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Title: Shadow and light; an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: Washington, D. C.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ded throug hall my political career in Arkansas, is a worthy son of a noble sire, having courage of conviction and eloquence in their enunciation. Among the young men then practicing law was Lloyd G. Wheeler, a graduate from a law school in Chicago, popularand an able lawyer, with considerable practice. In 1872 he joined, under the firmname of Wheeler & Gibbs, opening an office in the Old Bank Building, corner Center and Markam Streets. It is not without considerable trepidation that an infant limb of the law shies his castor into the ring, puts up his shingle announcing that A,B, or O is an attorney and Counsellor at Law. His cerebral column stiffens as from day to day, he meets members of the bar, who congratulate him upon his advent, and feels his importance as he waits from day to day for the visit of his first client, but collapses when he arrives and with ghostly dread salutes him and prepares to listen with a disturbed sense of an awful responsibility he is about to un-
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HON. JUDSON W. LYONS. Present Register of the Treasury, liorii in Georgin—A (iradnate of Howard Univorsity— Appointed by President McKinley to the Above Position. SHADOW AND LIGHT. 129 dertake. For, side by side with his clients statements there seem to appear in stately majesty all the adjuncts of the huv: First, the inquisitive glance of the judge, like a judicial search light, scans him as he rises to defend Mr. Only Borrow, charged with larceny. Will he be able to think on his feet at the bar as he did in his chair in his office? Will he succeed or fail in stating his case, with eye and ear of every veteran of the bar intent on his first utterance? How about the jury, that unknown quantity of capricious predilections? Will they give him attention, or will their eyes find a more congenial resting place? Unbidden, the panorama insists on prominence. He attempts the most nonchalant air, tells Mr. B. to proceed and state his case. This was not the first time that he had been requested to pe

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