The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-07-04

, land radical. changes unless made un
: der due form of law.
Books to them, as Mrs. Thrale calls
i them, are "old friends in leather
jackets" Books, books, books now
] are becoming the burden of the bar
} and then come more books to explain
the books that have gone before.
What an amount of rubbish disap.
|peared when the Saracens burned
! the books of the great Alexandrian Il
brary-! Many valuable works of the
Iancient days were destroyed, but man
! kind has been relieved of a. vast mass
+ of worthless literature that only cum
lbered the earth. ~ IL
! What are we to do with the count.
; less output of legal literature? Acres
of shelving are needed merely for
storage purposes and key numbers
are devised to make the great mass
: available for the searcher for prece'
, dents. This was one of the burdens
! that the old bench and bar were freed
from.
J of Illinois, whose name could not be
mentioned without pity and admira'
: tion, was one of the most brilliant
and improvident OF men. He lived
, up to the motto that the world is his
J who enjoys It." He once said by way
of criticism iof shallow opponent
: that his front door opened into his
back yard"
Storrs on journey to London was
, introduced to Lord Coleridge, chief
, justice of England. When Lord Col
: eridge came to Chicago some years
later Storrs invited him to meet a
, number of the. leading lawyers of the
city at a dinner.
A splendid spread was provided,
with an abundance of costly wines
When the hour Of the banquet arrived
. there seemed to be some hitch in the
, proceedings. A deputy sheriff was in
, the dining-room with an execution
against Storrs. Some of the guests
at once suspected the cause of the
! delay and whispering consultation
: was had among them and one of their
rilmeb sought out the officer and
J satisfied the execution.
The banquet proceeded and "all
went merry as a marriage bell.
} Conversation absolutely blew a gale,
J Lord Coleridge alone was ignorant of
, the cause of the delay, but Storrs
knew that his guest would hear of
it later, so he put on bold front
and when the hour for speaking arriv,
ed Storrs recounted the facts of the
execution in the house and wound W
the statement with the assertion that
the world was moving and that this
was the first time in history that al
execution had ever been levied on
the Lords Supper"
Judge ]. r. Reed, of Iowa, after
twenty years of public life, said that
all he had to show for twenty years
of public life was Ibis tooth
brush and his post office address"
, Judge Caleb Baldwin was one OF
: the great members of the early bar
! He was as large as his colleague
George Atcheson, was small. Judge
! Charles Negus, one of the rough dia
, monds of the old bar, once gave lee
, ture on David and Goliah. He said
that Goliah was a big man just like
Gale Baldwin, and David was a little
, man no bigger than little George
!, Atcheson, and then he recounted how
David "Kerslewed Goliah."
Tom Reed was sensitive about his
, size. Someone asked him how much
he weighed. He answered, "20(
pounds" But how much more?" his
, inquirer asked. Reed answered, with
, some asperity, mo gentleman weighs
; over 200 pounds"
! Judge Baldwin was also somewhat
, sensitive upon the subject of his size
!, and refused to be weighed. One day the
, wheels of progress brought new
set of hay scales to the town of Fair
=. field and a test was being made il
+ the presence of an admiring crowd
/. The people were invited to get on the
, scales and Baldwin Joined the crowd;
then they all got off and Immediately
all got back except Judge BALDWIN
= The test was completed; $50 many
n pounds with Baldwin, so many pounds
!. without Baldwin" and so it was as
'certained and recorded greatly to the
judges disgust that his weight was
, 46S pounds.
James Grant, of Davenport, was ont
J. !of the foremost lawyers of his da!
e and the greatest book buyer. HI
= made a speciality of railway foreclo
sures, which has always been classet
: among the gainful occupations.
h Justice Samuel F. Miller, in one o
t his addresses to the law students a
/. the state university, when Judg'
d Grant was present, nearly broke
S Grants heart by saying to the class
DO not imagine that man is |
/, great lawyer because he can foreclos'
l. a railroad mortgage"
e On another occasion Justice Mile
e said that great lawyers always grow
J. up in the smaller cities where thu
r business is not large enough to per
l. NIT them to specialize.
THAT the lawyers who try ever.
d sort of case become good lawyers il
l. all branches of the profession, willis
s the lawyer in the great cities unuall,
,, takes up one class of business alon