The Hawaiian star., 1906-03-31
Town TALK
BY The Man About Town.

mcnts off the bench. OF course mem
bers of a Supreme Court do not talk of
their cases while the cases are under
consideration and are not disposed to
discuss thsm informally at all, but
equally Of course there are moments
when dignity is aside and MEM
bers of the bar may talk at a justice
just as cat may look at king, until
the king objects In such moments, I
am given to understand. the members
OF the court have been having a hard
time to defend their decision i'm the
Motley case, wherein they held that a
member of the court may sit as a jus
tice i'm a case i'm which he was actively
engaged as counsel i'm the lower court.
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There is stiu another interesting pro-
position brought out by the disqualifi-
cation arguments. 1t was that of
Gear who was arguing ON the effect on
the legal mind of having given an OPT
nion. 1t did not always bias the legal
mind i'm favor of such opinion, he ad-
mitted, for the following reason: "A
lawyer may often try to win case.
knowing that the right is against him.
/ would like to hear a debate on whe-
ther the ethics of the legal profession
allow this rule Perhaps i'm justice it
should be added that Gear said that he
did not approve such a proposition.
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ga,,. him, ppvf He
was very sad eyed and when he spoke
his tones We're mOurnful. 1 inquired
the cause of his abandonment to the
abject "Oh nothing he replied,
nothing except that a man cannot
show any convivial predictions in this
town without getting drugged. You
see they drugged me. Yes, sir drug
ged me so that l had to go home in a
hack But" he added with an air OF
satisfaction something was the mat
ter with the drugs they gave me, for
| didn't begin to show the effects until
after have taken my fifteenth glass"
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$50 and So died the other day" |
remarked to a friend last week.
It's the only decent thing he's don
i'm the last twenty years" was the
reply Rather complete knock, 1
remarked, whereupon he rscanted. 20
WELL" he said, perhaps it is. I take
it back. Mi nisi bonum. I don't know
quite everything he's done during the
past twenty years"
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\ lady friend of mine has lately be-
come very much inter sted in carpen-
try as Ut is taught at the Normal School
and has joined the class that is taught
there twice week she has taken up
the subject with all tn ardor of the
faddist. She is also a number of a
church guild. A day or two after she
had taken her first lesson i'm carpentry,
the secretary of the guild sent postal
cards to tn. members notifying them
of a meeting on each card she wrote
Bring your mite box" The postal
card for the student of carpentry hap
pened t. be delivered at the office of
her husband by the post Office au-
thorities. He. remembering the en-
thusiasm with which his wife had des-
canted on carpentry, in a spirit of
pleasantly changed the secretary's no.
tation so it read Bring your mitre
box"
"Well, | think that's a piece of i'm
pertinonc. on the part of Mrs. So
and-so" naming the secretary of the
Guild exclaimed the indignant wife
when she read it, How did she know
| was taking lessons in carp ntry, and
what right has she to refer to it on a
postal card? she may think it's joke
but l think it's in very bad taste and
IN tell her so when l see her. The
id a! She might as well have said on
the postal card so that everybody could
read it, Bring your carpenter tools
And when the husband. to avert
trouble from the secretary, told his
wife the real fact, he had to make a
very handsome peace Offering.
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A local fortune teller the other day
succeeded in making one of the incest
breaks" ever made in the soothsay-
ing prof ssion. The seer was consult
ed by certain lady, in whose COM
pany were youthful daughters. You
have had trouble with your husband" "
began the mysterious Person who looks
into the human heart and reads Sc
or is, che is always staying out nights"
There We're explosions of laughter from
the daughters, and the mother looked
surprised. 1t happens that the hus-
band in question cannot be dragged
from his home after dinner. 1t would
take a cable to haul him from his fire.
side. The only family quarrels are