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Show A STOUT THING Mlsa llurden wna not devoid of good sense, but she hnd brooded over her neighbor's treatment of her until It seeiued both Intolerable and lawless. It Involved a queatlon of shares In the privileges of a certain spring of water and of rights In a certain path, and dlaagrcement over theso hud led to oilier differences, small and large, until the main Issue seemed hopelessly confused Flnnlly Mlas llurden resolved to consult a lawyer, law-yer, to ascertain If there might not he comforting relief for her feelings In a lawsuit. When a woman's wom-an's exasperation reaches the point where she la ready to resort lo the law, she la to bo dreaded, and Mlta llurden went to Lawyer Fulrniun'a office with n long and spirited atory of her wrunge, liifortunaicly for her plan, these wrongs were rather of word than of deed, and rather of fancy than of rec.ir.l. What the neighbor allied to do and tulked about doing, and even what ho meant to do ut some future time, did not gteally Impress Mr. I-alt n. an He gently suggcxtod to the ungry client Unit her mood was iinjualllled hy what had u. tually hupp1 n. d and concluded his advice with sotuu words which alio never forgot. "Hou't go to law, my dour holy, until you have some facia to take with you. Law hy Itself Is a poor friend; but a fad's a stout thing a fact's a stout thing!" The country lawyer's wisdom Is sound philosophy philoso-phy for every day In the year. Fancy gives birth to u long t ruin of children, good uml bud, uud thu ull have lega and items of characteristic slender neas and a grasp on life loo gentle lo be control ling. Set them lu Hue of battle and Mauler Fact will scatter them ull like dry leaves-for lu deed and In it "Hi a laet Is a alout thing' Yutnha Cuue |