The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-10-25


may as we'll go home, for it is the
only point in the case"
The cause was submitted and Dunno
went home. A few months later the
decision came out, and to Dunne's dis
may. the Court on more mature re-
f,ection decided the appeal against his
client.
The next term Dunno had another
case. He stated his points and began
his argument when a member of the
Court interrupted him and said: These
propositions are elementary. Mr..
Dunno, you need not argue them, the
Court is with you
mo you don't" replied Dunno. You
told me that before, and when I went
home you decided the case against me.
Your Honors played me once, you cam.
play me again. I'm going to argue the
case
And he did, and Won it.
AAA
1t was the same Frank Dunno who,
when the Judge before whom he was
trying the case, asked the time of day,
replied, "I don't know, 1 haven't any
watch, and if your Honor continues to
decide cases against me, as you have
been doing this term, so far, it isn't
likely that I'll ever have any watch
AAA
One of the reconstruction members of
Congress from Louisiana was a young
lawyer from Central Ohio, who entered
the service as a lieutenant, and fought
| his way to the Brigadier's stars, when
| he was mustered out. He determined
| to locate at Memphis, and on the day
| that his sign first appeared on an Of
| flee door, a stout gentleman rushed in
and exclaimed. General, L am rec
! commended to you. 1 am in fix, 1 have
down at the levee, a steamboat load
| of cotton, which has been tied up by
! the military authorities. I have it con-
| tracted for at New Orleans, to be
loaded on a ship for Liverpool. If I
fail to get it there on time it will
ruin me. Minutes are dollars with me.
| They tell me that you are a good
lawyer, and that the Commanding
General knows you and will listen to
you, I cannot get access to him. The
cotton is all straight. Can't you come
at once with me in a hack to Head
quarters, and I will explain the trou-
| bic as we go?'
| The General accepted the employ
ment. He found that the matter was
really very simple. The steamer load
| of cotton had become tangled in red
| tape, through the innocent infraction
| of some Bureau Regulations, and it
might take a week or more to untangle
things, unless the Commanding Cen
eral, who alone had the power. would
| issue a special order allowing the boat
| to go to sea.
| The advocate had been on the staff
of the Commanding General and was
a favorite with him. There had been
only a technical violation of the regu-
| lations, and in ten minutes the cotton
speculator had the order of release in
| his pocket and both were in the
hack on the way to the levee.
! In the hack the client said. Now,
! General, what is your bill?" 81 paus-
| ed" said the General, ito consider what
1 ought to charge. Back in Ohio, I
would probably have taxed him fifty
dollars; but 1 had been successful, and
as he said minutes We're dollars with
him, thought may be he would stand
| five hundred dollars. But from habit 1
was deliberate, and before I could reply
he had out a wallet stuffed with bills,
and he counted out on my lap, in sue
cession, five bills, of the denomination
of one thousand dollars each; then he
paused and said, Will that do?' What
do you think 1 answered him. said the
General, ''I rose to the occasion and
remarked, I guess you had better put
on another and he did"
AAA
I have never read what I considered
an adequate and truthful review of the
character and career of Leland Stan
ford. He was too great for men to
speak the truth of him. He has been
the subject of injudicous eulogy and
of unmerited abuse, but the literature
of California has thus far lacked an
| impartial review and picture of the real
man. Most of those who might have
performed this task have followed him
to the other country, and the orofes-
! sors of the great University which
Governor Stanford founded, have lack
ed that personal knowledge of the
times in which he lived and moved
| that was necessary to an accurate pic
ture of him.
In 1861, when he was Governor of
| California, he was at his best mentally.
| thought.
He was generous almost to improvi-
| dence in the use of money. He dealt
| with men upon his own estimate of
them, and their dealings with others
never Influenced him. He was built
upon broad lines. He was Indifferent
/ to criticism. He was q man of orig
| inal thought. His style of speech was
ponderous. but his auditors ALWAYS
carried away something worth remem-
bering. Until death made it nee
essary for his widow to carry out his
plans, few knew how much the people
| of California owe TO the splendid ad-
| ministrative capacity, clear judgment
and generous heart of Jane Stanford.
| IA
| Few men become multi-millionaires
without experiencing a change of
heart. Not such a change as is