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Show . Chief Justice Waite, during his recent re-cent visit to England, took a professional interest in the courts, of course, and he remarks that the English Judges are much more prompt in rendering decisions than those of the United States. No doubt, there is plenty of room forimprov-ment forimprov-ment in both countries. The laws' delay de-lay could be much shortened by breaking break-ing up the practice of placing the convenience conve-nience of attorneys above the interests of litigants. Granting postponements to obliee lawyers ' who are overburdened with? business, or who pretend to be, is a weakness of the American bench . which gives good ground for complaint. ' But the prime cause of the slowness with which the legal machinery moves is the too profound respect paid to the precedent.' prece-dent.' - The charming and cultured ' daughters of Grace Greenwood and Joaquin Miller will appear on the stage this season. i Vice President Hendricks was bom on the same day and in the same month as Christopher Columbus, but . not in the same year. " . ' ' |