says,

that of our brother's, cannot entirely die. Truly, Truly, as Emerson "What is excellent, as God lives, is permanent." "Dormit aliquando; moritur nunquam." We may not accede to the philosophy of Socrates or the reminiscence of Plato, but we do believe, not only in the future spiritual life as taught us by revelation and by the inspirations of our own consciousness, but also in the conservation and enjoyment, in another sphere, of the intellectual acquirement and growth of this.

To

"When coldness wraps this suffering clay,

Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?

It cannot die, it cannot stay,

But leaves its darkened dust behind."

say that the acquirements of men made in this life perish is to deny the economy of nature, the conservation of good. If this be true, then all wisdom is folly, and the pale student that scorns delight and loves laborious days, had best "shut the book, and sit him down and die."

BILLS OFFERED.

GEO. T. FRY.

A BILL to be entitled “An act to alter and amend the law governing the relationship of master and servant in the State of Tennessee."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That in case any person in the service or employ of any contractor, company, firm, or corporation, other than a municipal corporation, shall, while engaged in the line of his or her duty or employment, and without carelessness, negligence, or fault on his or her part, but by the carelessness, negligence, or fault of a co-employe or fellow-servant, or other agent or employe or servant of such contractor, company, firm, or corporation, receive any personal injury, or shall be killed, or shall receive such injury or injuries that he or she die therefrom, the contractor, firm, company, or corporation shall be liable to the injured person for the full amount of the injury or damage sustained, and in case of death, or of death as result of such injury or injuries, shall be liable to the heirs or lawful representatives of such deceased person to the full extent of the value of the life of the deceased; and in the event the deceased shall not leave wife, husband, child or children, or the descendants of child or children, surviving, the father, if living, or if no father the mother, if living, shall be entitled to recover the value of such life. It is the purpose of this act to hold the principals herein named to a strict accountability for injury to, or for the death of, their employes when such injury or death is the result of carelessness, negligence, or fault on the part of fellow-servants or co-employes, when such injury or death is unmixed with carelessness, negligence, or fault on the part of the injured or deceased employe.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act repeals conflicting laws, and shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

A BILL to be entitled "An act to amend the lien laws of the State of Tennessee."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That attorneys, at law shall have a lien on all papers and money of their clients, in their possession, for services rendered to them; may retain said papers until said claims are satisfied, and may apply such money to the satisfaction of said claims. Upon suits, judgments, and decrees for money they shall have a lien superior to all liens except tax-liens, and no person shall settle or satisfy said suit, judgment, or decree until the lien or claim of the attorney for his fees is fully satisfied; and attorneys at law shall have the same right and power over said suits, judgments, and decrees to enforce their liens as their clients had or may have for the amount due thereon to them. Upon all suits for the recovery of real or personal property or money, and upon all judgments or decrees for recovery of the same, attorneys at law shall have a lien on the property or money recovered for their fees superior to all liens but liens for taxes, which liens shall have the same force and effect as judgments at common law. The same liens which are allowed by this act to attorneys at law who are employed to sue for any property or money, upon the property or money recovered shall be equally allowed to attorneys at law employed and serving in defense against such suits, in case the defense is successful. In all cases where money has been brought into court by the service of an attorney at law, and said money is by the judgment of the court applied to the satisfaction of any older claim or lien than the particular suit, judgment, or process which brought said fund into court, it shall be taxed with the lien of the attorney whose service brought said money into court to the amount of his fees; and only the net balance, after deducting such attorney's fees, shall be applied to such older lien or claim. The lien hereby created may be enforced by said attorneys at law, or their lawful representatives, by execution, levy, and sale as upon judgments at common law.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act repeals all conflicting laws.

ANNUAL BANQUET,

LOOKOUT INN, JULY 11, 1890.

W. P. WASHBURN, TOAST MASTER.

I-THE SUPREME COURT.

TOASTS.

A princely salary, an easy life, reversing the lower courts, and pulverizing at least half the bar once a year; the only drawback to this bed of roses is that-long as it seems to the bar-eight years will roll by.

Responded to by J. J. TURNER.

2-THE LOWER COURT.

A seat of misery between the bar and the Court of Appeals-'twixt the devil and the deep sea.

Responded to by ARTHUR H. MUNFORD.

3-FEDERAL AND STATE JUDICIARY.

"Under which King Bezonian live or die."

Responded to by JOHN RUHM.

4--TAXING COSTS.

Responded to by H. M. DOAK.

5-THE BAR AND THE SUPREME COURT.

The bar hath its revenge once in eight years, when the public reverses the court; and also when the court occasionally relaxes its infallibility and

reverses itself.

Responded to by J. B. HEISKELL.

6-A LEGAL PARADOX.

De minimis lex non curat-and yet the best things are done up in the smallest parcels.

Responded to by H. M. WILTSE.

7-THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER.

What's a lawyer without his rations? Cessante ratione advocati cessat ipse

advocatus.

Responded to by J. A. TAYLOR.

8-OUR LADY MEMBERS.

Responded to by M. T. BRYAN.

9-OUR ABSENT BENEFACTOrs.

The man who writes his own will,

In our pockets he empties his till;

There's no friend to our mill, our wish to fulfill,
Like the man who writes his own will.

The shyster so very astute,

And every conceited galoot

Who wrangles and mangles and tangles,

While we come in for the fruit.

The leg-is-la-tive amateur,

Who seems every lawyer to fear,
Is a very specific, of suits most prolific,
When he gets on his law-making gear.

To railroads and every invention,

The sources of modern contention,

May they sue without cease, and let fees increase,
And their faults, just now, we'll not mention.

Responded to by Wм. M. BAXTER.

10-A SERMON TO NEOPHYTES ON FEES.

An upper mill and lower mill

Fell out about their water;
To war they went-that is, to law-
Resolved to give no quarter.

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The heavy costs remaining still,
Were settled without pother;
One lawyer took the upper mill,
The lower mill the other.

Responded to by C. F. VANCE.

II-A VETERAN TO NEW RECRUITS.

(Nos (non) morituri salutamus.)
Come pledge the bold young jurists
Who have joined our ranks this year;
Their healths we'll drink, whatever we think
Of the folly that brings them here.

Let's hope they have private fortunes
To furnish the sinews of war;

If not, let us pray they never may say,

"We were daft when we thought of the bar."

So let them come to the bar,

Things can scarcely be worse than they are;
Here's success to the lads, who are coming in squads,
To prove that there's life in the bar.

Responded to by W. J. CLIFT.

12-LAW OR MATRIMONY. Responded to by J. M. ANDERSON.