The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-10

know. You do, and who IL be = said /.
His name Is Rusk,' replied the one-legged
Bostonian. He is governor of the state
Yes said / cody, Is / looked the one
legged man in the eye. i know him bet
ter than you do, and can tell you, you
are mistaken in your opinion Of him. He
is whelp
WHAT said the man, and he jumped
from his seat and pranced around on bis
one leg as il he we're going to get mad. He
turned to go away and I called him back
again and made him sir down. As he
took his chair, said, 1t seems to me that
/ have met you before. Have you ever
been in Washington7'
Yes, was the reply.
Have you ever been before the invalids'
pension committee Of the HouseT
Yes, he again replied, and were you
fhere2'
Yes, said 1. 4 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
my hair and beard had grown white. Tn
der that little travelling cap he did not
know me, and don't suppose he would
have recognized me under the tile. l got a
new hat day or so later. and found the
thing - pleasant IS could wish. y
met Justice Bradley. OF the supreme
court. 81 Deer Park. He left Washington
At the close OF the session not feeling at all
well, 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 feet inches high, be has at ~
years Of age Is sprightly awslk and as good
digestion as any young lawyer of thirty.
He comes originally from New York,
and when / met him the other night
asked him Is to the truth of
the story about his boyhood. and that
he was asked when he was 10 years old
what he was going to be, and he demurely
replied that he had not yet decided whether
be wGnid be president of the United States
or justice of the supreme court. Justice
Bradley replied: s'Eo, that was not the
correct story, but something really did &C.
cur very much like it / had been reading
history Of England and was much inter-
ested in Charles /. When the above ques-
ton was asked me replied that wanted
to be either judge or a king and that on
| the whole had decided l would rather be
Judge. Is found that the judges killed
kings"
Justice Bradley has one OF the most re-
| markable analytical minds of the country.
| He Ii noted mathematician, and one OF
| the curiosities Of his constitution Is that he
| runs TO figures for rest He likes to reckon
he <6ot ffan osxe& It'll AL.
| odd days of the year 8 $50 for instance, and
| he has been even known to make almanacs
| and calendars OF various kinds for fun.
He Il now amusing himself at Deer Park
| in this way, and the first night he arrived
he went out and staked of q number of
| points from the north star and he has
since calculated the altitude, the lati-
| tude 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.
| found him figuring away in the writing
room the other night, covering sheet OF
| foolscap with algepraic signs and he is to
| me an intellectual wonder. He is one of
| the abIest jurors who ever sat upon the
| bench. and you will find his opinions in
| more than forty volumes of our supreme
| court reports. He works about ten hours
. day when he is in Washington on SUI
| preme court work and he does it all for pure
| love Of the work. He could have retired
| halt dozen and more years ago, but he
| sticks to the bench as though he had a rep
utation to make instead of having made
| one, and he will probably die with q law
| book in his hand. asked him today as 10
| whether he thought the Law offered as
many advantages to young men today as
| II did when he entered uponlits practice.
| He replied: II think it does, though the
| competition is greater. Still, there is more
| money to be made at the law now than
| ever before The fees are higher ana the
| practice is changing to correspond with
| the changes in life and civiliz atom"
do you think. Judge" said /, "that the
lawyers of today are as great in their pro-
/ fession as were the lawyers of the pa.t?n
| II don't know" said Judge Bradley. 81
| doubt much whether We have any greater
| lawyers today than we had in the past.
| The lawyers of today have too much to do
| and too little time to think. 1t is thought
| upon law questions that makes the ma
| tured mind of the lawyer and the fact that
/ questions are being settled by laws give
| the lawyer less thinking to do A code
which would decide every question would
be the death to greatness among lawyers.
In would, in fact, cause their intellectual
| suicide"
do you remember your first fee.
| Judge7" said I.
mo" was the reply. IL can't say that
do. did lot of small jobs before got
! big ones. / taught while was in College
and while was studying law at Newark,
New Jersey. edited for short time a
newspaper there. was sent by it to Tren-
ton as its correspondent and there by
| reporting the legislature / acquired a
| good acquaintance with men all over the
| state which helped me in my practice. |
practiced at the bar thirty years and was
| admitted In 1910.
Speaking of great LAWYERS recalls a chat
| had last week with Uncle Jerry Rusk
about Matt Carpenter. Matt Carpenters
widow" said the secretary of agriculture.
sis now living in Milwaukee. senator
| Carpenter left an estate of about ninety
thousand dollars. This was made M
| of his life insurance policy of
$4,000 and his library. which sold for
| about $4,000 Senator Carpenter made an
immense amount of money at the law, but
| he never saved a cent, and il was only due
| TO his friends that his life insurance policy
| was kept up. He would have allowed it to
lapse il we had not urged him again and
| again 10 attend 10 it and had not seen that
| ne did attend to it. As IL was, his wife was
left with enough TO live upon, and she has
increased the amount by careful invest
ment."