TPlie Daily Review. Towanda, Pa.. Tuesday, May 10, 138'. KDIT)H> . H. W. ALVORI). NOLLE N.AI.VORD. " Daily tteriete" only 515 cent* per mioulh. Try it. ii i mm j— n—'luOTWwffiri The Legal Profession. The following paper 011 the legal pro fession was written by a literary gentle man who sotnstimes visits this place, for the Lariat, a paper conducted by the stu dents of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, I nd. We commend it to the careful pe rusal especially of the younger members of the bar: Prepcration is everything in the life of a lawyer. lie wins or loses his causes acording as he has full or careless prepa ration. His whole professional life is in dicated in advance by the preprration he makes at the beginning. The first ten, possibly the first live years after a young man begins to study law will determine his status. If he thoroughly masters the fundamental principles then, he can thereafter be relied on to make the most of his causes. If he begins professional life without a distinct impression of the profound reasoning underlying all legal concluaions he will have a most uncer tain caveer. He will win causes without knowing how he won, or lose without knowing why lie lost. Success and fail ure alike confuse him. A man eau never he a lawyer who has anything of the parrqt in him. That sil ly bird looks wise and severe without knowing anything, and repeats words it has caught from others without knowing what they mean. The huvycr shuns these distinctive traits of the parrot. With full mastery of the elementary writ ers and thorough familiarity with the maxims of the law a young man has pro tection against unsafe conclusions. Without this he is like au army wtthoUt orders, or a ship without a compass. A student without mastery of the Greek verb ma>j make a clear and acuratc trans lation of De Corona, but the probability is that he will not; and whatever he does he does doubtfully, and with difficulty and without enjoymout. I % The elementary law writers are the grammar of the law. These must first be mastered or every step thereafter will be hazardous. A lawyer needs at least one —better take two more years of prepara tion than was necessary fifty years ago. The necessity demands, and every year emphasizes it, from the enormous num ber of law books. They increase at the rate of more than three hundred aunual ly. More than two hundred of these are re])orts of decided cases. These are, as a rule, far less satisfactory than the ear lier decisions. It requires a keener mind and a more accurate and enlarged prepa ration to read aud apply the cases of this day than the cases of fifty years ago. Then they were decided on principle by reference to fundamentals. Now deci sions, rest on decisions, and every case is a frame work where every thing depends on something else. A case is apt to bea piece of patch work, and not a completed design. The diacriminating faculty is more and more demanded that this patch work may be taken apart aud the conclusions cast aside which are incongruous and unwar ranted. The faculty ridiculed by Butler, to "Distinguish, and divide a Hair, twixt south and southwest side," is in every day deraaud. Every decided case carries more or less weight and it must be con sidered critically before being accepted to determine just what weight to give it. The present way of making briefs is very much on the scissors and pastepot plan. It is a search of digests and reports. A man witli one book is said to be a dangerous man. It will come to be said of the dangerous lawyer that he is a mas ter of the elementary principles—which is one book in a large sense. A student in college who is thinking of becoming a lawyer could not do himself a better ser vice than to memorize Broom's Legal Maxims. It is a delightful attraction and contains the very essence of the law. The time will never come when they will cease to be authority. And often appli cation of a maxim will overturn a plans able speech of an hour better than an hour's speaking could do. J. A. F. "DAVIS VERTICAL FEED Simplest, Strongest an ft does work that cannot be done on any under feed machine. O. A. BLACK, Agent, Send for Samvle.s. Towanda, Pa. * ' *"*■ Tji <3 -£7* EC Z& * (rATSVTKC junk 18TH, 1876.) POP <n,sn p BY E VJIJYS SEIE&MIETMM, Towanda, Pa. EATING HOUSE AJW RESTAURANT. S. B. TIDD has fitted up one of the stores in Streeter's new block (one door south of Evans & Hildreth's) and is now prepared to furnish WARM MEALS ON SHORT NOTICE. |HIS LUNCH COUNTER is supplied with all the delicacies of the mar ket. flf~?y He has elegantly furnished rooms for the accommodation of parties. GIVE IIIM A CALL! PRO BONO PUBLICO." "JAKE" The Clothier (established 1865; Otters better bargains in Men's, Youths', and Boys' CLOTHING, Hats, Caps, Ties, Scarfs, Collars, Cuffs, &c., thi.i ever, and proposes