Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-10-11
THE PRICE OF AN OPINION.

year OF 1925, a man, enveloped in cloak,
raped at the door of one of the most dis
tinguished advocates of Paris. He was
quickly shown into the room of the learn
ed lawyer.
Sir said he, placing upon the table a
large parcel Of papers, am rich; but the
suit that has been instituted against me to-
day will entirely ruin me. At my age, a
fortune is not to be rebuilt; so that the
loss of my suit will condemn me forever
to the most frightful misery. | come to
ask the aid of your talents. Here are the
papers, as to facts, will, if you please,
expose them clearly to you
The advocate listened attentively to the
stranger; then opened the parcel, examin-
ed all the papers it contained, and said
" Sir, the action laid against you is found
ed in justice and morality. Unfortunate
ly, in spite of the admirable perfection of
our codes, law does not always accord
with justice, and here the law is for you.
I If, therefore, you rest strictly on the law,
and avail yourself without exception of all
the means in your favor; If above all, these
means are exposed with clearness and force
you viii infalibly gain this suit, and no.
body can afterwards dispute that fortune,
which you fear to LOSE
Nobody in the world replied the
client, is SO competentto do this as your
self. An opinion drawn up in this sense
and signed by you would render me invul-
nerable. I am bold enough to hope you
will not refuse me-
The skilful advocate reflected for some
moments, and taking up again the papers
which he had pushed away withan abrupt
ness peculiar to him, said he would draw
up the opinion, and that it should be fin
ished the following day, at the very same
hour.
The client was punctual to his appoint
ment. The advocate presented him with
the opinion, and without taking the trou-
bic to reply to the thanks which the other
overwhelmed him, said to him rudely-.
Here is the opinion; there is no Judge
who after having seen that, will condemn
YOU Give me 5000 francs
The client was struck dumb and motion
less with surprise.
You are free to keep your money, said
the advocate, $50 am, to throw my opin-
ion into the fire.
So speaking he advanced towards the
chimney; but the other stopped him, and
declared that he would pay the sum de-
manded, but that he had only half of it with
him.
He drew, in fact, from his pocket-book
1900 francs in bank-notes. The advocate
with one hand took the notes, and with the
other threw the opinion into the drawer.
sBut," said the client, 81 am going, if you
please, to give you my note for the remainder. y
81 want money. Bring me 500 more francs.
or you shall not have one line"
There was no remedy, and the 5000 francs
were paid but the client, to revenge himself OF
being so pllaged FASTENED to circulate this an
ecdote. 1t got into the papers, and for fort
night there was deluge of wittcisms of all kinds
upon the disnterestedness of the great advocate
Those who did not laugh at it, said it was deplo-
rable that man of such merit should be tainted
with a vice so degrading as avarice. Even his
friends were moved by it, and some ofthem went
so far as to demonstrate with him publicly; but
the only reply he gave was by Struggling his
shoulders andthen, as everything is quickly for
got at Paris, people soon ceased to talk of this
Ten years had passed. One day the Court o1
Cessation, in its red robes was descending the
steps of the Palace of Justice, to be present al
public ceremony. All at once female darts
from the crowd, throws herself at the feet of the
procureur general, SEXES the end of his robe, and
presses it to her lips The woman is looked up
on as deranged and they try to drag her away.
ooh, leave me alone, leave me alone," she
cries, Il recognize limits he, my preserver!
Thanks to him, my old age is happy. Oh, dc
YOU not know me- One day. was very un-
happy then-I was advised to bring an action
against distant relation of my last husband
who had possessed himself of rich heritage that
ought to have come to my children. Already
had sold halfmy goods to begin the action, when
one evening, saw enter my house a gentle
man, who sa to me-"Do not go to law; rea
son and morality are for you, but the law is "a
gainsI you. Keep the little you have, and ado
to it these 1900 francs, which are truly yours.
remained speechless with surprise. When
would have spoken and thanked him, he had dis
appeared; but the bag of money was there, up
| on the table, and the countenance of that gene
rous man was engraved upon my heart, never t.
be erased. Well this man-this preserver o
nv family-is here! Let me thank him, before
God and before menu
The court had stopped. The procureur-gen
eral appeared moved, but conquering his emo
tons, he said
RssTake away this good woman, and take care
no harm comes to her. don't think she is quit
in her right mind !"
He was mistaken; the poor woman was nc
mad---only she had remembered, and NJ. Dupii
had forgotten.
THE HoMEsTEAD.-The homestead OF ever.
man is holy thing which no law or monoPol.
/ shopld he able to wrest from the family. Civ
the father his home, in fact and secure, and h
will feel that he has position, station, characte
and rights worthy to defend. He is perms
nent inhabitant of the state, and he is heart an
soul devoted to the interests of the state for he
/ interests are his interests. But let the wealth
capitalists be able to monopolize the soil, an
seize almost at will upon the poor mans home
stead, and we shall have moneyed aristocrac