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Show HOLMES OS LAWYERS. 1 In the May number of the Atlantic, Oliver Wendell Holmes say of lawyers law-yers : Tho lawyers are a picked lot, "firM scholars" and the like, but their busi-rs busi-rs is aft unsympathetic as Jaok Ketoh's. There is nothing humanizing in their relations with their fellow-creatures. fellow-creatures. I hoy go for the side that retains them. They defend the man tht-y know to be a ropue, nnd not very rarely throw suspicion on the man they know to be innocent. Mind you, lam not finding fault with them; every side of a case has a right to the best statement state-ment it admits of; but I say it docs not tend to mako them sympathetic. Suppose Sup-pose that in a case of Fever vs. Patient Pa-tient the doctor should side with either party, according to whether the old miser or his expectant heir was his employer. Suppose the minister should side with the Lord or the devil, according accord-ing to the salary offered and other incidental in-cidental advantages, where the soul of a sinner was in question. You can see what a piece of work it would make of their sympathies. But the lawyers are quicker-witted than either of the other professions, and abler men generally. gen-erally. They are good-natured, or, if ! they quarrel, their quarrels are above-i above-i board. I don't think they are as ac- complished as tho ministers, but tbey knowledge for a caso which leaves a certain shallow sediment of intelligence in the memories about a good many things. They are apt to talk law in mixed company, and they have a way of looking round when they make a point, as ii' they were addressing a jury; that 'tis mighty aggravating, as 1 had occasion to see when one of 'em and a pretty famous ono put me on the witness-stand at a dinner party once. |