Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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AN IGNORANT BUNCH, An unsophisticated resident of a small town up the state had never been in court before, and was not familiar with the interrogative manner in which a" lawyer juggles a witness. When he returned home in the evening a friend asked him how he had made out. “Oh, I made out all right,” he replied, “but I never saw such a bum lot of lawyers in my life.” “What was the matter with them?” queried the friend. “A whole lot was the matter with them, 1 ’ answered the witness. “Judging from the million questions they Isked me, there ain’t a derned one of them knows anything about the case.”