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Show LAVIMilJiinN TliKLAW Arthur Brown's Face ami His Voice Speak Eloqueutlj for Cau- ditlate Rumel. AEGUMENTS ON TI1E MANDAMUS. Ferguson and Smith Working in tho la-torest la-torest of Mr. Page-Talk, Talk, Talk. Arthur ltrow n was cocked and primed for war fed war when ho came into the third district court mom this morning. morn-ing. He jierspired under the burden of an ai'iiiiul of law books with bits of paper sticking out at the odgvs marking mark-ing particular sections, ami he curried wilh him the dcteriuiuation of a leau man to make a hard tight. It was the time set by Judge Zano to hear tho argument in the l'age Ruiuel affair. The judge was there to determine deter-mine whether or not Mr. Kuniel were . entitled to make a Siamese twin of himself and be voted for under two names. The jndgo was on band early ami so was Mr. Uumel. The latter looked shaggy aud uneasy in a three days' growth of whiskers aud he watched the proceedings with great interest. Colonel Ferguson, the man who made the celebrated remark about fossilized eiubors of extinct camp lire, was there to represent the very man whom he bail called an ember. The colontd ga.ed coldly into space across his tiery mustache mus-tache and though, up things to ray as Mr. Brown talked. Mr. .Stone, his associate as-sociate in the case, loaned forward eagerly and accentuated every sentence of Hi'uCvn's by corrugating his forehead in un involuntary frown. Mr. Brown came loaded not only for bear but for an entire inenugerje. When ho drew from some mysterious quarter In the heap of documents the answer of tho board to tho alternative writ of maiidnmus be nearly staggered under its weight. It was made up of typewritten type-written statements, clippings from newspapers, tally sheets, abstracts, aud what not. Mr. Ilroivn smiled fondly upon it as he gathered it iu to him and Mr Kan litis, who looked helpful and hopeful in a generally handy sort of way, smiled on it too. Mr. Kuwlins evidently was not ufraid of I ho enemy. As Mr. ltrown read it was entertaining entertain-ing to watch his countenance. A deaf man could readily have seen when he ouailo a poinl, for Mr. Brown's Is an eloquent face-as eloquent as elastic. Ho had a way of looking a cold, bitter, denunciatory smile across his teeth, which must certainly have made Colo ncl Ferguson afraid, only Colonel Fer-gu Fer-gu ton is a colonel and afraid of nothing. noth-ing. Besides the answer, with tho tenor of which readers of TriK Timks are already al-ready familiar, Mr. Brown had slumbering slum-bering in the heap an affidavit of intervention inter-vention from Mr. Uumel personally, whereby the latter lu choice legal terms declared that the elTorl lo make him out half a man with two names is nuerile nnd unworthy of notice. Mr. Rumel believed he ought lo have all tho voles cast for any Kuuiel whatsoever, for ho was know n to be the only member mem-ber of the clan who was out for oilier. Alter reading all the documents Mr. Blown entered upon Ihe argument. Then it was that his plastic countenance wrapped itself around the expressions of: Ocnsute. Penuneiation. Inquiry. insinuation. Sarcasm. Jocularity. Conviction. Entreaty. Declaration. Invitation. 'There were a few ideas expressed as he went along declaring thai the only way to gel at the truth of the mailer in dispute is to open the ballot boxes and count the vole. 'What does Mr. I'ngo want" asked Ihe court. "Is it that he Malits what be believes bo is not entitled to that b objects ob-jects to going back lo the ballot boxesT If the votes cast are for John II Riimul, then, according to the board's interpretation. interpre-tation. Mr. Page is elected If for John II. P.tlinel, jr., he is not. Surely he does not Hani what he is not entitled to. If he wants the certificate, and hasn't a plurality well. lie cannot have it without a light." Continuing Mr. Brown said, indicating indicat-ing one of tho documents sent in by the election judges: "The judges sign this and certify to it as beincr correcl, according to Ihe rules of tne I tali commission nut according to law." Mr. Brown argued up to dinner time, and then the other sido took a hand. |