Show A medium on the bench A CHICAGO JUSTICE WHO DECIDES SUITS ACCORDING TY TO SPIRITUAL advice among the recent converts to spiritualism in this city is a justice of the peace not willing to stop at the foot of the spiritual ladder and receive instructions from others he be has been busied in developing his powers as a medium and at last has come to such a pitch of per perfection as to be ablo able to carry on long eon con t on ver actions with the inmates of the world beyond the grave he no longer wastes his time in visiting saloons hut but stays at home at nig night t and holds intercourse with kent blackstone and other dead worth thies lea ies of law it is his great tiou when he gets home after a weary session to light his pipe mix a glass of punch and then hao a protracted talk taik with sir E ed d ekr ward d jpike co ke this thia is really an improving way of apen spending ding the time and may be recommended to 0 o all who desire to become experienced in the law these little peculiarities of the tho court have thus far had no ho influence upon the tile outside world except to amuse the lawyers difo alib found their way into whom ho he would inform howo how on the previous eve eye evening ninn he had a iong long argument with story on en some obscure point and had bad compelled him to own that he be was mistaken yesterday N however the matter assumed a serious form and one law aw berat least is in a quandary as to what he shall do during the forenoon session a case came up for trial triai the attorney for the defence quoted a decision deci slon sion which will be found in one of the early illinois reports it was apparently decisive the lawyer looked triumphantly at the j judge the fatter said sald walt a minute iveel I 1 feel the influence ena then the judge grabbed a lead pencil penell encil and a sheet of paper piper his band hand went convulsively and at the ead of five minutes he had scribbled over the entire page when he was through he be said to the lawyer ogi III 1 I have just received a mes gag from judge Lock Lockwo wook dk who was one of the judges of the supreme court at the time this decision was rendered he authorizes me to say that the majority of the members of the then court who are now in the spirit lan ian land dafter after mature consideration decided to reverse their former judgment please inform the profession of that fact that they may govern themselves accordingly sj sr 11 then the judge continued under the circumstances mr you will see that I 1 can pay no ho attention whatever to the decision you have quoted and judgment must be against you 21 the lawyer remonstrated and the judge finally agreed to postpone the case for one week in order to give judge lockwood Xi and his colleagues an opportunity to examine the matter again and see seo ee if they are determined to reverse their former opinion the lawyers are meditating what the result will bo be if the doctrine of spiritualism makes much further progress whether it will not be necessary for them to burn ati ayi al all their reports if judges in the spirit gandare land are to beal beai be allowed tocarra on the business of making of reversing those which they have make wh while ilein in this world chicago T temes times ime 8 |