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Show Pa Was on the Jury. A fresh young lawyer had the insane in-sane idea that bulldozing a witness brought about the best results. He was the defendant's attorney in an important im-portant ease, and naturally was "anxious "anx-ious to win. One of the witnesses for the plaintiff was a youngster of perhaps per-haps 16 years of age, red headed, had a pugnacious hang to his Jaw, and as he took his seat in "the witness chair he gazed about the courtroom as if he felt perfectly at home. Then the young lawyer got at him. "What's your name?" bellowed the exponent of Blackstone. "Bill." was the quiet response. . "Rill what?" "Bill Watt!" repeated the boy. "Now, see here, young man. don't ?ct new. I want your name and quick, too. Again, what is it?" . "Bill Wat Watt-Watt- Watt-that I IW I .11 '" WIMILJW '. I' 'I Il-I.y is it. Do you want me to whistle it?" saucily replied the youngster. "Oh, I see your name i Watt W-a-t-t. eh?" said the lawyer, as the audience grinned. "You're on!" spoke the boy. "Now, Bill Watt, pay strict attention to the question I'm going to ask you. Listen! Isn't it true that you have sometimes been called a prevaricator?" "Come again," was the reply. "I didn't get in right on that." "A prevaricator one who tells fibs you know what fibs arc. don't you?" explained the attorney. "Well, I guess I'm not one of those prevaricator things not by a long shot. You've got the wrong child, old scout." saucily remarked the red head. "Very well," replied the lawyer. "We will let that pass. But now, isn't it true that your father never brought you up in a proper manner; isn't it true that he was rather shiftless, never j works, and makes your mother take in washing, an " "Say, you you " The boy tried hard to get the words In. "And isn't it true,' continued the lawyer, "that he is in fact a sort of a loafer, and a " "Hold on! Hold on there!" cried the boy, this time so everybody could hear him. "What's the use of askin' me them questions. Why don't you ask Pop hisself he's sittin' over there on th 'jury!" Spring Medicine. Now is the time of all times when it is folly to stay indors more than is absolutely necessary. There are few days at any season of the year when it is better to be in than out, provided provid-ed one is clothed properly. Health is in the fresh air. and the exercise that is best, partly because it is most pleasant, is that which we get in walking, especially when we can get away from tne city streets, with their germ laden dust which we hesitate hesi-tate to breathe deeply when we think of what it contains. But there is no time when it is more desirable that people should keep out of doors than in "the spring of the year." Nature has tried to help us in seeing this fact by prescribing penalties pen-alties in the shape of ailments for those who will not learn. In a certain sense nature seems to have been fooled, for a large number of people adopted the superstition that spring medicines are as much an institution in-stitution as Easter hats. Sickness, however, how-ever, ought never to be regarded as necessary. It Is a notice that something some-thing has been going wrong. In this case it should remind us that we have kept ourselves too tightly shut up in the house through the winter and haven't hastened to make up for this mistreatment of our bodies by getting out in the spring sunshine. The person who voluntarily stays indoors in-doors from now on deserves to take medicine, and it Is only to be regretted re-gretted that the pharmacists have made their mixtures so pleasant to take. Spokane Review. |