The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-09

this state than any other lawyer. In the
United states supreme Court. too. he has met
many Of the loading legal lights OF tho coun ~.
and in the repor,s OF that tribunal bis cases
are quoted in scores OF volumes. hard
worker, early and late In his office. still IN
bilious and energetic in his profei on. hei 10
nevortho ess sufficiently indeps ndent G. select
his clients. Only few months ago he was
offered n 1000 foe by large corporation. but
he replied: Il can't take IL at any price. There
10 no case
AS Az ORATOR
Mel" Fuller. as he Is almost universally
called In Chicago, not fainiiarly but admir-
insiy, 10 a son OF Maine and a native OF Mr..
Blaine's town Of Augusta He came West IA
1885, Almost fr m the frst he took 70 the
stump, and the audiences OF that carly day
admired his ardency and rhetoric almost as
much as they did the Lite Giant, whose fol-
lower he was. Fuller was good speaker even
then, and though his voice was thin. as IL still
is. and though he INDUCED i'm literary illustra-
tioDs and Cit atom, whose point the common
class sometimes m ssod. as IL do, TO this day,
he was happy IA his choice OF words and
phrases. greatly in earnest and full OF the win
ming quality OF sincerity.
AZ CHRISTIAN.
MIR. Fuller himself is orthodox, and for twenty
years has been vestryman OF st. Marks He
loves TO mingie with the doctors Of the church,
and Is never so happy as when lay DELEGATE
aud measuring wit with the subtle and unctu-
GUS fathers. Returning from national synod
at Philadelphia, "A year or two since, he met a
friend in the street, and, in response 20 inquiry
concerning his vacation, told where he had
Deen, ana added ~Egad, but IL was glorious 70
sit there and hear the ola doctors expound the
lawi"
NOT TOO ARIsTocRATIC TO SMOKE PIPE.
Mel Ful. err is one OF the few men who are
pointed ont and spoken OF ON the streets OF
Chicago His is always a conspicuous and well
come figure, though not from its size, for he
Is slight OF frame and short of stature. His
face Is remarkably youthful for one OF his
age-he Is 55-and thoagh his hair Is gray
his eve r. tains all OF the brightness
OF quarter OF Il century ago. Ho Is active.
yivacious, genial, approachabIe, quick with n
smile or a sally, as intlitive q woman, and
almost rs sympathetic. re l. q man with sun
oice he is neither SO busy rs 10 require cards Ia
DO sent ia on silver salyer nor too aristocrutic
to smoke pipe.
EVERYBODY IN CHICAGO PLEASED.
There was no one in Chicago who had n word
20 say against the appointment IL was re-
can hereafter doubt the high regard and warm
personal feeling entertained for Mr.. Fuller as
lawyer and men by all who know him, whether
Democrats or Republicans
DECLINED OPTICS FIVE TIMES.
1t is an undou tied fact that the tender OF tie
Chief Justice ship is tie sixth appointment
which the President has offered Mr.. uller.
he wanted the Chicago lawyer to 80 abroad to
tab @ one 81 ihe frst-class missions. This was
declined. Then Mr.. Cleveland wanted him
TO take pace On the Civil seryi Commits
sion WI ish VS. nos acceptable The place
with his legal tdlents, but he wanted none OF
IL. he Interstate commission was then sug-
cested by the Pre- sdent tnout meeting with
'nVor. Finally Mr.. Cleveland wanted him To
becoln member O. the Pacific Railway Com
III ssiop. which would not interfere with his
may be, for all any one Knows, that there have
been other tender