The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-06

comprising pretty thoroughly the rang
or science, poetry, fiction and letters
oWever cheaply or extensively bound
book might be, he treated each one as /
arrived in the same way. He ripped of
the cover and cast 1t into the waste bias
ket, and then sent the work to the bin
F! derry (per me, law studenD to be bount
in uniform style Of full calf.
| / always doubted Notwithstanding thi
pride and care of books whether Mr.
| Slaughter had any genuine love for lite
nature. Books were his tools rather
| than his friends. He was wont to say
| that he wouldn't give a subterranean
| hurrah for a volume without an index
| and wherever one was lacking he sci
| himself at wark supplying it. The APP
plieation of this rule was apparent in his
briefs, wherein he did not hesitate to
make unprofessional references to Don
| Juan, Lavengro or Bacon's Essays, for
instance, if thereby he could accentuate
a point But he absolutely wanted that
artistic sympathy which inclines book
lovers to exchange impressions and
VIEWS and would sit apart, during such
chit-chat, twisting uneasily in his chair,
like a deaf old lady at a sewing circle
] Mr.. Slaughter's manner in court-not
manners, mark you, for he had none
was not at all diplomatic. He was au-
dacious and aggressive, with a chip on
either shoulder all the time His bust
ling advent seemed to say: Here, 1
come to try the So-and-so case Mark
my words, I'm going to win. I'll wear
you all out; I'll grind you all down; my
10 ma tel y, ,rr14 n -,,t
know when he is beaten; so, look Quit"
And, indeed, it seemed that prediction,
prejudices, impressions and facts We're
alike bowled down by the force of his
personality. He bullied without dis
elimination the witness on the stand,
the jurymen in the box, the bailiff who
reached him glass of water, the oppos-
ing counsel and the judge on the bench.
Toward the latter, especially, unless he
was palpably with him, in which case
he scarcely yelled his contempt, he new
err scrupled to use innuendoes of bias
and favor often outrageous in their I'M
warranted conclusions, but which, ! am
convinced, he stoutly believed Such
procedure had resulted from time to
time in open protests, the throwing Of
law books and nkstands and the infic-
ton of heavy fines; but through iuces-
SAINT, untiring warfare he had brought
one and all to the opinion that the ca
siest way to get along with the squire
was to let him go his own gait
AS a remarkable instance Of how a
strong intellect may be absolutely lack
ing in self-knowledge.- it may be said
that Mr.. Slaughter not only believed
himself to be generally beloved by the
profession, but also took pride in posing
as the stanchest champion of that bench
upon which he had done more than any
other man in the district to bring trou
BILE and chagrin. Indeed, it was his am
bition for many years to become jus
tice of the supreme court. Owing to the
political constitution of the district, his
only chance of such advancement lay in
being appointed by the governor to fill a
Finally, such an opportunity
and as blithe and sanguine as
a boy, Mr.. Slaughter called upon promi- |
nent members of the bar to plead his |
cause, and as clinchng argument pre-
sented himself in his own proper person |
before the governor. The latter a man |
as amiable as he was astute, who would |
the stump of negation in an orbit which
approached but never quite touched, had
been beset by the lawyers en- masse,
confidentially, in the name of
order and good government, against
such an appointment I'VE don't want
1 reign of terror in our courts" had
been their cry. He therefore remarked
mildly to the squire: But, Mr., Slaugh-
er, | am ahem-that you do not
possess the--er-judicial temperament"
Judicial temperament be damned"
srowled the squire picking up his hat
md slamming out; and thereafter the
lmiable and astute one had vindictive
md inveterate enemy.
This habit of profanity was so chronic
With Mr. Slaughter that one day, in the
'ehemence of an argument before the
curt of appeals-he would argue vehe
nently before the Seven Sleepers,
hough there is no relevancy in this IL
ripped out quite a string
# oaths to the rustling of the judicial
obes and the CONSERVATION of the as
embed bar Old Judge Graham, for
aer member of the court, and conse-
uently somewhat privileged, who was
ass audibly: "And Enoch walked with
iod; well, well; the ways of the AL
nightly are inscrutable and past finding
ut" whefeat there was a comprehen-
i've smile, also more or less audible.
tut the squire merely shrugged his
houlderS, gave a contemptuouS
Humph!' and picked UP the rope, not
he thread, of bis argument.
Fooled in his judicial ambition, as he
rmly believed himself to be by the ma :
hinations of base conspirators, Mr.. ,
laughter still chung to the idea of hold ,
Is office. The next fall he announced ,
is candidacy for the district-attorney-
zip on an independent ticket. The con- ;
st which ensued was torrid, for Mr.. ,
laughter stumped the county so thor
Ighly that his voice was heard in every
ection district. That followed as =
latter of course, said Judge March
ont, eff he spoke at ALL" But ! fear 9
lere was concealed irony in this re-
ark. At any rate, the ward leaders
ere constrained by their fears, for the
rst and only time In local political his =
n.y. to spend fully half of the money !,
'nfided to them for the purpose Of cor !.
lpting the franchise, to the financial
striment Of their grocerS. OF course, |
ere wastno doubt about the announced =
suit. The party in power, having thel !,
Sy,n at.1pc, 1nn hat