Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-11

own, while John was ever busy in
his spare hours in applying the
knowledge he had gained of algebra,
trigonometry and kindred sciences TO
some machine or invention calculated
to lessen the labor of man, aud SO m
dustrous had he been that, with the
aid of his jack knife and gimlet, be
had constructed and put in operation,
in a tiny brook that ran through the |
grounds. a miniature saw mill, com |
pete in all its parts, and here JOHN |
delio hted to take his classmates aud |
explain to them the laws that govern
hydraulics, the screw, the lever and |
the wedge, and demonstrate it NIL by |
the working OF his little mill.
Here we viii leave John and see
what has become Of Tom. Ill was
put into the office OF Esquire Catch
EN- to prepare himself for law and
politics. When he had been there SIX
months, he CHANGED to see Jones drlv-
mo Smiths pigs from his garden; he
stepped over and taking view Of
the premises told Jones it was q SIN
to have such beautiful vegetables
rooted out and exposed to the Gle
ments, and that Smith could be made
TO smart for ii. Jones, not beng
blessed with the faculty OF seeing the
end of a law suit from the begin
ming, gave Tom leave to bring suit
against Smith tor damages, and here
Tom made his first plea. Smith vas
adiudged to pay fifty cents damages,
and $3.50 costs, and Tom charged
Jones five dollars for conducting the
suit to a successful termination.
Jones could never really understand
how it was that he, who had gained
the SUIT, lost more by i than Smith
did.
Tom now began to think Of leaving
Catchem. He reasoned thus $50
long as | stay in Catchem's office,
all the laurels l win will go to adorn
his brow. | may gain ever 50 many
suits and people Will think Catchem
planned them all, and viii give him
| all the credit; besides | want a place
where can expand. My staying
here is like putting a light under
bushel.
| So Tom went into an adjoining
county and hung out his shingle near
the court house and Jail Here he
lived for a year or two cultIvatlng
litigation. But Tom was not satisfied.
He longed for one desperate case,
where he could, by throwing his
whole soul into one mighty effort, win
laurels that would carry him into
! Congress, and he had not long TO
wait. For, looking out one day, he
saw the TAILOR taking in a prisoner,
and from his appearance Tom rightly
Judged him TO to be horse thief, and
stepped over to offer him his profess
sional services, which the thief was
very glad to get. At the next term
of court he was brought up and
charged with stealing horse. As
the proof was clear and undisputcd,
the prosecuting attorney had but little
to say and the Judge was about Civ
ING the case to the jury, when Tom
arose for the defense. He character
| lied the suit as diabolical out
rage perpetrated upon his client, who
when peaceably riding bis mare upon
the public highway, was violently as
saulted by body of armed men who
deprived him of his mare, and thrust
him into the common jail among
thieves and cut throats, and all Of this
had been done in broad hight Of day,
near the close of the nineteenth cen
tury. Where now, he asked, wer e
the liberties handed down by our
torefathers as precious legacy to be
preserved? Where lost we the
rights secured to us by magma charta
and the writ of habedS corpus, that
a citizen Of this glorious republlG can
be thus violently assaulted by an
armed mob while peaceably riding
his mare upon the public highway,
and have his mare taken from him,
aud thrust into q dungeon behind iron
bars, with only criminals Of the vilest
grade for his companions +? Besides,
they have wrongtully, wickedly and
maliciously charged my client with
stealing a horse, when, gentleman Of
the Jury, it is clearly in evidence be
tore this court, that the animal they
took from my client was mare.
| And, your Honor, | lay it down as a
| principle Of law, that where man
is charged with stealing a horse, if it
turns out that the animal is mule, a
mare or some other kind Of an ami
| ~ oonyiofio,, non fnllpu
In compliance with custom, the
judge permitted Tom to plead thus
far, but here stopped him ana gave
the ease to the jury But constituted
as our iuries are, it is not strange that
among twelve men there should be
one who was ignorant, or stubborn,
and so it proved here. No argument
could make Fogerty take a sensible
view of the case To all their ex-
plantations his only answer was ::
"Tom is right, and the basic is a
mare shure."
SO Tom went into the convention
for nominating a congressman with
the laurels gained in this case all
fresh, and easily oyercame all oppos
ition, and was nominated and elected
to Congress.
John went into one of our western
cities and engaged in building, and
by his skill and industry, was able to
earn five dollars day, and the man
who now passes through the principle
streets of that city, will see a score
of business blocks that owe their
strength aud usefulness to the plans
that were laid in Johns brain, and
the splendor and beauty of their
finish to his handiwork. John is puz
zled to find why Tom should have
ten times as much for his services as
he does. If anyone can help john
to explain it, he should do 50.