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Show UNDER WCm: HLC IIS. . 1 OWN' CODE OF EIEIC3 were drinking beer In a room and then he rot drunk and called me some names that no gentleman could stand." "Tea, me and the gentleman were drinking and then I can't remember any more, except the gentleman slapped my face." Forgetfulness Is common among -the denizens of the district when on the witness stand. . . . IMs almost always good form to "forget" "for-get" Just what was occurring at a certain- moment, or to "forget" who was present at the crucial period, or to 'forget" 'for-get" what was said or done. t- U It Is good form in many Instances to have had one's attention attracted In another direction for an Instant, particularly partic-ularly if one's partisans were In the trouble. ' ' In dialect stories, negroes are called "niggers" or "coons." It is not so in the Police court. ' There a negro is always al-ways "that gentleman," a "colored gentleman." or "Mr. So-and-So." It is never ethical to tell , anything that will help the court to secure a conviction, con-viction, unless partisan or clan feeling runs high, and then "everything goes." The code is complex and ever changing, chang-ing, but its fundamental principles are politeness when in trouble; not knowing too much; not remembering all seen or heard, and being as loyal to friends as one is bitter and vindictive to enemies. . GEN-TLE-MAN. Jen-U-man.) Noun. ' 1. A man weU born; one of good family; one above the condition of yeoman. I One of gentle or refined manners; a Weil-bred man. . S. ,(Heraldry.) One who bears arms but has no title. 1 ' '- . LADY. (La-dy.) 'Noun. ' 1. A woman having proprietary rights or authority. . , - 2. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid. S. A woman of social distinction or position. po-sition. , 4. - & woman of refined or gentle man-. ners; a well-bred woman. . (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.) ; That there is a code of ethics, if not of morals. In the subterranean life of the Under world is not a fact generally recognized. But wherever men and women wo-men meet codes written and unwritten prevail. , The Police court la the battleground, and frequent intervals of the denizens of the proscribed district, who meet there either as the victims of or as the appellants ta the, law. In the Police court the peculiar code of ethics of the under world is frequently frequent-ly brought to play. There are rules In the code that are rigorously observed. For example, no matter how low in the scale of moral degradation a person may have fallen, he is still a "gentleman" "gentle-man" or a "lady," according to sex. In the books and stories written In the alleged under world dialect, in the language of the flotsam and Jetsam of the sea of city life, a man is "a guy." "a bloke," or some other such thing. In ' Police court, when two persons, a saloon sa-loon hanger-on and another of the same class, have had a quarrel or a fight, the testimony may run like this: "This gentleman is no friend of mine. Him an' me had some words an' then he up an' swatted me in the face. I never saw the gentleman before." In a petty larceny case it would be the same. They were strangers. The one from whom the article was stolen never saw the alleged thief before, and If he had, always knew him as a gentleman. gen-tleman. A woman of the district may quarrel with some man, and the result may be an arrest and a Police court trial. In such a case neither says anything harsh about the other as a general rule, unless un-less It has a direct bearing on the case. The man In the case testifies: "This lady Is a friend of mine. We |