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Show HP . . LAWYERS WHO TIRE THE JURORS. bbbbbbbbbbH When a juryman in a New York court recently became impatient M at the long-drawn-out maunderings of one of the lawyers in the case fnf. declared right out in court that he was tired of so much timei m- " au. w yeu ducic to ousmess, the judge fined him S Hf or contempt. Yet, very likely, the lawyer himself was more in Kempt for imposing on the court and jury and all concerned asM HThere are many lawyers at the bar who ought to be dri , Hbvagons, mixing mortar, serving as janitors, or doing som T! Hf the sorfc- Certainly they were never cut out for the 1- tl of the acuraen needed in such a profession, thev y10 Hhemselves whenever they appear in court, wasting re.f?.. nd bringing justice into ridicule. Yet judges arefacrybody s Ume Biarged with partiality that they very seldom f bf S Bng-winded pettifoggers. When jurymen ' a l n e3e B sit idly by and see how the public tir-' mt CUrt and baVe ssly wasted, it is no wonder that tb0 and money are s0 reck' Hthat they do not oftener rebuk ' iraPatient- The wonder Buld do it if it were not thf"0 the abuses that Prevai1' and thov arly for any lack of homP th COlUts Can make them Pay most the law, down to the vr Jty they may di3Play b(:fore the maJesty H Jiest rag-tag and bob-tail. |