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BEST WISHES When Governor Guild was recently called upon to appoint a new associate justice for the First District Court of Eastern Middle sex the name -oT Albert R. MacKusick of Maiden was prominently mentioned. At about this time he received the very remarkable letter, a copy of which we print below. We have not yet discovered whether Alberto recovered his damages or not. "12^ Madison Ave., North Cambridge, Jan. 3, 1907. Honor Sir; I humbly beg allowans to give to your honor best wishes for luky candidature in regard to your mater of aspiring Judgship I hear from my lawyer and from Italian papar I read how you maybe Judg in Maiden. I think Judgs ought be elected by people then maybe best Judgs like your honor get in if Judgs elected were Judg Dewey should per haps be again choose in Boston once more and you a republican and grand armee oncer I vote for you in Maiden sure, only I liv in North Canbidge. I feal care for good Judg ship in Maiden bekaus thers my lawyer he mak the suit gainst ice company who damag my little boy an I know if you gett chose not hard sort Judg for to let Trusts rob poor italians sqeezed litle boys fote with ice blok so I pray the Saints to help you to get a Judg in Maiden where my suit is and you will rember prays peepl who like wood to vote for you. With depess reverencial respets and devotissi solicitacion for felicitous candidature Hopingly Antonio Garabediano. My littl boy got damagd named Alberto like you honor in italian." What is a Team? — At the commencement of the head-note and of the report of Osborne v. Boston Ice Co., 191 Mass. 596, it is said that the action was for personal injuries from being kicked by one of " a pair of liorses attached to an ice team." It is a matter of wonder how in a book of this character the word team

could have been used to describe anything but the horses themselves, and, if it was not used for that purpose, how it could have been used to describe anything that they were attached to. SEEN IN NEW YORK "Maud says she loves to see other people made happy." "Now I understand why she goes to every trial for divorce in town." "Bridget," said the noted judge's wife to her new cook, "my husband is a great man. He has sentenced some of the most noted criminals of our day." ■ " Faith, an' long afore I come here I heard he was quite sententious." "Briggs's ward is the most beautiful girl and he has cheated her out of fifty thousand dollars, but he doesn't consider it a crime." "What does he call it?" "He calls it ' doing the handsome thing.'" As Howard was paying his fine for scorching, he asked the magistrate enthusiastically: "Have you ever noticed the shadows made by Effswiftly running auto?" "Yes," said his Honor, " I have. Have you ever noticed the shades?" A pretty girl went to a famous New York lawyer last month and asked him to conduct a breach of promise case for her. "What evidence have you? " asked the noted jurist. "Evidence in plenty," replied the broken hearted one. Then she burst into tears and added: " In the first place he always called on me in a business suit, and — and — and in the second he has married another girl." Peter Newell tells a story of a little Southern boy who sat reading while his colored mammy was doing the mending. The child looked up and asked : "Mammy, what does ' lapse of justice ' mean?" "For de Lawd, honey, I sut'inly doan know. All de justices what visits your pa am so fat dey aint got no laps." — HenryMiller, New York City.