Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-12
Law a Jealous Mistress.

Blackstone have learned to their ad-
vantage and which great many more
have neglected to their undoin2.
Lord I1ldon gave this recipe for the
making of great lawyer, Live like
hermit and work like a horse
II jefferson Davis Hostetter, one OF
the brightest Of Pixies third generation
Of lawyers holds for naught the first
half of the lord chancellors advice and
refuses to live like a hermit, he faith
fully acts upon the latter half and
works like horse.
Eschewing politics, he wooes his jeal-
ous mistress with the ard0r Of Ro-
neo. and he succeeds admirably.
Thomas jefferson once declared that
eternal vigilance is the price Of liber-
N9 Hostetter evidently believes it is
also the price of success 1t the bar
When a chubby boy at sunday school.
he must have thoroughly assimilated
the philosophy of the quatrain:
Little drops ot water.
Little grains Of sand.
Make the bounteous ocean
And the bealteoQs and,
fsr he looks after the little things in
his profession a. Well as the big ones.
That n miss * as GOOD as nile Is
fully Illustrated in the following case:
Fine Points Of Law.
Iostetter brought suit fer Reynolds
and Rodgers on aceogat for medical
services f@r about So d -aia~t one Hen
" Robinson b, fore - ire William II.
Campbell who a;iS Justice Of IL . peace
at Bowling e.reea for forty odd years.
Tie aeeouat vas i a#caatiaueus one. but
had been permitted to run 4 long time,
and all tie items except oue#of 3 Il
were more than five years old, hence
barred by tie statute Of limitations if
pleaded. light days after suit was
fled defendant tcndered TO and deposit.
Cd in the hands Of the constable the
$40 and costs up to that time as be
ing all that he owed, tie object being
to cause all costs subseque ntly made to
be taxed against the pIant 3 in the
event they failed to recover more than
the conceded item Of $40, t. Justice
failed to recognize the legality Of de,
fenlant's plea Of the statute Of lilnita
tions and rendered judgment for plain
tiffs for the full amount sued for aud
costs
Brought Him TO Terms.
In a divorce case between parties Of
advanced years it appeared that the
couple had started in poverty. In con-
junction with his farm the husband.
frugal Gertnan had conducted pot
L. I'll nj ,1a aI Sita n hh
earlier married life the wife. by up and
down hill trips. had furnished, the Wa
ter supply Side by side they fought
the wolf away and amassed for the
husband q handsome competence. Still
the Wife'S only means of travel depend
ed on cas};a! trips of the farm wagon.
0nce when the team was htched the
cid lady prepared for transportation
Of herself and some housekeeping prod
Gcts. the sale ef which WAS her sole re-
liance for pin money. When the Old
man saw that his good Wife intended
passage. be ordered the team unlitch-
eI and the errand abandoned. The
court ruled that THIS WAS the eqlIiva-
lent of the most refined piece Of mari
old pottel strenuously denied making
any fan.ilv jars. his wife was on allied
grounds decrccd a divorce and half the
estate The result was a compromise
and reconciliation.
Judge Bacon is one of the most a gree
able aud sparkling conversationalsts
l ever met and INDUCES freely in bon
hnIlin an1 hnn1n. whom his
ntimates. think he was the author
~f the neatest pun ever heard. A year
or so ago at the Louisiana court of
common pleas somebody told Judge
Bacon that Judge Roy had eaten two
dozen Rambo apples at one sitting.
We'll, said Bacon, that is what /
would call an appleate judge
\ splendid Missourian is Hon. Thom-
as II. Bacon. we'll worth cultivating.
A Curious Country.
Hon. Asbury c. Iatimer OF South
Carolina is not only one Of the most
prominent agriculturiStS. but also one
of the best story tellers. in congress.
We were discussing the question of
personal freedom in the clOakroOm,
when Latimer chimed in with the fol-
lowing: Judge Jim Brown of Georgia,
brother to Senator Joe Brown, used to
tell this tale illustrating and illuminat-
ing the problem of individual freedom:
An lrishman who at home in the En-
erald Isle had heard good deal about
the great measure OF freedom enjoyed
by the citizens of this country and de-
string to secure those blessings for
himself and posterity came to Ameri-
ca. Shortly after his arrival he WAS