Evening journal., 1897-12-29

commencing: Fellow Citizens and
Lovers Of Liberty: Tell with the Span
iardsl" and then stops and wonders
how. that will strike the conservative
ear Of Mr. Gray. He is afraid that it
will lose him a vote and he drops it
with a sigh. Remembering that Mr.
Gray is attorney for the p W. q b.
Railroad Company, he begins a careful
study of the schedules of that system,
and soon knows the trains by num-
bers and all about the various connec-
tiOns.
Suddenly he remembers that ex-At-
torney-General John Biggs is a mem
Der of the committee. He reads ON the
history Of the DUPONT barn-burning
conspiracy; makes a careful perusal of
the debates of the Constitutional Con-
vention and diligently studies the pro-
visions of the new Constitution. Every
time he meets Mr.. Biggs on the street
he salutes him with great Difference,
and asks about the peach crop pros
poets, the June drop, San Jose scale,
peach yellOws, Hale's Early and Craw-
fords late until the examiner begins to
wonder whether or not the young man
intends to study law or go into horti-
culture on a big scale. But the candi-
date for legal honors knows what he is
about.
As he walks along the street you can
hear him muttering:
"Stella, stellae, stellae, stellam, stella,
stella, stellae, stellarum, stellis, stellas,
stellae, stellisl The harons Of England
compelled King John to sign the Mag
ma Charta on the Isle of Runnymede,
Ia1 .f,I
ished by King Henry VII"
Then he stops suddenly and clasps
his head in his hands as he thinks of
all that he has read and how little of it
he has remembered Just when he is
threatened with paresis and nervous
prostration the day for his examination
arrives. He gets out of bed looking
like a condemned murderer; eats a
breakfast of ham and eggs, says good
bye to his parents and best girl and
goes down town. Here and there he
meets a friend, and makes the cOntiden-
tial statement that he is going up for
examination. Newspaper reporters
come around and he pledges them to
secrecy if he flunks and requests a
short sketch of his life if he gets
through. Then he goes over TO the in
QUESTION. An hour later he comes out,
and tells the boys that he left the COM
mittee a good deal wiser than it was
when he went in, and that he wished to
the Lord that he had known it was so
easy, for he had read a whole lot of
useless truck, and the evenings he had
devoted to 1t might have been pleas
antly spent with his best girl. Every
body congratulates him upon his sue
/ cess. He then takes up the reading of
Blackstone's Commentaries and imme-
diately proceeds to forget all that he
learned in order to pass the prelimi-
nary examination.
Lawyers have all been through It.;
most of them have felt the great
strain of uncertainty, and nine-tenths
of them have forgotten most of the
facts and figures they learned while
cramming for their prelim.
SHE WAS MERELY A WOMAN.
| If you are walking along a crowded
1 thoroughfare on which women pre-
dominate, just notice the trend of the
/ fragments of conversation which reach
1 your ear You can do this withou1
any impropriety, for the fragments are
so short and disjointed that you can.
not possibly overhear anything which
could enlighten you regarding what il
| peculiarly someone else's business
Most of the time all that you hear 1.
And he said" "And she said" bu
eight times out of ten it is "And hs
said" On the street the pronoun o.
the first person singular, masculine
gender, is at a premium, while that o
the third person singular, feminine
1 gender is at a discount But wha
strikes the Wayfarer particularly il
the extravaganza of expression on tn
part of many women. For instance
| yesterday he was standing looking il
shop window on Market street wheI
two young women walked up and be
gan taking a survey Of the pretty arti
we're doing so they finished a conver
sation which was begun before the.
reached that point One of them said
SISTER had the Group, and we wer
all scared to deathi"
81 should think you would be" an
swered her companion. MANN,
would die if Johnny got the Group, 70
1t goes so hard with him. Isn't that
magnificent sunburst?"
| And then they moved on.
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