"This is as much as a first-class lawyer would charge!" You see, Mr. Lincoln was still but "the one-horse lawyer of a one-horse town." * * * * * KENTUCKIANS ARE CLANNY. Senator John C. S. Blackburn, of the United States Supreme Court, began his life as a lawyer at the age of twenty. This should have won him sympathy in his first case. It was before Justice McLean. Opposed to Mr. Blackburn was the chief of the Chicago bar, I. N. Arnold, afterward member of Congress, and author of the first biography of Abraham Lincoln. Blackburn was a Kentuckian, but the stereotyped reputation for courage does not include audacity in a court of law. He was nervous with this first attempt and made a mull of his presentment, when a gentleman of the bar, rising, and extending a tall, ungraceful figure, intervened and laid down the case on the young Kentuckian's lines so feebly offered and entangled that the hearers might be glad to be so disembarrassed of a feeling for the novice floundering. The bench sustained Blackburn's demurrer. Arnold was so vexed that he objected to the volunteer intervener, whereupon the befriended man learned it was one Abraham Lincoln, as unknown to him as he was to fame. Lincoln defended himself against the senior's spite, by saying he claimed the privilege of giving a newcomer the helping hand. No doubt the fellow Stateship backed his prompting. --(Related by Judge Isaac N. Arnold, member of Congress.) * * * * * NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF! It has been seen that creditors treated the struggling Lincoln with the utmost forbearance, countering the adage that "forbearance is not acquittance." He was given the occasion to show how he was neighborly when the turn came. A client of his was long deferring settlement when the lawyer met him by chance on the courthouse steps, at Springfield. He accosted him cordially, and remarked about an accident that had befallen him. Cogdale had been blown up by gunpowder and lost a hand. He began to apologize for the business delay, showing that he was crippled manually as well as in his pursuits. Lincoln plainly expressed his sympathy and sorrow. "I have been thinking about that note of yours," faltered the unhappy man. The lawyer drew the paper in question out of his wallet and forced it upon him. "It is not to be _thought of!_" replied he, laughing in his droll yet saturnine mode. Cogdale honestly added that he did not know when he really could pay. But the donee hurried away, saying: "If you had the money, I would not take it out of your only hand!" * * * * * "SKIN WRIGHT AND CLOSE!"