The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-04-21

Six hours to sleep, In law s z ave stlldy, six,
Four spent in prayer, the rest on n ature fix
But his surroundings force our metropoli-
tan brother to live by the rule of Sir William
Jones:
''Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber ST v
en-,
Ten to the world al!ot. none TO heaven
Metropolitan law colleges are factories that
| turn out keen polished pocket knives and ra-
zor blades.
Country law Offices are factories that turn
out broad axes.
When comes the conflict between right and
wrong the broad axe is better than the pocket
| knife or razor blade, though not 50 polished
or so keen Of edge.
When truth Is TO be rescued from the will
derness of falsehood the broad axe is the weap
| on needed.
When the interests of corporations and capi-
| tai are involved, the smaller keener, more
polished blades are highly effective, but when
the lie, the liberty or the property of the citi-
zen are assailed, the broad axe is the weapon
for their defense.
When the foundations for the jurisprudence
of State are to be shaped, the broad axe is
indispensable.
As nature, in all her varied moods of storm
and sunshine, furnishes the Indian with
tropes and simles wherewith he garnishees
his rude speech to the point of touching elo-
quence, so does nature as it comes to him in
the spreadin fields, the clear skies, the un.
studied gossip of neighbor, and the shrewd
but homely speech of those among whom he
lived, give to him strength, copiousness Of
illustration, an insight into the motives and
minds of men, that enables him to touch
with master hand the chords that lead to their
hidden thoughts and move them at his will.
The law is coy maiden. She is not to be
had for the asking.
She lislikes the "sounding brass and the
tinkling cymball," and fees from wars a.
larms.
The rude jostling she meets with in the
busy metropolis, where the dollar is Deity,
makes her shrink from it, and exclaim with
Young:
"Give me, indulgent Gods! with minds serene
And guiltess heart, to range the sylvan scene
No splendid poverty, no smiling care,
No we'll bred hate, no servile grandeur
there"
The country lawyer is An American prod
uct. 1t don't flourish in Europe. The law
there is not coy maiden, but . worried and
worn old wife, married to Force, but she has
no control over the house, except when the
old man is asleep, and even then she gives her
orders with bated breath, lest it may awake
him, and drive her out of the house, as he has
SO often done.
The country lawyer can not flourish under
such q regime, for he is guard on the peo-
pies watch tower, and has has always been
first to sound the alarm when force was found
attempting to usurb the domain of law.
The country lawyer, bv years of calm study
undisturbed by smiles of fortune, years of re-
feetion, of observation and of friction against
his fellows in the every day walks of life,
gradually gains wisdom, as the bee gathers
honey. and strength. as the athlete gains it.
BY daily endeavor, until year after year IN our
Nations history, we find him coming from
the obscurlty Of his country law Office, to lead
the bar of a metropolis, to adorn the bench ot
State and Federal courts, and crystalize into
nd r:n. ,.s wisdom he gained in his coup.
try pr-.rtnr anu life, by the study of those
oks which God made-the minds, the
thoughts, the aspirations, the feelings of his
follow men with whom he was 80 long and SC
closely in touch during his years IS country
lawyer.
Life may not bring to him Is many golden
sheaves as to his metropolitan brother, but if
the intellectual part of man survives, and we
believe 1t docs, he brings to him that which he
can take with him when Chsron comes to fer
ry him over, whereas the golden sheaves, so
laboriously gathered, must bs left behind in
eternal quarantine, as infected baggage. while
he leaves to the generations that are to follow
the legacy of jurisdiction enriched BY him,
for the protection of the lite, liberty and prop
arfv of man