Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10

SUNDAY. AUGUST 10,
was one-legged man, and he had Grand
Army button in the lapel of his coat. He
noticed my button, and from that asked me
| where was from. I told him that I was
| from Wisconsin.
"Indeedl" said be. "I know an elegant
fellow in Wisconsin. He Is one Of the
brightest and brainiest men I know"
dYou do; and who is he," said ].
"His name Is Rusk," replied the one
legged Bostonian. "He is Governor of the
State"
DIsABUsING HIS MIND.
eyes," said I, coolly, as looked the one
legged man in the eye. 81 know him better
than you do, and I can tell you you are mis-
taken in your opinion OF him. Hes q
whelp." tt
"WhatP' said the man, and he jumped
from his seat and pranced around on his one
leg as if he were going to get mad. He
turned to 60 away and called him back
again and made him sit down. As he took
his chair said: "It seems to me that I
have met YOU before. Have you ever been
in Washington"
"Yes," was the reply.
"Have you ever been before the Invalids'
Pension Committee Of the House?"
"Yes," he again replied, "and were you
there?"
eyes" said !, "I was the chairman of
that committee"
why" said the man, you're Old Rusk
himself" and with that we again shook.
The man had not seen me for years, and nv
hair and beard had grown white. Under
that little travelling cap he did not know
me, and don't suppose he would have
recognized me under the tile. got new
hat day or so later. and found things as
pleasant as could wish"
A STORY OF BRADLEY.
met Justice Bradley, of the Supreme
Court, at Deer Park. He left Washington
at the close Of the session not feeling at all
we'll, and came to the mountains expecting
to spend but few days. His health i'm
proved so rapidly that he brought up his
family and decided to remain for the sum-
mer. There is no more remarkable man in
the United States than Judge Bradley.
About 5 feet inches high, he has at II
years of age as springy a walk and as good
a digestion as any young lawyer of 80. He
comes originally from New York, and when
met him the other night, asked him as
to the truth of the story about his boyhood,
and that he was asked when he was 10 years
old as to what he was going to be, and had
demurely replied that he had not vet de-
cided whether he would be President of the
United States or Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Justice Bradley replied, "No, that was
not the correct story, but something really
did occur very much like it. had been
reading history of England and was much
interested in Charles /. When the above
question was asked me I replied that I
Tod 70 he Ind
that on the whole had decided I would
rather be judge as found that the Judges
killed Kings"
HE FIGURES FOR FUN.
Justice Bradley has one Of the most re-
msrksble analytical minds of the country.
He is a noted mathmatician and one of the
curiosities of his constitution is that he runs
to figures for rest. He likes to reckon up
the hour that the sun will set on the odd
days of the year 5000, for instance, and he
has been even known to make almanacs and
calendars of various kinds for fun. He is
now amusing himself at Deer Park in this
way ana the first night he arrived he went
out and staked off a number of points from
the North Star and he has since calculated
the altitude, the latitude and the longitude
of his present situation. He keeps the
mails hot with letters to the officers of the
Geological Survey, and he has a better
knowledge OF where Deer Park actually is
than any other man in the country.
He works about ten hours day when he
is in Washington on Supreme Court work
and he does it all for pure love of the work,
and he will probably die with law book in
his hand. asked him to-day as to whether
he thought the law offered as many ad-
vantages to young men to-day as it did
when he entered upon Its practice. He re-
piled: 81 think it does, though the compe-
tition is greater. Still there is more money
to be made at the law now than ever before.
The fees are higher and the practice is
changing to correspond with the changes in
life and civilization"
A WONDERFUL LAWYER.
Speaking of great lawyers recalls q chat
had last week with Uncle Jerry Rusk
about Matt Carpenter. "Matt Carpenter"
said General Rusk, had wonderful ability
as speaker, and be was a greater lawyer
than he was a statesman. He had that kind
of a mind by which he was able to believe
that every case he took up had the right on
his side and what's more than that he could
make you believe it. When he came to the
Senate he had to decide for himself which
side of case was the right one and he told
me once that he did not like it, and that he
would prefer to have some one else make
the decision for him, as he might choose the
wrong side, and in that case it would be an
intellectual impossibility almost for him to
reverse his decision.
Senator Matt Carpenter, he continued,
"was we'll read man, and knew the Script
ures by heart. He often corrected preach
ers in their quotations, and when the stories
charging him with leading a dissolute life
were published the people IF Wisconsin
would not believe them, and the preachers
stood up for him. He told me once how be
came to make such study OF the Bible. 1t
was when he began to study law. He wanted
to be taken into the Office of Rufus Choate.
Mr.. Choate told him that if he wanted to
become great lawyer he must go home and
learn the Bible b. heart. "The Bible" said
he, "is the foundation o. all law, and i. you
want to become a great lawyer you must
know it." He worked day and night for
seven months. and at the end of that time
came back to Choate, having committed the
whole to memory. His quotations always
took with the jury, and slice of the OLD or
New Testament often bolstered up some
very poor evidence"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
CATCHING LIVE RAFT