Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Lawyer’s First Book. [ARTICLE]

Lawyer’s First Book.

Once, while in an English village, Ben Jonson saw a number of poir people weeping over a newly made grave. On asking a woman the cause of their grief, she exclaimed: “Oh, sir, we have lost our precious lawyer, Justice Bandall! He kept us all in peac<e, and always was so good as to keep ns from going to law—the best man that ever lived!” “Well,” said old Ben, “I will send you an epitaph to write upon his tomb.” He sent the following lines: “God -wo. ks wonders now and then; Here lies a lawyer—an honest man.” Jonson’s lines would not have been so satirical had all lawyers been educated as Macklin, an actor, proposed to train his son, whom he designed for the law, “What book, sir,” said the veteran actor to a friend, “do you think I made him begin with? Why, sir, the Bible—the Holy Bible.” “The Bible for a lawyer!” exclaimed the friend. “Yes, sir; the properest and most scientific book for an honest lawyer, as there you will find the foundation of all law as well as of all morality.”— Youth’s Companion. Sam Jones says: “I don’t know where hell is. 1 don’t want to know, for I ain’t headin’ that way. I’m going to let them fellers as are goin’ thar find out.” White hairs are like the sea foam which caps the waves after a storm*