Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
SUITORS GONE ASTRAY.
stu,IIcs from life.

Htudies from Life.
The Euglish Court of Chancery would
seem incomplete without little NJ IS
fltc and the Man from Shropshire. So
would the New York Supreme Court
without the person and papers Of Mr..
AdOlphus lIcintLlcmahn. Chief OF the
Bar aud Acknowledgement of the Human
Race. The casual visitor lettering
through the corridors II the County
COurthou.e ia City Hall Park Is
likely To see an understood old man,
with strongly marked Tcutonic face,
surrounded by tum led mass Of grizzly
hair and beard. dressed i'm n suit of
rusty black, and with large bundle of
papers under his arm, hurrying with
swift, nervous tread in the direction of
ono or the other courtroom. The little
man face h set like flint, and his
dark eyes CLEAN from under shaggy
brow. with u strained intcntness that i
almo,t painful. llo j. in dead earne. 4.
He Violently has ON hand business. inn
poTiant business. which brooks no
delay.
The visitors mental comment prob
ably Il that the man is lawyer OF the
stripe OF sampson Brass. or Mr.. Pen,
dear friend of the late Lord Chancel-
lor' hastening To answer Ready" 10
The call of the calendar; and he pities
The clients who have committed their
eau e. Ia such hands. II outward ap-
pcarAnccs form any criterion by which
10 Judge Of the measure of success at
tendant upon his advocacy. But com
mcnt and sympathy are alike mis-
placed.
Mr.. lie ntzlcmann il not so fortunate
o. to bear vigorously the burden of Iiti-
gallon, With the ult mate certainty Of
ices tO Tighten the load. lie is. or rather
was, n sutton himself and his errand
now Is To forward the interests of his
sui IN his own proper pcr.On. For no
can not grasp the ia't that his case Is
no longer before the courts. but has
been res ddJUdt"dtG these many wears.
Ills case u n sufficiently sad one.
ears ago he was clever and success
iul inventor; and today. in all Hkeli-
hood' the fruits OF his genius are i'm
active use 10y hundreds who do not know
nor would be interested i'm KNOWING.
that the Inventive faculty which il the
means Oi serving their convenience ar
augmcnting Their wealth has lost its
power; and that the facilc brain 70
which they are so much indebted h
eclipscd forever under the dark shadow
OF insanity With the proycrbiaI had
fortune OF his kind, he sowcd and others
f'apSd; he laborcd and they entered
INTO ms labors. On one ill-fated day he
Drought an action To recover possession
OF n valuable patent, for which he
Vlalmed not to- have received the stipu-
iated compensation. The equities NAV
have been m his favor. Who knWysp
but the law was against him. His case
was iried aud an adverse verdict rem
uered. lie appealed. and the appeal
was decided In his opponents favor.
., lhcn came the end of things for him.
lie went mad. Nor was il wonderful
that he should do so. Az the
gonla! AutOcrat saws, somewhere
IN those inimtabi ESSAYS of
his; Insanity is often the loric Of an
accurate mind Oycrtasked. Good mental
machinery ought to break its own
wheels and levers il anything is thrust
among them suddenly which tends In
stop them or reverse their motion.
weak mimi does not accumulate force
enough To hurt itself; stupidity often
saves man from going mad"
NJ all events. stupidity did not save
MIR Hcintzlcmann. Ills wrongs. real
or imagined, upset the delicate balance
oi his mind. and left in chaos what oncs
was coherent and coordinate. Tho
curious may find the details of his casc
reported in the published Law Reports
OF the state. ~
His deusion assumes no violcnt g.,
liyPulsive form. IL simply consists in
INC ncict that his suit IL still before the
Cov' Is anu IN the conviction that event
ualIy' can he but obtain n hearing. the
aulersc decision will DO reversed or
modhed' aud he rcinstated i'm his lost
possessions. And so. every day. sum-
mer anu winter, in season and out of
season ne marches up To- tho clerks
uesk' with his inscparable bundle of
papers and courteously asks In highly
Commanded English.
"Mr. Clerk, hat you put mine case ON
the calendar today"
"No. Mr.. Hcintzlemann." the clerk
day"
"why hat you notP'' he asks. greatly
1--WE hndn', room FOR It today,
NNn see thc NhuugcF
No. he's busy"
"Thcn." he continues, can NV mo-
ton make today"
emo. II Is not motion dav."
That makes no different ~ savs
Mr.. Hsintzlcmann. with wave of the
hand. Until my case l. decided there
u NO court, no Chudge, no anything"
Ihls iorpuln gone through he turns
TO tho oilicor IN charge. eravely selects
paper from the bundle. hands Il over
with the strict injunction that Il DO car
ucd Immediately ~ the Judge. and.
tremendously saluting all present. de-
parts In the confident assurance that
the morrow VIII iindhis case on the cal
cndar. and the court In readiness 10 pro-
coed with the argument Of his long.de-
layed motion.
The court officers deal very gen
ny with Mr.. Heintzlemann' He
- privileged character. Aceus-
toned as they are TO making
short work Of the army of cranks who
periodically disturb the peace or on.
struct the wheels of Justice with their
vagaries, they still have 4 tender snot
IN their hearts for him, and are never
700 BUSY to answer his inquiries respect
ing me momentous suit, or 10 comfort
MN with the assurance that some dav
MS much-hoped-for modification will
BE- granted. VIII
To Mr.. Hointzlemann's mind. all la,v
order. liberty and progress ceassd 49,,
tho obnoxious judgment was pro-