The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-23

waited that no not possessing the highest quail
tiles of moral and legal attainments could obtain
access to its practice.
I recollect, as l pen this, my first impressions
of my lady partner. She was taller than the av-
erage, strongly but lithely formed, with high
forehead, semi-round face, dark blue eyes, full
chested, graceful in every bend and motion of her
body-in fact, ,,most charmingly developed-and,
under the old regime, am free to admit that I
could not have lived in such close and intimate
association with her without falling in love. But
l was protected by the mentality that invested
our acquaintance. Her skirts seemed made up of
deeds, mortgages complaints, answers, replies,
demurrers, judgment rolls, trust documents and
the like; and her corsage and upper garments, /
noticed were composed of repressve statutes and
laws, such as injunctions processes for the preven-
ton of crime, warrants to keep the peace, etc
but no search warrants In her ivory neck and
marble shoulders, my eyes, lit only with legal
light, could see, not the parchment and the papy-
rus OF the ancients, but the law vellum and the
note satin of the moderns. I recollect distinctly
the effect of this apparel upon me on one or two
occasions, which will relate. We had just won
a great and difficult case, upon which both of us
had spoken with our utmost ability. Soon after,
at meeting in our councilium instead of grasping
each other by the right hand, swinging our hats
in the air with the Others, and gyrating around
the room, with laugh and shout, rs men partners
used TO do in the olden times, she gracefully pre-
sented herself with arms extended. l did the
same, and we mutually embraced-not each other
particularly, but our victory II there was a kiss
it was for the eloquence that had passed our lips
Another occasion l remember was when she re-
turned from protracted but lost cause, in which
she had struggled like gladiator against "a tiger
of HK-res in Iaf,
dead. She sank upon a fatdeuiI. | went to her.
sat down by her, stroked her shiny hair and
soothed her heated temples until she fell asleep
In an hour she revived, and was ready for the
next roll-call into almost mortal combat, for we
never lost case if labor could save it.
My partner was ambitious She was courtly TO
the court and suave and graceful to the bar Tn
der the old regime, when sex had so much to do
in influencing human action even judges and
legislatOrs), she would have been irresistible; hut
now that morals and chivalry had turned their
attention toward justice, those charms were not
dangerous They were only 10 be regarded as the
beautiful vehicle in which mind rode triumphant
through matter to Fact and Truth and Right
| recollect another circumstance. Ny partner
desired promotion. She aspircd To fiji such posi-
tions on the bench and in legislation as were be-
ing then held by her delightful friends and asso-
gan, Judge Phoebe Couzens, and Others; and
finally she desired to wind up her ilIustrious ca
reer by the side of such compeers as Mesdames
De Force Gordon and Loughary in the House Of
Representatives and Miss Anthony and Mrs
Stanton in the Senate Of the United States Be
ing myself without desire for more earthly fame
! favored her and put her forward wherever speak
ing could advance her ambitions. assisted her
intuition with my judgment and knowledge of
men and crowds. On one occasion, when she had
almost outdone herself, and was wildly cheered by
the people and fairly carried home i'm their arms
she turned to me with something like human
love, kindly freight of affection glimmering i'm
her deep blue Orbs. Those beautiful ewes. that I
had seen so often appealing to jurors for the loves
Of Others, now seemed suffering for themselves as
if desolate. / knew she over1owing with
gratitude for my assistance, and hastened to tell
her that she owed me nothing; that her increased
popularity resulted to the benefit of the firm etc
yet, seeing spasm of pain pass over her beautiful
face and quiver for an instant, as if it were an
arrow in her heart, hastened to remind her that
she had devoted herself to her brain and must for
get that she had a heart, except for the causes of
others. discovered that it required great deal
of chivalry and unselfishness in each sex to help
the other at times to tide over the vcissitudes i'm
the love natures of each but taking it all in all
the new state of things was most delightful We
read over our authorities together, looked i'm each
others eyes as we pOndered their meaning and
import, and weighed their bearing on our cases
and think we almost believed i'm that anti-duaI
doctrine that after all a and a woman are but
one soul. We always crossed palms at meeting in
the morning, and threw ddios to each other at
parting.
/ was warmly congratulating myself upon this
glorious change in the scale of progress this real
ization of the great Plato's hope and idea, when
was suddenly awakened by some fellow who had
just been hit i'm the mouth for a fourth time by
tumber of whisky in the den below, who came
rushing into my room to have me go down before |
a Justice to plead miserable, contemplate dog
case The very Thought Of il made me sick |