The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-10
THINGS SAID AND DONE
i'm THE CAPITAL CITY

! getting some money. and / was without
any money whatever. finally decided
| that / would write to a friend In Rich
montl and borrow a slim sufficient to tide
me over a few weeks, and trust to luck
|. to get enough to repay hin. just as
reached this decision there was a knock
at the door and yotng man entered.
After / had assured him that ! was Gem
eral Pryor lie said he had been directed
by a certain we'll known firm OF lawyers
to come to me with o. view to engaging
my services In the conduct of a case IN
which the firm by which he was em-
pioyed had become involved. We dis
cussed the features Of the case, and /
told him I thought I could win It.
~ hope we can make the fee salts
factory to YOU said the young mar.
I think we can arrange that re-
Piled, and ut the same time l was Won
derlng whether should charge him
twenty-five dollars or fifty dollars. I
was greatly In need OF fifty dollars, but,
] thought. he might be scared away If l
proposed such a price, so / had better
say twenty-five. THAT sum would be q
Godsend. While was thinking the young
man arose to his, feet and took a check
from his pockctbook.
lido you think this will be a sufficient
sum as a retainer? he asked. placing
the check on the desk In front OF me- 7
was given the check for the firm which
recommended me to you, and they have
endorsed IT. Nh \. s33,s +s
"The. check was for five thousand dol
lars / had hoped for. fifty. and would
have been satisfied with twenty-fi five
1.-THE amount Is satisfactory re-
piled, In as even tones as II could as
sumo But When the young man was
gone think there were something like
tears on my face.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, as
ISOLATE Justice Of the Supreme Court Of
the United States. Secretary Of the 1nte-
rior In the Cabinet of PresEent Cleve-
land, one-time member of Congress. and
colonel Of Confederate cavalry from
Georgia, was not a man noted for his
humor, though of a. genialsna ture. There
is a lady now living in ashing ton who
recalls ali Instance Of Justice sLamars
humor, which has never appeared in type.
Soon after his ppointment to Mr.. Cleve-
lands Cabinet is Secretary Of the Inte-i
rior. he went to look atEthe furnished
house Of the lady mentioned, with a view
to leasing It. The residence, located on
X Street in the most fashionable sec:
ton Of the city, greatly pleased Colonel
Lamar, for 1t was furnished in the rich
est style. in addition to being so pleas
antly located. The lady who showed him
over It desired to lease 1t while she and
her husband spent two years v a broad.
After having inspected the beautiful home
from cellar to attic, and returned to the
Sparlor, Colonel Il Lamar asked the lady
her terms. I;j
I'VE hope to receive five thousa nd doll
lars a year for the house. \ she replied
and made some further remark concern.
Ing the low rental of such an elegant
home, furnished. Colonel Lamar did not
reply fora minute or$two, and finally the
lady asked: HI q !s si 81 i isf. ~
what are you thinking of?,5
81 was just wondering" said Colonel.
Lamar. In an distracted way, what 1
should dowith that other three thou
sand dollars Of my salary
e Mr.. n Justice Harlan, Of the United,
States Supreme Court is noted for his
hatred of the cigarette. Ofan eminently
judicial turn Of mind, Justice Harlan is
little short of vindictlve wherethe cigar
cite is concerned, and he would not claim
.thatshe Is capable Of an impartial deci-;
sion in such a case. f5 53
Justice HarlanHis one of the lecturers
in the law school OF Columbian University
in this city, and the students have had
most deeply impressed upon them his
antipathy to cigarettes 1t is so well
recognized that they will not smoke in
the class room before he comes In to
address them. Once or twice there has
been student with#sufllcien temerityl
to take a few whffs% his cigarette be-
fore the Justice, and invariably there has
been "a smiling Of the judicla nose. and
some comments upon the habit of cigar
cite smoking. One night. recently stu
dent, who had not been long In the class,
smoked his cigarette before the lecture
began, and when Justice Harlan entered
the young fellow continued to- puff away,
some distance away from the desk.
Justice Harlan did not at once make
any comment. He looked lelsurely over
the one hundred and fifty young men
before him, and then said tfiJ
THE greatest mystery have encoun-
tered in my later life Is that some civil
lied men will form the habit Of smoking
cigarettes. H sis
There was a howl OF delight from the
Students and the SIN okera promptly threw
the stump into the cuspidor.