Evening journal., 1897-12-16

yer is paying more attention to his
wife than he is to her, and then there's
trouble ahead. Further than that, a
girl office boy las neither tact nor dis
cretion. She is Just as likely to tell
client that the boss mas gone to Phila-
delphia to see a baseball game as she is |
to tell him that he is up there before |
Judge Dallas arguing a 100000 case (
IN the United States District Court Of |
Appeals. To be the right sort of an
office boy you must always bear in |
mind that you are the custodian OF the |
honor of your boss and the conseryator |
of his practice. That is thing girl !
Office boy never learns. / heard one |
of them, the other day, tell man that
her boss had gone to the Hotel Jen-
nings to see about a license. Now, that
was a dead give-away which would
never be tolerated for an instant in a
first-class law office.
/ want to be a lawyer. It's a bully
business. In the Spring the weather
just paralyzes a lawyer, and the judges
feel the same way. Things go along
nice and easy-like until Summer. Then
the judges and lawyers almost work
themselves to death getting ready to
leave town. Some Of them go to Eu-
Mediterranean particularly conducive
to health. Others go over to England
to see the ruins and other things they
read about when they were cramming
English history for their preliminary
examinations. Some have cottages up
on the New England coast; others
tramp through the woods of Maine
| looking for the tracks Of Mr Addicks
and deer and moose and other big
game. Others go to the Canadian
lakes and Nova Scotia. Some take
to the mountains. Others go to
the seashore and not few have beau
tiful rural homes, where they play at
raising onions and radishes, and plant
lettuce and cuss the English sparrows
for eating it. Some feel so Overwork-
ed that they so to New Bedford, White
Sulphur Springs and the St. Lawrence.
| EverybOdy's health is run down and
must be built up or God save the state
and our honorable court. Nobody Is
left at home to hold down the boards
but the office-boys and clients, and
they are too poor to get away. Even
the girl office boys get out and pose
for a brief season as genuine Summer
girls. / tell you, l want TO be law
yer. There's nobody else on earth has
a better time, unless, possibly, 1t is q
Judge and what is judge but law
yer who had the brains and backing to
get there?
SO Summer passes, and by the time
the judges and lawyers are home and
ready for work the football season
opens. 1t seems to me that the Evil
One sits up at night creating inven-
tions to distract lawyers attention
from the business and interests of his
clients. Just as soon as the football
season opens the bench and the bar are
split up into as many factions as there
, are colleges in the country. Feeling
runs higher than it did in the darl
, days of 81, and it seems to me tha
the man who has only been to colleg'
few months or who merely saw il
: from the car window once or twice, il
the most bitter and uncompromisinl
: champion of the college football team
!. There are Delaware College men, Yal
j, men, Harvard men, Princeton men
l l Lafayette men, U. Of p. men, Cornel
y men, Indian School men, Haverfor'
Y men, SwarthmOre men, High Schoo
!; men and Warren men. All the offic
= boy is expected to do is to wear tn
u colors of his bOsss college and whoO
IL up loI lnt ltdll uuilnE lnD VIM
n season. While football lasts ther
9 isn't any business done. Who in tn
: world can do good work while the ia
of the boss college is frying on tn
g gridiron? You don't hear anything i
d a law office but goals and touch
r. downs; kick and tackle; Minds an
d Hudson; Jackson and Reinhart, Fatt
If Green and the other fellows, unit
Le about the middle of November TIL
le Judges do.T wear their college color
.e but they would if it wasn't for tn
Is looks Of things. They just let on thi
e. they are above the struggle and th
et strife, but / noticed this last mont
"a that when a particularly interestin
a game was to be played in Philadelphi
re none of the lawyers seemed inclined
lie load down the judges with busine.
De just before train time.
N After the football season comes to a
r end the civil work of the Novemb'
10 term of court begins. It looks {
40 though the lawyer would have to go
M work for he has a whole lot Of cas-
70 on the docket. But the social al
IA skating season is coming on and Il
N lawyer goes over to the court az
II, says:
10 "If it please your honors, I'll try OF
5e of these cases and continue the 9th
~ / twenty-fOur as they are settled or
~ process Of settlement"
y, And the chief justice says
i, "They must be disposed of. TIL
n court is here for business. You doI
= want them placed on the calendar?'
20 mo, if it please your honor" {
s lawyer says, Il think we can fix it ;
~ up without bothering the court, f
~ there seems to be a disposition on {
'iss part of my learned colleague to
1n more reasonable. BY the way j wou
55r like to have a special jury in that ca
ne of mine which is set for trial-No A.
. to the May term"
au Then he comes back TO his Office a
uy next day he goes before the col
no again and withdraws his applicati
lt- for a special jury. on the day folio
's- ing he presents an affidavit showi
'o- that material witnesses are sick
Of have been spirited away by the 9th
ID side and gets that case continued un
an the next term. Then he is happy.
sees the other lawyer and says: "B
an lcts~ f,y fbfc matter I'M without "A