Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-07-24
A LACRYMOsE HISTORY.


an elegant law-shop,
with books and papers placed for show,
Like ncstcggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay"
Society at once opened its arms to
receive him; he was petted and feted;
smiles greeted him on all sides; his
delicate hands, adorned with mussive
oroide and paste jewelry, betrayed his
noble lineage, and the blue veins which
throbbed beneath the thin skin of his
temples denoted gentle blood. There
could be no mistake about it, He was
a veritable Claude and scores of eager
damsels sighed to be Pauline.
Nobody ever thought of tapping him
for brains. For lover to possess such
an article is usually regarded as posi-
tive defect, and in lawyer experience
has proven that it is not by any means
an essential requisite.
The purple garments raise the lawyers fees,
High pomp and state are useful properties"
A few weeks ago the hero of this
chapter changed his base of action to
Olympia, when with number of cases
in the Supreme Court, he at once be-
came veritable ,chdle in the estimation
of simpering misses, and their anxious
mammas and proud papas. Romantic
drives, amid outrageous shades, by
day, were succeeded by midnight sails
overt the staf-lit sea
'The winds with wonder whist,
Smoothly the waters kissd
Whisperingn new joys to the mid ocean,"
But like all earthly pleasures, the
more full, joyous and extatic, the shorter
their duration, this proved no excep-
ton to the rule. His reign of glory
was brilliant but brief. Its radience
dazzled for moment and then disap-
peared leaving the void darker than be-
fore. Like all objects we idolize, like
all scenes that are brightest, the end
came alas! too soon And while his
admirers are left to
"-Gaze with wrapped surprise.
The charm dissolves, the vision dies,
Twas but enchanted ground" .5,
Those who are familiar with the writ
lngs of the talented Edgar A. Poe, will
have no difficulty in discovering The
counterpart of this lion of day, in the
chapter on Diddling considered as an
Exact Science" It will lie reinern-
bered that the term is made to include
a compound, of which the ingredients
are minuteness, interest, perseverance,,
ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, orig
inality, impertinence and grin. The
diddler, he affirms, is minute. His OPP
erations are ON small scale. His bus
mess is retail, for cash or approved pa
per, at sight; and should he ever be
tempted into any magnificent specula-
ton, he then, loses his distinction feat
ure aud becomes a financier." This
latter conveys the diddEngidea in every
respect exeapt .aat ST ,2agaisnae The
ingenuity, which MIR. Poe considers one
of the chief characteristics of the sue
cessfnl diddler, was amply manifest in
the subject of this sketch. He was in
genious. He understood plot, and cir
cumvented even those who possessed
considerable talent in the same direc-
ticn. If they were Napoleons, he was
the Alexander; if they achieved the high
er rounds of the ladder of professional
success, he at once scaled the nights of
proud Chimborazo. Nothing short of
this would suit his vauiting ambition.
We're he not chief OF diddling, he would
be q maker of patent rat-traps or an
angler for trout! 'g ia5' Is
All the courses of his life doth show. tV
That he was not on the roll of common men,
Various were the means devised by
Charles f. to maintain his hold upon
popular confidence, and very original
were some of the appliances by which
he managed to levy contributions on his
friends. He introduced burly sub
ject of King Faro to representthe atten-
uated and sylph-ike form of his law
partner, and supplemented the honor
with modest request for loan of ";
he borrowed rods and reels as q means
of ingratiating himself with bon-ton fish
ing-parties who despise the plebian APP |
planes for enticing the fnny tribe
from their native element, He even
went so far as to aaa apg lb.a 4sail
Plunge beneath the briny food"
to enforce the loan of under-clothing
and socks, which garments still adorn
his graceful person. And these are but
a few of the devices which his fertile
conceived and his readv viii