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Show POLITENESS OUT OF PLACE j Old Lawyer Did Not Want His Client jjf to Think He Could Get V Free Advice. JJ Politeness Is politeness, but bust- , ness Is Just business. One of the clerks of the supremo court tried to u 'combine the two tho other day, but I hereafter be is going to attend strict K ly to business. Ho wns anxious to If destroy tho common belief of ninny V persons who v Islt tho New York coun- ,ty courthouse that little courtesy Is shown by the attaches to thoso seek- If Ing Information. Tho clerk was utand- ft Ing In the corridor on the second tloor m when two men came atouc, one of .them gray hnlrcd. The vounger one I asked tho elder tho way out of the-( the-( building. The clerk he.ud tho query i 'and at onco told the quettloner sov- A ernl was he could get out. The older U .man turned on the clerk vlth the In 0 junction to mind his own business, N adding that he had been In tbn build ' Ing before tho clerk was born ond t could himself answer his compaulon A llttlo later tho old man looked up , the clerk and upologlxcd, explaining i thot the man who wanted to know J 'how to get out of the building was his client and that bo did not want him to get tho Idea that ho conic1 receive re-ceive free advice. "If ho gets that I notion," Bald the old practitioner, "I'll lose him as a client" j |