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Show Conkling's Generosity. It was the same with Roscoe Conkling. He charged the millionaires, but he worked for nothing for the poor. A highly cultured widow of Washington, whose property was tied up and was be-, be-, ing unjustly appropriated by others ' through a supposed legal technicality, met Mr. Conkling in New York und presented pre-sented her case. Ho offered to take it up. bat she told him she could not pay him: In the gentlest manner Mr. Conkling Conk-ling told her he would do it for nothing, and he then set the machinery of law in motion, which gave her back her little fprguceV It did not cost her a cent. |