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First:

Reasbey on Electric Wires in
Streets and Highways,

Second Edition,

Is nearly ready for delivery. The author writes us: "I have made the chapter on Negligence very full and thorough, almost entirely new. Title of the last chapter is Electric Lines and Property, and under this will be treated the question whether they will be Real or Personal Property; whether they are subject to Mechanics' Liens or subject to taxation." The development of the law on this subject since the first edition makes this revision a necesssity, and we are now offering a full text with up-to-date notes, on the Law Relating to Use of Streets and Public Highways for Lines of Electric Wires, Overhead or Underground. 1 Volume, $4.00 not; $4.25 prepaid.

Second:

We have in press for early publication a second edition of

Cobbey on Replevin as Administered
By the English and American Courts,

Being a full text with over 12,000 citations, beginning with: What may be Replevied, Who are Proper Parties, In What Court the Action should be Brought, etc., including Affidavit and Petition, Error and Appeal, Form of Affidavit. Petition, Answer, Instructions, Verdict, etc., closing with the treatment of all matters arising in the Prosecution and Defense of an Action on the Replevin Bond, 1 Volume, $6.00 net; $6.25 prepaid.

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"The public has practically given its great highways into the control of private enterprises, for the sake of the greater advantages furnished by their operation of these highways. For a time shippers depended upon competition to keep rate reasonable; but, as was long since pointed out, where combination is possible competition is impossible; the combination of the great railroads has practically put an end to competition on the great inter-State routes; and competition never gave uniformity or regularity of rates, which is quite as important to the shipper as the rate itself. The public, therefore, must either take such accommodation as the private enterprise gives to it, at such price as the traffic will bear; or it must reserve to itself the power to ascertain what are reasonable rates and to determine them, subject to appeal to the courts by the carrier; or, finally, it must adopt the extreme measure of taking over the railroads into its own hands and operating them."

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WIPE" has been passed on by the Iowa Supreme Court. The word came up in the case of the State v. Robert Lee, appellant. Somebody said "Swipe" in the So the grave, lower court, and it became an issue. dignified and august higher bench had to take offcial notice of it and incidentally to pass upon its vites a free interchange of views upon all such top-meaning. In affirming the case the court decided ics whether they agree with the views of THE BAR that "swipe" means "to steal," and cited the dictionary as its authority.

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others in rural districts who hold office, he had an abnormal appreciation of the responsibility of the office, and never lost an opportunity to exercise his prerogative of demanding that peace be preserved. One day his son and his hired man got to fighting on a stretch of the farm near the boundary line fence, and the justice of the peace rushed out and mounted the fence. Then, with head cocked high and the air of one who has but to command, he shouted, "In the name of the State of Indiana I demand the preservation of the peace!" Just then the fence gave way under his weight and as he went down with the fence toppling over to the Ohio side he shouted to his son: "Give him the mischief, Jim; I've lost my jurisdiction!"