Show A lawyers vigil low HE im WORKED ALL NIGHT PREPARING A CASE shenew the sew new orleans times tells the following good story among the stirring recollections of thellis the tho history tory of our bench and bar during the tast east past twenty f lve five years there has lias been een unearth unearthed e d oy one ono nr touching two high legal luminaries who a quarter of a century ago were the first atour bar but who aro arc now alas gone the way of all earth the chief characters in the story sto were a certain district judge and a certain district attorney and the occasion was the trial of a very important case in which the district attorney represented the government being sued for claims amounting to many thousand dollars the case was nixed fixed for trial baur by jury on the tho appointed day and at a the ap coined hour the judge was on the bench b nah the jurymen juryman were in their p places ces but the district attorney came canne not an hour two hours passed pawed and the patience of court and jury was well nigh exhausted messengers had been dispatched in all directions for the tile laggard but he could nowhere be found when lo 10 as the court was ws about to adjourn in despair the governmental representative appeared on the scene blowin blowing like a porpoise the court in ruffled fumed temper demanded why the wheels of justice had thus been ruthlessly stopped in short why had not the distinguished gentleman come at the appointed hour and did he choose to treat the court with disrespect react to othis this thib the gentleman offered profuse apologies disavowing any disrespect of the court and offered in extenuation that having been engaged the whole night long in preparing rp aring for this case his labors rad ead had prostrated him and and the slight rest ne he sought after his task was done became prolonged slumber 3 from which he had just awakened his honor looked daggers but used none rather expressing himself satisfied with the explanation and then without delay the tile case was ordered to proceed and proceed it did vigorously to a termination tion marked by an elaborate elanora te and exhaustive hau stive argument ament at the hands of the district attorney and a verdict in his favor after only a short deliberation after adjournment of court the foreman of the tho jury dined with the judge when quite naturally there came up the subject of the recent suit and the foreman dwelt at length in terms of ardent praise on the faithfulness sacrifice and devotion to the interests of his office of the District attorney instancing his labors of the night before as an evidence of what sort of a man ile he was the judge smiled at his friends remarks why do you laugh kald kaid said bald the other because the story is enough to make a horse laugh that stuff he told about laboring all night was a confounded lie I 1 know it for now this is the ecret secret s I 1 was acwith with him myself last night and ands we played poker from early dark until long alter after daylight this mown morning and that was the way he pr prepared himself for the great 17 case |