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1 statements and deductions. It Nvns nav+
 to impossible for judge to detect an
 error i'll any grounds that he assumed in 1 argument. Admitting his premises h;a
 conclusions were irresistible. D
 His gradual success in the profession
 was marked by the proportion of fail.
 ures and disappointments which bese4 the path of any young man who makes
 his living at the law One John w
 Baddeley, living in Mclean county had employed John T. Stuart to renra,
 sent him in the defense of ts suit that
 had been brought against him by one oP his neighbors. When the term of conr+
 arrived during which the case was to be tried, Baddeley was approached by 2 tall and rather ungainly young man
 clad ill q suit of i'll fitting clothes, who
 had just driven into town and placed in
 his hands letter from Stuart, which
 read:
 SPRINGFIELD, Ills, April 8, 1922
 John " Baddeley, Esq;
 DEAR SIR-I cannot possibly attend the Mo
 Lean court at this term, and have therefora
 sent my partner, Mir. Abraham Lincoln, who
 will hand you this note. He will attend to tba
 aFell'' suit and will try it well. Please state your case and bring your witnesses to hin.
 and you can pay him the balance of my fec
 Very truly, JOHN T. STUART
 Baddeley, though living in primi- tive county, had been reared in Eng.
 land, where the courts were conducted
 in more eeremonious and less demo. cratic style, and he was therefore in m sense preposscsscd by the plain unas-
 suming, if not uncouth, young advo. cate who had handed him Stuart's note
 h fact, he gave vent to his dissatisfao-
 ton by abuse of Stuart and ridieule of his substitute and partner without limit Deeply vexed and disgusted, he walked up to the hotel, and, instead of stating his case to Lincoln, employed James A. McDougall, afterward United States senator from California, to repre- sent him.
 Most ef tho stories told of Lincoln at the bar are, it is true, ridiculous aud represent him in anything but digni- fled light, but they better than anything else reveal the D esi - clements in his makeup, aud they snea4d therefore be preserved whenever there is good reason 10 believe they are genuine. If proceed ings ill court dragged, or he felt that his antagonist by his elequence was capturing the jury, he would resort to some very eleyerly planned and dramatic interruption to break the gravity of the situation. If a jury dared to grow sleepy on his hands. he knew hog to wake them up His antagonists were thus kept in constant fear of some adroit stroke on his part to create a diversion In this respect lawyers of this day would scarcely dare initiate him. The judge of court before whom he tried case of some magnitude against great corp0- ration tes9lIes that il the midst of an elaborate argument-the court room being eroH ded with yisitors-Lincaln happened so laak down on himself and halted. as f he discovered something wrong with hIs physical person. He de- Iberately stopped his speech to the jury, Feala-Eillsss, Well, gentlemen, I ind my ce-Eing is ont of order, and I may a5 well raIle up the tackling hitch or two. He thsreupoa opened his vest and proceeded to readlust his suspenders m p--zH vl=w aE the court and specta- ters. Presently Ae resumed his remarks to the 5azy as calmly and graYely as f nothing had happened
 4 colleague at the bar testities that he met LlHealn for the first time in 1854 at Crnana- lie sat on the bench for the Judge awhile during the term, and my first motion in court was made be- fore hLm- ] remember with what be- nightly he aced at a time which al- ways tries the soul Of 1edgeling at the bar The next day he made some ar about his horse and buggy and took the train for point farther norrhH ~st, where he had an appoint ment sa npeak. l saw him start for the tram Being obliged to ride over two mlIes in an old dilapidated omnibus, be Was the sole occupant of the non- descrIpt conveyance. He had somehow secured and had ill his hand a small French harp with which he was mak- ing the most execrable music imagi- nable. rallied him on this, to which, topping his concert, he replied; "This Is my band. Douglas had brass band with hlm III Peoria, but this will do ne And he resumed his uncouth solo B the vehicle moved of. The primitive itralns, somewhat disturbed by the jolt ng conveyance. floated cut upon the air Ill distance inteEYenedL "
 In 1851 while attending court at Pe- ersburg a crowd gathered about him at he tavern when he was engaged in tory telling bout with a noted racon- eur named Murray, 4 preacher in the own, Rev. A. H. Goodpasture, happen. ng to pass and seeing the crowd of idle listeners, halted just long enough to re- mark Ill the hearing of all, "Where the .reat ones cf the earth are there will he people be, and moved en- "Ho, arson, " cried Lincoln, "a little more scripture, Where the carcass is there 3ll the eagles be gathered together.
 Ill hls Jousts with fellow lawyers be 7as always apt and expressive. To the lethcds Of the opposing counsel in ut he entered a strenuous protest, claim lg that the testimony was irrelevant Why cannot the counsel for the plain- III he appealed to the court, "confno ae1nselyes to the real issue i'll this case? send a man to buy horse for me, Apect hlm to tell me what his points re, net how many hairs there are in his Ill. Ot q certain technical judge who as famed for his elGse construction fl 1t law ne said he wculd hang man