mont case of Waite v. Stanley, 92 Atl. 633, accompanied in L.R.A. 1916C, 886, by a note as to right of vendor to unpaid instalments of the purchase price where the contract has terminated or been rescinded for the default of the vendee.

Will gift to stranger. Where a legacy is to a person other than a child of the testator, or to a person other than one to whom he stands in loco parentis, unless the gift is for the same specific purpose for which the legacy was intended, it is held in Ellard v. Ferris, 91 Ohio St. 339, 110 N. E. 476, annotated in L.R.A. 1916C, 613, that there is no presumption of such intention, but it must be clearly shown, either from the will itself or by extrinsic evidence, that an ademption was intended by the testa

tor.

Contract restraint of trade employer and employee-reasonableness. That a covenant by one employed by a concern engaged in the manufacture of a highly specialized form of machinery, that he will not at any time during a certain period from the date of his ceasing to be employed by such concern, within the United Kingdom carry on, or be concerned in, the sale or manufacture of the class of machinery made by the concern, or any business connected with it, is too wide in that it operates to prohibit the employee from using, not merely confidential knowledge acquired in the course of his employment, but knowledge forming a part of his general mental equipment, although such equipment includes the special skill and experience which he has gained in the course of his employment, is held by the House of Lords in Herbert Morris v. Saxelby [1916] A. C. 688, affirming [1915] 2 Ch. 57.

Life estate rights of life tenant and remainderman of corporate stock distribution of reserve fund. A colliery company had invested undivided profits, held as a reserve fund, in the shares of a holding company which held shares in other colliery companies. All the colliery

companies were merged in one company by an exchange of stock for stock of the new company, the holding company receiving shares in the combine for the shares in the constituent companies held by it. The holding company then went into liquidation, and the colliery company distributed the shares in the combine received by it, representing the reserve fund, by way of dividends among the ordinary shareholders. Upon this state of facts it was held in Re Thomas [1916] 1 Ch. 383, that the shares so distributed should, as between a tenant for life and the remainderman, be treated as income and not as capital.

Salvage recapture of neutral vessels seized by enemy. Although by the law of nations the general rule is that no salvage is due for the recapture of a neutral vessel, upon the principle that the liberation of a bona fide neutral from the enemy confers no benefit upon the neutral, inasmuch as the enemy would be compelled by the tribunals of his own country to make restitution of the property thus unjustly seized, this rule is subject to an exception where the vessel recaptured was practically liable to confiscation by the enemy, whether rightfully or wrongfully. The Pontoporos, L. R. [1916] Prob. 100.

The

Maxims of Two Chief Justices. following maxims laid down by the late Lord Russell of Killowen in a letter to his son, reproduced in Mr. Barry Mr. Barry O'Brien's biography of the late Lord Chief Justice, may be very usefully contrasted with the maxims entered in his diary by John Scott, Earl of Clonmell, who was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1784 till his death in 1798. A comparison of the maxims of the two Chief Justices will, we think, prove the progress in moral principles of which the century which intervened between them may justly boast. "1. Begin," writes Lord Russell, "each day's work with a memo. of what is to be done, in order of urgency. 2. Do one thing only at a time. 3. In any business interviews note in your diary the substance of what takes place, for corroboration in any future difficulty. 4. Arrange any case, whether for brief or for your own judgment, in the order of time. 5. Be scrupulously exact down to the smallest item in money matters, etc., in your account of them. 6. Be careful to keep your papers in neat and orderly fashion. 7. There is no need to confess ignorance to a client, but never be above asking for advice from those competent to give it in any matter of doubt, and never affect to understand when you do not understand thoroughly. 8. Get to the bottom of any affair intrusted to you-even the simplest and do each piece of work as if you were a tradesman turning out a best sample of his manufacture by which he wishes to be judged. 9. Do not be

content with being merely an expert master of form and detail, but strive to be a lawyer. 10. Always be straightforward and sincere. forward and sincere. 11. Never fail in an engagement made, and observe rigid punctuality. Therefore be slow to promise, unless it is clear that you can punctually fulfill."

Let us now turn to the private diary of Lord Clonmell, which has escaped the flames which he desired to be the fate of all his papers, and was published some years ago by the late Mr. W. I. Fitzpatrick.

