Strings.
"SHE's not of my set" said the old
hen as she chased a strange chicken
out of the yard.-St Paul Herald.
II SUPPOSE you heard we lost our
SOM" What Is he dead" "Oh,
no; he's married. Chicago Ledger.
KING OF MEN.
When lied about, scorned and placed under
Be careful; resort not to violence;
Whose answer TO injury silence
-Boot0n Courier
IT is not the man who thumps the
bar the hardest that has the most
money to pay for his drink.-Brooklyn
Times.
WHENEVER / meet man who claims
to be so ALFRED honest, / generally
feel like asking him how many years he
served and what the charge was.-
EyansUiHe Arg1ts.
PHOTOGRAPHS can now be taken In
one one-hundredth part Of q second,
but some women can't keep their
mouths shut long enough to get good
picture.-NetDnla, Independent.
JERK a. JUMP went into business in
Portland, Oregon, and the boys made
such fun of the names that the partner
ship was dissolved in six weeks. They
ought to have Jumped out and Jerked
the bad boys crazy.-Detroit Free
Press.
A MOSQUITO In mans ear is not
pleasant thing to experience, but 1t is
better than to have his black-haired
wife find tress of golden hair tangled
in the top button of the coat which her
husband wore to the lodge last night.
Fall River Aduance.
JUPITER has been called the cham
pion planet because he wears the belt
1t seems to us, however, that there is
q standing challenge from Saturn to
contest for the belt, as the latter al
ways appears in ring costume.
tom Courier.
why, Mrs. Good, what are You
wearing mourning for? Weren't you
only married two weeks ago?" yes,
but you know Mr.. G.'s first wife has
only been dead year, and my hus-
band expects me to show proper re-
spect, you know."--Merchant Truv-
eter. te
A WRITER of advice to boys" urges
p lad, when he undertakes O piece of
work, to stick to it" until it is accom-
plished. The fly. which undertakes
to get divorce from a piece of fly
paper, generally sticks to it, but il
costs the insect its ife.-Norristown
Herald.
"O'RAFFERTY, said Judge Duffy of
the New York Police Court, "your
wife swears you struck her with great
violence" avid great violins, whin
there is devil fiddle, big or little. ON
the prameses. She exaggerates too
much entoirely. yer Honor. It was wild
me boot that rebuked her. "-Ter0s
| Suttngs.
THE time may come when politics
will mean all that is noble and good;
when small boy will break an apple
in two and give his little sister the big
gest half; when tramp will work, and
stray dog won't bite; but the day will
never dawn when a fly can tickle
drowsy mans nose without getting it.
self disliked. Chicago Ledger.
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"1s THIS my train ?" asked traveller.
II don't know, but guess not, was
the doubtful reply. Il see it's got the
name of tho railroad company on the
side, and expect it belongs to them.
Have you lost train anywhere?"
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IT is to affectation the world owes
its whole race of coxcombs. Nature,
in her whole drama, never drew such o
part; she has sometimes made fool,
but coxcomb is always of q mans own
making.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

THE Massachusetts, manufacturing
city of Lawrence has lost in popu-
lation since 1880
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her 10 deny him even the faint intangi-
BILE signs that are ~ words 10 women |;
and Maurice Arnold was Z sutton who
shrank from the fAintest semblsnce OF
repulse. He must be sure. beyond the
security Of other, men. this man who
was going to bend his proud neck TO
well-dowered Delis's yoke. Gould she
not understand that she was as prin-
cess, set aside from other women by the
burden OF her wealth. and that the
first signs of favor must come from her.
self2 Only her own hand could open
her lovers lips, II he we're to escape
the ignominy Of seeming to seek mot
love, but gold.
II he could have looked into Delia's
heart he would have known how
groundless was the fear. she was not
woman who loved or trusted by halves,
and even before there had been any
question of love between them she had
defended him from the imputation of
mercenary motives. He went down
daily to see Miss Macksey now, but
Della did not think he went for
sordid reasons, any more than she be-
lieved Coventry Smith when he laugh
ed and limited that there must be some
thing more attractive than an old aunt
in the village to account for the young
mans visits. Della listened with her
coolest snd most scornful smile, and
went out into the park, where the sun
was setting and the shadows were lying
on the grass, and where Maurice-she
had begun to call him Maurice to her
own heart now would be coming on
his way from Miss Macksey's.
At last she saw the gray coat she had
learnt to know so well moving among
the trees. and stopped and looked with
innocent surprise. He was down by
the brook, which was not the way from
the village, and it struck her that there
was something unusual in his attitude
and occupation. She stepped silently
on the soft, yielding grass, and saw
that he was cutting something on one
of the great beeches. Her name-of
course it was her name and she laugh
ed at the thought. Perhaps it was q
boyish and foolish thing to do, but no
woman very deeply censures q folly that
is committed for her sake.
She would not reveal herself, and
wandered idly among the trees. gath
ering boughs for Lady Darley's beau
pots till he had gone, and then she
walked straight to the tree he had just
left. There was name upon it, but it
was not hers, and she stood as il turned
to stone. The name he loved, the name
he had cared to carve even when she
was waiting for him, was not Delia-it
was Elainei
~And 1 thought he loved me for my
SELF" said Della, bitterly-"I have
learnt the truth in time"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

