The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-29

p'y Ai' nv AS NAAAoNo
into my office and said he had been
trying to scrape up some money for
me, but couldn't. Then he reached in
his pcclet AMI gave NE that spoon,
one of the set | had just acquitted him
of stealing. If | took the spoon back
| would convict myself of having de-
Tended a man | knew to be guilty, so
left it there where you see it. l think
something of it, too, especially as old
Bill was killed while he was stealing a
ride toward Chicago few days after
wards"
"When | was practising up North" "
said Judge w. II. Hasley, 81 had a fee
III kind that l appreciated as much as
| have $500 fees at other times. 1
had defended an old farmer in small
suit, though l did not expect to get
any pay from him. The suit was de-
cided in our favor; and the old farmer
and his wife went home happy. Some
months afterward the two came into
my office with package and bun
die tied up in a handkerchief The
package was a roll of butter, the
handkerchief bundle was hazelnuts,
and from the farmers pockets came
two big rosy-cheeked apples. That
butter, nuts and apples fee was as
satisfactory to me as any I ever re-
ceived."
John F. Donovan has picture en-
titled "My After the Carnival Dream"
which was drawn for him in the county
jail by j. Matt Aubery last summer.
The sketch had some typical carnival
ones surrounded by some of the types
the artist saw. Mr.. Donovan has this
sketch framed as a real work of art, to
represent the appreciation Of his SER
vice that one client felt.
For ten years l have never paid to
have an umbrella mended," said one
lawyer "The rich landlord of the
story hook style wanted the store the
old crippled umbrella man was using
for shop, and started to force the old
man out. | fixed him so that he was al
lowed to stay, and ever since that l
have taken my rain shields to him for
free mending. That was all the fee I
received for that case. too."
II had the secrets of my own lodge
offered to me as payment of service" !"
said one attorney who belongs to sew
eral secret orders. IL was sitting in my
office one day when a we'll dressed
woman came in and wanted advice
Her husband, to whom she was but re-
recently married, was member Of a
secret society.
81 think it is perfectly horrid of
him, too she said, to have secrets and
not tell tell them to me. When he
married me he said he would share
everything with me, and the first thing
| ask, almost, he wcnt do. Can't you
make him?'
II asked her to what lodge be be-
longed, and sue told me the Name of an
order of which I myself was member.
Then she went on:
al tell you what, if you will make
him tell them to me, | will tell them
to you, to pay for making him do what
| want. That's fair, isn't it? should
think you would like to know such
things-nccl them in your business,
you know
Il didn't accept the fee.
Il had good offer from one wo.
man that l did accept continued this
attorney, "for it was too good to re-
fuse, although it was not in cash. 1
had represented her in an action for
divorce, and after the suit had been
won she wanted me to accept part
pay ment in handmade lace. The sam
pies of lace she showed me were ex-
quisite, so | told her 1T would be all
right. She gave me about ten yards
of the lace, and it was worth every
cent of what was credited her for it,"
81 was paid in washing for divorce
[ secured" said J. H. Paul. GA wo-
man came to me one time with tale
of woe about her husband, and wanted
me to get divorce for her. She said
that she didn't want any work done
for her for nothing, but that she was
not able to pay money. She would
do my washing for twenty-five weeks,
though, if | would free her from her
husband She refused To let me act in
charity for her. and as she wanted a di-
vorcc so that she could marry another
man | accepted her offer, and she
washed away, literally, her marriage
ties
I'll tell You one Of my fees said
f. Z. Chapii Il was defending a
man who was charged with having
killed dog in Columbia county. The
first action brought, was defective,
and while the plaintiffs counsel was
writing out 4 warrant l took my man
to the door and told him to get out of
the county (the Justices office was on
the border) as quick as he could. In
my hurry to get him out of the county
| forgot to collect my fee, and | never
saw him again"
Some people find it easier to pay
compliments than bills.