The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
THE EVENING STORY
After Law Came Love.

Remington, AtJOrnoy-dl-hd".
So read the sign over the door OF
a hallway on the main street or the
town, and upstairs, smoking his pipe
and waiting for his first case, was
Gerald Remington.
1t was a fad of his wealthy widowed
mother that put him where he was
Left to his own devices, the young
man would have come out of Yale to
hunt lions in Africa or break MS neck
while trying to climb some mountain
in Montana.
There had been a lawyer in the
Remington family for the past two
hundred years. Some or them hao
been halfway honest, and some OF
them had served Jail sentences The
Widow Remington looked upon the
law with reverence and upon a lawyer
with admiration. She mad never en-
ployed a lawyer professionally and
she had never read of the crooks and
twists of the law. Her son had voiced
his Discrimination, but she had insisted
"Just graduate and be admitted TO
the bar and go into court few tunes
so as to get your standing, she urged.
After that you can do as you Will.
want the honor of saying that my son
is a, lawyer"
Therefore came Gerald Remington
to the town, and therefore came his
sign over the door. 1t may be also
added that therefore he smoked, read
novels, walked, fished and played
checkers with any one that came in;
He hoped he wouldn't get a client, and
for this reason he got three in one
day.
The Widow Wells was fifty years
old and had a temper. Deacon Good
mans COW got into her garden with
two fine horns in the place where the
horns ought to grow, but got out with
liberated tooth. The widow was
rather handy with a club. The deacon
came over to see her about 1t, ana
was called a dodo and a lulu and a
md T.
out of the yard with brawny hand on
his collar. He came to Lawyer Rem
ington to start suit for assault and
battery.
Miss Lottie Davis was an old maid.
She had long had the reputation of
being a gentle thing, but when she got
proof positive that it was Mrs. BiXby
that sent her a comic valentine in
which she was held up to ridicle, she
paid a neighborly call. Mrs. BiXby
saw her coming and locked the doors.
The gentle Davis kicked the panels out
of front and back, broke the pump
handle, kicked the dog and called out
to the covering valentine sender that
she would come again and break her
neck.
Yes. it was just awful, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bixby came to see Lawyer Rem
ington and demanded large doses of
the law and satisfaction.
Two miles out of town lived Farmer
Carlisle He had a daughter, Bessie,
for twenty miles around.
Miss Bessie wasn't fiery, and she
wasn't gentle. She was betwixt and
between. The morning she started to
phaeton she kissed her mother tender
ly. Half an hour later she was put
ting her whip over the shoulders of
old Mr.. WiggleSby. He was driving
the other way in a farm wagon. They
happened to meet at narrow place
in the road, and he tried to crowd the
lighter rig into the ditch. Miss Bessie
refused to be crowded.
"Out of the way, hoyden!" shouted
the old man.
Are you talking to me?" was de-
manded.
"Course am! Outer the way!"
Farmer Wigglesby say a moving
picture show without going to town
and paying dime He saw a girl
flush up and her eyes flash. He saw
her take the whip from it's socket. He
saw her jump from the phaeton. He
beheld a girl and her whip climbing
into his wagon. Then he felt, as well
as saw, and when he reached the Of
flee of Lawyer Remington and got his
breath he said:
she shall go to Jail if it costs me
every cent I've got on earth! L believe
she hit me fifty times. 1 never got
such a licking. even when L was boy
and broke a window.
There were three cases, and all
came at once. They were forced upon
lame in his law, and he dreaded the
going to court. He went ahead, how
ever, and the three cases were set for
the same day. The gentle old maid'S
case came first, but all the time he
was trying it young Mr.. Remington
was thinking of the others. That was
how he got mixed up. When he rose
to address the jury he said:
''Gentlement, what can you think of
girl of 10 deliberately kicking in
the panels of a neighbours pump han
die in her wild desire for revenge?
Doesn't that show "a
But it was the old maid that
kicked whispered man.
yes gentlemen went on the law
yer after a gulp, "she finds an limo |
cent COW in her yard and without
making the slightest investigation of
the circumstances she arms herself
with a bludgeon and knocks a
horn
THAT was the widow who knocked
the horn Off" whispered the same
voice.
Yes, gentlemen. and meeting an
innocent and almost helpless old |
man, who had never harmed man, |
woman or child, she kicks his dog i
and
You'd better sit down." advised his
mentor.
Mr. Remington, we are not trying !
your three cases at once" kindly OBJ
served the judge.
NO. II don't think I feel well |
t day, your honor
You are not looking at all WELL
You can and your cases over to Mr..
Black if you wish
Mr.. Remington left the courtroom
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