The Press., 1886-07-08
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
STREET CAR PHILOSOPHY.

"Do you want to see real spotter at work ?" whispered Q stout, ruddy faced surface car conductor to New York Tn- bune reporter, whom he knew, as the lat ter scrambled upon the rear platform of a crowded upward bound car yesterday af- ternoon. "Well, then, notice that dudish- looking chap in the far corner on the right hand side-the fellow with book in his hand, mean" f l...
 The reporter casually glanced in the di- rection indicated, and saw handsomely dressed, intelligeht-lookine young man, who seemed to be deeply engrossed in the contents of neatly bound copy of 'Judith Shakespeare, the pages of which he skim- med with the rapidity of veteran review CT. He had a pencil in bis hand with which he frequently wrote something on the margin, or underlined sentences that struck his fancy. There was so little of the imaginary ''spotter" about the youths makeup, that the reporter turned to the fare taker. again with half-incredulous smile, and asked him if he was not "of7' a little. <"@
 "Oh, no,' replied the conductor, mot an inch. am right on to that fellow, and have been for a week past Some of the boys found him out about eight days ago, and, of course, the word was passed quick ly along the line. Just watch for your self !; don't you see how he makes some sort of O mark with his pencil every time passenger gets on. He got on near tho city hall and will probably ride up te the stables with me, and if my register does not tally with his marks you may be sure I'll hear about it. But I am not blowing in anything for my household expenses this trip. You can't call this that he is working new dodge exactly 1; it is but another form of an old wrinkle. Sometimes they keep account of the fares by turning down the corners of the leaves of the book which they pretend to read. Then, again, they will come aboard with a certain number of peanuts in their pock- cts, and eat one for each passenger we take up, and the number left deducted from the original sum is their tally sheet It does not take us long to get on to these new devices, however, and they have to keep inventing new schemes to entrap us all the time. A few of these spoilers are really smart they can watch us, keep tally day after day, and yet we are not able to find them out. These use no outward appli- ances, however, but depend entirely upon their memories, which are excellent. One or two of them are women, understand. In my opinion it is getting harder every
 
 town. --Boston Budqet. --..- LAWYER JONES AS HIS OWN COLLECTOR.
 A case with no money in 1t is poor en- couragement for lawyer who is expected by his client to twin at all hazards" A handsome retainer is big inducement for lawyer to see his client get the big end of suit; yet there are times when hard work is done for little or no pay, according to the means and situation of the person in need of legal advice. As many kind and generous dispositions can be found in the legal fraternity as in any other profes- sion, yet the heart of lawyer is generally supposed to be tenacious and unrelentinR. Sometimes a lawyer will take case where there isn't probability of getting dollar out of 1t, and yet 1t may be made produc- tive of 8 little money as the case proceeds.
 We don't say that there wasn't small retaining fee in the case to be here related, but we do tell the story for what amuse- ment it will cause. It was in Glastonbury, no later than last week. MT. Samuel F. Jones, of this city, was counsel for a man accused by woman. Plaintiffs counsel was Mir. Goslee, a gentleman highly re- spected and a friend of MT. Jones. Dur ing the hearing of the case Mir. Jones wanted to show that the woman had re- ceived money from the defendant, and the claim was set up that she borrowed this money. The woman denied it. Then ensued the following colloquy:
 ''You took $50 from this man, didn't you ?" .
 ''Yes, sir"
 "You borrowed it ?"
 "No, sir, he handed me the money"
 Well, you took it, didn't you ?"
 "Yes, sir"
 "Is it your money or his ?"
 f'It is his money"
 "Where is it, have you used it ?' ..
 ''No, sir have it with me now"
 'sLet me see it, !" said Mir. Jones.
 The woman displayed purse and took from it roll of bills.
 t'You say this is not your money, and that you did not borrow it. If that is so you can have no objection to returning it." remarked Mr. Jones. I-. "I am willing to give it up; have no right to it." t-.r
 ''Let me count it if you please, said MT. Jones, and he reached out his hand for the money. There were two twenties and one ten. at .a -. ...
 "As this money IS not yoIlrs and you have no right to it." spoke Mir. Jones, "I'll take care of ii, and, to the dismay of plaintiffs counsel, MT. Jones folded the bills and placed them in his pocket.
 Perhaps MT. Goslee was quite as we'll paid for his services as was MT. Jones for his, but it is pretty certain that the Hart ford lawyer made prompt collection of his bill. We doubt if, among all the shrewd schemes of Mr. Jones, he ever ex- ecuted more cunning one than this T. q