The San Francisco call., 1906-11-25

no good as liar except When you re
jokin'. A lot you need janitor! You
had no business to pay my fne: you'd
ort of let me worked 1t out. Do you
think my eyes Amt good enough to
see how much you needed the money,
most OF all right now. when you're
tryin TO git started? If ] ever take a
cent from you ! hope the hand hold
out fer it'll rot off"
Nov don't say that, Happy
81 don't want job. nohow.' said
Mr.. Fear. going to the door; II don't
want to work. There's plenty ways fer
me TO git along without that. But I've
said what ] come here TO say. and I'll
say one thing more. Don't you worry
about gittin' law practice Mike says
you're goin' to git all you want--and
If there ain't no other way, why. a few
OF us II go out and make some fer ye!
These prophecies and promises. over
which Joe chuckled at first, with his
head cooked to one side. grew very
soon, TO his amazement, 10 wear SUI
pernatural similarity to actual fulfill
meut His friends brought him their
own friends, such as had sinned
against the laws of Canaan, those un-
der the ban of the Sheriff, those who
had struck in anger those who had
stolen at night. those who owed and
could not pay, those who lived by the
dice and to his other titles to notoriety
was added that of de-ender OF the poor
and wicked. He found his hands full,
especially after winning his first I'M
portant case-on which occasion Canaan
thought the jury mad. and was indig-
nant with the puzzled Judge, who could
not see just how II had happened.
Joe did not stop at that. He kept
on winning cases. clearing the inno-
cent and tightening the burdens OF the
guilty: he became the most dangerous
attorney for the defense in Canaan; his
honorable brethren. accepting the pop
ular view Of him. held him in personal
contempt but feared him profession
ally; for he proved that he knew more
law than they thought existed; nor
could any trick hinl-failing which,
many tempers were lost. but never
Joes. His practice was not all crimi-
nal. as shown by the peevish outburst
of the eminent Buckalew (the Squire's
nephew, esteemed the foremost lawyer
10 Canaan, Before long there wont be
any use trying to foreciose mortgage
or collect a note--unless this shyster
gets himself in jeii.'
The wrath of Judge Martin Pike was
august--therc was q kind or sublinlity
in its immenseness--on d day when IL
befell that the shyster stood bctwixt
him and money.
That was a monstrous task-to stand
between these two and separate them,
10 hold back the hand of Martin Pike
from what it had reached out to grasp.
1t was in the matter of some tax
titles which the magnate had acquired,
and. in court, Joe treated the case
with such horrifying simplicity that IL
seemed almost credible that the great
man had counted upon the ignorance
and besottedness of Joe's client-a
drinking. disreputable old farm-
er--to get his land away from him
without paying for 1t. Now, as every
one knew such thing to be ludi
noised abroad in Canaan that Joe had
helped to swfndle Judge Pike out of
large sum OF money---it was notorious
that the shyster could banboozle court
and jury with his tricks; and Ii was
felt that Joe Louden was getting into
very deep water indeed. This was seri-
Gus; II the young man did not look
out he might fnd himself in the peni-
tentiary
The Tocsin Photographed him with q
fine regularity after this, usually open
ing with Walrus- and Carpenter
gravity: THE time has come when we
must speak OF a certain matter frank
~" or AT last the time has arrived
when the generalization of the bar
caused by a certain criminal lawyer
must be dealt with as it is and with
out gloves" Once when Joe had saved
half-witted negro from "the extreme
penalty for murder, the Tocsin had
declared, with great originality: This is
just the kind OF thing that causes nobs
and justifies them. If we are to CON-
tinue to permit the worst class of male
factors to escape the consequences OF
their crimes through the unwholesome
dexterities and the shffty manipula-
tions and technicaiities of a certain
criminal lawyer, the time will come
when an outraged citizenry may take
the enforcement of the law in it's own
hands. Let US call spade a spade. II
C2naan's streets ever echo with the
tread of a mob. the fault lies upon the
head OF Joseph Louden, who has once
more brought about a miscarriage OF
Justice
Joe did not move into larger once;
he remained in the little room with its
one window and fine view OF the JAIL
his clients were nearly all poor, and
many OF his fees quite literally nom-
inal. Tatters and rags came UP the
narrow stairway to his door---tat-
ters and rags and pitiful fneries;
the bleared, the sodden, the haunt
ing and rouged, the furtive and wary,
some in rags, some in tags. and some
the sorriest---in velvet gowns. With
these the distressed. the wrong doers.
the drunken, the dirty. and the very
poor, his work lay and his days and
nights were spent
Ariel had told Roger Tabor that in
time Joe might come to be what the
town thought him Il it gave him no
other chance. Only its dinginess and
evil surrounded him; no respectable
house was open to him: the barrooms--
except that of the National House.
welcomed him gratefully and admir-
ingly. Once he went to church on a
pleasant morning when nice girls wear
pretty spring dresses; 1t gave him a
thrill of delight to see .nenl, to be near
clean, good people once more Inad-
vertently he took Q seat by his step
mother. who rose with a slight rustic
OF silk and moved to another pew, and
IL happened additionally that this was
the morning that the minister. fred by
the Tocsin's warnings, had chosen TO
preach on the subject of Joe himself.
The outcast returned to liA own
kind. No lady spoke to him upon the
street Mamie Pike had passed him
with averted eyes since her first meet
ing with him, but the stunning and
shubbing OF a young man by pretty
girl has never yet. IL done in cer-
tain way. prevented him from continu-
ing to be in love with her. Joe did not
vince. therefore 1t hurt all the more,
for blows from which one crfnreA lose