Emlin McClain, chancellor of the law department and after whom our chapter was christened, was nominated by the Republican State convention for Judge of the Supreme Court. In his election we appreciate the loss that will be sustained by the university and especially by the law department, but we also realize it is a merited and well deserved honor and McClain chapter sincerely hopes for his election.

The officers elected at the close of last year was as follows: Consul, G. T. Struble; pro-consul, H. J. Ferguson; scriptor, F. P. Henderson; tribune, M. L. Fierson. It should be the aim of the officers to make McClain chapter a leading chapter of Phi Delta Phi. We hope to send at least one delegate to the St. Louis convention in December and hope there will be a full representation there.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, October 13, 1900.

H. J. FERGUSON.

GOOD ADVICE.

Don't take life too seriously. Don't go about wearing a countenance of a dyspeptic owl. Cultivate a sense and appreciation of humor, but don't, oh! don't step up as a professional humorist. It is one of the chief compensations of a practice at the bar that the nervous strain and drudgery are frequently relieved by bursts of humorous light between the shadows. Ludicrous situations arise in the progress of litigation, and if you have not seen the sense of humor to enjoy them you will miss that which has in it more solace than large retainers. What a "balm of hurt minds" is a little innocent fun! Our great president, Abraham Lincoln, preserved his mental health in the terrible ordeal of the war by indulging his exquisite sense of the ridiculous. I would not have you descend into undignified frivolity, by any means; but there is a false dignity as well as a true one, and you may set it down that one who always wears a grave, solemn, and forbidding countenance is carrying around a very large supply of stupidity under the guise of what he supposes to be dignity. A saving sense of humor is a monitor to good taste and propriety, and keeps us out of many errors and follies. When you are done with the work of the day lock your office door and go home a free man. Don't carry your lawsuits about with you for the entertainment of your friends. Never talk “shop,” even in your own home. Nothing is more intolerable than the lawyer who can talk in society of nothing but "his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks."-Hon. Isaac N. Phillips, to the graduating class of the Illinois wesleyan law school.

In Lighter Vein.

FROM AN ARKANSAS BAR EXAM.

Q. "What is a holographic will."

A. "A will wrote with one of these here holographic pens."

FEES AGAIN.

A Vermont lawyer sent to a client a bill containing the following item: "For waking up in the night to think over your case, 50 cents."

A LITERARY JUDGE.

"Yes," the witness declared, "I could give further evidence against the prisoner, but as Kipling says, 'That's another - "

"Never mind what Kip Ling says," interrupted the magistrate, "the Chinee can testify fur himself when his turn comes.”—Exchange.

EXTENUATING FACT.

Judge "You hit the plaintiff with a chunk of coal, and your conduct presents not one extenuating circumstance."

Defendant-" Beg pahdon, sah, jes' one, sah. It was soft coal, sah."- Chicago News.

IN THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE.

The laws of England with regard to artificial aids to beauty are not so strict now as they were in the reign of Charles II. In the year 1670 this curious act of Parliament was passed: "That all women, of whatever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that shall, from after the passing of this act, impose upon and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's male subjects, by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the laws now in force against witchcraft, sorcery, and such like misdemeanors, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void.”—Schoolmistress.

YE GODS!

The will of William White, which was recently probated in Philadelphia, runs as follows:

"All my earthly goods I have in store

I leave to my beloved wife Ashtore;
And give all freely without any limit,
As this is my will from this very minute.

By way of a prefix

She is my executrix "-Law Notes (Am.).

CASES WITH ODD NAMES.

A correspondent contributes to our list of cases with odd or suggestive titles the following: Wood v. Lake, 13 Wis. 84; Baker v. Stonebraker, 36 Mo. 338; Pierce v. Burroughs, 58 N. H. 302; Ford v. Hill, 92 Wis. 188; Gray v. Greene, 66 N. Y. 636; Greene v. White, 37 N. Y. 405; Mann v. Fairchild, 3 Abb. Ch. App. Dec. 152; Rohde v. Railroad Co., 86 Wis. 309; Butler v. Miller, 1 N. Y. 497; Miller v. Barber, 66 N. Y. 558; Miller v. Cook, 23 N. Y. 495; Bragg v. Blewitt, 99 Wis. 355; Graves v. Battle Creek, 95 Mich. 266; Waters v. Bay View, 61 Wis. 642; Salter v. Ham, 31 N. Y. 321; Bell v. Electric Co., 101 Wis. 320; Sears v. Burnham, 17 N. Y. 445; Owen v. Dunn, 85 Tenn. 131; Willow River Club v. Wade, 100 Wis. 86; Steers v. Steamship Co., 57 N. Y. 1; Tugman v. Steamship Co., 76 N. Y. 207. Our esteemed friend, Notes of Cases,

also calls our attention to Love v. Truman, 10 Ohio St. 45; Merryman v. Bourne, 9 Wall. (U. S.) 592; and Fairclaim v. Shamtitle, 3 Burr. 1290. In the last case, however, the suggestiveness is purely factitious. It was not unusual in the old ejectment cases for the ordinary fictitious parties, John Doe and Richard Roe, to be supplanted by Aminadab Seekright, Samuel Shamtitle, and such like fanciful pseudonyms.-Law Notes (Am.).

We add to the above "United States v. One Sorrel Horse," 22 Vt. 655.

AN AFFIDAVIT.

The following affidavit was filled in the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin in 1822:

"And this deponent further saith, that on arriving at the house of the said defendant situate in the County of Galway aforesaid, for the purpose of personally serving him with the said writ, he, the said deponent, knocked three several times at the outer, commonly called the hall, door, but could not obtain admittance; whereupon this deponent was proceeding to knock a fourth time, when a man to this deponent unknown, holding in his hands a musket or blunderbus, loaded with balls or slugs, as this deponent has since heard and verily believes, appeared at one of the upper windows of the said house, and, presenting said musket or blunderbus at this deponent threatened that if said deponent did not instantly retire, he would send his (the deponent's) soul to hell' which this deponent verily believes he would have done had not this deponent precipitately escaped."- Green Bag.

NEVER TOUCHED HIM.

“And you

A New York newspaper gives the following testimony of a negro on a trial for assault. The lawyer asked, "Do you recollect the first time you were brought down in habeas corpus proceedings?" Answer, "No, sir; I were brought down in the Black Maria." were knocked out in the habeas corpus proceedings," was next suggested. "No, sir; I were knocked out in the riot," he replied. "Er wite man hit me wif a club."

THE POOR YE SHALL ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU?

A Spanish magistrate, shocked by the extent of the food adulteration, issued a proclamation, aflame with righteous wrath, that "all wines, groceries and provisions, which, upon analysis, are proved to be injurious to health, will be confiscated forthwith, and distributed to the different charitable institutions."

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