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Show fFEGTIVE ORATORY. . YounfT lawyer Defended an In-toed In-toed Woman and Made a Ecputation. HE gOABED TOO HIGH, to Pastor's Victory-A Hybrid Coin-The Coin-The Yankee Was Forehanded -Other Items, Jonathan H. Fug WMrffTfarJe !Z lawyer Day after day he sat 'vL for clients, bnt none came. The !i term of court appeared and his name j not appeared on the docket . At that s my father was clerk ' the circnit One day there came to hira a l'gad woman, who poured into his ear ritiful tale of woe. A biother-in-law S robbed her of all the property left r by ber dead husband, had oppressed 1 jbnsed her, and was now seekiDB to from her care hor only child, a little rl 3 years ol" father became ,,Dy interested in the woman and yjsri to help her. He at once sent ,rPugb, The young lawyer came and nkcbJirjroof her case. The poor woman's brother-in-law was l snii he employed the best of coun-1 coun-1 and made every preparation in his ,mr to defeat her in court and subject to 8till greater oppression. He even niilated the most slanderous stories inst her, and succeeded in totally de-ioring de-ioring her ftood reputation. This story kindled the soul of Pugh, j )je went to work with a fierce deter-instion deter-instion to unmask the vilMn. The v for the trial arrived. - The neighbor-d neighbor-d was thoroughly aroused, and the 1 court room was crowded with specta- The fad and dreamy young lawyer ame another man a bold and daunt-B daunt-B bight fighting for outraged woman- He arose to speak. The silence it painfij. With a master hand he id before court and jury the work of 8 poor woman's oppressor. The per-nd per-nd witnesses withered beneath his ty denunciation. Judge, jurors and Ectatora bent forward to listen. Ai he told of the woman's wrongs tears led the eyes of all. Then he turned mi the weeping woman to the author her sorrows. In terrible language he Passed the villainy of the man. Sud-jlyhe Sud-jlyhe faced the victim of his scorn, i pointing his quivering finger at him claimed: "You have stolen from this or woman all her property. Not only is; you have robbed her not only of her t dollar, hut of what is more precious an gold her good name. And now, ith savage hands, you try to tear from r arms her darling child. In theaw-1 theaw-1 hereafter you should not even be aired ai-red the miserable comfort of herding ith the common damned, but in some ter, deeper hell be compelled,, singly d alone, to howl out an eternity of . Si Pugh reached this climax it fell ;e a bolt of thunder on the ears of the dlty man, and he rushed headlong from e court room. Pngh's reputation was iie. He was flooded with clients and at once one of the busiest lawyers in Am. Illinois State Journal. |