The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-11-25
AN ARKANSAS HERO.

Granger, native of Ohio, went to Little
Rock to set up the practice of law. He
was then about twenty-three years of
age, small and slender, and effeminate-
looking, with light hair, almost beardless
face, and dark blue eyes. His dress,
though not exactly foppish, was alto
gether too fine, neat and precious to suit
the taste of men who always seemed
prepared for roughing it in the back
woods, as most of them had done at one
time and another and he was moreover
haps come there to display his learning
and pick up their money /; so that from
the very first he was regarded with sus-
picion, aversion and contempt.
The first six or eight months he got
no practice whatever, notwithstanding
he was regularly at his Office, or the
courtroom, Watching, waiting and hop
ing and he was about to give up in
despair, and betake himself to some 9TH
er locality, when one day tall, lank
individual came shuff1ing into his apart
ment, and after surveying him keenly
from head to foot, said, as he helped
himself to seat:
'.See here, young hop-thumb, is there
anything in you?"
'sYes-my breakfast p replied the
young lawyer, with quiet smile.
The other stared at him few moments
and seemed undetermined whether to
consider the reply joke or an insult.
He finally grinned at it and proceeded :
"I mean, do you know anything p
"Oh yes, something" answered the
lawyer, pleasantly. 81 know the differ
ence between chalk and cheese horse
and horse block
"Can you write?'
81 have written my name before now"
The stranger drew a newspaper from
his pocket, opened it deliberately, point
ed out an article, handed it to the young
man, and said
s'Read that J"
"Aloud ?"
eyes
The young lawyer complied and read
| TRADE, of most scandalous and
scathing nature, against one Miles Greg
| ory, the Democratic candidate for the
State Legislature.
"Well," demanded the stranger, when
he had finished the article, "what do
you think of that ?''
! sit is pretty severe"
ST believe you. Do you 'spect thar's
another man in the State of Arkansas
that can write "a -seorching a thing ag in
the Wing candidate p
eff there were facts to justify it, I
doubt not such an article might be pro-
duced, +" replied the young lawyer.
''To thunder with your facts p cried
the stranger, excitedly; ''facts han't got
nothing to do with politics thar's no
facts in that; it's all lies, from begin
ming to end. I'm Miles Gregory, and /
ought to know. I'll give fifty dollars to
anybody that'll write as savage thing
as that agi'n Joe Perrin"
'.When do you want it?"
'tNow-to-day."
"Without regardto facts2''
''They ha'nt got nothing to do with it,
I tell you"
Very well, if you will call in couple
of hours, will show you something to
match it. -
"If you'll do it, or the half ont" said
Miles Gregory, rising to leave, "l1l put
you in way to make a fortune"
He went out and returned at the ap-
pointed time, and the young lawyer had
the article ready. Without decending
as low as the model in the vulgar epi-
thets, it was even more tezible in its
whitening sarcasm. Gregory could hardly
contain himself while the young lawyer
was reading it, and as soon as he had
done, he bounded from his seat with a
yell of triumph, and seizing the delicate
little hand of the writer, almost crushed
it between his great bony fingers.
you've done it, young man, p" he cried
with an cath, sand you'll soon have
something better to do than sit here
staring at blank: walls. Here's your
money-the only. difference is I've con-
Guided to make it hundred instead of
fifty-but. that's my business, SO none
of your:nonsense.
He rushed out with n triumphant
laugh, leaving the young lawyer to ru
| inmate upon his first fee, and the posi-
BILE consequences of becomingsa a oonspic-
uous individual in that fighting region.
The next week the article appeared In
| the Democratic paper and created great
sensation. One political party was de
| lighted and the other chagrined. Who
| was the author? Nobody knew. The
ouid uaaues were puzzled. Every known
| writer's style was considered, but some
thing in the article differed from each.
| Could it be that a new Junius had come
among them? The Democrats were
anxious to find out, to do hoI.or to theiI
champion and the Wings, that they
might contrive a way to silence him. No
body suspected the beardless lawyer
In fact if he had openly avowed it, sht
chances were that he would have beer
kicked fer boasting liar.
| Three individuals only knew anything
| eho111 1.-THE writer tho candidate anC
the proprietor of the paper in which il
appeared. To the last, indeed, was due
the fact that the secret WAS kent so close