The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-21
ALONG THE BYWAKS.

81 am a lawyer from western city in
Washington on business" said Mr.. Al
fred Fremont ut the Ebbitt house. II
have seen the sights on other visits and
find myself with an idle afternoon. re
call that the supreme court is in session,
the most august judicial tribunal in the
republic, whose members are the very en-
bodiment Of the majesty and dignity of
the law. / conclude to go there with
reverent feeling. hoping for a baptism of
the spirit which will inspire me to better
efforts in my profession 1 enter the cham
Der with mufFled tread. There sit their
judicial majasties in awful array in their
great high-backed. padded chairs and
most of them apparently asleep. But 1
reflect that such a position with closed
eye-ids is conducive to abstract attention
and reflection. They are bordering deeply
the arguments Of counsel. a man of age
I and dignity who has perhaps spent months
in preparing for this occasion, which to
him is the high-water mark in his pro-
fessional life. Suddenly one of the judges
rouses himself and makes some remark
TO his left. 1t is evidently irrelevant 10
the case, for both laugh and pass it down
the line TO right and left. 1t provokcs
comment and retort back and forth and
smiles and mods until the whole court is
! engaged with itself, while the poor law
/ yer, on his feet not daring to notice the
! inattention and discourtesy even by mo-
mentary break in his speech, plunges
| hopelessly on, realizing that his carefully
| prepared argument Is receiving no atten-
/ ton. When the Irrelevant subject is eX-
! hausted the judges settle back into i'm
! pressive, hgh-browed silence, which is
broken again and again as they lean over
| and talk to each other, right or left. or call
| a page, or examine Il docket. write
! note or retire to the ante-roOm. But this
! is not the worst for just as the clock
| strikes AT the very first stroke-without
| even so much as L beg pardon, or May
! | interrupt your the chief justice breaks
| in, Adjourn court in the very midst or
| the speakers sentence, and all the judges
| jump up and are off as though they were
| so many laborers in n trench throwing
| down their picks at the stroke of the
| hour. The constitution insures them their
| offices during good behavior What
| pity good behavior had not been defined
! to include courtesy and politeness toward
| the bar, whose members, appearing be-
| fore them, are officers of the court charged
with the equal duty and dignity of main
| tanning the laws and securing justice! Why
| should there be two codes of ethics or
| etiquet for the same court, one requiring
even from the most venerable practitioner
| the utmost Difference, while it permits aD-
| solutc rudeness from the court? These
men of the bench are refined gentlemen,
| observing the forms and usages of polite
| society, and how such rudeness can have
become the practice Of this great court is
! problem 20 a lawyer from the West,
| where judges are models of judicial cour-
tesy and dignity. '-Washingto Post
The latest sensation Of the day in Paris
is the result Of a novel bet made between
| two leading lights Of the fashionable
| jockey club in that city. 1t came about
in this way: During a dinner given in
honor Of the winner of the grand autumn
| races the guests began to tell stories of
fine horsemanship. An elderly officer
present said that he thought the young
| men of this generation did not ride so
well as they did in the good old days.
| This led to an animated dispute which
| ended by Max Lebaudy Offering to bet
| that he knew a lady rider that could do
| anything with "A horse that any man Of
| this or any generation had done. The old
| officer accepted the bet, stipulating that
| the lady should ride her horse into the
! banquet hall and take a fiying leap over
| the table without disturbing or touching
| the wine bottles, flowers or anything else
| on the table. Nobody dreamed that the
| bet would be accepted. 1t was done, how
| ever, and next evening when the same
| party was gathered around the festive
| board the event took place. Fhc world
| famous equestrienne, Camilla Won VAIL
| burg. mounted on her faVorite full-blOoded
! Arabian horse and attired in the regular
| riding habit, suddenly appeared in the
| door of the dtnlng-roOm. With CHEEKY
| Good evening, gentlemen" she gave the
| spur to her animal. and before the thor
| oughly surprised and amazed diners had
time TO collect their thoughts she had been
| carried over the table in the most graceful
| and approved fashion by her spirited
| horse. Not even the filled wine glasses
were Jared and Max won his bet and
| the crowd did homage to and toasted the
| dashing qucstrienne.-Loulsville Post
| Many of us remember that when Edwin
| Booth and Salvlni We're acting together in
| "Othelo" at the academy Of music in New
York. Mr.. Booth had a fall on the stage.
| Thereupon some of the malignant scanda!
mongers of the disreputable New York
| press sent broadcast the s,anderous report
that Booth was drunk. He never made
any public denial Of the accusation, but
| now i'm the letters which his daughter has
| just given to the world we find this ex-
| pIcit statement. it Is in one Of his letters
20 Edwina Booth. now Mrs Ignatius
| Grossman: Il hope you saw Bispham's
| .etter in the Tribune, which was true in
] every particular and also As kind
| note to the Post. Other papers flew to
| my rescue, and consequently / thought 1t
| best to hold my tongue or my pen, rather !
| As for the vertigo. that is exaggerated.
| | was dizzy from the effects OF dyspepsia,
/ and being jerked up from the stage by
| Saivini, who let me go before l had re-
/ gained my footing, L stumbled on my
! heels, and a rent in the carpet laid me fiat
| on my back. That was all of 1t. The same
! thing has happened TO me before--in Ham
| let once in Romeo once, and on other oc-
| casions. am very weak on my poor lit
| tie pins, and the least inequality on the
/ stage viii make me totter, as L did the
very next performance in the play scene
| Of Hamlet
| ITS an infamous thing that ones rep
| utation should be at the mercy Of a set
! of scoundrels. Detroit Free Press
do you understand French?" asked a
| prominent dry goods importer one day of
one of his bright young men. says the
| New York Herald.
NO sir was the reply
"WeI now. that is unfortunate" re-
marked the merchant as he moved away
The young man Immediately jumped to
! the conclusion that his employer was
| thinking of making him a resident buyer