EHLER, the. mathematician, could
repeat the whole of yrgil's Azneid.
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the fact had been 1t was sufficient to
make the heading of the paragraph
attract her eye. She saw his
name no more in the paper, but
little while afterward a report
was published that was reviewed in q
scientific magazine; report that bore
Maurice Arnold's name, but that con-
cerned so limited q number of readers
that the libraries would none of it, and
Delia's anxious eyes could discern no
copy of il on the tables of her friends
Nevertheless, Miss Churchill meant to
read it. 1t could harm no one-not
even Elaine-and it would, perhaps,
still the importunate longing that was
born of the unbearable silence.
"There is book want to see," she
said to literary friend, "and they
haven't it in the library"
what is it called 2" was the not UNI
natural question; but Della was dumb.
She had not realized how impossible it
would be to name book so unlikely
for young lady's reading without
arousing curiosity as to her interest in it.
TRY the British Museum, suggested
the man of letters, as willing as every
one else to oblige the wealthy Miss
Churchill.
Having obtained ticket for the read
ing-room, Della went one morning with
a curious feeling OF agitation, such as
one might feel at meeting with long
lost friend. 1t would be like meeting
Maurice again, to read the words that
were the offspring of his brain, and her
hand shook nervously as she showed
her ticket and went into the great read
ing-room that is so we'll known to liter
airy people. Miss Churchill was not
literary, and il was all new and strange
to her, but she made her way to the
clerks at the central counter, without
wasting time in observation. She was
quite unreasonabiy agitated, and made
her request in fluttered whisper.
"Report on Mines? 2" said the clerk,
with q distinctness that sounded almost
brutal eff you will go and sit down
at that table, it will be brought to you"
She filled up the paper given her,
and made her way to an unoccuried
seat, and in the stiffness of the place
she managed to recover herself enough
TO look about her. Nearly all the read
ers were men, and quaint-looking peo-
pie many of them were. There were q
few women. chiefly with short hair, and
bad compilations, and shabby gowns.
and they looked at Delia's velvet and
furs ~ working bees might look at q
gorgeous butterfly that had strayed into
Their hives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

"Stop!" Numbered the admiral to
the waiter. "Set down that platter. -
eyes, saire,'' responded the French
man, obeying with greater reluctance
than he spoke.oou 4zsm a. tqaw r,. q.
=" Now, general, look at this and learn
a lesson" the admiral continued.
'The change out of the SIS ought to
have amounted to $1.65. You got
only 81, and gave Is cents to this ras-
cal. You never thought of the missing
half-dollar. Where do you suppose it
Isl I will show you," and he drew the
check off the plate, disclosing the coin
snugly lying underneath. "Our grim
AGING thief here would have had it safe
in his pocket by this time if left to
complete the operation"
&c assure you, sir, zat never know
-" the fellow began. nsg, Il 49,.
"Shut up" commanded the admiral,
in a tone of a sea captain shouting an
order to 81 sailor away UP the mast.
"Now observe, general thatif youlhad
stopped to count your change, and
discovered that it was short, he would
have picked up the plate, deity drawn
aside the check, and shown you that
the right amount was there"
The naval man had simply exposed
trick that is being practiced by many
walters with considerable success.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
A Georgia's Woman's Coffee.

From the Atlanta constitutional
An Atlanta lady who is an excellent
housekeeper, and whose coffee has
been praised time over time, gives the
following as the rules and regulations
for making that delightful beverage:
cit is an easy matter to have good
coffee. In the first place, the coffee
must be kept in an air tight canister,
and must be of a good quality, and be
ground as is needed. The coffee pot
must be kept scrupulously neat, and
must be kept in the sunshine, whenever
there is any sunshine. The tea-kettle
in which the water is boiled must also
be kept clean, and fresh water must be
used for making the coffee. The
amount uf coffee used must be boun-
teous, else the product will have a limp
taste and will fail to give satisfaction.
If a good supply OF crisp, freshly
ground coffee is put into a clean pot
and fresh boiling water is poured on
and the coffee is allowed to boil a.
while good coffee is the result. At our
home we make coffee extra strong, use
about a third of cup of good fresh
milk with the cream on it, and it is de-
lightful. 1t is far different from much
of the alleged coffee that combira-
tion of stinginess and carelessness
forces helpless people to drink"
The lady is right. Eternal vigilance
is the price of good coffee.
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house on the summit of a hill that
overlooked not only what had been
accomplished by human ingenuity,
buta view almost unparalleled, though
nature is so lavish with her gifts. I'M
agination can picture what took place
after the ''whir and whiz" began,
superintendent by the noble man whose
life was proving that in spite of the
ill-luck of his family it was possible to
step up and out of the roots that had
borne. them only down. ~
In the following summer, on a clear
ing in a. midst of what is yet a forest,
surrounded by huge trees, some of
them perhaps century old, stood two
men. Suddenly their hands clasped,
and with tears intermingling with
smiles Mr. Brown, a magnificent speci-
men of manhood, said: "My dear
ing point in my life. This is the very
spot where we camped; and God grant
chat the towering tree justyonder that
o'ertops all others has not put out
better growth than this humble follow-
er, who for years has sought to do His
will. / shall leave you in your new
home, proud that the little sister,
whom | had never seen till, trust,
the washing away of sin scars had
commenced is with you, your dear and
honored wife,
A, story of life can really never
end, and it may be as we'll to take our
leave just at this point as at any other
lin the sunshine which we trust may
follow them through all of life.