Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

All lovers of old English words must be grateful to Sir William Wat son for restoring that good word truck to it's lost dignity in the phrase "base truck with the foe" with which he completes his tribute to the prime minister. It had fallen into dis use among the educated in it's sense of barter or dealing, although the man in the street has made 'Ph have no truck with them" a familiar saying. Dryden and Swift, however, used it, and the former even gave it place on lovers lips in the plea. Love is cov- etous; I must have all of you; heart for heart is an equal truck
 It seems late in the day for county court judge to have to appeal to the bar council for ruling on the methods of cross examination of counsel who seek by implication to defame wit nesses. The fact is, of course, that all men are Hars-to opposing counsel. Judges do protect witnesses. yet the complaint of the person in the box is more or less permanent Lord Chief Justice Cockburn declared that wit nesses were "hadgered, browbeaten, and in every way bTutaliy maltreated in English eccrta'; The treatment of witnesses, he asserted, was a national disgrace and a serious obstacle to jus tice.
 His picture reads more like the scene in an operating theatre before anaesthet.cs than one of court of | law; "In En Eland the most honorable l and conscientious men loathe the wit ness box. Men and women of all ranks shrink with terror from subject l ipg themselves to the Wanton insult and bullying misnamed cross mi ! nation in our English courts. :. I ! remember to have seen so distinguish cd man as the late Sir Benjamin 1 Brodie shiver as he entered the wit ness-box. I dare say his apprehension i amounted to exquisite torture" Feel l ings are just as acute today in minor courts where forensic bullying is toI- i erated.-London Chronicle.
 In bomhine Vicenza, the German sirnen may be said to violate the
 birthplace of modern architecture, for i there, four centuries ago, was born the great Palladio, founder of the stylA
 modelled on Roman work, which has
 most powerfully influenced architects ir ali countries ever since. In Venice Palladio is seen chiefly as builder oi churches, in Vicenza as a builder oi palaces, and Goethe found in bott
 styles something of the divine" ant
 comparable with, the creations of z great poet" Nearer home we see hin in the work of two of his greatest dis ciples, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren.
 "There's deal of human nature
 about war; a Royal Irish Rihemar
 told me. There was a real eomi
 thing happened one night in wee sal
 in front of our trench that a squad O
 us was out deepeniR We had a ter
 rible scunner again ou1d Fritz througl a sergeant of them putin up his hand when we raided them the night before and then bonbin' two of our chaps
 Just about that time we were fair pol , luted with them comin' across to us il , ones an tWos in the dark, to surren der. So we made up our minds tn next lads that drifted over would ge . what they weren't lookin' for Man, W weren't right started to dig in the we wire into it on his mouth and nost
 Kamaradin' like blazes. Another kamerad, is it?' sez the sergeant stril1
 ing match very cautious, stick
 bayonet in the swine I was just rais 1 in my hand when Billy Keenan catehe
 me. 'Hould on, sargfft,' sez he, Y
 can't kill this man. I know him. Hi
 an me played together in the Lurga ] Swifts.' An right enough, so the
 had. It was a wee German had bee
 here before the war in a barber's sho]
 an could speak English as we'll as
 can myself. Divil d spade Billy Kee Q nan lifted that night sittin' thel l. crackin' to him about the Junic
 League, an Fritz askin' him all tr
 news of the town of Lurgan; was h s ould boss still in the business, an ha wee Liza Bullock ever got marie <, yet, an the like of questions like tha / There's quare things happen in u " war eh' isn't there nov? We cou hardly get Billy tore away from u !, wee German. He wanted to get taxi II him to the rear just to have the cras [: otlt.''
 1. There is a great deal of human nz Il ture in heroes, too. my rifiernan naig1 o have said.
 A despatch from Geneva says: se' s eral south German newspapers whit H. have been received here raise a c > of alarm over the increase of btgan = in Germany during 1911. They say u = many acquittals and the 1enient SC,