The sun., 1900-12-14
QUEER FEES or LAWYERS.
Country Produce. a Souvenir Spoon. wash.
erwoman Service for Divorce.

From the Miiuaukse Sentinel.
Sometimes there are fabulously large fees
paid 10 attorneys for services which seem
trfling in comparison. but IL is only some
times, not always. that such fees are paid.
The boy who is educated for the law. who
thinks that within year after he hangs
out his shinge" he will have a practice which
will insure him competence. will find that
he is up against" an entirely different propo-
sition when he enters on his chosen career
Even the old lawyers do not always get cash
been paid to Milwaukee lawyers alone would
nll a volume Burglars loot farm produce,
labor of all descriptions. almost everything
sa story T2u@ Zee ff6 d By ON e yeuns
is one of the kind where n lawyer does not
like t. have his name mentioned, but II proha-
bly, wasn't his fault A visitor was in the
bachelors, den of the young lawyer when
he noticed an engraved spoon hanging by a
il might be a relic Of some Sentimental col
leglan's love affair
that spoon i my fee for clearing client
one time. said the owner Of the decoration,
Il had that given to me after defended old
Blll Bradley; the bprslar BRADLEY had
a house up in the fashionable Part Of the town.
and among other things II was charged that
he had made way with set Of silverTare
story thought he was right and had not mixed
up Y thc burglary
wen. hs tOld mo ne nad no money, Dut
said he would make it all right with me some
day ii | did get him ont Of his trouble so
went in and worked hard, and finally cleared
him. few days after he lad thanked me
into my onlce and said he had been irving
to scrape up some money for mo- but couldn't.
me- that spoon, ono Of the sct / had JUST nc
quilted him 9I stealing If took the spoon
Tended a man ! knew 10 he guilty. so left
II there where YOU soc il ! think some
thing of i, too. especially as old Bill was
SsS a Tne ShH slsal1s ride toward Chicago
judge II MI iiaISy, I had %P NHr fec in tinG G
e! et @PGTSSS'Ga @Ssr a "p'G ,S s'Es ' an
old farmer in n small suit, though ! did not
@HreI, t. }oi G't any pay from him The suit
ana his wife went home Some months
altcrward the two caiuc into my office with
a package and a bundle tied m in a hand
the handkerchief bundle was ha7elnuts
and from the old farmers pockets came
two n's nI rI?sy.ch"ch"d ca apnlcs That butter
me a. any ever received
John Donovan. has picture entitled
MY After the Carnival Dream" which was
drawn for him in IN" county Jail by J Matt
Auherv last summer Tho sketch had some
lyrical c2rniv2l ones surrounded by some
has this sketch framed as n real work of
arr, 10 represent the appreciation of his
"tor ton years have never ppid to have
an umhiella iperded," said one lawyer
Tic rich landlord Of the story book sivle
wanted tho storc tho old crippled umb, ella
man was using for n shop, ard started to
fore the old fellow out. | fixed him SO that
ne was ali.Mcd to stay, and ever since that
nendlns Ihat Was all the fee received
i had III" secrets Of INV own lodge Of
fof"d 10 me as payment for n service" said
one attorney who belongs To several secret
when well-drcssed woman came in and
wanted advice Her husband, 10 whom she
was but recently married, was a member of n
secret society
I link Us perfectly horrid Of him. too
she SAID, 70 have soCTetS and not to toll them
shgr" 'ycryt ing with me md the tirst hing
J ak, almost. Ec won't do Can't YOU make
him
! a,k'd her TO what lodge he belonged.
ana N't ''Id ~" w" name of Rn order Of which
! myself M"S m"mh'r Then sle went on.
I tell you what. II Won will make him
''l ihom 90 me, will tell them to YOU, to pny
YOU for Wo King him do " hat I want Thai,
lalr, isn't II ] should think Won would Ik.
!" Know such thing. Need them In yonr
hu-in.-S. vuu know " ''
didn't accept that fec
had good Ofcr from one woman that
dld n'f'pt, continued this attorney for
~ Nae 700 God Ia refuse. q! 6!though IL was not
10 "Ish. | lad represented her in an acton
'1r dlNpr's and after the suit had been won
mede lace. Tie samples of lace she sboWed
ne were exquisite so told her Il would be ali
IiEh' She gave me about ten yards Of the
u, ojited bew wes NORTH every cent OF what was
i was paid IN IN w..hins for . divoro. I