"Save," writes Lord Clonmell, "every moment for employment. Use everybody for your own purpose. All men will injure or deceive you. Watch the whole world-as this whole world-as this moment your friends, the very next your enemies. Offend none, serve others sparingly; conceal your dislike universally. Flatter all through. Every moment affords an opportunity of serving yourself, and act up to it. Use your actual situation, and never speculate or muse. Look intently at what is before you. Look on; listen forever when you are not speaking, and, when you are, strive every instant to excel. Let your discipline be inflexible in pursuit of your own advantage, entertainment, and praise, and so ever do your business in comedy. Keep an unalterable coolness, smile, and presence of mind. Never, never suffer any man or anything to put you off your guard, out of humor, out of spirits. Make yourself pleasing by flattering all. Make every man your dupe by flattery."

Fitzpatrick's Ireland before the Union, pp. 24, 25.

With the U. S. Marine Corps. "Could you lick a postage stamp?" Sergeant George B. McGee, recruiter for the United States Marine Corps, standing in the lobby of the Buffalo postoffice watching for "prospects," turned about angrily at this slur on his fighting ability, only to face a heavily veiled woman carrying parcels under each arm. The woman went on to say that she would have to raise her new-fangled veil to do it herself, and would the sergeant oblige? So the sergeant gallantly obliged, and licked not only one, but several stamps, and placed them on the parcels she was carry

ing.

"The United States Marine Corps is prepared for anything," McGee later explained, "even to licking stamps for fair damsels in distress."

Is there a law in this land of the free that will permit a father to force his minor son into the United States Marine

Corps against that son's will?

A Milwaukee father says there is, and Sergeant Ansell M. Stowe, in charge of the United States Marine Corps recruiting station, is equally positive that there is nothing on the statute books covering a case of that sort.

The father literally dragged his nineteen-year-old son to the Milwaukee recruiting station, and demanded that the boy be enlisted. But the youth tearfully protested at what he seemed to think was a "high-handed outrage," and in Sergeant Stowe he found a sympathetic friend.

"I can't enlist the boy unless he is willing to join," Stowe told the father.

"What's the boy got to do with it anyway? I'm his father, and if I say he's got to enlist you've got to make him, and that's all there is to it. He's a worthless hound on the farm, and I want you to take him and make a man of him," the elder hotly replied.

But Sergeant Stowe refused to enlist the boy, and the parent left the recruiting office, vowing to return when he had consulted his attorney.

Up to the Judge. We are indebted to L. W. Smith, of Topeka, for the following anecdote:

In one of the western counties of Kansas, a colored man charged with violation of the prohibitory liquor law, under the advice of his attorney, had decided to plead guilty of the offense.

"What have you to say with reference to the charge brought against you?" asked the judge.

"Wall, Jedge," and he scratched his head as he waited before speaking further "wall, Jedge, I don't know as it makes much difference what I got to say, it's what you got to say, Jedge.'

Wise Precaution. There was no doubt about it, Michael Muldoon had lost his £5 note. How, then, was he to get back to Dublin?

But, sure, the London police would find it for him! Into a station marched

Michael, and told his sad story to the sergeant.

The officer was inclined to be sympathetic.

"I suppose you wrote down the number of the note?"

"And Oi did that, sorr," said Mike, proudly.

"And what is the number, then?" "And isn't that just what I don't know myself?"

"But you said you wrote it down," exclaimed the officer, testily.

"That's the worst of it. I wrote it on the back of the note."-Answers.

Clear to the Writer. In "My Varied Life," F. C. Phillips, tells an amusing story of the English judge, the late Sir George Honyman, who wrote a wretched hand. On one occasion Sir George sent a note to a friend among the lawyers seated at the barristers' table.

Not being able to make head or tail of it, the friend scribbled something absolutely undecipherable upon a half sheet of note paper, and passed it up to the judge. Sir George looked somewhat annoyed when he glanced at it, but when the court rose he spoke to his friend, and said, "What do you mean by this? I asked you to come and dine with me tonight."

"Yes," said the barrister, "and I replied that I should be extremely glad to do so."