to sell lower than any house ia Bradford county. A large stock of CHILDREN'S SUITS AT COST, as we wish to close out that line oi goods entirely in the next sixty days. Fresh spring goods every day For "proof of the padding," call oa "JAKE at No. t Pattoa Block, Towaada. Business Cards. ALVOHD & SON, JOB PRINTERS. DAILY REVIEW OFFICE, Main street, Towanda P DSAVEKCOOL, • Manufacturer of OFFICE FURNITURE. DESKS. And Library Tables. Shop corner Second and Poplar streets. raar23 81 Dli. T.B. JOHNSON, PIIYSIC IA NA ND S URG EON, Office over U. C Porter's Drugstore, Resident corner Mai>l and Second Streets, JT LSBREE & SON, ■ A 7 TORNE I 'S-A T- LA H South side Mercur Block, Towanda, Pa. N. C. ELSBREK. | L. ELSBKEE. FL. IIOLLISTER I). I). S. • (Successor to Dr. E. 11. Angle.) OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL DENTIST. Office on State street, second floor of Dr. Pratt's Office. lOjanSO F THORNTON, TUNER AND REPAIRER Of Pianos and Organs. (Over 17 years experi ence.) Orders received at Holmes* & Passage's Music Store. GW. RYAN, • c OUNTY SUPER I VI ENDE N 7 Oflice Means' Block. ay. MASON, A T TORNE Y-A T- /. .1 H', Office over Patch & Tracy, Main street. HENRY STREETER, ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW TOWANDA, I'A. JOHN VV. CODDING, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA ll', Office Mercur Block, over Kirby's Drug Store. OD. KINNEY, A T TORNE Y-A T-LA IF, | Office corner Main and Pine Streets, Towanda, Pa. PECIv & OVERTON, Attorneys-at-Laio, Tjwaada, Pa. D'A. OVERTON. I BENJ. M. I'ECK. ANGLE & BUFFING- A TTORNEYS-A T-LA IF, Oflice formerly occupied by W. VVatkins. TXT" OOI) & HALE, Attorneys at Lain,' Office corner Main and Pine Streets Towanda, Pa. JAS. WOOD. 1 JAB. T.HALE. Nathan Tidd, DEALER IN PITTSTON, WILKES - BARRE, AND Loyal Sock Coal. Invites the patronage of his old friends and the pub. lie generally. I shall keep a full assortment ot all sizes, AND SHALL SELL AT LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. Yard and office, foot of Pine street, iust south o Cour n°uee' Aug3o. N. TIDD. D. V. STEDGE, AAA. Manufacturer of and dealer in Human Hair Goods, Special attention given to COMBINGS—Roots all turned oue way. Switches from $1 upwards Also agent for Hun er's INVISIBLE FACE POWDER, Madam Clark's Corsets, and Shoulder Brace Elastics. Particular attention paid to dressing ladies hair at their homes or at my place of business, over Evans & Hildreth's store. MRS. D. V. STEDGE* TYTEW SPRING GOODS! Now is the time your selection of a jyjE if- SPKI.W SUIT from the attractive array of suit ings on exhibition at the tailoring establishment of JParrott S (* vessel These goods have just been opened and are of the latest styles and very best quality. We guarantee fits, and make prices as low as the lowest. USUAL the fashionable clothier, is the first to open a FULL LINE OF SPRING CLOTHING to which he invites the particular atten tion of tn t : e* r n i, e c . Ilis assortment comprises the most fash ionable goods in the READY-MADE CLOTHING LINE, purchased lor cash, and will be sold CHEAPER than any other house in the country can otter the same quality of goods. A full line of MEN'S AND BOYS' HATS AND CAPS Also a better assortment ot FURNISH ING GOODS than can be found elsewhere in Towanda. Call, examine, and satisfy your selves. M. E. ROSENFIELD. March 9, 1881. MERCHANT TAILOR. Comer Main and Pine Streets, Keeps a large assortment of Cloths and Suiitincrs, And makes a SINGLE GARMENT or a .WHOLE SUIT to order ON SHORT NOTICE. Ilis present stock has been purchased at VERY LOW PRICES, and he proposes to give his customers the benefit of his good bargains. ME A FRANK P. GRADY. Practical Cutter and Tailor. Towanda, Jau. 13, 18S1. p*OR Hair Cut and Sliavc Go to the WARD HOUSE SHAVING PARLOR HTEDGrE lb there. T ADIES OF TOWANDA Wishing to have anything made in the line ot" Hair Switches, Mi raids & FINGER PUFFS, WATER CURLS, in fact anything in the line of nAIU GOODS. Custom Work a specialty. Switches made of combings and rooted. Send jour old switches and combings by mail, and 1 will return them by mail in a few days, in the best manner possible and warranted. Orderß by mail will receive more atten tion than if attended to in person. Address MISS ELLA J. POWELL, No. 12 Lombard St. Towanda. T THE GLGBE STORE On Bridge Street, you will find the LATEST STYLES of Millinery Goods a large assortment of FANCY GOODS AND DRY GOODS. Mr. Marks has just returned trom New York, where he has purchased a fine stock at the lowest prices, and he wishes to inform the pub lic and patrons generally, that he is ready to sell at wholesale and retail, at the LOWEST PRICES. MILLINERS will do well to come and see the JYew Styles and Prices. NEW GOODS ARE COMING IN DAILY FROM NEW YORK.
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