The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-20

mind goes back to the career OF Judge
Worthy NIll!rns. back In Coon county.
That's while you were at college, and SO
II. refresh your hear-sny recollection OF
the affair. finer locker than the old
Judge never wore ernline or handed down
an opinion. HI was as tall and toppy as
an elm by meadow brook. and 1ud!ciai
dignity hung about him like the halo Q
n saint In the family Bible. When ne
rubbed his spectaa'cc IleH' with ms sllk
handkerchief # after closing argument.
you felt that the Voice OF Justice was
about 10 utter the last word on the sub
Ject.
But, Just the same. every man who was
mixed up In politics In his circuit knew
in his heart that the old Judge had
thrown down his best friends. sacrificed
the men who had made him a political
power and smlllngly lifted the scalps
Of the veterans who had been snged IN
lighting fire for him. Just previous 10
each judicial election there was muir
mur OF revolt, but the judge smile. on
the younger men of the party-the ones
who really liG the wofk-played me
gallant at few church soclables
throughout h.s circuit and carried the
convention as easy as he decided case
This went on until his long hair was
as yh.te as hi. old-fashioned "choker'.$
and all thousnla OF unseating nm mad
practically been abandoned by the men
who felt his stilletto under their political
ribs.
One day, however, a red-headed lawyer
came to court 10 defend q young woman
against a suit brought by her husband tor
the custody OF theil little boy. The man
looked as IL he Il steal the pennies out Of
the child's bank and beat the molher FOR
protesting against IT. You could set a
dozen such HEADS as his on the bottom
Il 80, I,pp Nd nrl
have room to play checkers. There's no
denying that the woman was uncommon
~ comcly; but the courts IN our stale
hadn't held tliut this was proof OF bad
character. How ever. the husband had
enough of his relatives on the stand 70
make out a circumstantial case asalhs!
her while his lawyer made a strong poiht
of her handsome face and her alleged
weakness to flallery, inslnuatlng tina her
ability to sham would make her sue
cess on the stage HI whole contention
was that the mother was an unllt per-
son to have he custody OF her child.
There was q hush IN the court when the
Judge polished Ills spectacles and gave
his decision, ordering that the child be
taken from inc mother and given Into
the hands OF the grandmother on the
fathers side. Then The woman slowly
arose. took the l.tte boy by the hand
and walked down the a4sle,-a strangely
uIS lelUy l.Slil VI llcA YVES. -1NSoo''i''6 sttS
bench fronting al one end the sheriff $
room, and ut The other the Judges cham
ber she dropped down and gazed va
canlly about
Ihe sheriff offered the little fellow all
apple. and. as The child stepped forward
shy!y and took It. picked him up and
lodged quickly Into the private room,
aroused the Woman from her stupor,
She leaped forward and fairly flung her
self against the door. 9
lust then Inc ola Judge stepped to the
door OF his chamber. With cry tie
mother made u rush for hlnl-but again
threw herself AGAINST closed aoor, sne
was beside herself when the balilfs and
lawyer led nor away, ! never heard
what became of her--Dut can give you
u few pertinent particulars about that
rod headed lawyer ana Judge Alliirlns,
The papers commented at length upon
the painful incident but praised the
clearly jud.clal and impartial, natui 9
of tho decision, and added that the coun-
ty was fortunate In being aLle TO tur-
nlsh the circuit bench with so distin-
gushed and scholarly a jurlst, one that
would be an ornament to the highest trib-
unal in the land That was the first gym
In tho judicial campalgn-but not the
last,
The red-heaied lawyer had his dander
up, pul kepl ~ uHuer coNS', wv $751; 49,
out, very quietly, to make things merry
for the old judge. But that unsuspectins
|. ornament Of the bench simply continued
In the even tenor Of his way, living the
life of a solitary and scholarly old Wd-
over In the big mansion on me hlll,l
cared for ny half-deaf housekeeperr,
whose smile would have soured fresh
Secretly the young lawyer organized
| In q band ot insurgents. Q choice sot q