The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-07
A STORY OF BUTLER.
HOW HE GAME TO TAKE UP THE
CAUSE OF THE MILL HANDS.

u Lawyers AUvlce 10 those ABOUT t(
Study Law-How Boston Women are
Led to Invest In "Parisian NIillinery''-
Boston Notes.
F'rom Our Special Correspondent
Boston, Sept 8.
have came across a curious instance OF
the gullibility of the public There are in
the fashionable shopping quarters, not far
from Winter street, number OF millinery
stores whose only sign is French word OF
no particular significance, such for instance
as ola Bon tonniere" The names of the
proprietors are not given. These stores have
been maintained for some years, and do a
profitable business They are designed to
catch the trade of those who fancy that a
bonnet or other frippery is more stylish for
being of French design or coming from a
store having French name.
The bait takes well, but there is more than
q suspicion that the bait is stale.
In reality these stores are owned by people
who are managing stores not far away under
their own names These aforementioned
american" stores sell first-class goods and
catch the knowing customers After the
stock becomes too antique for this trade it is
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stores and there, mixed perhaps with few
articles fresh from Paris, is worked of on
the innocents who are captivated with the
notion of wearing something Partisan, and
wouldn't buy the same goods If shown to
them while they the goods were fresh, in the
American stores
The proprietors are not anxious to have it
known that they manage these stores. You
IL. &c.
to who employs Them The owners, Of whom
there are several firms, are well-to-do people,
for the millinery business when conducted here
on sufficiently daring scale is a sure-enough
bonanza.
A Boston woman who carries on a retail
store is in the habit of visiting Europe every
year and smuggling some goods when she re-
turns. She takes several clerks with her to
help buy stock, and gets back the expenses Of
these people by having them pass part of the
stock through the custom house as their
personal property.
After she had played this game several
times, success made the storekeeper careless.
She landed at New York with half dozen
trunks filed with the personal property Of
her clerks-at least that was what she meant
to have the inspectors suppose
But when blue-coated official on the
wharf suddenly asked her whom the pile of
trunks belonged to, she forgot herself and
carelessly admitted that she was the pos
SCISSOR.
Then, as she realized her blunder there was
q sudden furry of skirts and the distracted
woman hustled into cab and fled the scene,
leaving her husband to square matters with
the inspectors.
Her husband was equal to the emergency
and no duty was paid, but how he got out of
the scrape the woman doesn't know. If she
had had courage to ask her husband about it
be would doubtless have given her the key to
his amusement over the matter The fact
was the officer who flustered her was not GUS
toms but police officer, and the "bobby"
never knew what scared her.
***
II wish had never seen law book" said
one of Boston's leading lawyers day or two
since. II have no doubt that should now
be worth at least half million if 1 had gone
into business and worked half as hard as
have at the bar during the past thirty years.
The lawyer works harder and has less to show
Tor it than any other professional man. The |
rewards of the legal profession are not of |
pecuniary nature, whatever else they may |
be. have worked hard by night and by |
lay for over quarter of a century, and |
what have l to show for it? For that matter, |
what has any member of the bar to show for |
MS years of hard work. I cannot recall |
lawyer in Massachusetts, who is even COM
lortly well off through his professional la
bors."
"You can hardly claim to be very poor
man," suggested, smiling.
"Well, do not make any such claim" re-
olied the disciple of Blackstone. II was
merely insisting on the fact that the financial |
rewards in the legal profession are not such |
70 to induce any young man to enter it.
Rather, I, as an old practitioner, would
strongly advise young friend of mine
% keep out of it, That the law is
! Jealous mistress has been we'll said It re-
Iuires all ones time and talent to make even
success at the bar. And for what?
Well, while the multitude may
oudly applaud the successful pleader and
shower honors and offices upon him, yet the
substantial good things of life are not as
plenty as the flowers they sing of in the
Mikado."
"Gen. Butler has been rather successful in
fortune, hasn't hes"
eyes; Butler is well off-in fact, rich
you don't imagine the clients who
,rowd his Office have been the means of con-
ributing 1.-THE Of his wealth! Indirectly
hey may have helped him, but my point was
hat man does not and, indeed, cannot get
'ich out of practice at the bar pure and
imple. If Butler had grown rich as law
yer alone, even that would not answer my
objection to the law. Butler stands alone
lmong men, There is but one Gen. Butler.
10 far as I know, there never was any model
or this man, and it is safe to say that there
lever will be like genius Why, his career
las been a contradiction of all that had been
bought possible before him. He has been
awyer, statesman general and very tribune
# the people before the present generation
vas born, and he seems healthy and strong
nough to be one Of the pail bearers at the
uneral of the present generation.
II recall an incident. which illustra tes bet
er than anything else, one side of his charac-
er-his strong combatitiveness in defense of
hose whose cause he had ever championed,
he working people. AS nearly as l can re-
ate it, the story as told me by the general
limself, was as follows:
began practice, as you know, in Lowell,
nd like other young lawyers there and else
where was not sought after by a very large
rmy of clients, nor did those who came for
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