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Show A Lesson From The Lawyers H ONE of the best things about the meeting of ;H the great lawyers hero last week was the en- H couragement it gave or ought to have given the H young men in the profession here and to young jH men generally. They saw represented here the H highest in the land, and the truth must have H flashed upon them that all that they saw above the average must have come from persistent I study and experience, the first of whlqh is within I the grasp of all who reach for it faithfully and H the last which the former makes possible. So far as we could discern, there was not a real genius jjl In the bunch. Described in army parlance, J. Ham II Lewis represented the cavalry, lots of flags, no SI end of trumpet calls, and the noise of innumer- l able hoof-beats splendid to cut communications; l to raid for pi1 'or and not lacking in a real fight l 1 H Judge. Baldwin represented the solid infantry, H with here and there a machine gun, the steady H reliance when an all-day fight is on and certain V to mako a fine accounting when the long day's J work is done. H The ex-president represented the new heavy B artillery, not to be fired very often, but a little H earthquake that in its course shatters fortresses R and consumes cities. K All represented the law as it has crystallyzed B' through the centuries,' and all acquired by study. Bj But not one if taken prisoner by a savage tribe B would have attained to the chieftainship, by orig- H inating something beyond the foresight or prowess 10 of the savage. B After the Sioux were subdued Red Cloud was B taken to Washington. Returning he gave his im- B prcssions, in substance as follows: "Railroads B nothing plenty of wagons. Big cities all same B plenty wickiups. No care, Injun make em some- B time, but you savy him spider web over river; mo B go over, me no breathe." B, Tho Eads bridge at St. Louis paralyzed him. B It represented something beyond his idea of the B possible, and he felt as the spectators did when B Lazarus was raised from the dead. V There were no miracle workers among the K'' learned gentlemen of the bar who were here last H week. B Whii Lord Erskine was a youth and he rose B before the solemn English court to make his first H argument, he halted a little at first, but suddenly B plunged into an argument that electrified the m court and spectators. B He explained it later, saying: "At the crucial B, moment I felt the hands of my little children tug- K ging at my robes and I knew then that I must B. not fail." There was something above the books B and the rules that have been made from them. Hh It was a case where the heart inspired the brain B to a supreme effort. It was in a higher sense the flj same emotion as that which prompted Senator H West's plea for the dog. B There were no glimpses of that order of mind i here last week, only the acquired science of tho Bj law as taught by the books, and that is in the B grasp of every young lawyer who is industrious B enough and patient and tenacious enough to do B his best every day as the days come and go and B to cling to his work until success is earned. |