court and waiting for one's turn, requires the lawyer to be away from the office, the absence from which may cause him more loss than the whole case is worth,—all perhaps for a contingent fee of $5, out of which he may have to give one-half to the Notary or Steerer that placed the claim with him. It is dreadful, but it is true!

The lawyer's work, his real work, litigation, is harder than the hod-carrier's, his hours are longer, very often late in the night, without even any holidays or Sundays, and his pay is less certain, very often smaller than the hod-carrier's. This is not mere imaginatiton, nor exaggeration; it is a fact.

The lawyer's life is the most exciting, the most tumultous. Lawyers, more than others, are subject to nervous attack, to nervous prostration; many die of apoplexy. They get old and worn-out before their time.

They are compelled by reason of their station, to live in ostentation, and people envy them. They are despised and distrusted. They are feared and hated.

WHY SOME LAWYERS ARE RICH AND HOW LAWYERS MAKE MONEY.

Some lawyers are wealthy because they have rich corporations for clients. As a rule, they are stock-holders of the companies. Some have wealthy parents, or inherited a fortune, and lend money on mortgages. That is, these lawyers are wealthy and make money from their wealth coupled with their knowledge of the law.

Some are politicians. Some engage in business or calling, as teaching, real estat lending, insurance, journalism, literature, r or have an interest in a business unknow public.

Some are dishonest; grind their client and defraud the court, their clients and th They use all kinds of cunning and tricks t other people's money. They are in conspira scoundrels and rascals.

The real honest lawyer, without wealth him, without special opportunities, withou ordinarily exceptional abilities, must lead a p economical life to make both ends meet.

THE DIGNITY OF THE PROFESSION IS

People no longer respect lawyers. If an tesy is shown them, it is because people are of them; it is believed that lawyers can use t to better advantage, or because it is imagine they have money and people pay them the r and homage due to men possessing money, b because of their real worth, of their real mer for their knowledge, learning and profession tainments. People do not care to take off thei any more when entering a lawyer's office. If don't find him in the office, or if he is busy while, they don't care to wait. Any business expects the lawyer to call on him for business, him often as a mere office boy or messenger; not stick any more to him, but changes him another according to convenience. His time is

valued. He is consulted without pay. He is often troubled for hours in a transaction, and if the transaction does not go through, perhaps at the lawyer's suggestion for the benefit of his client, he is not paid.

LAWYERS ARE NOT PROTECTED.

Physicians and dentists have their County Medical and Dental Societies. Detectives are constantly on the look-out that none but properly licensed should practice. They use all sorts of tricks to tempt one, likely to practice Medicine or Dentistry without a license, to induce him to practice on them, in order to cause an arrest. Those that are arrested are heavily punished, by fine and imprisonment. The fines go towards the expense of these societies. Lawyers have no such societies. Every Tom, Dick and Harry competes with them. Not only do these good-for-nothings practice Law without a license, but have large glaring signs to attract attention. You seldom hear of an arrest for practising Law without a license, still seldomer of a conviction. If one is convicted, it is for a couple of days' or weeks' imprisonment, and if by fine, it does not go to help any society of lawyers.

It is surprising that lawyers who are nearest the machinery of the law should avail themselves so little of it. Legislation in their favor is less than for any other class of citizens. They are trodden down by all, by judges from the bench, by petty and coarse policemen, and by unscrupulous ignoramuses.

Any one that studies Law without wealth to

Think of a "Bread Line" Composed of

Lawyers!

(Copyright 1911 by the N. Y. Morning Telegraph Company.) Of New York's 18,000, Boston's 5,000 and Washington's 4,000 Forty Per Cent. Are Living on a Pittance and Near the Ragged Edge-Other Cities No Better.

Thousands of Lawyers Earn Only $50 a Month. Bargain Day in the legal market. Could you imagine a line of lawyers with their degrees in their inside pockets standing out in front of any court building in this country and shouting their wares?

Still, if the fear of being debarred from practice did not loom up as a holdback many lawyers in the big oversupplied cities would jump to be first in the line.

How do the vast army of unemployed attorneys in all the cities get by? Do they get by? You can take it on good faith that a large percentage of them do not.

Have any of you ever seen in your town the long string of human derelicts that form a line around midnight at the door of some well known and charitably inclined bakery and receive their nightly loaf? It is a sight to see.

How would it appear if each morning at the convening of court a long line of lawyers would